00:00If we look at the Middle East, I think it's about time we stop those of us who support, as most of us do, Israel and this body, for apologizing for our support for Israel.
00:13There's no apology to be made. None. It is the best $3 billion investment we make.
00:21Westerners grow up being indoctrinated with the understanding that this tiny country in the Middle East is super-duper important
00:27and needs to be supported and defended at all costs.
00:31But if you examine the reasons given for why this is so as an adult, you find that none of them really hold water.
00:39Israel is the only place where Jews can be safe.
00:42This is clearly false.
00:43A Jewish person in New York City is self-evidently much, much safer than a Jewish person in Tel Aviv.
00:50Forcefully creating a brand new apartheid ethnostate dropped on top of a pre-existing civilization
00:56naturally means that Israel can only ever exist in perpetual violence, which places everyone who lives there in danger.
01:04The Jews deserve a homeland. Why?
01:08Why does any religion deserve to have a country of their own where members of that religion are in charge of everyone else and receive preferential treatment?
01:16There are more Mormons in the world than Jews, and they don't have their own country.
01:20There are more Sikhs in the world than Jews, and they don't have their own country.
01:26There's no logically coherent reason why every religion should have its own nation-state.
01:31And there's no logically coherent reason why such a principle should apply to Jews but not to Scientologists.
01:39Israel is the only liberal democracy in the Middle East.
01:42This one's just silly.
01:45A genocidal apartheid regime which actively disenfranchises and abuses the Palestinian population is the exact opposite of liberal and democratic.
01:55But even if that was not the case, there is no logically coherent and morally defensible reason
02:01why any given religion should have a representative of a particular political ideology in it,
02:07no matter how many people need to be murdered and oppressed to make it so.
02:12I support Israel's existence, but I oppose the mistreatment of Palestinians.
02:18This one is quite popular with the liberals, but it's nonsensical and self-contradictory.
02:24Israel has been abusive to Palestinians throughout the entirety of its existence from its very inception.
02:30Only in the imaginary fairy tales of liberal Zionists has it ever existed without tyranny, theft, and murder.
02:37And only in their imaginary fairy tales can a Jewish ethnostate be dropped on top of a civilization of non-Jews
02:45in a way that could ever be without non-stop tyranny, theft, and murder.
02:50Israel is essential for protecting our interests in the region.
02:54Now, this one is logically coherent from a certain point of view, but it's certainly not morally defensible.
03:01There's not even any logically coherent reason for any normal Westerner to say that Israel protects our interests in the Middle East.
03:10It is only logically coherent for the managers of the Western Empire to say that helping Israel wage the non-stop violent force necessary for its existence
03:19helps sow the chaos, tyranny, destabilization, and division necessary to ensure their geostrategic dominance of a resource-rich region
03:28and keep Middle Eastern nations from uniting into a superpower bloc who use their resources to advance their own interests around the world.
03:38Contrary to what some people believe, Israel isn't responsible for the existence of Western warmongering.
03:44Western warmongering is responsible for the existence of Israel.
03:47If there wasn't an Israel, they'd just invent another excuse to maintain a military presence in the Middle East and keep sowing violence and chaos.
03:56Biden himself has acknowledged this, saying...
04:00Were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect her interest in the region.
04:08The United States would have to...
04:09The Second Intifada, also known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada,
04:16was a major uprising by Al-Palestinia against the Israeli occupation,
04:22characterized by a period of heightened violence in the Al-Palestinia territories and Israel between 2000 and 2005.
04:31The Middle East Peace Summit at Camp David, from July 11th, 25th, 2000, took place between the United States President Bill Clinton,
04:42Israeli Prime Minister Ahud Barak, and Philistine Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat.
04:48It failed, with the latter two blaming each other for the failure of the talks.
04:55There were four principal obstacles to agreement, territory, Al-Qutsu, and the Jabotun Marbadi,
05:02Philistine refugees, and the right of return and Israeli security concerns.
05:07Are you ready to die?
05:10I'm not going to be able to live without a doubt.
05:13I can't do it.
05:15I can't understand the world's future.
05:18I can't do it.
05:20I can't do it.
05:22I can't do it.
05:24I can't do it.
05:26I can't do it.
05:29I can't do it.
05:31I am not sure how to do it.
