Netanyahu Rejects Hamas Offer: Middle East Set To Explode in Wider War
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
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🗓️ 8 February 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
As negotiations over the war in Gaza continue, Hamas delivered a three-part proposal that would end in a permanent ceasefire and the withdrawal of Israeli military from Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu rejected the proposal, vowing to fight until “an absolute victory.” Is that possible for Israel? How will this genocidal war end?
Brian Becker is joined by Mohammed Nabulsi, an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement and an attorney based out of Houston, and Layan Sima Fuleihan, a popular educator, organizer, the Education Director at The People’s Forum, and an editor at 1804 Books.
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| 0:00.0 | As negotiations over the war in Gaza continue, Hamas delivered a three-stage proposal for a permanent ceasefire. |
| 0:11.0 | Benjamin Netanyahu has just gone on television to announce that Israel rejects this proposal |
| 0:16.0 | and is planning to defeat Hamas militarily. |
| 0:20.3 | Welcome to the Socialist Program. |
| 0:22.3 | I'm your host, Brian Becker. |
| 0:24.4 | We need a new system. |
| 0:26.5 | We need a new society. |
| 0:28.4 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible |
| 0:31.3 | even a few weeks ago, |
| 0:32.7 | but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. |
| 1:00.0 | Music but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Today we're talking with Mohamed Nalbulsi. He's an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement. |
| 1:03.0 | He's also an attorney based in Houston, Texas. |
| 1:07.0 | And we're speaking with Leanne Fulhan, a popular educator, organizer, the education director at the People's Forum, and an editor at 1804 books. |
| 1:18.3 | Leanne and Mohamed, welcome back. |
| 1:20.2 | Thanks for having us. |
| 1:20.8 | Thank you for having us. |
| 1:21.7 | You know, one of the problems with doing our show today is that everything is changing so dramatically. Yesterday we heard or |
| 1:30.2 | had revealed the proposed text, presumably, a verbatim text of a Hamas ceasefire proposal, |
| 1:38.1 | a three-stage proposal. Netanyahu just went on TV and said, no, no ceasefire, even though millions of people around the world, everywhere, maybe tens of millions, hundreds of millions of people are demanding a ceasefire. |
| 1:51.8 | Netanyahu just went on TV, Muhammad, and said, no, we're going to defeat Hamas, seemingly rejecting the proposal. |
| 1:59.4 | Anyway, what's your take, Muhammad? |
| 2:01.2 | I think the announcement from Netanyahu is largely posturing to create an illusion that |
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