Why The Palestinians Will Never Give Up

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Ralph Nader

Government, News

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🗓️ 1 March 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Ralph welcomes acclaimed investigative report, Jeremy Scahill of Drop Site News to give us his report on the state of the ceasefire in Gaza, why both sides tend to undercount the deaths and casualties, the nature of the October 7th assault, and the threat of a wider war with Iran. Plus, Ralph responds to a DOGE supporter, who on social media called him a hypocrite.

Jeremy Scahill is an investigative reporter, war correspondent, and author of the books Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield and Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army. He was one of the founding editors of The Intercept and he is co-founder (with Ryan Grim) of Drop Site News, a non-aligned, investigative news organization dedicated to exposing the crimes of the powerful — particularly in overt and secret conflicts where the U.S. government is playing a key role.

If you study the past 76, 77 years of history of the Palestinians, there is no chance that they are going to voluntarily leave their land. There is no chance that they are going to lay down their arms in a struggle for national liberation. And I think that the only certainty here is that the Palestinians are not going to give up.

Jeremy Scahill

When you're talking about 2,000 families being wiped out, when you're talking about thousands upon thousands of people buried under the rubble of what used to be their homes. And then the Israelis come in with their utterly sadistic macabre tactics where they then bulldozed people, put them in mass graves. I don't think we right now have any sense of the scope of the killing that has happened.

Jeremy Scahill

A friend of mine, Ali Abunima who runs Electronic Intifada, said that the Germans have been punishing the Palestinians for the German mass murder of Jews for many decades now.

Jeremy Scahill

There's more outrage among what I call blue MAGA, these sort of cultish partisan Democrats, over Trump's proposal to take over Gaza as a Middle East Riviera than most of these people ever said during Biden and Harris actively facilitating a genocide.

Jeremy Scahill

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0:00.0	This is Reverend Dr. William J. Farber, and we are listening to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.
0:07.1	Stand up, stand up. You've been sitting way too long.
0:15.3	Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan, along with my co-host, David Feldman.
0:20.4	Hello, David. Good morning. And ourhost, David Feldman. Hello, David.
0:21.3	Good morning. And our producer, Hannah Feldman. Hello, Hannah. Hello, Steve. And the man of the hour, Ralph Nader. Happy birthday, Ralph.
0:31.1	Well, thank you very much. And we're going to have a very, very prominent program today by a superb investigative reporter.
0:39.4	Listeners, stay tuned.
0:41.0	Yes, Ralph, on the program today, we welcome intrepid investigative reporter Jeremy
0:45.8	Scahill from DropSight News, who's going to give us his insights into the genocide in Gaza.
0:52.7	As regular listeners know, Ralph has been calling attention to the vast
0:56.1	undercount provided by both Hamas and Israel, and believes if the real toll, which by many
1:02.0	estimates projects into the hundreds of thousands, were broadcast, that would go a long way
1:07.3	toward galvanizing the American people against this slaughter. We'll also discuss
1:12.2	with Schaerlidl the details of the October 7th assault, the state of the fragile ceasefire,
1:17.8	and the possibility of a wider war with Iran. Then, close the show, Ralph has a response to a
1:23.6	social media post from someone accusing him of being a hypocrite for not supporting the so-called
1:29.2	rooting out of corruption being conducted by Elon Musk and his doge dogs. You don't want to miss that.
1:36.1	As always, somewhere in the middle, we'll check in with our relentless corporate crime reporter Russell Mo Khyber.
1:41.5	But first, what's the latest from Gaza? David?
1:45.5	Jeremy Scahill is an investigative reporter, war correspondent, and author of the books,
1:50.8	Dirty Wars, The World is a Battlefield, and Blackwater, the rise of the world's most powerful
1:56.5	mercenary army. He's one of the founding editors of The intercept and his co-founder with ryan grim of
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