The Young Turks - Palestinian Children Send Ana A Beautiful Message

Episode Date: October 25, 2026

A group of Palestinian children sent a powerful message to Ana Kasparian amid Israel's ongoing genocide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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OnStar. Better never stops. Where is your decency, man? Where is your decency? Seriously, where is your decency? Do you not see the videos? Do you not see the starving children? We hope our message, which is you, Anna, Kassberia.

We tell you, Anna, Gaza is really flatted by the ground. But we are here in equal distance. survivors. Want to tell you, we still have hope. To make our sound reaches you and the whole world. To retain life and hope together. Anna Gospirian, this is for you. That's amazing.

Look, it's about Anna, but I will tell you, I would say that it makes both my career and Anna's career worth having. If we were for a nanosecond, a voice for the voiceless, then everything else is worth it. else is worth it. And so seeing those kids in the rubble, just reaching out for one person, in this case, Anna, and thanking them for their help. But the most important part of the message is they're still there guys. And they still have hope. And they're still waiting for the whole world to show up to help them and save them. It hasn't happened yet. But, Look, I'm super proud of Anna and I'm super proud of the fight she's got on this issue. And for those who are angry at her for representing those kids and anybody in Gaza, I don't

care about them at all. Yeah, I'm here for the fight. So I'm happy to, it's the honor of a lifetime to fight back on their behalf. I have mixed feelings and I just, sorry, I like really don't want to cry on air, but on one hand I feel so unbelievably honored by what they did, you know, but at the same time, I'm so sick of feeling powerless to change it. I'm so sick of it and I'm sick of like, I feel honored, but then you see the kids surrounded by complete and utter destruction that my tax dollars paid for.

And it makes me so angry. Yeah. So I think I think the people in power here in America are underestimating the rage that's building. And it isn't just because we're tired of seeing kids killed in front of our eyes and then told that if we don't pay for it somehow we're bigoted. No, it's the exact opposite. If you don't mind those kids that are currently in danger, the ones that have already been killed, the ones that have lost limbs, there's definitely a bigot in the equation. And if you say that's no big deal, you're a bit of a monster. So yeah, and unfortunately so much in the, so many people in the West have been told to be

quiet and that the supporters of Israel will be greatly offended if you mention their crime. No, we're not gonna listen to any of that. We don't care if the people committing a genocide are offended. We care about protecting innocent lives. And it's past time for the whole world to care. And to Anna's point, what are we doing here, guys? Three quarters of America doesn't want the war with Iran. Two thirds of America don't want to support Israel anymore and don't want to send any more

money or bombs to hurt those poor kids. But the great majority of our country is constantly ignored. Why are they ignored in a so called democracy? And a very important question that makes the elites very uncomfortable here in America, which is, so who's actually in control? If three quarters of our country is irrelevant, if our voters don't want to do this and And they're actually in actual psychological and emotional pain to see their money being taken from them and being given to a country to hurt these kids.

And yet our leaders and our media says, we don't care about you. We don't care about the Palestinian people. We don't care about the kids in Gaza or the West Bank or Lebanon or Iran. We don't care about any of you. But most especially, we don't care about the American people. We don't care what you think, we don't care if you don't want war, you are always going to get war and we are always going to finance the abuse and the slaughter of the Palestinians. There's something deeply wrong in our governments.

We are not in charge, these are not democracies. If they were, they would listen to the overwhelming majority of their people. And last thing I'll leave you with is hope, because yeah, it's super hard under these circumstances to have any hope at all. But there is going to be a presidential election in this country. And I don't know how long they can contain two thirds to three quarters and growing every single day of discontent. We can't take this anymore.

Deep immorality in our name. And I want those kids to know the American people are actually good-hearted and on your side now. That's a giant change from the last couple of years. We are now totally on your side. Our job is to get past our corrupt politicians and our corrupt media to take our government back to free America so we no longer do this type of immorality. And we come to actually help you rather than hurt you.

So I wanna, yeah. I just wanna say one final thing about this. One of the little girls in the, in the video, I found her and followed her on Instagram. And she like got excited that I followed her. immediately wrote to me. And she asked me a question that like, she asked Anna, I want to ask you, how can I grow up to be as brave and strong as you?

Are you kidding me? I know. No. And she talked about how terrified she is when the bombardments start, when they start bombing. And she wants to, and I just wrote back and I just said, you're far more brave than I am, you're a survivor who manages to smile and find joy in life,

Throughout the horror surrounding you, you inspire me to be brave. Yeah, it's not even close. So we really appreciate all the kind words, but no, no, no, no. The people in Gaza are a thousand times more brave than any of us here in the West. And to me, the best people on earth are the doctors who go to Gaza to help those kids. Now I've seen a lot of their presentations, guys. If you haven't seen kids' limbs blown off, it's really hard to sit through. And after you see slide after slide, remember thousands, tens of thousands of kids were killed,

but even more were injured. And no, that's real courage. And I'll always have respect for the Palestinian people that despite all this, they never kneeled and they never bowed and they never lost their core and their courage. And I love them for it. It's the rest of the world that should live in shame for not helping those helping those poor kids as Israel continues to bomb them to this day. I wanna go to the very last graphic here because it's a picture of Leon and she's the little

girl who I was messaging with. She's holding a photo of the portrait they painted of me. And Echo of the Survivors is the name of the organization that seeks to basically share the stories of these Palestinian children and what they've gone through. ECHOServe.org is the URL to their organization if you want to learn more and if you want to support them. They want to provide safe spaces for trauma therapy and emotional release for children in shelter camps. They apparently train and empower youth ambassadors in media presence and verified field documentation and they've launched an interactive bilingual documentary repository of children's firsthand testimonies, which is obviously really important,

given the genocide denials that we're currently dealing with here. So I just want to thank these kids. They inspire me every single day. And I genuinely am honored. I know I'm crying, but it's because of the, again, like the powerlessness I feel to be able to change the situation on the ground there and the disgust I feel over my own government. So we'll never be able to match their courage. Every time you ring the bell below, an angel gets his swings.

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