Will Pager Explosions Spark Regional War? Israel’s Long History of Terror in Lebanon
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
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🗓️ 19 September 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Israel turned thousands of people in Lebanon into human bombs on Tuesday with a sophisticated terrorist attack. Thousands of pagers exploded at the same time around the country, killing and injuring many, and the next day the Israelis carried out another major attack. Brian and Layan delve into the decades of Israeli terrorism against Lebanon, the U.S. corporate media’s “light-hearted” coverage, and the arrogant imperialist policies that started it all.
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 | Israel turned thousands of Lebanese people into human bombs on Tuesday with a sophisticated |
| 0:09.0 | terrorist attack. |
| 0:11.2 | People's pagers exploded at the same time at 3.30 p.m. all around the country. |
| 0:17.0 | The next day, Wednesday, the Israelis carried out another major terrorist attack. |
| 0:23.3 | We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded |
| 0:29.4 | impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Today we're talking with Leanne Sima Fulihon. |
| 1:01.9 | She is a Palestinian organizer with the Shut It Down for Palestine Coalition. |
| 1:07.0 | She's also a popular educator organizer and the education director at the People's Forum. |
| 1:13.9 | Leanne, welcome back. |
| 1:15.3 | Thanks for having me on, Brian. |
| 1:17.1 | Well, let's get started. |
| 1:18.8 | There's so much to talk about here. |
| 1:21.0 | One is I want to talk about the U.S. media coverage, which is sanguine about the terrorist |
| 1:26.0 | attack. |
| 1:26.8 | The headlines are really, truly disgusting. |
| 1:30.6 | Israel's Patriot attack has no clear strategic goals. |
| 1:34.6 | It's a tactical success, but what was the point? |
| 1:38.0 | No emotive outpouring of outrage over what was clearly a terrorist activity. |
| 1:43.6 | We want to talk about that, but there's a |
| 1:46.0 | lot more to talk about. Why did Israel do this? How long have they been planning it? Is it related |
| 1:51.3 | to Gaza or is it related to Lebanon? And then the other thing I really want to talk about is the |
| 1:57.1 | history of U.S.-Israeli aggression against the people of Lebanon. It's going on for more than a |
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