05:38I can't believe you.
05:40I can't believe in the world.
05:41I can't believe in the world.
05:45You're the wind.
05:51I can't believe in the world.
06:00With these images seen, a national TV counselor say parents should monitor what children are watching.
06:30A national TV counselor say parents should monitor what children are watching.
06:55I'm sorry, don't worry, you're going to die.
07:17It's a big deal, it's a big deal.
07:19I'm not a big deal.
07:20It's a big deal.
07:21It's a big deal.
07:22I can't believe you.
07:24I can't believe you.
07:26I'm a musician.
07:28I'm a musician.
07:30I'm a musician.
07:32I can't believe you.
07:52I don't have a dead tongue
07:59I don't have a broken heart
08:02I don't have a dead tongue
08:06I don't have a medo
08:10I don't have a bro
08:13I don't have a friend
08:14I don't have a love
08:18I don't have a sweet love
08:21Because I am from my heart as soon as I am
08:30There is a lot of love, there is a lot of love
08:34And I'll try to see you
08:38There is a lot of love, there is a lot of love
08:42And I'll try to see you
08:45And I'll try to see you
08:51There is no love, there is no love
09:12I know, I know that I can't do it
09:16There is no love, there is no love
09:21There is no love, there is no love
09:50You'll find me in the future of the last season
09:53I'll be in the winter of the last season
09:57I'll be in a while
10:20At 10.43 p.m. on May 24, 2001, a large portion of the third floor of the Versailles Wedding Hall collapsed.
10:39In Tilbiu Al-Qutsu, Israel, 23 people fell to their deaths through two stories, while another 356 were injured to varying degrees.
10:52The disaster is among the deadliest civil disasters in Israelian history, with only the 2010 Jabaloo Kameli forest fire and the 2021 Miron crowd crush having a higher number of deaths.
11:09The Ambulance
11:19Oh, my God.
11:49The Versailles Wedding Hall was built in 1986 in Talbiot in southern Alcozo by engineer
12:12Eli Ron who invented the Pal-Cal method. The floors were built with metal plates and thin layers of cement. The floor had started to visibly sag and as a result, the owners installed partitions on the floors below to stabilize and correct the sagging floors. Shortly thereafter, the owners, thinking that the issue was cosmetic, decided to remove these partitions.
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12:50One of the things that a lot is about a lot of people because we do not feel every single piece, that we do not feel either, that we do not feel as much, that it is 7% of them, that it is 5% of them.
12:58He is so good, that it is not bad!
13:01The one of the things that the town of Aqqqa is is, that it is not too bad for the whole family, that is not bad for it.
13:08Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God.
13:38Oh my God.
14:08Oh my God.
14:09Oh my God.
14:11Shortly before the collapse, hundreds of wedding guests were on the dance floor with a cover
14:17by Sari Taddad of the song Leaf Ozehav playing.
14:41The third floor suddenly gave way and hundreds of guests fell with the progressive collapse
15:01through the two lower stories of the wedding hall.
15:05Twenty-three people died due to the collapse, and 356 people were injured to varying degrees,
15:13with 130 still in hospital days later.
15:17The bride, Karen Durr, suffered serious pelvic injuries, which required multiple surgeries.
15:25Aesop Durr, the groom, escaped serious injury himself, however his 80-year-old grandfather
15:31was among those killed in the collapse.
15:36Immediately after the collapse, the Home Front Command carried out rescue efforts with the
15:42search and rescue unit and a reserve unit.
15:47Rescue efforts commenced with rescuers digging with bare hands amid fears the rest of the
15:53building could collapse.
16:07the old faculty and the other people was defending their occupies, and the other people
16:11who had a high priority to play.
16:12The school's front is located in the city of North Port陆land and in the city of a
16:28Older, the city of New York City.
16:30I don't know what you're talking about.
17:00There is someone who will come, but...
17:30They continued until 4pm on May 26, 2001.
17:52Three people were pulled from the rubble alive and 23 bodies were removed.
17:58The disaster was captured by cameraman David Amronian, who was recording the wedding via camcorder.
18:06The footage, which captured the collapse and subsequent mayhem, were broadcast around the world on TV networks.
18:28The report of our special correspondent in Israel, Alexei Ivleev.
18:35In seconds, a wedding celebration turned to tragedy.
