In response to fascist attacks and ethnic cleansing efforts directed against Palestinian people by ultra-right settlers backed by the Israeli government, the Palestinian people are uniting to fight back.

On the home front, the Biden administration's economic program continues to draw attacks from right-wing media, the Republican Party, and key parts of the Democratic Party in the

U.S. Senate.

We need a new system.

We need a new society.

We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not

only realizable, but an imperative necessity.

Thank you. but an imperative necessity. Welcome to today's episode of In The News, our Tuesday show on the Socialist Program with Brian Becker.

It's May 11, 2021.

This is an in-depth look at the biggest stories in the news right now, today, and this week.

We look beyond the headlines and expose the distortions in the corporate-owned media.

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I'm Nicole Roussel, here with Esther Evarim, Walter Smalerick, and our host, Brian Becker.

Esther Ivarim is also the host of the radio show and podcast On the Ground at On the Ground Show.

org. Make sure to check out On the Ground, which comes out weekly on Fridays.

Brian, we want to start today with this horrendous, horrendous attack that Israel has

launched on Gaza and before that on East Jerusalem.

Yes, the Israeli government bombing Gaza once again. Two days ago, nine children were murdered.

Others, their parents, their grandparents, their neighbors also murdered.

The situation inside of Palestine, inside of historic Palestine,

here we are on the eve of the knock bob when the ethnic cleansing of the right wing

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