#1542 Despair and violence in Israel's illiberal and exclusionary "democracy"
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 10 February 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 2/10/2023
Today, we take a look at the recent rise in tensions in the wake of Israel electing what may be their most right-wing government to date. Literal fascists are now in the governing coalition, violence is rising and reforms are being considered to effectively remove judicial review from the governing process all while the US continues to give its support.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: A look at the violence and unrest in the West Bank - All In with Chris Hayes - Air Date 2-2-23
A look at the violence and unrest in the West Bank.
Ch. 2: Israel and the Progressives - Against the Grain - Air Date 1-25-23
Why do so many people who see themselves as progressive nonetheless support the state of Israel, considered an apartheid state for its treatment of the native Palestinian population?
Far-right Israeli politician Itamar Ben-Gvir’s Tuesday visit to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem is being roundly condemned across the Middle East. Ben-Gvir is a key part of Benjamin Netanyahu’s new far-right government
Ch. 4: Protests in Israel over proposed judicial reform Part 1 - The Current - Air Date 1-19-23
Proposed judicial reform in Israel has prompted thousands to take to the streets in protest. We talk to Dahlia Scheindlin and Diana Buttu, a lawyer and former adviser to the negotiating team of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken is in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories amid an alarming rise in violence, with Israel killing at least 35 Palestinians since the beginning of January.
Ch. 6: An Escalating Cycle of Violence in Israel and Palestine - Global Dispatches - Air Date 2-1-23
We are in the midst of an escalating cycle of violence in Israel and Palestine. On Thursday, January 26 Israeli forces killed at least 9 people in a raid in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank.
Ch. 7: Protests in Israel over proposed judicial reform Part 2 - The Current - Air Date 1-19-23
MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
House Republicans use a tweet by Rep. Ilhan Omar containing anti-Semitic tropes as an excuse to remove her from the Foreign Affairs Committee, Alex notes when Republican leaders were not only untroubled by anti-Semitic tropes but perpetuated by them.
Ch. 9: Israel and the Progressives Part 2 - Against the Grain - Air Date 1-25-23
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 10: Final comments to wrap up
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award winning best of the left podcast in which we'll |
| 0:07.2 | take a look at the recent rise in tensions in the wake of Israel electing what may be their |
| 0:12.1 | most right wing government to date. |
| 0:15.5 | Literal fascists are now in the governing coalition, violence is rising and reforms are |
| 0:21.1 | being considered to effectively remove judicial review from the governing process, all while |
| 0:27.8 | the U.S. continues to give its support. |
| 0:30.3 | Clips today are from all in with Chris Hayes against the grain, democracy now, the current |
| 0:36.3 | and global dispatches with additional members only clips from Alex Wagner tonight and against |
| 0:42.7 | the grain. |
| 0:49.6 | Followed news in Israel and Palestine territory is very closely and it seems to me from |
| 0:56.0 | the people that I read and respect across really the ideological spectrum of real sense |
| 1:00.6 | of like intense acute tension crisis. |
| 1:04.8 | Do you feel that way? |
| 1:06.8 | Yes, absolutely. |
| 1:07.8 | I mean, one of the things we know across the world is that violence comes from despair |
| 1:13.3 | and you now have among Palestinians the deepest diskind of despair. |
| 1:18.0 | Palistines of West Bank have lived for over 50 years without the most basic of rights. |
| 1:23.1 | This is the kind of truth telling that the Biden administration won't do. |
| 1:26.6 | The truth is that in the West Bank is a part aid. |
| 1:31.6 | Pajus have citizenship, the right to vote, the right to free movement, the right to be |
| 1:35.6 | citizens of the country in which they live. |
| 1:37.5 | Palistines have none of those things and there's no prospect. |
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