Welcome to this throwback edition of the award-winning Best of Left podcast where we remember the past and choose to repeat it.

Today's episode was originally published on February 17th, 2018,

and I'm playing it today as the war in Gaza continues because I think it provides good context for understanding

the land and the people in Gaza who are currently under attack,

including some thoughts on what the far right government of Israel may bring about.

As the war drags on and further escalation is being debated, calls for an independent Palestinian state are now stronger than ever.

Sources today include the Ralph Nader Radio Hour, This is Hell, and start making sense.

We Palestinians don't get to liberation through negotiations like the Oslo

agreement. We don't get through to liberation through some goodwill on the part of

the Israelis or their ideology. We get to liberation through

actually Israel becoming as right-wing as it can become and deciding to sort of

imperialistically swallow up all the land, which looks like they might do now in the West Bank and maybe even in Gaza one day because they found gas there, and kind of take us all in and then have to finally answer the question of what are you going to do with these people?

And I think that's the way we get to real liberation, one state and all of Palestine, and I actually think BB's going to take us there.

I really do. I then Trump is helping him along in a weird way Trump and then Yahoo

might liberate Palestine not on purpose but just because you know they really don't know what the

hell they're doing so they might take it well you know the majority of

Palestinians and Israelis even now are for a two-state solution. But the one-state

solution advocates have been on the rise. And just to break the

stereotype, we have Israeli soldiers objecting to the

destruction in Gaza. they formed a group called

breaking the silence we have over 1500 Israeli reserves who fought in the

wars putting out a dramatic proclamation a number of years ago

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