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The Zionist’s Long Term Plan
The humanitarian catastrophe Israel has engineered, in Gaza has no precedent in the modern era, “ Patrick Lawrence recently wrote, in that “Israel hates the United Nations and all it stands for, international law above all, without limit.”
Last week using American airplanes and bombs, Israel illegally attacked Lebanon and then Syria. It is aiming to get the United States involved in a war against Iran.
Israel’s action in overwhelming, displacing, and murdering the native Palestinians was baked into the Zionists plan and carried out over the last hundred years. David Ben Gurion, called the father of modern Israel, said that “the Jewish people have a map… which our youth and adults should try to fulfill, from the Nile to the Euphrates… one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war”. The events of October 7 of last year were merely the pretext.
Ariel Sharon, Israeli general, Prime Minister, and statesman, was responsible for murdering Arabs in neighboring Lebanon. 17,000 civilians were killed in 1982 during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. About 2000 were killed in the Sabra Sheila massacre by Phalangist allies of Israel and Sharon.
Sharon said, “I don’t mind if after the job is done, you put me in front of a Nuremberg trial and then jail me for life. Hang me if you like, as a war criminal. What you don’t understand is the dirty work of Zionism is not yet finished, far from it.”
We will now see more of the “the dirty work”, carried out with Trump promising to “finish the job.”
Guest – Columbia University Professor Rashid Khalidi is a Palestinian American historian of the Middle East, the Edward Said professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, and Director of the Middle East Institute of Columbia School of International and Public Affairs. He was educated at Yale and Oxford universities and is the author of many books on the Middle East. He is also the author of Under Siege: PLO Decision Making During the 1982 War, Brokers of Deceit: How the US Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East and recently The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017.
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The Effects Of Donald Trump’s Reelection
The reelection of Donald Trump will have disastrous effects inside the United States and around the world. Today we examine two related crises, one at home and the other in the Middle East.
Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza, according to Palestinian and international agencies has killed at least 43,020 people—most of them women and children. At least 101,110 others have been wounded and over 10,000 Gazans are missing and believed dead and buried beneath the rubble of hundreds of thousands of bombed homes and other structures. Millions more Palestinians have been forcibly displaced, starved, or sickened by Israel’s invasion and “complete siege” of Gaza.In October, senior members of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right Cabinet and national lawmakers spoke at a conference advocating the ethnic cleansing and recolonization of Gaza.
On October 28, the government of South Africa filed 750 pages of what it called “overwhelming” proof that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands. Under the court’s rules, the contents of the memorial cannot be made public at this time, but in a statement the office of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, called the material a “comprehensive presentation of the overwhelming evidence of genocide in Gaza.”
In response to the genocide in Gaza, campus protests which roiled over 400 colleges and universities last year are heating up again but this time protesters face an incoming President who has promised to use the National Guard and even the US military to brutally suppress dissent, whether its in opposition to the renewed alliance between Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu or in response to Trump’s promise to launch mass deportations.
Trump and his allies have reportedly drafted plans for him to deploy the military against civil demonstrators on his first day in office, according to a Washington Post report from November 2023. Trump has also indicated that he will use the military to deport millions of undocumented immigrants.
When Fox News asked Trump whether he thought “outside agitators” might have an effect on Election Day, Trump responded by saying, “I think the bigger problem is the enemy from within.” He added, “We have some very bad people. We have some sick people, radical left lunatics. And I think they’re the big — and it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military, because they can’t let that happen.” We’re very fortunate to have a guest who is well-equipped to address both of these crises.
Guest – Marjorie Cohn is professor of law emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and former president of the National Lawyers Guild. She is also Dean of the People’s Academy of International Law and a member of the Bureau of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers. She writes frequent articles about the Supreme Court for Truthout.
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