Hello and welcome to Colonial Outcast, the anti-imperialist podcast that your problematic uncle will hate.

I've updated the qualifier on the word uncle because some of y'all's uncles, based on messages and comments, are you and you don't hate it.

But I know for a fact that one of my estranged uncles would because I stalk him on fascist Twitter and when confronted with the

fact that last summer, the Israeli occupation force had dropped more new net explosive weight

than a nuclear bomb on Gaza. He replied, they'll get over it. The Japanese did. Since the unfortunately

named global war on terror, we have to keep in mind that many,

many Americans feel this type of cruel apathy towards people of the global South. And it also,

and also what happens when you're a near senior conservative boomer who has watched too many

World War II documentaries on the history channel. But today we are talking about Gaza, specifically health care and medical extraction within

conflict zones and what the historical precedents that were set, the state policy of

targeting hospitals and medical staff means for conflict medicine going forward.

What does it mean for conflict medicine going forward?

And keep in mind, the current incarnations of international law, for instance, the Geneva Convention

and the IRRC, the International Committee of the Red Cross Law of Land Warfare were created in post-World War II Europe

so that none of these things, those things would happen again, at least not to a white European.

Something you can remind your MAGA or hawkish liberal uncles who have never actually witnessed war firsthand about.

If they ever do, they'll probably just ball up in a corner praying for the U.S.

embassy to extract them, which they won't.

So the Gaza ceasefire stands on the edge of a knife, which will get into.

But this political and military reality brings back into sharp focus,

though it's never really gone away,

the humanitarian situation in Gaza currently and in the wake of the Israeli state policy of

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