"The Zionist project is what it has always been" w/ Jehad Abusalim
Makdisi Street
Bayt al Makdisi
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🗓️ 10 May 2026
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
The brothers welcome to the show Jehad Abusalim, who grew up in the city of Deir el Balah in the Gaza Strip and now heads the Gaza Genocide Center. They discuss what it was like to grow up under occupation in Gaza, what normal life was like for a generation under siege, isolated and cut off from the world. They discuss the ongoing Gaza genocide, still being perpetrated by Israel (though it is no longer being covered in Western media), the conditions for yet again displaced Palestinians living in the aftermath of Israel's destruction of Gaza and in the deliberate limbo covered up by Trump's Orwellian "Board of Peace." And they take up the question of Gaza's possible futures in the face of brazen indifference and inhumanity.
Date of recording: May 7, 2026
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| 0:00.0 | It is impossible for a state that has rallied its population and resources and capacities |
| 0:07.0 | around these priorities to suddenly decide that, you know what, we're not going to do a genocide anymore |
| 0:17.0 | and we're going to pursue diplomacy and become a peace-loving nation and actually like |
| 0:25.1 | treat our neighbors in a better way. |
| 0:28.8 | We are coming to a full and complete clash with what this designist project has always |
| 0:36.0 | been about. |
| 0:36.8 | That is, you that is a project |
| 0:38.9 | of ethnic cleansing, |
| 0:42.3 | supremacy, |
| 0:43.2 | and naked aggression. |
| 0:47.8 | Welcome everybody to a new edition |
| 0:49.7 | of the Magdasi Street podcast. |
| 0:51.6 | My name is Sari. |
| 0:52.3 | I'm joined by my brothers Osama and Karim. And today we are |
| 0:56.2 | continuing the new format of our show. So we are starting a little bit before our guest arrives |
| 1:01.5 | and then continuing the discussion with the guest when they get here. Our guest today is going |
| 1:06.3 | to be Jihad Abu Salim of the Institute for Palestine Studies in Washington. I'll introduce him a bit later. |
| 1:12.7 | But guys, we're back to Gaza, that's the topic of today's show, because we've been, obviously |
| 1:18.7 | we've been spending a lot of time recently on the catastrophic U.S. Israeli aggression on Iran |
| 1:24.7 | and on Lebanon and its consequences regionally, locally, inside Lebanon. |
| 1:30.3 | We've had a couple of episodes on Lebanon itself, since that's where we're from. |
| 1:34.8 | And we're coming back to Lebanon again, I think, next week. |
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