Dr. Mustafa Barghouti on the Struggle for Palestine's Future Amid Gaza Genocide

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🗓️ 28 February 2024

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The Israeli government is on the brink of a long-feared military offensive against the town of Rafah, where more than 1 million Palestinian civilians have taken shelter from the Israeli campaign in Gaza. An attack on Rafah could trigger the worst humanitarian catastrophe of the war so far, including a potential ethnic cleansing of Gaza as Palestinians are pushed into Egypt. This week on Intercepted, hosts Jeremy Scahill and Murtaza Hussain discuss the current state of the war as well as the ongoing Palestinian campaign for political unity with Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, a physician and general secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative. Barghouti speaks about the current humanitarian crisis in Gaza, the role of the U.S. in facilitating the war, and his own political future and that of the Palestinian national movement in the wake of this crisis.

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0:00.0	The This is intercepted. Welcome to Intercepted, I'm Jeremy Ska Hill.
0:36.0	And I'm Mertazzo-Hossain.
0:38.0	Well, Mertaza today, we have a lot of news to discuss and we have, we're really honored to have a very special
0:43.8	guest so we're not going to do much by way of introduction just to say the
0:47.3	context is that President Joe Biden while eating an ice cream cone on
0:52.3	Monday evening
0:53.8	indicated that he believes there may be a temporary cease fire
0:58.6	is what he's calling it, a temporary pause
1:01.1	in Israel's military attacks against Gaza, though Hamas is indicating that they don't see a clear path yet for that.
1:10.0	We'll see what happens.
1:11.0	Benjamin Netanyahu continues to threaten a full siege and
1:14.7	invasion of Rafa, the humanitarian situation, continues to deteriorate inside of
1:20.9	Gaza and we go now to Dr. Mustafa Bar Guti. He is the General Secretary of the
1:26.2	Palestinian National Initiative, that's a Palestinian political party. Dr. Barguti is also a physician and we thank him so much for joining us here on
1:35.3	Intercepted.
1:36.3	I'd to be with you, thank you.
1:38.3	Dr. Marguti, let's start with just your initial reaction to the sort of rumblings that we're hearing about the
1:45.5	potential for a deal. Joe Biden, who is facing a re-election campaign and has a lot of heat being put on him for his full-blown support for Israel
1:57.6	is indicating that there may be some agreement that Israel would pause its military attacks against Gaza during the holy month of Ramadan.
2:06.0	Hamas says that they have a different understanding of what's going on.
2:09.6	What is your sense of what we're seeing right now?
2:12.8	What we see is a shameful position
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