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🗓️ 13 December 2023
⏱️ 76 minutes
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For more than two months, the Israeli military has waged a scorched-earth campaign against Gaza, and the death toll has risen to over 18,000 Palestinians, including more than 7,000 children. Meanwhile, in the occupied West Bank, violent Israeli government-armed and funded settlers continue their violent campaign to purge Palestinians from their homes as the Israel Defense Forces lay siege to Jenin and other cities.
This week on Intercepted, Jeremy Scahill discusses the dystopian game show that Israel is subjecting Palestinians to in Gaza, kettling them into an ever-shrinking killing cage. While the scope of the war against Gaza is unprecedented, it has been preceded by a decadeslong cycle of regular Israeli ground and air attacks against the Palestinians of both Gaza and the occupied West Bank. Independent journalist Antony Loewenstein discusses his groundbreaking new book, “The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World.” For two decades, Loewenstein, a co-founder of Declassified Australia, has reported on Gaza, the occupied West Bank, and Israel, having lived in East Jerusalem for several years. Loewenstein breaks down how Israel markets its defense and intelligence technology to nations across the world, boasting of how it has been “battle-tested” against the Palestinians. He also discusses the weaponization of accusations of antisemitism against critics of Israeli policies and wars and the formal efforts in the U.S., Germany, and elsewhere to categorize opposition to Zionism as antisemitism.
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1:10.2 | This is intercepted. Welcome to Intercepted, I'm Jeremy Skahill. The events of the past week or so should obliterate any doubt that the war against the |
1:16.6 | Palestinians of Gaza is a joint US-Israeli operation. |
1:22.2 | Last Friday, as the Biden administration stood alone among all of the nations of the world in vetoing a UN Security Council resolution that called for an immediate ceasefire. |
1:33.4 | Secretary of State Antony Blinking was busy circumventing |
1:37.8 | US congressional review to ram through the approval of what he said was an emergency sale of more than 13,000 tank rounds to Israel. |
1:49.0 | Now, it's not a shock that the United States is sending weapons to Israel, but remember that over the past month or more, |
1:57.6 | Anthony Blinking has been zipping across the Middle East, |
2:01.1 | he's been appearing on scores of television networks in a sort of PR |
2:05.4 | tour that is aimed at selling the world this notion that the Biden administration is deeply concerned about the fate of Gaza's 2.2 million residents. |
2:17.6 | And he said just as the ceasefire was ending earlier this month and Israel resumed its |
2:25.9 | scorched-earth campaign, Blinkin said that the US had gotten assurances from |
2:31.0 | Israel that they're going to try a little bit harder not to kill so many |
2:35.5 | civilians. So at the same time that you have Blinken saying these things and you have the United States vetoing the calls supported by |
2:46.2 | a vast majority of nations in the world for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and by the |
2:51.3 | way this was an extraordinary move on the part of the UN Secretary |
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