Thank you so much for joining me in the Empire Files.

Jeremy Scaill, investigative journalist, co-founder of DropSight News.

Incredible to have you on.

Thanks, Abby. It's really great to be with you.

So DropSight News has been doing absolutely crucial reporting day in and day out, the nuances of everything that's going on,

the daily operations, the war crimes. It's really incredible work. Let's start by talking about

Netanyahu's press conference and the launch of Operation Gideon's Chariot and what that all

entails. Well, you know, I mean, from the very beginning of the Gaza genocide, Netanyahu and other

top Israeli officials, not to mention the second and third tier echelons of the Israeli national

security state, have been very clear with their genocidal intent. You know, from the very

beginning, you had Yoav Galaat talking about how they were fighting human animals.

And you fast forward to 19 months later, and Netanyahu hadn't given a public press conference in about five weeks.

And he goes out and he gives one of the most genocidal speeches of the entire 19-month genocide.

He begins by talking about the success, as he put it, of the Pagerbaum plot

in Lebanon, which of course killed, you know, hundreds upon hundreds of people, maimed children

and, you know, caused massive civilian suffering all in the name of Netanyahu's regional

arson campaign where he says he's going to burn any vestige of

resistance against Israel and the Zionist project. So he begins by celebrating that, and then he

goes full into his declaration that Israel is not going to engage in any long-term ceasefire,

that it's only going to engage in short-term deals so that they can get more Israeli

captives out, and that the bottom line is that Israel is going to continue to what they characterize

as sort of the final stage of the genocide. Some of us have been calling it the final solution

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