Law is Clear: Palestinians Have Right to Resist Occupation w/ Vijay Prashad
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
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🗓️ 23 May 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
President Joe Biden is joining with Trump backers in Congress in imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court – the ICC – because the court issued a statement that Benjamin Netanyahu should be arrested for war crimes. Meanwhile the U.S. is sending more bombs and missiles to Israel as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians flee Rafah.
Brian Becker is joined by renowned journalist and author Vijay Prashad, the Executive Director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research and Chief Editor of LeftWord Books.
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| 0:00.0 | President Joe Biden has announced that he is joining with Republican Trump backers in Congress |
| 0:09.3 | to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court because that court dared to suggest |
| 0:16.7 | that Benjamin Netanyahu, the head of state in Israel, should be arrested for war crimes. |
| 0:23.6 | Meanwhile, the United States is sending more bombs and missiles again to Israel as Israel launches |
| 0:29.9 | its invasion of Rafa and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians flee for their lives. |
| 0:37.0 | We need a new system. We need a new system. |
| 0:39.3 | We need a new society. |
| 0:41.3 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, |
| 0:45.3 | but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to this week's episode of The Socialist Program. |
| 1:15.6 | I'm your host, Brian Becker. |
| 1:17.6 | Today we're talking with renowned journalist and author V.J. Prasad. |
| 1:22.6 | VJ. is the executive director of the Tri-Continental Institute for Social Research. |
| 1:28.5 | He is the chief editor of Leftward Books. |
| 1:31.8 | Vijay, welcome back. |
| 1:33.5 | Thanks a lot. It's great to be with you. Thanks a lot. |
| 1:36.8 | Well, thank you for joining. I have to say, I was a bit astonished, but not really, |
| 1:41.6 | when Joe Biden angrily went to the podium to say he was going to join with the |
| 1:46.5 | Republicans to impose sanctions, not on Israel, not on those who are committing a genocide in Gaza, |
| 1:53.9 | but against the international criminal court that dared to suggest that Benjamin Netanyahu |
| 1:59.7 | should be, in fact, arrested for war crimes. |
| 2:02.6 | Anyway, your take. |
| 2:04.4 | Well, the first thing to note is that the United States government has a very contentious relationship with the International Criminal Court. |
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