Is the Lebanon War Really Over? A Ceasefire Analysis & Review of Trump’s Foreign Policy [Preview]
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
On this patrons-only episode, Brian & Layan discuss the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, whether it will hold, and what it means for Palestine, and also how Trump’s new foreign policy team has embraced the Biden administration’s pro-war foreign policy.
Brian Becker is joined by Layan Sima Fuleihan, a Palestinian organizer with the Shut It Down for Palestine coalition, a popular educator, the Education Director at The People’s Forum, and an editor at 1804 Books.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Socialist Program. |
| 0:04.0 | This is John Prysner, a producer of this show. |
| 0:07.0 | This is a preview of a patrons-only episode. |
| 0:10.0 | Subscribe at patreon.com slash the Socialist Program to hear the full episode, |
| 0:16.0 | get access to all our patrons-only content, including live Q&A seminars with Brian Becker, and help keep this show on the air. |
| 0:27.0 | Lebanon and the state of Israel have arrived at a ceasefire agreement that will at least temporarily put a pause on the Israeli aggression against the people of Lebanon. |
| 0:36.4 | Will this ceasefire hold? What does it mean for the people of Lebanon. Will this ceasefire hold? |
| 0:38.7 | What does it mean for the people of Gaza? |
| 0:40.7 | And what impact does it have on the internal political situation inside of Israel? |
| 0:45.4 | I'm Leanne Fullahan here with Brian Becker. |
| 0:48.3 | This is In the News, a segment of the Socialist Program, a patrons-only show. |
| 0:53.5 | Brian, we're going to talk about the ceasefire today. |
| 0:56.4 | We've also been following the political character of the incoming Trump administration, |
| 1:00.2 | and there's more to say about that. |
| 1:02.1 | In fact, there's a lot to say about that. |
| 1:04.1 | How should we get started? |
| 1:05.7 | Well, I think the main thing today, Leanne, is to assess what's going on in Lebanon. |
| 1:10.6 | The ceasefire agreement is a huge deal. |
| 1:13.2 | Hezbollah is not technically a part of the agreement, although, you know, the resistance forces |
| 1:19.2 | in Lebanon, Hezbollah in particular, play an outsized role inside the government of Lebanon's politics, |
| 1:26.1 | inside of Lebanese society. We want to assess it. |
| 1:29.0 | We want to analyze it. We want to talk about what it means for Lebanon. You know, the Lebanese |
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