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Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Genocide trial should convict Blinken and other US officials – Palestinian analyst

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots, LLC

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.64.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Click here for the full interview with Mouin Rabbani: https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/genocide-trial-should-convict-blinken?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web And see Katie LIVE this Tuesday at the People’s Forum: https://peoplesforum.org/events/live-at-tpf/ For $5 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and bonus content at www.usefulidiotspodcast.com Watch this week's Thursday Throwdown: Jamie Raskin defends democracy by removing peace activist https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/jamie-raskin-defends-democracy-by?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Palestinian analyst and Middle East expert Mouin Rabbani joined Useful Idiots this week ahead of the International Court of Justice’s genocide trial against Israel. And though the ICJ’s verdict is not actionable (only the Security Council can punish countries, and we already know where who's boss there), Rabbani explains why the case still has huge ramifications. “This same state that has hid behind the extermination of Europe’s Jews for every one of its actions,” he tells us. “Now itself stands accused of genocide. I think after this case, irrespective of its outcome, Israel will forever be tainted by what it is doing in the Gaza strip, and people will begin to recognize that Israel is not the Jewish state, but rather it is a Zionist state.” Meanwhile, as the case begins its first days in court, Secretary of State Antony Blinken is back in the region, trying to convince other Middle East countries to support Israel, bombing those that don’t, and condemning the ICJ case, calling it meritless and galling. And he should be upset, says Mouin. “Antony Blinken should be outraged because if Israel is guilty of genocide, then not only the United States, but Blinken personally is complicit in genocide and would be hauled before a court and convicted of his role in perpetrating this genocide as well.” If Israel is convicted, it won’t be hard to show the secretary’s influence: “Blinken’s not only implicated, he’s been giving it a standing ovation since the moment it started.” Subscribe for the full interview where Mouin Rabbani lays out Israel’s history of ethnic cleansing, exposes the New York Times’ faked claim that Hamas used the Al Shifa hospital as a command center, and explains Biden’s plans to ramp up his support for Israel even further. 00:00 Intro 01:13 The Four Food Groups of News 12:40 Mouin Rabbani interview 18:31 Israel carrying out assassinations 23:27 Israel is creating enemies 26:45 Blinken condemns ICJ case 35:36 PREDICTING the VERDICT 40:09 history of Israeli ethnic cleansing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to useful idiots I'm Katie Halper and I'm Mary Matte.

0:08.7

Hey everybody our website is useful idiots podcast.com go there for bonus content and to support the show and

0:15.8

Katie you have an exciting event to announce coming up in New York City.

0:19.4

I do so Tuesday January 16th at 7 p.m. I'll be in a historic moment doing a live show with none other than journalist

0:30.0

Ranya Callick, journalist Abby Martin and PSL presidential candidate and organizer Claudia

0:37.1

de la Cruz and that's going to be at the People's Forum in New York City and you can buy

0:41.2

tickets at people's forum.org and it's going to be great if

0:46.3

you're not in town although I really do recommend if you're in town that you go and

0:50.2

see in person but if you're not in town I will be streaming it at

0:53.0

YouTube dot com slash the Katie helper show again that's YouTube

0:57.0

dot com slash the Katie helper show very exciting this is kind of like that

1:01.4

version of that lefty lady version of the view that you want

1:04.3

exactly right exactly yeah we just wish Brianna Joy Gray could join us but she'll be there in

1:10.0

spirit but next time we do it we'll try to agree there.

1:13.0

All right let's get to our four basic food groups. What do we have for Democrats suck?

1:17.0

So for Democrats suck we have a suckage, major suckage from of course Secretary of State Anthony Blinkin, but just so you understand what happened,

1:28.8

it's a very, very sad news, hardly surprising, sadly though, which is that Israel just killed journalist

1:35.2

Hamza Daddu as well as his colleague Mustafa Thariah and an airstrike in a supposedly safe

1:41.0

area of Gaza and they were ironically trying to interview people who had been

1:45.0

displaced by bombings and Hamza is the son of Al Jazeera's Gaza Bureau Chief

1:51.0

while I do and people probably Wail Dadu.

1:52.8

And people probably remember that Dadu was shot.

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