News Brief: Axios, NYT Help White House Obscure Their Role in Rafah Invasion

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🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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In this News Brief, we breakdown the White House's latest attempt to arm and fund Israeli war crimes while looking like helpless. bumbling humanitarians.

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0:00.0	Welcome to a citations needed news brief. I am Nemus Shirazzi.
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0:20.2	appreciated as we are 100% listener funded. We do these news briefs in between our regularly scheduled full length episodes of citations needed to talk about some breaking news and also we come to you while officially still on break for
0:35.2	Adam's parental leave. Congratulations again, Adam, Sarah, Pee, and Nora,
0:39.5	but Adam, good to have you back my friend. Thanks for taking a little break from the young ones.
0:45.4	Again, to talk about Gaza a bit more.
0:48.0	Yes, of course, there's been a lot of focus lately
0:50.8	on campus protests and the violent reactions to them. The praise for
0:55.7	those protests actually coming out of Palestine itself showing that these
1:00.0	things are actually important and not merely symbolic but we really wanted to talk
1:04.8	today Adam about the White House PR management that is going on especially as
1:11.4	laundered through certain very highly placed reporters, because right now
1:17.2	as Israel begins to devastate Rafa and the millions of people who are just trying to survive there after six plus months of ongoing genocide.
1:29.5	What we're seeing in our media Adam, we really wanted to to discuss especially as it has to do with
1:34.2	claiming certain humanitarian decisions or as we hear all the time how sternly
1:40.3	Biden talks to Netanyahu yet somehow still always cuts that check.
1:45.0	Yeah, so the Biden White House, the State Department, has absolutely zero incentive or interest in meaningfully stopping this so-called war, which is to say they accept a premise that Hamas must be quote unquote eliminated,
1:58.0	which can really only happen with hundreds of thousands of casualties, potentially hundreds of thousands of thousands of deaths.
2:03.8	Eventually, Israel is very clear that they plan on doing this for years,
2:06.7	militarily occupying for years, counterinsurgency,
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