I'm Ryan Grimm. Welcome to Deconstructed. Today, we're going to be talking about the

implications of the election, both at home and abroad. With me is most of the people at DropSite

News. We've got Nosca Renner, Sharif Adela Keduce, we've got Jose Olivares,

we've got Jeremy Scahill, Martaza Hussein, and the newest member of the drop site team,

Jessica Burbank. Welcome, everybody. All right. Good to be here. So let's start with,

let's start with overseas, since that's been the focus of so much of our coverage over the last

three months.

And Sharif, let's start with you. What has, what has been the initial reaction to Trump's victory

from resistance groups in the region? Well, I mean, Hamas put out a statement immediately following

Trump's win, saying that their position

vis-à-vis the new administration will depend on their policies and actions, but it then

went very quickly to note that all successive U.S. administration since the occupation of

Palestine in 1948 have supported the Zionist project, have been against the Palestinian cause,

have provided

diplomatic cover military support to Israel. And they just went on to call for what they termed

a blind bias towards Israel and to end Israel's aggression against Palestinians in Gaza and the West

Bank and also against Lebanon. And they also pointed to, they said the president-elect should heed the

voices of American people that have risen up over the past year in opposition to Israel's war on Gaza.

So, you know, I think they're noting what most people know, that successive Republican and

Democratic administrations, there's kind of a consensus in Washington for support

for Israel. We also saw Naim Kassim, who was appointed Secretary General of Hezbollah,

following Israel's assassination of Hassan Nasrullah. He gave a speech on Election Day,

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