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What Next | Will Israel Starve Gaza Into Submission?

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🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In Gaza, two million people are at risk of starvation, as Israeli-controlled aid has been repeatedly interrupted and marked by violence towards aid workers and chaos at distribution sites.  Guests:   Mohammed Mhawish, journalist and writer from Gaza City. Alex de Waal, Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts, author of the 2017 book, Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine.  Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Ethan Oberman, Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, Isabel Angell, and Rob Gunther.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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In late August 1992, Randy Weaver and his family were refusing to come down from the remote Idaho mountaintop where they lived.

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Weaver, a fugitive on a federal firearms charge, has been holed up in a cabin near Naples for more than a year.

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The government thought Randy Weaver was a dangerous, possibly violent extremist.

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Randy and his wife Vicky thought the government was an agent of Satan on earth.

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When it was all over, three people were dead, and the government had spent millions of dollars

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to catch one man. We'll find out why the siege at Ruby Ridge unfolded the way it did,

1:07.3

and think about some of the questions it raises. What should we do about white supremacists?

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Why has the story of Ruby Ridge become an enduring myth for the far right?

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Mohamed Mahawish loves to eat.

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His go-to move is to put cardamom on just about everything.

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He's kind of a foodie.

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