Welcome to a Citations Needed News Brief. I am Nima Shirazi.

I'm Adam Johnson.

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incredibly appreciated. We do these news briefs in between our regularly scheduled full-length

episodes of citations needed. And today, Adam, we want to actually start by commenting on a recent

NPR piece, an interview conducted by Steve Innskeep

on Morning Edition. It was an interview with Palestinian writer Ustri Al-Gul about what NPR describes

as life in North Gaza. Yeah, there's a lot of really shitty coverage as Israel. Out in the open

explicitly commits ethnic cleansing. They're trying

to depopulate Gaza that is their plan. Dan Yahoo says it's their plan. Of course, it's been their

plan from the beginning, but now they can say it out loud because they don't have to appease liberal

Zionists in the United States to keep their their gravy train going. So now we've dropped the

pretense and we're just talking about ethnical cleansing Gaza which again, they've been doing for months and months and months,

but they are now just being open about it. And what does it take for the media to call at ethnic

cleansing, even though, again, Israelis are very open about their desire to depopulate Gaza

and occupy it and basically empty it of Palestinians? What does it take for people to call that ethnic cleansing?

Because it's textbook ethnic cleansing.

Every human rights group says is ethnic cleansing.

Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Israeli human rights groups.

Even liberals and harass within Israel call it ethnic.

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