"Israel is a dependent empire"
Makdisi Street
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🗓️ 2 June 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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The brothers explore the latest Gaza ceasefire negotiations, the abject failure of the corporate media to cover the crude and explicit expressions of racism and genocidal intent from across the spectrum of Israeli society, the sudden shift among European leaders as they attempt to rhetorically distance themselves from the genocide, and the continuing cost to those who speak out against the genocide in increasingly repressive Western societies.
Credit to Nikita Gill for her poem concluding this episode
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Date of recording: May 27, 2025.
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| 0:00.0 | We've talked about this a hundred times. |
| 0:01.3 | So it's the moment from before the moment of its inception, all the way through its inception, |
| 0:05.0 | all the way through its entire history. |
| 0:07.4 | It's not a power like the Roman Empire, the British Empire, the French Empire, the U.S. or the Russians |
| 0:12.7 | or whoever. |
| 0:14.1 | It has always been dependent. |
| 0:17.2 | So it wants to have the trappings of empire without being an empire. |
| 0:21.7 | It's a dependent empire. |
| 0:23.2 | It's also anachronistic. |
| 0:24.2 | All of that stuff. |
| 0:25.6 | But the point is the most important thing about it is for its very survival. |
| 0:30.7 | It depends on the goodwill of the way. |
| 0:32.5 | It has always depended on the goodwill of the West. |
| 0:35.5 | Always. |
| 0:36.5 | What it has done over the past 18 months is to destroy the basis for its own survival. |
| 0:42.0 | That's what I keep saying. |
| 0:43.4 | In the long run, they're losing. |
| 0:47.1 | Welcome everybody to a new episode of the Maktasi Street podcast. |
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| 0:54.0 | And before we begin our conversation today, I'd like to ask you, if you could, again, it's just the three of us. And before we begin our conversation |
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