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Staff Picks: The Enduring Siege of Gaza / Norman Finkelstein

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4.9937 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

We had to reschedule today's guest, Nick Turse, whose article on American drone strikes and civilian casualties in Somalia remains to be published. We will let you know when that interview will take place as soon as we know. Today's episode features a timely interview from our archives. On February 15, 2015, just months after Israel's last invasion of Gaza, Middle East scholar Norman Finkelstein joined This Is Hell! to discuss the mechanisms of Israeli occupation, and the internal politics that sustain the country’s periodic massacres in Palestine. He is the author of the then-recently published book, _Method and Madness: The Hidden Story of Israel’s Assaults on Gaza_ from OR Books. Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

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And the The Lord is with the Pick a jackie, one, you are welcome to be a threat.

0:24.0

You are a welcome deal.

0:27.0

And you know?

0:30.0

And do?

0:31.0

Hello?

0:32.0

And do? And do? Hello? This is hell.

0:44.0

Yes.

0:45.0

Is Hell.

0:47.0

There you go. Staring into the abyss so you don't have to, this is hell.

0:54.2

And is there any more of a bottomless pit

0:57.0

than the cover-ups of atrocities committed

0:59.1

by militaries and governments all over the world?

1:01.8

Because that's what we are talking about today,

1:04.2

early on in the presidency of Donald Trump.

1:06.8

His administration worked with military leaders

1:08.9

to circumvent the US Congress to declare war.

1:12.2

In doing so, they launched what for all

1:14.0

intents and purposes was a war in Somalia. The war was being conducted in a way

1:18.7

that did not employ any checks or balances that had been used in an attempt to limit civilian deaths during the Obama administration.

1:26.0

Now an investigation has shown that not only was a woman and her child killed after escaping the original drone attack on the vehicle

1:34.5

within which they were traveling.

1:36.1

But some five years after the events came to light, the U.S. has done nothing to compensate

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