18:47A dance floor collapses, killing two dozen people.
18:50Rescuers have stopped searching today for any survivors of a dance hall collapse in Jerusalem.
18:5524 people died, 300 were hurt when the floor gave way during a wedding earlier this week.
19:01Earlier, Jerusalem police thought there may still be one more worker left in the building,
19:05but a search organizer claims all the missing had been found.
19:08The destruction of a four-этage building built in 1986 and used for the celebration of the jubilees and celebration happened in the night.
19:15They were looking for, olfated, signs of life.
19:19Those who participate in these difficult tasks have to do sometimes a very difficult job.
19:26Desenterring a reality.
19:28This is a major disaster.
19:33I don't believe that we ever had anything similar in the state of Israel, and certainly not in the city of Jerusalem.
19:41And this is very bad.
19:45But I want to emphasize that this is not a terrorist explosion.
19:50I repeat, this is not a terrorist explosion.
19:54This is just a disaster.
19:57An investigation of the event concluded that it was not caused by a terrorist attack.
20:03The disaster occurred during the second intifada.
20:05This was based on the testimony provided by many of the wedding guests present in the building during the disaster.
20:13Witnesses reported seeing a dangerous sag in the floor moments before the collapse.
20:20An initial inquiry blamed the collapse on the pal-cow method of constructing lightweight coffered concrete floor systems,
20:28which was banned shortly after the completion of the wedding hall, since it was known and proven to be unsafe.
20:36Initially, the side of the building that failed was designed to be a two-story structure,
20:42while the other side was designed to be three stories.
20:46Late in the construction process, it was decided that both sides of the building should be equal heights,
20:52and a third story was added to the shorter side.
20:56However, the live load, due to the occupancy, is typically much greater than the design load for a roof.
21:04As a result, the structure supporting the new third story was subjected to much greater loading than was originally anticipated.
21:13The effect of this error was somewhat mitigated by the construction of partitions on the floor below,
21:20which helped redistribute the excess load, such that no damage was incurred.
21:26A few weeks before the collapse, the wedding hall owners decided to remove the partitions.
21:33With the load path eliminated, the floor above began to sag several centimeters.
21:39The owners viewed the sagging floor primarily as a cosmetic problem and attempted to level it with additional grout and fill.
21:50However, their approach not only failed to provide additional structural capacity,
21:56it also inadvertently introduced a new and significant dead load at the weakened area.
22:03During the wedding event in 2001, this significantly overstressed floor section failed,
22:09resulting in the catastrophe.
22:13The engineer Eli Ron, inventor of the Pal-Cal method of construction,
22:18was arrested and subsequently indicted in August 2002 on the charge of manslaughter.
22:25Following the disaster, the Versailles Law was passed by the Parliament of Israel.
22:31This law established a special committee responsible for treating the people injured in the disaster.
22:37Moreover, an official investigation committee was established by the then-Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon,
22:45under the leadership of the former judge, Fardimo Zeller,
22:48who is in charge of the security of public places and buildings.
22:52The Zeller Committee on Building Safety investigated both the Versailles Wedding Hall collapse as well as the Al-Macabieto bridge collapse,
23:01which occurred four years earlier in 1997 and released its final report in December 2003.
23:09In October 2004, the three owners of the Versailles Wedding Hall,
23:16Abraham Wadi, Uri Nisim, and Ibrahim Adiv,
23:20were convicted of causing death by negligence and causing damage by negligence.
23:27Adi and Adiv were sentenced to 30 months' imprisonment,
23:31while Nassim was sentenced to four months of community service.
23:35The Wedding Hall was subsequently demolished,
23:39and as of 2024, the site remains unoccupied and sealed.
23:44Across the street from the site is a memorial garden with the names of victims inscribed on a wall.
23:50In May 2007, Eli Ron and three engineers involved in the building's construction
23:58were sentenced to prison by the Al-Qutsu District Court.
24:03Eli Ron received a four-year sentence,
24:06Shaumun Kaufman and Dan Schiffer, 22 months, and Kuri Bissa, 6 months.
24:11In December 2006, the court convicted all three men of causing death by negligence and sabotage by negligence.
24:21I'm sorry to go.
24:31I'll bewixtive that 보 handguns at once,
24:39in short sight.
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