Welcome to the Empire Files podcast. This is Abby Martin. This is the audio version of each episode of the Empire Files hosted on Telesaur English. You can watch every episode at the EmpireFiles.tv.

Once again, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all over the news. It's a topic that's always framed the same way.

A relentless cycle of violence where one side tries to maintain peace,

and the other won't let them have it.

For many young people in America, the first time they heard about Palestine

was on the morning of the 9-11 attacks,

while the vast majority of Palestinians and Arab and Muslim people as a whole were expressing solidarity with the victims of 9-11, this was shown over and over again to a nation in shock.

Apparently Palestinians took to the street, chanting God is great. People were throwing candy, distributing candy to passers by.

DC's leading ideologues leptych inflate Palestine with terrorism,

advocating the U.S. military invade Palestine just one day after 9-11.

Are you suggesting that we've got to go to war or rather we should... We are at war.

Go ahead, friend.

We are at war.

We have no option.

I would like to see military operations commencing immediately.

When accurate facts about Palestine make it onto a national stage, it short-lived.

Like just weeks ago on October 15, when MSNBC showed this map that tells the true story of Israel's theft of Palestinian land.

But the very next day, they corrected the story.

Last Thursday, in an attempt to talk about the context for the current turmoil in the Middle East,

we showed a series of maps of the changing geography

in that region. We realized after we went off the air, the maps were not factually accurate,

and we regret using them. Fletcher also issued an apology, saying the facts were dead wrong,

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