WTH Is Responsible for Hunger in Gaza? Matti Friedman Explains.
What the Hell Is Going On
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🗓️ 31 July 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Almost two years after the October 7th attacks, facts about the state of life in Gaza are almost impossible to glean from the daily news. Much of what used to be mainstream journalism has become political activism, and Palestinian allied NGOs, UN organizations, and international press are using selective information as a weapon. Are Palestinians starving? Or is this just another lie in the war on Israel? Matti Friedman joins us to talk about his important piece on Gaza for The Free Press.
Matti Friedman is a Jerusalem-based columnist for The Free Press. He’s an award-winning journalist and author of four nonfiction books, of which the most recent is Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai. A former Associated Press correspondent and essayist for the New York Times opinion section, he previously wrote a monthly feature for Tablet Magazine. His writing has appeared in Smithsonian Magazine, the Atlantic, and elsewhere.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 0:03.1 | If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share. |
| 0:07.1 | Thanks for listening. Here's our show. |
| 0:08.7 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:10.5 | What's really going on? |
| 0:12.0 | We said, what the hell happened? |
| 0:13.5 | You don't have to know what the hell is on it. |
| 0:15.6 | They see what's going on. |
| 0:16.7 | I don't know what's going on. |
| 0:18.0 | What is going on? |
| 0:20.0 | We must find out what's going on. What is going on? We must find out what is going on. |
| 0:31.0 | Hi, I'm Danielle Pletka. |
| 0:32.9 | And I'm Mark Tiesin. |
| 0:34.0 | Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:35.4 | What the hell is going on? Mark, what the hell is going on in Gaza? |
| 0:41.4 | What the hell is going on, apparently, is there's mass starvation that is being enforced by an Israeli blockade of Gaza. |
| 0:48.9 | The Israelis are using humanitarian denial of humanitarian aid as a tool of war to starve the |
| 0:56.0 | Ghazan people into submission. |
| 0:58.3 | Not. |
| 1:00.2 | But that is what we're being told in the New York Times, which posted a photograph on its |
| 1:04.9 | front page of a starving Ghazan child, who it turned out was not a starving Gosn child, |
| 1:10.7 | but a very sick |
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