Israeli General’s Son: Myths and Facts of an Apartheid System
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
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🗓️ 23 March 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
As Israel’s racist, right-wing government has careened even further right, Israelis have been protesting in the streets “for democracy.” But in Palestine, Israeli forces have killed a shocking number of people this year as their war ramps up. What is driving the conflict ground right now and where is this apartheid system headed next?
Brian is joined by Miko Peled, a human rights activist, host of The Miko Peled Podcast, and author of “The General’s Son - A Journey of an Israeli in Palestine” and "Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five.” You can find his podcast, books, and much more at mikopeled.com.
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| 0:00.0 | The current ultra-right, far-right Netanyahu government in Israel has accelerated the non-stop |
| 0:09.7 | war against the Palestinian people. |
| 0:12.9 | Many have died already this year. |
| 0:15.6 | Many are children. |
| 0:17.7 | At the same time, hundreds of thousands of Israeli citizens have been in the streets, in large-scale protests, sometimes in the hundreds of thousands, against the policies of the Netanyahu government. |
| 0:31.1 | 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, |
| 0:39.3 | but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to the Socialist Program. I'm your host, Brian Becker. If you enjoy this show, if you rely on |
| 1:13.3 | this show or both, show your support by becoming a subscriber at patreon.com forward slash the socialist |
| 1:20.9 | program. Today we're talking with Miko Pellad. Miko is a human rights activist. He's the host of the Miko Pellid podcast. |
| 1:29.3 | He's the author of the General's Son, A Journey of an Israeli in Palestine. He's also the author of the book Injustice, The Story of the Holy Land Foundation 5. |
| 1:42.3 | You can find his podcast, his books, and much more at miko pellet.com. |
| 1:49.1 | Welcome to the show, Miko. |
| 1:50.6 | Thanks so much. |
| 1:51.5 | Good to be with you again. |
| 1:53.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:53.7 | Miko, I was thinking in the last couple days about the trajectory of public opinion, |
| 2:00.7 | both in the United States, in the world, |
| 2:04.1 | around the world, and of course inside of Israel, over the past couple decades when it comes |
| 2:09.6 | to the orientation, position, strategic outlook of the Israeli government. 20 years ago, it was actually 21 years ago, on April 20th, |
| 2:21.6 | 2002, as the National Director of the Answer Coalition, I was very involved in organizing a protest |
| 2:29.2 | in Washington, D.C., about the Israeli re-invasion of the West Bank. |
| 2:34.6 | There was the terrible massacre at Janine. |
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