"My fear is that this is a repackaging of the genocide" w/ Diana Buttu
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🗓️ 15 October 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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**Producer's note: This episode was marred by technical problems and connection issues. Apologies for the sound quality**
The brothers welcome the Canadian-Palestinian lawyer and former negotiator Diana Buttu (@dianabuttu) to the show to discuss the ceasefire in Gaza and the context of the Trump-branded "peace plan" for Gaza and its historical antecedents and possible outcomes.
Date of recording: Oct 9, 2025.
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| 0:00.0 | My fear, of course, is that this is just a repackaging of the genocide. |
| 0:04.2 | It's going to be genocide repackaged. |
| 0:06.6 | It's occupation repackaged. |
| 0:09.1 | This isn't a pathway to liberation, for Israel at least. |
| 0:14.1 | It's a pathway to continued control. |
| 0:17.8 | That said, you know, I think there's another aspect to this, which we have to look at. |
| 0:23.3 | The Israelis wanted to ethnically cleanse Gaza. Look at the polls. You know, I live here. |
| 0:29.7 | 82% were saying that they want to see Gaza completely ethnically cleansed. Israel didn't manage to do that. |
| 0:37.4 | They didn't manage to do that. They didn't manage to do that. |
| 0:41.3 | Welcome everybody to a new episode of the Makhti Street podcast. We're delighted today to be |
| 0:46.8 | joined by Deanna Boutu, who's a Canadian Palestinian lawyer. And having participated in the |
| 0:53.0 | early stages of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations in the 1990s, |
| 0:57.0 | she's an ideal authority to discuss what's been called the peace process. |
| 1:01.0 | And in particular, given the context today, she's returned to the podcast to discuss the plan for Gaza issued by the Trump White House, |
| 1:10.0 | the first phase of which is due to take place in the coming hours. |
| 1:13.6 | So we're very glad to have Deanna to welcome her to the show |
| 1:17.6 | and welcome Deanna. |
| 1:19.6 | And hopefully you're going to help us navigate what is going on |
| 1:23.6 | because there's so much happening. |
| 1:26.6 | But maybe a good place to begin would be to discuss what the parameters of the so-called Trump plan are, |
| 1:32.3 | just a big, like a big picture overview. |
| 1:34.3 | And then we'll come back and talk about what's actually happening on the ground, where we are, where we go, |
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