How the War in Gaza is Becoming the Crime of the Century / Suzy Hansen

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5 • 930 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Journalist and author Suzy Hansen will returns to This Is Hell! To talk about her New York Magazine article, "Crimes of the Century: How Israel, with the help of the U.S., broke not only Gaza but the foundations of humanitarian law." Suzy is the author of, "Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World," which was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize. Her new book, "From Life Itself: Turkey, Istanbul, and a Neighborhood in the Age of Erdoğan," will be published in April by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/israel-palestine-gaza-war-crimes-genocide.html A new installment of “This Week In Rotten History” from Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview. Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon.

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0:00.0	One home boy became a man than a mobster.
0:02.0	If the dies on me get my last finger rocker,
0:04.0	RIP would donate your lungs to a roster.
0:07.0	Went from turn tables to MP3s from East Street and commercial for a good ease.
0:11.0	Pick it, Jack! This is hell.
0:33.1	This is hell.
0:39.5	Manufacturing dississent since 1996
0:42.1	this is hell right now
0:47.1	in Gaza and since
0:49.4	October 7th, 2023
0:51.1	what has been
0:53.5	ongoing for over 20 months closing in on two full years of constant,
0:59.2	continuous murder, death, torture, deprivation, the atrocities we see happening every day
1:06.6	as posted on social media for all the world to see.
1:13.7	They are truly unprecedented.
1:17.6	Something humanity has never seen before.
1:21.1	Unlike past genocides, this one is not hidden from view,
1:23.9	allowing the outside world to claim after the fact,
1:29.6	had we only knew, something would have been done to stop stop it that's always the claims after atrocities like these but this time we know of course there have been worse
1:39.5	genocides that is if one felt compelled to callously rank crimes against humanity, as if there is a best and worst.
1:47.8	But this genocide is like none we have ever seen before, because we are seeing it before our own eyes each and every day.
1:59.3	More reports come in of how starving Palestinians, including women and children, while trying
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