Trump’s Rhetoric Encourages Israeli Fantasies of Gaza Takeover [Preview]
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
On this patrons-only episode, Brian and Layan discuss the current status of the ceasefire, Trump’s threats to take over Gaza, and the response from the Palestinian and Arab people.
Brian Becker is joined by Layan Sima Fuleihan, a Palestinian organizer with the Shut It Down for Palestine coalition, a popular educator, the Education Director at The People’s Forum, and an editor at 1804 Books.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Socialist Program. |
| 0:04.0 | This is John Prysner, a producer of this show. |
| 0:07.0 | This is a preview of a patrons-only episode. |
| 0:10.0 | Subscribe at patreon.com slash the Socialist Program to hear the full episode, |
| 0:16.0 | get access to all our patrons-only content, including live Q&A seminars with Brian Becker, |
| 0:21.9 | and help keep this show on the air. |
| 0:27.2 | Will the ceasefire in Gaza hold? |
| 0:30.5 | Donald Trump threatened the people in Gaza with a statement that, quote, |
| 0:33.9 | all hell will break loose on Saturday, February 15 at 12 noon, unless all the |
| 0:39.9 | Israeli hostages are returned. Meanwhile, the Israeli government is suggesting that there may not |
| 0:45.7 | even be a phase two of the ceasefire and that the Israeli bombing of Gaza could resume |
| 0:50.8 | sometime in the next few weeks. I'm Leanne Seema Fulahan here with Brian Becker, and this is In the News, a segment of the Socialist |
| 0:59.0 | Program, a patrons-only show. |
| 1:02.0 | Brian, given the extreme drama of Donald Trump's blitzkriek attack against different institutions |
| 1:07.6 | in the federal government and the firing of tens of thousands of public |
| 1:11.6 | sector workers in the last few days, not to mention J.D. Vance and the Trump foreign policy, |
| 1:17.8 | now in the last few days intervening in Europe, it may be easy to forget about Gaza for a moment, |
| 1:24.2 | but the stakes, as we have said, couldn't be higher. The ceasefire so far, at least at the time |
| 1:30.1 | of this recording, that's 2 p.m. Eastern time on Friday, February 14th, is still holding, but we don't |
| 1:36.7 | know what's coming next. And the Israeli forces remain in Lebanon. Anyway, the big issue today for us is Gaza. |
| 1:45.1 | It's not the only issue, but that's where we're going to get started. |
| 1:48.6 | Yeah, thank you, Leanne. |
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