#1693 Empowering Ethnostates: Ethnically cleansing Gaza and Trump's South Africa fixation
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 25 February 2025
⏱️ 181 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 2/25/2025
Racism is at the core of most of what Trump believes so it should be no surprise when he aligns himself and the country with explicitly supremacist projects like the perceived Jewish superiority over Palestinians and the assumed "reverse racism" against White South Africans
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KEY POINTS
KP 1: Trumps Insane Plan To Own Gaza - Pod Save the World - Air Date 2-12-25
KP 2: Elon's African roots - Today, Explained - Air Date 2-13-25
KP 3: Trumps South Africa Fixation - What Next - Air Date 2-12-25
KP 4: American Jews, Israel, and Palestine w Peter Beinart - American Prestige - Air Date 2-11-25
KP 5: West Bank Annexation Inevitable - The Majority Report - Air Date 2-6-25
KP 6: Israelis and Palestinians Standing Together - Ralph Nader Radio Hour - Air Date 2-15-25
KP 7: On The Ground in Gaza Serving the People in Palestine - Rev Left Radio - Air Date 2-11-25
(51:08) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
On why Israel and Gaza are not are complicated as you may think
DEEPER DIVES
(56:45) SECTION A: TRUMP’S GAZA PROPOSAL
(1:10:39) SECTION B: AFRIKANERS AND TRUMP
(1:35:00) SECTION C: WEST BANK VIOLENCE
(1:59:33) SECTION D: HISTORICAL CONTEXT
(2:25:09) SECTION E: RESISTANCE
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Description: Composite showing Netanyahu and Trump with their heads close looking down on a Palestinian flag flying out of the rubble on Gaza.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | Racism is at the core of most of what Trump believes, so it should be no surprise when he aligns himself and the country with explicitly supremacist projects, like the perceived Jewish supremacy over Palestinians and the assumed reverse |
| 0:22.3 | racism against white South Africans. For those looking for a quick overview, the sources |
| 0:27.0 | providing our top takes in about 50 minutes today includes Pod Save the World, Today |
| 0:32.5 | Explained, What Next, American Prestige, The Majority Report. The Ralph Nader Radio Hour. |
| 0:39.1 | Rev. Left Radio. |
| 0:40.5 | And the readout. |
| 0:42.0 | Then in the additional deeper dives half of the show, there will be more in five sections. |
| 0:46.2 | Section A, Trump's Gaza proposal. |
| 0:48.6 | Section B. |
| 0:49.6 | Afrikaners and Trump. |
| 0:51.2 | Section C. |
| 0:52.2 | West Bank Violence. |
| 0:53.5 | Section D. Historical Context, and Section |
| 0:56.2 | E, Resistance. |
| 1:03.8 | Shortly after we recorded last week, President Trump announced that in addition to his plan |
| 1:07.7 | to ethnically cleanse the Gaza Strip, he also wants the U.S. |
| 1:11.1 | to occupy it indefinitely and deny those people he will displace the right to return home. |
| 1:16.1 | Trump advisors reportedly didn't know he was going to announce this Gaza occupation plan before he did it, |
| 1:22.4 | and then they seemed to try to walk it all back. |
| 1:24.4 | But then Trump is just doubling down over and over again. |
| 1:27.3 | Let's listen to a super |
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