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The Intercept Briefing

Netanyahu’s Savage Game: Mass Killing Palestinians, Exploiting Israeli Grief

The Intercept Briefing

The Intercept

Politics, Unknown, Daily News, History, News

4.86.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to reject international calls for a ceasefire and says Israel will oversee security in Gaza indefinitely. This week on Intercepted, Jeremy Scahill and Murtaza Hussain discuss Israel's monthlong scorched-earth campaign in Gaza and the U.S. government's complicity. Then Mairav Zonszein, an Israeli American journalist and a senior analyst on Israel–Palestine at the International Crisis Group, joins to discuss developments in Israel and Gaza. Zonszein, who is based in Israel, discusses the political developments in the country, the failures of Netanyahu during the crisis, and the tragic implications for Palestinians in Gaza.


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0:00.0

The This is intercepted. Welcome to Intercepted, I'm Jeremy Skahill.

0:37.0

And I'm Murtaza-Hossain.

0:38.0

Maiz, this has just been a horrifying month to watch everything unfold in in Palestine and

0:47.0

you know I've hit the point where I almost can't even look anymore at at the images that are being broadcast on social media.

0:54.5

I also think, I think anyone that has children and is following what's happening,

0:59.5

you just start to see your own kids faces.

1:02.1

And I mean, one of the videos out of Gaza that really just,

1:06.9

I mean, I'll just say it bluntly, it made me cry.

1:09.5

Like a baby was

1:16.4

these two young boys who had been pulled from the rubble

1:25.5

They had been rescued and one was maybe three years old and the other was maybe five or six and they're just trembling and the the littler kid is is just looking he's looking at his body he's looking at his

1:29.5

hands shaking and he sees a wound on his hand and he he's looking at it himself and then he's showing it to the older child and that

1:37.6

child is also trembling and trying to comfort him and it just really on a on a gut human level it just it just brings home who

1:45.4

is suffering the most here and you know I mean you and I both have reported on

1:51.6

Israel's sieges of Gaza and elsewhere in Palestine over the years.

1:57.0

And so on one level, what we're seeing we've seen play out, I mean you could make an argument that it's

2:02.9

played out for 75 years but but just even in the in the past several Israeli

2:08.1

campaigns we've witnessed this you know killing of of civilians, but the scale, the sort of industrial scale on which

2:17.4

children are being killed right now is shocking to the soul. You know, and as an American, I look at what the White House is saying.

2:27.1

I look at what they're doing.

2:28.6

And as a student of American imperialism and US foreign policy, nothing about Biden's position shocks me.

2:36.7

But when you look at the fact that Israel is bombing hospitals, that Israel is repeatedly bombing refugee camps, that roughly half or just

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