tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-313127422024-03-26T16:52:55.207-05:00The Absurd Timeshttps://open.substack.com/pub/absurdtimes1c2/p/free-sign-up?r=q3o1q&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=webCzar Donichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03393929688276746871noreply@blogger.comBlogger1770125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31312742.post-10187871448002731932024-03-18T14:42:00.002-05:002024-03-18T14:42:49.039-05:00ABSURD TIMES<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large;color:#000000"><div class="gmail-post-header" style="font-family:"SF Pro Display",-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,Inter,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><h1 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style="line-height:1.6em;margin-top:0px;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">THE ABSURD TIMES</strong></em></p><div class="gmail-captioned-image-container" style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><a class="gmail-image-link gmail-is-viewable-img gmail-image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F22bf40d2-d1be-4e25-ab79-188f49a9b1c9_600x387.gif" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:initial;display:flex;padding:0px;margin:0px auto;width:auto;height:auto;border:0px"><div class="gmail-image2-inset" style="display:flex;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><img 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style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">HERE IS MORE!</strong></em></p><div class="gmail-captioned-image-container" style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><a class="gmail-image-link gmail-is-viewable-img gmail-image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2c885c25-6444-475e-b0f7-4f0a7e1aeb03_800x1145.jpeg" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:initial;display:flex;padding:0px;margin:0px auto;width:auto;height:auto;border:0px"><div class="gmail-image2-inset" style="display:flex;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><img 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Catches the mood.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">This approaches the mood. Finally, our media exposed.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">We have been waiting for something like this. Either the capitalist AI engineered the destruction, no, the pollution, of so generously called mainstream media which managed to destroy any perception of reality in recent months, or perhaps years. We refrained from comment at the time, at least direct comment, in the hopes that a reliable source would approach the subject and thus spare our readers of being confronted with a string of expletives and angry finger shaking.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">As we said at the time, the week after October 8, any on air speaker who had any reliable knowledge of the history of activities concerning Israel was summarily taken off the air and replaced by the nearest qualified talker with nice teeth. Nothing negative was allowed on the stations, although if the journalist did report a harmless fact, it was allowed to be broadcast or telecast.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">We waited until now to present as clear and objective presentation. While Ayman Mohedien and Ali Velshi are now back on the air, it is easy to suspect that Israel's magnificently outrageous and sadistic behavior, reminiscent of old WWII films (yes, Donald, there was a WWII) has so infuriated even apathetic Americans to the point they voted "uncommitted" on several primary ballots, even though Biden is virtually unopposed, because of his doddering support of Nit Wit Yahoo (who will stay out of prison so long as he can keep up the killing). Israel has now murdered over 31,000 since October 8, and continues to defy even banality in the area. About a third of the dead are children who we assure you are not members of Hamas.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">This is a comprehensive piece, so if the letter transmission cuts it off, the rest is available by clicking the link. Also, If enough have aproblem getting there, please let me know and I will post the rest.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Acclaimed journalist Mehdi Hasan joins us to discuss U.S. media coverage of the Israeli war on Gaza and how the war is a genocide being abetted by the United States. Hasan says U.S. media is overwhelmingly pro-Israel and fails to convey the truth to audiences. "Palestinian voices not being on American television or in American print is one of the biggest problems when it comes to our coverage of this conflict," he says. Hasan has just launched a new media company, Zeteo, which he started after the end of his weekly news program on MSNBC and Peacock earlier this year. Hasan's interviews routinely led to viral segments, including his tough questioning of Israeli government spokesperson Mark Regev, but the cable network announced it was canceling his show in November. The move drew considerable outrage, with critics slamming MSNBC for effectively silencing one of the most prominent Muslim voices in U.S. media. Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to threaten a ground invasion of Rafah in southern Gaza, which human rights groups warn would be a massacre. President Biden has said such an escalation is a "red line" for him, but Netanyahu has vowed to push ahead anyway. "Where is the outcry here in the West?" asks Hasan of reports of Israeli war crimes, including the killing of over 100 journalists in the past five months in Gaza and the blockade of aid from the region. "It's a stain on [Biden's] record, on America's conscience."</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Transcript</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">NERMEEN SHAIKH: The death toll in Gaza has topped 31,300. At least five people were killed on Wednesday when Israel bombed an UNRWA aid distribution center in Rafah — one of the U.N. agency's last remaining aid sites in Gaza. The head of UNRWA called the attack a, quote, "blatant disregard to international humanitarian law."</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">This comes as much of Gaza is on the brink of famine as Israel continues to limit the amount of aid allowed into the besieged territory. At least 27 Palestinians have died of starvation, including 23 children.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Meanwhile, Al Jazeera is reporting six Palestinians were killed in Gaza City when Israeli forces opened fire again on crowds waiting for food aid. Over 80 people were injured.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">In other news from Gaza, Politico reports the Biden administration has privately told Israel that the U.S. would support Israel attacking Rafah as long as it did not carry out a large-scale invasion.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">AMY GOODMAN: Well, we begin today's show looking at how the U.S. media is covering Israel's assault on Gaza with the acclaimed TV broadcaster Mehdi Hasan. In January, he announced he was leaving MSNBC after his shows were canceled. Mehdi was one of the most prominent Muslim voices on American television. In October, the news outlet Semafor reported MSNBC had reduced the roles of Hasan and two other Muslim broadcasters on the network, Ayman Mohyeldin and Ali Velshi, following the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel. Then, in November, MSNBC announced it was canceling Hasan's show shortly after he conducted this interview with Mark Regev, an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This is an excerpt.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">MEHDI HASAN: You say Hamas's numbers — I should point out, just pull up on the screen, in the last two major Gaza conflicts, 2009 and 2014, the Israeli military's death tolls matched Hamas's Health Ministry death tolls, so — and the U.N., human rights groups all agree that those numbers are credible. But look, your wider point is true.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">MARK REGEV: Can I challenge that?</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">MEHDI HASAN: We shouldn't —</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">MARK REGEV: Will you allow me —</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">MEHDI HASAN: We shouldn't —</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">MARK REGEV: — to challenge that, please? Can I just challenge that?</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">MEHDI HASAN: Briefly, if you can.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">MARK REGEV: I'd like to challenge that.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">MEHDI HASAN: Briefly.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">MARK REGEV: I'll try to be as brief as you are, sir. Those numbers are provided by Hamas. There's no independent verification. And secondly, more importantly, you have no idea how many of them are Hamas terrorists, combatants, and how many are civilians. Hamas would have you believe that they're all civilians, that they're all children.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">And here we have to say something that isn't said enough. Hamas, until now, we're destroying their military machine, and with that, we're eroding their control. But up until now, they've been in control of the Gaza Strip. And as a result, they control all the images coming out of Gaza. Have you seen one picture of a single dead Hamas terrorist in the fighting in Gaza? Not one.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">MEHDI HASAN: Yeah, but I have —</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">MARK REGEV: Is that by accident, or is that —</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">MEHDI HASAN: But I have, Mark —</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">MARK REGEV: — because Hamas can control — Hamas can control the information coming out of Gaza?</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">MEHDI HASAN: Mark, but you asked me a question, and you said you would be brief. I haven't. You're right. But I have seen lots of children with my own lying eyes being pulled from the rubble. So —</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">MARK REGEV: Now, because they're the pictures Hamas wants you to see. Exactly my point, Mehdi.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">MEHDI HASAN: And also because they're dead, Mark. Also —</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">MARK REGEV: They're the pictures Hamas wants — no.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">MEHDI HASAN: But they're also people your government has killed. You accept that, right? You've killed children? Or do you deny that?</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">MARK REGEV: No, I do not. I do not. I do not. First of all, you don't know how those people died, those children.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">MEHDI HASAN: Oh wow.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">AMY GOODMAN: "Oh wow," Mehdi Hasan responded, interviewing Netanyahu adviser Mark Regev on MSNBC. Soon after, MSNBC announced that he was losing his shows. Since leaving the network, Mehdi Hasan has launched a new digital media company named Zeteo.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Mehdi, welcome back to Democracy Now! It's great to have you with us. I want to start with that interview you did with Regev. After, you lost your two shows, soon after. Do you think that's the reason those shows were canceled? Interviews like that?</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">MEHDI HASAN: You would have to ask MSNBC, Amy. And, Amy and Nermeen, thank you for having me on. It's great to be back here after a few years away. Look, the advantage of not being at MSNBC anymore is I get to come on shows like this and talk to you all. You should get someone from MSNBC on and ask them why they canceled the shows, because I can't answer that question. I wish I knew. But there we go.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">The shows were canceled at the end of November. I quit at the beginning of January, because I wanted to have a platform of my own. I couldn't really spend 2024, one of the most important news years of our lives — genocide in Gaza, fascism at the door here in America with elections — couldn't really spend that being a guest anchor and a political analyst, which is what I was offered at MSNBC while I was staying there. I wanted to leave. I wanted to get my voice back. And that's why I launched my own media company, as you mentioned, called Zeteo, which we've done a soft launch on and we're going to launch properly next month. But I'm excited about all the opportunities ahead, the opportunity to do more interviews like the one I did with Mark Regev.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">NERMEEN SHAIKH: So, Mehdi, could you explain Zeteo? First of all, what does it mean? And what is the gap in the U.S. media landscape that you hope to fill? You've been extremely critical of the U.S. media's coverage of Gaza, saying, quite correctly, that the coverage has not been as consistent or clear as the last time we saw an invasion of this kind, though far less brutal, which was the Russian invasion of Ukraine.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">MEHDI HASAN: Yeah, it's a great question. So, on Zeteo, it's an ancient Greek word, going back to Socrates and Plato, which means to seek out, to search, to inquire for the truth. And at a time when we live in a, some would say, post-truth society — or people on the right are attempting to turn it into a post-truth society — I thought that was an important endeavor to embark upon as a journalist, to go back to our roots.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">In terms of why I launch it and the media space, look, there is a gap in the market, first of all, on the left for a company like this one. Not many progressives have pulled off a for-profit, subscription-based business, media business. We've seen it on the right, Nermeen, with, you know, Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire and Bari Weiss's The Free Press, and even Tucker Carlson has launched his own subscription-based platform since leaving Fox. And on the progressive space, we haven't really done it. Now, of course, there are wonderful shows like Democracy Now! which are doing important, invaluable journalism on subjects like Gaza, on subjects like the climate. But across the media industry as a whole, sadly, in the U.S., the massive gap is there are not enough — I don't know how to put it — bluntly, truth tellers, people who are willing to say — and when I say "truth tellers," I don't just mean, you know, truth in a conventional sense of saying what is true and what is false; I'm saying the language in which we talk about what is happening in the world today.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Too many of my colleagues in the media, unfortunately, hide behind lazy euphemisms, a both-sides journalism, the idea that you can't say Donald Trump is racist because you don't know what's in his heart; you can't say the Republican Party is going full fascist, even as they proclaim that they don't believe in democracy as we conventionally understand it; we can't say there's a genocide in Gaza, even though the International Court of Justice says such a thing is plausible. You know, we run away from very blunt terms which help us understand world. And I want to treat American consumers of news, global consumers of news — it's a global news organization which I'm founding — with some respect. Stop patronizing them. Tell them what is happening in the world, in a blunt way.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">NERMEEN SHAIKH: So, Mehdi, talk about this. I mean, in your criticism of the U.S. media's coverage, in particular, of Israel's assault on Gaza — I mean, of course, you have condemned what happened, the Hamas attack in Israel on October 7th. You've also situated the attack in a broader historical frame, and you've received criticism for doing that. And in response, you've said, "Context is not causation," and "Context is not justification." So, could you explain why you think context, history, is so important, and the way in which this question is kind of elided in U.S. media coverage, not just of the Gaza crisis, but especially so now?</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">MEHDI HASAN: So, I did an interview with Piers Morgan this week. And if you watch Piers Morgan's shows, he always asks his pro-Palestinian guests or anyone criticizing Israel, you know, "Condemn what happened on October 7th." It's all about October the 7th. And what happened on October 7th was barbarism. It was a tragedy. It was a terror attack. Civilians were killed. War crimes were carried out. Hostages were taken. And we should condemn it. Of course we should, as human beings, if nothing else.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">But the world did not begin on October the 7th. The idea that the entire Middle East conflict, Israel-Palestine, the occupation, apartheid, can be reduced to October 7th is madness. And it's not just me saying that. You talk to, you know, leading Israeli peace campaigners, even some leading Israeli generals, people like Shlomo Brom, who talk about having to understand the root causes of a people under occupation fighting for freedom. And it's absurd to me that in our media industry people should try and run away from context. My former colleagues Ali Velshi and Ayman Mohyeldin, who Amy mentioned in the introduction, they were on air on October the 7th as news was coming in of the attacks, and they provided context, because they're two anchors who really understand that part of the world. Ayman Mohyeldin is perhaps the only U.S. anchor who's ever lived in Gaza. And they came under attack online from certain pro-Israel people for providing context. This idea that we should be embarrassed or ashamed or apologetic as journalists for providing context on one of the biggest stories in the world is madness. You cannot understand what is happening in the world unless we, unless you and I, unless journalists, broadcasters, are explaining to our viewers and our listeners and our readers why things are happening, where forces are coming from, why people are behaving the way they do. And I know America is a country of amnesiacs, but we cannot keep acting as if the world just began yesterday.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">AMY GOODMAN: I want to ask you about a piece in The Intercept — you also used to report for The Intercept — the headline, "In Internal Meeting, Christiane Amanpour Confronts CNN Brass About 'Double Standards' on Israel Coverage." It's a really interesting piece. They were confronting the executives, and "One issue that came up," says The Intercept, "repeatedly is CNN's longtime process for routing almost all coverage relating to Israel and Palestine through the network's Jerusalem bureau. As The Intercept reported in January, the protocol — which has existed for years but was expanded and rebranded as SecondEyes last summer — slows down reporting on Gaza and filters news about the war through journalists in Jerusalem who operate under the shadow of Israel's military censor." And then it quotes Christiane Amanpour, identified in a recording of that meeting. She said, "You've heard from me, you've heard my, you know, real distress with SecondEyes — changing copy, double standards, and all the rest," Amanpour said. The significance of this and what we see, Mehdi? You know, I'm not talking Fox right now. On MSNBC —</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">MEHDI HASAN: Yes.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">AMY GOODMAN: — and on CNN, you rarely see Palestinians interviewed in extended discussions.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">MEHDI HASAN: So, I think there's a few issues there, Amy. Number one, first of all, we should recognize that Christiane Amanpour has done some very excellent coverage of Gaza for CNN in this conflict. She's had some very powerful interviews and very important guests on. So, credit to Christiane during this conflict. Number two —</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">AMY GOODMAN: International —</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">MEHDI HASAN: — I think U.S. media organizations —</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">AMY GOODMAN: — I just wanted to say, particularly on CNN International, which is often not seen —</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">MEHDI HASAN: Very good point.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">JUAN GONZÁLEZ: — on CNN domestic.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">MEHDI HASAN: Very good — very good point, Amy. Touché.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">The second point, I would say, is U.S. media organizations, as a whole, are engaging in journalistic malpractice by not informing viewers, listeners, readers that a lot of their coverage out of Israel and the Occupied Territories is coming under the shadow of an Israeli military censor. How many Americans understand or even know about the Israeli military censor, about how much information is controlled? We barely understand that Western journalists are kept out of Gaza, or if when they go in, they're embedded with Israeli military forces and limited to what they can say and do. So I think we should talk about that in a country which kind of prides itself on the First Amendment and free speech and a free press. We should understand the way in which information comes out of the Occupied Territories, in particular from Gaza.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">And the third point, I would say, is, yeah, Palestinian voices not being on American television or in American print is one of the biggest problems when it comes to our coverage of this conflict. When we talk about why the media is structurally biased towards one party in this conflict, the more powerful party, the occupier, we have to remember that this is one of the reasons. Why are Palestinians dehumanized in our media? This is one of the reasons. We don't let people speak. That's what leads to dehumanization. That's what leads to bias.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">We understand it at home when it comes to, for example, Black voices. In recent years, media organizations have tried to take steps to improve diversity on air, when it comes to on-air talent, when it comes to on-air guests, when it comes to balancing panels. We get that we need underrepresented communities to be able to speak. But when it comes to foreign conflicts, we still don't seem to have made that calculation.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">There was a study done a few years ago of op-eds in The New York Times and The Washington Post on the subject of Israel-Palestine from 1970 to, I think it was, 2000-and-something, and it was like 2% of all op-eds in the Times and 1% in the Post were written by Palestinians, which is a shocking statistic. We deny these people a voice, and then we wonder why people don't sympathize with their plight or don't — aren't, you know, marching in the street — well, they are marching in the streets — but in bigger numbers. Why America is OK and kind of, you know, blind to the fact that we are complicit in a genocide of these people? Because we don't hear from these people.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">NERMEEN SHAIKH: Well, Mehdi, I mean, explain why that's especially relevant in this instance, because journalists have not been permitted access to Gaza, so there is no reporting going on on the ground that's being shown here. I mean, dozens and dozens of journalists have signed a letter asking Israel and Egypt to allow journalists access into Gaza. So, if you could talk about that, why it's especially important to hear from Palestinian voices here?</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">MEHDI HASAN: Well, for a start, Nermeen, much of the imagery we see on our screens here or in our newspapers are sanitized images. We don't see the full level of the destruction. And when we try and understand, well, why are young people — why is there such a generational gap when it comes to the polling on Gaza, on ceasefire, why are young people so much more antiwar than their elder peers, part of the reason is that young people are on TikTok or Instagram and seeing a much less sanitized version of this war, of Israel's bombardment. They are seeing babies being pulled from the rubble, limbs missing. They are seeing hospitals being — you know, hospitals carrying out procedures without anesthetic. They are seeing just absolute brutality, the kind of stuff that U.N. humanitarian chiefs are saying we haven't seen in this world for 50 years.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">And that's the problem, right? If we're sanitizing the coverage, Americans aren't being told, really, aren't being informed, are, again, missing context on what is happening on the ground. And, of course, Israel, by keeping Western journalists out, makes it even easier for those images to be blocked, and therefore you have Palestinian — brave Palestinian journalists on the ground trying to film, trying to document their own genocide, streaming it to our phones. And we've seen over a hundred of them killed over the last five months. That is not an accident. That is not a coincidence. Israel wants to stamp out independent voices, stamp out any kind of coverage of its own genocidal behavior.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">And therefore, again, you're able to have a debate in this country where the political debate is completely disconnected to the public debate, and the public debate is completely misinformed. I'm amazed, Nermeen, when you look at the polling, that there's a majority in favor of a ceasefire, that half of all Democrats say this is a genocide. Americans are saying that to pollsters despite not even getting the full picture. Can you imagine what those numbers would look like if they actually saw what was happening on the ground?</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">NERMEEN SHAIKH: Well, I want to go to what is unfolding right now in Gaza. You said in a recent interview that in the past Israel was, quote, "mowing the lawn," but now the Netanyahu government's intention is to erase the population of Gaza. So let's go to what Prime Minister Netanyahu said about the invasion of Rafah, saying it would go ahead and would last weeks, not months. He was speaking to Politico on Sunday.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: We're not going to leave them. You know, I have a red line. You know what the red line is? That October 7th doesn't happen again, never happens again. And to do that, we have to complete the destruction of the Hamas terrorist army. … We're very close to victory. It's close at hand. We've destroyed three-quarters of Hamas fighting terrorist battalions, and we're close to finishing the last part in Rafah, and we're not going to give it up. … Once we begin the intense action of eradicating the Hamas terrorist battalions in Rafah, it's a matter of weeks and not months.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">NERMEEN SHAIKH: So, Mehdi, your response to what Netanyahu said and what the Israelis have proposed as a safe place for Gazans to go — namely, humanitarian islands?</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">MEHDI HASAN: So, number one, when you hear Netanyahu speak, Nermeen, doesn't it remind you of George Bush in kind of 2002, 2003? It's very — you know, invoking 9/11 to justify every atrocity, claiming that you're trying to protect the country, when you, yourself, your idiocy and your incompetency, is what led to the attacks. You know, George Bush was unable to prevent 9/11, and then used 9/11 to justify every atrocity, even though his incompetence helped allow 9/11 to happen. And I feel the same way: Netanyahu allowed the worst terror attack, the worst massacre in Israel to happen on his watch. Many of his own, you know, generals, many of his own people blame him for this. And so, it's rich to hear him saying, "My aim is to stop this from happening again." Well, you couldn't stop it from happening the first time, and now you're killing innocent Palestinians under the pretense that this is national security.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Number two, again George Bush-like, claiming that the war is nearly done, mission is nearly accomplished, that's nonsense. No serious observer believes that Hamas is finished or that Israel has won some total victory. A member of Netanyahu's own war cabinet said recently, "Anyone who says you can absolutely defeat Hamas is telling tall tales, is lying." That was a colleague of Netanyahu's, in government, who said that.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">And number three, the red line on Rafah that Biden suppposedly set down and that Netanyahu is now mocking, saying, "My own red line is to do the opposite," what on Earth is Joe Biden doing in allowing Benjamin Netanyahu to humiliate him in this way with this invasion of Rafah, even after he said he opposes it? I mean, it's one thing to leak stuff —</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">AMY GOODMAN: Mehdi —</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">MEHDI HASAN: — over a few months —</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">AMY GOODMAN: — let's go to Biden speaking on MSNBC. He's being interviewed by your former colleague Jonathan Capehart, as he was being questioned about Benjamin Netanyahu and saying he's hurting Israel more than helping Israel.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: He has a right to defend Israel, a right to continue to pursue Hamas. But he must, he must, he must pay more attention to the innocent lives being lost as a consequence of the actions taken. He's hurting — in my view, he's hurting Israel more than helping Israel by making the rest of the world — it's contrary to what Israel stands for. And I think it's a big mistake. So I want to see a ceasefire.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">AMY GOODMAN: And he talked about a, well, kind of a red line. If you can address what Biden is saying and what he proposed in the State of the Union, this pier, to get more aid in, and also the dropping — the airdropping of food, which recently killed five Palestinians because it crushed them to death, and the humanitarian groups, United Nations saying these airdrops, the pier come nowhere near being able to provide the aid that's needed, at the same time, and the reason they're doing all of this, is because Israel is using U.S. bombs and artillery to attack the Palestinians and these aid trucks?</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">MEHDI HASAN: Yeah, it's just so bizarre, the idea that you could drop bombs, on the one hand, and then drop aid, on the other, and you're paying for both, and then your aid ends up killing people, too. It's like some kind of dark Onion headline. It's just beyond parody. It's beyond belief.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">And as for the pier, as you say, it does not come anywhere near to adequately addressing the needs of the Palestinian people, in terms of the sheer scale of the suffering, half a million people on the brink of famine, over a million people displaced. Four out of five of the hungriest people in the world, according to the World Food Programme, are in Gaza right now. The idea that this pier would, A, address the scale of the suffering, and, B, in time — I mean, it's going to take time to do this. What happens to the Palestinians who literally starve to death, including children, while this pier is being built? Finally, I would say, there's reporting in the Israeli press, Amy, that I've seen that suggests that the pier idea comes from Netanyahu, that the Israeli government are totally fine with this pier, because it allows them still to control land and air access into Gaza, which is what they've always controlled and which in this war they've monopolized.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">The idea that the United States of America, the world's only superpower, cannot tell its ally, "You know what? We're going to put aid into Gaza because we want to, and you're not going to stop us, especially since we're the ones arming you," is bizarre. It's something I think Biden will never be able to get past or live down. It's a stain on his record, on America's conscience. The idea that we're arming a country that's engaged in a "plausible genocide," to quote the ICJ, is bad enough. That we can't even get our own aid in, while they're bombing with our bombs, is just madness. And by the way, it's also illegal. Under U.S. law, you cannot provide weaponry to a country which is blocking U.S. aid. And by the way, it's not me saying they're blocking U.S. aid. U.S. government officials have said, "Yes, the Israeli government blocked us from sending flour in," for example.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">NERMEEN SHAIKH: So, Mehdi, let's go to the regional response to this assault on Gaza that's been unfolding with the kind of violence and tens of thousands of deaths of Palestinians, as we've reported. Now, what has — how has the Arab and Muslim world responded to what's going on? Egypt, of course, has repeatedly said that it does not want displaced Palestinians crossing its border. The most powerful Muslim countries, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the Emirates, if you can talk about how they've responded? And then the Axis — the so-called Axis of Resistance — Houthis, Hezbollah, etc. — how they have been trying to disrupt this war, or at least make the backers of Israel pay a price for it?</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">MEHDI HASAN: So, I hear people saying, "Oh, we're disappointed in the response from the Arab countries." The problem with the word "disappointment" is it implies you had any expectations to begin with. I certainly didn't. Arab countries have never had the Palestinians' backs. The Arab — quote-unquote, "Arab street" has always been very pro-Palestinian. But the autocratic, the despotic, the dictatorial rulers of much of the Arab world have never really had the interests of the Palestinian people at their heart, going back right to 1948, when, you know, Arab countries attacked Israel to push it into the sea, but, actually, as we know from historians like Avi Shlaim, were not doing that at all, and that some of them, like Jordan, had done deals with Israel behind the scenes. So, look, Arab countries have never really prioritized the Palestinian people or their needs or their freedom. And so, when you see some of these statements that come out of the Arab world at times like this, you know, you have to take them with a shovel of salt, not just a grain.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Also, I would point out the hypocrisy here on all sides in the region. You have countries like Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which were involved in a brutal assault on Yemen for many years, carried out very similar acts to Israel in Gaza in terms of blockades, starvation, malnourishment of the Yemeni children, in terms of bombing of refugee camps and hospitals and kids and school buses. That all happened in Yemen. Arab countries did that, let's just be clear about that, things that they criticize Israel for doing now. And, of course, Iran, which sets itself up as a champion of the Palestinan people, when Bashar al-Assad was killing many of his own people, including Palestinian refugees, in places like the al-Yarmouk refugee camp, Iran and Russia, by the way, were both perfectly happy to help arm and support Assad as he did that. So, you know, spare me some of the grandiose statements from Middle East countries, from Arab nations to Iran, on all of it. There's a lot of hypocrisy to go around.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Very few countries in the world, especially in that region, actually have Palestinian interests at heart. If they did, we would have a very different geopolitical scene. There is reporting, Nermeen, that a lot of these governments, like Saudi Arabia, privately are telling Israel, "Finish the job. Get rid of them. We don't like Hamas, either. Get rid of them," and that Saudis actually want to do a deal with Israel once this war is over, just as they were on course to do, apparently, according to the Biden administration. We know that other Arab countries already signed the, quote-unquote, "Abraham Accords" with Israel on Trump's watch.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to ask you about the number of dead Palestinian journalists and also the new U.N. investigation that just accused Israel of breaking international law over the killing of the Reuters video journalist Issam Abdallah in southern Lebanon. On October 13th, an Israeli tank opened fire on him and a group of other journalists. He had just set up a live stream on the border in southern Lebanon, so that all his colleagues at Reuters and others saw him blown up. The report stating, quote, "The firing at civilians, in this instance clearly identifiable journalists, constitutes a violation of … international law." And it's not just Issam in southern Lebanon. Well over a hundred Palestinian journalists in Gaza have died. We've never seen anything like the concentration of numbers of journalists killed in any other conflict or conflicts combined recently. Can you talk about the lack of outrage of other major news organizations and what Israel is doing here? Do you think they're being directly targeted, one after another, wearing those well-known "press" flak jackets? It looks like we just lost audio to Mehdi Hasan.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">MEHDI HASAN: Amy, I can — I can hear you, Amy, very faintly.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">AMY GOODMAN: Oh, OK. So —</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">MEHDI HASAN: I'm going to answer your question, if you can still hear me.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">AMY GOODMAN: Great. We can hear you perfectly.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">MEHDI HASAN: So, you're very faint to me. So, while I speak, if someone want to fix the volume in my ear. Let me answer your question about journalists.</strong></em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">It is an absolute tragedy and a scandal, what has happened to journalists in Gaza, that we have seen so many deaths in Gaza. And the real scandal, Amy, is that Western media, a lot of my colleagues here in the U.S. media, have not sounded the alarm, have not called out Israel for what it's done. It's outrageous that so many of our fellow colleagues can be killed in Gaza while reporting, while at home, losing family members, and yet there's not a huge global outcry. When Wael al-Dahdouh, who we just saw on the screen, from Al Jazeera, loses his immediate family members and carries on reporting for Al Jazeera Arabic, why is he not on every front page in the world? Why is he not a hero? Why is he not sitting down with Oprah Winfrey? I feel like, you know, when Evan Gershkovich from The Wall Street Journal is wrongly imprisoned in Russia, we all campaign for Evan to be released. When Ukrainian journalists are killed, we all speak out and are angry about it. But when Palestinian journalists are killed on a level we've never seen before, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, where is the outcry here in the West over the killing of them? We claim to care about a free press. We claim to oppose countries that crack down on a free press, on journalism. We say journalism is not a crime. 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--tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">From Latuff: how is it possble to focus on the atrocities?</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; 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--tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">HERE IS MORE!</strong></em></p><div class="captioned-image-container" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; margin: var(--size-32) auto; 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--tw-translate-y: 0; align-items: center; border-radius: var(--border-radius-sm); color: initial; cursor: pointer; display: flex; height: var(--size-32); justify-content: center; opacity: 0; position: absolute; right: var(--size-12); text-decoration-color: initial; top: var(--size-12); transition: all var(--animation-timing-fast) var(--animation-smoothing); width: var(--size-32);"><svg class="lucide lucide-maximize2 " fill="none" height="16" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-width="2" stroke="#FFFFFF" viewbox="0 0 24 24" width="16" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></div></div></a></figure></div><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">See signature. Catches the mood.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;">This approaches the mood. Finally, our media exposed.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;">We have been waiting for something like this. Either the capitalist AI engineered the destruction, no, the pollution, of so generously called mainstream media which managed to destroy any perception of reality in recent months, or perhaps years. We refrained from comment at the time, at least direct comment, in the hopes that a reliable source would approach the subject and thus spare our readers of being confronted with a string of expletives and angry finger shaking.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;">As we said at the time, the week after October 8, any on air speaker who had any reliable knowledge of the history of activities concerning Israel was summarily taken off the air and replaced by the nearest qualified talker with nice teeth. Nothing negative was allowed on the stations, although if the journalist did report a harmless fact, it was allowed to be broadcast or telecast.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;">We waited until now to present as clear and objective presentation. While Ayman Mohedien and Ali Velshi are now back on the air, it is easy to suspect that Israel’s magnificently outrageous and sadistic behavior, reminiscent of old WWII films (yes, Donald, there was a WWII) has so infuriated even apathetic Americans to the point they voted “uncommitted” on several primary ballots, even though Biden is virtually unopposed, because of his doddering support of Nit Wit Yahoo (who will stay out of prison so long as he can keep up the killing). Israel has now murdered over 31,000 since October 8, and continues to defy even banality in the area. About a third of the dead are children who we assure you are not members of Hamas.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;">This is a comprehensive piece, so if the letter transmission cuts it off, the rest is available by clicking the link. Also, If enough have aproblem getting there, please let me know and I will post the rest.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Acclaimed journalist Mehdi Hasan joins us to discuss U.S. media coverage of the Israeli war on Gaza and how the war is a genocide being abetted by the United States. Hasan says U.S. media is overwhelmingly pro-Israel and fails to convey the truth to audiences. “Palestinian voices not being on American television or in American print is one of the biggest problems when it comes to our coverage of this conflict,” he says. Hasan has just launched a new media company, Zeteo, which he started after the end of his weekly news program on MSNBC and Peacock earlier this year. Hasan’s interviews routinely led to viral segments, including his tough questioning of Israeli government spokesperson Mark Regev, but the cable network announced it was canceling his show in November. The move drew considerable outrage, with critics slamming MSNBC for effectively silencing one of the most prominent Muslim voices in U.S. media. Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to threaten a ground invasion of Rafah in southern Gaza, which human rights groups warn would be a massacre. President Biden has said such an escalation is a “red line” for him, but Netanyahu has vowed to push ahead anyway. “Where is the outcry here in the West?” asks Hasan of reports of Israeli war crimes, including the killing of over 100 journalists in the past five months in Gaza and the blockade of aid from the region. “It’s a stain on [Biden’s] record, on America’s conscience.”</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Transcript</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">NERMEEN SHAIKH: The death toll in Gaza has topped 31,300. At least five people were killed on Wednesday when Israel bombed an UNRWA aid distribution center in Rafah — one of the U.N. agency’s last remaining aid sites in Gaza. The head of UNRWA called the attack a, quote, “blatant disregard to international humanitarian law.”</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">This comes as much of Gaza is on the brink of famine as Israel continues to limit the amount of aid allowed into the besieged territory. At least 27 Palestinians have died of starvation, including 23 children.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Meanwhile, Al Jazeera is reporting six Palestinians were killed in Gaza City when Israeli forces opened fire again on crowds waiting for food aid. Over 80 people were injured.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">In other news from Gaza, Politico reports the Biden administration has privately told Israel that the U.S. would support Israel attacking Rafah as long as it did not carry out a large-scale invasion.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">AMY GOODMAN: Well, we begin today’s show looking at how the U.S. media is covering Israel’s assault on Gaza with the acclaimed TV broadcaster Mehdi Hasan. In January, he announced he was leaving MSNBC after his shows were canceled. Mehdi was one of the most prominent Muslim voices on American television. In October, the news outlet Semafor reported MSNBC had reduced the roles of Hasan and two other Muslim broadcasters on the network, Ayman Mohyeldin and Ali Velshi, following the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel. Then, in November, MSNBC announced it was canceling Hasan’s show shortly after he conducted this interview with Mark Regev, an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This is an excerpt.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">MEHDI HASAN: You say Hamas’s numbers — I should point out, just pull up on the screen, in the last two major Gaza conflicts, 2009 and 2014, the Israeli military’s death tolls matched Hamas’s Health Ministry death tolls, so — and the U.N., human rights groups all agree that those numbers are credible. But look, your wider point is true.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">MARK REGEV: Can I challenge that?</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">MEHDI HASAN: We shouldn’t —</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">MARK REGEV: Will you allow me —</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">MEHDI HASAN: We shouldn’t —</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">MARK REGEV: — to challenge that, please? Can I just challenge that?</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">MEHDI HASAN: Briefly, if you can.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">MARK REGEV: I’d like to challenge that.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">MEHDI HASAN: Briefly.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">MARK REGEV: I’ll try to be as brief as you are, sir. Those numbers are provided by Hamas. There’s no independent verification. And secondly, more importantly, you have no idea how many of them are Hamas terrorists, combatants, and how many are civilians. Hamas would have you believe that they’re all civilians, that they’re all children.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">And here we have to say something that isn’t said enough. Hamas, until now, we’re destroying their military machine, and with that, we’re eroding their control. But up until now, they’ve been in control of the Gaza Strip. And as a result, they control all the images coming out of Gaza. Have you seen one picture of a single dead Hamas terrorist in the fighting in Gaza? Not one.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">MEHDI HASAN: Yeah, but I have —</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">MARK REGEV: Is that by accident, or is that —</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">MEHDI HASAN: But I have, Mark —</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">MARK REGEV: — because Hamas can control — Hamas can control the information coming out of Gaza?</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">MEHDI HASAN: Mark, but you asked me a question, and you said you would be brief. I haven’t. You’re right. But I have seen lots of children with my own lying eyes being pulled from the rubble. So —</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">MARK REGEV: Now, because they’re the pictures Hamas wants you to see. Exactly my point, Mehdi.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">MEHDI HASAN: And also because they’re dead, Mark. Also —</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">MARK REGEV: They’re the pictures Hamas wants — no.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">MEHDI HASAN: But they’re also people your government has killed. You accept that, right? You’ve killed children? Or do you deny that?</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">MARK REGEV: No, I do not. I do not. I do not. First of all, you don’t know how those people died, those children.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">MEHDI HASAN: Oh wow.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">AMY GOODMAN: “Oh wow,” Mehdi Hasan responded, interviewing Netanyahu adviser Mark Regev on MSNBC. Soon after, MSNBC announced that he was losing his shows. Since leaving the network, Mehdi Hasan has launched a new digital media company named Zeteo.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Mehdi, welcome back to Democracy Now! It’s great to have you with us. I want to start with that interview you did with Regev. After, you lost your two shows, soon after. Do you think that’s the reason those shows were canceled? Interviews like that?</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">MEHDI HASAN: You would have to ask MSNBC, Amy. And, Amy and Nermeen, thank you for having me on. It’s great to be back here after a few years away. Look, the advantage of not being at MSNBC anymore is I get to come on shows like this and talk to you all. You should get someone from MSNBC on and ask them why they canceled the shows, because I can’t answer that question. I wish I knew. But there we go.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The shows were canceled at the end of November. I quit at the beginning of January, because I wanted to have a platform of my own. I couldn’t really spend 2024, one of the most important news years of our lives — genocide in Gaza, fascism at the door here in America with elections — couldn’t really spend that being a guest anchor and a political analyst, which is what I was offered at MSNBC while I was staying there. I wanted to leave. I wanted to get my voice back. And that’s why I launched my own media company, as you mentioned, called Zeteo, which we’ve done a soft launch on and we’re going to launch properly next month. But I’m excited about all the opportunities ahead, the opportunity to do more interviews like the one I did with Mark Regev.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">NERMEEN SHAIKH: So, Mehdi, could you explain Zeteo? First of all, what does it mean? And what is the gap in the U.S. media landscape that you hope to fill? You’ve been extremely critical of the U.S. media’s coverage of Gaza, saying, quite correctly, that the coverage has not been as consistent or clear as the last time we saw an invasion of this kind, though far less brutal, which was the Russian invasion of Ukraine.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">MEHDI HASAN: Yeah, it’s a great question. So, on Zeteo, it’s an ancient Greek word, going back to Socrates and Plato, which means to seek out, to search, to inquire for the truth. And at a time when we live in a, some would say, post-truth society — or people on the right are attempting to turn it into a post-truth society — I thought that was an important endeavor to embark upon as a journalist, to go back to our roots.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">In terms of why I launch it and the media space, look, there is a gap in the market, first of all, on the left for a company like this one. Not many progressives have pulled off a for-profit, subscription-based business, media business. We’ve seen it on the right, Nermeen, with, you know, Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire and Bari Weiss’s The Free Press, and even Tucker Carlson has launched his own subscription-based platform since leaving Fox. And on the progressive space, we haven’t really done it. Now, of course, there are wonderful shows like Democracy Now! which are doing important, invaluable journalism on subjects like Gaza, on subjects like the climate. But across the media industry as a whole, sadly, in the U.S., the massive gap is there are not enough — I don’t know how to put it — bluntly, truth tellers, people who are willing to say — and when I say “truth tellers,” I don’t just mean, you know, truth in a conventional sense of saying what is true and what is false; I’m saying the language in which we talk about what is happening in the world today.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Too many of my colleagues in the media, unfortunately, hide behind lazy euphemisms, a both-sides journalism, the idea that you can’t say Donald Trump is racist because you don’t know what’s in his heart; you can’t say the Republican Party is going full fascist, even as they proclaim that they don’t believe in democracy as we conventionally understand it; we can’t say there’s a genocide in Gaza, even though the International Court of Justice says such a thing is plausible. You know, we run away from very blunt terms which help us understand world. And I want to treat American consumers of news, global consumers of news — it’s a global news organization which I’m founding — with some respect. Stop patronizing them. Tell them what is happening in the world, in a blunt way.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">NERMEEN SHAIKH: So, Mehdi, talk about this. I mean, in your criticism of the U.S. media’s coverage, in particular, of Israel’s assault on Gaza — I mean, of course, you have condemned what happened, the Hamas attack in Israel on October 7th. You’ve also situated the attack in a broader historical frame, and you’ve received criticism for doing that. And in response, you’ve said, “Context is not causation,” and “Context is not justification.” So, could you explain why you think context, history, is so important, and the way in which this question is kind of elided in U.S. media coverage, not just of the Gaza crisis, but especially so now?</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">MEHDI HASAN: So, I did an interview with Piers Morgan this week. And if you watch Piers Morgan’s shows, he always asks his pro-Palestinian guests or anyone criticizing Israel, you know, “Condemn what happened on October 7th.” It’s all about October the 7th. And what happened on October 7th was barbarism. It was a tragedy. It was a terror attack. Civilians were killed. War crimes were carried out. Hostages were taken. And we should condemn it. Of course we should, as human beings, if nothing else.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">But the world did not begin on October the 7th. The idea that the entire Middle East conflict, Israel-Palestine, the occupation, apartheid, can be reduced to October 7th is madness. And it’s not just me saying that. You talk to, you know, leading Israeli peace campaigners, even some leading Israeli generals, people like Shlomo Brom, who talk about having to understand the root causes of a people under occupation fighting for freedom. And it’s absurd to me that in our media industry people should try and run away from context. My former colleagues Ali Velshi and Ayman Mohyeldin, who Amy mentioned in the introduction, they were on air on October the 7th as news was coming in of the attacks, and they provided context, because they’re two anchors who really understand that part of the world. Ayman Mohyeldin is perhaps the only U.S. anchor who’s ever lived in Gaza. And they came under attack online from certain pro-Israel people for providing context. This idea that we should be embarrassed or ashamed or apologetic as journalists for providing context on one of the biggest stories in the world is madness. You cannot understand what is happening in the world unless we, unless you and I, unless journalists, broadcasters, are explaining to our viewers and our listeners and our readers why things are happening, where forces are coming from, why people are behaving the way they do. And I know America is a country of amnesiacs, but we cannot keep acting as if the world just began yesterday.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">AMY GOODMAN: I want to ask you about a piece in The Intercept — you also used to report for The Intercept — the headline, “In Internal Meeting, Christiane Amanpour Confronts CNN Brass About 'Double Standards' on Israel Coverage.” It’s a really interesting piece. They were confronting the executives, and “One issue that came up,” says The Intercept, “repeatedly is CNN’s longtime process for routing almost all coverage relating to Israel and Palestine through the network’s Jerusalem bureau. As The Intercept reported in January, the protocol — which has existed for years but was expanded and rebranded as SecondEyes last summer — slows down reporting on Gaza and filters news about the war through journalists in Jerusalem who operate under the shadow of Israel’s military censor.” And then it quotes Christiane Amanpour, identified in a recording of that meeting. She said, “You’ve heard from me, you’ve heard my, you know, real distress with SecondEyes — changing copy, double standards, and all the rest,” Amanpour said. The significance of this and what we see, Mehdi? You know, I’m not talking Fox right now. On MSNBC —</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">MEHDI HASAN: Yes.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">AMY GOODMAN: — and on CNN, you rarely see Palestinians interviewed in extended discussions.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">MEHDI HASAN: So, I think there’s a few issues there, Amy. Number one, first of all, we should recognize that Christiane Amanpour has done some very excellent coverage of Gaza for CNN in this conflict. She’s had some very powerful interviews and very important guests on. So, credit to Christiane during this conflict. Number two —</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">AMY GOODMAN: International —</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">MEHDI HASAN: — I think U.S. media organizations —</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">AMY GOODMAN: — I just wanted to say, particularly on CNN International, which is often not seen —</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">MEHDI HASAN: Very good point.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">JUAN GONZÁLEZ: — on CNN domestic.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">MEHDI HASAN: Very good — very good point, Amy. Touché.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The second point, I would say, is U.S. media organizations, as a whole, are engaging in journalistic malpractice by not informing viewers, listeners, readers that a lot of their coverage out of Israel and the Occupied Territories is coming under the shadow of an Israeli military censor. How many Americans understand or even know about the Israeli military censor, about how much information is controlled? We barely understand that Western journalists are kept out of Gaza, or if when they go in, they’re embedded with Israeli military forces and limited to what they can say and do. So I think we should talk about that in a country which kind of prides itself on the First Amendment and free speech and a free press. We should understand the way in which information comes out of the Occupied Territories, in particular from Gaza.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">And the third point, I would say, is, yeah, Palestinian voices not being on American television or in American print is one of the biggest problems when it comes to our coverage of this conflict. When we talk about why the media is structurally biased towards one party in this conflict, the more powerful party, the occupier, we have to remember that this is one of the reasons. Why are Palestinians dehumanized in our media? This is one of the reasons. We don’t let people speak. That’s what leads to dehumanization. That’s what leads to bias.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">We understand it at home when it comes to, for example, Black voices. In recent years, media organizations have tried to take steps to improve diversity on air, when it comes to on-air talent, when it comes to on-air guests, when it comes to balancing panels. We get that we need underrepresented communities to be able to speak. But when it comes to foreign conflicts, we still don’t seem to have made that calculation.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">There was a study done a few years ago of op-eds in The New York Times and The Washington Post on the subject of Israel-Palestine from 1970 to, I think it was, 2000-and-something, and it was like 2% of all op-eds in the Times and 1% in the Post were written by Palestinians, which is a shocking statistic. We deny these people a voice, and then we wonder why people don’t sympathize with their plight or don’t — aren’t, you know, marching in the street — well, they are marching in the streets — but in bigger numbers. Why America is OK and kind of, you know, blind to the fact that we are complicit in a genocide of these people? Because we don’t hear from these people.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">NERMEEN SHAIKH: Well, Mehdi, I mean, explain why that’s especially relevant in this instance, because journalists have not been permitted access to Gaza, so there is no reporting going on on the ground that’s being shown here. I mean, dozens and dozens of journalists have signed a letter asking Israel and Egypt to allow journalists access into Gaza. So, if you could talk about that, why it’s especially important to hear from Palestinian voices here?