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It Could Happen Here

Gaza and the Board of Peace feat. Dana El Kurd

It Could Happen Here

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

News, Daily News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.06.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human.

0:05.9

CallZo Media.

0:10.7

Hello, everyone, and welcome to It Could Happen here.

0:13.8

My name is Dana Alperd.

0:15.2

I'm a professor of political science and a researcher of Arab and Palestinian politics.

0:20.8

Since I last recorded an episode, those in power have been very busy.

0:26.5

The world looks different from a month ago.

0:30.2

What would the assault on Minneapolis, the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Maduro,

0:34.9

the, as of this recording, possible invasion of Greenland,

0:38.9

it's been hard for even the best of us to keep up. As Nemek from the series Andor would say,

0:45.0

the pace of repression outstrips our ability to understand it. And that is the real trick of the

0:51.1

imperial thought machine. It's easier to hide behind 40 atrocities than a single

0:56.0

incident. I will never not squeeze in an end or reference when I can. Given that this is the state of the

1:02.3

world, what's happening in Palestine has largely slipped out of most people's feeds, and certainly the

1:08.6

media headlines. But lots is happening. Lots of dangerous things

1:12.5

are happening. And I'm going to take this episode to give an update about what's been going on.

1:18.1

Since the ceasefire was announced three months ago, 449 Palestinians have been killed by

1:23.6

Israeli attacks, and another 1,246 have been injured. Over a hundred of those killed

1:30.3

were children, according to UNICEF. The Gaza Strip has been reduced even further, with a new, quote,

1:37.3

yellow line demarcating where Israeli troops will remain, and where Palestinians are not allowed to go.

1:44.1

They literally placed concrete yellow blocks

1:46.6

on the ground in Gaza. And as the BBC notes from a report January 16th of this year, Israel continues

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