Will the Gaza Ceasefire Last? Why Palestine Can’t Be Defeated
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
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🗓️ 23 November 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
More than 14,000 Palestinians have been killed since October 7, and this week Israel and Palestine came to an agreement for a four-day pause in the war. Will the pause extend into a permanent ceasefire? How did this agreement come about when this deal has been available since October?
Brian Becker is joined by Yara Shoufani, a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement and a PhD student in Political Science at York University, and Mohammed Nabulsi, an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement and an attorney based out of Houston.
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| 0:00.0 | More than 14,000 people in Gaza, and probably many, many more than that, have been murdered |
| 0:08.3 | by the Israeli defense forces in the recent weeks. |
| 0:12.9 | Yesterday there was an announcement of an agreement between Israel and Hamas for a temporary |
| 0:18.6 | pause in the fighting. We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. The Welcome to the Socialist Program. I'm your host, Brian Becker. Today we're talking with Yara |
| 1:01.9 | Shafani. Yara is a member of the Palestinian youth movement and a PhD student in political science |
| 1:08.3 | at York University. And we're also speaking with Mohamed Nubalsi, |
| 1:13.1 | an organizer also with the Palestinian Youth Movement, and an attorney based in Houston. |
| 1:18.7 | Welcome to the show, Yara and Mohamed. Thank you for having us. Thank you. |
| 1:23.8 | Muhammad, let's get started. Big dramatic news in the last 24 hours. People have seen on their |
| 1:30.2 | TV screens, on their computers, if they read the media, this relentless bombing of Gaza, |
| 1:36.8 | this genocidal attack against Gaza, you know, 10,000, 15,000, maybe 20,000. We don't know |
| 1:43.2 | because so many people are still trapped in the rubble. |
| 1:47.0 | But there's this announcement that there is at least a temporary pause in the fighting for a |
| 1:52.9 | prisoner exchange. I want to get your take. What's the deal? How significant is it? What does it |
| 1:58.5 | show in terms of the progress of the war? |
| 2:06.5 | And, of course, most people in the world want to know, is this going to lead to a permanent or an enduring ceasefire? |
| 2:09.6 | Right. |
| 2:09.8 | So the agreement is basically what has been described as a four-day humanitarian truce. |
| 2:16.1 | It entails the suspension of all Israeli military action |
| 2:19.0 | and ground operations throughout the Gaza Strip, the suspension of Israeli air strikes and air |
| 2:24.8 | traffic in the southern part of Gaza and the suspension of air traffic in northern Gaza for six |
| 2:30.4 | hours a day, basically from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. their time. And specifically, the suspension |
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