</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">MEHDI HASAN: Well, for a start, Nermeen, much of the imagery we see on our screens here or in our newspapers are sanitized images. We don’t see the full level of the destruction. And when we try and understand, well, why are young people — why is there such a generational gap when it comes to the polling on Gaza, on ceasefire, why are young people so much more antiwar than their elder peers, part of the reason is that young people are on TikTok or Instagram and seeing a much less sanitized version of this war, of Israel’s bombardment. They are seeing babies being pulled from the rubble, limbs missing. They are seeing hospitals being — you know, hospitals carrying out procedures without anesthetic. They are seeing just absolute brutality, the kind of stuff that U.N. humanitarian chiefs are saying we haven’t seen in this world for 50 years.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">And that’s the problem, right? If we’re sanitizing the coverage, Americans aren’t being told, really, aren’t being informed, are, again, missing context on what is happening on the ground. And, of course, Israel, by keeping Western journalists out, makes it even easier for those images to be blocked, and therefore you have Palestinian — brave Palestinian journalists on the ground trying to film, trying to document their own genocide, streaming it to our phones. And we’ve seen over a hundred of them killed over the last five months. That is not an accident. That is not a coincidence. Israel wants to stamp out independent voices, stamp out any kind of coverage of its own genocidal behavior.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">And therefore, again, you’re able to have a debate in this country where the political debate is completely disconnected to the public debate, and the public debate is completely misinformed. I’m amazed, Nermeen, when you look at the polling, that there’s a majority in favor of a ceasefire, that half of all Democrats say this is a genocide. Americans are saying that to pollsters despite not even getting the full picture. Can you imagine what those numbers would look like if they actually saw what was happening on the ground?</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">NERMEEN SHAIKH: Well, I want to go to what is unfolding right now in Gaza. You said in a recent interview that in the past Israel was, quote, “mowing the lawn,” but now the Netanyahu government’s intention is to erase the population of Gaza. So let’s go to what Prime Minister Netanyahu said about the invasion of Rafah, saying it would go ahead and would last weeks, not months. He was speaking to Politico on Sunday.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: We’re not going to leave them. You know, I have a red line. You know what the red line is? That October 7th doesn’t happen again, never happens again. And to do that, we have to complete the destruction of the Hamas terrorist army. … We’re very close to victory. It’s close at hand. We’ve destroyed three-quarters of Hamas fighting terrorist battalions, and we’re close to finishing the last part in Rafah, and we’re not going to give it up. … Once we begin the intense action of eradicating the Hamas terrorist battalions in Rafah, it’s a matter of weeks and not months.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">NERMEEN SHAIKH: So, Mehdi, your response to what Netanyahu said and what the Israelis have proposed as a safe place for Gazans to go — namely, humanitarian islands?</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">MEHDI HASAN: So, number one, when you hear Netanyahu speak, Nermeen, doesn’t it remind you of George Bush in kind of 2002, 2003? It’s very — you know, invoking 9/11 to justify every atrocity, claiming that you’re trying to protect the country, when you, yourself, your idiocy and your incompetency, is what led to the attacks. You know, George Bush was unable to prevent 9/11, and then used 9/11 to justify every atrocity, even though his incompetence helped allow 9/11 to happen. And I feel the same way: Netanyahu allowed the worst terror attack, the worst massacre in Israel to happen on his watch. Many of his own, you know, generals, many of his own people blame him for this. And so, it’s rich to hear him saying, “My aim is to stop this from happening again.” Well, you couldn’t stop it from happening the first time, and now you’re killing innocent Palestinians under the pretense that this is national security.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Number two, again George Bush-like, claiming that the war is nearly done, mission is nearly accomplished, that’s nonsense. No serious observer believes that Hamas is finished or that Israel has won some total victory. A member of Netanyahu’s own war cabinet said recently, “Anyone who says you can absolutely defeat Hamas is telling tall tales, is lying.” That was a colleague of Netanyahu’s, in government, who said that.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">And number three, the red line on Rafah that Biden suppposedly set down and that Netanyahu is now mocking, saying, “My own red line is to do the opposite,” what on Earth is Joe Biden doing in allowing Benjamin Netanyahu to humiliate him in this way with this invasion of Rafah, even after he said he opposes it? I mean, it’s one thing to leak stuff —</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">AMY GOODMAN: Mehdi —</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">MEHDI HASAN: — over a few months —</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">AMY GOODMAN: — let’s go to Biden speaking on MSNBC. He’s being interviewed by your former colleague Jonathan Capehart, as he was being questioned about Benjamin Netanyahu and saying he’s hurting Israel more than helping Israel.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: He has a right to defend Israel, a right to continue to pursue Hamas. But he must, he must, he must pay more attention to the innocent lives being lost as a consequence of the actions taken. He’s hurting — in my view, he’s hurting Israel more than helping Israel by making the rest of the world — it’s contrary to what Israel stands for. And I think it’s a big mistake. So I want to see a ceasefire.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">AMY GOODMAN: And he talked about a, well, kind of a red line. If you can address what Biden is saying and what he proposed in the State of the Union, this pier, to get more aid in, and also the dropping — the airdropping of food, which recently killed five Palestinians because it crushed them to death, and the humanitarian groups, United Nations saying these airdrops, the pier come nowhere near being able to provide the aid that’s needed, at the same time, and the reason they’re doing all of this, is because Israel is using U.S. bombs and artillery to attack the Palestinians and these aid trucks?</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">MEHDI HASAN: Yeah, it’s just so bizarre, the idea that you could drop bombs, on the one hand, and then drop aid, on the other, and you’re paying for both, and then your aid ends up killing people, too. It’s like some kind of dark Onion headline. It’s just beyond parody. It’s beyond belief.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">And as for the pier, as you say, it does not come anywhere near to adequately addressing the needs of the Palestinian people, in terms of the sheer scale of the suffering, half a million people on the brink of famine, over a million people displaced. Four out of five of the hungriest people in the world, according to the World Food Programme, are in Gaza right now. The idea that this pier would, A, address the scale of the suffering, and, B, in time — I mean, it’s going to take time to do this. What happens to the Palestinians who literally starve to death, including children, while this pier is being built? Finally, I would say, there’s reporting in the Israeli press, Amy, that I’ve seen that suggests that the pier idea comes from Netanyahu, that the Israeli government are totally fine with this pier, because it allows them still to control land and air access into Gaza, which is what they’ve always controlled and which in this war they’ve monopolized.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The idea that the United States of America, the world’s only superpower, cannot tell its ally, “You know what? We’re going to put aid into Gaza because we want to, and you’re not going to stop us, especially since we’re the ones arming you,” is bizarre. It’s something I think Biden will never be able to get past or live down. It’s a stain on his record, on America’s conscience. The idea that we’re arming a country that’s engaged in a “plausible genocide,” to quote the ICJ, is bad enough. That we can’t even get our own aid in, while they’re bombing with our bombs, is just madness. And by the way, it’s also illegal. Under U.S. law, you cannot provide weaponry to a country which is blocking U.S. aid. And by the way, it’s not me saying they’re blocking U.S. aid. U.S. government officials have said, “Yes, the Israeli government blocked us from sending flour in,” for example.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">NERMEEN SHAIKH: So, Mehdi, let’s go to the regional response to this assault on Gaza that’s been unfolding with the kind of violence and tens of thousands of deaths of Palestinians, as we’ve reported. Now, what has — how has the Arab and Muslim world responded to what’s going on? Egypt, of course, has repeatedly said that it does not want displaced Palestinians crossing its border. The most powerful Muslim countries, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the Emirates, if you can talk about how they’ve responded? And then the Axis — the so-called Axis of Resistance — Houthis, Hezbollah, etc. — how they have been trying to disrupt this war, or at least make the backers of Israel pay a price for it?</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">MEHDI HASAN: So, I hear people saying, “Oh, we’re disappointed in the response from the Arab countries.” The problem with the word “disappointment” is it implies you had any expectations to begin with. I certainly didn’t. Arab countries have never had the Palestinians’ backs. The Arab — quote-unquote, “Arab street” has always been very pro-Palestinian. But the autocratic, the despotic, the dictatorial rulers of much of the Arab world have never really had the interests of the Palestinian people at their heart, going back right to 1948, when, you know, Arab countries attacked Israel to push it into the sea, but, actually, as we know from historians like Avi Shlaim, were not doing that at all, and that some of them, like Jordan, had done deals with Israel behind the scenes. So, look, Arab countries have never really prioritized the Palestinian people or their needs or their freedom. And so, when you see some of these statements that come out of the Arab world at times like this, you know, you have to take them with a shovel of salt, not just a grain.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Also, I would point out the hypocrisy here on all sides in the region. You have countries like Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which were involved in a brutal assault on Yemen for many years, carried out very similar acts to Israel in Gaza in terms of blockades, starvation, malnourishment of the Yemeni children, in terms of bombing of refugee camps and hospitals and kids and school buses. That all happened in Yemen. Arab countries did that, let’s just be clear about that, things that they criticize Israel for doing now. And, of course, Iran, which sets itself up as a champion of the Palestinan people, when Bashar al-Assad was killing many of his own people, including Palestinian refugees, in places like the al-Yarmouk refugee camp, Iran and Russia, by the way, were both perfectly happy to help arm and support Assad as he did that. So, you know, spare me some of the grandiose statements from Middle East countries, from Arab nations to Iran, on all of it. There’s a lot of hypocrisy to go around.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Very few countries in the world, especially in that region, actually have Palestinian interests at heart. If they did, we would have a very different geopolitical scene. There is reporting, Nermeen, that a lot of these governments, like Saudi Arabia, privately are telling Israel, “Finish the job. Get rid of them. We don’t like Hamas, either. Get rid of them,” and that Saudis actually want to do a deal with Israel once this war is over, just as they were on course to do, apparently, according to the Biden administration. We know that other Arab countries already signed the, quote-unquote, “Abraham Accords” with Israel on Trump’s watch.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to ask you about the number of dead Palestinian journalists and also the new U.N. investigation that just accused Israel of breaking international law over the killing of the Reuters video journalist Issam Abdallah in southern Lebanon. On October 13th, an Israeli tank opened fire on him and a group of other journalists. He had just set up a live stream on the border in southern Lebanon, so that all his colleagues at Reuters and others saw him blown up. The report stating, quote, “The firing at civilians, in this instance clearly identifiable journalists, constitutes a violation of … international law.” And it’s not just Issam in southern Lebanon. Well over a hundred Palestinian journalists in Gaza have died. We’ve never seen anything like the concentration of numbers of journalists killed in any other conflict or conflicts combined recently. Can you talk about the lack of outrage of other major news organizations and what Israel is doing here? Do you think they’re being directly targeted, one after another, wearing those well-known “press” flak jackets? It looks like we just lost audio to Mehdi Hasan.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">MEHDI HASAN: Amy, I can — I can hear you, Amy, very faintly.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">AMY GOODMAN: Oh, OK. So —</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">MEHDI HASAN: I’m going to answer your question, if you can still hear me.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">AMY GOODMAN: Great. We can hear you perfectly.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">MEHDI HASAN: So, you’re very faint to me. So, while I speak, if someone want to fix the volume in my ear. Let me answer your question about journalists.</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">It is an absolute tragedy and a scandal, what has happened to journalists in Gaza, that we have seen so many deaths in Gaza. And the real scandal, Amy, is that Western media, a lot of my colleagues here in the U.S. media, have not sounded the alarm, have not called out Israel for what it’s done. It’s outrageous that so many of our fellow colleagues can be killed in Gaza while reporting, while at home, losing family members, and yet there’s not a huge global outcry. When Wael al-Dahdouh, who we just saw on the screen, from Al Jazeera, loses his immediate family members and carries on reporting for Al Jazeera Arabic, why is he not on every front page in the world? Why is he not a hero? Why is he not sitting down with Oprah Winfrey? I feel like, you know, when Evan Gershkovich from The Wall Street Journal is wrongly imprisoned in Russia, we all campaign for Evan to be released. When Ukrainian journalists are killed, we all speak out and are angry about it. 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style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>Our mainstream media has almost returned to normal. After October 7, the board of Directors of XFINITY, DISNEY, AND WHOEVER OWNS CBS, had their meeting. The media would be controlled as always and the meeting was purely concerned with maintaining profit margin. Meanwhile, immediately NBC (Xfinity) took every reporter who knew what was really going on off the air (except Richard Engels </span><em>(his name sounds Jewish so maybe it won't hurt). Aipac, you know. </em><span>Fox has its own board and they will make their own decisions, probably also based on profit margins, but they can deal with that themselves. In other words (it's not my problem – talk to Fox). If they don't properly distort the news, viewers migrate to even more warped channels.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Ron DeSantis came up with some policies that DISNEY didn't like. Disney owns ABC. He never figured out why his polls went so low. BTW: in case you wonder, if you live in a large city, one that started television, you will notice that ABC always has a circle with a 7 in it. Ever wonder why? Yes, I'll tell you. Back then, the presumption was that the military would own channels one through six. ABC moved quickly as in the VHF band the lower the wavelength the greater the reach, and opted for Channel seven. Well, our military is not that into programming and, as idiocy faded a bit, channel 6 was put aside for FM broadcasting. When the channels started to get cluttered (we are still land-based now) VHF opened up. Fox had to settle for 32 in Chicago and there is no way the other stations will relent.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Now, however, Ted Turner in Atlanta, who inherited channel seventeen, started to use satellites and started CNN.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Well, jump forward, and we will come back to some of this in later editions when needed, but the capitalist juggernaut continued. The GigaCorporations had to maintain their profit margin, which meant they had to sell advertisements, and they were hampered, particularly at the largest level, by another commodity – the audience. Now to focus on the largest: MSNBS has the most educated and hence aware audience of all of them. It is that audience that the board has to sell to the advertisers, a prime audience. So, the concern is to retain as much of that audience as possible while not offending the profit margin. At first, this meant not showing scenes from Gaza nor commentary against Israel or our 4 billion a year gift to it. It also meant full support for Netenyahoo who wants to continue this war as long as possible to avoid indictments in their Supreme Court (which he was unable to dismantle). He is now so afraid of court that he will continue this aggression as long as he can. The board in charge of profit margin continues to monitor and as the more alert members of its audience become more anti-Israel and defiant of Biden, the coverage changes to keep that audience.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Fox's audience is the 'BOOBOISE', the mentality that enrolls in Trump University, build the wall, etc., smaller contributions and tennis shoes (now called 'sneakers') at $399/pair. That audience at the (sneaker-con?) showed a mixed reaction, of course. Not only does it mainly consider perfection as Michael Jordan but also much of it likes Taylor Swift.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">At any rate, that is the sort of values at work in the media. Further media articles will focus on individual topics and what other countries face with censorship.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Meanwhile, we need to see what happens with Assange. Didn't we used to have a First Amendment?</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">MEDIA SWALLOWED</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">BY</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Absurd Times</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>Well, I have had enough of this inane preoccupation with our MEDIA (SUCH AS IT IS) that further examination seems to reflect what a wise Professor of Political Science once said vociferously and often: </span><strong>WHO CARES</strong><span>?</span></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">I should wrap this up as quickly as possible by asking for help for a number of reliable (oh my) sources, but mainly my own observations.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Too many other events are going on to bother with this crap</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">---</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Russia: I'm told that all media is blocked or closely monitored.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">---</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Israel: I'm told that most Israelis have never seen coverage of the slaughter and disease in Gaza. Only idiotic stuff by younger IDF is seen.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Finally, an example of how it works: on an international source: A woman hostage was released to Israel, and she said "It was hell on earth. The motorcycle was horrific. It must be said, however, that once there we were treated and lived as well as our capturers. We ate the same food, and slept in the same conditions."</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">The same hostage's statement appeared in mainstream media in the U.S., but in a shorter version "It was hell on earth."</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Well, that's enough of that. 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auto;margin-bottom:0;max-width:100%!important;vertical-align:middle;width:auto!important"></a></td><td style="text-align:center"></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Illustration: Israel before 2000 — what is it like now?</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">MEDIA SERIES – WHY NOBODY HERE CAN KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">PRIME DIRECTIVE</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">MAINSTREAM UNITED STATES</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">by</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">ABSURD TIMES</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>Our mainstream media has almost returned to normal. After October 7, the board of Directors of XFINITY, DISNEY, AND WHOEVER OWNS CBS, had their meeting. The media would be controlled as always and the meeting was purely concerned with maintaining profit margin. Meanwhile, immediately NBC (Xfinity) took every reporter who knew what was really going on off the air (except Richard Engels </span><em>(his name sounds Jewish so maybe it won't hurt). Aipac, you know. </em><span>Fox has its own board and they will make their own decisions, probably also based on profit margins, but they can deal with that themselves. In other words (it's not my problem – talk to Fox).</span></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Ron DeSantis came up with some policies that DISNEY didn't like. Disney owns ABC. He never figured out why his polls went so low. BTW: in case you wonder, if you live in a large city, one that started television, you will notice that ABC always has a circle with a 7 in it. Ever wonder why? Yes, I'll tell you. Back then, the presumption was that the military would own channels one through six. ABC moved quickly as in the VHF band the lower the wavelength the greater the reach, and opted for Channel Seven. Well, our military is not that into programming, and, as idiocy faded a bit, channel 6 was put aside for FM broadcasting. When the channels started to get cluttered (we are still land-based now) VHF opened up. Fox had to settle for 32 in Chicago and there is no way the other stations will relent.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Now, however, Ted Turner in Atlanta, who inherited channel seventeen, started to use satellites and started CNN.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Well, jump forward, and we will come back to some of this in later editions when needed, but the capitalist juggernaut continued. The GigaCorporations had to maintain their profit margin, which meant they had to sell advertisements, and they were hampered, particularly at the largest level, by another commodity – the audience. Now to focus on the largest: MSNBS has the most educated and hence aware audience of all of them. It is that audience that the board has to sell to the advertisers, a prime audience. So, the concern is to retain as much of that audience as possible while not offending the profit margin. At first, this meant not showing scenes from Gaza nor commentary against Israel or our 4 billion a year gift to it. It also meant full support for Netenyahoo who wants to continue this war as long as possible to avoid indictments in their Supreme Court (which he was unable to dismantle). He is now so afraid of court that he will continue this aggression as long as he can. The board in charge of profit margin continues to monitor and as the more alert members of its audience become more anti-Israel and defiant of Biden, the coverage changes to keep that audience.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Fox's audience is the 'BOOBOISE', the mentality that enrolls in Trump University, build the wall, etc., smaller contributions and tennis shoes (now called 'sneakers') at $399/pair. That audience at the (sneaker-con?) showed a mixed reaction, of course. Not only does it mainly consider perfection as Michael Jordan but also much of it likes Taylor Swift.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">At any rate, that is the sort of value at work in the media. 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That's been taken care of and everything will come as future editions spit at media. The point is that this is the only place where media gets it right and that all other forms of media (save a few) simply serve another interest. </div><table role="presentation" width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td></td><td width="550"></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td align="left" width="550"><div style="font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 auto;max-width:550px;width:100%"><table role="presentation" width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td align="right" style="height:20px"><table role="presentation" width="auto" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="vertical-align:middle"><span style="color:rgb(128,128,128)!important;font-family:SF Pro Text,-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,Inter,Segoe UI,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,Segoe UI Symbol!important;font-size:13px!important;list-style:none;margin:0;text-decoration:unset"><a 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style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0;margin-top:0"><em><strong>THE ABSURD TIMES</strong></em></p><div style="font-size:16px;line-height:26px"></div><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">FATWAH FINALLY</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">BY</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">ABSURD TIMES</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Way too much is brewing out there, but I promised to communicate a few things about FATWAH and this is just get the damn thing outta what's left of my head after the idiotic claims of whomever wanted to claim GONZO. That's been taken care of and everything will come as future editions spit at media. The point is that this is the only place where media gets it right and that all other forms of media (save a few) simply serve another interest.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">First and foremost is to can the canard that WIKIPEDIA is somehow inferior. Truth is, it recognizedearly on that it made a few mistakes (chiefly iin assuming that everyone wanted information and gave them the opportunity so they used the chance to utter bulllshit.) Once Wiki realized this, they started to rectify things and now the crap is virtually gone and the links from there are golden sources.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Still, we are pure, so here you go on FATWAH:</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">What is the meaning of fatwah?</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>(Islam) </span><strong>a legal opinion or ruling issued by an Islamic scholar</strong><span>. type of: judgement, judgment, legal opinion, opinion.</span></p><div style="font-size:16px;line-height:26px"></div><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">SO – HERE IS ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT FATWAH! AS YOU CAN SEE, IT IS STILL AS CLEAR AS BOYLE LING WATER, THE GREAT CONSCIOUS – BUT YOU HAD A RIGHT TO ALL THERE IS TO UNDERSTAND.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">AFTER ALL THIS, WE CAN CLARIFY WHAT MEDIA IS AND THAT IS THE FOCUS IN THE FUTURE!</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><em><span>For the films, see </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/6de8cd40-e216-47fa-af85-d0a4bb944c47?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Fatwa (2006 film)</a><span> and </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/a2e9d353-67cd-4955-9616-adc2878e97cd?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Fatwa (2018 film)</a><span>.</span></em></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>Part of </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/328cfea2-df6c-4b78-b96f-2c73d32ca650?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">a series</a><span> on</span></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/5908605a-6f30-471d-b509-34a673029018?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Islam</a></p><div style="font-size:16px;line-height:26px"></div><div style="font-size:16px;line-height:26px"><div style="color:#404040;direction:ltr!important;display:block;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.5;margin:24px auto;max-width:560px;padding:32px;text-align:center;text-decoration:none"><div style="display:flex;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:22px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;margin-top:16px;max-width:384px;text-align:center;width:fit-content"><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"></p></div><div style="direction:ltr;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 1em"><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0;text-align:center"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/2/eyJlIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly9hYnN1cmR0aW1lczFjMi5zdWJzdGFjay5jb20vYWNjb3VudCIsInAiOjE0MTQ4MDMxNSwicyI6NDU2Mzk3LCJmIjpmYWxzZSwidSI6NDM4NDExNTAsImlhdCI6MTcwNzM0OTQyMCwiZXhwIjoxNzA5OTQxNDIwLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMCIsInN1YiI6ImxpbmstcmVkaXJlY3QifQ.BXMSG9cRB1DDdTvCLNN3aQ2YL2Ac4Kikhz-BxRfLzJA?" style="background:transparent;background-color:transparent;border:1px solid #00c2ff;border-radius:6px;box-sizing:border-box;color:#00c2ff;display:inline-block;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:14px;font-weight:600;height:auto;line-height:20px;margin:0 auto;opacity:1;outline:none;padding:12px 20px;text-align:center;text-decoration:none!important;white-space:nowrap" target="_blank"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_40,c_scale,f_png,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack.com%2Ficon%2FLucideCheck%3Fv%3D4%26height%3D40%26fill%3Dtransparent%26stroke%3D%252300C2FF%26strokeWidth%3D3.6" width="20" height="20" style="border:none!important;display:inline-block;height:auto;max-width:20px;vertical-align:middle" alt=""><span style="text-decoration:none">Subscribed</span></a></p></div></div></div><div style="font-size:16px;line-height:26px"><div style="display:flex;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:22px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;margin-top:16px;max-width:384px;text-align:center;width:fit-content"><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Thank you for reading AbsurdTimes's Newsletter. 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href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/385707cc-1aa9-4e17-bfbc-43d6dc6de4ce?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">UK</a><span>: </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/2d0492c8-f492-4961-a198-449c7227011c?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">/ˈfætwɑː/</a><span> </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/ac75922c-1eb9-464e-9d7f-35b1ea9f6d69?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">ⓘ</a><span> </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/8bd79f03-2a30-412f-a2da-76fa7ae140eb?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" 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href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/8aae9aaf-ad7c-426b-84a4-5ef8bb388477?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Faqih</a></em><span> (Islamic jurist) in response to a question posed by a private individual, judge or government.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/5ad16442-1fff-49cc-bd6d-c8e0abbcdc12?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[1]</a><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/097c3d60-70fc-48fc-a57a-ed1641714cc9?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[2]</a><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/6419414d-a18a-46af-8993-4d09ddc080b4?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[3]</a><span> A jurist issuing fatwas is called a </span><em><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/f5d06d42-ee10-4500-9d21-a82992e82fea?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">mufti</a></em><span>, and the act of issuing fatwas is called </span><em><strong>iftāʾ</strong></em><span>.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/5ad16442-1fff-49cc-bd6d-c8e0abbcdc12?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[1]</a><span> Fatwas have played an important role throughout Islamic history, taking on new forms in the modern era.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/ec443fc3-8f53-4eed-8eda-e8ba39a2cdc0?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[4]</a><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1a33ca02-083a-4613-8324-7442f654912a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[5]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>Resembling </span><em>jus respondendi</em><span> in </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/47c03ae0-cf6d-434c-98e3-434693692df7?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Roman law</a><span> and </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/bb71c2e4-7de2-4639-b067-5b3d20031517?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">rabbinic </a><em><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/bb71c2e4-7de2-4639-b067-5b3d20031517?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">responsa</a></em><span>, privately issued fatwas historically served to inform Muslim populations about Islam, advise courts on difficult points of Islamic law, and elaborate substantive law.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/ec443fc3-8f53-4eed-8eda-e8ba39a2cdc0?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[4]</a><span> In later times, public and political fatwas were issued to take a stand on doctrinal controversies, legitimize government policies or articulate grievances of the population.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/01558b06-c3ea-4d18-95b8-a2698ea93fbb?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[6]</a><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1a33ca02-083a-4613-8324-7442f654912a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[5]</a><span> During the era of </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/5221eee9-9a1c-4a2f-af3e-8e872857ddee?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">European colonialism</a><span>, fatwas played a part in mobilizing resistance to foreign domination.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1a33ca02-083a-4613-8324-7442f654912a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[5]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/f5d06d42-ee10-4500-9d21-a82992e82fea?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Muftis</a><span> acted as independent scholars in the classical legal system.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/ec443fc3-8f53-4eed-8eda-e8ba39a2cdc0?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[4]</a><span> Over the centuries, </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/859cebed-4a93-464b-b3f0-9a9ae1c7f144?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Sunni</a><span> muftis were gradually incorporated into state bureaucracies, while </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/dea9d470-1930-47ca-85cb-a281fd9e1e1f?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Shia</a><span> jurists in Iran progressively asserted an autonomous authority starting from the </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/cfbcfe08-280c-4c15-8359-75edad87d67e?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">early modern era</a><span>.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1a33ca02-083a-4613-8324-7442f654912a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[5]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>In the modern era, fatwas have reflected changing economic, social and political circumstances, and addressed concerns arising in varied Muslim communities.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1a33ca02-083a-4613-8324-7442f654912a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[5]</a><span> The spread of codified state laws and Western-style legal education in the modern Muslim world has displaced muftis from their traditional role of clarifying and elaborating the laws applied in courts.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/5ad16442-1fff-49cc-bd6d-c8e0abbcdc12?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[1]</a><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/ec443fc3-8f53-4eed-8eda-e8ba39a2cdc0?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[4]</a><span> Instead, modern fatwas have increasingly served to advise the general public on other aspects of sharia, particularly questions regarding religious rituals and everyday life.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/5ad16442-1fff-49cc-bd6d-c8e0abbcdc12?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[1]</a><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/9a6eb493-0264-403c-9285-a0865641bab3?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[7]</a><span> Modern public fatwas have addressed and sometimes sparked controversies in the Muslim world, and some fatwas in recent decades have gained worldwide notoriety.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1a33ca02-083a-4613-8324-7442f654912a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[5]</a><span> The legal methodology of modern </span><em>ifta</em><span> often diverges from pre-modern practice, particularly so in the West.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/6419414d-a18a-46af-8993-4d09ddc080b4?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[3]</a><span> Emergence of modern media and universal education has transformed the traditional institution of </span><em>ifta</em><span> in various ways.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1a33ca02-083a-4613-8324-7442f654912a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[5]</a><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/9a6eb493-0264-403c-9285-a0865641bab3?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[7]</a><span> While the proliferation of contemporary fatwas attests to the importance of Islamic authenticity to many Muslims, little research has been done to determine how much these fatwas affect the beliefs or behavior of the Muslim public.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/6419414d-a18a-46af-8993-4d09ddc080b4?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[3]</a></p><h2 style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:'SF Compact Display',-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:1.625em;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.16em;margin:1em 0 0.625em 0"><span>Terminology[</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/34eeb297-aa17-451c-a2a7-19e95a6f973c?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">edit</a><span>]</span></h2><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>The word </span><em>fatwa</em><span> comes from the Arabic root </span><em>f-t-w</em><span>, whose meanings include 'youth, newness, clarification, explanation'.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/ec443fc3-8f53-4eed-8eda-e8ba39a2cdc0?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[4]</a><span> A number of terms related to </span><em>fatwa</em><span> derive from the same root. A jurist issuing fatwas is called a </span><em><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/f5d06d42-ee10-4500-9d21-a82992e82fea?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">mufti</a></em><span>. The person who asks for a fatwa is known as </span><em>mustafti</em><span>. The act of issuing fatwas is called </span><em>iftāʾ</em><span>.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/5ad16442-1fff-49cc-bd6d-c8e0abbcdc12?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[1]</a><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1a33ca02-083a-4613-8324-7442f654912a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[5]</a><span> The term </span><em>futyā</em><span> refers to soliciting and issuing fatwas.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/b400786a-8de0-40cf-b5fd-60cc26b1fdcc?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[8]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>In older English language works the spelling </span><em><strong>fetva</strong></em><span>, from Turkish, is used, relating to the </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/f2b04fe0-d214-415d-96de-c43db2abde48?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Ottoman Empire</a><span>.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1f455a4a-b0e3-4794-a8de-b8fbbb32a8f3?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[9]</a></p><h2 style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:'SF Compact Display',-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:1.625em;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.16em;margin:1em 0 0.625em 0"><span>Origins[</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/2b338999-bc29-4bb8-a5e6-2ad1e839f382?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">edit</a><span>]</span></h2><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>The origins of the </span><em>fatwa</em><span> can be traced back to the </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/4f111173-17f6-40cd-8f20-0650257e3960?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Quran</a><span>. On a number of occasions, the Quranic text instructs the Islamic prophet </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1765d5c6-83ef-4f8e-9277-b9c9407cd335?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Muhammad</a><span> how to respond to questions from his followers regarding religious and social practices. Several of these verses begin with the phrase "When they ask you concerning ..., say ..." In two cases (4:127, 4:176) this is expressed with verbal forms of the root </span><em>f-t-y</em><span>, which signify asking for or giving an authoritative answer. In the </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/25e50ddb-81a2-43d4-b18f-4c28bcac09bf?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">hadith</a><span> literature, this three-way relationship between God, Muhammad, and believers, is typically replaced by a two-way consultation, in which Muhammad replies directly to queries from his </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/8a874d3d-6d8e-4be1-9747-98a6b8aa008d?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Companions</a><span> (</span><em>sahaba</em><span>).</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/0e493870-6d3e-47d1-9115-9c8e70806391?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[10]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>According to Islamic doctrine, with Muhammad's death in 632, God ceased to communicate with mankind through revelation and prophets. At that point, the rapidly expanding Muslim community turned to Muhammad's Companions, as the most authoritative voices among them, for religious guidance, and some of them are reported to have issued pronouncements on a wide range of subjects. The generation of Companions was in turn replaced in that role by the generation of </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/8b9812a4-06ef-4794-91ab-f4f276448809?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Successors</a><span> (</span><em>tabi'un</em><span>).</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/0e493870-6d3e-47d1-9115-9c8e70806391?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[10]</a><span> The concept of fatwa thus developed in Islamic communities under a question-and-answer format for communicating religious knowledge, and took on its definitive form with development of the classical </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1486c531-7bed-42b7-8015-6df6e885249c?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">theory of Islamic law</a><span>.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/ec443fc3-8f53-4eed-8eda-e8ba39a2cdc0?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[4]</a></p><h2 style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:'SF Compact Display',-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:1.625em;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.16em;margin:1em 0 0.625em 0"><span>In pre-modern Islam[</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/c40d3076-0218-46a7-bf43-54cae52097c4?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">edit</a><span>]</span></h2><h3 style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:'SF Compact Display',-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:1.375em;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.16em;margin:1em 0 0.625em 0"><strong>Process of </strong><em><strong>iftāʾ</strong></em><span>[</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/8cecb3b2-4e65-4829-9dcc-e3905411d1ee?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">edit</a><span>]</span></h3><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Turkish mufti (1687 engraving)</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>The legal theory of the fatwa was formulated in the classical texts of </span><em><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/dedfaacb-fc4f-4557-9e56-f56af65ba872?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">usul al-fiqh</a></em><span> (principles of jurisprudence), while more practical guidelines for muftis were found in manuals called </span><em>adab al-mufti</em><span> or </span><em>adab al-fatwa</em><span> (etiquette of the mufti/fatwa).</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/9a6eb493-0264-403c-9285-a0865641bab3?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[7]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>Fatwas are issued in response to a query.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/6419414d-a18a-46af-8993-4d09ddc080b4?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[3]</a><span> They can range from a simple yes/no answer to a book-length treatise.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/5ad16442-1fff-49cc-bd6d-c8e0abbcdc12?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[1]</a><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1a33ca02-083a-4613-8324-7442f654912a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[5]</a><span> A short fatwa may state a well-known point of law in response to a question from a lay person, while a "major" fatwa may give a judgment on an unprecedented case, detailing the legal reasoning behind the decision.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/5ad16442-1fff-49cc-bd6d-c8e0abbcdc12?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[1]</a><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1a33ca02-083a-4613-8324-7442f654912a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[5]</a><span> Queries to muftis were supposed to address real and not hypothetical situations and be formulated in general terms, leaving out names of places and people. Since a mufti was not supposed to inquire into the situation beyond the information included in the query, queries regarding contentious matters were often carefully constructed to elicit the desired response.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/01558b06-c3ea-4d18-95b8-a2698ea93fbb?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[6]</a><span> A mufti's understanding of the query commonly depended on their familiarity with local customs and colloquialisms. In theory, if the query was unclear or not sufficiently detailed for a ruling, the mufti was supposed to state these caveats in their response.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/01558b06-c3ea-4d18-95b8-a2698ea93fbb?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[6]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>Fatwas were solicited by men and women from all social classes. A mufti could be an obscure scholar, who occasionally replied to queries from people in his neighborhood, or, at the other extreme, a famous jurist or a powerful state official. The level of technical detail supplied in a fatwa, such as citations of sources or specification of legal methodologies employed, depended on the technical level of the petitioner.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/01558b06-c3ea-4d18-95b8-a2698ea93fbb?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[6]</a><span> In theory, a petitioner was supposed to verify the mufti's scholarly reputation, but mufti manuals (</span><em>adab al-mufti</em><span>) recognized that it would be difficult for a lay person to do so, and advised the petitioner to trust their sense of the mufti's piety and ideally follow the advice of a single scholar known for exemplary morals.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/01558b06-c3ea-4d18-95b8-a2698ea93fbb?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[6]</a><span> The mufti was often a well-known figure in his neighborhood. Some petitioners could choose among several local muftis, while others had to or chose to travel to receive a fatwa.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/01558b06-c3ea-4d18-95b8-a2698ea93fbb?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[6]</a><span> Judges commonly sent letters to solicit fatwas from prominent jurists in another town or even country.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/18096f93-b2b0-44f6-8f2e-8fce601c7d4f?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[11]</a><span> Sunni legal theory generally permits the petioner to obtain a fatwa from multiple jurists on the same query, provided that it addresses a real and not hypothetical situation.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/5ad16442-1fff-49cc-bd6d-c8e0abbcdc12?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[1]</a><span> Some petitioners sought out a second fatwa because they were unsatisfied with the first, and the two sides in a legal dispute generally each sought to obtain a fatwa that would support their position.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/01558b06-c3ea-4d18-95b8-a2698ea93fbb?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[6]</a><span> Muftis often consulted another mufti on difficult cases, though this practice was not foreseen by legal theory, which saw </span><em>futya</em><span> as a transaction between one qualified jurist and one "unqualified" petitioner.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/a12f54c9-5e6d-4ba7-a3b4-775143695ab4?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[12]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>In theory, a mufti was expected to issue fatwas free of charge. In practice, muftis commonly received support from the public treasury, public endowments or private donations. Taking of bribes was forbidden.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/0e493870-6d3e-47d1-9115-9c8e70806391?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[10]</a><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/01558b06-c3ea-4d18-95b8-a2698ea93fbb?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[6]</a><span> Until the 11th or 12th century, the vast majority of jurists held other jobs to support themselves. These were generally lower- and middle-class professions such as tanning, manuscript copying or small trade.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/36b9b342-3056-4568-a1ad-6b8458f41d83?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[13]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>In theory, fatwas could be delivered orally or in writing, but it is not clear how common oral fatwas were, aside from those issued by an Ottoman office established specifically for the purpose of issuing oral fatwas. Many routine, written fatwas were delivered directly to the petitioner on the piece of paper containing the query, leaving no documentary trace. However, large collections of ordinary fatwas are preserved in Ottoman and Indian archives.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/01558b06-c3ea-4d18-95b8-a2698ea93fbb?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[6]</a><span> Mufti manuals contained a number of regulations about the standard format of a fatwa, such as avoiding blank space that could be used for a spurious addition and concluding the fatwa with an expression like </span><em>allahu a'lam</em><span> (God knows best). Nonetheless, fatwas took on a variety of forms depending on the local legal culture.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/01558b06-c3ea-4d18-95b8-a2698ea93fbb?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[6]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>The 14th century jurist </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/60a3829f-d9e4-4c95-bc8e-7af826b482bb?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Taqi al-Din Ibn Taymiyya</a><span> was known for his methodology of issuing </span><em>fatwas</em><span> through direct research of the </span><em><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/4f111173-17f6-40cd-8f20-0650257e3960?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Qur'an</a></em><span> and </span><em><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/25e50ddb-81a2-43d4-b18f-4c28bcac09bf?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Hadith</a></em><span>, rather than being restrained by the mechanism of the </span><em><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/9acf45e1-4761-45dd-9f43-f71d9249c5f9?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">madhhabs</a></em><span> (legal schools). Explaining Ibn Taymiyya's approach to issue </span><em>fatwas</em><span>, his student </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/9bd956a1-6d69-428c-9552-039b42cd000b?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Al-Dhahabi</a><span> writes:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left:4px solid #00c2ff;margin:20px 0;padding:0"><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0;margin-left:20px"><span>"He was well informed of the legal views of the [Prophet's] </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/0462c1b6-8591-4296-8fd5-44416e291d38?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">companions</a><span> and their </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/3cb6334b-b2c4-4289-a135-45ad1ba59be5?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">followers</a><span>, and he rarely talked about a subject without quoting the four schools of the imams. Yet, he contradicted the four schools in well-known matters about which he wrote and for which provided arguments from the Koran and the Sunna. He has compiled a work entitled </span><em>Politics According to Divine Law for Establishing Order for Sovereign and Subjects</em><span> and a book [called] </span><em>Removing the Reproach from the Learned Imams</em><span>.... For some years now he has not issued </span><em>fatwas</em><span> (legal opinions) according to a specific school, rather he bases these on the proof he has ascertained himself. He supported the pure </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/293b8b4d-68e8-45a2-97b1-abdf3e1d2d51?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Sunna</a><span> and the way of </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/59739671-b7fc-4b0e-9f97-821657c8148c?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Salafiyah</a><span>".</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/dd08f7ab-db0f-41d7-9f84-a1e42f52cbc0?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[14]</a></p></blockquote><h3 style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:'SF Compact Display',-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:1.375em;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.16em;margin:1em 0 0.625em 0"><strong>Role of fatwas</strong><span>[</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1266de58-fd43-4ab7-8a40-9b7072a0bb17?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">edit</a><span>]</span></h3><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>The classical institution of fatwa is similar to </span><em>jus respondendi</em><span> in </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/47c03ae0-cf6d-434c-98e3-434693692df7?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Roman law</a><span> and the </span><em><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/67563163-6600-4293-ab0a-9d5310709e67?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">responsa</a></em><span> in </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/c15b1b82-5ac0-4d6c-8ffc-cbc5138c912a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Jewish law</a><span>.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/01558b06-c3ea-4d18-95b8-a2698ea93fbb?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[6]</a><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/097c3d60-70fc-48fc-a57a-ed1641714cc9?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[2]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Fatwas have played three important roles in the classical legal system:</p><ul style="margin-top:0;padding:0"><li style="margin:8px 0 0 32px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-left:4px"><span>managing information about Islam by providing legal advice to Muslim populations as well as counseling them in matters of ritual and ethics;</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/ec443fc3-8f53-4eed-8eda-e8ba39a2cdc0?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[4]</a><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/01558b06-c3ea-4d18-95b8-a2698ea93fbb?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[6]</a></p></li><li style="margin:8px 0 0 32px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-left:4px"><span>advising courts of law on finer points of Islamic law, in response to queries from judges;</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/ec443fc3-8f53-4eed-8eda-e8ba39a2cdc0?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[4]</a><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1a33ca02-083a-4613-8324-7442f654912a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[5]</a></p></li><li style="margin:8px 0 0 32px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-left:4px"><span>elaborating substantive Islamic law, particularly though a genre of legal literature developed by author-jurists who collected fatwas of prominent muftis and integrated them into books.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/ec443fc3-8f53-4eed-8eda-e8ba39a2cdc0?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[4]</a><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/01558b06-c3ea-4d18-95b8-a2698ea93fbb?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[6]</a></p></li></ul><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>Before the rise of modern education, the study of law was a centerpiece of advanced education in the Islamic world. A relatively small class of legal scholars controlled the interpretation of sharia on a wide range of questions essential to the society, ranging from ritual to finance. It was considered a requirement for qualified jurists to communicate their knowledge through teaching or issuing fatwas. The ideal mufti was conceived as an individual of scholarly accomplishments and exemplary morals, and muftis were generally approached with the respect and deference corresponding to these expectations.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/01558b06-c3ea-4d18-95b8-a2698ea93fbb?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[6]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Page from a compilation of fatwas from Safavid Persia, late 17th century</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>Judges generally sought an opinion from a mufti with higher scholarly authority than themselves for difficult cases or potentially controversial verdicts.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/5ad16442-1fff-49cc-bd6d-c8e0abbcdc12?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[1]</a><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/b400786a-8de0-40cf-b5fd-60cc26b1fdcc?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[8]</a><span> Fatwas were routinely upheld in courts, and if a fatwa was disregarded, it was usually because another fatwa supporting a different position was judged to be more convincing. If a party in a dispute was not able to obtain a fatwa supporting their position, they would be unlikely to pursue their case in court, opting for informal mediation instead, or abandoning their claim altogether.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/49a0d9d6-e509-44c3-8fb5-b06393ea016a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[15]</a><span> Sometimes muftis could be petitioned for a fatwa relating to a court judgment that has already been passed, acting as an informal appeals process, but the extent of this practice and its mechanism varied across history.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/b9750d5c-32ab-4f63-8758-ae980970b009?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[16]</a><span> While in most of the Islamic world judges were not required to consult muftis by any political authority, in </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/08d437af-8ddd-41c0-8c7c-1f881e00c66b?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Muslim Spain</a><span> this practice was mandatory, so that a judicial decision was considered invalid without prior approval by a legal specialist.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/841ec4a9-8850-4cc5-997f-9e550f1b4bda?