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Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Remembering Refaat Alareer

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots, LLC

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.64.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Click here for the latest interview with former UN official Craig Mokhiber: https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/former-un-official-biden-is-inciting?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web For $5 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and chat live with Katie and Aaron in the Absurd Arena at www.usefulidiotspodcast.com Watch this week's Thursday Throwdown: Biden tells Jews they're not safe in America https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/biden-tells-jews-theyre-not-safe?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Gazan writers Muhammad Shehada and Yousef M. Aljamal, both students of Refaat Alareer, join us to remember their teacher. Refaat, who was a guest on Useful Idiots in October at the beginning of Israel's assault on Gaza, was killed this week in a targeted attack by Israel. Watch the full interview with Refaat here: https://youtu.be/Nk0x_s_h-pU Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:07.0

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0:11.5

recent chrome tabs across both devices.

0:14.0

The new Galaxy Z Flip5 and Chromebook, better together.

0:18.0

Available on Sky Mobile.

0:20.0

Bluetooth and internet connection required.

0:22.0

You must be signed into the same Google account on both

0:23.8

your phone and Chromebook.

0:28.8

Back in October, Aaron and I were joined by Gazan poet, writer, translator, and

0:36.8

Professor Raffa la Rier. On December 6th, Raffa was killed by the Israeli army in what looks like a targeted attack.

0:46.6

The 44-year-old father of 6 was killed in his sister's apartment.

0:51.6

Only his sister's apartment was bombed. The entire rest of the building was not.

0:56.5

On today's show I'm joined by two Gazan writers. Mohammed Shahada, a writer and analyst originally from Gaza who is now based in Sweden.

1:06.3

He was on the same episode that we did was Raffa it back in October.

1:10.2

I'm also joined by Youssef M. Al-Jamael, who was a Palestinian refugee from Gaza, now based in Turkey.

1:17.9

He has been involved on numerous book projects and is also a contributor to Gaza Rights Back, which was edited by Raffa and Light in Gaza.

1:27.0

Mohammed joins us from Egypt for reasons you'll shortly understand.

1:32.0

So please enjoy this special episode of

1:37.0

useful idiots where we honor the life and legacy of Rufat Allerier.

1:48.2

Mohammed and Youssef, thank you so much for joining the show. Thanks for having this.

1:50.0

And I'm so sorry for your loss.

1:52.0

Can you tell us about how you got to know Rifat?

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