Netanyahu and Trump Sabotage Ceasefire, Push for Gaza Takeover
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
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🗓️ 4 March 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Trump and Netanyahu are working together to sabotage the ceasefire agreement and block all humanitarian aid to Gaza, while Palestinian children are freezing and starving to death. Brian and Layan also discuss the latest wave of wildfires in the Carolinas and how Musk’s mass firings created a crisis in a nuclear weapons facility.
Brian Becker is joined by Layan Sima Fuleihan, a Palestinian organizer with the Shut It Down for Palestine coalition, a popular educator, the Education Director at The People’s Forum, and an editor at 1804 Books.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Socialist Program. |
| 0:04.0 | This is John Prysner, a producer of this show. |
| 0:07.0 | This is a preview of a patrons-only episode. |
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| 0:27.2 | Palestinian infants in Gaza froze to death in recent days, and the U.S.-backed Israeli regime has stopped all humanitarian aid from entering the Gaza Strip. |
| 0:37.1 | I'm Leanne Seema Fulahan, here with |
| 0:39.4 | Brian Becker, and this is in the news, a segment of the socialist program, a patrons-only show. |
| 0:46.7 | Brian, there are major developments in the ceasefire in Gaza, major threats to the stability of |
| 0:54.1 | the ceasefire, and major developments across the the stability of the ceasefire and major developments |
| 0:56.0 | across the entire Arab region. There's a lot to talk about, about Palestine, about Israel's |
| 1:01.3 | assault on Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria, lots of different topics that we need to get to |
| 1:05.5 | today. Yeah, and I was mortified as anyone would be who saw those pictures of those little tiny Palestinian infants |
| 1:14.6 | frozen to death in Gaza. And one of the things that's very concerning, Leanne, is that when the |
| 1:22.1 | bombs stop falling, when the drama of open military conflict vanishes, then people have a tendency to turn away. |
| 1:30.1 | But for the people in Gaza, they're still dying. They're still dying because of the conditions. |
| 1:35.5 | And that's why getting humanitarian aid is so critically important. We have to talk about that |
| 1:41.8 | today. You've been following the Arab media. There's lots of new |
| 1:45.8 | developments. The big question is, will the ceasefire hold? Both sides have put a pause on it, and the Israelis |
| 1:52.6 | are trying to change the nature of the agreement. I want to talk with you about the Arab regimes |
| 1:58.8 | in the area, especially Egypt's role. But I don't know, |
| 2:03.3 | I want to start real quick before we do all of that with this amazing article that Elon Musk on |
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