How Israel Gets Away with Murder – with Ali Abunimah

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

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News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 3 June 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com After another Israeli murder of a Palestinian journalist, The Electronic Intifada’s Ali Abunimah shares a scary truth: “The message Israel drove home with the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh was that no matter who you are, how famous you are, or what religion you are, no Palestinian is safe from Israel.” With US backing, Israel has been free to kill with impunity. But seeing the Palestinian people unite in protest after each massacre, Ali has hope. “Palestinians are coming back together with every Israeli atrocity, and that is really terrifying for Israel because divide-and-rule has always been their strongest and most successful tactic.” They don’t have the US government on their side, or deadly US weapons, or any truth from US corporate media, but their growing anger and spirit is creating a stronger, unified Palestine. And subscribe for the extended interview, where Ali discusses Israel’s sickening actions at Shireen Abu Akleh’s funeral, racist and violent flag marches, the Biden administration’s hypocritical policies, and the collapsing support for Israel around the world. Plus, Biden’s getting smothered, Marjorie Taylor Greene in a peach tree dish, and 15,000 pounds of hot dog paste. It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out. 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 Aaron Mattik. How are you?
0:10.5	How are you doing Aaron? Oh, thanks. I'm good. We're so insane. You see, we have that chemistry
0:14.8	from working together. We finish each other sentences. I'm good. How was your Memorial Day weekend?
0:20.5	It was good. I went to Montreal for a extended bachelor party with some of those friends and I used
0:26.3	to live there. So it was cool to revisit the battery of a bachelor party. Did you do anything that
0:32.4	you can mention? One really cool thing you can do in Montreal is you can rent these bikes,
0:38.0	kind of like they have city bike in New York City. I mean, every city has this now, but I'm
0:41.1	not sure if this is if they have this everywhere, but some of the bikes are like electric bikes. So
0:45.8	you can if you want to go up like the mountain, there's like a Montréal mountain in Montreal,
0:50.8	you can go up these e-bikes give you like that extra juice. So we just you know, like it was this
0:56.5	was 18 guys and we spent a lot of times cruising around the city. It was a great way to see the city
1:01.9	in an environmentally friendly way and also getting some exercise. So that was a lot of fun.
1:05.2	That's great. Did you wear helmets? No comment. No comment. Yeah, no comment. I'm glad that the
1:12.7	Pop Dorati wasn't there. Yeah, but what kind of a snitch question is that? Did you wear a helmet?
1:17.6	I mean, I think you know what it is. It's a snitch. It's a public health question. We have with
1:23.1	enormous pet with great power comes great responsibility. You're right. I do always wear a helmet
1:27.8	and it's very important and this was a rare slip, but we didn't do anything crazy. This was very
1:33.3	tame. I mean, Aaron is huge in Canada. You think he's huge in the United States. Imagine how
1:39.3	huge he is in the country where he's from. A country that has a lot less going on in the United
1:44.2	States. So I'm just grateful, deeply grateful that the Canadian Pop Dorati was there. Yeah,
1:51.0	they somehow didn't notice me. It's crazy. They're going to be devastated when they realized
1:55.2	when they learn that I was in town and they miss me. And they miss me. Yeah, but good for us,
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