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Scott Horton Show - Just the Interviews

10/12/23 Max Blumenthal on What People Need to Know About Gaza

Scott Horton Show - Just the Interviews

Scott Horton

News, Politics

4.8902 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Max Blumenthal joined Scott on Antiwar Radio this week to discuss the situation in Gaza. They talk about what’s happening and put the events in historical context. Discussed on the show: Dying to Win by Robert Pape Killing Gaza Goliath by Max Blumenthal Director and writer of “Killing Gaza,” Max Blumenthal is a senior editor of the Grayzone Project and the author Goliath, Republican Gomorrah and The 51 Day War. Follow him on Twitter @MaxBlumenthal. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

For Pacifica Radio, October the 12th, 2023.

0:05.0

I'm Scott Horton.

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This is anti-war radio. I'm your host Scott Horton.

0:25.0

I'm the editorial director of anti-war.com and the author of enough already, time to end the war on terrorism.

0:31.0

You find my full interview archive, almost 6,000 of them now going back to

0:35.3

2003 at Scott Horton.org and you can follow me on Twitter at Scott Horton show.

0:41.6

All right introducing our good friend Max Blumenthal.

0:45.0

He's the author of the book Goliath that he wrote while in Israel about a decade ago.

0:50.0

And he's the director of the Greyzone and a great journalist and the editor of a bunch of great journalists over there at the Greyzone.com and welcome back to the show Max. How are you sir?

1:02.0

Good. How you doing? I'm doing real good so listen I have you here because you are so wise about so many aspects of the case of Israel, Palestine, and also I think in, you know,

1:16.9

intuitively kind of really understanding what it is that other people don't

1:20.8

understand and what it is that you feel like they need to know about all of this.

1:26.0

So our story begins with the giant jailbreak last Saturday morning, or Hamas, I guess a couple

1:32.3

thousand, I guess they're saying Hamas fighters broke out,

1:36.1

attacked an IDF base or two and in fact seized a couple dozen small towns and including committed some mass atrocities killed at least

1:45.7

hundreds of innocent civilians. I don't know the exact numbers of IDF versus

1:49.9

civilians but many many civilians were killed by Hamas, even people who were kidnapped and then executed, in order to, what, Max, to start a war? Why? What the hell? Well, there's been a war. what the disengagement of 2000 that took place between 2005 and 2007 where 9,000 settlers, illegal

2:19.4

settlers were removed from Gaza in order to give the Israeli army freedom of operation there.

2:26.0

That's when the giant missiles, you know, giant military attacks with 5,500, 2,000 pound missiles began falling on Gaza.

2:33.9

That's when the residential towers and office buildings

2:36.3

started getting dropped.

2:37.3

That's when the mortuary started filling up.

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