Mounting Israel/US Tensions Over Rafah Assault, ICC Rumors, and Egypt's Predicament: May 8th
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🗓️ 8 May 2024
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On this episode of our coverage and analysis of Israel's Rafah assault, we examine the geo-political factors influencing the changing US policy towards Israel and the mounting international pressure to halt this misguided military action. We are joined today by returning geo-political analyst, Elina Xenophontos. https://www.instagram.com/elina_linax/ #israelpalestineconflict #ceasefire #decolonize #antiimperialism #globalaffairs #foreignaffairs #humanrights #israelhamaswar #counterterrorism #militaryindustrialcomplex #militaryintelligence #militaryintervention #uspolitics #bidenvstrump #independentjournalism #militaryhistory #veteran #veteransforpeace #egypt #icc #icj #ihl
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| 0:00.0 | All right, welcome to Colonial Outcast, a podcast dedicated to exploring the functions and dynamics of empire and how they're bad for everyone, including the citizens of that empire. |
| 0:11.1 | This week, it is surprisingly easy to do, as we are going to dive right into part two of our coverage and analysis of Israel's misguided and catastrophic assault on Rafa, which in case you're |
| 0:22.5 | living under Iraq, is a Palestinian city in the southern Gaza Strip where roughly 1.4 million |
| 0:29.2 | internally displaced civilians are sheltering from the Israeli defense forces largely untargeted |
| 0:35.3 | onslaught. In part one, published last night, Wednesday the 7th, |
| 0:39.8 | we talked about the timeline leading up to the assault, how Netanyahu said that regardless |
| 0:44.0 | of a ceasefire deal, the Rafa assault will move forward about how Hamas accepted the deal, |
| 0:49.6 | which was brokered through Qatar, Egypt, and the CIA, and how Israel refused. |
| 0:58.3 | Then as the Met Gala, and if you don't know what the Met Gala is, |
| 1:04.8 | it's this massive charity event for all the fashionistas and Glitterati in North America. |
| 1:11.6 | It happened on May 6th, and Al Jazeera was banned from reporting in Israel that same day, |
| 1:17.2 | and that's when Israel initiated a massive bombing campaign and sent tanks into the south. |
| 1:23.6 | So they warned Palestinians to relocate at Al-Mawesi, a Bedouin town to the north, which, you know, can't accommodate 1.4 million people. And the IDF occupied and, quote, |
| 1:29.7 | unquote, secured the Philadelphia corridor, which they haven't, but the Philadelphia |
| 1:34.7 | corridor is the Israeli code name for a narrow strip of land, 14 kilometers in length, |
| 1:40.5 | situated along the entirety of the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. |
| 1:45.4 | So this move is generally agreed to be in violation of the 1979 peace accords between Egypt and Israel. |
| 1:52.7 | We'll probably move more into that later, but we read Egypt's silence on this development to be, |
| 1:58.7 | at the very least, tacit acceptance of the IDF's prosecution of |
| 2:03.3 | this action on the part of the Egyptian government. Some would argue it's outright complicity, |
| 2:08.5 | the Egyptian government, not even protesting against this action. So we're going to focus on the larger |
| 2:14.8 | strategic picture today, starting with the real and developing |
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