Gaza Ceasefire: Why the Israeli Right-Wing Feels Defeated [Preview]
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
On this patrons-only episode, Brian & Layan discuss the ceasefire in Gaza and why Netanyahu was finally forced to sign the agreement.
Brian Becker is joined by Layan Sima Fuleihan, a Palestinian organizer with the Shut It Down for Palestine coalition, a popular educator, the Education Director at The People’s Forum, and an editor at 1804 Books.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Socialist Program. |
| 0:04.0 | This is John Prysner, a producer of this show. |
| 0:07.0 | This is a preview of a patrons-only episode. |
| 0:10.0 | Subscribe at patreon.com slash the Socialist Program to hear the full episode |
| 0:16.0 | to access to all our patrons-only content, including live Q&A seminars with Brian Becker, and help |
| 0:22.5 | keep this show on the air. |
| 0:27.1 | A ceasefire in Gaza is announced and expected to take effect on Sunday. But is a ceasefire |
| 0:33.6 | real? Will it actually happen? Will this genocide end? And what do we know about the terms of the deal? |
| 0:41.1 | Welcome to the Socialist Program. I'm Leanne Fullahan here with Brian Becker. This is In the News, |
| 0:47.7 | an episode of the Socialist Program, a patrons only show. Brian, it's great to be back with you. |
| 0:53.7 | Thank you, Leanne. I think people may know that |
| 0:56.3 | on Wednesday night, a couple nights ago, we did a live show because the ceasefire had just been |
| 1:03.3 | announced. People in Gaza were celebrating. People all over the region were celebrating. You and I went and went on air and we did like an assessment |
| 1:13.2 | the best we could at the time. It was breaking news. But shortly after this news, the Israelis started |
| 1:21.4 | bombing Gaza once again, and a lot of people were killed. That's right, Brian. And it's been |
| 1:27.0 | constant bombing since then, all over |
| 1:29.6 | the Gaza territory. Since the ceasefire announced until 9 a.m. Palestine time today, January 17 at the |
| 1:37.3 | time of this recording, there's been more than 113 people killed. 27 of those are children. |
| 1:44.8 | 31 of those are women and almost 300 people wounded. |
| 1:49.0 | As always, Brian, that's the number that the Gaza health authorities and the civil |
| 1:54.1 | defense are able to actually calculate because we're still under siege, under major |
| 1:59.7 | bombardment in Gaza. |
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