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[17]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>Author-jurists collected fatwas by muftis of high scholarly reputation and abstracted them into concise formulations of legal norms that could be used by judges, giving a summary of jurisprudence for a particular </span><em><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/9acf45e1-4761-45dd-9f43-f71d9249c5f9?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">madhhab</a></em><span> (legal school).</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/ec443fc3-8f53-4eed-8eda-e8ba39a2cdc0?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[4]</a><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/49a0d9d6-e509-44c3-8fb5-b06393ea016a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[15]</a><span> Author-jurists sought out fatwas that reflected the social conditions of their time and place, often opting for later </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/689da055-e988-4c8c-8413-ad1df02c8998?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">legal opinions</a><span> which were at variance with the doctrine of early authorities.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/49a0d9d6-e509-44c3-8fb5-b06393ea016a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[15]</a><span> Research by </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/c8a06a9f-386e-4250-ab3b-816b308919f1?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Wael Hallaq</a><span> and Baber Johansen has shown that fatwa compilations could, and sometimes did, have a significant impact on the development of Islamic law.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/ab3f3318-1be9-429c-851f-63354a3c4f7a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[18]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>During the early centuries of Islam, the roles of mufti, author-jurist and judge were not mutually exclusive. A jurist could lead a teaching circle, conduct a fatwa session, and adjudicate court cases in a single day, devoting his night hours to writing a legal treatise. Those who were able to act in all four capacities were regarded as the most accomplished jurists.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/36b9b342-3056-4568-a1ad-6b8458f41d83?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[13]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>From the standpoint of morality and religious obligation, the term </span><em>fatwa</em><span> has been contrasted with </span><em>taqwa</em><span> (piety, fear of God), particularly in Sufi literature. Fatwas may allow a choice between lenient and strict interpretation of </span><em>sharia</em><span> on a certain matter, or they may employ legalistic stratagems (</span><em>hiyal</em><span>) to circumvent a stricter interpretation, while such strategies may not be acceptable from the standpoint of </span><em>taqwa</em><span>.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/ec443fc3-8f53-4eed-8eda-e8ba39a2cdc0?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[4]</a></p><h3 style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:'SF Compact Display',-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:1.375em;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.16em;margin:1em 0 0.625em 0"><strong>Qualifications of a mufti</strong><span>[</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/0245c584-b06a-41da-801a-fbc22933d4a1?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">edit</a><span>]</span></h3><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>The basic prerequisite for issuing fatwas under the classical legal theory was religious knowledge and piety. According to the </span><em>adab al-mufti</em><span> manuals, a mufti must be an adult, Muslim, trusted and reliable, of good character and sound mind, an alert and rigorous thinker, trained as a jurist, and not a sinner.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/0e493870-6d3e-47d1-9115-9c8e70806391?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[10]</a><span> On a practical level, the stature of muftis derived from their reputation for scholarly expertise and upright character.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/5ad16442-1fff-49cc-bd6d-c8e0abbcdc12?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[1]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>According to legal theory, it was up to each mufti to decide when he was ready to practice. In practice, an aspiring jurist would normally study for several years with one or several recognized scholars, following a curriculum that included Arabic grammar, hadith, law and other religious sciences. The teacher would decide when the student was ready to issue fatwas by giving him a certificate (</span><em><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/14e40e5c-0ff0-407a-afa4-2e188f5705e1?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">ijaza</a></em><span>).</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/b9750d5c-32ab-4f63-8758-ae980970b009?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[16]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>During the first centuries of Islam, it was assumed that a mufti was a </span><em>mujtahid</em><span>, i.e., a jurist who is capable of deriving legal rulings directly from the scriptural sources through independent reasoning (</span><em><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/86b719dd-4573-4f3c-9459-a6f92e2c099c?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">ijtihad</a></em><span>), evaluating the reliability of hadith and applying or even developing the appropriate legal methodologies. Starting from around 1200 CE, legal theorists began to accept that muftis of their time may not possess the knowledge and legal skill to perform this activity. In addition, it was felt that the major question of jurisprudence had already been addressed by master jurists of earlier times, so that later muftis only had to follow the legal opinions established within their legal school (</span><em><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/3782ab6c-1825-49e0-be01-4fdb043b96d2?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">taqlid</a></em><span>). At that point, the notions of </span><em>mufti</em><span> and </span><em>mujtahid</em><span> became distinguished, and legal theorists classified jurists into three or more levels of competence.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/18e64a90-6676-422e-bc5b-5923aec27e82?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[19]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>Among </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/2ecdf5a7-1b27-4daf-889d-aa7058707d7a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Twelver Shia</a><span>, the </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/75892b16-0ae0-4bd8-b485-cfde7564e697?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Akhbari</a><span> school of jurisprudence, which was predominant for a time during the early modern era, hold a different view on </span><em>ifta</em><span> from the currently predominant </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/2646e1cf-0ee2-4d10-b3df-465e687f4332?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Usuli</a><span> school. According to the Usulis, fatwas can be based on valid conjecture (</span><em>zann</em><span>) arrived through </span><em>ijtihad</em><span>, and every Muslim who is not qualified to be a </span><em>mujtahid</em><span> should become a follower (</span><em>muqallid</em><span>) of a </span><em>mujtahid</em><span>. In contrast, Akhbaris hold that all Shia Muslims must be </span><em>muqallids</em><span> of the </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/065386c9-6f8c-4003-9a26-f076e9507677?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Twelve Imams</a><span>, and that fatwas should reflect only knowledge that is certain (</span><em>qatʿ</em><span>) and based on the traditions of the Imams.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/b82a7e42-9a1c-425f-bb1b-a828c75f0ccd?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[20]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>Unlike the post of </span><em>qadi</em><span>, which is reserved for men in the classical sharia system, fatwas could be issued by qualified women as well as men.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/097c3d60-70fc-48fc-a57a-ed1641714cc9?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[2]</a><span> In practice, the vast majority of jurists who completed the lengthy curriculum in linguistic and religious sciences required to obtain the qualification to issue fatwas were men.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/5ad16442-1fff-49cc-bd6d-c8e0abbcdc12?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[1]</a><span> Slaves and persons who were blind or mute were likewise theoretically barred from the post of a judge, but not that of mufti.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/0e493870-6d3e-47d1-9115-9c8e70806391?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[10]</a></p><h3 style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:'SF Compact Display',-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:1.375em;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.16em;margin:1em 0 0.625em 0"><strong>Fatwa vs. court judgment</strong><span>[</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/93512a88-9357-4899-ac3f-f7d5b7ef84ed?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">edit</a><span>]</span></h3><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>The mufti and the judge play different roles in the classical sharia system, with corresponding differences between a fatwa and a </span><em><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/40bc0153-51e1-497a-aea5-98c37ec08b55?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">qada</a></em><span> (court decision):</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0;padding:0"><li style="margin:8px 0 0 32px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-left:4px"><span>A fatwa is nonbinding (unless issued by a government judge in an </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/22b976f6-3921-4e60-8543-17714d054f90?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Islamic state</a><span>), while a court decision is binding and enforceable.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/5ad16442-1fff-49cc-bd6d-c8e0abbcdc12?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[1]</a><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/ec443fc3-8f53-4eed-8eda-e8ba39a2cdc0?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[4]</a></p></li><li style="margin:8px 0 0 32px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-left:4px"><span>A fatwa may deal with rituals, ethical questions, religious doctrines and sometimes even philosophical issues, while court cases dealt with legal matters in the narrow sense.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/ec443fc3-8f53-4eed-8eda-e8ba39a2cdc0?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[4]</a><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/5ad16442-1fff-49cc-bd6d-c8e0abbcdc12?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[1]</a></p></li><li style="margin:8px 0 0 32px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-left:4px"><span>The authority of a court judgment applies only to the specific court case, while a fatwa applies to all cases that fit the premises of the query.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/01558b06-c3ea-4d18-95b8-a2698ea93fbb?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[6]</a></p></li><li style="margin:8px 0 0 32px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-left:4px"><span>A fatwa is made on the basis of information provided in the request, while a judge actively investigates the facts of the case.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/5ad16442-1fff-49cc-bd6d-c8e0abbcdc12?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[1]</a><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/01558b06-c3ea-4d18-95b8-a2698ea93fbb?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[6]</a></p></li><li style="margin:8px 0 0 32px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-left:4px"><span>A judge evaluates rival claims of two parties in a dispute in order to reach a verdict, while a fatwa is made on the basis of information provided by a single petitioner.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/5ad16442-1fff-49cc-bd6d-c8e0abbcdc12?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[1]</a><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/01558b06-c3ea-4d18-95b8-a2698ea93fbb?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[6]</a></p></li><li style="margin:8px 0 0 32px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-left:4px"><span>Fatwas by prominent jurists were collected in books as sources of precedent, while court decisions were recorded in court registers, but not otherwise disseminated.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/5ad16442-1fff-49cc-bd6d-c8e0abbcdc12?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[1]</a><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/01558b06-c3ea-4d18-95b8-a2698ea93fbb?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[6]</a></p></li><li style="margin:8px 0 0 32px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-left:4px"><span>While both muftis and judges were interpreters of sharia, judicial interpretation centered on evaluating evidence such as testimony and oath, while a mufti investigated textual sources of law (scripture and legal literature).</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/01558b06-c3ea-4d18-95b8-a2698ea93fbb?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[6]</a></p></li><li style="margin:8px 0 0 32px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-left:4px"><span>In the classical legal system, judges were civil servants appointed by the ruler, while muftis were private scholars and not appointed officials.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/6419414d-a18a-46af-8993-4d09ddc080b4?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[3]</a></p></li></ul><h3 style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:'SF Compact Display',-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:1.375em;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.16em;margin:1em 0 0.625em 0"><strong>Institutions</strong><span>[</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/8719c5cb-3832-4803-a95c-a6bfe69db2b2?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">edit</a><span>]</span></h3><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>Before the 11th century CE, anyone who possessed scholarly recognition as an Islamic jurist could issue fatwas. Starting around that time, however, the public office of mufti began to appear alongside the private issuing of fatwas. In </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/eee0b005-abc9-40a7-bc5f-ce778572c130?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Khurasan</a><span>, the rulers appointed a head of the local ulama, called </span><em><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/27e63e61-ccaa-40b1-b9dd-6ab309cc64b3?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">shaykh al-Islam</a></em><span>, who also functioned as the chief mufti. The </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/f083f1d9-c47e-4fb4-ae90-6ed4ea85bb7c?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Mamluks</a><span> appointed four muftis, one for each of the four Sunni madhhabs, to appellate courts in provincial capitals. The Ottomans organized muftis into a hierarchical bureaucracy with a chief mufti of the empire called </span><em>shaykh al-islam</em><span> at the top. The Ottoman </span><em>shaykh al-Islam</em><span> (Turk. </span><em>şeyhülislam</em><span>), was among the most powerful state officials.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/01558b06-c3ea-4d18-95b8-a2698ea93fbb?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[6]</a><span> Scribes reviewed queries directed to Ottoman muftis and rewrote them to facilitate issuing of fatwas.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/01558b06-c3ea-4d18-95b8-a2698ea93fbb?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[6]</a><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1a33ca02-083a-4613-8324-7442f654912a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[5]</a><span> In </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/f8b25e71-fa71-4ad7-acb4-b6af8d53a360?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Mughal India</a><span> and </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/fe2009e3-0c84-4426-80f1-38432bbe51f5?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Safavid Iran</a><span> the chief mufti had the title of </span><em>sadr</em><span>.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1a33ca02-083a-4613-8324-7442f654912a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[5]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/8cef6076-2d49-46d4-a756-c42324aefbef?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Ulugh Beg Madrasa, Samarkand</a><span> (est. 1422)</span></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>For the first few centuries of Islam, muftis were educated in informal study circles, but beginning in the 11th and 12th centuries, the ruling elites began to establish institutions of higher religious learning known as </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/16b1da5c-e06a-4525-9a2c-fe0cddd1d4a7?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">madrasas</a><span> in an effort to secure support and cooperation of the </span><em><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/9c47a929-d057-4fe0-8242-8670ded0cf14?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">ulema</a></em><span> (religious scholars). Madrasas, which were primarily devoted to the study of law, soon multiplied throughout the Islamic world, helping to spread Islamic learning beyond urban centers and to unite diverse Islamic communities in a shared cultural project.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/49fcb190-1aa9-4ebc-9733-e1befde10244?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[21]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>In some states, such as Muslim Spain, muftis were assigned to courts in advisory roles. In Muslim Spain jurists also sat on a </span><em><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/ddb74505-3cc2-4041-8bd5-0c801b69965c?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">shura</a></em><span> (council) advising the ruler. Muftis were additionally appointed to other public functions, such as </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/95072fa9-3f0a-4695-a111-fb54fe10f853?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">market inspectors</a><span>.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/ec443fc3-8f53-4eed-8eda-e8ba39a2cdc0?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[4]</a></p><h4 style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:'SF Compact Display',-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:1.125em;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.16em;margin:1em 0 0.625em 0"><strong>In Shia Islam</strong><span>[</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/d04e4b5d-815d-4e33-8fa1-2a2bc5f93997?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">edit</a><span>]</span></h4><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>While the office of the mufti was gradually subsumed into the state bureaucracy in much of the Sunni Muslim world, Shia religious establishment followed a different path in Iran starting from the early modern era. During Safavid rule, independent Islamic jurists (</span><em>mujtahids</em><span>) claimed the authority to represent the </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/704780b1-934a-4047-8ac4-e5c5632b909c?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">hidden imam</a><span>. Under the Usuli doctrine that prevailed among Twelver Shias in the 18th century and under the </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/c520c92f-9972-41db-a02b-e73fe03e3b29?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Qajar dynasty</a><span>, the </span><em>mujtahids</em><span> further claimed to act collectively as deputies of the imam. According to this doctrine, every Muslim is supposed to choose and follow a high-ranking living </span><em>mujtahid</em><span> bearing the title of </span><em><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/762c5191-bb45-4b3b-846e-eaf9bfdec2de?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">marja' al-taqlid</a></em><span>, whose fatwas are considered binding, unlike fatwas in Sunni Islam. Thus, in contrast to Sunni muftis, Shia </span><em>mujtahids</em><span> gradually achieved increasing independence from the state.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1a33ca02-083a-4613-8324-7442f654912a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[5]</a></p><h3 style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:'SF Compact Display',-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:1.375em;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.16em;margin:1em 0 0.625em 0"><strong>Public and political fatwas</strong><span>[</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/b465b3d1-04be-45ce-b5e8-e7cd069119d0?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">edit</a><span>]</span></h3><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>While most fatwas were delivered to an individual or a judge, some fatwas that were public or political in nature played an important role in religious legitimation, doctrinal disputes, political criticism, or political mobilization. As muftis were progressively incorporated into government bureaucracies in the course of Islamic history, they were often expected to support government policies. Ottoman sultans regularly sought fatwas from the chief mufti for administrative and military initiatives, including fatwas sanctioning </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/4c7f3259-3f2b-47ab-84aa-6cfbc73ae416?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">jihad</a><span> against </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/f083f1d9-c47e-4fb4-ae90-6ed4ea85bb7c?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Mamluk Egypt</a><span> and Safavid Iran.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/5ad16442-1fff-49cc-bd6d-c8e0abbcdc12?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[1]</a><span> Fatwas by the Ottoman chief mufti were also solicited by the rulers to lend religious legitimacy to new social and economic practices, such as financial and penal laws enacted outside of sharia, printing of nonreligious books (1727) and vaccination (1845).</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1a33ca02-083a-4613-8324-7442f654912a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[5]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>At other times muftis wielded their influence independently of the ruler, and several sultans in Morocco and the Ottoman Empire were dethroned as a result of fatwas issued by influential jurists.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/5ad16442-1fff-49cc-bd6d-c8e0abbcdc12?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[1]</a><span> This happened, for example, to the Ottoman sultan </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/ee2a4dfb-ffd7-4b48-8acc-dadaa60c3dcd?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Murad V</a><span> on the grounds of his insanity.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1a33ca02-083a-4613-8324-7442f654912a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[5]</a><span> Public fatwas were also used to dispute doctrinal matters, and in some case to proclaim that certain groups or individuals who professed to be Muslim were to be excluded from the </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/6c9d8597-e9aa-4e3e-a5bc-15b7967559eb?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Islamic community</a><span> (a practice known as </span><em><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/b7e476dd-91cf-476a-a82a-7b3f8532c1b3?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">takfir</a></em><span>).</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/5ad16442-1fff-49cc-bd6d-c8e0abbcdc12?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[1]</a><span> In both political and scholarly sphere, doctrinal controversies between different states, denominations or centers of learning were accompanied by dueling fatwas.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/01558b06-c3ea-4d18-95b8-a2698ea93fbb?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[6]</a><span> Muftis also acted to counteract the influence of judges and secular functionaries. By articulating grievances and legal rights of the population, public fatwas often prompted an otherwise unresponsive court system to provide redress.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1a33ca02-083a-4613-8324-7442f654912a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[5]</a></p><h2 style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:'SF Compact Display',-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:1.625em;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.16em;margin:1em 0 0.625em 0"><span>In the modern era[</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/dcae84bd-e453-4bf0-bf62-3ffd47745d00?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">edit</a><span>]</span></h2><h3 style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:'SF Compact Display',-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:1.375em;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.16em;margin:1em 0 0.625em 0"><strong>Anti-colonial fatwas</strong><span>[</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/a08342d3-32f0-4e7f-939d-ac5954b0b9e3?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">edit</a><span>]</span></h3><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/d8bfdbf2-452f-4798-b5ae-eb2ffffcb72d?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Tobacco protest</a><span> fatwa issued by </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/ed844bf5-8faa-42dc-887b-86bcfe5ff733?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Mirza Shirazi</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>Early in the era of </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/cf4a5841-ecd6-4bac-b3c3-97da30d1606c?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Western colonialism</a><span>, several fatwas were issued drawing on the </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/96885b7a-4b2f-4441-8c65-32bca15eedee?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">classical legal distinction</a><span> between lands under Islamic rule (</span><em>dar al-Islam</em><span>) and lands of war (</span><em>dar al-harb</em><span>) or unbelief (</span><em>dar al-kufr</em><span>). These fatwas classified countries under European domination as lands of war or unbelief and invoked the legal theory obliging Muslims to wage war against the rulers of these lands or emigrate. A number of such fatwas were issued during the 19th century, including in 1803 by </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/f9cc1103-da6e-4e24-8ce5-f4d21ecc0e05?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Shah Abdul Aziz</a><span> in India and in 1804 by </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/f3b71138-2bf7-4b04-92cf-9d838ae31e75?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Usman dan Fodio</a><span> in West Africa. The unrealistic nature of these fatwas was soon recognized and in 1870 the </span><em>ulama</em><span> of northern India issued fatwas stating that Indian Muslims were not obliged to rebel or emigrate. A similar doctrinal controversy occurred in French-ruled Algeria. The fatwas solicited by the Algerian anti-colonial leader </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/b468fabf-85ab-42f3-905c-000103d46077?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Abd al-Qadir</a><span> differed in their technical detail, while the French authorities obtained fatwas from local muftis, stating that Muslims living under the rule of unbelievers were not obligated to fight or emigrate as long as they were granted religious freedom by the authorities.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1a33ca02-083a-4613-8324-7442f654912a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[5]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>On many other occasions, fatwas served as an effective tool for influencing the political process. For example, in 1904 a fatwa by Moroccan ulema achieved the dismissal of European experts hired by the Moroccan government, while in 1907 another Moroccan fatwa succeeded in deposing the sultan on accusation that he failed to mount a defense against French aggression. The 1891 </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/d8bfdbf2-452f-4798-b5ae-eb2ffffcb72d?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">tobacco protest</a><span> fatwa by the Iranian </span><em>mujtahid</em><span> </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/ed844bf5-8faa-42dc-887b-86bcfe5ff733?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Mirza Shirazi</a><span>, which prohibited smoking as long as the British tobacco monopoly was in effect, also achieved its goals.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1a33ca02-083a-4613-8324-7442f654912a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[5]</a></p><h3 style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:'SF Compact Display',-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:1.375em;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.16em;margin:1em 0 0.625em 0"><strong>Modern institutions</strong><span>[</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/b2421f79-f3ae-46e0-bb2d-de2b2023740c?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">edit</a><span>]</span></h3><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>Under European colonial rule, the institution of </span><em>dar al-ifta</em><span> was established in a number of madrasas (law colleges) as a centralized place for issuing of fatwas, and these organizations to a considerable extent replaced independent muftis as religious guides for the general population.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/01558b06-c3ea-4d18-95b8-a2698ea93fbb?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[6]</a><span> Following independence, most Muslim states established national organizations devoted to issuing fatwas. One example is the </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/e590ae6e-5e53-42e4-8c8c-b6b25981d3f9?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Egyptian Dar al-Ifta</a><span>, founded in 1895, which has served to articulate a national vision of Islam through fatwas issued in response to government and private queries.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1a33ca02-083a-4613-8324-7442f654912a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[5]</a><span> National governments in Muslim-majority countries also instituted councils of senior religious scholars to advise the government on religious matters and issue fatwas. These councils generally form part of the ministry for religious affairs, rather than the justice department, which may have a more assertive attitude toward the executive branch.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/ec443fc3-8f53-4eed-8eda-e8ba39a2cdc0?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[4]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>While chief muftis of earlier times oversaw a hierarchy of muftis and judges applying traditional jurisprudence, most modern states have adopted European-influenced legal codes and no longer employ traditional judicial procedures or traditionally trained judges. State muftis generally promote a vision of Islam that is compatible with state law of their country.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1a33ca02-083a-4613-8324-7442f654912a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[5]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>Although some early theorists argued that muftis should not respond to questions on certain subjects, such as theology, muftis have in practice handled queries relating to a wide range of subjects. This trend continued in modern times, and contemporary state-appointed muftis and institutions for </span><em>ifta</em><span> respond to government and private queries on varied issues, including political conflicts, Islamic finance, and medical ethics, contributing to shaping a national Islamic identity.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/5ad16442-1fff-49cc-bd6d-c8e0abbcdc12?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[1]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>There exists no international Islamic authority to settle differences in interpretation of Islamic law. An </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/9cc2a99c-e894-452d-b595-fd690e5eeb5a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">International Islamic Fiqh Academy</a><span> was created by the </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/98697fdf-1e17-479d-82d3-85f0ebf2884c?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Organisation of Islamic Cooperation</a><span>, but its legal opinions are not binding.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/ec443fc3-8f53-4eed-8eda-e8ba39a2cdc0?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[4]</a></p><h3 style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:'SF Compact Display',-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:1.375em;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.16em;margin:1em 0 0.625em 0"><strong>Legal methodology</strong><span>[</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/3c0686e6-bdec-4691-8da1-c948834f33a2?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">edit</a><span>]</span></h3><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>Modern fatwas have been marked by an increased reliance on the process of </span><em>ijtihad</em><span>, i.e. deriving legal rulings based on an independent analysis rather than conformity with the opinions of earlier legal authorities (</span><em>taqlid</em><span>).</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/6419414d-a18a-46af-8993-4d09ddc080b4?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[3]</a><span> While in the past muftis were associated with a particular school of law (</span><em>madhhab</em><span>), in the 20th century many muftis began to assert their independence from traditional schools of jurisprudence.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/01558b06-c3ea-4d18-95b8-a2698ea93fbb?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[6]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>The most notorious result of disregarding classical jurisprudence are the fatwas of </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/9f23aa12-d4ab-4c44-9e1e-cc685060c13e?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">militant extremists</a><span> who have interpreted the Quran and hadith as supporting suicide bombings, indiscriminate killing of bystanders, and declaration of self-professed Muslims as unbelievers (</span><em>takfir</em><span>).</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/6419414d-a18a-46af-8993-4d09ddc080b4?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[3]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>New forms of ijtihad have also given rise to fatwas that support such notions as gender equality and banking interest, which are at variance with classical jurisprudence. This is commonly accomplished by application of various traditional legal doctrines such as the </span><em><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/13271408-4d02-4990-9255-38d9f352b462?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">maqasid</a></em><span> (objectives) of sharia, </span><em><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/91729239-3eda-4ce8-ad11-917ad9c85ae7?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">maslaha</a></em><span> (public interest) and </span><em>darura</em><span> (necessity), in place of adhering to the letter of scriptural sources. The main argument for this approach is that Islamic law is meant to serve the interest of Muslims and make their lives easier (</span><em>taysīr</em><span>). This form of ijtihad is particularly prominent in </span><em>fiqh al-aqallīyāt</em><span> (minority jurisprudence), a recently developed branch of Islamic jurisprudence that aims to address the needs of Muslims living in countries with a non-Muslim majority. Its opponents object that sharia is supposed to determine the interests of Muslims, and not the other way around.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/6419414d-a18a-46af-8993-4d09ddc080b4?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[3]</a></p><h3 style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:'SF Compact Display',-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:1.375em;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.16em;margin:1em 0 0.625em 0"><strong>Political fatwas and controversies</strong><span>[</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/55dd834b-3fb5-46a8-be86-01225c217163?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">edit</a><span>]</span></h3><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>Fatwa supporting the Ottoman proclamation of jihad in 1914, read by the Custodian Of The Fatwa (</span><em>Fetva Emini</em><span>)</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/e0c29363-2a82-49fe-9e80-06b2e3a35318?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[22]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>On November 14, 1914 the Ottoman sultan proclaimed a jihad to mark the official entry of the Ottoman Empire into </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/f29e3985-9ef7-430c-a51a-db7045727dba?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">World War I</a><span>. The proclamation was supported by a fatwa issued by the Shaykh al-Islam. Contrary to the German hopes that the proclamation would trigger Muslim revolts in British and French colonies, it was either rejected or quietly ignored by their Muslim authorities. It also quickly gave rise to a heated academic debate in Europe. The controversy was sparked by an 1915 article by the prominent Dutch orientalist </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/b2abf1e4-2215-4b99-94c9-eae62af5b5eb?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">C. Snouck Hurgronje</a><span>, titled </span><em>Heilige Oorlog [Holy War] Made in Germany</em><span>. In it Hurgronje denounced his German colleagues, who he felt instigated the jihad proclamation in an irresponsible appeal to an antiquated concept that threatened the project of modernizing the Muslim world. The article was widely circulated in an English translation and its accuracy continues to be debated by historians, who acknowledge both the German influence and the internal political calculations of the Ottoman government underlying the proclamation.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/6ecd4c68-0ee5-4240-9f2c-cc1272e988ce?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[23]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>Several boycott fatwas were issued in modern times, such as the one issued by Iraqi ulema in 1933, calling on Muslims to boycott Zionist products.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1a33ca02-083a-4613-8324-7442f654912a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[5]</a><span> In 2004 </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/cee1821f-d533-4116-bfd3-293da0a9e1f4?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Yusuf al-Qaradawi</a><span> issued a fatwa calling for boycott of Israeli and American products, arguing that buying these goods would strengthen the "enemy" fighting against Muslims in the struggle over Palestine.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/ec443fc3-8f53-4eed-8eda-e8ba39a2cdc0?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[4]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>Some muftis in the modern era, like the mufti of the Lebanese republic in the mid-20th century and the Grand Mufti of the Sultanate of Oman, were important political leaders.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/01558b06-c3ea-4d18-95b8-a2698ea93fbb?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[6]</a><span> In Iran, </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/a8b1aafb-ae60-4652-9cae-d45a2e5e7c09?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Ayatollah Khomeini</a><span> used proclamations and fatwas to introduce and legitimize a number of institutions, including the </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/2293dce8-f470-4621-9604-55fd0d2adc68?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Council of the Islamic Revolution</a><span> and the </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/d5a52234-f482-4a22-aa03-f3aab2657c9b?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Iranian Parliament</a><span>.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1a33ca02-083a-4613-8324-7442f654912a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[5]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>Khomeini's most publicized fatwa was the </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/7df8078d-2cea-42e4-8dcc-6e914d5adfbe?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">proclamation</a><span> condemning </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/934d284a-8346-4903-a17b-36ceb48a0c93?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Salman Rushdie</a><span> to death for his novel </span><em><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/7cc34b78-7fcc-4156-9546-283a170f4119?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">The Satanic Verses</a></em><span>.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1a33ca02-083a-4613-8324-7442f654912a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[5]</a><span> Khomeini himself did not call this proclamation a fatwa, and some scholars have argued that it did not qualify as one, since in Islamic legal theory only a court can decide whether an accused is guilty.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/5ad16442-1fff-49cc-bd6d-c8e0abbcdc12?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[1]</a><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/5782f6ed-6fdb-40d3-aee3-ac190cd91aeb?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[24]</a><span> However, after the proclamation was presented as a fatwa in Western press, this characterization was widely accepted by both its critics and its supporters,</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/5ad16442-1fff-49cc-bd6d-c8e0abbcdc12?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[1]</a><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/5782f6ed-6fdb-40d3-aee3-ac190cd91aeb?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[24]</a><span> and the Rushdie Affair is credited with bringing the institution of fatwa to world attention.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/9a6eb493-0264-403c-9285-a0865641bab3?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[7]</a><span> Together with later militant fatwas, it has contributed to the popular misconception of the fatwa as a religious death warrant.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/6419414d-a18a-46af-8993-4d09ddc080b4?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[3]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>Many militant and reform movements in modern times have disseminated fatwas issued by individuals who do not possess the qualifications traditionally required of a mufti. A famous example is the fatwa issued in 1998 by </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/c263c39b-a36c-48e9-b146-8151609e0845?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Osama bin Laden</a><span> and four of his associates, proclaiming "jihad against Jews and Crusaders" and calling for killing of American civilians. In addition to denouncing its content, many Islamic jurists stressed that bin Laden was not qualified to either issue a fatwa or declare a jihad.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1a33ca02-083a-4613-8324-7442f654912a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[5]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>The </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/4b97a279-09c9-427a-9b77-0775e1ccd8de?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Amman Message</a><span> was a statement, signed in 2005 in Jordan by nearly 200 prominent Islamic jurists, which served as a "counter-fatwa" against a widespread use of </span><em>takfir</em><span> (excommunication) by </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/91340661-cf0b-4743-a0b7-757d2fe94c7e?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">jihadist</a><span> groups to justify jihad against rulers of Muslim-majority countries. The Amman Message recognized eight legitimate schools of Islamic law and prohibited declarations of apostasy against them. The statement also asserted that fatwas can be issued only by properly trained muftis, thereby seeking to delegitimize fatwas issued by militants who lack the requisite qualifications.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/5ad16442-1fff-49cc-bd6d-c8e0abbcdc12?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[1]</a><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1a33ca02-083a-4613-8324-7442f654912a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[5]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>Erroneous and sometimes bizarre fatwas issued by unqualified or eccentric individuals in recent times have sometimes given rise to complaints about a "chaos" in the modern practice of </span><em>ifta</em><span>.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/9a6eb493-0264-403c-9285-a0865641bab3?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[7]</a></p><h3 style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:'SF Compact Display',-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:1.375em;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.16em;margin:1em 0 0.625em 0"><strong>Fatwas in the West</strong><span>[</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/659974f7-d2b1-4f16-b3a6-7c741aa22f85?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">edit</a><span>]</span></h3><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>In the aftermath of the </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/b4d71506-c87d-4db7-af07-650c05a4d7ab?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">September 11, 2001, attacks</a><span>, a group of Middle Eastern Islamic scholars issued a fatwa permitting Muslims serving in the U.S. army to participate in military action against Muslim countries, in response to a query from a U.S. Army Muslim chaplain. This fatwa illustrated two increasingly widespread practices. First, it drew directly on the Quran and hadith without referencing the body of jurisprudence from any of the traditional schools of Islamic law. Secondly, questions from Western Muslims directed to muftis in Muslim-majority countries have become increasingly common, as about one-third of Muslims now live in Muslim-minority countries.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1a33ca02-083a-4613-8324-7442f654912a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[5]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>Institutions devoted specifically to issuing fatwas to Western Muslims have been established in the West, including the </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/02a0cfb0-47e0-4d43-8480-98157899a2b4?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Fiqh Council of North America</a><span> (FCNA, founded in 1986) and the </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/56f48ff1-bafc-40d6-9e08-9f4b6b637d70?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">European Council for Fatwa and Research</a><span> (ECFR, founded in 1997). These organizations aim to provide fatwas that address the concerns of Muslim minorities, helping them to comply with sharia, while stressing compatibility of Islam with diverse modern contexts.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/05547bbd-52e1-444d-99b4-065d6ccfa89f?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[25]</a><span> The FCNA was founded with the goal of developing legal methodologies for adopting Islamic law to life in the West.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/05547bbd-52e1-444d-99b4-065d6ccfa89f?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[25]</a><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1a33ca02-083a-4613-8324-7442f654912a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[5]</a><span> The ECRF draws on all major schools of Sunni law as well as other traditional legal principles, such as concern for the public good, </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/b81508f3-b53c-439a-950c-d1068e0e83d7?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">local custom</a><span>, and the prevention of harm, to derive fatwas suitable for life in Europe.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/05547bbd-52e1-444d-99b4-065d6ccfa89f?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[25]</a><span> For example, a 2001 ECRF ruling allowed a woman who had converted to Islam to remain married without requiring her husband's conversion, based in part on the existence of European laws and customs under which women are guaranteed the freedom of religion.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1a33ca02-083a-4613-8324-7442f654912a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[5]</a><span> Rulings of this kind have been welcomed by some, but also criticized by others as being overly eclectic in legal methodology and having potential to negatively impact the interpretation of sharia in Muslim-majority countries.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1a33ca02-083a-4613-8324-7442f654912a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[5]</a><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/05547bbd-52e1-444d-99b4-065d6ccfa89f?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[25]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>The needs of Western Muslims have given rise to a new branch of Islamic jurisprudence which has been termed the jurisprudence of (Muslim) minorities (</span><em>fiqh al-aqallīyāt</em><span>).</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1a33ca02-083a-4613-8324-7442f654912a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[5]</a><span> The term is believed to have been coined in a 1994 fatwa by </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/64a5e652-17a8-49df-8853-01838e71a3bf?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Taha Jabir Alalwani</a><span>, then the chairman of FCNA, which encouraged Muslim citizens to participate in American politics.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/05547bbd-52e1-444d-99b4-065d6ccfa89f?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[25]</a><span> This branch of jurisprudence has since been developed primarily, but not exclusively for Muslim minorities in the West.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/05547bbd-52e1-444d-99b4-065d6ccfa89f?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[25]</a></p><h3 style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:'SF Compact Display',-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:1.375em;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.16em;margin:1em 0 0.625em 0"><strong>Role of modern media</strong><span>[</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/c1187c0a-3652-42ac-a6e2-727d06e6c160?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">edit</a><span>]</span></h3><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>Advances in communication technology and the rise of the internet have changed the reception and role of fatwas in modern society.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1a33ca02-083a-4613-8324-7442f654912a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[5]</a><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/02ab5dff-a31e-4365-a065-8405a0a62555?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[26]</a><span> In the pre-modern era, most fatwas issued in response to private queries were read only by the petitioner. Early in the 20th century, the reformist Islamic scholar </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/7fc83fb3-fb2b-4b90-bc90-ddbbbe8e03ea?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Rashid Rida</a><span> responded to thousands of queries from around the Muslim world on a variety of social and political topics in the regular </span><em>fatwa</em><span> section of his Cairo-based journal </span><em><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/f96c2ee0-8ff8-47fa-9059-4c890f9f62fb?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Al-Manar</a></em><span>.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/9a6eb493-0264-403c-9285-a0865641bab3?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[7]</a><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/01558b06-c3ea-4d18-95b8-a2698ea93fbb?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[6]</a><span> In the late 20th century, when the Grand Mufti of Egypt </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/265d3378-4f42-4269-b6fb-02f326322ea5?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Sayyid Tantawy</a><span> issued a fatwa allowing interest banking, the ruling was vigorously debated in the Egyptian press by both religious scholars and lay intellectuals.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1a33ca02-083a-4613-8324-7442f654912a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[5]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>In the internet age, a large number of websites has appeared offering fatwas to readers around the world. For example, </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/a38063d5-53ad-4b5f-b91e-40fb61a4dc92?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">IslamOnline</a><span> publishes an archive of "live fatwa" sessions, whose number approached a thousand by 2007, along with biographies of the muftis. Together with satellite television programs, radio shows and fatwa hotlines offering call-in fatwas, these sites have contributed to the rise of new forms of contemporary </span><em>ifta</em><span>.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1a33ca02-083a-4613-8324-7442f654912a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[5]</a><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/02ab5dff-a31e-4365-a065-8405a0a62555?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[26]</a><span> Unlike the concise or technical pre-modern fatwas, fatwas delivered through modern mass media often seek to be more expansive and accessible to the wide public.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/9a6eb493-0264-403c-9285-a0865641bab3?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[7]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>Modern media have also facilitated cooperative forms to </span><em>ifta</em><span>. Networks of muftis are commonly engaged by fatwa websites, so that queries are distributed among the muftis in the network, who still act as individual jurisconsults. In other cases, Islamic jurists of different nationalities, schools of law, and sometimes even denominations (Sunni and Shia), coordinate to issue a joint fatwa, which is expected to command greater authority with the public than individual fatwas. The collective fatwa (sometimes called </span><em>ijtihād jamāʿī</em><span>, "collective legal interpretation") is a new historical development, and it is found in such settings as boards of Islamic financial institutions and international fatwa councils.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/6419414d-a18a-46af-8993-4d09ddc080b4?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[3]</a></p><h3 style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:'SF Compact Display',-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:1.375em;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.16em;margin:1em 0 0.625em 0"><strong>Social role of fatwas</strong><span>[</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/6d321e42-141a-45b1-b591-2cbd7c14a77c?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">edit</a><span>]</span></h3><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>As the role of fatwas on strictly legal issues has declined in modern times, there has been a relative increase in the proportion of fatwas dealing with rituals and further expansion in purely religious areas like Quranic exegesis, creed, and Sufism. Modern fatwas also deal with a wide variety of other topics, including insurance, sex-change operations, moon exploration, beer drinking,</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/9a6eb493-0264-403c-9285-a0865641bab3?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[7]</a><span> abortion in the case of fatal foetal abnormalities, or males and females sharing workplaces.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/02ab5dff-a31e-4365-a065-8405a0a62555?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[26]</a><span> Public "fatwa wars" have reflected political controversies in the Muslim world, from anti-colonial struggles to the </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/573b4bae-5f0f-47f7-b8c9-d5d945c2e931?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Gulf War</a><span> of the 1990s, when muftis in some countries issued fatwas supporting collaboration with the US-led coalition, while muftis from other countries endorsed the Iraqi call for jihad against the US and its collaborators.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/c0854076-444b-43cd-872e-34da6ab8e3a5?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[27]</a><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/9a6eb493-0264-403c-9285-a0865641bab3?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[7]</a><span> In the private sphere, some muftis have begun to resemble social workers, giving advice on various personal issues encountered in everyday life.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/9a6eb493-0264-403c-9285-a0865641bab3?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[7]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>The social profile of the fatwa petitioner has also undergone considerable changes. Owing to the rise of universal education, those who solicit fatwas have become increasingly educated, which has transformed the traditional mufti–mustafti relationship based on restricted literacy. The questioner is now also increasingly likely to be female, and in the modern world Muslim women tend to address muftis directly rather than conveying their query through a male relative as in the past. Since women now represent a significant proportion of students studying Islamic law and qualifying as muftiyas, their prominence in its interpretation is likely to rise.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/9a6eb493-0264-403c-9285-a0865641bab3?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[7]</a><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/02ab5dff-a31e-4365-a065-8405a0a62555?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[26]</a><span> A fatwa hotline in the </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/ba58b610-363d-44e4-bbba-bfccda525add?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">United Arab Emirates</a><span> provides access to either male or female muftis, allowing women to request fatwas from female Islamic legal scholars.</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/02ab5dff-a31e-4365-a065-8405a0a62555?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[26]</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>The vast amount of fatwas produced in the modern world attests to the importance of Islamic authenticity to many Muslims. However, there is little research available to indicate to what extent Muslims acknowledge the authority of various fatwas and heed their rulings in real life. Rather than reflecting the actual conduct or opinions of Muslims, these fatwas may instead represent a collection of opinions on what Muslims "ought to think".</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/6419414d-a18a-46af-8993-4d09ddc080b4?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[3]</a></p><h2 style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:'SF Compact Display',-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:1.625em;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.16em;margin:1em 0 0.625em 0"><span>See also[</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/ab8db535-34b8-4e25-a808-45c6c4ed9f91?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">edit</a><span>]</span></h2><ul style="margin-top:0;padding:0"><li style="margin:8px 0 0 32px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-left:4px"><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/c8e4b7a5-4be4-4bb1-9f92-3a761b3aa91e?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">List of fatwas</a></p></li><li style="margin:8px 0 0 32px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-left:4px"><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/9acf45e1-4761-45dd-9f43-f71d9249c5f9?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Schools of Islamic jurisprudence</a></p></li></ul><h2 style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:'SF Compact Display',-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:1.625em;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.16em;margin:1em 0 0.625em 0"><span>References[</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/0f620ff4-16d5-4114-924e-2ceb35419b83?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">edit</a><span>]</span></h2><h3 style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:'SF Compact Display',-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:1.375em;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.16em;margin:1em 0 0.625em 0"><strong>Citations</strong><span>[</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/5254ab23-2a27-48dc-bf22-a021443e7eab?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">edit</a><span>]</span></h3><ol style="margin-top:0;padding:0"><li style="margin:8px 0 0 32px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-left:4px"><span>^ </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/c0a67885-4fe8-4364-b1f1-af6f096e8827?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Jump up to:</a><em><strong><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/c0a67885-4fe8-4364-b1f1-af6f096e8827?