Israel’s Genocidal Rampage in Gaza: at the Brink of Regional War w/ Rania Khalek
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
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🗓️ 2 November 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
After Israel bombed a refugee camp in Gaza for a second time, the global tide is turning against the genocidal campaign and apartheid state.
Brian Becker is joined by Rania Khalek of BreakThrough’s own news show Dispatches. Rania is a journalist based in the Middle East, she hosts Dispatches, and she’s also the co-host of The Freedom Side Live, both of which you can find on YouTube at BreakThroughNews. You can also find her prodigious reporting on social media @RaniaKhalek.
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| 0:00.0 | A senior United Nations official has resigned because of the Israeli assault on Gaza. |
| 0:09.3 | In his resignation, he said, the governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, and |
| 0:15.5 | much of Europe are wholly complicit in the horrific assault against the people of Gaza. |
| 0:22.7 | 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, |
| 0:31.3 | but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to the Socialist Program. I'm your host, Brian Becker. |
| 1:02.0 | Today we're talking with Ranya Collick. |
| 1:05.0 | Ranya is a journalist based in the Middle East. |
| 1:08.0 | She hosts the show Dispatches. She also co-hosts the Freedom Side Live, both of |
| 1:15.4 | which you can find at Breakthrough News's YouTube page. You can also find her prodigious reporting on |
| 1:22.2 | social media at Ranya Kowik. Ranya, welcome to the Socialist Program. |
| 1:29.8 | Brian, it's so good to be on with you. |
| 1:33.7 | I know you are talking to us from the Middle East. |
| 1:36.9 | Of course, the eyes of the entire world, |
| 1:40.5 | but especially the eyes of people living in Lebanon, |
| 1:46.4 | living in Syria, living in Egypt, in Iraq, in Iran, all over the Middle East, |
| 1:53.5 | are fixated on the horrific assault being waged by the Israeli government, paid for by the United States, against the people of Gaza. Yesterday, again, a major apartment building in a refugee camp destroyed by Israeli bombs or missiles. |
| 2:05.6 | The image, in fact, or the footage of this atrocity is so graphic, so horrific, so disturbing, that we can't actually use it. |
| 2:15.6 | It's too much. The whole world thinks this is too much. |
| 2:20.6 | And yet you have the Biden administration insisting along with the Netanyahu government |
| 2:25.2 | that this is not the time for a ceasefire. Let's just get the perspective of people living |
| 2:31.5 | where you are living in the Middle East. Yeah, so I'm coming to you, |
| 2:35.9 | Brian, from Beirut, Lebanon, and people here are just watching in horror and completely |
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