'Biden Could End Gaza War With A Phone Call': Jeremy Scahill Exposes US and Israeli Claims
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🗓️ 16 December 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Jeremy Scahill is one of the top US investigative journalists - a founder of The Intercept and a bestselling author - and here he takes apart Israel's propaganda, the devastating US role in Gaza atrocities, and why Palestine's history matters.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, hello. I am particularly delighted today to be joined by the incredible Jeremy |
| 0:04.8 | Scarhill. Many of you will know his work, his senior correspondent at The Intercept, |
| 0:08.9 | who have done fantastic work over the last few years, |
| 0:13.0 | particular issues, which maybe some of the media outlets haven't given sufficient time and |
| 0:16.9 | resources to. And also the podcast intercepted, which he also co-hosts. It's great to see you, |
| 0:24.1 | Jeremy, how you did. Thanks for having me back on. Let's just begin actually at the moment with |
| 0:30.4 | some of the propaganda that we're actually seeing in this hideous war, if the war is the correct term. |
| 0:37.9 | So we're seeing at the moment we've seen how images of prisoners stripped, detained, |
| 0:46.8 | and then floated on, you know, paraded on camera, which violates the GMC convention. |
| 0:54.2 | And we've seen, you know, kind of fade a grading, kind of attempted to grade or humiliate some |
| 1:01.3 | would say the Palestinian population. I'm just interested in what you think Israel's tactic is |
| 1:05.4 | in terms of what it's doing there. Well, Owen, let's remember that in the immediate aftermath of |
| 1:11.2 | the Hamas raids into Israel on October 7th, Galant, the defense minister, who's a truly |
| 1:19.1 | ghoulish character, stated that we're not fighting human beings, we're fighting human animals. |
| 1:25.5 | And this kicked off what has been a sustained campaign to dehumanize all Palestinians, |
| 1:33.0 | all people of Gaza. The president of Israel, Isaac Herzog, has stated that there are actually |
| 1:40.4 | no civilians, no innocent civilians in Gaza. I mean, I could spend an hour with you reading off |
| 1:46.7 | what I think can just rightly be called genocidal comments by Israeli officials and lawmakers. |
| 1:53.0 | You have also Netanyahu talking about the children of the dark versus the children of the light, |
| 1:58.0 | and you know, invoking the story of Amalek and whatever. We can go on and on about this, |
| 2:03.2 | but I'm bringing that up because from that mentality and that tone being set, you're what you're |
| 2:10.1 | trying to do is groom your public to accept any crimes that you commit in pursuit of what you tell |
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