The Gaza Siege: A Harsh Spotlight on the West’s Moral Bankruptcy

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🗓️ 15 November 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said recently on CNN, “It’s not only our war, it’s your war too.” He was right: The Biden administration has armed, funded, and supported Netanyahu every step of the way as Israel wages a campaign of terror bombings against Gaza. In five weeks of sustained Israeli airstrikes and ground operations, one in 200 residents of Gaza has been killed. Of the more than 11,000 deaths, 4,600 of them are children. President Joe Biden remains entrenched in his support for the scorched-earth campaign of his “great, great friend” Netanyahu.

This week on Intercepted, independent journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Jeremy Scahill discuss the horrors facing the people of Gaza and the history of Biden’s support for some of the most extreme actions of Israel. They discuss the unprecedented killing of journalists in Gaza and the violent campaign being waged by Netanyahu-backed Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank. Kouddous also discusses Israel’s killing of Al Jazeera correspondent and U.S. citizen Shireen Abu Akleh and decries the lack of solidarity from U.S. and other Western journalists. We also hear recent public remarks from author Ta-Nehisi Coates as he describes his trip to Palestine last summer as part of the Palestine Festival of Literature and offers his analysis of the siege of Gaza.

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0:00.0	The This is intercepted. Welcome to Intercepted, I'm Jeremy Skahill.
0:37.0	Over the past five weeks, the Israeli government, led by Joe Biden's quote,
0:47.0	great-great friend Benjamin Netanyahu, has presided over a scorched earth campaign to mercilessly and collectively punish the 2.2 million
0:56.6	Palestinian residents of Gaza.
0:59.5	In that time, more than 11,000 Palestinians have been killed. One of every 200 Gazans has been
1:07.6	erased from this earth. More than 4, died during the invasion and occupation of Iraq. As Israel intensified its attacks on
1:26.6	Gaza last week, including strikes against multiple hospitals, and presided over a forced
1:32.1	exodus of hundreds of thousands of civilians from their homes,
1:36.0	President Joe Biden was asked about the chances of a Gaza ceasefire.
1:40.0	None, Biden shot back, no possibility.
1:44.3	The U.S. is bankrolling and arming this killing spree, with the justification that all of this
1:49.6	death and destruction falls under the umbrella of Israel's right to self-defense.
1:55.7	On Friday, Secretary of State Antony Blinkin remarked, quote,
1:59.6	far too many Palestinians have been killed.
2:02.3	Far too many have suffered these past weeks and we want to do everything
2:06.5	possible to prevent harm to them and to maximize the assistance that
2:11.5	gets to them. Now setting aside the fact that all of this
2:15.1	was done with US weapons and US support it begs the question how many dead
2:20.0	Palestinians is acceptable to the U.S. government.
2:23.8	Benjamin Netanyahu has brazenly exploited the grief of Israeli citizens, whose lives were torn apart
2:29.9	on October 7th when Hamas launched a series of murderous coordinated attacks inside Israel.
2:37.0	Those raids resulted in the deaths of 846 civilians, 278 Israeli soldiers, 44 police officers, all those numbers according to the
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