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">a</a></strong></em><span> </span><em><strong><a 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style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">e</a></strong></em><span> </span><em><strong><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/748d1a8e-732d-4df4-a723-462f2d43aee7?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">f</a></strong></em><span> </span><em><strong><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/6829c3a2-5935-428f-be2e-647a10664e8a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">g</a></strong></em><span> </span><em><strong><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/5de28c56-d243-432f-8f5f-a3874bab67a2?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">h</a></strong></em><span> </span><em><strong><a 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style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">s</a></strong></em><span> </span><em><strong><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/4b5bc058-4535-4b1e-9037-6f0a45c71656?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">t</a></strong></em><span> </span><em><strong><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/72b964cc-5e90-4c36-951b-7e015df03ed1?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">u</a></strong></em><span> </span><em><strong><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/7dedeecb-1075-4d23-a60a-bff64b7df5ba?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">v</a></strong></em><span> </span><em><strong><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/8efc7e4c-7977-43e0-9377-2de79eb2754b?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">w</a></strong></em><span> </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/c1d70685-a49e-494c-92ff-efa5623413f9?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Hendrickson 2013</a><span>.</span></p></li><li style="margin:8px 0 0 32px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-left:4px"><span>^ </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/b053fc73-627e-4769-bb3f-501d5202e455?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Jump up to:</a><em><strong><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/b053fc73-627e-4769-bb3f-501d5202e455?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">a</a></strong></em><span> </span><em><strong><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/270faa82-bc52-4694-a14b-0061eea6b512?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">b</a></strong></em><span> </span><em><strong><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/4a15f453-eeaa-4f92-8767-a43e492cd1b6?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">c</a></strong></em><span> </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/65b7a03e-a730-452d-90c3-6171d2666d01?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Tyan & Walsh 2012</a><span>.</span></p></li><li style="margin:8px 0 0 32px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-left:4px"><span>^ </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/f4ad8fb1-b0e2-4cf2-af66-10b933cdd833?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Jump up to:</a><em><strong><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/f4ad8fb1-b0e2-4cf2-af66-10b933cdd833?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">a</a></strong></em><span> </span><em><strong><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/244bd22a-1ad9-4e62-97cf-3341482a2e47?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" 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style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Messick & Kéchichian 2009</a><span>.</span></p></li><li style="margin:8px 0 0 32px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-left:4px"><span>^ </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/e2b5e612-46eb-40c4-a5f1-7c3c8c346e23?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Jump up to:</a><em><strong><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/e2b5e612-46eb-40c4-a5f1-7c3c8c346e23?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">a</a></strong></em><span> </span><em><strong><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/824891a7-d908-47b0-bb35-387a2365905e?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" 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href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/710438b9-af6d-4973-b28e-d28052d8d538?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Vikør 2005</a><span>, p. 143.</span></p></li><li style="margin:8px 0 0 32px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-left:4px"><strong><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/fee5fc40-a234-4bdb-8879-d34a1b192de4?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">^</a></strong><span> "Corps de Droit Ottoman". </span><em><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/b6666b3e-a518-4f2e-b211-49436a016736?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Law Quarterly Review</a></em><span>. Stevens and Sons. </span><strong>21</strong><span>: </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/d9a0684b-f9b0-4dd4-9cc9-064d60b8d946?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">443</a><span>-</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/7567a45c-6fbf-4bfc-a166-f26e62082bcb?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">444</a><span>. October 1905.</span></p></li><li style="margin:8px 0 0 32px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-left:4px"><span>^ </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/6e931688-1618-443a-a703-3abf69c72d04?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Jump up to:</a><em><strong><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/6e931688-1618-443a-a703-3abf69c72d04?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">a</a></strong></em><span> </span><em><strong><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/04b2ad38-fc1f-40a6-9404-f2e94f3a530c?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">b</a></strong></em><span> 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noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Powers 2017</a><span>.</span></p></li><li style="margin:8px 0 0 32px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-left:4px"><strong><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/d211dd4c-c338-4187-89ff-5aae9e534e44?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">^</a></strong><span> </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/41aa3631-8984-4ec3-b9de-60dc69a0e4f2?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Hallaq 2009</a><span>, p. 9.</span></p></li><li style="margin:8px 0 0 32px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-left:4px"><strong><a 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Rabil, Robert (2014). "1: The Creed, Ideology, and Manhaj (Methodology) of Salafism: A Historical and Contemporaneous Framework". </span><em>Salafism in Lebanon: From Apoliticism to Transnational Jihadism</em><span>. Washington, DC, USA: Georgetown University Press. p. 27. </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/49aeeee2-cc56-4ce4-abf4-1eaecdf81f7d?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">ISBN</a><span> </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/15672cdf-b9d3-491e-9947-c7cc677c8fb8?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">978-1-62616-116-0</a><span>.</span></p></li><li style="margin:8px 0 0 32px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-left:4px"><span>^ </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/f182a301-c152-42d2-8fc2-6121287c95dc?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" 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href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/41aa3631-8984-4ec3-b9de-60dc69a0e4f2?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Hallaq 2009</a><span>, pp. 9–11.</span></p></li><li style="margin:8px 0 0 32px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-left:4px"><span>^ </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1fdcf2a8-ee5b-4466-a0db-f5ae481131b7?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Jump up to:</a><em><strong><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/1fdcf2a8-ee5b-4466-a0db-f5ae481131b7?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">a</a></strong></em><span> </span><em><strong><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/922426fe-f021-4015-9410-c7bc9e3b654a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">b</a></strong></em><span> </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/710438b9-af6d-4973-b28e-d28052d8d538?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Vikør 2005</a><span>, p. 144.</span></p></li><li style="margin:8px 0 0 32px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-left:4px"><strong><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/b806ca0e-c5a8-49cd-bdfe-0fc4cc32d01f?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">^</a></strong><span> </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/ad2ace76-c6f2-4888-a7f4-99f9ccb62c49?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Hallaq 2010</a><span>, p. 159.</span></p></li><li style="margin:8px 0 0 32px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-left:4px"><strong><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/d8597542-e7a8-4a5d-a18e-48e8506d20fe?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">^</a></strong><span> </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/39c48efe-4991-4a18-bdad-f210ec2921b7?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Swartz 2009</a><span>.</span></p></li><li style="margin:8px 0 0 32px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-left:4px"><strong><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/e030670a-d2f7-4a9c-a9fb-b64e64dc692d?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">^</a></strong><span> </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/710438b9-af6d-4973-b28e-d28052d8d538?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Vikør 2005</a><span>, pp. 152–154.</span></p></li><li style="margin:8px 0 0 32px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-left:4px"><strong><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/83dc023c-73d7-4080-bd68-6284c076964e?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">^</a></strong><span> </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/509523dc-6ad1-4e9a-a29d-08915228e914?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Momen 2015</a><span>, pp. 1856–1881 (Kindle locations).</span></p></li><li style="margin:8px 0 0 32px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-left:4px"><strong><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/e87acfc4-a302-4c13-8527-c61b95e0034b?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">^</a></strong><span> </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/06df426c-f889-4347-ad3e-cda2b81a90ee?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Berkey 2004</a><span>.</span></p></li><li style="margin:8px 0 0 32px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-left:4px"><strong><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/28eb2ddc-52be-4b13-811e-b573f1e32308?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">^</a></strong><span> </span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/8542a71b-f1f1-4c7a-a67e-d3bffdd8bfd5?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Zürcher 2016</a><span>, p. 56.</span></p></li><li style="margin:8px 0 0 32px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-left:4px"><strong><a 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style="color:#00c2ff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Gräf 2017</a><span>.</span></p></li></ol><h3 style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:'SF Compact Display',-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:1.375em;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.16em;margin:1em 0 0.625em 0"><strong>Sources</strong><span>[</span><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/3205f15d-dabb-4957-a5a2-c378f1f4f26a?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">edit</a><span>]</span></h3><ul style="margin-top:0;padding:0"><li style="margin:8px 0 0 32px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-left:4px"><span>Berger, Maurits S. 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These guys are not religious, they don't sit up at night analyzing the different editions of the Torah, which ones were copied without vowels and so on – No, they are AIPAC, professional advocates for anything the vile and viscous armed state of Nakba, occupying Palestinian land, wants – mainly lots of money and weapons to kill people with.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Well, this is going out right after the New Hampshire Primary is dead and buried, and we will be preparing the ABSURD TIMES FATWAH AND WAHHABI CREDO CALL TO ACTION!</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">NOW:</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>I've been thinking, and I'm here to tell you that it has not been one bit of fun. These days, I've noticed some pretty suspicious empty spaces in the OBITUARY COLUMNS and I have sources amongst news reporters who tell me, under the condition that they not be named because they don't want their in-boxes flooded with dunderhead ed numskull generated tripe, that those entries have been elided because they don't want their in-boxes flooded with dunderhead ed numskull generated tripe. I have been asked, by an overwhelming majority of these reporters if I was able to realize and then communicate how much of an asshole MAGA TRUMP is and the extent to which MAGA TRUMP AKA NITWITYAHOISM HAS SPREAD with nothing to resist it but REASON (</span><em>WHOSE ECLIPSE HAS GROWN AND SPREAD FOR OVER 100 YEARS).</em></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">What the hell? I said yes. Why not? My inbox is on the DARK WEB, so if any of them can find it there, let them beware: is it really mine or some left-wing ball-busting femanazi? We have formed a cabal and our addresses are only one character different of 24. Rush Limbaugh is dead and never did the St. Louis play-by-play. He was simply no match for Bob Elson.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">DAMNIT! Here I take a few days off from, well, maybe a week or so, off from paying attention to MR. AIPAC INCARNATE and I find out the fathead has killed another 3,000 Palestinians, 2/3rds women and children, shut down all communication within Gaza, and all along has suppressed information even more tightly than U.S. media. Do they ever know they have killed 25,000, mainly women and children, some wanted the hostages back (and so does MAGA, A HOSTAGE BY ANY OTHER NAME). The majority, overwhelming majority, of Israelis never saw the infants huddled together because of no power for their incubators, in fact never saw anything, over their media. Well, word gets around and now there are calls for a new election as some of the families have noticed that their family members have not returned. THE FAMILIES POUNDED ON A TABLE AND HAVE NOW DISAPPEARED. The anti-Semitic swine and I will not call him a pig as pigs are noble by comparison, a swine – the kind you do not cast your pearls before, just after – enough of him – Biden has to just keep the 14 billion here.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Put together a cookoo clock, made in China, with instructions, about the time Pirsig's book came out. I figured I had been 2 months in a kinda Zen camp, knew Univ. of Chicago and the great President it had, Manard Hutchens, the guy who got rid of the football team and installed Fermi instead and said "Whenever I feel like exercising, I turn over and go back to sleep" and bet on Aristotle over Plato, so I could follow the directions. It helped that there was an attempt at a translation into German, and then I pretty much ran on instinct and finished, the translation's translation said "The clock bird is now going Kukoo!" I STILL HAD Studs on my side.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Now that makes more sense than dealing with the soon-to-be-jailbird after the populace forces a new election. So long, SWINE!</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Ok, so maybe that wasn't the smoothest transition, but who says we need to be smooth about it? The jailbird is going Kukoo. That is all we know as das Erde, and all we need to know – John Keats.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>So who was the other guy? Oh yeah, Mr. Maga. He had what they called a "Senior Moment," All the while no MAGAs noticing that he IS a Geritol Moment, but not for what humans consider a mere moment. 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style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">THE ABSURD TIMES</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">The photograph reminds a few of the virginal-sounding "Double your Pleasure" jingle that promoted Wrigley's Doublemint Gum as the Cubs existed, in the words of a departed friend, as the "DOORMAT OF THE NATIONAL LEAGUE" with occasional relief from the Pittsburg Pirates. It does not, however, approach the sheer artistry and brilliance of "Whose on First?" by Abbot and Costello.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><em><strong>CAN I VOTE AGAINST EVERYONE?</strong></em></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><em><strong>BY</strong></em></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><em><strong>THE ABSURD TIMES</strong></em></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">I had hopes of beginning this new year on a topic or with an approach that differed from the inane bosh left over from 2023, and even naming that year is an excruciatingly dismal reminder of the fustian that polluted our lives with a collective quandary of contemptible collective incompetence constituting the majority party in our legislature, the insanely idiotic expressions of solidarity with a quasi-Nazi ruled Israel, and a media led by a corporate monolith such as Comcast (AKA Infinity) posing as a "left-wing" force, all continuing their collective decline into SCUM (The Social Collective to Undermine Mentality.)</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">This situation leaves us with no choice but to affirm the absurdity of taking any activity seriously that even hints at an impending rationale for continued optimism and to accept SCUM as a way of life. We do this merely in order to affirm the obvious, not to announce a feckless rejection. Rejected or not, the electorate will continue to affirm its support of meaninglessness and vituperative rejection of any trace of clarity or sanity. At present, the Zionist in Chief has murdered 23,000 Gazans. Some time ago, the last prediction I made was that Israel would not stop until at least 14,000 innocents were murdered. At the time, I actually received comments that I was biased. The 23,000 does not include the thousands buried beneath the rubble of large concrete buildings. When it is ready, we will post the proceedings of the International Court on the Genocide by Israel, but for now, an observation or two is appropriate.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">And what seems to be the purpose of all this murder? There is only one possible advantage to be had by the continuing slaughter of Palestinians – it seems Nit Wit Yahoo can not be brought to court while he is busy killing them. At first, he attempted to change the rules so that the political body could nullify judgments made by the Judicial. You may remember marches in the streets of Israel by people flying the now-offensive six-pointed star – that was a protest of the people there against that gambit. Still, while at war, he could not be charged and this does remind us of Trump, and thus he locked up many Palestinians just to lock them up and torture a large percentage of them just for the sake of goading Hamas to take some action against Israel. It worked, and the butchery in Gaza was accelerated. This will continue, financed by blackmail of the United States, we are paying billions, perhaps four times the usual fee to Israel, essentially to keep Nit Wit Yahoo out of jail. As cheap a jab as it is, it is your tax dollars at work. How much public housing and food could be supported for that amount?</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">A similar approach is being attempted by a politician now indicted for at least 91 felonies, including what should be seen as the attempt at a forcible overthrow of our government. While our government seems to have little ambition other than self-preservation and profit for those who do not need it, it is certainly less putrid in action than what MAGA would offer or impose as a replacement. Can anybody reading this imagine living under a government run at the whim of the orange-brained flabby blob that seems to be the main circus barker of MAGA, LLC.? I stop here simply because I feel a profound nausea stirring increasingly violently in my lower intestines.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">We find ourselves in the foul position of either voting against the ZIONIST MAGA or the CHRISTIAN MAGA. Meanwhile, we find many of those who repeat the sentiments of Mercucio: "A Plague on both your houses!" 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support for Israel's war on Gaza. "It was untenable to work for and represent an administration and president that put conditions on my own humanity, that didn't believe that Palestinian lives were equal to the lives of other people," says Habash, a Palestinian American Christian who worked as a senior official at the U.S. Department of Education. He details how Biden employees "across the board" are frustrated with the president's policy on Gaza. "The White House doesn't even know the level of dissent within its own ranks."</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Transcript</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">AMY GOODMAN: We begin today's show looking at Gaza, where the death toll from Israel's assault has topped 23,300. On Tuesday, during a trip to Israel, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the civilian death toll in Gaza is, quote, "far too high," but he refused to call for a ceasefire.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">SECRETARY OF STATE ANTONY BLINKEN: Facing an enemy that embeds itself among civilians, who hides in and fires from schools, from hospitals, makes this incredibly challenging. But the daily toll on civilians in Gaza, particularly on children, is far too high. … We want this war to end as soon as possible. There's been far too much loss of life, far too much suffering. But it's vital that Israel achieve its very legitimate objectives of ensuring that October 7th can never happen again.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">AMY GOODMAN: That was Tony Blinken speaking in Tel Aviv after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Blinken met with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas today in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. During Tuesday's press conference, Blinken went on to say Israel must not press Palestinians to leave Gaza and that the region needs to find a "pathway to a Palestinian state."</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">SECRETARY OF STATE ANTONY BLINKEN: We continue to discuss how to build a more durable peace and security for Israel within the region. As I told the prime minister, every partner that I met on this trip said that they're ready to support a lasting solution that ends the long-running cycle of violence and ensures Israel's security. But they underscored that this can only come through a regional approach that includes a pathway to a Palestinian state.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">AMY GOODMAN: Blinken's trip to Israel and the Middle East comes as the Biden administration faces mounting criticism for supporting and arming Israel's assault on Gaza.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">We begin today's show with Tariq Habash. Last week, he became the first Biden appointee, and just the second administration official overall, to publicly resign from the Biden administration to protest Biden's support for Israel's war on Gaza. Tariq Habash is a Palestinian American Christian who worked as a senior official at the U.S. Department of Education.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">In his resignation letter, he wrote, quote, "I cannot stay silent as this administration turns a blind eye to the atrocities committed against innocent Palestinian lives, in what leading human rights experts have called a genocidal campaign by the Israeli government," unquote.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Tariq Habash, welcome to Democracy Now! Thanks so much for joining us. Can you talk about your decision-making, at what point you decided you had to leave the Biden administration, how long you've worked for him, and what you think of what's happening right now?</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">TARIQ HABASH: Thank you so much, Amy. And thanks, Juan.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">You know, for me, this was an incredibly difficult decision. In a lot of ways, I was working my dream job. I was working for a president who for years touted himself as an individual of empathy, an individual, a president, a leader who cared about our education system, about labor rights, about healthcare, about the environment. In a lot of ways, I was extremely aligned with the entire domestic policy agenda of President Biden. And I was able to work on issues that I truly cared about. You know, I was part of the administration from the very beginning, coming up on three full years working in this administration. And even before that, I volunteered my time as someone who assisted the campaign on the policy development of that agenda with respect to higher education and student debt.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">But it was really difficult, as someone who both cared deeply about American democracy and cared deeply about improving the lives of millions of Americans, to also feel like it was untenable to work for and represent an administration and a president that put conditions on my own humanity, that didn't believe that Palestinian lives were equal to the lives of other people. And, you know, that's just a really, really hard thing to deal with. And so, for me, it wasn't a particular moment in time. I think it was a culmination of near daily dehumanization of Palestinian lives in Gaza and the West Bank, and policy and rhetoric that never really shifted over the last three months. And I think we even heard that yesterday from the secretary of state, unfortunately.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And, Tariq, I'm wondering: Did you try to express your perspective or your viewpoints to people in the administration? And I'm wondering also what the response was of your direct boss, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, when you decided to resign.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">TARIQ HABASH: Yeah, I mean, I used every avenue available to me to be able to express my concerns both about the language that the administration, the White House, was using, to express concerns about the policies and how it undermines the president's message on protecting democracy, on how it undermines our stature across the international community with respect to, like, being humanitarians and caring about human life. And yeah, I spoke with the secretary on numerous occasions about this issue. I spoke with the assistant secretaries. I spoke with the secretary's chief of staff. They were all extremely understanding of my personal plight and my personal frustration, and, you know, they were very supportive of me on a personal level, emotionally understanding, checking on me to make sure that I was doing OK.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">And even in circumstances where the White House did listening sessions and had policy briefings for staff in particular, you know, I was there. I tried to raise concerns, as did many of my peers and colleagues. I think there was a different tone in the reception from the White House than, say, the Department of Education, in particular, but I think the outcomes, unfortunately, didn't change anything. I think we continued to see a doubling down on the current policies that have led us to where we are today, which is the unconditional support of military funding and resources to an extremist Israeli regime that continues to both indiscriminately bomb Palestinians in Gaza and starve millions of people.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Yeah, and you mentioned that you had participated in President Biden's original campaign. What do you sense is the implication for his reelection campaign of the deep dissatisfaction not only among employees in his administration, but of young, progressive and liberal Americans across the spectrum?</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">TARIQ HABASH: Yeah, I mean, I think that there are huge implications. I think we're already seeing those implications. The president is now really gearing up for the 2024 election. We're months away. And we're seeing his poll numbers really hitting real lows, particularly in communities that are predominantly minority, predominantly younger. We're seeing a backlash, I think, in part to these policies and to our response.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">And it feels like it's out of touch with the president's message around protecting democracy from authoritarianism. I think the president has spoken very directly to the American people about how important 2024 is in terms of protecting our democracy. I think that is absolutely true, but it's also just not in line with the foreign policy approach to the region, and to Gaza in particular, as we are seeing the president and the administration provide unconditional support to an authoritarian Israeli government.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">AMY GOODMAN: Tariq Habash, what has been the response of your colleagues to quitting? And you talked about the difference between the response of the Department of Education and the White House. Have you gotten word from the White House?</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">TARIQ HABASH: I haven't heard from the White House. I have heard from countless colleagues across the federal government, people who I've worked very closely with, people who I didn't have the opportunity to work with, and people who we had numerous touchpoints across the three years that I was at the Department of Education. And that response has been incredibly supportive. I couldn't imagine the level of understanding and support and alignment with so many people.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">I think we've heard a lot about the level of dissent across the federal government with the administration's current policies. I think we've seen numerous dissent cables from the State Department be leaked. We've seen letters from USAID, from dozens of federal agencies, from interns, dissent within the White House. I mean, it is across the board.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">But I think there's also so much more that we don't even realize, because there are limitations to how people can share that information and use the channels that are available to them. For me at the Department of Education and other domestic agencies, there aren't the same types of private channels that State Department has for dissent cables for Foreign Service officers and other employees. I was fortunate because I had leadership that cared about me on a personal level, that wanted to check on me, and told me that if there were things that I wanted to communicate to the White House, to the highest levels of the White House, those messages would be communicated. The vast majority of people don't have that level of access and support from their leadership, from their agencies, and they don't have those structures in place. So, I think, in a lot of ways, the White House doesn't even know the level of dissent within its own ranks. And I think that's concerning.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">AMY GOODMAN: On Monday, President Biden spoke at the Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. That's where the white supremacist Dylann Roof shot dead eight Black parishioners and their pastor in 2015, Clementa Pinckney. Biden's speech was disrupted when a group of activists started chanting "Ceasefire now!"</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: Without light, there's no path from this darkness.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">PROTESTER: If you really care about the lives lost here, then you should honor the lives lost and call for a ceasefire in Palestine!</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">PROTESTERS: Ceasefire now! Ceasefire now! Ceasefire now! Ceasefire now! Ceasefire now! Ceasefire now!</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">AMY GOODMAN: As the protesters called for a ceasefire and were removed from the church, supporters of Biden started chanting "Four more years." President Biden then addressed the protest.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: I understand their passion. And I've been quietly working — I've been quietly working with the Israeli government to get them to reduce and significantly get out of Gaza. I've been using all that I can to do that.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">AMY GOODMAN: I was wondering, Tariq, if you think President Biden's line has changed at all. I mean, reports are he's called his top aides to the White House, absolutely furious why his poll numbers are so low, when the poll figures show people are so dismayed at what's happening now. I wanted to quote a retired Israeli major general, Yitzhak Brick, who conceded in November, "All of our missiles, the ammunition, the precision-guided bombs, all the airplanes and bombs, it's all from the U.S." He said, "The minute they turn off the tap, you can't keep fighting. You have no capability. … Everyone understands that we can't fight this war without the United States. Period." Talk about what you think Biden understands and what he needs to do right now.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">TARIQ HABASH: I think it's really important to recognize that, you know, American voters see this as a domestic policy issue just as much as a foreign policy issue. It is affecting what is going to happen in the upcoming election. I think people are really dissatisfied with the response of the administration. I think that we're seeing that in the church a couple days ago with the protest. We're seeing it with protests across the country. We're seeing city councilmembers and local legislators and policymakers take stances to support an immediate ceasefire.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">That disconnect from the people is really concerning for American democracy, but it's concerning because it feels like digging into the current position means that it's not as valuable to listen to the people and that our policymakers are going to make the decisions that they're going to make. And I think when we see an administration circumvent Congress by issuing hundreds of millions of dollars of weapons to a foreign government and circumventing the processes that are in place, ignoring really important laws to protect both Americans but also abide by international humanitarian law, I think there are significant implications for what that means for America more broadly.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Tariq, I wanted to ask you — in your work at the Education Department, you were focused particularly on higher education. I'm wondering: What's your response to what's been happening on so many campuses across the country and the politicians in — or some politicians in Congress trying to support and build up the retaliation and targeting campaign faced by Palestinian rights advocates at the university campuses?</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">TARIQ HABASH: I'm so glad you asked that question. I feel like — so, I already mentioned a little bit how, like, Americans don't feel like this is just an issue away from home, this is also a domestic policy issue. I think that is extremely clear on college campuses, that have for decades been the grounds for public dissent, for protests, for being able to have a free exchange of ideas and communicate on issues that are really difficult. I think American higher education is meant to be a place to allow free speech in all of its forms. I think that's really important. I think the Department of Education recognizes that.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">But I think there's a lot of work that needs to be done. I think it's very clear, the overcorrection that we've seen by institutions of higher education and their response to the weaponization of language, in particular, on college campuses and by political officials and right-wing extremists. I think, at the end of the day, we need to ensure that students are safe, but we need to provide safe learning environments that do not infringe on their rights to be able to have those difficult conversations, to learn about issues that matter in the world right now. And this particular conflict is the forefront of those conversations in so many ways.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">I think when we see students on college campuses show solidarity with the Palestinian struggle, when we see students on college campuses condemn the daily atrocities that we see that are starving millions of Palestinians, and decades of oppression and occupation that have led to unequal rights for Palestinians, I think that it's really important that we separate that from actual hate speech, that is real and dangerous and growing across the country. And I think that, you know, we've seen politicians rely on the weaponization of language in order to minimize students' ability to organize and to speak about some really difficult issues. And we've seen that really affect the independence and the integrity of American higher education.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">And the risks to academic freedom are very real. And that is a responsibility for the Department of Education. And I think that was one reason for me why it took so long to really take this position, because I did feel an obligation, on the issues that I worked directly on, to be able to help move the ball forward and provide as much support as possible to students across the country.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">AMY GOODMAN: I'm wondering — you were still there, Tariq, at the Department of Education when the three Palestinian students were shot in Burlington, one from Trinity, one from Haverford and one from Brown, Hisham Awartani, who is paralyzed from the chest down. And I was wondering your response there and within the department, and also if you feel you face a different future than someone like Josh Paul, longtime State Department official who quit over Biden administration policy. You're a Biden appointee. But if you face something different as a Palestinian American?</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">TARIQ HABASH: Yeah, absolutely. Just to quickly touch on what happened in Vermont, which is absolutely horrific, I think part of the problem is the constant dehumanization of Palestinians. And what we've seen both in the language that the White House has used and in what we have seen in terms of coverage here across the United States in the media, making it seem like Palestinians — and, in particular, Palestinian men — are less deserving of support, of humanity, of emotion, that allows people to feel like attacking them is acceptable. And that's just — that's a horrifying thing to realize, is that as a Palestinian, as a Palestinian man, as a Palestinian Christian, so may aspects of my own identity are erased on a daily basis. And it's truly horrifying that we allow that type of dehumanization to exist in our country today. For me, it's very personal. And, yeah.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">AMY GOODMAN: And talk about your background, Tariq, your family's background, your history.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">TARIQ HABASH: Yeah. You know, I'm an American. I was born and raised here in the United States. But I descend from generations of Palestinians. I am a Palestinian American. Like I said, I'm a Palestinian Christian. My family has been Christians for as far back as we know.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">And in 1948, my grandparents and many of my aunts and uncles who were alive at the time were forcibly displaced from their homes in Yaffa. And for those who don't know, it's on the water, essentially where Tel Aviv is today. And they had to leave everything. They left their homes. They left their businesses. They left their friends. They saw a huge migration, a forced migration of their peers, and massive levels of death. And for them, it was about self-preservation, about preserving future generations of their family. And they walked for miles to find somewhere safe.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">And I think it was happenstance that, you know, someone told them, "Oh, we think it's safe toward the east. Let's walk that direction." And as a Palestinian living in America, as a Palestinian living in the broader diaspora, not being able to return, there's a level of guilt that you have, knowing that a decision that was made 75 years ago to walk east instead of south, toward Gaza, changed the entire trajectory of your life, changed the trajectory of your family's lives, because, you know, my family has been here in the States for a long time, but I could have very easily been in Gaza. My family could have been in Gaza. It's extremely emotional. And you feel guilty because you are safe and you can't do enough to protect lives that are being taken indiscriminately.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">AMY GOODMAN: What are your plans now, Tariq?</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">TARIQ HABASH: I don't know. You know, I think this is such an important issue. I'm doing everything I can just to use whatever channels that I have to communicate about how important it is to end the violence immediately, to preserve as many lives as possible. I think we've heard the White House and the secretary of state talk repeatedly about minimizing civilian casualties. We can do a lot better than minimizing them. We can end civilian casualties in Gaza and in the West Bank. I think it's up to us to make that decision, to do a little bit of introspection on our own policies and positions and recognize that it's been over three months, the military route has been an epic failure, and the only path to peace, as the secretary of state talked about just yesterday, is a diplomatic one.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">And when we talk about providing humanitarian aid and increasing the level of aid that's getting to people in Gaza who are starving, it's really hard to do that if there is continuous bombing of all of the safe regions. There's nowhere safe left. There hasn't been anywhere safe left for weeks and weeks. 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style="border:none;display:block;height:auto;margin:0;padding:0;text-decoration:none;width:auto" target="_blank"><img alt="" width="550" height="414.111328125" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_2048,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2e65765c-a0b5-4d91-80ac-90c02c95250f_1024x771.jpeg" style="border:none!important;display:block;height:auto;margin:0 auto;margin-bottom:0;max-width:100%!important;vertical-align:middle;width:auto!important"></a></td><td style="text-align:center"></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">The first of our wise leaders.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">We have been handed a decidedly ugly choice in the impending election, but first a few memories: most here remember INHERIT THE WIND and a few even have read H. L. Mencken's coverage of the Scopes Monkey Trial in its depth. The defeated marching monkey leading the defense and posing as a haloed Jimmie Swaggert was a real political figure. He went on to run for the Presidency and the American electorate in its paucity of mendacity elected arguably the worst President one can recall, Warren Harding. As disgusting as Harding was, our country survived him while its fate under Bryan remains a fortunate mystery.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">On another occasion, he was opposed by Calvin Coolidge who has been described very well by Sinclair Lewis In THE MAN WHO KNEW COOLEDGE. (The same author wrote Elmer Gantry.) There was even an occasion or so that Cooledge spewed some common sense. He was once asked why he was able to finish all of his meetings and retire early while others slaved through 12-hour days or longer, he replied "Well, they answered questions."</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">So, we are now faced with what has turned into a disgusting choice, either vote for a lunatic with absolutely no redeeming qualities or goals other than to escape imprisonment, the Fascist who has not the slightest idea of what Fascism is (although he is quoted recently as saying "Did you know that the THIRD REICH was Germany? Wow)." Unfortunately, he has parasites that do know what it is and how to implement it and he will allow them to do so as long he is acknowledged as the leader.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">The other choice is Joe Biden (assuming we vote at all). Now Biden did fine work early on in his administration, overturning twenty or more insane and sadistic "executive orders". He also managed to pass an infrastructure bill against virulent penny-pinching amongst Republicans and a few Democrats. Once passed, Republican politicians would announce to their constituents that certain money was now available to them (even though they had voted against it).</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">This hypocrisy has always, since Lincoln, been a linchpin of the Republican party, but it has never been supported by such testosterone-ridden simians as today. His followers are brilliant examples of the inability to think rationally. In the middle of the last century a book was published by Horkheimer entitled THE ECLIPSE OF REASON, (a fortunately loose translation of the German title) which was a general analysis of the lack of genuine reason that made Fascism possible and even attractive. These MAGA simians feel they have lost the power and respect due them, so they supported overwhelmingly measures they thought would restore their own status of the dominant "race". One such measure was to criminalize abortion as a crime against Jesus and anything else they could find holy, including white football players – making sure, for example, that the one athlete, the quarterback, with any sort of reasoning power was always "white".</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">They never did consider the obvious fact that "Negro, Black, Afro-Americans, or African Americans" became a strong voting force due to their preponderance. Obviously, forcing them into further populating the electorate is counter-intuitive at best, the law or practice has angered vehemently rational white women on a greater scale and thus made these "Republicans" even less popular. Their own resentment of taxation (and one can easily sympathize with that bias) led to the reduction of taxes of about two trillion dollars (benefiting those who have such funds easily available). Of course, this increased the need of many for more, not less, government assistance from which those in the lower income levels now need even more. It is easily demonstrated that the only population that benefits from taxes on Democratic Party-controlled states are the mentally inactive Republican-led states. Therefore, these fools conclude that such programs from which they benefit should be stopped in the name of another higher power they worship – fiscal conservationism.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">But this leads to another problem: people who do not speak a vulgar dialect of English, or who have somewhat browner skin must at any and all costs be stopped at the border (obviously, the southern one). I remember vividly today in some line to a Texas Office, and man behind a woman who was speaking in a language on a cell phone he could not understand. He at least was polite to let he finish the conversation and then reprehended her, and I will not attempt to reproduce his language, saying that if she wanted to live here, she should speak in the original language of "murika". She replied that she was speaking in Navaho. I believe the irony escaped him as there was no further record of the conversation.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">In my earlier years, I grew familiar with these types of vermin (I simply use their word) when I acted as an athlete. Their interests were quite limited, but they had not yet developed to where they could unite behind a strange salesman named Donald Trump. [He will be analyzed below.] It is now known as the Republican base, which obviously shows no fealty towards any concepts. No elected official once in Congress was more fascistic in orientation than Liz Cheney, but she had the liability of being about to think independently, in error, but at least independently. She has been tossed out and now speaks in favor of some sort of Democracy, mainly to so-called "mainstream press" organs.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">We started this section with an illustration of the most insightful of political gurus named W C. Fields who when asked who he was going to vote for said "I never vote FOR, I always vote AGAINST." At least one can leave the voting booth with some sense of dignity.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">This is the only rationale for voting properly this time around as the daily slaughter of civilians, including one child every ten minutes, is supported by his likely opponent, Joe Biden. Outrage in this country has not developed at the sadistic behavior of Israel as honest documentation of it is suppressed here. One news outlet, Al Jazeera, you can reach here to see doctored footage of what is being done, is heavily attacked and its news reporters systematically killed. The documentation of this behavior is censored here.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"></p><div style="font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:32px auto"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align:center"></td><td align="left" width="1024" style="text-align:center"><a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/ddfe70b9-5407-447a-914f-901ba129aa84?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="border:none;display:block;height:auto;margin:0;padding:0;text-decoration:none;width:auto" target="_blank"><img alt="" width="550" height="794.384765625" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_2048,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdbbfeec4-5240-4fa8-a137-8547893aae33_1024x1479.jpeg" style="border:none!important;display:block;height:auto;margin:0 auto;margin-bottom:0;max-width:100%!important;vertical-align:middle;width:auto!important"></a></td><td style="text-align:center"></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Above is the utmost authority on everything: Mel Brooks. He first became known to the general public as the 2000-year-old man, but out of that series came a most significant observation on Psychology in a routine called THE NEW TECHNIQUE PSYCHIATRIC SOCIETY. (More about that later.)</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Among my own fields of study were the very abstruse and scientific (Physics and Mathematics) and the most edifying, literature and, of course, linguistics. This led me down what were directly separable paths finally ending in a specialty in Renaissance rhetoric and logic, the forerunner of our modern-day law schools. The most challenging aspect of the entire exercise was in teaching myself Latin with its eight grammatical cases (compared to modern English with three, all of which are under attack for political reasons).</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">I do remember an attempt to add the literature component and running into a rather authoritative elderly well-fed female who insisted I would have to take ten credit hours of INTRO TO COLLEGE MATH. I said that I did not need to spend my time on that and she felt that I was trying to escape the rigors of a general liberal arts curriculum. I asked who was insisting on that requirement and she said the Math Department, I assured her that the Math department was already satisfied with my training in that field, but she insisted on contacting the department to refute my pretensions.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">I must first point out that I had no idea of which member of that department at the University of Illinois at Urbana she contacted, but it happened to be the chairman who was more used to answering questions from NASA. I did, however, nearly memorize her side of the conversation after I had armed her with the information that I already had passed Calculus and Differential equations. her side was, almost verbatim, "I have a student here here who doesn't think he needs to take this Intro to Math. Now I told him, er, yes, well he mentioned having passed Calculus and Different Equations and I told him in no uncertain terms that … yes, sir, er, no sir, I mean they have no "college" in the … yes, sir, no sir, really sir, you don't have to … sir? She turned to me and said, "Well, he seems to think you can get away with it." At that point, I knew a MAGA force was developing.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">I decided to try a discipline in the center of the continuum which was Psychology. Psychology began within the field of Philosophy to some extent under the late Schopenhauer and the brilliant Nietzsche. This story indicates the understanding Schopenhauer had of mass Psychology. Every evening when He began dinner, he would put a gold coin on the table in front of him. He would then pick it up and depart. One day, the proprietor of the inn asked him why he did that and he replied that on the first night that his military customers talked about anything other than guns, horses, or wenches, he would give the gold piece to a charity. There is no further mention of that gold piece anywhere.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Nietzsche, in fact, was so perceptive and insightful that the acknowledged pioneer in the field, Sigmund Freud, said that he had stopped reading Nietzsche so that he could be certain that he had developed his field on his own.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">The field soon made its way into the academic curriculum as its own discipline and that is where I began to study it. Since many aspire to the field but fewer can practice it to anyone's benefit, they migrate to the refuge of creating rules for those who are competent to the point now that it is almost impossible to say with any sense of clarity what qualifies one as a Psychologist: does putting the time of day before the progress notes disqualify the practitioner? This is not merely a ludicrous invention – it actually a practice no matter how much better the patient's life is afterward. The date is on the wrong line! For shame!</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">At one point, credentials other than, or in addition to, ability, knowledge, and supervised practice were invented, so I was one of the first members of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPISTS. Well, that association then decided to require payment for "continuing education" in the field and the presentations I audited presented nothing I had not already known or direct confusion as to proper methodology which I had pointed out to the speaker to his or her sincere gratitude. The association then proceeded to require paid attendance at such proceedings when it was fairly clear to me that I should be paid for speaking, not paying for listening. I retired from the field or rather Association, then, when the hospital section where I was employed was shut down by the legislature.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">The question remains: am I or am I not a Psychologist? One reference I found handy was called the MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Index) in its various incantations. Its value for me, using what was the DSM IV-R (diagnosis and statistical) was that rather than have to go through writing the list of the symptoms of my patient, I was able to simply able to diagnose him and then send the code number to the Psychiatrist who had a medical degree and was thus able to prescribe medication. This explanation carries little weight with insurance companies. Not even the fact that I can identify myself as a Doctor helps. Insurance companies are in the same racket as gambling casinos as they never lose money (unless managed by Donald Trump in Atlantic City).</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">This is complicated today by the fact that one is not able or allowed to analyze a person unless one has spent sufficient time with him. It was only recently that I learned that this is known as the "Goldwater Rule", designed to stop people, especially professionals, from commenting on Barry Goldwater's rather outlandish statements such as a desire to "bomb Hanoi into the stone age." Not remembered is the vast amount of money spent to protect him. In addition, every Monday on NBC was a program called "That was the week that was" which made Goldwater and his John Birch society ridiculous.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">The television program was canceled in favor of far more lucrative fees for advertising for Goldwater. The John Birch Society, apparently some force about some missionary in China who met dire consequences also forced upon the profession what is now known as the "Goldwater rule" about meeting a subject in person before being able to make any pronouncement about anyone, especially a blathering right-wing Republican. It was clear that there was no defeating JFK in an election, but that matter was taken care of in Dallas. "Goldwater Girls," including Hillary Clinton, became dateable. The society was funded by Koch, yes, the father of those sons who started the "Tea Party". In view of all this, I do not feel bound by that rule.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">So, with all of that chatter behind us, I turn to the sage of our Media, Mel Brooks who, in addition to posing as the 2000-year-old man, also did an extempore bit called THE NEW TECHNIQUE PSYCHIATRIC SOCIETY. Psychiatry was used for the term, but it applies to all fields of talk therapy and the general republic has no awareness of the distinctions between the fields and hence are irrelevant here as most current readers are very much aware of the distinctions.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Rather than aver further, it is quite clear that the "base" called MAGA finds its popularity from it enabling numerous nobodies into somebodies. People with no obvious qualifications now consider themselves as "Patriots," "Oath Keepers," and racial purists, the infantry against the vile "vermin" who have the audacity to reason and occasionally be productive, people, therefore who make them realize that they are truly inferior. Such nonsense, endorsed by some document called the Constitution is the truly destructive force in this country.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">The person of the salesman in Chief of this movement, a salesman with the charisma of a Mr. Pillow, has distinguished himself as a social activist supporting the conviction of six innocents for rape (since overturned), the President of his own University (which managed to bankrupt lesser minds and for banks to force revision of Chapter 7 bankruptcy laws), and recently to serve as Putin's revenge on the United States and then to plot and inspire an insurrection. He has slipped a great deal cognitively in recent months stating that his political rival is Barack Obama, that he cured leprosy, and many other absurdities make him less mentally acute than Joe Biden who is perhaps 30 months older. One major difference, however, is that Biden has been known to read and thus has more information.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">So, how do I establish my credentials to speak in Psychological terms? I refer to the illustration above. In one bit alone Mel Brooks played a series of Psychological practitioners. One of whom was Dr. Buck Richardson who gave as his training the State of Texas. When asked which institution, he said "The State! Ah put muh hand on a rock, looked up into the sky, and said I AM A PSYCHIATRIST!" The only way to do it, is to have self-confidence. And that is why I am such an authority on the narcissistic behavior of the man in Orange.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">I could say more negative things about the idiot, and it is really his sycophants who could do the most damage, but the point seems so obvious that only "numskulls" (a word that needs resurrection) would find it interesting if indeed they ever progressed to the task of reading could be enlightened.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Money</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">By this time of the year, you must be deeply in debt or have extraordinary willpower. Are any of you able to enumerate the number of solicitations for good causes you have received in your mailboxes? I doubt it. I have received many such pleas from causes I would like to be in a position to help, but I am unable to contribute anything to any of them without feeling that I have abandoned the others, so I have avoided such pangs of conscience by sending no funds to any of them. Instead, knowing that it is futile, I am asking all of you to send me money, as much money as you can. If you do that, I will be very happy about it and send you a personally written e-mail thanking you at perhaps a dollar a word. I promise not to part with it to contribute to a numbskull or a charlatan. Even better, I will send you a prior edition depicting such scatterbrains as the strange woman in Alaska whose foreign policy credentials include how close the border of Alaska is to Russia.