PFLP Leader Speaks About Gaza, Ceasefire Prospects and the Future for Palestine
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
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🗓️ 1 February 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In an exclusive interview, Brian Becker spoke with Haytham Abdo, a representative of The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in Lebanon, about his perspective on the war in Gaza.
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| 0:00.0 | What does the Palestinian resistance say about the current war raging against the Palestinian people by the Israeli defense forces? |
| 0:11.0 | Today we're talking to one of the leaders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, PFLP. |
| 0:18.0 | He is talking to us from Lebanon. |
| 0:27.3 | We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to this week's episode of the Socialist Program. |
| 0:59.6 | I'm your host, Brian Becker. |
| 1:01.9 | Today we're talking with Heatham Abdo. |
| 1:04.4 | He is a representative of the PFLP in Lebanon. |
| 1:08.4 | Thank you so much for joining our show. |
| 1:14.6 | Thanks for you. Heytham, before we get started, |
| 1:21.5 | I just want to frame this conversation. There is a mass movement in the United States in opposition to the U.S. support for the Israeli genocidal campaign against the people of Gaza. The U.S. is deeply involved in this war. |
| 1:30.7 | It funds the war. It arms the Israeli military. One of the major problems for people in the United |
| 1:37.3 | States is that we don't get to hear from the representatives of the Palestinian side. |
| 1:47.4 | And in fact, many of the organizations in the Palestinian resistance, including the most important ones, are labeled by the U.S. |
| 1:53.3 | government as terrorist entities, as terrorist organizations. In fact, this is an official label put on these organizations by the U.S. |
| 2:03.6 | government, and as a result, it's almost a prohibition against talking to people from Palestine. |
| 2:10.3 | That's why we wanted to talk to you, because you are a leader of one of the trends within |
| 2:15.9 | the Palestinian resistance. |
| 2:18.2 | Just before we get started, how do you respond |
| 2:21.4 | to this allegation, this labeling, |
| 2:23.7 | this characterization by the US government |
| 2:26.8 | that PFLP and the other resistance organizations |
| 2:30.4 | are terrorist entities? |
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