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Makdisi Street

"We are not defeated" w/ Mustafa Barghouti

Makdisi Street

Bayt al Makdisi

News, Politics

4.9643 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

The brothers talk with the prominent Palestinian politician, activist and medical doctor Mustafa Barghouti, Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative, and presidential candidate during the last elections in Palestine in 2005. We discuss the awful realities of Palestinians living under Israeli genocide and attempted ethnic cleansing despite a "ceasefire," the essence of Palestinian steadfastness and the importance of international solidarity. We also debate the meaning of Palestinian unity as key to the liberation struggle connecting forces, movements and people globally. We end by talking proposed upcoming elections, the importance of democratizing the PLO, and the gap in solidarity between Arab peoples and their leaders.

Date of recording: December 23, 2025

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0:00.0

Well, the starting point is that the United States of America and Israel, the first place,

0:06.0

behave as if they have defeated us.

0:09.0

And because we were defeated so many, they have to impose on us everything.

0:14.0

We were not defeated.

0:16.0

We're struggling.

0:18.0

We continue to struggle everywhere. The whole Palestinian people are struggling for their freedom, and we never gave up.

0:25.6

You don't get defeated till you capitulate.

0:28.6

From military perspective, Vietnam was defeated by military force, but it never capitulated, and eventually it won.

0:36.6

And in that sense, we have not been defeated.

0:40.3

We are there, as long as we are staying in our country and trying to achieve our freedom,

0:47.3

we're not defeated.

0:53.3

Welcome everybody to another episode of the Maglissi Street podcast.

0:57.6

We're really very, very happy to have with us, Dr. Mustafa Barhouti.

1:01.3

But before I introduce him briefly, I just want to remind everybody to please, if you can,

1:07.1

to rate and review this podcast wherever you are watching this or listening to it,

1:13.1

because it really helps us, it helps the reach, especially these days, where the algorithms

1:18.5

seem to be working against any kind of platform that is pushing a kind of a pro-Palestine

1:25.8

perspective. So we would really appreciate any kind of rating and reviewing and on YouTube as well.

1:34.6

So with that in mind, we're very, very, we're delighted to welcome Dr. Mustafa Barhouti,

1:40.2

who is probably one among the most prominent Palestinian voices in the world today.

1:45.2

He's a medical doctor who founded four decades ago the Palestine Medical Relief Society

1:50.8

and is actively participated in Palestinian social movements on the ground

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