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">So, who are the two most vile characters I promise not to support? They are both well-known and of absolutely no value to mankind: Benjamin (numbskulls call him Bibi) Netanyahu (or NIT WIT YAH HOO) AND THE Orange man Mr. Donald J. Trump (or Drumph). Their motives and goals are nearly identical. Neither has any good intentions nor any conscience and their entire campaigns are the same: to keep out of prison (where they may well be safe from rape on aesthetic grounds) and care not one bit for their fellow man.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">If somehow the war against innocent Palestinians is stopped, Bibi will lose his position and then be subject to the wrath of the Israeli Supreme Court for bribery and other fiscal charges and, given his more recent conduct murder or other more serious charges. Such charges are already prepared and it is only this slaughter he inspires that keeps him out of court. This slaughter is greatly assisted by you and our government. The cruelty of it is irrelevant to him and he failed at his attempt to castrate his Supreme Court (you may remember the scenes of Israeli citizens waving their flags).</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Donald Drumpf, the man in orange, of about 99 indictments for felonies and for inspiring an insurrection, has been cited as asking that if he were sent to prison would he have to wear an orange jumpsuit? Electing him would at least end the election ritual as he certainly attempted to avoid wearing an orange jumpsuit. I hope that I have at least established that I am not in favor of the man in orange.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">However, if you send me money (and you can do this by credit or debit card) I will be happy to thank you. Or, even better, I will send out to paid subscribers only some Chrestomathy-tinged samples. Since the busiest travel day of the year is coming within hours, be sure to donate before you get home, open your mail, and find out how deep in hock you already are. If you do not find this the most ridiculous request for such funds you have ever seen, send instead a copy of that request. 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style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Introduction to Occupation</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">by</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Absurd Times</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">I am indulging myself for a few pages, and then get to a comprehensive presentation of what is not permitted on domestic media – the truth about Israel's war on whatever you think is holy.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">I have been hearing far too much about transforming the United States into a Christian Nation and, according to the new SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, that the First Amendment is meant to protect religion from the government rather than the other way around. If that is what is intended with the Presidency of Demented J. Trump, I would seek advice as to which version of the Christian Bible we are supposed to follow.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">For decades, Congressmen and Senators were to take their oath on THE BIBLE. Most of that early time used the Bible that belonged to Thomas Jefferson. Now Jefferson wrote back and forth extensively with Ottoman (a Moslem) and they had a very cordial exchange. Jefferson looked at and studied, I assume, the King James version. However, he did carefully rip out the passages he thought were nonsense. I imagine the "Virgin" birth went into the waste basket along with many other passages.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><em>All of this is an introduction to the reality of what is going on in occupied Palestine, but please indulge me as I defenestrate some of the nonsense. You know, I have to have some way of maintaining sanity and I'm told that humor is healthy in such cases.</em></p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">So, the King James version is the one that has been accepted in the U.S. as the Bible, the "Holy" Bible, for years, and much of our legal history is affected by it. So far as I can tell, while it is very vivid and even masterfully written in many passages, it does not make sense to me as a whole. Take for example passages in Deuteronomy and Leviticus. For example, they make reference to a man's "secrets" which I find very puzzling. What are a man's secrets. Furthermore, if a woman "grabbeth a man by his secrets," there are dire consequences for her. She is often sent to be "stoned, WITH STONES" [emphasis mine to make sure that no hallucinogenics are implied, I assume]. I also gather that many, including the hapless Jeroboam will be seperated from those who "pisseth against the wall". In the version I first had and subsequent editions as well, there were no footnotes, so that remains a mystery.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">The one translation I've found that made any sense at all is called the Vulgate – which means it was not printed in Latin (Greek would be closer) or any of the early versions of Hebrew that were written in words with the vowel sounds omitted, and that made following it even more complicated. The one translation that I have been able to consult when such absurdities as those early women reaching out to grabbeth men's secrets is the one written first and published by Guttenberg, the Luther translation. It was called the "vulgate" or "vulgar" simply because it was in a language people could read without a priest paraphrasing it. They may say that Luther had some bad attitudes and did some things that we would consider nasty, but that does not affect his translation anymore than a bowler who scores over 250 in a game but drinks Bud Lite. You can also say that a nation that occupies another country has a right to defend itself from the occupied people. </p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">In case you are wondering, those who "pisseth against the wall" are those who have been circumcised. 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One network had three very knowledgeable newsmen who had kept them all off the air for the first week after October 7. One was about the be fired but for now is safe because of a popular uprising here. We can also say, without exaggeration, that the one faction that raises the most opposition to Israel's vicious and sadistic behavior are Jews. Reaction to them has been either relief and support or attacks as Anti-Semitic! Islamophobia is also rampant. Still, if we want to think about the butchery correctly, we need facts, not the propaganda we are fed here by our "news" organizations. It is still possible to find this on <i>Al Jazeera</i> and often on </span>Democracy Now<span>.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><em>The real truth. Nitwityahoo says the killing of escaped hostages, all Israelis waving a white flag and shirtless by his IDF "breaks his heart" (and I fart roses).</em></p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing growing calls for another ceasefire in Gaza after Israeli troops mistakenly shot dead three Israeli hostages who were shirtless and waving a white flag. This comes as Israel continues to target hospitals, refugee camps, and journalists in Gaza. On Friday, Samer Abudaqa, a reporter from Al Jazeera, bled to death after being injured in an Israeli drone strike on a U.N. school. Israeli forces prevented ambulances and rescue workers from reaching him for five hours. "This is not the first time we've gone through this," says Al Jazeera senior political analyst Marwan Bishara of Israel's ongoing assault on Gaza, which has impacted citizens like journalists, teachers, and doctors the most. "Gaza has been the target of this war, not Hamas." Bishara addresses how the United States is increasingly isolated in its opposition to a ceasefire, growing focus on Israel's collective punishment, and more.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Transcript</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, <a href="http://democracynow.org" target="_blank">democracynow.org</a>, The War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Israel is intensifying its attacks across Gaza as pressure grows on Israel to support another ceasefire. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports the head of the Mossad, Israel's intelligence service, has met with the prime minister of Qatar and CIA chief William Burns in Poland. Talks between the Mossad and Qatar also took place this weekend in Norway. Meanwhile, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has arrived in Tel Aviv for talks.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">This comes as Israel continues to carry out attacks across Gaza, targeting hospitals, schools and refugee camps. Authorities in Gaza say an Israeli attack on the Jabaliya refugee camp killed 110 people on Saturday. Israel has also raided the Kamal Adwan Hospital, where doctors say Israeli bulldozers crushed Palestinians to death, including wounded patients who were living in tents in the hospital's courtyard. Israel has also attacked Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City and the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing growing calls to secure the release of the remaining Israeli hostages in Gaza, after Israeli forces mistakenly shot dead three Israeli hostages who managed to escape captivity in northern Gaza. The three men, who were all shirtless, were shot as they cried for help in Hebrew while holding up a white flag.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Meanwhile, Israel continues to attack Palestinian journalists. On Friday, Al Jazeera journalist Samer Abudaqa was killed after an Israeli drone struck a U.N. school in Khan Younis where displaced Palestinians were being sheltered. In a statement, Al Jazeera said, quote, "Following Samer's injury, he was left to bleed to death for over five hours, as Israeli forces prevented ambulances and rescue workers from reaching him, denying the much-needed emergency treatment," unquote. This is Ibrahim Qanan, a reporter for Al-Ghad in Gaza.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">IBRAHIM QANAN: [translated] This is a horrific crime, a direct target. The first missile hit Samer, and he tried to crawl for 200 meters, but the Israeli warplanes hit him again and directly, so he became a martyr, and his body was cut into pieces. This is a crime, day and night, against journalists and against the media outlets who are working to reveal the Israeli occupation crimes in Gaza Strip.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">AMY GOODMAN: Al Jazeera says it will ask the International Criminal Court to investigate the killing of Samer Abudaqqa. He was working with his colleague Wael Dahdouh, the head of Al Jazeera in Gaza, who was injured in the same drone strike. They were reporting from the school together. Wael was able to walk to a hospital, dazed, to receive medical attention. He already had lost his wife, son, daughter and grandson in an earlier Israeli attack.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">We begin today's show with Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera's senior political analyst, longtime Palestinian journalist and author. His books include Palestine/Israel: Peace or Apartheid: Prospects for Resolving the Conflict. He's joining us from the studios of Al Jazeera in Doha.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">We welcome you to Democracy Now!, Marwan. We welcome you back. If you can start off, since you're there at Al Jazeera, by talking about the International Criminal Court complaint that Al Jazeera has filed after the death of a beloved cameraman who's worked with so many Al Jazeera journalists there, was working with the head of Al Jazeera in Gaza at the time, with Wael Dahdouh? Talk about what happened to him and just what it's like to walk the halls of Al Jazeera right now, as I watched Al Jazeera over the weekend, every hour the tributes to him, the video, the photos of him, his colleagues remembering him, his family crying out for him.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">MARWAN BISHARA: Well, as you know, this is not the first time we go through this. We've gone through it a number of times already, mourning our colleagues, the death of our colleagues and the death of their families. They are our family, and their families are also our extended family. And that's just been going on for too long. We've covered too many wars. I personally have been in since the First Gaza Wqar back in 2008, 2009. We've gone through four wars like that. And only a couple years ago, one of our colleagues, as you know, Shireen Abu Akleh, was killed in the Jenin refugee camp. So this is all too close to home.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">I mean, you know, every day we live the tragedy of the death of several hundreds in Gaza the past 10 weeks. But when it comes to our very own, I guess it's human nature, right? You just can't ignore it, can't go on without being preoccupied with it and preoccupied with the feelings of those loved ones, that continue to endure the bombings, the inhumane bombings that we're seeing in Gaza and the rest of Palestine. So it's a somber atmosphere, but people here just, I guess, plow ahead — there's no other option — as countless people die and countless families suffer without shelter, without medical treatment, even without food. It's just the tragedy that we just have to live through every day and report on every day.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">AMY GOODMAN: Let's talk about that issue of food. You have this new Human Rights Watch report that's out that's accusing Israel of using starvation as a weapon of war, saying, "Israeli forces are deliberately blocking the delivery of water, food, and fuel, while willfully impeding humanitarian assistance, apparently razing agricultural areas, and depriving the civilian population of objects indispensable to their survival." This is Carl Skau, the deputy executive director of the U.N. World Food Programme, speaking to reporters last week in New York after a recent visit to Gaza.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">CARL SKAU: What we found there was that half of the population are starving. The grim reality is also that nine out of 10 people are not eating enough, are not eating every day, and don't know where the next meal is going to come from. … We are ready to deliver to another million people within a couple of weeks, should the conditions allow. And let me reiterate that caveat, that should those conditions allow, which would be opening of more crossings and a humanitarian ceasefire to be able to reach people across the strip.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">AMY GOODMAN: The deputy executive director of the U.N. World Food Programme. He says nine out of 10 people are not eating enough in Gaza. I mean, in the past, with all of Gaza's problems, hunger was not one of them. Can you talk about the significance of this, and also this latest news? I mean, even as we're broadcasting, these attacks on one hospital after another. I mean, Abudaqa and Wael Dahdouh were covering the strike on the U.N. school in Khan Younis when Abudaqa was killed.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">MARWAN BISHARA: Yes, absolutely. Just as a reminder to your viewers, there was also a report by Oxfam on October 23rd — that's also just two weeks after the war started in Gaza, or on Gaza — where it also spoke about the weaponization of hunger, because this has actually been going on since day one, since October 8, when defense minister — so-called defense minister, minister of war, Yoav Gallant, if you remember, made his infamous threat by saying, "We're going to cut their food, their fuel, their electricity," basically denying the Palestinians of every basic need. It's part of the collective punishment that Israel decided from day one to impose on the Palestinians, which of course is a war crime.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">But that's been the nature of the war, because right after he said that he's going to deny the Palestinians in Gaza all of this, he said they are "human animals." This was basically an intent for genocide, because right after he did make those infamous declarations, the president of Israel, Mr. Herzog, also came out with his statements about the fact, to his view, there are no innocents in Gaza. No innocents in Gaza. And that was followed by the prime minister, Netanyahu, who said something about an analogy with some biblical times, comparing the Palestinians to the Amalek, and hence basically saying that Israel will go after their families, their parents, the children, even the infants and their families. So we have the three leading Israeli officials basically admitting in public, once and again, [inaudible] collective punishment against Palestinians in general in Gaza.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">AMY GOODMAN: So, Marwan, if you can talk about what's happening, the increasing isolation of Israel, and the United States supporting Israel? You have yet another vote today in the U.N. Security Council around a ceasefire. You have the British and German foreign ministers calling for a ceasefire, further isolating the U.S., which blocked a ceasefire at the U.N. Security Council. Lloyd Austin is in Tel Aviv meeting with the Israeli leadership. If you can shed light on — you know, Netanyahu, after the killing of the three Israeli hostages, held a news conference. He is under enormous pressure right now to put the hostages at the top. You've got negotiations going on, apparently, in Norway between the Qatari and Mossad officials, and now William Burns, head of central intelligence, is in Poland to meet with the Qatari officials. Talk about all that's happening right now, Netanyahu not wanting to end this war right now. And there is a question about, since he's facing one criminal trial after another himself, whether, once this ends and there's a real evaluation done, he could end up in jail himself, so putting that off.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">MARWAN BISHARA: Well, OK, so let's try quickly to dissect all of these very complicated issues. Let me just start by a quick — not going to call it "correction," but just, you know, shed a light on the German, British position. They have not called for an immediate ceasefire. They called for a sustained ceasefire, which is the opposite of an immediate ceasefire, because, basically, they said it's not anything that we think of that will happen anytime in the near future, when they mention "sustained," which means the circumstances have to be suitable, which is basically very close to the American position. Unfortunately, the European clients of the United States, for the time being, remain so, clients of the United States, following in the footsteps of the United States, basically to the displeasure of the majority of their public opinion, also like that of the public opinion of the United States, apparently.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">But clearly the Biden administration wants to beautify the genocide in Gaza. I think they're being embarrassed, because the reports coming out of Gaza, the images, the suffering and all of that, is reaching American public and the Western public in general. And they need to, you know, give the impression that they're doing something, hence they're sending these envoys to the region and writing articles and so on and so forth, to at least prove that they are trying to do something, while, in fact, in reality, the United States continue to subsidize this war, manage this war, because we see Lloyd Austin sitting along with Yoav and the rest of the Israeli generals. And they also, of course, as we know, sent the two aircraft carriers and the nuclear submarines to the area, hence shielding Israel, not just militarily, but also at the United Nations, committing $14 billion to Israel's war effort. So, all in all, the United States continue to unconditionally support Israel, while claiming to distance itself from the intensive phase of the war, claiming that they want to phase out to something different. Right? So, that's what we have for the time being.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">But the fact of the matter is that, until today, 10 weeks later, the United States has yet to condemn Israel in public, its war crimes in Gaza, yet to distance themselves from those war crimes that have been reported once and again that are taking place in Gaza. All what they're saying is that Israel should try to minimize, because too many Palestinians have died over the past 10 weeks. And now when they talk about the phaseout — and here, this is a very, very interesting fact that we see — they're saying Israel should perhaps target Hamas fighters, Hamas tunnels, and assassinate their leaders. That's what they're saying. So, it begs the question: If this is the way to fight Hamas, why did they go on and destroy Gaza, leading to tens of thousands of casualties the past 10 weeks? There is clearly another way to fight this war, which is going after Hamas, not going after Gazans. But from the beginning, Amy — and this is, again, very important to underline — is the fact that Gaza has been the target of this war, not Hamas. And if you look at the statistics, Gazans — the journalists, the doctors, the nurses, the teachers, the academics, the children — have been the main victims of this war. Hamas fighters, Hamas militants have been the collateral damage in this war. For the past 10 weeks, it was Gaza that's being decimated, its civil infrastructure being decimated. It's been a war on hospitals, on schools, on mosques and, yes, a war on children. And yet it was unconditionally supported by the United States and other Western powers. And we haven't heard a single retraction for that support. And it's still being shielded at the United Nations. Hundred and fifty-three members called for an immediate ceasefire, and what did the United States do? Voted against it. Thirty members of the U.N. Security Council voted for an immediate ceasefire. Britain abstained. The United States vetoed the resolution. The United States and Britain, until today, they sit isolated in the international community.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">So, when President Biden tells a small group of people in Washington that Israel is perhaps losing the public support, what public support? What international public support? A majority in America, to my knowledge, ask for a ceasefire. A majority of the [inaudible] out are the Biden administration and his lackeys in London and Berlin. The rest of the international community, including the absolute majority of everyone in this region, wants a ceasefire.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">And just quickly to cap that, we just interviewed a number of people in Gaza, in the streets in Gaza, asked them, "What do you think about Lloyd Austin coming to the area?" They said something to the fact, "Oh my god, this means we're going to be bombed again and again the next few days," because think about that. Since Biden landed in the middle of October, every time an American official showed up in Israel, Israel had intensified the bombings. After Biden came, the land invasion started. And every visit by Blinken or Sullivan or Lloyd Austin, we have seen an intensification of the bombings of the civilian infrastructure of Gaza, of the residential buildings in Gaza. That's been the case. That's been the reality. There's no other interpretations of it.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">So, the diagram, the process, if you will, shows unconditional American support, despite the various acrobatic verbal diarrhea that comes out of Western capital about, "Well, we're not very happy about too many Palestinians dying." Well, how many is enough exactly for them to stop Israel from continuing? Because Israel couldn't launch this war, couldn't sustain this war, couldn't survive in the region like this without American support. In fact, Prime Minister Netanyahu says that "We will win this war with the support of the United States." So, imagine: A country that calls itself the most important power in the Middle East is incapable of defeating a small guerrilla group that's been under siege for the past 17 years, and it requires the deployment of aircraft carriers and the financial and military power of the world's superpower. And yet, until today, it still insists it's not even done with half of the job, because despite the tens of thousands of casualties, despite the death of more than 7,000 children, only a fraction — a fraction — of Hamas fighters have been killed in this war. It all goes to tell you that the endgame and the military objectives, none of them have been reached, despite the genocide that continues to unravel in Palestine.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">AMY GOODMAN: So, Netanyahu holds this news conference on Saturday after the killing of the three Israeli hostages in Gaza, and he says, "We have to intensify the war to make Hamas release the hostages." What is your response to this? Clearly at odds with even Israeli public opinion. And the idea that these three men, who were killed by Israeli forces, Netanyahu saying that his own forces violated the rules of war, was this any different or any surprise than the thousands — the way thousands of Palestinians have been treated, many also holding up a white flag? The surprise here is that these hostages were not treated differently than Palestinians.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">MARWAN BISHARA: Absolutely, shirtless, white flag and shouting in Hebrew, and yet they were murdered by their own, which tells you, according now to a good number of Israelis speaking out, that there are no rules of engagements. It's crap. It's humbug. There are no rules of engagement in Gaza. You shoot whatever moves in Gaza. And, yes, it's odd, because the Israelis have been doing exactly that since day one.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Now, as you said, it's also odd, his arguments about the captives, because this is the most ridiculous arguments of all arguments. We've known from the beginning that they said the aim of the war is first to defeat Hamas, second to release the captives. And they kind of connected both by saying, "If we intensify the war, Hamas will be pressured to release the captives." It never did. So they had to resort to diplomacy, asking the Qataris, the Egyptians and the Americans to help. And they did. And through diplomacy, they were able to release some of the hostages. And then they went back to war the day after. Now they want to try it again.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Well, the news is that Hamas will no longer accept humanitarian pauses. Hamas now insists on permanent ceasefire and the withdrawal of the Israeli forces from Gaza. Otherwise, what incentive does Hamas have in order to release any more of the, especially military, captives that it has in Gaza? Because if the Israelis, with the support of the United States, are going to continue the bombings the next day, and they insist that the war objective is to kill Hamas fighters, there is zero incentives why they would release anyone.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">So, today, we are in the Netanyahu logic. And the Netanyahu logic is neither in the interests of Israel or the United States. And Biden knows that. Apparently, he got a file from Israel, through his intelligence agencies, that says something to the fact, according to Haaretz, the Israeli mainstream paper, that Netanyahu has a vested — has a personal vested interest in prolonging the war, because he, you know, as a political-criminal-indicted-on-corruption-charges-cum-war-criminal, he has a vested interest to prolong the war as much as he can in order to improve his chances for reelection. In fact, he just put in the military fatigue and started making his populist slogans, the ones that we know them, saying that only he can prevent the emergence of a Palestinian state, that only he can stand up to the United States, and hence the Israelis need to elect him again. So, Netanyahu, as a person, the military establishment, as well, have vested interest to continue with this war.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0; margin: 0px;">AMY GOODMAN: Marwan Bishara, I want to thank you very much for being with us, Al Jazeera's senior political analyst, speaking to us from Doha, Qatar, born in Nazareth, in the occupied West Bank. 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style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Absurd Times</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">I had to put the illustration above because different platforms have been mucking about with various format changes and the illustration should be visible.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"> It seems increasingly the case that religion or fables are the primary issues to discuss these days as any talk of a Republic, Democracy, or Idiocracy is simply overwhelmed with spam. This includes both pro-any specific religion and against any, Frankly, most Americans will agree that they will not believe in anyone who does not have the decency to at least claim to believe in a personal, benevolent God, a creator, intelligent design- or some facsimile.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">The problem developed in the late 1950s as Physicists noticed that reactions often enough occurred by the actions that motivated them.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>Above is a pictorial representation of the equation devised by Goins to finally arrive at a mathematical solution to the Higgs Boson -- what he called "The God-Damn" particle. I found it, of all places, after searching just about anywhere else, on </span><em><strong>Wikipedia</strong></em><span>. It has doubtless been revised and attacked, but that's your problem. It is a two-dimensional representation of a three-dimensional view of a four-dimensional equation. It is also where the popular journalistic notion that this is some sort of "God Particle" originates. It is too abstruse to say it is the sort of perversion Fox News would come up with, but it is certainly beyond the interest of our Idiocracy. (Most of the "hard" information is in the footnotes to the entry, but one can get lost if not comfortable with "higher Math".</span></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Recently, someone quoted Stephen Hawkings as saying there was no God to create the universe. Well, it is true, but it takes a while to get there, and, believe me, I've simplified this as much as possible. The math is out and the ideas, are still debated and pared down to the point that we are discussing an Alpha-Romeo by seeing one of its tires. Still, I hope I've been able to understand how far the God Squad has to go to establish a viable alternative to the origin of the universe(s). It is mind-stretching. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">We have to start with the Higgs Boson, sometimes called the "God" particle. Well, let us get rid of that idea first. It come from some physicist/mathemetician (the boundaries have not existed for decades now) who was assigned to work on it and he got so frustrated with the mathematics of it that he called it 'THE GODDAMN PARTICLE". So, sorry, there is no real metaphysical significance to that term, (one would suppose).</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Its value is that it is the particle that gives mass to all the other subatomic particles, starting with hydrogen which had been missing since the 50s at least. Finally, they found it a CERN (still the one superconducting supercollider of distinction). Georgie Bush wanted to build an even bigger one but would listen to nobody with any knowledge and tried to build it in TEXAS (of course). Well, ants kept eating it, so it never really got built. (But I digress). </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">So, where does the string theory come into this? Well, before anything else, at the Big Bang, these strings, not particles, came out and each represented a dimension. The Higgs particle/space generates 30 dimensions in itself. However, there are other particles and theories, each with its plethora of dimensions. The easiest to wrap your mind around (you still there? Ok.) is the idea of a two-dimensional model that combines all the dimensions but requires a mirror to be understood. (Don't ask me, I was lost about 2/3rds of the way through this.) This gives rise to the plausible idea of multi-verses. I'll just stick with our own and focus on Earth. That's enough for me.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">All of our ideas, theories, beliefs, etc., depend upon some sort of cause and effect, and that requires the dimension of time. I started out as a Physics Major in college and had read a great deal about relativity, thought experiments, nuclear reactions, and so forth, but such topics were never even considered in the official classes we took. All of them, without exception, seemed to be designed for the education of civil engineers. The focus was on Newtonian mechanics with a bit of newer ideas thrown in, but nothing beyond electricity (which they were still debating as to whether it traveled in waves or particles) and related topics. Gauss and then Maxwell seemed to be the most abstract thinkers they could follow – and I mean the "Professors". There were no more LAWS in physics, only theories and hypotheses. Einstein was accurate enough to designate Relativity as a "footnote to Newton".</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">I remember very vividly once, having heard of the activity of the hyperon where the reaction took place a micro nanosecond before the action, and was eager for direction on where to search for more information. I raised the question in class and was answered with "When we want to be talking about that stuff, we should all be wearing long beards!" He chuckled, hoping for a class agreement, and was greeted with yawns. I found that irritating, but I was young and did not realize that he did not know the first thing about such concepts. Such was the intellectual climate. I also had trouble in a mathematics class because I used a novel solution (I thought) to a Calculus problem and nearly flunked for the sin of reading ahead to the next semester. Naturally, I hadn't and it was the first time I had ever been attacked for actually reading anything in these textbooks before I had to and the only thing that kept me awake was looking for spelling errors or omissions of proper exponents. It was also the last. (I think I had suddenly, with no reasoning at all, applied what was known as "L'Hospital's Rule, a clever rearrangement of sine and cosine.) Never mind. At least this is more intriguing than thinking about Donald Trump.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Anyway, now we have the background. The concept of a God or "Creator" relies on our experience in the four, two, or three dimensions we confine ourselves to, all of them not in existence until AFTER the Big Bang. Using the dimensions that we can detect and in which we live, we have developed a prejudice in favor of cause and effect, and this idea depends on these dimensions. Essentially, it states that one thing causes another and that means one thing happened before another, and all of this relies on the dimension of time. Space is another dimension, although we usually divide it into three, length, height, and width. In any case, none of this happened before the dimensions emerged, and the idea of cause and effect only makes use of two or three of them. Thus a "creator" is a ludicrous concept.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"> So, the Senate Republicans want to confirm someone to make sure that healthcare is more expensive, skip the idea of helping those who are out of work as a result of our mishandling of Covid, and make sure that the current occupant remains in the White House, eh? Let's have a good laugh at that one! Then realize that a majority of our population is stupid enough to vote for him. Talk about String Theory being a puzzle. Now, the Booboisie will try to preserve or create an idiocracy as soon as they can. At least the can understand t.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"> Here are a few simplified statements regarding our discussion:</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"> The Higgs boson is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics, produced by the quantum excitation of the Higgs field,[8][9] one of the fields in particle physics theory.[9] It is named after physicist Peter Higgs, who in 1964, along with five other scientists, proposed the Higgs mechanism to explain why particles have mass. This mechanism implies the existence of the Higgs boson. The Higgs boson was initially discovered as a new particle in 2012 by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations based on collisions in the LHC at CERN, and the new particle was subsequently confirmed to match the expected properties of a Higgs boson over the following years.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">String Theory</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">String theory began as bosonic string theory, whose 26 dimensions act as many fewer. 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These superpartners might seem an extravagant prediction, yet many theorists and experimentalists favor supersymmetric versions of the Standard Model, whose equations must otherwise be tweaked extravagantly and sometimes arbitrarily to maintain predictive success or mathematical consistency, but with the superpartners align.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">It seems as if some of the devotees of the Abrahamic Religions felt left out, So I conclude with a quote from one of their favorite books, in fact the Bible of the Judeo-Christian ones:</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">"I saw a pale horse and a pale rider upon it. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">And the name of the horse was Pestilence,</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">And the name of the rider was death."</p><p 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You’re fired.<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">It seems we are in Orwell's 1984.</div><br><div class="msg-8406333822364069797"> <div> <p> <span style="display:none;font-size:0px;color:#fff;line-height:0px;max-height:0px;max-width:0px;opacity:0;overflow:hidden"> The New York Times, Associated Press, BBC, and Los Angeles Times are just a handful of the more prominent news outlets where journalists say they were sidelined after criticizing Israel or expressing sympathy for Palestinians. </span> </p> <div id="m_-8406333822364069797ti-email-container" style="font-family:'Helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;font-weight:400;max-width:600px;margin:0 auto"> <div class="m_-8406333822364069797ti-email__body-text" 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subscribers!</strong></em></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Now, let's get to some of the latest issues.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">LIES – ISRAEL BUILT THE TUNNELS -</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">OVERWHELMING PERFIDY</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">BY</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Absurd Times</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">These revelations have been suppressed by decades and some are just now available. We will definitely start very slow and seem a bit like a textbook but understand that we are just trying for timing. Believe me, things pick up quite a bit before the article's journalistic attachment.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><em><strong>Negation</strong></em></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">I once met and then knew a Professor, from the West Side of Chicago (neighborhoods change rapidly there), a Ph,D. In Political Science, full professor, who still lived his background. He was the most profound philosopher of our age. He would shout out in the middle of a longish and tedious discussion the type where everyone seemed to be arguing about the number of angels that could fit on the head of a pin-type discussion "WHO CARES???!!!!" I immediately woke up. He had summarized everything of the last unknown number of hours into two words: WHO CARES??!! As the group began things about manners, erudition, and even throwing in a bit of cosmology, I finally mustered the energy to care and said SHUT THE FUCK UP. I'M OUTTA HERE! He started to laugh and then we left together. That was the last MENSA meeting either of us ever went back to.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">He once asked me why I had bothered so long with them, and I told him that it had been building, that I was usually careful not to get angry as I tended to be violent for extended periods, but the night before they had been chanting or garbling that Ravel's Bolero was sexual intercourse and I began to wonder how they could ever have been drawing on personal experience. Then, I said, "You came in and said WHO CARES??!! and I saw my exit. Lose a mob and gain a friend." He started to laugh and then shook his head wondering "Who are these beings?". And I said "Some of my best friends were beings, but things change." It also marked the first time I smirked at the same time as someone else did.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><em><strong>The case if the superflous comma</strong></em></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Are any fans of Sherlock Holmes around?</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">We need to go to the first attempted overthrow of our government of this century. We also have to remember Dan Quayle. At the time George Herbert Walker Bush, left-handed first baseman of the Yale team and at least a 201 batter, head of the CIA, Vice President under Ronald Regan, star of BEDTIME FOR BONZO, and spokesman for 20 Mule Team Borax, Governor of California who said "We should be careful about who we allow to go to college" when he found out that students caused him trouble, and finally President of the United States who was told about the Iran-Contra deal but forgot about it anyway as his Alzheimers started to kick in, had Dan Quayle as his Vice President. We have to hold on to that fact because it was the foundation for this century. So, who was Dan Quayle?</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">He was widely regarded as a joke. On the Web you can find many misquotes or foul-ups he was the author of. He was from Indiana. My favorite jab at him was the quote arising from a visit he made to "Latin America". He saw all the CIA-prompted people cheering him and waving him on, and blowing him kisses. When he got back, he said "It was a great trip and made me wish I had studied Latin harder in high school." Just do a search on hiM and you will be rewarded.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Mike Pence, also from Indiana, called him when Mike was told he could overthrow the election by messing with the Electoral College votes. Quayle told him he didn't have a chance. So, Dan Quayle knew more about what was going on than anyone else and saved our government, at least for a while.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">What about the comma? Well, it seems that Pence told Trump, straight out, "You know you lost the election." However, in the transcript, it read "You know, you lost the election.' These are two different sentences. The first is an assertion that Trump actually knew that he had lost the election The second makes it seem that Pence is informing Trump that in his (Pence's) opinion, Trump lost the election. The first is the correctly punctuated sentence. Eventually, that led to chants of HANG MIKE PENCE and the informative video of Josh Hawley of Missouri running away from danger like a long-legged chicken escaping an ax.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">So who needs anything more?</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Some facts that have been too succinct to mention:</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">I was once asked about INHERIT THE WIND when I mentioned it in connection with the guy who was now the Speaker of the House figured the world was only 6,000 years old. Someone wrote back and said he couldn't find it. I told him I found it on ROKU – all 3 versions. Little did I know that subscription services snapped up the latest two minutes after my announcement.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">The day after Israel finished the pause, 700 more Palestinians were killed.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">On the West Bank: it is now carved up into 224 Islands, an Archipelago if you will, and no longer belongs to the Palestinians. Israel claims to have won it and legally owns the Israeli Supreme Court decided it was time to start Nit Wit Yahoo's trial.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">A recent poll determined that in the West Bank, 80% of Palestinians support Hamas. (Way up).</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">The same poll in Gaza yielded 60%.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">All of this becomes even more to the point that more than half the Palestinian population was born just before or when Hamas was elected. Why are they telling us that all these people choose Hamas?</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Trump, and thus most Republicans are attacking MSNBC now. MSNBC had first decided out of fear to just fire the journalist who made the mistake of being more accurate than Israel wanted, but because of the plan to extinguish MSNBC, it, changed its mind, removed his regular show (3 weeks left), and made him sort of an executive.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Maga wanted to have Hunter Biden testify to one of their committees. 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"We were told that this was like a Hamas Pentagon," says Scahill, who describes how the Israeli military's own evidence disproves its allegations that the hospital was dangerous enough to justify its siege and bombardment. The World Health Organization says Al-Shifa, Gaza's largest hospital, "is no longer functioning." The Israeli disinformation campaign against it was a "lethal lie," says Scahill. We also discuss the status of Palestinian prisoners who are now candidates for release in Israel and Hamas's ongoing hostage exchange.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Transcript</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, <a href="http://democracynow.org" target="_blank">democracynow.org</a>, The War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman, with Juan González.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Israel is continuing to detain the head of Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest hospital in Gaza. Last week, the Israeli military detained Muhammad Abu Salmiya as he was evacuating patients south from Gaza City.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Israel raided Al-Shifa, claiming Hamas ran a command and control center under the hospital, but Israel has yet to provide any hard evidence to back that up. Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak recently spoke with CNN's Christiane Amanpour. He admitted Israel built the bunkers decades ago underneath Al-Shifa.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">EHUD BARAK: It's already known for many years that they have in the bunkers, that originally was built by Israeli constructors underneath Shifa, were used as a command post of the Hamas in a kind of a junction of several — several tunnels, part of this system. I don't know to say to what extent it is a major. It's probably not the only kind of command post. Several others are under other hospitals or in other sensitive places. But it's for sure had been used by Hamas even during this conflict.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: Well, when you say it was built by Israeli engineers, did you misspeak?</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">EHUD BARAK: No, no. Someday, you know, decades ago, we were wanting the place, so we held them. It was decades, many decades, ago, probably five, four decades ago, that we helped them to build these bunkers in order to enable more — more space for the operation of the hospital within the very limited size of this compound.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">AMY GOODMAN: Again, that was the former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">We're joined now by Jeremy Scahill, senior reporter and correspondent at The Intercept, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army and Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield. One of his most recent pieces for The Intercept is headlined "Al-Shifa Hospital, Hamas's Tunnels, and Israeli Propaganda." Jeremy is joining us from Germany.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Jeremy, can you talk about what he just said?</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">JEREMY SCAHILL: Yeah. Well, first of all, Amy, the Al-Shifa Hospital, originally, going back to the years of the British Mandate in the 1940s, it was a British military barracks, and then it was converted into a hospital, under both the Israeli and the Egyptian occupations of that area. And then, in the 1980s, the Israelis began to do extensive construction on it. In fact, I was looking at the Israeli Architecture Archives that were set up, and you can go back and look at [inaudible] from that era, and two Tel Aviv architects oversaw the expansion of the Al-Shifa Hospital. And by 1983, they had finished the construction of underground facilities at the hospital.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Now, we should also say, it's not uncommon for hospitals the world over to have underground facilities for a variety of reasons. But when you're in an active war zone, it's very common. In fact, Israel has many underground facilities at its hospitals throughout Israel and has been using them since October 7th, certainly. They're considered more secure places to hold vulnerable patients.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">And so, what we know about Israel's construction is that they at least built an underground operating room. They built a network of tunnels. And, in fact, during some of the construction, the son of one of the Israeli architects who designed the underground facility said that when Israel was building these in the 1980s, they hired people from Hamas as security to guard the construction project to ensure that it wouldn't get attacked.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And, Jeremy, could you talk also about the thousands of prisoners that Israel has been holding, many of them without any trial for extended years, and yet the Netanyahu government refers to all of them as "terrorists"?</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">JEREMY SCAHILL: Yeah. I mean, Juan, I went through — and this connects also to the narrative around Al-Shifa. But just to directly answer your question, Israel released a list of 300 names that it said were fair game for a hostage-prisoner handover because of the truce with Hamas. And I went through all 15 pages of those names. I read each of the individual dates of birth, the dates of arrest, what the nature of the charges were — if there were any charges. Some of them don't even list any actual charges against them. And what I discovered is that of the 300 names, 233 of these prisoners — most of them are teenage boys, some are — there's a teenage girl who's 15 years old — the 233 of 300 have not been convicted of anything. They haven't been sentenced for anything. And Israel is the only country in the so-called developed world that tries children in military courts.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">And so, you know, the Israeli narrative is that these are all hardened terrorists, because Palestinians are not allowed to have any context. Palestinians are not treated as full human beings. So, when a child — maybe his brother was killed by the Israeli forces, maybe his mother was killed by the Israeli forces — throws a rock at a soldier, their houses are often then raided at night. They're snatched. They're taken to interrogation without the presence of a parent or a lawyer. And then they're pressured into pleading guilty under threat of spending years in a military judicial process.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Now, I say this relates to Al-Shifa because the colonial narrative always — and you can look at the British with the IRA, you can look at the position against Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress — is that those who are victims of the occupation have no rights to legitimate struggle. And so, the prisoners that Israel are holding, overwhelmingly, are people that are accused of committing political acts of violence. And that context also bleeds into Israel's narrative about Al-Shifa: Al-Shifa is not really a hospital.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Al-Shifa — look, I don't know if you guys have the video, but if you do, you should play it. Israel puts out a video to justify the siege of Al-Shifa Hospital, the most important hospital in Gaza, where you had dozens of children that needed incubators. Israel had knocked out the power supply. You had the most vulnerable patients there. They put out a video, the Israeli Defense Forces, that is this high-tech three-dimensional rendering, they said, of an underground, what I just call a Hamas Pentagon, and they imply that this is where — this is the central facility where Hamas is planning its terror operations.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">When Israel finally then lays full siege to it, with the backing of the Biden administration and Biden himself — they co-signed all of that. They said that hostages had been held under the hospital. They said that it was used as a command and control center. When Israel finally starts to access the hospital, they take embedded journalists on these propaganda tours. And what they found was essentially nothing of any major significance. They go in, and they say, "Oh, look, we found these rifles behind an MRI machine," which is ridiculous for anyone who knows the technology of an MRI machine and the magnetism of it. They're all conveniently placed, neatly arranged. There's one Hamas vest with a Hamas logo on it. So that gets ridiculed, and skepticism is expressed even by corporate media outlets that historically print Israel's propaganda as just established fact.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">So, then they finally gain access to a tunnel in the area. They go down there, and they say, "Oh, this tunnel is X number of meters long, and there's a blast-proof door that has a hole so that the Hamas terrorists can fire at us. So we need to take some time before we blow it open. And then on the other side is going to be this command and control center." So, finally, then, last week, they blow the thing open. They go in there. And what do they find? They find three rooms, basically. One looks like a kind of very old-school, 1980s-style exam room from a hospital. There's a sink somewhere in there. There's two toilets. And then you have this utter clown from the IDF who has been made a fool of himself by doing these tours. It's like Geraldo Rivera looking for Al Capone's vault. He's running around, saying, "Aha! There's electricity in here. This is a Hamas command center. Aha! They had an air conditioner in here." You know, the pipes are rusty. Many of the electrical wires aren't even connected.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Now, I don't know for a fact that Hamas guys weren't under there. It wouldn't shock me if at some point Hamas did have people under there. But we were told this was like a Hamas Pentagon and that it was so dangerous that it justified laying siege to a hospital filled with the most vulnerable people. This is akin to sort of the George H.W. Bush administration lies about the Iraqis pulling babies from incubators. It's an utter lie that was co-signed and promoted by President Joe Biden and his administration, and they should be made to answer for this, because it wasn't just Al-Shifa. They did it at the Indonesia Hospital. They did it at other hospitals. Of course Hamas has networks of tunnels underneath Gaza, 150 to 300 kilometers, by some estimates. Israel is waging a targeted assassination campaign against them, and they live in a confined area waging a guerrilla war. That's not news. But Israel tried to rebrand something that anyone who's followed this already knows, and tried to make it seem like it's a smoking gun. And, in fact, it was a lethal lie.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0;margin-bottom:0">AMY GOODMAN: Jeremy Scahill, we want to thank you for being with us, senior reporter, correspondent at The Intercept. 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font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Last night, I learned that some sort of "pause", "truce", or "ceasefire" had been "sort of" achieved in the war against Palestinians. Well, fine, whatever these terms mean. All I need to do here is point out what I said about 5 weeks ago: the figure of Israelis dead was numbered at 1,400. The way Zionists think, the new Master Race, one Zionist is worth ten Arabs. So, at that time I cautioned that we could not expect any humane movement until at least fourteen thousand Palestinians were killed. When the news broke out that indeed Israel had killed fourteen thousand Palestinians, I kept listening, and, sure enough, some sort of deal had been reached. When asked about this, spokesmen said the situation is "fluid". Of course – what facts would serve any purpose? A deal is a deal, and the official word is that the war on Hamas will continue in "due course". The only real point is that the number of ten to one has been reached. </p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">I'm also going to post all of Latuff's illustrations I have stacked up recently.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">So, from now on, rather than try to catch up with all that is going on and put it into some sort of coherent writing, this will go out as long as anything more needs comment. We'll talk about Rosalind Carter, Jimmie Carter, Iran, whatever, whenever something new develops. All I want to point out here is that his newsletter will be served up when things happen and that way I won't have to think so much. If you think too many are coming out, let me know. I read every comment sent. Anyway, this is where I was a couple of days ago:</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">I'm not saying for about the seventh time that this is the final edition of the Times, but it has to be the end of actually believing that anything worthwhile is coming out as news or "Current Affairs". There is, however, one principle point I want to make before I get started: Nothing you see, hear, or read in our media is motivated by any principle or political philosophy. Terms such as "left-wing" and "right-wing" are tossed around, to be sure, but the only reason or motive behind any of it is profit, or money. [I addressed this in the intro. It has also been a much too busy or plagued time for me, so here goes:] </p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span>Recently, for the first time ever, I used the term "fake news" to describe what was going on, but I had to be a bit tentative about it because it has been a favorite term used by confused and lonely MAGA nuts [</span><em>deas MAGA mean make Argentina great again?] </em><span>to describe occasional facts that would appear on the news. Even the word "facts" is attacked from time to time with "alternate facts". No, there is no clear way to make any sense of this – unless you think about what gets people interested in what is called "news" and then say whatever it is that will attract a larger audience. 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AIN’T OVER TILL IT’S OVER</span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The
title is a famous quote from Yogi Berra. It has two
sources. One is the fact that many operas end with an aria
by the main soprano who then dies. Operatic sopranos are
stereotyped as being fat as a result of the eating they do to
maintain the energy needed for opera, especially a Wagnerian
one. The other is the fact that there is no time clock in
baseball. Each team gets 27 outs or nine innings or as
many a needed until a winner is decided.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Well,
this applies to Gaddafi and Libya as well. Last night, all
the news outlets, including Al-Jazeera, considered him finished. He
then blew up a bunch of people and made a few audio appearances on a
Libyan and a Syrian station. </span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I
have heard arguments that “it is difficult to argue that he should
remain in power, despite how well he administered the
country.” Actually, it is quite easy to argue either
side of that issue as any attorney or rhetorician will tell you, but
that it besides the point. What happened is that NATO
attacked the country and led to the chaos you see because NATO serves
capitalist interests and Libya was essentially Socialist. As
a capitalist force, there is no point in making any sort of moral
(“should”) judgments as Capitalism is at best an amoral system.</span></span></span></p>
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have also had to point out to people that it is foolish to attempt to
predict what Gaddafi will do next. There is no way of
telling or predicting. The only thing that is clear is
that he has said that the “rebels” are “traitors and rats.” </span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">A
final point on Al Jazeera: it is owned by Qatar, a country
that joined NATO in the attack. Most decisions in Qater, I
understand, are made by the wife of the leader and her name is Moza
or, in English translation, Banana. Banana has mad</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">e</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">
policy changes that have led to the resignation to many fine
journalists from the station. Even so, it is still
more reliable than most western news outlets. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">In
fact, today it is the ONLY source about Israel and Palestine.
