The Colonial Roots of Zionism: Palestine, Israel, and the U.S. Empire Part 2: 1947-1967
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
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🗓️ 2 May 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Starting with the illegal UN vote to partition Palestine in 1947, this second episode in a series goes over the colonial, racist history of the zionist project up until the 1967 Six-Day War. Listen to the first one on Apple, Spotify, or anywhere you get your podcasts. This was recorded April 26, 2024.
Brian is joined by Richard Becker, the author of the newly updated book, "Palestine, Israel, and U.S. Empire," published by 1804 Books.
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| 0:00.0 | Today we'll continue with our multi-parts series with Richard Becker, the author of Palestine, Israel, and the U.S. Empire. |
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| 1:06.1 | Richard Becker, welcome back. |
| 1:07.8 | Thanks very much, Brian. |
| 1:09.6 | When we're recording this, this is the second part of a multi-part series about your book, Palestine, Israel, and the U.S. Empire. |
| 1:17.5 | And you're on a speaking tour around the country. |
| 1:20.8 | As we talk this time, the Israeli government is signaling that it's about to invade Rafa, |
| 1:29.2 | meaning to go in and try to carry out that which it has not been able to accomplish so far, which is the military destruction |
| 1:34.9 | of Hamas. The Zionist government in Israel has been able to kill lots of people. |
| 1:41.3 | Maybe 100,000 people in Gaza are either wounded or dead. The number of children |
| 1:47.5 | dead is in the tens of thousands or at least approaching the tens of thousands mark. |
| 1:53.5 | People can see for themselves, even if they don't know any part of the history of Palestine, |
| 1:59.6 | Israel, and the U.S. Empire. If they don't know |
| 2:01.6 | anything, they can see for themselves what's going on. They're watching a genocide in real time. |
| 2:07.8 | And as we're talking today, campuses are erupting in protest, have erupted in protests all |
| 2:14.3 | over the United States. And now that, is spreading globally. So Richard, people don't |
| 2:20.1 | need the history in order to be outraged. But the history is all important. And I think that's the |
| 2:26.7 | important part of your book. And I think that's why so many people are buying your book. I want to just |
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