"This is not a war" - Former Green Beret Discusses Combat Operations in West Bank/Gaza
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🗓️ 21 October 2024
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Check us out on Patreon for exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/c/ColonialOutcasts Here is my interview on State of Play for Mint Press News - we discuss how these ongoing Israeli military operations in Gaza, The West Bank, and Southern Lebanon do not constitute the waging of War with former Special Forces operator and Green Beret, Alan Shebaro, who has recently returned from the occupied West Bank.
It is clear that the tactics employed by the IDF are not meant to defeat resistance forces, since the resistance will never cease to exist. This “war,” has been from the start an opportunity to seize land, displace people, destroy infrastructure, all under the political cover of the United States and its western allies.
The failure to implement moral consistency when it comes to foreign policy and the blithe disregard for the rules-based-order will have long-term ramifications for the United States and Israel. The world is a less safe place after a year of unmitigated violence. All of those who apologize for the genocide and use the conduct of US and coalition forces during the “Global War on Terror” to justify the actions of the IDF now are being intellectually dishonest.
This is not a war. Join us tonight for a conversation between two US special operations veterans about the conduct of Israeli Forces, their failure to achieve tactical and operational objectives, and what this headless violence means for the conduct of modern warfare going forward.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, y'all, so tonight on state of play, I'll probably be reposting this to my own personal platform. |
| 0:07.6 | We are talking to Alan Shibaro, former Special Forces veteran of 15 years. |
| 0:14.6 | And just in case you guys aren't familiar with U.S. military parlance, special forces is what's commonly known as green berets. |
| 0:23.9 | So he kind of went accidentally viral, speaking out at a city council meeting about Palestine and |
| 0:34.2 | McKinney, Texas, and just about like every news agency picked it up. |
| 0:40.1 | Unexpected. |
| 0:41.3 | I just wanted to say, thanks, man, for making the time. |
| 0:43.8 | I know you're traveling around for coming on to the show. |
| 0:47.8 | My pleasure. |
| 0:48.5 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:49.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:50.0 | So you guys may be familiar with this clip from about like six months ago where, you know, |
| 0:57.8 | Alan was speaking out about, you know, being a veteran and recognizing that this wasn't essentially a war. |
| 1:07.0 | It was unrecognizable as a war because arguably, and we've talked about this many times, |
| 1:12.8 | it's not. There are no defined military objectives. It just seems like a massive genocidal land grab. |
| 1:19.6 | I know we saw these images from last weekend, the kind of a reminiscent of like the darkest days of Vietnam with a man being burnt alive |
| 1:30.4 | in hospital tents with the IV still attached to his arm and we've talked about this |
| 1:37.8 | number of times like what we're seeing now is kind of just like the tip of the iceberg so when |
| 1:43.5 | this gets over and like |
| 1:44.7 | UN task force goes in to figure out what's actually going on, it's going to be way |
| 1:51.0 | darker and more grim that we've seen. But anyways, just to reintroduce y'all to Alan, |
| 1:57.6 | let me just pull this up real quick oh my god don't have my producer here |
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