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It is not especially brilliant, but it is one of those that was taken down because “several readers found it offensive”! Wow! I mean this is a great compliment, especially in the days of Elon and Company. Well, after Facebook took it down with that explanation, I put it back up, and, to my chagrin, this time they left it up! Damn, and I was so close!</p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Anyway, I said I’d be posting more frequently, and each day some new insanity surfaces and I have no time to get to it, I thought this would at least give us all some perspective. Gaddafi was perhaps the most honest and wise of political leaders of his time, so naturally, he had to die. We just can’t have that sort of thing (honesty and perception) going on these days.</p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><em>IT AIN’T OVER TILL IT’S OVER</em></p><div style="line-height: 26px; margin: 32px auto;"><figure style="margin: 0px auto; width: 550px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"></td><td align="left" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;" width="323"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/d785c0d0-b481-4351-b4df-5aaa76fdc6d8?j%3DeyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k&source=gmail&ust=1700591012527000&usg=AOvVaw1Ml-IVgTeuvu2L2nAM58os" href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/d785c0d0-b481-4351-b4df-5aaa76fdc6d8?j=eyJ1IjoicTNvMXEifQ.CrDaO8zWt9RHRfhV3UZSBE8ghvvzn0RIloXkUr0qq2k" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="border: none; color: #1155cc; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; width: auto;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjr-j0G_HkXupBWm7szDNuVaSeLbaWtZmMHg6u32PtM9Sbz2YZLz6d-505KCNjtfioLuwnp-1HuHcczsxYm2lcBEM605sHlF46odXw1ucckyozMMnT2pze4RydJ88BUN0qz-Or8mkaUcDDvuOHh7bgO9KS_k7qTyuNVDRPj4uBQB55a4I1dK_QwqpXpfokS2Zrg-hey4Nrqu3B5TdzuyuXAlRZWSeHEVUbTumFDNlZsShIcA_9xOoAup_jVQOoqWJW43KBWg-WdO9rhcNqf0SES1kNDzq703DHT3ZvUK2r8kX2VQQNOAumLIm5Fnmer5GoBsJCyyaMpygaDgXCvVAra8XMPC_ZiFToPZr-9Q-Rn=s0-d-e1-ft,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe000a4d2-fddf-4eee-b0fe-520ea37d1d51_323x400.jpeg" style="border: none !important; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: auto !important;" width="323" /></a></td><td style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table></figure></div><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"> The title is a famous quote from Yogi Berra. It has two sources. One is the fact that many operas end with an aria by the main soprano who then dies. Operatic sopranos are stereotyped as being fat as a result of the eating they do to maintain the energy needed for opera, especially a Wagnerian one. The other is the fact that there is no time clock in baseball. Each team gets 27 outs or nine innings or as many a needed until a winner is decided.</p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"> Well, this applies to Gaddafi and Libya as well. Last night, all the news outlets, including Al-Jazeera, considered him finished. He then blew up a bunch of people and made a few audio appearances on a Libyan and a Syrian station. </p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"> I have heard arguments that “it is difficult to argue that he should remain in power, despite how well he administered the country.” Actually, it is quite easy to argue either side of that issue as any attorney or rhetorician will tell you, but that it besides the point. What happened is that NATO attacked the country and led to the chaos you see because NATO serves capitalist interests and Libya was essentially Socialist. As a capitalist force, there is no point in making any sort of moral (“should”) judgments as Capitalism is at best an amoral system.</p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"> I have also had to point out to people that it is foolish to attempt to predict what Gaddafi will do next. There is no way of telling or predicting. The only thing that is clear is that he has said that the “rebels” are “traitors and rats.” </p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"> A final point on Al Jazeera: it is owned by Qatar, a country that joined NATO in the attack. Most decisions in Qatar, I understand, are made by the wife of the leader and her name is Moza or, in English translation, Banana. Banana has made policy changes that have led to the resignation to many fine journalists from the station. Even so, it is still more reliable than most Western news outlets. In fact, today it is the ONLY source about Israel and Palestine.</p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><strong>[NB: Obviously, my opinions have changed with regard to the outlet and I now have no idea of who makes these decisions there. 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There is so much rank stupidity in this country as not to be noticed on any commercial U.S. news outlet (much less, however more than by actually visiting one of the political rallies) that it is simply too much to ignore while we are, with our own tax dollars, subsidizing war crimes and mass slaughter as well as genocide, to overlook it. Still, the truth needs attention as it is happening and is still being suppressed.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">I've decided to comment on the more idiotic internal nonsense they divert one's attention from the fascist war in the Middle East (and what is happening is laughable) and then present some straightforward reality on what is going on in your name. So, you can read both parts, read the first for some chuckles, or read the second part for information that is not getting through. This will probably result in several subsequent postings, far more than usual, but that will eventually settle back down in a week or so. Sorry if I'm helping to flood your e-mail for the next week or so. You can always "archive" them if you find you need to.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Again, I had decided to put together an edition on something other than the Murder Rampage in Gaza, and again forces that be and personal issues intervene. Still, I've decided to at least give it a start today and then move on with it. I mean, what the hell – if the Republicans can murder sanity, I've got a right to point out what it means, at least to me. If they don't care about anything but the Orange Man, I have a right to care about ME! One interesting idiocy to start out with: he says that number 47 should be held pure. That caught me by surprise, as 47 is the largest prime number after (12 + 1) – that was what he meant, right? Not in this universe, no way.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Speaking of pigs, he let "the genie out of the box"! Oh, and here is a call from me: VERMIN OF THE WORLD UNITE! Yes, now that the genie is out of the box, he knows that all of us are VERMIN. Seriously? He is running for President and the Republican Party fears him?</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Christian Nationalism: This is almost too insane to try to explain because nobody of sound mind will believe I'm being accurate unless they have found this out by themselves. Even that sounds insane, but it is true. The comment I remember most about what the bible thumpers accept as truth is from the late and great Bill Hicks: "If I was Jesus and came back, the last thing I'd want to see is a cross!" But remember, this is faith, not fact, so reason and logic are helpless to help these people. It takes a huge and violent blow or series of physical blows to convince them of anything, and then they will circle the capital and attempt to occupy it. That was a feeble attempt to emulate Israel today, but the leaders of that faction are planning the next move right now: DECLARE A STATE OF EMERGENCY ON THE FIRST DAY AND SEND THE MILITARY AFTER THE ENEMY."</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">But if we go into that, we should address the new Speaker of the House. For this, I highly recommend Bill Carville who was Bill Clinton's campaign manager (it's the economy, stupid) who is giving a series of talks on YouTube presenting facts about many Southern habits and beliefs. Much of this I learned from a 15-minute talk and I added a bit of my own observations just to make myself important. Ok, so here we go. Paragraph. It is a great example of "culture shock".</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Smirk. Anyway, it seems that this Johnson character is one of the "short-timers" a kind of idiocy that still believes that the earth (and probably the universe) is only 6,000 years old. Now, there are three versions of INHERIT THE WIND on film and all of them are pretty easily accessed. It covers a fairly well-publicized legal case wherein a school teacher was teaching his students about Evolution and he was therefore breaking a law. God made us the way we are and that's that. We know this to be true because Bishop Usher calculated the ages of all the prophets in the OLD TESTAMENT and added them up. He even gave a time. All this is about all we need to know about the current state of the Republican party today. (Of course, the sun was not created until the fourth day, so that complicated things a bit when it came to deciding how long a day was.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Of course, the movie is much too jolly and optimistic as to what actually happened. Hunter Thompson correctly pointed out that the teacher was actually sentenced to a chain gang and murdered. Hunter stood on the fourth Amendment in his case (illegal search and seizure) rather than the first (which includes separation of church and state). The new Speaker of the House, who seems not to know who Thomas Jefferson was, decided that the amendment was designed to protect religion from the state, not to protect freedom from religion from the state.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">One final personal note: when the Catholic Church in my home town Chicago tried to make official its ban on certain movies, the real BOSS, Mayor Daley, cited the First ammendment as best he could and said "When youse guys pay da property tax ya owes, den we talk 'bout yous guys passing da laws. Dats dat." My own father had explained it as best he could to Hizzoner and that's how it came out. The Chicago definition of the First Amendment. 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height: auto; max-width: 20px; vertical-align: middle; border: none;">Subscribed</a></p></div><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px"></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px"><strong>Here is the latest up-to-date information on what we pay for in Gaza:</strong></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">The Israel military raid on Al-Shifa, the largest hospital in Gaza, where thousands of Palestinians are sheltering, is an "unprecedented attack on civilian society" in the "darkest time in modern history," that is being justified in the West by "a deep-rooted and frightening racism," says Dr. Mads Gilbert, who worked at Al-Shifa. "You don't do these things to people you consider equal." Dr. Gilbert is a Norwegian physician who just spent weeks in Cairo trying to enter Gaza to help his colleagues and has worked extensively in Palestine since 1981. "The civilian population of Gaza [have] done nothing wrong other than being born Palestinians in Gaza," he says. "Israeli impunity has reached a new level, and we are all sinking into that abyss of disregard for human life."</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Transcript</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">AMY GOODMAN: We begin the show in Gaza, where Israel is conducting a military raid on Al-Shifa, the largest hospital in Gaza, where thousands of Palestinians have sought refuge or medical treatment. The Palestinian Authority has decried the raid as a violation of international law. There are reports Israeli troops have ordered all young men on the hospital grounds to surrender. Many Palestinian men are already being interrogated, some while being held naked and blindfolded. Israel has accused Hamas of placing a command center below Al-Shifa, but Hamas and hospital officials have denied the claim. Israeli tanks are now inside the hospital complex.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">This is Dr. Ahmed al-Mokhallati, a plastic surgeon at Al-Shifa.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">DR. AHMED AL-MOKHALLATI: And understand we can't look through the windows or doors. We don't know what's happening. We have tanks moving within the hospital. We can hear continuous shooting, and right now. But again, it's totally risky, the situation.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">REPORTER: So, what are these sounds, Doctor? I'm hearing sounds.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">DR. AHMED AL-MOKHALLATI: It's continuous shooting from the tanks. We don't know what to do. We are within the building. Israel within the building. They are in. We can't go between the hospital buildings at all for food. So, we are with each other, with the patients, with the civilians within the hospital. And it's totally risky, the situation.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">AMY GOODMAN: Doctors in Al-Shifa are struggling to keep patients alive, including dozens of premature babies, amidst a lack of fuel and the ongoing Israeli military raid.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">AL-SHIFA DOCTOR: [translated] I am standing here at the ICU at Al-Shifa medical complex. The department is suffering after the shutdown of electricity due to the lack of fuel. The Health Ministry warned about the lack of the fuel. This department today at dawn was struck directly by the Israeli occupation forces. Here also, the ICU and these children, who were on life machines and artificial respiration, were taken into the corridors of the ICU department. These people here were denied life support devices. They face the loss of their lives because there are no support machines or artificial respiration devices. Around 29 patients are facing this tragedy.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">AMY GOODMAN: We're joined now by Dr. Mads Gilbert, Norwegian physician who's worked in Al-Shifa for years, just spent weeks in Cairo getting — trying his best to get into Gaza. He's a professor at University Hospital of North Norway and the Arctic University of Norway who's worked with Palestinians since 1981, was in Gaza there during the major Israeli bombardments of 2006, 2009, 2012 and 2014. Dr. Gilbert, where are you right now?</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">DR. MADS GILBERT: Right now I arrived this early morning in Johannesburg in South Africa. I will be on an invited speaking tour here on Gaza and Palestine, but with —</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">AMY GOODMAN: We just — we just have a few minutes, but I know that you've been speaking to people within Gaza, in Al-Shifa. Can you talk about the scene that we just described? What do you understand is happening there?</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">DR. MADS GILBERT: If I should choose today between hell and Al-Shifa, I would choose hell. I got a report yesterday from the minister of health that 20 out of the 23 ICU patients had died. Seventeen other patients died because of lack of supplies, oxygen and water. And three, if not five, of the 38 premature newborns have died because of this slow suffocation that the Israeli occupation army is exposing all the hospitals to by cutting electricity, oxygen and medical supplies. And it's — you know, it's beyond description. I'm out of words to describe this systematic, man-made slaughtering of patients in civilian hospitals.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">And when I heard the crowd in the United States shout, you know, "No ceasefire," I think that's the only place on Earth where people are supporting Israel. And the other streets of the world are supporting a ceasefire, a human solution, a lift of the siege and a support for the people of Gaza. So this is a deeply divided world, and the lies are flying around like never before in any war.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">And I think we need to keep our heads and our hearts calm now and understand that what we are seeing is an unprecedented attack on a civilian society, occupied by one of the most brutal and ruthless armies in the world, exercising a systematic attack on civilian healthcare, completely against international law and the standards that we want to apply, and being back-patted all the time by the U.S. president.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">I mean, we're in the darkest time in modern history now. So far, if you look at the U.N. numbers, the U.N. numbers that are coming out every day in their fact sheets, 40,000 Palestinians have been killed or are missing under the rubble or have been injured for four weeks. Forty thousand. Six thousand of the killed and missing are children. When did that become defense of a country? When did it become decent to drag neonates out of their incubators and kill children? You know, the only explanation for this is a deep-rooted and very frightening racism, because you don't do these things to people you consider your equal. I'm extremely disturbed. I'm extremely upset. And I blame the European leaders and your president for this bloody bloodshed of people who are being completely defenseless.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">And I talked to a colleague in Mustashfa Al-Aqsa in the south yesterday. He told me they were seeing influx of patients coming, walking from the north, having followed the Israeli command to leave the north, and they were being shot in the legs. And they were treating gunshots in the legs from people trying to escape the north. Forty percent —</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And, Dr. Gilbert —</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">DR. MADS GILBERT: — of the [inaudible].</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Dr. Gilbert, I wanted to ask you what — the Israeli government continues to insist that Hamas is using the hospitals in Gaza as command centers and as underground headquarters storing weapons and even hostages. What is your response to these claims?</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">DR. MADS GILBERT: Twofold. Why are you in the media conveying these false claims continuously and taking the attention away from what is the real problem — namely, the continuous bombing and killing of people in Gaza? There is absolutely no proof, so far, that I know of, neither from U.S. intelligence nor from the Israeli intelligence, and we've heard these accusations for 16 years. Show us the proof. Show us the evidence. And don't forget that the Geneva Convention, the Fourth Convention, is telling the fighting parties to make both distinction and precaution. If it's a mixed military and civilian target, the civilian precaution takes priority over the military again. And they have been bombing not only Shifa and al-Quds, but lots of hospitals, with even bothering to claim that there is any military activity in that hospital. They bombed the Turkish. They bombed Al-Rantisi Pediatric Hospital. And we've all seen these ridiculous videos where they say, "Oh, here are Pampers in a pediatric hospital. It's got to be the terrorists." So I think this is a big sham, and I'm a bit worried that you in the media so easily are conveying these unsubstantiated accusations. And regardless, they don't have the right to bomb hospitals. That's very clear.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">And now it's not only Al-Shifa. Now the al-Quds Hospital is being evacuated with all the patients and all the staff. And it is really a convoy of shame to the Western world and to the United States to see these hospitals, the last resorts in a dramatic assault on the civilian population in Gaza, who have done nothing wrong other than being born Palestinians in Gaza. And this convoy of misery is the result of a lenient attitude to the Israeli violations of international law through many, many years. 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Much of this may simply be received lore, but it is widely received and my own reading of Renaissance Literature and tracts (important stuff was still written in Latin) and I use that as a basis.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">Charging interest for a loan (making money with money) was considered un-Christian, but Judaism had no such prohibition. At that time, the rate was considered negotiable, although today there seems to be no limit [if you don't believe this, look at the back of your credit card. It once became so bloodsucking that millions declared bankruptcy, but the banks swept into action to make them exempt from bankruptcy – more or less, of course.] So, most christians, when they thought they needed a loan dealt with a Jew. On the whole, this provided no problems.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">At the same time, however, religion played a major political role in International Relations. After Martin Luther walked to Rome to ease his "crisis of faith", he walked up and saw the magnificent statues, paintings, personal opulance of the clergy, and decided to walk back. To get away from the theology, Martin translated the Bible in to the vernacular and Guttenberge printed the first book ever (Luther's translation). There are many enigmas in early English translations, especially the King James version that are much clearer in Luther's German, One example, repeated several times in the King James (upon which we constructed many laws) version that is the phrase "He who pisseth against the wall!" (Use a concordance or something likt it, I remember at least 11.) Hey, you, don't pisseth against the wall ro I'll cut you!"</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">You can have no real idea of how combative Catholic v. Protestant was, and I'll spare you the details now. Suffice to say, the Catholic countries hated and scemed against the Protestaant and vice versa. Guy Fawkes Day became a fixture because of Vengence Henry VIII needed a wid</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">fe who would bear male children because of rules of succession. The Pope would not give him a divorce, and he ran out of annulments, so Henry appointed himself Defender of the Faith and told the Pope to get fucked, more or less. After number of beheadings and such diplomatic practices during the Renaissance, Elizabeth wound up Queen of England. Now we get to the "Merchant" plays.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">Marlow's The Jew of Malta quite clearly attacks, and his Tamberlane quite accurately reflects much in the Koran, But you must remember he had a Masters Degree and studied religions. He also had very active support from the queen which indicates he was somehow in the spy business. Shakespeare then wrote the Merchant of Venice and at least made Shylock somewhat of a sympathetic character to the point that many audiences in Englands's 19th Century left after the fourth act. [Just a quick note, if anyone could have any f Shakespeare's plays, it was Marlowe. Just compare his very early work, and forget about Ben Jonson and Francis Bacon, ok?)</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">So, where doe ZIONISM come into this? What about Richard Wagner? Well, Wagner had become very famous, especially after reading Shopenhauer (compare Das Reingold to the next three in his Ring Cycle) Shopenhauer contributed a great deal to Wagner. At any rate, a young German composer asked Wagner about his recent composition, it was published, critics attacked it, and Wagner retaliated. That is the whole deal, except that most critics in Germany at the time were Jewish.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">Zionists swept in and fiercely attacked Wagner and it still goes on today. Some critics claim there is fascism in Wagner's music.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">ONE THING WE MUST RETAIN IS THE DICTUM THAT THE MISUSE OF ANYTHING IS NOT THAT THING!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">I have gone on too long, much to long, and so I am stopping here, abruptly. Much of what is below will be reproduced in your e-mail and then there is a link to read the rest of it. All of it is factual.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">Shibley Telhami</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">professor of peace and development at the University of Maryland and senior fellow at the Center for Middle East Policy.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">LINKS</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">"The One State Reality: What Is Israel/Palestine?"</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">As the Palestinian death toll in Gaza nears 10,000, calls for ceasefire are growing around the world. "This is a paradigm-changing moment," says Shibley Telhami, who discusses the shifting public opinion on conflict in Israel and Palestine and its potential impact on Joe Biden's reelection campaign. Telhami is a professor of peace and development at the University of Maryland and senior fellow at the Center for Middle East Policy.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">Transcript</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">AMY GOODMAN: The heads of 18 United Nations agencies and NGOs have issued a rare joint statement calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, expressing shock and horror at Israel's monthlong bombardment. The statement read in part, quote, "We need an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. It's been 30 days. Enough is enough. This must stop now," unquote. But Israel is rejecting all calls for a ceasefire or even a humanitarian pause as the Palestinian death toll in Gaza and the West Bank nears 10,000 over this past month.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken is continuing a trip throughout the Middle East. Blinken is in Turkey today after stops in Tel Aviv, Ramallah, Jordan and Iraq. This comes as fears grow of a broader regional war. On Sunday, an Israeli strike on a car in southern Lebanon killed three children and their grandmother. The strike came two days after Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah gave a major address.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">We begin today's show looking at diplomatic efforts to halt Israel's bombardment, which began October 7th after Hamas launched a surprise attack that Israel says killed over 1,400 people. Israel says about 240 hostages were taken during the attack.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">We're joined by Shibley Telhami, professor of peace and development at the University of Maryland, also a senior fellow at the Center for Middle East Policy. He's co-editor of the book The One State Reality: What Is Israel/Palestine?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">Professor Telhami, welcome back to Democracy Now! Can you start off by talking about this horrifying landmark moment? Nearly 10,000 Palestinians have been killed; mass protests around the world; Secretary of State Blinken going to Tel Aviv, then surprising people by going to Ramallah, went to Jordan, met with Arab leaders, then on to Iraq — the significance of that? Now in Turkey. What you feel needs to happen now?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">SHIBLEY TELHAMI: Well, first of all, in terms of this moment, which you asked about, obviously, anyone with a heart — that doesn't matter whether you are Jewish or Arab or Christian or whatever — the scale of horror is just unbearable. And we haven't seen that in, certainly, years, but perhaps decades, in the Israeli-Palestinian arena. But I think it's even bigger than that. It's beyond the humanitarian heartache that we all witness every day, and we have witnessed also in the attack on Israel. I think it is — you know, those people who think this is just another cycle of violence are really not capturing the moment.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">This is a paradigm-changing moment. This is a moment that's likely to really shift the way we think about the conflict. It is likely to shift the way people in the region think about the United States, because of its role. And I think, therefore, even people who are thinking about "Let's think about the morning after," are not coming to grips with what a morning after might look like, if there is a morning after. So I think it's a moment that is bigger than most of us realize, because those moments in history usually are evaluated after the fact, not while you're going through it. We know it's horrendous, but we're not grasping the implications.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">AMY GOODMAN: Let's talk about President Biden right now. Polls show that before all of this took place, I mean, when he was elected, he had something like 59% of the Arab American vote. We're now talking about something like 17%. And we're talking about key states like Michigan — Dearborn, for example. Can you talk about the significance of this nationally, and then globally, where he stands in the Arab world?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">SHIBLEY TELHAMI: Yeah, I think nationally, obviously, we already see implications of this. We see it in various polling that has been taken. His popularity has dropped among Democrats, coincidentally around the same time that this war started and is going on, and we don't know that that's directly related to it, but perhaps it is. But I have conducted a poll through our University of Maryland Critical Issues Poll two weeks after the war, and there was a bump in the sympathy for Israel, but when it comes to the Biden administration's evaluation, more people said he was too pro-Israel than said he is too pro-Palestinian. And obviously, in terms of the implications for voting nationally, more likely to vote for President Biden because of his stance on the Israeli-Palestinian issue, we have far more people saying they're less likely to vote for him than more likely to vote for him. So it has implications way beyond Arab and Muslim Americans, because our poll cannot possibly capture Arab and Muslim Americans in the sample. But we do know that in the sample, based on, you know, reporting and other polls that have been done, Arab and Muslim Americans are extremely frustrated. I know definitely that some of the Arab American leaders have conveyed to the secretary of state directly that the president is likely to lose Michigan because of his stance. So, I think the president — my own view is this war is going to hurt him.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">But globally, it's also going to hurt him a lot, because I think people can't — people understood his support for Israel after the horrific Hamas attack; what they can't understand is his inability to condemn the actions that have resulted in such mass destruction and killing in Gaza, and his seeming complicity in that. And that's really something that goes against the — you know, after the Soviet — sorry, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we know that he tried to defend a liberal — the notion of a liberal international order, and certainly a rules-based international order, and opposed, in principle, targeting civilians or recklessly endangering them and war crimes. And what we see, he's not able to do that with regard to Gaza. I think this is going to undermine his standing globally, not just in the Middle East, not just in the Global South, but beyond.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">AMY GOODMAN: You also said in a recent interview there's a level of shock you haven't seen even during the Iraq War, that you'd bet Biden today might even supersede Benjamin Netanyahu as the most disliked leader in the Arab world, Professor Telhami.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">SHIBLEY TELHAMI: Yes. And as you know, I took a position against the Iraq War in 2002, when people were talking about it, to the point that I helped organize an ad for international relations scholars in The New York Times September 2002, saying the Iraq War is not in America's national interest. It was hard for us to break through an antiwar message through the regular media. And at that time, I also conducted a poll in the Arab world that showed that George W. Bush had become even less popular in the Arab world than then-hard-line Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">And I bet the same is taking place at the moment. This is a moment — as I said, it's a paradigm-shifting moment. And I think that it's going to be very hard for Biden to recover from it. It's very hard for people to listen to him when he is speaking about a promise of peace or a promise of two states. They had not trusted him before this in the Arab world — the public opinion, I'm talking about. And I think after this stance, it's going to be impossible.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">AMY GOODMAN: Shibley Telhami, we want to thank you so much for being with us, professor of peace and development at the University of Maryland, also senior fellow at the Center for Middle East Policy, co-editor of the book The One State Reality: What Is Israel/Palestine?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">Coming up, a massive crowd rallies in Washington, D.C., for the largest pro-Palestinian march in U.S. history, calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Stay with us.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">Tens of thousands marched from Washington, D.C.'s Freedom Plaza to the White House Saturday in the largest pro-Palestinian demonstration in U.S. history. Democracy Now!'s Messiah Rhodes, María Taracena and Hany Massoud spoke to protesters who condemned the U.S. government's support for Israel and called for a ceasefire in Gaza. We also play excerpts from speakers at the protest rally, including lawyer Noura Erakat, musician Macklemore and writer Mohammed El-Kurd.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">Transcript</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, <a href="http://democracynow.org">democracynow.org</a>, The War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">As the Health Ministry in Gaza says the death toll from Israel's bombardment of Gaza for the last month, since October 7th, when Hamas attacked, has reached nearly 10,000 Palestinians. People took to the streets around the world this weekend to call for a ceasefire. They marched in Paris; in London; in Jakarta, Indonesia; in Milan, Italy; in Dakar, Senegal; in Athens, Greece; in San Francisco; in Turkey and more. On Saturday, in Washington, D.C., tens of thousands, perhaps 100,000 — organizers say as many as 300,000 — people marched from Freedom Plaza, which they dubbed "Gaza Plaza," to the White House in the largest pro-Palestinian demonstration in U.S. history. Democracy Now! was there. Democracy Now! producers Messiah Rhodes and María Taracena spoke with some of the protesters.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Free, free Palestine! Free, free Palestine! Free, free, free Palestine! Free, free, free Palestine!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">AHMAD MALKAWI: I'm Ahmad Malkawi. I'm here to support stopping the war in Gaza now.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MESSIAH RHODES: How far did you travel to get here? And what would you say to Joe Biden if he was here right now?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">AHMAD MALKAWI: I traveled nine hours from Kentucky, Louisville, Kentucky. Joe Biden, stop. Please stop the war. No more war.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">OMAR ALKHALDI: My name is Omar Alkhaldi. We traveled from Charlotte, North Carolina. It's absolutely unbelievable, what's going on in Palestine right now. How many more children need to die?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MESSIAH RHODES: How does it feel to see all this support here right now?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">OMAR ALKHALDI: Hamdulillah, Alhamdulillah. It's very, very nice. We have a lot of people here today. There's over maybe 100,000 people here in support of Palestine. And that shows that the crimes of Israel are coming out. Right? They're losing the media war at the end of the day. A lot of people are being complacent with what's going on in Israel, and they're on the wrong side of history, unfortunately.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">SARAH: My name is Sarah [phon.]. I'm an Egyptian American. And I am inspired to be here to stand for what is right. And what is right is to stop the genocide and to stop the ethnic cleansing.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MARÍA TARACENA: And who are you here with?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">SARAH: I'm here with my family, my mother.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">SARAH'S MOTHER: I feel terrible. I can't sleep during the night. I can't imagine what's gone on. They kill kids, infant, women. That's not fair, not fair for anybody, any human being.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MARÍA TARACENA: What is your message to mothers in Gaza?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">SARAH'S MOTHER: I support her all the way. I wish was here right now. I feel sorry for her, but I can't do anything, just to come here to support her.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Ceasefire now! Ceasefire now! Ceasefire now!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NASSER ABU SITTA: Nasser Abu Sitta. I'm from Gaza, Palestine. And I am here to urge everybody who is making decisions in this government to stop killing children, stop destroying the city. That's not how wars are fought. This is not how we resolve the problems. We are just making it worse.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MARÍA TARACENA: You're from Gaza. Do you have family there? Are you in touch with anyone there right now?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NASSER ABU SITTA: I do. We are in touch on and off as situations allow.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MARÍA TARACENA: How are they? What are they describing to you? And what does it feel like to be here as this is happening?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NASSER ABU SITTA: They have been through so many wars, and this is the most horrifying experience they ever had. They are, just day and night, bombardment, behind them, above them, around them. And they are lucky to be alive. That's how they look at it.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MARÍA TARACENA: Where in Gaza is your family?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NASSER ABU SITTA: Well, it depends what day you're asking. They moved four times so far, from one place to the other.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTER 1: [chanting in Arabic]</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">JEFF WALKER: My name is Jeff Walker. I think it's important for us to be here today because we see oppression happening all over the place, you know, and I think, like, if we allow oppression to continue to happen without saying nothing, then it's going to continue to exacerbate.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MESSIAH RHODES: And why is it important to bring your kids here today? Why be here today?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">JEFF WALKER: I always tell them to be on the right side of history, you know? And absolutely, it's because the things that's happening to Palestine are the things that we've also been subjected to, you know, in our time in America here, as well. And so, I tell my kids to understand what's going on in this country, and let them know that — give them a quote that Malcolm X said, you know: The media will have you praising oppressor and shaming the oppressed. And so I just want my kids to mindful of, you know, how Palestinians stood up for us and spoke up around Black Lives Matter, then we also gotta speak up for them, as well.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MARÍA TARACENA: What's your name? Where are you from? And what inspired you to be here with your children, with your family?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">RAJA DIAZ: I'm Raja. My name is Raja Diaz [phon.]. I'm Palestinian. This is Suhaila. She's just turned 1. And we just had a beautiful birthday party for her, right after everything happened. I was going to cancel because of what's happening in Gaza. But then I looked at the children there, and I said, "For the children's sake, I'm going to have something for her and other children to enjoy," because they — what crime do they have? They don't know what's happening. And I'm here with my Palestinian children to give a voice for the Palestinians that are there back home that have no voice and are being killed by this brutal occupation and genocide that the U.S. — we live here, and our tax dollars are supporting this. And this is a big problem, a big issue, and we want this to end as soon as possible. We don't want no money for Israel. They're committing war crime after war crime, and nothing is being done. It's ridiculous. No other place in the world gets this immunity. No other place.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MARÍA TARACENA: What's your message to mothers in Gaza that have lost their children and have lost sometimes multiple of their family members?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">RAJA DIAZ: It's absolutely horrific. You know, me and my mom, we watch these videos, and we just cry and cry and cry. But we're going to tell them: Be strong and keep moving forward, because we're not going to stop fighting for you.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NAWAL KHALIL: They killed our kids! They don't have gun! They don't do any crime! Why? Why? I ask why then. This is the blood on your hand! You killed the kids! Why? This what they do for you, these kids. Oh my God!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MESSIAH RHODES: What are you holding? What's your name?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NAWAL KHALIL: My name is Nawal Khalil. I am here because — to support Gaza. They killed babies. Babies, they don't have gun. Why? Why? I want to ask why then. Why they kill the babies? Give me an answer, please! Please!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTER 2: They give them time to kill. This is our president. He give more time, long time, to kill more.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now! What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now! If we don't get it? Shut it down!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">HADDY ALREZ: My name is Haddy Alrez. I live in a suburb of Philadelphia. So, we drove down. These are my kids and my nieces and nephews. My parents lived through the 1948 wars and were displaced and were in the Occupied Territories since — until 1973, until they left with five kids, me being the youngest, to the U.S., just to provide us with a better life. So, seeing all of this unfold and listening to my parents' stories feels like a repetition of what happened in '48. And to somebody in our family, that is a personal experience for all of us. Even though I grew up in the United States, you know, we live it through our parents and our parents' stories. And it feels like it's 100-fold now. You know, it was very traumatic for them, what they went through. They lived in caves, they lived under trees, until they made their way to the West Bank. Their town, my father's village, was completely annihilated. Nothing is left. When I went to visit, the one time I went to visit in the mid-'90s, I went with my dad. And I'll never forget him standing on the side of his village, what used to be his village, that's overcome with all just bush and overgrown in a small canyon, and how my dad looked looking out into the land, which he never went back to for 22 years.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MAHMOUD: My name is Mahmoud. I'm a physician in Boston. Come here in solidarity with the Palestinian people, who are going through a genocide right now. As a healthcare worker, we stand with our healthcare colleagues in Gaza right now who are under undescribable circumstances to do their jobs. And right now the situation is beyond belief right now. They're doing surgeries without anesthesia. They're doing surgeries without electricity or without water. It's just something no doctor should ever, you know, be quiet about. I'm carrying this poster in solidarity of the healthcare workers in Gaza. Some of the people who passed away over there are colleagues of us, physicians. Some of them were faculty at the medical school over there. The previous dean of the only medical school in Gaza was killed in an Israeli strike. So, the least we could do is, you know, to let the people their names and show their pictures, and let them know, you know, that they're not numbers. And they died trying to do what they took an oath to do, is to save human life.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Free, free Palestine! Free, free Palestine! Long live Palestine! Long live Palestine! Free, free Palestine! Free, free Palestine!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">AMY GOODMAN: Just some of the voices of the tens of thousands of people — some say 100,000; organizers, 300,000 — who came to Washington, D.C., from around the country Saturday to join the largest pro-Palestinian demonstration in U.S. history. Before the march to the White House, speakers addressed a rally in a packed Freedom Plaza, which they dubbed "Gaza Plaza." We begin with Noura Erakat, Palestinian human rights attorney, associate professor at Rutgers University.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NOURA ERAKAT: We are all here to charge this administration with genocide. … Israel and the United States are jointly complicit in the ongoing Nakba in Palestine. Together, they are rending international law worthless and irrelevant. Every single tribunal, from Nuremberg to Rwanda, from Bosnia to Cambodia, every prosecution at the ICC, was meant to atone for our moral failures, to protect us from ourselves.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">And today we fail to stop. Today we fail to stop the skies from crashing down in white phosphorus flames onto Palestinian dreams, memories, potential, onto Palestinian babies not old enough to beseech you to have mercy upon them.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">We are here now with them and for them to demand a ceasefire. We are here because Palestine reveals the naked hypocrisy of Western universalism. It reveals our enduring colonial reality, and it offers a glimpse into a future without colonialism.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">Falastin, Falastin, where a valiant peple have always existed, where survivors and fighters continue to affirm that they belong to a land upon which there is a life worth living. [speaking in Arabic] We — we — are like olive trees like the ones that our ancestors planted. We are unshaken. We are unmoved. We are undeniable. Stand with us in this promise. We promise, Palestine still promises, that we will all be free! Free, free Palestine!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MASTER OF CEREMONIES 1: Macklemore on deck.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MACKLEMORE: Peace, everybody. You know, first and foremost, this is absolutely beautiful to observe today. I didn't expect to be on a microphone, but — there are thousands of people here that are more qualified to speak on the issue of a free Palestine than myself. But I will say this. They told me to be quiet. They told me to do my research, to go back, that it's too complex to say something, right? To be silent in this moment.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">In the last three weeks, I've gone back, and I've done some research. And I am teachable; I don't know enough. But I know enough that this is a genocide. And we are scared. We are watching it unfold. We have been taught to just be complicit, to protect our careers, to protect our interests. And I'm not going to do it anymore. I'm not afraid to speak the truth!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">You know, my daughter — my daughter said to me this morning, she said — she's 8 years old. She said, "Dad, when we protest today, when we march today, how are the people in Palestine going to know that we're showing up?" Look at this. Look at this. The world is watching what we do right now in this moment of injustice!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">There is no side in humanity. We lead with our hearts. We speak the truth. We shut down the propaganda. And we march forward. Free, free Palestine!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Free, free Palestine!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MACKLEMORE: Free, free Palestine!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Free, free Palestine!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MACKLEMORE: Thank you.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MASTER OF CEREMONIES 2: The very courageous comrades of the Palestinian Feminist Collective.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">SARAH IHMOUD: Over 10,000 Palestinians have been martyred, and 70% of those killed in this genocide thus far are women and children. Today in Gaza, there are half a million displaced Palestinian women and girls. Fifty thousand pregnant women are waiting to give birth, with 5,500 expected to deliver next month, without water, without food, without fuel, without life-saving medicine or medical equipment.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">SARAH IHMOUD: Shame! Women have resorted to taking birth control pills to stop their menstrual cycles because of a lack of sanitary pads. Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">SARAH IHMOUD: This targeting of Indigenous women's bodies and sexualities is woven into the genocidal fabric of Israeli settler colonialism.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">SARAH IHMOUD: But our love and care for each other, our insistence to live, our persistence to give birth to the next generation of Palestinians on our homeland, to hold ground amidst the most unlivable conditions, is a testament to the fact that we refuse to die quietly! We refuse the terms of our vanishment. We are a people who teach life and keep creating life, in spite of genocide, through our revolutionary love, our love for each other and our love for our homeland. And that love is something the colonizer can never take away from us! To know this, to feel this love deeply, is to know that we have already won.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MASTER OF CEREMONIES 1: Next up, we have brother Nihad Awad from the Council on American-Islamic Relations.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NIHAD AWAD: From the beginning of the bombardment of Gaza, we spoke to President Biden the language of logic, the language of law, the language of humanity. We appealed to him to take a moral position, to recognize 2.3 million civilian residents trapped in Gaza under the attack of the Israeli forces from every imaginable type of modern weaponry, to call him to call for a ceasefire. All these calls and the calls from the world community fell on deaf ears.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NIHAD AWAD: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NIHAD AWAD: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NIHAD AWAD: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NIHAD AWAD: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NIHAD AWAD: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NIHAD AWAD: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NIHAD AWAD: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NIHAD AWAD: As the images of the genocide increased, he dehumanized the Palestinians and dismissed their suffering. He denied — he denied the dead Palestinians the right to be acknowledged as dead.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NIHAD AWAD: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NIHAD AWAD: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NIHAD AWAD: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NIHAD AWAD: He insisted that should be — there should be no ceasefire. The State Department asked their staff not to talk about deescalation.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">We have discovered the language that President Biden understands, and let me share it with you. The language that President Biden and his party understand is the language of votes in 2024 elections. And our message is: No ceasefire, no votes. No ceasefire, no votes. No ceasefire, no votes. No ceasefire, no votes. No ceasefire, no votes. No ceasefire, no votes. No votes in Michigan. No votes in Arizona. No votes in Georgia. No votes in Nevada. No votes in Wisconsin. No votes in Pennsylvania. No votes in Ohio. No votes for you anywhere, if you do not call for a ceasefire now.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">After hearing — after hearing this message in the past week and a half, and the fact that 60% — 66% of Americans support a ceasefire, the president, the secretary of state, Democratic senators and representatives started to change their tone.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">We will make our voices heard more and more. In November, we remember. In November, we remember. In November, we remember. In November, we remember. In November, we remember. A White House official told a friend of mine that the community has a short memory. A few months, then they will forget. And let me tell them — let me tell them: In November, we remember. In November, we remember. In November, we remember.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MASTER OF CEREMONIES 1: Next up, we have Mohammed El-Kurd.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MOHAMMED EL-KURD: I want us to take a few minutes to consider the magnitude of loss of life currently happening in the Gaza Strip. I want us to consider what it means to lose 10,000 people, for 10,000 people to be killed by Israeli warplanes. Consider their families and their grief. Consider their lovers. Consider the people missing them. Consider our martyrs' lives, their grievances, their hobbies. And most of all, most of all I want you to consider the fear, the fear that they must have felt as warplanes dropped over their heads, the fear they must have felt minutes before they were killed.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">And I want you to compare that fear, I want you to measure that fear against your own fear. It does not compare. I understand it. We're are all afraid of losing a job, of losing a friend, of being ostracized, of being shamed. I called my father earlier. I told him I was coming to this march. He said, "Stay away from the cameras." We're all afraid, but this fear does not compare.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">They want us to think that we are paying personal prices, but we have our community. They want us to think that we are alone, but we have our people supporting us. If they come for you, if they come for you, if they take your job, if they fire you from school, if they expel you, do not think of yourself as a casualty. You are not a casualty. You are fuel for the movement. You are part of the struggle. They want us to be silent, but we know silence will not protect us. Fear and silence will do nothing but allow this carnage to go on unchecked. Silence is a sign of consent in the empire. Are we afraid?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: No!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MOHAMMED EL-KURD: Are we afraid?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: No!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MOHAMMED EL-KURD: Are we afraid?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: No!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">AMY GOODMAN: Voices from Saturday's massive rally in Washington, D.C., calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the largest pro-Palestinian march in U.S. history. Special thanks to Democracy Now! producers Hany Massoud, Messiah Rhodes and María Taracena.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">Tens of thousands marched from Washington, D.C.'s Freedom Plaza to the White House Saturday in the largest pro-Palestinian demonstration in U.S. history. Democracy Now!'s Messiah Rhodes, María Taracena and Hany Massoud spoke to protesters who condemned the U.S. government's support for Israel and called for a ceasefire in Gaza. We also play excerpts from speakers at the protest rally, including lawyer Noura Erakat, musician Macklemore and writer Mohammed El-Kurd.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">Transcript</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, <a href="http://democracynow.org">democracynow.org</a>, The War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">As the Health Ministry in Gaza says the death toll from Israel's bombardment of Gaza for the last month, since October 7th, when Hamas attacked, has reached nearly 10,000 Palestinians. People took to the streets around the world this weekend to call for a ceasefire. They marched in Paris; in London; in Jakarta, Indonesia; in Milan, Italy; in Dakar, Senegal; in Athens, Greece; in San Francisco; in Turkey and more. On Saturday, in Washington, D.C., tens of thousands, perhaps 100,000 — organizers say as many as 300,000 — people marched from Freedom Plaza, which they dubbed "Gaza Plaza," to the White House in the largest pro-Palestinian demonstration in U.S. history. Democracy Now! was there. Democracy Now! producers Messiah Rhodes and María Taracena spoke with some of the protesters.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Free, free Palestine! Free, free Palestine! Free, free, free Palestine! Free, free, free Palestine!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">AHMAD MALKAWI: I'm Ahmad Malkawi. I'm here to support stopping the war in Gaza now.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MESSIAH RHODES: How far did you travel to get here? And what would you say to Joe Biden if he was here right now?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">AHMAD MALKAWI: I traveled nine hours from Kentucky, Louisville, Kentucky. Joe Biden, stop. Please stop the war. No more war.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">OMAR ALKHALDI: My name is Omar Alkhaldi. We traveled from Charlotte, North Carolina. It's absolutely unbelievable, what's going on in Palestine right now. How many more children need to die?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MESSIAH RHODES: How does it feel to see all this support here right now?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">OMAR ALKHALDI: Hamdulillah, Alhamdulillah. It's very, very nice. We have a lot of people here today. There's over maybe 100,000 people here in support of Palestine. And that shows that the crimes of Israel are coming out. Right? They're losing the media war at the end of the day. A lot of people are being complacent with what's going on in Israel, and they're on the wrong side of history, unfortunately.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">SARAH: My name is Sarah [phon.]. I'm an Egyptian American. And I am inspired to be here to stand for what is right. And what is right is to stop the genocide and to stop the ethnic cleansing.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MARÍA TARACENA: And who are you here with?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">SARAH: I'm here with my family, my mother.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">SARAH'S MOTHER: I feel terrible. I can't sleep during the night. I can't imagine what's gone on. They kill kids, infant, women. That's not fair, not fair for anybody, any human being.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MARÍA TARACENA: What is your message to mothers in Gaza?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">SARAH'S MOTHER: I support her all the way. I wish was here right now. I feel sorry for her, but I can't do anything, just to come here to support her.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Ceasefire now! Ceasefire now! Ceasefire now!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NASSER ABU SITTA: Nasser Abu Sitta. I'm from Gaza, Palestine. And I am here to urge everybody who is making decisions in this government to stop killing children, stop destroying the city. That's not how wars are fought. This is not how we resolve the problems. We are just making it worse.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MARÍA TARACENA: You're from Gaza. Do you have family there? Are you in touch with anyone there right now?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NASSER ABU SITTA: I do. We are in touch on and off as situations allow.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MARÍA TARACENA: How are they? What are they describing to you? And what does it feel like to be here as this is happening?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NASSER ABU SITTA: They have been through so many wars, and this is the most horrifying experience they ever had. They are, just day and night, bombardment, behind them, above them, around them. And they are lucky to be alive. That's how they look at it.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MARÍA TARACENA: Where in Gaza is your family?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NASSER ABU SITTA: Well, it depends what day you're asking. They moved four times so far, from one place to the other.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTER 1: [chanting in Arabic]</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">JEFF WALKER: My name is Jeff Walker. I think it's important for us to be here today because we see oppression happening all over the place, you know, and I think, like, if we allow oppression to continue to happen without saying nothing, then it's going to continue to exacerbate.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MESSIAH RHODES: And why is it important to bring your kids here today? Why be here today?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">JEFF WALKER: I always tell them to be on the right side of history, you know? And absolutely, it's because the things that's happening to Palestine are the things that we've also been subjected to, you know, in our time in America here, as well. And so, I tell my kids to understand what's going on in this country, and let them know that — give them a quote that Malcolm X said, you know: The media will have you praising oppressor and shaming the oppressed. And so I just want my kids to mindful of, you know, how Palestinians stood up for us and spoke up around Black Lives Matter, then we also gotta speak up for them, as well.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MARÍA TARACENA: What's your name? Where are you from? And what inspired you to be here with your children, with your family?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">RAJA DIAZ: I'm Raja. My name is Raja Diaz [phon.]