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Israel, the United States, and the Rhetoric of the War on Terror / Maha Hilal

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🗓️ 2 February 2024

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Our final guest of the week is Dr. Maha Hilal, who wrote the TomDispatch piece, "Israel, the United States, and the Rhetoric of the War on Terror: From September 11, 2001, to October 7, 2023 (and Beyond)." Maha is founding Executive Director of the Muslim Counterpublics Lab and author of, "Innocent Until Proven Muslim: Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and the Muslim Experience Since 9/11." A new The Past Inside the Present with Sebastian Wuepper follows the interview. Check out Maha's article here: https://tomdispatch.com/israel-the-united-states-and-the-rhetoric-of-the-war-on-terror/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

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And justice I need equal rights.

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I need equal rights.

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And justice, I need equal rights. Just as God took it.

0:15.0

Just as God took it.

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He will rise.

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Justice.

0:21.0

A grip by the Oh, great, great, and it's great.

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Yeah,

0:25.0

The Grand By the This is hell.

0:37.0

live from the United States, which has been justifying unjustifiable wars since 9-11, and before,

0:50.0

this is hell and that's what we're talking about today. Justifying the

0:56.4

unjustifiable. Whether it's the forever war on terror that was launched by

1:00.2

the President George W Bush administration, or Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's

1:06.3

current bombings of civilians and civilian infrastructure, targeting of civilian and civilian infrastructure

1:12.2

needed to keep whatever civilians

1:14.8

are still left alive. In the wake of 9-11 statements by then President Bush, as

1:20.9

our guest today will point out, set into motion the many wars that followed and the

1:25.0

many justifications for wars on terror, including the brutal attacks we are now seeing

1:29.6

by Israel's military and government upon Gazans as well as in the West Bank.

1:36.4

Netagnahu is correct that this is Israel's 9-11 but likely not in the way he thinks. Because what he has launched is much like the endless U.S. war that did nothing to stop the killing of civilians,

1:48.0

that did nothing to stop terrorism, as it continues to become a growing problem that did nothing to make the country more secure.

1:55.8

That only led to more and more war refugees around the world who are then turned away from the borders of the countries that

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