. I'm Palestinian. This is Suhaila. She's just turned 1. And we just had a beautiful birthday party for her, right after everything happened. I was going to cancel because of what's happening in Gaza. But then I looked at the children there, and I said, "For the children's sake, I'm going to have something for her and other children to enjoy," because they — what crime do they have? They don't know what's happening. And I'm here with my Palestinian children to give a voice for the Palestinians that are there back home that have no voice and are being killed by this brutal occupation and genocide that the U.S. — we live here, and our tax dollars are supporting this. And this is a big problem, a big issue, and we want this to end as soon as possible. We don't want no money for Israel. They're committing war crime after war crime, and nothing is being done. It's ridiculous. No other place in the world gets this immunity. No other place.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MARÍA TARACENA: What's your message to mothers in Gaza that have lost their children and have lost sometimes multiple of their family members?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">RAJA DIAZ: It's absolutely horrific. You know, me and my mom, we watch these videos, and we just cry and cry and cry. But we're going to tell them: Be strong and keep moving forward, because we're not going to stop fighting for you.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NAWAL KHALIL: They killed our kids! They don't have gun! They don't do any crime! Why? Why? I ask why then. This is the blood on your hand! You killed the kids! Why? This what they do for you, these kids. Oh my God!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MESSIAH RHODES: What are you holding? What's your name?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NAWAL KHALIL: My name is Nawal Khalil. I am here because — to support Gaza. They killed babies. Babies, they don't have gun. Why? Why? I want to ask why then. Why they kill the babies? Give me an answer, please! Please!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTER 2: They give them time to kill. This is our president. He give more time, long time, to kill more.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now! What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now! If we don't get it? Shut it down!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">HADDY ALREZ: My name is Haddy Alrez. I live in a suburb of Philadelphia. So, we drove down. These are my kids and my nieces and nephews. My parents lived through the 1948 wars and were displaced and were in the Occupied Territories since — until 1973, until they left with five kids, me being the youngest, to the U.S., just to provide us with a better life. So, seeing all of this unfold and listening to my parents' stories feels like a repetition of what happened in '48. And to somebody in our family, that is a personal experience for all of us. Even though I grew up in the United States, you know, we live it through our parents and our parents' stories. And it feels like it's 100-fold now. You know, it was very traumatic for them, what they went through. They lived in caves, they lived under trees, until they made their way to the West Bank. Their town, my father's village, was completely annihilated. Nothing is left. When I went to visit, the one time I went to visit in the mid-'90s, I went with my dad. And I'll never forget him standing on the side of his village, what used to be his village, that's overcome with all just bush and overgrown in a small canyon, and how my dad looked looking out into the land, which he never went back to for 22 years.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MAHMOUD: My name is Mahmoud. I'm a physician in Boston. Come here in solidarity with the Palestinian people, who are going through a genocide right now. As a healthcare worker, we stand with our healthcare colleagues in Gaza right now who are under undescribable circumstances to do their jobs. And right now the situation is beyond belief right now. They're doing surgeries without anesthesia. They're doing surgeries without electricity or without water. It's just something no doctor should ever, you know, be quiet about. I'm carrying this poster in solidarity of the healthcare workers in Gaza. Some of the people who passed away over there are colleagues of us, physicians. Some of them were faculty at the medical school over there. The previous dean of the only medical school in Gaza was killed in an Israeli strike. So, the least we could do is, you know, to let the people their names and show their pictures, and let them know, you know, that they're not numbers. And they died trying to do what they took an oath to do, is to save human life.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Free, free Palestine! Free, free Palestine! Long live Palestine! Long live Palestine! Free, free Palestine! Free, free Palestine!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">AMY GOODMAN: Just some of the voices of the tens of thousands of people — some say 100,000; organizers, 300,000 — who came to Washington, D.C., from around the country Saturday to join the largest pro-Palestinian demonstration in U.S. history. Before the march to the White House, speakers addressed a rally in a packed Freedom Plaza, which they dubbed "Gaza Plaza." We begin with Noura Erakat, Palestinian human rights attorney, associate professor at Rutgers University.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NOURA ERAKAT: We are all here to charge this administration with genocide. … Israel and the United States are jointly complicit in the ongoing Nakba in Palestine. Together, they are rending international law worthless and irrelevant. Every single tribunal, from Nuremberg to Rwanda, from Bosnia to Cambodia, every prosecution at the ICC, was meant to atone for our moral failures, to protect us from ourselves.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">And today we fail to stop. Today we fail to stop the skies from crashing down in white phosphorus flames onto Palestinian dreams, memories, potential, onto Palestinian babies not old enough to beseech you to have mercy upon them.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">We are here now with them and for them to demand a ceasefire. We are here because Palestine reveals the naked hypocrisy of Western universalism. It reveals our enduring colonial reality, and it offers a glimpse into a future without colonialism.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">Falastin, Falastin, where a valiant peple have always existed, where survivors and fighters continue to affirm that they belong to a land upon which there is a life worth living. [speaking in Arabic] We — we — are like olive trees like the ones that our ancestors planted. We are unshaken. We are unmoved. We are undeniable. Stand with us in this promise. We promise, Palestine still promises, that we will all be free! Free, free Palestine!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MASTER OF CEREMONIES 1: Macklemore on deck.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MACKLEMORE: Peace, everybody. You know, first and foremost, this is absolutely beautiful to observe today. I didn't expect to be on a microphone, but — there are thousands of people here that are more qualified to speak on the issue of a free Palestine than myself. But I will say this. They told me to be quiet. They told me to do my research, to go back, that it's too complex to say something, right? To be silent in this moment.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">In the last three weeks, I've gone back, and I've done some research. And I am teachable; I don't know enough. But I know enough that this is a genocide. And we are scared. We are watching it unfold. We have been taught to just be complicit, to protect our careers, to protect our interests. And I'm not going to do it anymore. I'm not afraid to speak the truth!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">You know, my daughter — my daughter said to me this morning, she said — she's 8 years old. She said, "Dad, when we protest today, when we march today, how are the people in Palestine going to know that we're showing up?" Look at this. Look at this. The world is watching what we do right now in this moment of injustice!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">There is no side in humanity. We lead with our hearts. We speak the truth. We shut down the propaganda. And we march forward. Free, free Palestine!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Free, free Palestine!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MACKLEMORE: Free, free Palestine!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Free, free Palestine!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MACKLEMORE: Thank you.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MASTER OF CEREMONIES 2: The very courageous comrades of the Palestinian Feminist Collective.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">SARAH IHMOUD: Over 10,000 Palestinians have been martyred, and 70% of those killed in this genocide thus far are women and children. Today in Gaza, there are half a million displaced Palestinian women and girls. Fifty thousand pregnant women are waiting to give birth, with 5,500 expected to deliver next month, without water, without food, without fuel, without life-saving medicine or medical equipment.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">SARAH IHMOUD: Shame! Women have resorted to taking birth control pills to stop their menstrual cycles because of a lack of sanitary pads. Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">SARAH IHMOUD: This targeting of Indigenous women's bodies and sexualities is woven into the genocidal fabric of Israeli settler colonialism.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">SARAH IHMOUD: But our love and care for each other, our insistence to live, our persistence to give birth to the next generation of Palestinians on our homeland, to hold ground amidst the most unlivable conditions, is a testament to the fact that we refuse to die quietly! We refuse the terms of our vanishment. We are a people who teach life and keep creating life, in spite of genocide, through our revolutionary love, our love for each other and our love for our homeland. And that love is something the colonizer can never take away from us! To know this, to feel this love deeply, is to know that we have already won.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MASTER OF CEREMONIES 1: Next up, we have brother Nihad Awad from the Council on American-Islamic Relations.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NIHAD AWAD: From the beginning of the bombardment of Gaza, we spoke to President Biden the language of logic, the language of law, the language of humanity. We appealed to him to take a moral position, to recognize 2.3 million civilian residents trapped in Gaza under the attack of the Israeli forces from every imaginable type of modern weaponry, to call him to call for a ceasefire. All these calls and the calls from the world community fell on deaf ears.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NIHAD AWAD: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NIHAD AWAD: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NIHAD AWAD: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NIHAD AWAD: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NIHAD AWAD: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NIHAD AWAD: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NIHAD AWAD: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NIHAD AWAD: As the images of the genocide increased, he dehumanized the Palestinians and dismissed their suffering. He denied — he denied the dead Palestinians the right to be acknowledged as dead.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NIHAD AWAD: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NIHAD AWAD: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NIHAD AWAD: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: Shame!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NIHAD AWAD: He insisted that should be — there should be no ceasefire. The State Department asked their staff not to talk about deescalation.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">We have discovered the language that President Biden understands, and let me share it with you. The language that President Biden and his party understand is the language of votes in 2024 elections. And our message is: No ceasefire, no votes. No ceasefire, no votes. No ceasefire, no votes. No ceasefire, no votes. No ceasefire, no votes. No ceasefire, no votes. No votes in Michigan. No votes in Arizona. No votes in Georgia. No votes in Nevada. No votes in Wisconsin. No votes in Pennsylvania. No votes in Ohio. No votes for you anywhere, if you do not call for a ceasefire now.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">After hearing — after hearing this message in the past week and a half, and the fact that 60% — 66% of Americans support a ceasefire, the president, the secretary of state, Democratic senators and representatives started to change their tone.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">We will make our voices heard more and more. In November, we remember. In November, we remember. In November, we remember. In November, we remember. In November, we remember. A White House official told a friend of mine that the community has a short memory. A few months, then they will forget. And let me tell them — let me tell them: In November, we remember. In November, we remember. In November, we remember.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MASTER OF CEREMONIES 1: Next up, we have Mohammed El-Kurd.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MOHAMMED EL-KURD: I want us to take a few minutes to consider the magnitude of loss of life currently happening in the Gaza Strip. I want us to consider what it means to lose 10,000 people, for 10,000 people to be killed by Israeli warplanes. Consider their families and their grief. Consider their lovers. Consider the people missing them. Consider our martyrs' lives, their grievances, their hobbies. And most of all, most of all I want you to consider the fear, the fear that they must have felt as warplanes dropped over their heads, the fear they must have felt minutes before they were killed.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">And I want you to compare that fear, I want you to measure that fear against your own fear. It does not compare. I understand it. We're are all afraid of losing a job, of losing a friend, of being ostracized, of being shamed. I called my father earlier. I told him I was coming to this march. He said, "Stay away from the cameras." We're all afraid, but this fear does not compare.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">They want us to think that we are paying personal prices, but we have our community. They want us to think that we are alone, but we have our people supporting us. If they come for you, if they come for you, if they take your job, if they fire you from school, if they expel you, do not think of yourself as a casualty. You are not a casualty. You are fuel for the movement. You are part of the struggle. They want us to be silent, but we know silence will not protect us. Fear and silence will do nothing but allow this carnage to go on unchecked. Silence is a sign of consent in the empire. Are we afraid?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: No!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MOHAMMED EL-KURD: Are we afraid?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: No!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">MOHAMMED EL-KURD: Are we afraid?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PROTESTERS: No!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">AMY GOODMAN: Voices from Saturday's massive rally in Washington, D.C., calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the largest pro-Palestinian march in U.S. history. Special thanks to Democracy Now! producers Hany Massoud, Messiah Rhodes and María Taracena.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">When we come back, we go to Gaza to hear from the poet Ahmed Abu Artema, who inspired the Great March of Return. Last month he lost five members of his family. He speaks from his hospital bed. Back in 20 seconds.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">T222</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">Gazan poet, journalist and peace activist Ahmed Abu Artema describes how he lost five members of his family, including his 12-year-old son, in an Israeli airstrike on his house on October 24. Abu Artema was seriously injured and sent Democracy Now! an audio message from his hospital bed. "Israel didn't bombard my house, didn't kill my child by mistake. It's the Israeli strategy," he says. "Israel's problem is Palestinian existence itself."</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">Transcript</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! I'm Amy Goodman.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">Shortly before today's show, Democracy Now! reached the Palestinian poet, journalist and peace activist Ahmed Abu Artema, who lost five members of his family last month when they were killed by an Israeli airstrike. He survived the blast but was seriously injured. The dead include his 12-year-old son. Artema helped inspire the Great March of Return, a series of weekly nonviolent protests in Gaza that began in 2018. Israel responded to the protests by killing over 200 protesters, including 46 children. Artema recently wrote an article for The Electronic Intifada headlined "Why did Israel kill my son?" He sent us this audio message from his hospital bed.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">AHMED ABU ARTEMA: In the morning of October 24th, I was sitting with my children in the living room of the house of my family. It's a house of three floors. There were about 40 members in the house at that moment. Suddenly I became unconscious. Maybe after a few minutes, I wake up again. I saw dust and rubble surrounding me everywhere. I knew at that moment that the house where I was with my children was bombing. My hearing at that time was gone. I didn't hear anything, but I looked around me. I looked around me. I saw my two children, Hammoud and Batool, screaming and sticking to me and pointing to my other child, my oldest child, Abboud, their brother. And they are shouting. Abboud was lying on the floor. The people came and took us from the rubble, and we went to the hospital by ambulance.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">I knew that my four — four ladies at that place, my two aunts and my father's wife and my cousin, were killed at the same time, at the first time of the bombing. My child Abboud and my niece — she's about 10 years old also — they were in critical condition. A day after, they were killed. The majority of the family, most of them were injured.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">This is what happened with me, and this is an example of the daily Israeli bombing against Gaza. Israelis are claiming and saying that it's a war against Hamas. But where is Hamas? Take my house as example. Four women and two children were killed in this Israeli strike. And this is what's happening every day. Thousands, the vast majority, of the victims of this Israeli war until now are innocent women and men and children, complete families. Israel is targeting the families.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">Israel declared it clearly that its problem is with the Palestinians themselves, not with a faction or with a group. The Israeli problem is the Palestinian existence itself. So it's not by mistake. Israel didn't bombard my house, didn't kill my child by mistake. It's the Israeli strategy. It's the Israeli mindset of genocide against the Palestinians. Israel look at us as nothing. We are nothing, we are human animals, in their perspective. So they don't care to remove all the Palestinian cities, to kill all the Palestinians.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">The most horrible, that the world is still allowing for this Israeli genocide to happen. This is the horrible thing. Israel is supported completely by the United States administration. The missile that killed my son Abboud, and the missiles that killed thousands of the Palestinians are U.S.-made. So, we are subjected to genocide. This is the most important message.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">AMY GOODMAN: Palestinian poet Ahmed Abu Artema, who inspired the Great March of Return protest years ago. Last month he lost five members of his family, just a week or two ago, including his son, in an Israeli airstrike. He was injured in the strike, recorded this message from his hospital bed.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">Israel says it is responsible for an attack on a convoy of ambulances outside Gaza's largest hospital on Friday that killed at least 15 people. Meanwhile, doctors in Gaza lack the resources to provide adequate care to the sick and injured, thanks to Israel's blockade of water, food and fuel from entering the besieged region. For more on the rapidly deteriorating state of medical care in Gaza and Israel's illegal targeting of medical providers, we speak with Dr. Alice Rothchild, a retired OB-GYN who has long worked in Palestine and is a member of the steering committee of the Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">Transcript</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, <a href="http://democracynow.org">democracynow.org</a>. I'm Amy Goodman.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">The Gaza Health Ministry has announced the Palestinian death toll in Gaza has now exceeded 10,000 from Israel's monthlong bombardment. On Friday, at least 15 people died when an Israeli airstrike hit a convoy of ambulances outside Gaza's largest hospital.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">We're ending the show with Dr. Alice Rothchild, retired OB-GYN who has long worked in Palestine, was last in Gaza in August. On Friday, Dr. Rothchild participated in a nonviolent protest to shut down the Federal Building in Seattle, where Democratic Senator Patty Murray of Washington has an office, urging the senator to call for an immediate ceasefire. Dr. Rothchild is on the steering committee of Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council and mentor liaison for We Are Not Numbers, on the board of Gaza Mental Health Foundation.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">Welcome to Democracy Now!, Dr. Rothchild. If you can talk about the attacks on hospitals right now? You have the attack on the ambulance convoy. Israel said it's because they were transporting Hamas fighters. You have the attack on the hospitals, like Al-Shifa, the largest. Israel says it's because command and control is underneath. Can you comment on all of this and the number, the death toll at this point?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">DR. ALICE ROTHCHILD: Well, this is an appalling situation in terms of the death toll. And there are multiple international laws, starting with the Geneva Accords, that are being violated. You are not allowed, under any circumstances, to bomb hospitals, to bomb health centers, to bomb ambulances. This is against international law. Israel has —Israeli military has for years, with multiple different attacks, accused health facilities of sheltering, quote, "terrorists." They have never produced good documentation. And even if there were, for instance, tunnels under a hospital, you are still not allowed to bomb a hospital. So this is a grave violation of international law and also part of the situation where civilians are dying in massive numbers and being injured in massive numbers.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">AMY GOODMAN: Can you comment on the level of protest that you're seeing right now and the amount of suffering that you're seeing right now in Gaza? You have these 18 groups, rarely, issuing a joint statement, NGOs, along with U.N. agencies, demanding a ceasefire. And what this would mean, and what Senator Murray has said to you as a representative of Jewish Voice for Peace and the Gaza Mental Health Foundation, as you shut down the Federal Building in Seattle?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">DR. ALICE ROTHCHILD: Well, I think that I've been doing this for — solidarity work for 25 years, and this kind of response is unprecedented. And I think it's a reflection of the unprecedented nature of the Israeli attack. And Senator Murray has not been willing to call for a ceasefire. But people all over this country and all over the planet are calling for a ceasefire, because we must stop this bombing, and we must stop all of the civilian death.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">It is clear that the Israeli military is not doing a war to destroy Hamas, whatever that means. It is a war to destroy Gaza and destroying the infrastructure and killing thousands of people. You know, over half the homes are destroyed. A third of the hospitals are destroyed. It's just a massive, massive catastrophe for this region. And there is thought that this is all part of an Israeli plan to run Gazans out of Gaza and displace them into Egypt. There are all sorts of horrific ideas going around. So, the response to this is all being seen internationally.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">AMY GOODMAN: And can you talk about the health situation? We just came out of the third total blackout of Gaza, with health organizations, human rights groups begging the Israeli government to turn back on the electricity, the cellular service, because of what it means for people, organizations that are trying to coordinate their surviving workers on the ground to help the Palestinians.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">DR. ALICE ROTHCHILD: Well, the health system is catastrophic. It has collapsed. And if you think about it, what it means not have electricity, you cannot call an ambulance. You're in labor. You cannot communicate with anyone. Hospitals can't communicate with each other. They can't pump water into the system. There is no — almost no water at all that's clean. That means you can't wash your sterile instruments. You can't wash wounds. There's a lack of antibiotics. People are dying of infection.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">I mean, it goes on and on and on, if you think about not having water, not having electricity and also not having food. There is now a serious risk of starvation. The average Gazan is living on two pieces of bread a day and spending hours searching for water. And people are starting to drink agricultural water, so we're seeing an uptick in diarrheal diseases, respiratory infections, chickenpox. You know, this is a humanitarian and health catastrophe that is basically being live-streamed in front of our eyes.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">AMY GOODMAN: And the position of the Biden administration? We just have 30 seconds at this point.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">DR. ALICE ROTHCHILD: The position of the Biden administration is entirely inadequate and utterly outrageous. Biden needs to call for a ceasefire. The U.S. is sending — planning to send Israel more weapons, that will only create more havoc. So, Israel should not be getting weapons, and Biden must, must, must call for a total ceasefire. That is absolutely necessary from a humanitarian, healthcare, political, human and moral point of view.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">AMY GOODMAN: Dr. Alice Rothchild, we thank you for you for being with us. We'll continue our conversation and post it online at <a href="http://democracynow.org">democracynow.org</a>. Retired OB-GYN who has long worked in Palestine, was in Gaza in August, on the steering committee of Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;margin-bottom:0px">The original content of this program is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Please attribute legal copies of this work to <a href="http://democracynow.org">democracynow.org</a>. Some of the work(s) that this program incorporates, however, may be separately licensed. For further information or additional permissions, contact us.</p></div></div></div></div></div> Czar Donichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03393929688276746871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31312742.post-87008943098465030292023-11-07T11:42:00.000-06:002023-11-07T11:42:58.575-06:00Denis' posting on Israel<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large;color:#000000"><table role="presentation" width="auto" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;border-spacing:0px;padding:16px 0px 32px"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="padding:0px;text-align:center"><a href="https://substack.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.4PwBwL4zOsnPvmLY_c6Scr8QSWs0YCkG5IhAoA_y_NU?" target="_blank"><img role="presentation" width="550" height="110" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1100,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17ea0a51-2487-46c2-ad8a-bc6037f522d1_1100x220.png" class="gmail-CToWUd" style="display: block; 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The images are heartbreaking. The reality unbearable. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Bodies of Palestinian families strewn like refuse along a road that they had trekked as a path to safety. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">A car turns around at a checkpoint in Gaza, its occupants are hit with a shot from behind, from a tank and everything, the car and its occupants, disappear in a puff. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">A Palestinian journalist mourns his colleague, who only a half hour earlier, was reporting on air. After work, he went home, a bomb hit, killing him and his 11-member family.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">The video of his ruined house shows several children's party dresses which lie amidst the rubble. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">The human family is in the rubble.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">An ambulance convoy, filled with injured Gazans, under the supervision of medical</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">authorities, headed to the Rafah border crossing, was struck by the Israeli air force with the stated suspicion that the vehicle, which was headed away from the battle, carried Hamas fighters.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">War reduces all nothingness. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">It is as if 10,000 Palestinians and more had never existed. But they did, just as the 1,400 Israelis killed on October 7<sup>th</sup>existed. They had birthdates, names, fragile exchanges of human emotion, of love of family, private moments in everyday life which confirmed their existence. Obliterated. Nothingness.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Whatever media we consume, we see only a fraction of the massive display of inhumanity occurring in Gaza, the reduction of living, breathing, feeling people to objects. This is heartless. This is soulless. This reduces all of existence to the nothingness of smoke, human smoke. </p><div style="line-height:26px"><div style="display:flex;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:18px;line-height:22px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;margin-top:16px;max-width:384px;text-align:center;width:fit-content"><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Thank you for reading The Kucinich Report. 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It is rooted in power politics, in racism, in apartheid, in twisted history, opportunism disguised as vengeance, statecraft as slaughter. </p></div></div></div></div> Czar Donichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03393929688276746871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31312742.post-22067359175574520352023-11-02T14:59:00.001-05:002023-11-02T14:59:37.811-05:00WAR ON HUMANITY<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large;color:#000000"><div class="gmail-post-header"><h1 class="gmail-post-title gmail-unpublished" style="margin:0px">WAR ON HUMANITY</h1><h3 class="gmail-subtitle" style="font-weight:400;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">DEATH BY DESIGN</h3><div class="gmail-pencraft gmail-frontend-pencraft-Box-module__reset--VfQY8 gmail-frontend-pencraft-Box-module__display-flex--ZqeZt gmail-frontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-direction-column--Rq7pk gmail-frontend-pencraft-Box-module__padding-bottom-16--KVxKv" 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auto;width:auto;height:auto;border:0px"><div class="gmail-image2-inset" style="display:flex"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe6f82243-26fd-4a41-8d88-87e4f1ecbb3f_2048x2048.jpeg" width="1456" height="1456" class="gmail-sizing-normal" alt="" style="display: block; max-width: 100%; height: auto; margin: 0px auto;"><div class="gmail-image-link-expand" style="display:flex;border-radius:6px;opacity:0"></div></div></a></div><p style="line-height:1.6em">As you can see, this has been clear for at least four years, although it was a Zionist dream from the start, in the 20s.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">THE WAR ON HUMANITY</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">BY</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">ABSURD TIMES</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">The anger and disgust any human needs to feel at the outright murder of over 9,000 Palestinians in Gaza is indescribable. Only Dante's Inferno comes close to the vindictive, selfish, and gleeful sadism of many Israelis and their leaders. For some time, we have simply refrained for any sort of acknowledgment of the slaughter being carried out, but it has continued no matter what we do about it. I have heard that Biden has some very competent advisors, the the statement I've heard is that "he listens with his ears closed."</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">It is overwhelming the lack of awareness there is in the United States about what is transpiring in that area and in our name. The media here has been totally one sided until lately. There is not time for me to discuss this now, but I will soon. Right now, here are the reflections of an intelligent and esteem writer who went there recently to see what was happening for himself and here are some of his observations:</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">As pressure builds for a ceasefire after 27 days of Israel's bombardment of Gaza, author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates joins us in a broadcast exclusive interview to discuss his journey to Palestine and Israel and learning about the connection between the struggle of African Americans and Palestinians. "The most shocking thing about my time over there was how uncomplicated it actually is," says Coates, who calls segregation in Palestine and Israel "evil." "There's no way for me, as an African American, to come back and stand before you, to witness segregation and not say anything about it." Coates acknowledges the suppression of those advocating for Palestinian rights but says this is not new for Black writers and journalists. "I have to measure my fear against the misery that I saw."</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">Transcript</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">AMY GOODMAN: As pressure builds for a ceasefire after 27 days of Israel's bombardment of Gaza, we spend the rest of the hour with the acclaimed author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates. This summer, he spoke at a literary festival in the West Bank that connected the Palestinian struggle with decolonization struggles around the world. In Ramallah, he opened his remarks with a comparison between the struggle of African Americans and Palestinians.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">In recent weeks, Coates joined dozens of other writers and artists in signing "An Open Letter from Participants in the Palestine Festival of Literature," that was published in The New York Review of Books and called for, quote, "the international community to commit to ending the catastrophe unfolding in Gaza and to finally pursuing a comprehensive and just political solution in Palestine."</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">AMY GOODMAN: Last night, Ta-Nehisi Coates participated in another event hosted by organizers of the Palestine Festival of Literature, or PalFest, in the James Chapel at Union Theological Seminary here in New York City. It was called "But We Must Speak: On Palestine and the Mandates of Conscience."</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">Ta-Nehisi is the recipient of a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship and the recipient of numerous prizes, including the National Book Award for his book Between the World and Me. We Were Eight Years in Power is another book, An American Tragedy, and his memoir, The Beautiful Struggle. His novel is titled The Water Dancer. In 2014, he wrote an award-winning cover story for The Atlantic magazine headlined "The Case for Reparations."</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">Ta-Nehisi, welcome back to Democracy Now! It's great to have you with us, under extremely difficult circumstances. Last night, this remarkable event almost didn't happen. I mean, it was in the James Chapel of Union Theological Seminary, but venue after venue had said no to this gathering. And without almost any publicity, well over a thousand people turned out, but the place only held 300, so people went over across the street to another place of 300, overcrowd, overflow, and then thousands watched on the live video stream. Can you talk about your experience being in the West Bank, going to the Occupied Territories, and how it changed you?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">TA-NEHISI COATES: Oh wow. I spent 10 days in Palestine, in the Occupied Territories and in Israel proper. I've had the great luxury over the past 10 years of seeing a few countries. I have not spent more time or seen more of another country or another territory than I did this summer.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">I think what shocked me the most was, in any sort of opinion piece or reported piece, or whatever you want to call it, that I've read about Israel and about the conflict with the Palestinians, there's a word that comes up all the time, and it is "complexity," that and its closely related adjective, "complicated." And so, while I had my skepticisms and I had my suspicions of the Israeli government, of the occupation, what I expected was that I would find a situation in which it was hard to discern right from wrong, it was hard to understand the morality at play, it was hard to understand the conflict. And perhaps the most shocking thing was I immediately understood what was going on over there.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">Probably the best example I can think of is the second day, when we went to Hebron, and the reality of the occupation became clear. We were driving out of East Jerusalem. I was with PalFest, and we were driving out of East Jerusalem into the West Bank. And, you know, you could see the settlements, and they would point out the settlements. And it suddenly dawned on me that I was in a region of the world where some people could vote and some people could not. And that was obviously very, very familiar to me. I got to Hebron, and we got out as a group of writers, and we were given a tour by our Palestinian guide. And we got to a certain street, and he said to us, "I can't walk down this street. If you want to continue, you have to continue without me." And that was shocking to me.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">And we walked down the street, and we came back, and there was a market area. Hebron is very, very poor. It wasn't always very poor, but it's very, very poor. Its market area has been shut down. But there are a few vendors there that I wanted to support. And I was walking to try to get to the vendor, and I was stopped at a checkpoint. Checkpoints all through the city, checkpoints obviously all through the West Bank. Your mobility is completely inhibited, and the mobility of the Palestinians is totally inhibited.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">And I was walking to the checkpoint, and an Israeli guard stepped out, probably about the age of my son. And he said to me, "What's your religion, bro?" And I said, "Well, you know, I'm not really religious." And he said, "Come on. Stop messing around. What is your religion?" I said, "I'm not playing. I'm not really religious." And it became clear to me that unless I professed my religion, and the right religion, I wasn't going to be allowed to walk forward. So, he said, "Well, OK, so what was your parents' religion?" I said, "Well, they weren't that religious, either." He says, "What were your grandparents' religion?" And I said, "My grandmother was a Christian." And then he allowed me to pass.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">And it became very, very clear to me what was going on there. And I have to say it was quite familiar. Again, I was in a territory where your mobility is inhibited, where your voting rights are inhibited, where your right to the water is inhibited, where your right to housing is inhibited. And it's all inhibited based on ethnicity. And that sounded extremely, extremely familiar to me.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">And so, the most shocking thing about my time over there was how uncomplicated it actually is. Now, I'm not saying the details of it are not complicated. History is always complicated. Present events are always complicated. But the way this is reported in the Western media is as though one needs a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern studies to understand the basic morality of holding a people in a situation in which they don't have basic rights, including the right that we treasure most, the franchise, the right to vote, and then declaring that state a democracy. It's actually not that hard to understand. It's actually quite familiar to those of us with a familiarity to African American history.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NERMEEN SHAIKH: Well, Ta-Nehisi Coates, last night you were asked about the significance of Martin Luther King's words on Vietnam. You said it's taken you years to, quote, "understand nonviolence as an ethic" and that you understood that ethic in Israel. Could you explain?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">TA-NEHISI COATES: Yeah, sure, I mean, and I think the thing to do is just to proceed off of what I said. Martin Luther King dedicated his life to the fight against segregation. His was a segregated society. The Occupied Territories are segregated, de jure segregated. It's not, you know, hard to understand. There are different signs for where different people can go. There are different license plates forbidding different people from going different places. Now, what the authorities will tell you is that this is a security measure. But if you go back to the history of Jim Crow in this country, they would tell you the exact same thing. People always have good reasons, besides, you know, "I hate you, and I don't like you," to justify their right for imposing an oppressive regime on other people. It's never quite that simple. And so, that was the first thing.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">But the second thing I think that you're referring to is, you know, I — you know, this is like really personal for me, because I came up in a time and in a place where I did not really understand the ethic of nonviolence. And by "ethic," I mean the notion that violence itself is corrupting, that it corrupts the soul. And I didn't quite understand that. If I'm truly honest with you, as much as I saw my relationship with the Palestinian people and as much as it was clear what the relationship was, it was at the same time clear that there was some sort of relationship with the Israeli people, too. And it wasn't one that I particularly enjoyed, because I understood the rage that comes when you have a history of oppression. I understood the anger. I understood the sense of humiliation that comes when people subject you to just manifold oppression, to genocide, and people look away from that. I come from the descendants of 250 years of enslavement. I come from a people who sexual violence and rape is marked in our very bones and in our DNA. And I understand how when you feel that the world has turned its back on you, how you can then turn your back on the ethics of the world. But I also understood how corrupting that can be.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">I was listening, actually, to my congressman last night, or I guess it was two nights ago, talk on the news. And a journalist asked him, "How many children, how many people must be killed to justify this operation? Is there an upper limit for the number of people that could be killed, when you would say, 'This is just too much. This just doesn't — this just doesn't, you know, compute. This does not add up'?" And I will tell you, that congressman couldn't give a number. And I thought, "That man has been corrupted. That man has lost himself. He's lost himself in humiliation. He's lost himself in vengeance. He has lost himself in violence."</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">I keep hearing this term repeated over and over again: "the right to self-defense." What about the right to dignity? What about the right to morality? What about the right to be able to sleep at night? Because what I know is, if I was complicit — and I am complicit — in dropping bombs on children, in dropping bombs on refugee camps, no matter who's there, it would give me trouble sleeping at night. And I worry for the souls of people who can do this and can sleep at night.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">AMY GOODMAN: Let me ask you, Ta-Nehisi, last night, as I said at the beginning, I think Union Theological was the fifth place that PalFest had turned to for this event. I want to point out who was there. Among the speakers was you, you know, a MacArthur "genius" fellow; was Michelle Alexander, the remarkable author and lawyer; Rashid Khalidi, a leading Palestinian American scholar, Edward Said professor of Arab studies at Columbia University; and others. And you being at Union Theological, you know, Dr. Martin Luther King is known for that speech, "Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam," that he gave across the street at Riverside Church, but he started at Union Theological. So many people came, he had to go across the street for it. But can you talk about this difficulty in speaking out? I mean, just last week, we spoke to Viet Thanh Nguyen, who is the Vietnamese American Pulitzer Prize-winning author, who was on a book tour for his latest memoir, and the 92nd Street Y, now known as 92NY, canceled his conversation about his memoir because he had signed on to a letter — I think it was signed by 750 other people — calling for a ceasefire. The U.N. secretary-general has called for a Gaza ceasefire. Can you talk about what it means to break the sound barrier, and if you were nervous about coming out and speaking about Gaza, about the West Bank, even going, to begin with, knowing what you would feel responsible for doing once you came out?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">TA-NEHISI COATES: Yeah, I wasn't just nervous. I was afraid. You know, I hear people talk all the time about how fearlessness is a necessary quality. And I have never had that. I've never had that in my life, and I certainly have never had that in my career.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">I spent five days with PalFest when I was over there, and then I spent another five days with a group of Israeli Jews. And I knew that whatever I was going to see — like, I had a sentiment. I couldn't express it like I just expressed it for you right now, because, obviously, I hadn't been there. But I had a sentiment that what I was going to see was not going to be great. And I know that, A, because of my upbringing, and I know that, B, because of my vocation as a journalist, you can't behold evil and then return and not speak on it. And segregation is evil. There just is no — there's no way for me, as an African American, to come back and stand before you, to witness segregation and not say anything about it.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">One of the hardest things was to come back and then to read the rhetoric of certain African American politicians who are defending this regime. And I just — I couldn't understand it. You know, I wanted to know if they had been to Hebron. You know, I wanted to know if they had been to Masafer Yatta, if they had been to Shusha, if they had been to Tubas. Had they seen? Had they really seen what is actually happening here? I don't know how anybody who benefits, who stands on the shoulders of our ancestors' struggle against Jim Crow, against segregation, could see what is happening right now, could see the bombs being dropped, 9,000 people dead, an ungodly number of them children, in service of Jim Crow and segregation, which we have exported, and be OK with that. I don't — I don't understand it.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">So, yes, I have my fears. I do. I do. You know, I'm afraid right now, sitting here talking to you. But I have to measure my fear against the misery that I saw. I have to measure my fear against the promises that I made to the Palestinians who welcomed me into their homes and gave me the facts, to the Israeli Jews who welcomed me into their homes and gave me the facts, to the Holocaust survivors who welcomed me into their homes and gave me the facts. I have to measure it against my own ancestors, against Frederick Douglass, against Ida B. Wells, who certainly faced off against things that were much, much more perilous than going someplace, coming back and telling people what you saw. This is the minimum. It's scary, but it's also the minimum. And the fact that people are trying to suppress speech is not an excuse for you not to speak. It's always been this way for Black writers and journalists. This is our tradition, you know? And so, I feel — as I do feel the fear, I also feel that I am in good company, because I'm in the company of my ancestors.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NERMEEN SHAIKH: Well, Ta-Nehisi, I want to ask you about the way in which this conflict is in fact being represented in the media and, as you pointed out, politicians, congressmembers, but also the White House. On Monday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre compared pro-Palestinian protesters to the white supremacists who took part in the deadly —</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">TA-NEHISI COATES: Yeah, I saw it.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NERMEEN SHAIKH: — Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. She made the comment in response to a question from Fox News's Peter Doocy.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PETER DOOCY: Does President Biden think the anti-Israel protesters in this country are extremists?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">PRESS SECRETARY KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: What I can say is what we've been very clear about this: When it comes to antisemitism, there is no place. We have to make sure that we speak against it very loud and be — and be very clear about that. Remember, what the president decided to — when the president decided to run for president is what he saw in Charlottesville in 2017, when we — he saw neo-Nazis marching down the streets of Charlottesville with vile, antisemitic just hatred. And he was very clear then, and he's very clear now. He's taken actions against this over the past two years. And he's continued to be clear: There is no place — no place — for this type of vile and despite — this kind of rhetoric.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NERMEEN SHAIKH: So, Ta-Nehisi Coates, that's the White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. Your response?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">TA-NEHISI COATES: You know, I don't want to personalize this. I'm sure she's a very, you know, nice person and a very, very kind person. But, you see, all of us stand on the shoulders of Martin Luther King. All of us stand on the shoulders of the nonviolent struggle. And on King's birthday, the White House, like it's done for years, stands up, and, you know, it praises Dr. King, and it talks about Dr. King as our modern-day prophet. I don't know how these people do that and sleep at night. I don't know how you compare people who are trying to stop a war, who are very much in the tradition of nonviolence, who are trying to stop bombs being dropped, literally, on refugee camps, to neo-Nazi protesters. It's disgraceful, to use her own words. It's disgraceful. It's reprehensible. It is offensive, as far as I am concerned, to the shoulders on those whom we stand right now. I just — I don't understand it.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">I would extend this further. I mean, I think hearing President Biden himself — and here I will personalize it — downplay the number of Palestinian deaths, to say that he doesn't believe the Palestinians, I just — when his own State Department was citing those figures only months ago, you know? At some point, you know, there's that saying: When people show you who they are, you have to believe them. And so, I've spent a lot of time trying to do the political calculus on this. And I think at a certain point we have to just stop and say, "They believe it." They believe it. They believe bombs should be dropped on children. They just think it's OK. They think it's OK, or at the very least they think it's the price of doing business.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">That's not an ethic I can align myself from, because, as I've said several times in this interview, I come from a history where people wanted to make the exact same calculus about us and took stances that we would now say are immoral. But, see, the test isn't what you did in the past; the test is what you do in the moment right now. I'm a writer. I would be much more comfortable — I was working on a book about this. I would be much more comfortable sitting at home writing about this, before I'm here talking to you guys right now. It is not my nature to talk about things that I have not written about yet. But one has to balance one's responsibility against the suffering, against the death, against the body count. And to see what is coming out of this White House right now is just — it's morally reprehensible. Again, I don't know how people sleep at night.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">AMY GOODMAN: You've been talking about Dr. King. His daughter, Dr. Bernice King, who heads The King Center, lawyer, Martin Luther King's youngest daughter, responded to a post by the comedian Amy Schumer, who shared a video of Dr. King condemning antisemitism and defending Israel's right to exist. Bernice King wrote, quote, "Certainly, my father was against antisemitism. He also believed militarism (along with racism and poverty) to be among the interconnected Triple Evils. I am certain he would call for Israel's bombing of Palestinians to cease," Dr. Bernice King said. And so, if you could comment on this and also talk about how the issue of Palestinians, the Occupied Territories, the occupation, has been raised in the Black community, the Movement for Black Lives, for years now, and the pressure you come under when you do?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">TA-NEHISI COATES: Yeah, and, look, I think it's very, very important to talk about the force of antisemitism in history, indeed in American history, in fact. It's a very, very, very real thing, and I don't think you can understand the events of the moment without understanding that.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">And I think, over the past few weeks especially, much has been made about the historic alliance between Black folks and Jewish activists and Jewish folks and that sort of thing. And it's a very, very real thing. It's a very, very important thing. But I think, like any alliance, it is at its best when it grounds itself in moral principle, not in a kind of gang truce, not in a kind of "I had your back, so you'll have mine." A moral alliance that is transactional is actually, in fact, not a moral alliance. And we have always been at our best — you know, when I think about the Jewish civil rights workers who went south and put their bodies on the line for the civil rights movement, I like to think — and I think it's true — that that was not a transactional arrangement. That was not, you know, an attempt to say, "Look, I'm doing this because I think you'll have my back in the future." They did it because it was right. They did it based on principle.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">And so, you know, I think some of the frustration that certain, certain people feel about the lack of African American support for this war comes from this notion that we should have people's back as they drop bombs to try to defend a segregationist apartheid regime. We shouldn't do that. And we haven't done that. That's the history that you allude to, I mean, going back to Angela Davis, to SNCC, to Black Lives Matter. I stand here, or I sit here, very, very humbly as a latecomer to the cause, but someone who has come to the cause nonetheless. We have to stand on principle, Ma'am. We have to stand on principle. And if I'm a latecomer to the Palestinian cause, I'm also a latecomer to the cause of nonviolence, but I'm here now. You know? And knowing what that has meant to our history, you know, to our — there is no way in the world that we can leverage the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, there's no way in the world we can leverage the weight, the ancestry of our movement, in defense of a war, in defense of indiscriminate bombings on refugee camps. We just — we can't do that. We can't do that. We would be a disgrace to our ancestors.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">NERMEEN SHAIKH: Ta-Nehisi, last night, just to end, you said — we've just spoken about the fact that it was so difficult for the Palestine Festival of Literature to find a venue for last night's event. Your own books here in the U.S. have faced book bans, and yours aren't the only ones, of course. But you've said that when people resort to these measures — book banning, limiting public discussions — these are weapons of a weak and a decaying order. Could you explain what you mean by that, and why there is, despite the horror of the moment, some scope for optimism?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">TA-NEHISI COATES: Well, I think if you — and a lot of this is, you know, actually from my time talking to Rashid Khalidi, Professor Rashid Khalidi up at Columbia. And one of the points he made — you know, I came back from Palestine, and I just was glass-eyed. I didn't understand. I had this deep-seated feeling that, in fact, I had been lied to. And I began consulting people and talking to people. And so, I got to spend some time with Professor Khalidi.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">And one of the things he said to me was, never has the movement — this is somebody who's been fighting this war for his entire life. He said, "Never has the movement been as powerful as it is right now." And, you know, I had to take that in. I also have to take in the fact that, like, when I think about what I did not know, and when I did not know, it wasn't that I had competing sources and I didn't know where to turn. The way I think Americans have traditionally, up until very recently, you know —</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">AMY GOODMAN: We have 10 seconds, Ta-Nehisi.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">TA-NEHISI COATES: — saw this struggle — sure. I'm sorry about that. I will just say that I'm very optimistic about the fight, and I think we're going to win. I'll leave it there. Sorry about that.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">AMY GOODMAN: Ta-Nehisi Coates, acclaimed writer, National Book Award winner, spoke at an event last night organized by Palestine Festival of Literature here in New York. We will link to the live stream.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">Before we end, this update from Gaza: The Palestinian WAFA news agency is reporting at least 27 people were killed today in an Israeli bombing of an UNRWA school in the Jabaliya refugee camp, the largest refugee camp in Gaza. I'm Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">The original content of this program is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Please attribute legal copies of this work to <a href="http://democracynow.org">democracynow.org</a>. Some of the work(s) that this program incorporates, however, may be separately licensed. 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Donichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03393929688276746871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31312742.post-19330043401708293582023-11-02T14:58:00.000-05:002023-11-02T14:58:02.549-05:00Fwd: In Congress, Rashida Tlaib and JVP are under attack.<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div class="msg-7762294913391836346"><u></u><div style="background-color:#f4f6f6;margin:0;padding:0"><span style="display:none!important;font-size:1px;color:#ffffff;line-height:1px;max-height:0px;max-width:0px;opacity:0;overflow:hidden">We won't back down. </span><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color:#f4f6f6"><tbody><tr><td><table align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><table class="m_-7762294913391836346row-content m_-7762294913391836346stack" align="center" 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href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/72611734/435874051/947224818?sourceid=1001761&nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9KVlAvSlZQLzEvNjE4ODEiLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpYnV0aW9uVW5pcXVlSWQiOiAiOTRmYzg4MTAtZWQ3OC1lZTExLWIwMDQtMDAyMjQ4MzJlYjczIiwNCiAgIkVtYWlsQWRkcmVzcyI6ICJDemFyLmRvbmljMUBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=v9ylVJYZon0niqWnEh7Ln4GYR5Q3Ihfll9_YerKWc9U=&emci=8c31c549-e978-ee11-b004-00224832eb73&emdi=94fc8810-ed78-ee11-b004-00224832eb73&ceid=456205" style="text-decoration:underline;color:#6e55ff" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Read and share the full Wire on our website.</a></em></span></strong></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><table class="m_-7762294913391836346row-content m_-7762294913391836346stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color:#fff;color:#000;width:600px;margin:0 auto" width="600"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-7762294913391836346column" width="100%" style="font-weight:400;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;vertical-align:top;border-top:0;border-right:0;border-bottom:0;border-left:0"><table class="m_-7762294913391836346image_block" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-bottom:15px;width:100%"><div align="center" style="line-height:10px"><img src="https://prod.cdn.everyaction.com/images/van/JVP/JVP/1/61881/images/The%20Wire/Wire%20Header%20BW.png" style="display:block;height:auto;border:0;max-width:600px;width:100%" width="600"></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><table class="m_-7762294913391836346row-content m_-7762294913391836346stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color:#fff;border-radius:0;color:#000;width:600px;margin:0 auto" width="600"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-7762294913391836346column" width="100%" style="font-weight:400;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;vertical-align:top;border-top:0;border-right:0;border-bottom:0;border-left:0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align:center;width:100%"><h1 style="margin:0;color:#555;direction:ltr;font-family:Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:23px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:120%;text-align:center;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">In Congress, Rashida Tlaib and JVP are under attack.</h1></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table> <table align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><table class="m_-7762294913391836346row-content m_-7762294913391836346stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color:#fff;color:#000;width:600px;margin:0 auto" width="600"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-7762294913391836346column" width="100%" style="font-weight:400;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;vertical-align:top;border-top:0;border-right:0;border-bottom:0;border-left:0"><table class="m_-7762294913391836346image_block" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td style="width:100%"><div align="center" style="line-height:10px"> <a href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/72611735/435874052/947224818?sourceid=1001761&nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9KVlAvSlZQLzEvNjE4ODEiLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpYnV0aW9uVW5pcXVlSWQiOiAiOTRmYzg4MTAtZWQ3OC1lZTExLWIwMDQtMDAyMjQ4MzJlYjczIiwNCiAgIkVtYWlsQWRkcmVzcyI6ICJDemFyLmRvbmljMUBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=v9ylVJYZon0niqWnEh7Ln4GYR5Q3Ihfll9_YerKWc9U=&emci=8c31c549-e978-ee11-b004-00224832eb73&emdi=94fc8810-ed78-ee11-b004-00224832eb73&ceid=456205" style="outline:none" target="_blank"><img src="https://prod.cdn.everyaction.com/images/van/JVP/JVP/1/61881/images/ceasefire%20action%20capitol%20wire%2011-01.jpg" style="display:block;height:auto;border:0;max-width:600px;width:100%" width="600"></a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><table class="m_-7762294913391836346row-content m_-7762294913391836346stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color:#fff;color:#000;width:600px;margin:0 auto" width="600"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-7762294913391836346column" width="100%" style="font-weight:400;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;vertical-align:top;border-top:0;border-right:0;border-bottom:0;border-left:0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="word-break:break-word"><tbody><tr><td><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#555;line-height:1.5"><p style="margin:0;font-size:16px"> Tonight, the House will likely be voting on a truly unhinged and Islamophobic resolution, introduced by Marjorie <strong><a href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/72611736/435874053/2034048320?sourceid=1001761&nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9KVlAvSlZQLzEvNjE4ODEiLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpYnV0aW9uVW5pcXVlSWQiOiAiOTRmYzg4MTAtZWQ3OC1lZTExLWIwMDQtMDAyMjQ4MzJlYjczIiwNCiAgIkVtYWlsQWRkcmVzcyI6ICJDemFyLmRvbmljMUBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=v9ylVJYZon0niqWnEh7Ln4GYR5Q3Ihfll9_YerKWc9U=&emci=8c31c549-e978-ee11-b004-00224832eb73&emdi=94fc8810-ed78-ee11-b004-00224832eb73&ceid=456205" style="text-decoration:underline;color:#6e55ff" rel="noopener" target="_blank">'Jewish-Space-Lasers'</a> </strong>Taylor Greene. The resolution attempts to censure Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, and directly names and attacks Jewish Voice for Peace. <br><br> Why? Because on October 18, over 500 Jews and allies sat on the floor of a Congressional house office building, in prayer and song, to demand an immediate ceasefire to save Palestinian and Israeli lives and to stop the Israeli military's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.<br><br> Greene is an insurrection supporter herself — but now, ironically, she is desperately trying to create a dangerous precedent by labeling participants in peaceful, First Amendment-protected demonstrations led by Jewish activists as "insurrectionists." Clearly, Greene is threatened by Palestinians and Jews coming together to work for peace and justice.<br><br> Greene's resolution is ridiculous on its face — and we won't let it distract from the unfolding genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. We're going to keep escalating until our elected officials demand an immediate ceasefire. </p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><div align="center"> <a href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/72611737/435874054/947224818?sourceid=1001761&nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9KVlAvSlZQLzEvNjE4ODEiLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpYnV0aW9uVW5pcXVlSWQiOiAiOTRmYzg4MTAtZWQ3OC1lZTExLWIwMDQtMDAyMjQ4MzJlYjczIiwNCiAgIkVtYWlsQWRkcmVzcyI6ICJDemFyLmRvbmljMUBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=v9ylVJYZon0niqWnEh7Ln4GYR5Q3Ihfll9_YerKWc9U=&emci=8c31c549-e978-ee11-b004-00224832eb73&emdi=94fc8810-ed78-ee11-b004-00224832eb73&ceid=456205" style="text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;color:#ffffff;background-color:#6e55ff;border-radius:4px;width:auto;border-top:0px solid transparent;font-weight:400;border-right:0px solid transparent;border-bottom:0px solid transparent;border-left:0px solid transparent;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-align:center;word-break:keep-all" target="_blank"><span style="padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;font-size:16px;display:inline-block;letter-spacing:normal"><span style="word-break:break-word;line-height:32px"><strong>Read and share the Wire</strong></span></span></a> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><div align="center"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="80%"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size:1px;line-height:1px;border-top:1px solid #6e55ff"><span> </span></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><table class="m_-7762294913391836346row-content m_-7762294913391836346stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color:#fff;border-radius:0;color:#000;width:600px;margin:0 auto" width="600"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-7762294913391836346column" width="100%" style="font-weight:400;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;vertical-align:top;border-top:0;border-right:0;border-bottom:0;border-left:0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="15" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><h1 style="margin:0;color:#555;direction:ltr;font-family:Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:30px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:120%;text-align:center;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span>Biden has now called for an additional $14.3 billion to be sent to the Israeli military. But there is plenty we can still do.</span></h1></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table> </td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><table class="m_-7762294913391836346row-content m_-7762294913391836346stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color:#fff;border-radius:0;color:#000;width:600px;margin:0 auto" width="600"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-7762294913391836346column" width="100%" style="font-weight:400;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;vertical-align:top;border-top:0;border-right:0;border-bottom:0;border-left:0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align:center;width:100%"><h1 style="margin:0;color:#555;direction:ltr;font-family:Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:23px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:120%;text-align:center;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><strong>Keep up the pressure.</strong></h1></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr> <td><table class="m_-7762294913391836346row-content m_-7762294913391836346stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color:#fff;border-radius:0;color:#000;width:600px;margin:0 auto" width="600"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-7762294913391836346column" width="100%" style="font-weight:400;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;vertical-align:top;border-top:0;border-right:0;border-bottom:0;border-left:0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="word-break:break-word"><tbody><tr><td><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#555;line-height:1.5"><p style="margin:0;font-size:16px"> Join us now in using this tool from our sibling organization, JVP Action, to keep calling Congress and demanding a ceasefire. <br><br>We can't call them too often. Take a minute to tell your members of Congress to demand a ceasefire and the entrance of humanitarian aid in Gaza, and to refuse to send another dollar in military funding to the genocidal Israeli government.</p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><table class="m_-7762294913391836346row-content m_-7762294913391836346stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color:#fff;color:#000;width:600px;margin:0 auto" width="600"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-7762294913391836346column" width="100%" style="font-weight:400;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;vertical-align:top;border-top:0;border-right:0;border-bottom:0;border-left:0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><div align="center"> <a href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/72611738/435874055/-830577055?sourceid=1001761&nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9KVlAvSlZQLzEvNjE4ODEiLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpYnV0aW9uVW5pcXVlSWQiOiAiOTRmYzg4MTAtZWQ3OC1lZTExLWIwMDQtMDAyMjQ4MzJlYjczIiwNCiAgIkVtYWlsQWRkcmVzcyI6ICJDemFyLmRvbmljMUBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=v9ylVJYZon0niqWnEh7Ln4GYR5Q3Ihfll9_YerKWc9U=&emci=8c31c549-e978-ee11-b004-00224832eb73&emdi=94fc8810-ed78-ee11-b004-00224832eb73&ceid=456205#" style="text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;color:#ffffff;background-color:#6e55ff;border-radius:4px;width:auto;border-top:0px solid transparent;font-weight:400;border-right:0px solid transparent;border-bottom:0px solid transparent;border-left:0px solid transparent;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-align:center;word-break:keep-all" target="_blank"><span style="padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;font-size:16px;display:inline-block;letter-spacing:normal"><span style="word-break:break-word;line-height:32px"><strong>Call your reps now</strong></span></span></a> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><div align="center"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="80%"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size:1px;line-height:1px;border-top:1px solid #6e55ff"><span> </span></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><table class="m_-7762294913391836346row-content m_-7762294913391836346stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color:#fff;border-radius:0;color:#000;width:600px;margin:0 auto" width="600"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-7762294913391836346column" width="100%" style="font-weight:400;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;vertical-align:top;border-top:0;border-right:0;border-bottom:0;border-left:0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align:center;width:100%"><h1 style="margin:0;color:#555;direction:ltr;font-family:Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:23px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:120%;text-align:center;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><strong>Power Hours: Collective action every day.</strong></h1></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><table class="m_-7762294913391836346row-content m_-7762294913391836346stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color:#fff;border-radius:0;color:#000;width:600px;margin:0 auto" width="600"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-7762294913391836346column" width="33.333333333333336%" style="font-weight:400;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;vertical-align:top;border-top:0;border-right:0;border-bottom:0;border-left:0"><table class="m_-7762294913391836346image_block" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td style="width:100%"><div align="center" style="line-height:10px"> <a href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/72611739/435874056/400614483?sourceid=1001761&nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9KVlAvSlZQLzEvNjE4ODEiLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpYnV0aW9uVW5pcXVlSWQiOiAiOTRmYzg4MTAtZWQ3OC1lZTExLWIwMDQtMDAyMjQ4MzJlYjczIiwNCiAgIkVtYWlsQWRkcmVzcyI6ICJDemFyLmRvbmljMUBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=v9ylVJYZon0niqWnEh7Ln4GYR5Q3Ihfll9_YerKWc9U=&emci=8c31c549-e978-ee11-b004-00224832eb73&emdi=94fc8810-ed78-ee11-b004-00224832eb73&ceid=456205" style="outline:none" target="_blank"><img 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This Friday, JVP Action and the Adalah Justice Project are taking over — joined by Congresswoman Cori Bush. <br><br>Sign up now: the same link will work every day, Monday through Friday, at 3pm ET/12pm PT.</p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr> </tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><table class="m_-7762294913391836346row-content m_-7762294913391836346stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color:#fff;border-radius:0;color:#000;width:600px;margin:0 auto" width="600"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-7762294913391836346column" width="100%" style="font-weight:400;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;vertical-align:top;border-top:0;border-right:0;border-bottom:0;border-left:0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><div align="center"> <a href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/72611740/435874057/400614483?sourceid=1001761&nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9KVlAvSlZQLzEvNjE4ODEiLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpYnV0aW9uVW5pcXVlSWQiOiAiOTRmYzg4MTAtZWQ3OC1lZTExLWIwMDQtMDAyMjQ4MzJlYjczIiwNCiAgIkVtYWlsQWRkcmVzcyI6ICJDemFyLmRvbmljMUBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=v9ylVJYZon0niqWnEh7Ln4GYR5Q3Ihfll9_YerKWc9U=&emci=8c31c549-e978-ee11-b004-00224832eb73&emdi=94fc8810-ed78-ee11-b004-00224832eb73&ceid=456205" style="text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;color:#ffffff;background-color:#6e55ff;border-radius:4px;width:auto;border-top:0px solid transparent;font-weight:400;border-right:0px solid transparent;border-bottom:0px solid transparent;border-left:0px solid transparent;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-align:center;word-break:keep-all" target="_blank"><span style="padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;font-size:16px;display:inline-block;letter-spacing:normal"><span style="word-break:break-word;line-height:32px"><strong>Register here</strong></span></span></a> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><table class="m_-7762294913391836346row-content m_-7762294913391836346stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color:#fff;border-radius:0;color:#000;width:600px;margin:0 auto" width="600"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-7762294913391836346column" width="100%" style="font-weight:400;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;vertical-align:top;border-top:0;border-right:0;border-bottom:0;border-left:0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><div align="center"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="80%"><tbody><tr><td 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Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:23px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:120%;text-align:center;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><strong>Demand better from the </strong><strong><em>New York Times</em></strong><strong>.</strong></h1></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><table class="m_-7762294913391836346row-content m_-7762294913391836346stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color:#fff;border-radius:0;color:#000;width:600px;margin:0 auto" width="600"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-7762294913391836346column" width="33.333333333333336%" style="font-weight:400;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;vertical-align:top;border-top:0;border-right:0;border-bottom:0;border-left:0"><table class="m_-7762294913391836346image_block" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-top:35px;width:100%"><div align="center" style="line-height:10px"> <a href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/72611741/435874058/-1956896922?sourceid=1001761&nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9KVlAvSlZQLzEvNjE4ODEiLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpYnV0aW9uVW5pcXVlSWQiOiAiOTRmYzg4MTAtZWQ3OC1lZTExLWIwMDQtMDAyMjQ4MzJlYjczIiwNCiAgIkVtYWlsQWRkcmVzcyI6ICJDemFyLmRvbmljMUBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=v9ylVJYZon0niqWnEh7Ln4GYR5Q3Ihfll9_YerKWc9U=&emci=8c31c549-e978-ee11-b004-00224832eb73&emdi=94fc8810-ed78-ee11-b004-00224832eb73&ceid=456205" style="outline:none" target="_blank"><img src="https://prod.cdn.everyaction.com/images/van/JVP/JVP/1/61881/images/tanks%20march%20to%20war%20resized.jpg" style="display:block;height:auto;border:0;max-width:200px;width:100%" width="200"></a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td class="m_-7762294913391836346column" width="66.66666666666667%" style="font-weight:400;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;vertical-align:top;border-top:0;border-right:0;border-bottom:0;border-left:0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="word-break:break-word"><tbody><tr><td><div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#555;line-height:1.5"><p style="margin:0;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px">In recent days, the New York Times has repeated Israel's unsubstantiated claims that Hamas has underground command centers below Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza.</span></p><p style="margin:0;font-size:14px"> </p><p style="margin:0;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px">Write to the NYT now to demand they stop parroting Israeli propaganda and responsibly cover the crimes against humanity that Israel is committing against Palestinians in Gaza.</span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><table class="m_-7762294913391836346row-content m_-7762294913391836346stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color:#fff;border-radius:0;color:#000;width:600px;margin:0 auto" width="600"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-7762294913391836346column" width="100%" style="font-weight:400;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;vertical-align:top;border-top:0;border-right:0;border-bottom:0;border-left:0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><div align="center"> <a href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/72611742/435874059/-1956896922?sourceid=1001761&nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9KVlAvSlZQLzEvNjE4ODEiLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpYnV0aW9uVW5pcXVlSWQiOiAiOTRmYzg4MTAtZWQ3OC1lZTExLWIwMDQtMDAyMjQ4MzJlYjczIiwNCiAgIkVtYWlsQWRkcmVzcyI6ICJDemFyLmRvbmljMUBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=v9ylVJYZon0niqWnEh7Ln4GYR5Q3Ihfll9_YerKWc9U=&emci=8c31c549-e978-ee11-b004-00224832eb73&emdi=94fc8810-ed78-ee11-b004-00224832eb73&ceid=456205" style="text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;color:#ffffff;background-color:#6e55ff;border-radius:4px;width:auto;border-top:0px solid transparent;font-weight:400;border-right:0px solid transparent;border-bottom:0px solid transparent;border-left:0px solid transparent;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-align:center;word-break:keep-all" target="_blank"><span style="padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;font-size:16px;display:inline-block;letter-spacing:normal"><span style="word-break:break-word;line-height:32px"><strong>Email the <em>New York Times</em></strong></span></span></a> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><table class="m_-7762294913391836346row-content m_-7762294913391836346stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color:#fff;border-radius:0;color:#000;width:600px;margin:0 auto" width="600"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-7762294913391836346column" width="100%" style="font-weight:400;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;vertical-align:top;border-top:0;border-right:0;border-bottom:0;border-left:0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><div align="center"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="80%"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size:1px;line-height:1px;border-top:1px solid #6e55ff"><span> </span></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><table class="m_-7762294913391836346row-content m_-7762294913391836346stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color:#fff;border-radius:0;color:#000;width:600px;margin:0 auto" width="600"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-7762294913391836346column" width="100%" style="font-weight:400;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;vertical-align:top;border-top:0;border-right:0;border-bottom:0;border-left:0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align:center;width:100%"><h1 style="margin:0;color:#555;direction:ltr;font-family:Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:23px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:120%;text-align:center;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><strong>Abolition and Palestine. </strong></h1></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"> <tbody><tr><td><table class="m_-7762294913391836346row-content m_-7762294913391836346stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color:#fff;border-radius:0;color:#000;width:600px;margin:0 auto" width="600"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-7762294913391836346column" width="33.333333333333336%" style="font-weight:400;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;vertical-align:top;border-top:0;border-right:0;border-bottom:0;border-left:0"><table class="m_-7762294913391836346image_block" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td style="width:100%"><div align="center" style="line-height:10px"> <a href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/72611743/435874060/-720329749?sourceid=1001761&nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9KVlAvSlZQLzEvNjE4ODEiLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpYnV0aW9uVW5pcXVlSWQiOiAiOTRmYzg4MTAtZWQ3OC1lZTExLWIwMDQtMDAyMjQ4MzJlYjczIiwNCiAgIkVtYWlsQWRkcmVzcyI6ICJDemFyLmRvbmljMUBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=v9ylVJYZon0niqWnEh7Ln4GYR5Q3Ihfll9_YerKWc9U=&emci=8c31c549-e978-ee11-b004-00224832eb73&emdi=94fc8810-ed78-ee11-b004-00224832eb73&ceid=456205" style="outline:none" target="_blank"><img src="https://d15k2d11r6t6rl.cloudfront.net/public/users/Integrators/04eaa6b2-88f4-43b4-b978-7bb0708f5838/684D564B31524D725445716753712B7449596D4F32327A4C48516476466752725339516337686E525578566178655A744E342F733963477279384A634D325232/editor_images/Free-Palestine-Speaker-Banner-e1698178690629-1024x918.png" style="display:block;height:auto;border:0;max-width:200px;width:100%" width="200"></a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td class="m_-7762294913391836346column" width="66.66666666666667%" style="font-weight:400;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;vertical-align:top;border-top:0;border-right:0;border-bottom:0;border-left:0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="word-break:break-word"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;padding-top:20px"><div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#555;line-height:1.5"><p style="margin:0;font-size:14px"> <span style="font-size:16px">Join Critical Resistance, Dr. Angela Y. Davis, Lara Kiswani of AROC, Stefanie Fox of JVP, and Nadine Naber of INCITE! <strong>today, November 1, at 7pm ET</strong> for a critical discussion on abolition and the ongoing war on Palestine.</span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><table class="m_-7762294913391836346row-content m_-7762294913391836346stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color:#fff;color:#000;width:600px;margin:0 auto" width="600"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-7762294913391836346column" width="100%" style="font-weight:400;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;vertical-align:top;border-top:0;border-right:0;border-bottom:0;border-left:0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><div align="center"> <a href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/72611744/435874061/-720329749?sourceid=1001761&nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9KVlAvSlZQLzEvNjE4ODEiLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpYnV0aW9uVW5pcXVlSWQiOiAiOTRmYzg4MTAtZWQ3OC1lZTExLWIwMDQtMDAyMjQ4MzJlYjczIiwNCiAgIkVtYWlsQWRkcmVzcyI6ICJDemFyLmRvbmljMUBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=v9ylVJYZon0niqWnEh7Ln4GYR5Q3Ihfll9_YerKWc9U=&emci=8c31c549-e978-ee11-b004-00224832eb73&emdi=94fc8810-ed78-ee11-b004-00224832eb73&ceid=456205" style="text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;color:#ffffff;background-color:#6e55ff;border-radius:4px;width:auto;border-top:0px solid transparent;font-weight:400;border-right:0px solid transparent;border-bottom:0px solid transparent;border-left:0px solid transparent;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-align:center;word-break:keep-all" target="_blank"><span style="padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;font-size:16px;display:inline-block;letter-spacing:normal"><span style="word-break:break-word;line-height:32px"><strong>RSVP now </strong></span></span></a> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><div align="center"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="80%"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size:1px;line-height:1px;border-top:1px solid #6e55ff"><span> </span></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><table class="m_-7762294913391836346row-content m_-7762294913391836346stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color:#fff;border-radius:0;color:#000;width:600px;margin:0 auto" width="600"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-7762294913391836346column" width="100%" style="font-weight:400;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;vertical-align:top;border-top:0;border-right:0;border-bottom:0;border-left:0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align:center;width:100%"><h1 style="margin:0;color:#555;direction:ltr;font-family:Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:23px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:120%;text-align:center;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span><strong>Join JVP as a member.</strong></span></h1></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><table class="m_-7762294913391836346row-content m_-7762294913391836346stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color:#fff;border-radius:0;color:#000;width:600px;margin:0 auto" width="600"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-7762294913391836346column" width="33.333333333333336%" style="font-weight:400;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;vertical-align:top;border-top:0;border-right:0;border-bottom:0;border-left:0"><table class="m_-7762294913391836346image_block" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td style="width:100%"><div align="center" style="line-height:10px"> <a href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/72611745/435874062/-395936312?sourceid=1001761&nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9KVlAvSlZQLzEvNjE4ODEiLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpYnV0aW9uVW5pcXVlSWQiOiAiOTRmYzg4MTAtZWQ3OC1lZTExLWIwMDQtMDAyMjQ4MzJlYjczIiwNCiAgIkVtYWlsQWRkcmVzcyI6ICJDemFyLmRvbmljMUBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=v9ylVJYZon0niqWnEh7Ln4GYR5Q3Ihfll9_YerKWc9U=&emci=8c31c549-e978-ee11-b004-00224832eb73&emdi=94fc8810-ed78-ee11-b004-00224832eb73&ceid=456205" style="outline:none" target="_blank"><img src="https://prod.cdn.everyaction.com/images/van/JVP/JVP/1/61881/images/JVP%20members%20ceasefire.png" style="display:block;height:auto;border:0;max-width:200px;width:100%" width="200"></a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td class="m_-7762294913391836346column" width="66.66666666666667%" style="font-weight:400;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;vertical-align:top;border-top:0;border-right:0;border-bottom:0;border-left:0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="word-break:break-word"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;padding-top:15px"><div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#555;line-height:1.5"><p style="margin:0;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px">JVP members join a community of thousands of people working together towards freedom and justice for all, from the U.S. to Palestine. Becoming a member commits to your stake in the movement — and it amplifies your power.</span></p></div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><table class="m_-7762294913391836346row-content m_-7762294913391836346stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color:#fff;border-radius:0;color:#000;width:600px;margin:0 auto" width="600"> <tbody><tr><td class="m_-7762294913391836346column" width="100%" style="font-weight:400;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;vertical-align:top;border-top:0;border-right:0;border-bottom:0;border-left:0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><div align="center"> <a href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/72611746/435874063/1764195784?sourceid=1001761&nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9KVlAvSlZQLzEvNjE4ODEiLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpYnV0aW9uVW5pcXVlSWQiOiAiOTRmYzg4MTAtZWQ3OC1lZTExLWIwMDQtMDAyMjQ4MzJlYjczIiwNCiAgIkVtYWlsQWRkcmVzcyI6ICJDemFyLmRvbmljMUBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=v9ylVJYZon0niqWnEh7Ln4GYR5Q3Ihfll9_YerKWc9U=&emci=8c31c549-e978-ee11-b004-00224832eb73&emdi=94fc8810-ed78-ee11-b004-00224832eb73&ceid=456205" style="text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;color:#ffffff;background-color:#6e55ff;border-radius:4px;width:auto;border-top:0px solid transparent;font-weight:400;border-right:0px solid transparent;border-bottom:0px solid transparent;border-left:0px solid transparent;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-align:center;word-break:keep-all" target="_blank"><span style="padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;font-size:16px;display:inline-block;letter-spacing:normal"><span style="word-break:break-word;line-height:32px"><strong>Join JVP</strong></span></span></a> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><table class="m_-7762294913391836346row-content m_-7762294913391836346stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color:#fff;border-radius:0;color:#000;width:600px;margin:0 auto" width="600"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-7762294913391836346column" width="100%" style="font-weight:400;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;vertical-align:top;border-top:0;border-right:0;border-bottom:0;border-left:0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><div align="center"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="80%"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size:1px;line-height:1px;border-top:1px solid #6e55ff"><span> </span></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><table class="m_-7762294913391836346row-content m_-7762294913391836346stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color:#fff;border-radius:0;color:#000;width:600px;margin:0 auto" width="600"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-7762294913391836346column" width="100%" style="font-weight:400;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;vertical-align:top;border-top:0;border-right:0;border-bottom:0;border-left:0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align:center;width:100%"><h1 style="margin:0;color:#555;direction:ltr;font-family:Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:23px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:120%;text-align:center;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><strong>Actions in the coming week.</strong></h1></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"> <tbody><tr><td><table class="m_-7762294913391836346row-content m_-7762294913391836346stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color:#fff;border-radius:0;color:#000;width:600px;margin:0 auto" width="600"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-7762294913391836346column" width="100%" style="font-weight:400;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;vertical-align:top;border-top:0;border-right:0;border-bottom:0;border-left:0"><table class="m_-7762294913391836346image_block" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td style="width:100%"><div align="center" style="line-height:10px"> <a href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/72611747/435874064/1215129333?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==&sourceid=1001761&nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9KVlAvSlZQLzEvNjE4ODEiLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpYnV0aW9uVW5pcXVlSWQiOiAiOTRmYzg4MTAtZWQ3OC1lZTExLWIwMDQtMDAyMjQ4MzJlYjczIiwNCiAgIkVtYWlsQWRkcmVzcyI6ICJDemFyLmRvbmljMUBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=v9ylVJYZon0niqWnEh7Ln4GYR5Q3Ihfll9_YerKWc9U=&emci=8c31c549-e978-ee11-b004-00224832eb73&emdi=94fc8810-ed78-ee11-b004-00224832eb73&ceid=456205" style="outline:none" target="_blank"><img src="https://d15k2d11r6t6rl.cloudfront.net/public/users/Integrators/04eaa6b2-88f4-43b4-b978-7bb0708f5838/366267336568364F49426863755A414B53486C62752B4374415A75506A6B486757333452377439357A746C472B596342723546762B50563157393432562B5774/editor_images/im-877372.jpeg" style="display:block;height:auto;border:0;max-width:600px;width:100%" width="600"></a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td> </tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><table class="m_-7762294913391836346row-content m_-7762294913391836346stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color:#fff;border-radius:0;color:#000;width:600px;margin:0 auto" width="600"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-7762294913391836346column" width="100%" style="font-weight:400;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;vertical-align:top;border-top:0;border-right:0;border-bottom:0;border-left:0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="word-break:break-word"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;padding-top:5px"><div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#555;line-height:1.5"><p style="margin:0;font-size:16px"> <span style="font-size:16px">As we escalate our demand for a ceasefire nationwide, more and more actions are being planned in the coming days. This event roundup lists many local actions.</span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><div align="center"> <a href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/72611748/435874065/1215129333?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==&sourceid=1001761&nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9KVlAvSlZQLzEvNjE4ODEiLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpYnV0aW9uVW5pcXVlSWQiOiAiOTRmYzg4MTAtZWQ3OC1lZTExLWIwMDQtMDAyMjQ4MzJlYjczIiwNCiAgIkVtYWlsQWRkcmVzcyI6ICJDemFyLmRvbmljMUBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=v9ylVJYZon0niqWnEh7Ln4GYR5Q3Ihfll9_YerKWc9U=&emci=8c31c549-e978-ee11-b004-00224832eb73&emdi=94fc8810-ed78-ee11-b004-00224832eb73&ceid=456205" style="text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;color:#ffffff;background-color:#6e55ff;border-radius:4px;width:auto;border-top:0px solid transparent;font-weight:400;border-right:0px solid transparent;border-bottom:0px solid transparent;border-left:0px solid transparent;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-align:center;word-break:keep-all" target="_blank"><span style="padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;font-size:16px;display:inline-block;letter-spacing:normal"><span style="word-break:break-word;line-height:32px"><strong>See the event roundup </strong></span></span></a> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><table class="m_-7762294913391836346row-content m_-7762294913391836346stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color:#fff;border-radius:0;color:#000;width:600px;margin:0 auto" width="600"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-7762294913391836346column" width="100%" style="font-weight:400;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;vertical-align:top;border-top:0;border-right:0;border-bottom:0;border-left:0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="word-break:break-word"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;padding-top:5px"><div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#555;line-height:1.5"><p style="margin:0;font-size:16px"> As future actions are planned, we'll be sharing them out — the quickest way to get every action update is to make sure you're following JVP on social media.</p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><div align="center"> <a 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font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">A celebrated firebrand and famed spewer of invective laced with profanity once had a tremendous mishap. People gathered, eager to hear his speech, but he simply said “I CAN NOT DO JUSTICE TO THIS SITUATION”!</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">I found Denis Kucinich had written this piece just a few days ago, distributed it as widely as possible, and now add it here:</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">Thou Shalt NOT Kill.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">Our survival depends upon surmounting moments such as these</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">DENNIS KUCINICH</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); 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I spoke for the imperative of peace in the Middle East, on behalf of Israelis and the Palestinians alike. I met with leaders of many countries who were grappling to keep their nations out of conflict and I came to understand the role some in the US government have played to intentionally catalyze war, fueling arms sales globally, without regard for the consequences. The consequences are here!</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">We are cartwheeling towards a massive East v. West war with religious and ethnic overtones. This seemingly inexorable March of (nuclear) Folly, will ultimately pit the United States militarily against China, Russia and their allies.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">The US, with its political divisions on full display, functions now only for purposes of funding wars. Otherwise, the government will shut down over its inability to balance the books from the expenses of previous wars which were put on the national credit card.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">The polarization of US politics, the cognitively impaired and failing executive branch, the instability of the congressional leadership, the purblind partisanship, the ideologically, click-bait driven media has produced a mad blood lust for war against Iran and acceleration toward the abyss.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">Share</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">Through illegal war after illegal war, the US has demoralized and demonized itself against the rest of the world. It is the US and Israel against the Arab, Muslim, Chinese, Russian, Iranian, Turks, et al. The probability of nuclear war is higher than it has been since the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 16-28, 1962, when President Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev found an off ramp averting annihilation. Today, the price of nuclear vengeance and retribution would be the deaths of at least five billion people, and the end of life on planet Earth.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">The Biden foreign policy has always been a shambles. It has been based on military domination, economic coercion, and ideological arrogance which has swept up in its maw the Democratic party. The war in Ukraine, for example, meant to weaken Russia, has strengthened it economically and politically at the cost of the lives of 350,000 of the flower of Ukrainian youth. The US has rattled China over Taiwan, pretending we can intimidate the Chinese Navy and Coast Guard in their own front yard.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">The latent virus of megalomania has so excited America’s leaders that it has accelerated the formation of an alliance against our nation, which includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">Diplomacy has become an abattoir. Blood lust blinds, sweeping aside primal human sympathies, exciting those ancient emotions to declare enemies, take up the cudgel and beat those enemies to death.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">We are at an exceedingly dangerous moment of world crisis when the fragile bonds which connect us, each to the other, are being torn asunder by acts of mass murder, the miasma of apartheid, oppression and occupation, stereotyping, racism, bigotry, accelerating mistrust, desire for vengeance and retribution, compelling a dialectic of conflict which could lead to the destruction of the world.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">Our survival as a species depends upon surmounting moments such as these, making of human relations a science, and human and ecological security the highest purpose of the work of people everywhere. When our brothers and sisters are killing each other, it is imperative, in the name of all humanity, that we intervene to stop the killing so that all may survive.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">Like an unruly child, our government out of control. We must call out now, hastened by whatever survival instinct that yet resides in us, and say STOP IT!</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">Stop the escalation.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">Stop the militarization.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">Stop the race toward the abyss.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">Share</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">It bears reflection at this moment that some of the same individuals, including President Biden, who led us into the disastrous Ukraine war and before that into devastating wars which killed over a million people in Iraq and Libya, are now leading the US into war against Iran … and World War III.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">The US is now defending itself by bombing sites assumed to be Iranian proxies in Syria. The panoply of offensive material which the US is pouring into the region suggests preparations are being made to attack Iran, which in turn will prompt other nations to respond.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">Now comes the Middle East conflict between Hamas and Israel. Instead of playing peacemaker, a role which ultimately protects Israel from destruction, the US is enabling the wholesale slaughter of Gazans, naively warning all others to step aside while standing guard with aircraft carriers and planes, emplacing US troops, and putting all US service personnel in the region at grave risk.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">This as the Netanyahu-Ben Givr government has fearfully approached a ground invasion while collective punishment having been previously meted out from the air to over 7,000 of Gaza’s civilian population. The air attack and the ground invasion are retribution for Hamas’ horrific attack on October 7th, which resulted in the murder of 1,400 Israelis, most of them civilians. Under such circumstances, the hostages in Gaza are damned from above and below.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">On October 7th, shattered were the myths of the omni-competent Mossad and the technologically superior Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) which were powerful deterrent factors against attacks. Israeli movements into Gaza will find synchronous advancement by in the north, by Hezbollah, across the Lebanese border and attacks soon coming from many directions.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">The continued bombing of the Palestinians in Gaza is inciting hundreds of millions of Muslims in the region who were already on edge because of the desecration of the Al Aqsa Mosque on October 4th, 2023, which could have played a role inciting Hamas’ Oct. 7thunjustified planned massacre.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">Masked in the attack on Gaza is the agenda of Israel’s fair-right ultranationalist government to establish an ethnically-pure religious state, removing the Palestinians from Gaza and the West Ban, and the realization of the establishment of the prophesied Third Temple, which means razing Al Aqsa, the third holiest site in Islam.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">I believe in the protection and survival of Israelis and Palestinians. I believe in the protection and survival of all people.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">The protection and survival of Israel or Palestine is not furthered by the bombing, starvation, and mass killings of innocents. It is a form of suicide presenting as homicide.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">It is time to stop taking sides and start working instead for the goal of a just peace.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">I oppose the killing of innocents whatever their race, color, creed, nationality or nation. There are hundreds of millions of Muslims and Arabs in the neighborhood now seething at the injustices of the massacre of innocents, and only nine million Israelis…</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">The whole world is watching. The region is waiting. The Times of Israel reports today that as of October 29th, Israeli citizens who happen to be Palestinians, will be shot at public protests. Does anyone think the murders of Palestinians in the West Bank, together with those who will be shot for protesting, will not result in a sharp upcycling of violence in the region?</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">Hamas’ charter calls for the destruction of Israel through Jihad. Those on both sides who advocate kill or be killed are on the ascendant. Let us stand, then, in the place where all this killing leads, to northern Israel, on Mount Megiddo, (original Hebrew Har Megiddo, Anglicized to Armageddon). The final battle awaits with nuclear missiles as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Then we await the Second Coming of Christ on the Mount of Olives, and the establishment of the Third Temple supplanting Al Aqsa. Frankly, I’d rather watch the Netflix version.</p>Czar Donichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03393929688276746871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31312742.post-15457776604799779452023-10-25T12:01:00.001-05:002023-10-25T12:01:20.847-05:00MEVER AGAIN? 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This is an international opinion held by the bulk of the population that knows anything about the current onslaught. 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For WHOM???</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">by</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">Absurd Times</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">Well, the category and name-calling or labeling do nothing much to help, but at least the concept is true. Was Germany a "terrorist organization? Obviously so. Was it a nation? Obviously so. Critical thought often gets muddled in such times as we are seeing in Gaza and the West Bank. Perhaps it is an offensive and disgusting Nation, but let's at least try to use the right nouns?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">Demonstrations against Israel are conducted in just about every city we see around the world. Only the ritual leaders speak in favor of this slaughter in Gaza and the West Bank and they are NOT ANTI-SEMITIC. That term has been abused for the past 50 years, and more abused as Israel continues its onslaught against sanity and honor in the United States. Not much attention has been paid here to the fact that 25 Rabbis and their congregations collected at the Capital building and then sat, holding appropriate signs such as NOT IN MY NAME and SEEK JUSTICE AND ONLY JUSTICE (as Moses pronounced). This is hardly justice. The Jewish Voice for Peace was a strong influence. (It's main -- if that word is appropriate – Rabbi is kind and devoted to honest Jewish values. He spoke at Mohamed Ali's ceremony if that makes any difference to you. It is worth visiting their website whether you are Jewish or not, you are human and that is what they are all about.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">Finally, from us, the most asinine bit of lying from Israel, taking advantage of Western ignorance of the situation is the likening of Hamas to ISIL. It ignores a long history of antagonism between those two groups towards each other. The Isil Idiots are pretty much gone, but they are a creation of the Bush administration very much as HAMAS owes its existence to Israel. It was only after one of the most outrageous attacks on Palestine that an election was held and Hamas then had great support. Israel has used it to justify anything. If it rains at the wrong time, Hamas does it!</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">THE POSSIBILITY OF AN EXPANDED WAR:</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">This, btw, has become an easy public relations victory for Iran which was under scorn for its treatment of women.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">World leaders are warning of the risk of a wider war in the Middle East as Israel's assault on Gaza could spill over to other parts of the region. We speak to independent journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous about the negligible amount of aid that Israel is allowing to trickle into Gaza from the Rafah border crossing. He also discusses Egypt's response to Israel's attempts to ethnically cleanse Gaza by forcibly transferring the already-displaced Palestinian population into the Sinai. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's refusal thus far to comply with this Israeli directive has generated widespread support in his country and across the Arab world, but, Kouddous notes, it's a stance that's also rooted in economic self-interest.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">Transcript</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! I'm Amy Goodman, with Juan González.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">Health officials in Gaza say Israel's unrelenting bombardment of the besieged Palestinian territory has killed another 700 people over the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll over the past 18 days to more than 5,800 Palestinians. Among them, 2,000 children are dead. One-point-four million Gazans, more than half of the territory's population, has been displaced. Many say there's no safe place to be in Gaza right now. The World Health Organization is pleading for far more aid to be allowed into Gaza through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt. We're going to look now at Egypt's response to Israel's bombardment of Gaza and the negotiations over aid coming through Rafah.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">We're joined by Sharif Abdel Kouddous, independent journalist working with the Egyptian news outlet Mada Masr. He won a George Polk Award for his Al Jazeera documentary, The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh. His latest piece for The Guardian is headlined "Israel's endgame is to push Palestinians into Egypt — and the west is cheering it on."</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">Sharif, welcome back to Democracy Now! Can you talk about all that's taking place right now around the Rafah border crossing? And explain who it's controlled by, and explain what Israel is calling on Egypt to do.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: Thank you, Amy.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">I think, well, first of all, we have to understand Egypt is the only country other than Israel to share a border crossing with Gaza. And what we've seen since October 7th is a lot of negotiations around what's going to happen at this border crossing. So, as it stands right now, Egypt has insisted on allowing humanitarian aid into Gaza and has allowed multiple countries to deliver aid to Arish in northern Sinai. Countries like Jordan, Turkey, Qatar, the UAE have delivered thousands of tons of humanitarian aid that are kind of idling in these trucks at the border.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">So far, since Saturday, something like 75 or 80 trucks have been allowed in, about 20 trucks a day. After a lot of negotiations, 20 trucks a day are being allowed in by Israel into Gaza. And this is nowhere near enough. You know, according to humanitarian organizations, they've called it a drop in the ocean. And just to give you a sense, 20 trucks a day amounts to about 4% of an average day's imports before October 7th, before 1.4 million people were displaced, before 15,000 people were injured, before close to 6,000 people were killed. So, you know, the U.N. is saying that hundreds of trucks a day are needed. And on top of that, Israel has placed heavy restrictions on even that minuscule aid that's coming in.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">Well, firstly, Israel has bombed the Gaza side of the Rafah border crossing four times since October 7th, even one time slamming into Egyptian territory at the border. But the aid, when it comes in, it travels to the Ouga-Nitzana border crossing with Israel, where it's first inspected by Israeli authorities, and then it eventually gets into — goes back to the Rafah border crossing and goes into Gaza. This is a process that takes many hours.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">But I think we have to understand that there's two issues that really stand out on the restrictions. First of all, all deliveries of aid to northern Gaza are prohibited. So, none of this minuscule, even this like paltry amount of aid is getting to northern Gaza. You know, hundreds of thousands have evacuated from northern Gaza after Israel warned people to leave, but there's still hundreds of thousands that remain. And just to give you a sense, the biggest hospital in Gaza is in Gaza city, Shifa Hospital. This is a hospital that usually, in normal times, has a capacity of about 700 patients. It's currently overwhelmed with 5,000 patients. And you have something like 45,000 displaced people gathered in and around the hospital grounds seeking shelter. That's according to the U.N. And none of the aid that's coming in is getting to them.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">But secondly, and very importantly, the aid that is coming in, none of it includes any fuel. Fuel is not being allowed to enter. And fuel is just absolutely crucial for so many things, perhaps most importantly for electricity to run generators. And without fuel, life-saving medical equipment, like incubators, ventilators, won't work. And so this spells a death sentence for babies in neonatal wards and things like this. So, one official has called it, you know, that the aid coming in is more of a diplomatic symbol rather than actual meeting any humanitarian needs. But we have to see where this is going.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And, Sharif, I wanted to ask you: First of all, on the water situation, is all water still cut off by the Israelis? And secondly, isn't the whole issue of Israel urging people to leave Gaza through Egypt a clear sample of ethnic cleansing? After all, Israel has many entrances on its side of the Gaza Strip, where it could allow women and children to come out of northern Gaza, possibly even bus them into the West Bank. But they're clearly trying to get rid of the Palestinians, as many as possible, from their occupied territories.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: Yeah, I mean, this is — I mean, first of all, on the issue of water, people have talked about there's a real risk of dehydration to death. People are drinking now dirty water. The aid that's coming in is not enough. You know, the first day, it provided water for about 22,000 people for a few hours, and we're talking about a place which has 2.3 million people. And no water has been allowed in since October 7th. No aid at all has been allowed in, except for these small convoys. There has been a water pipeline that was — that is supposedly working near Khan Younis, but it's not nearly providing enough.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">And yes, this idea of — so, first of all, this order comes down from Israel — well, first of all, Netanyahu, when this all began on October 7th, took to the airwaves announcing a war against Hamas and telling people in Gaza to leave now, and saying — you know, he left unsaid where they're supposed to go. But then there was this order to evacuate to the south: 1.1 million people were supposed to evacuate within 24 hours. And you see this kind of push towards the Egyptian border.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">And from what we understand, reporting through Mada Masr, that Egyptian sources have told us that in those days in the beginning at least, there was a lot of pressure, and continuing, for Egypt to open the Rafah border crossing, to create a so-called humanitarian corridor and to allow for the forcible displacement of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from Gaza into northern Sinai, and that instead of the United States and other Western countries pressuring Israel for a ceasefire, pressuring Israel to allow in the necessary amount of aid, they have instead been pressuring Egypt to open the border and allow for this mass displacement, and have been offering economic incentives to Egypt to do so. We have to remember Egypt is undergoing a very severe economic crisis, with a massive amount of debt, with record-high inflation. And so, you know, there's been talk of debt relief, of financial compensation, in order to allow for this kind of displacement.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">Now, Egypt's response has been kind of very staunch on this, actually. The president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, has very publicly rejected this idea of having a form of ethnic cleansing and forced displacement and exile into Sinai. He has cited Egypt's sovereignty in this. He has cited the Palestinian cause in all of this. He is even — you know, is drumming up and is riding a wave of public support for this, because Palestine, as we heard from Rami Khouri, is a touchstone issue for so many across the Arab world, for so many across the Global South. And this idea of what they call a second Nakba, a second catastrophe and a second mass displacement, is firmly rejected. So even Sisi called for protests on Friday, for people to take to the streets, and people did, in Cairo, in Alexandria and in other places, although some people carried on those protests into Tahrir, some were chanting revolutionary chants, and we haven't seen that for many years. And actually, Egyptian authorities have arrested over a hundred people because of that. But, you know, I think many see Sisi's stance as laudable, rejecting what is essentially an endorsement of a second Nakba.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">But I think we have to remember that, you know, him citing the Palestinian cause really rings hollow. And we have to remember that Egypt, its concerns really are national security concerns, not wanting to have a mass population of Palestinians, who could launch attacks against Israel from northern Sinai, and not having to deal with a refugee crisis. Egypt, after all, has helped enforce the siege on Gaza for many years. It destroyed the tunnels that provided a lifeline to Gaza. It has allied with Israel in many different ways in security coordination. It has allowed Israel to conduct a covert air campaign, aerial bombing campaign in Sinai. And it also treats Palestinians coming in and out of Gaza, notoriously, with indignity. But so far, this idea of rejecting this kind of a mass exodus, I think a lot of people are supportive of that policy and, instead, trying to pressure Israel to allow humanitarian aid in.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">AMY GOODMAN: Ultimately, Sharif, is it Israel, is it Hamas, is it Egypt, who is preventing that aid? As you said, we're seeing dozens of trucks now, after weeks of not having anything, when in fact they're talking about the need is something like 400 to 500 trucks a day. And also, when it comes to what happened this weekend in Cairo, the so-called peace summit of Arab leaders, what did they come up with?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: Well, the peace summit didn't actually come up with anything. There wasn't a joint statement that was signed. Sisi and King Abdullah and others repeated condemnations of Israel's bombing, of Israel's siege on Gaza, and Sisi again rejected this idea of a mass displacement to Sinai. And I think, you know, we have to also understand that this idea of resettling Palestinians in Gaza to Sinai is not a new one. It's actually an old colonial fantasy. There has been numerous plans by Israel and others of this idea of resettling the Palestinians in Gaza, who 80% of which are refugees, by the way, who are refugees from 1948, of resettling them again into Egypt. In the mid-1950s, the U.N. devised a plan for this kind of mass resettlement, and it was met with popular outrage in Gaza —</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">AMY GOODMAN: We have 15 seconds.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: — and kind of crushed in a popular uprising. So, I mean, these kinds of plans are long-standing, and there's a real fear that they will be realized. But for now, we have to see Egypt is rejecting it, but Israel is creating a situation where life is becoming unlivable in Gaza.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em">AMY GOODMAN: Sharif Abdel Kouddous, independent journalist working with the Egyptian news outlet Mada Masr, produced the award-winning documentary, The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, about the Palestinian American journalist. We will link to your piece in The Guardian. I'm Amy Goodman, with Juan González. 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