THE GRAYZONE keeps track of the top stories relating to imperialist wars and crimes. In this episode, Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate return to cover the latest grisly and absurd developments in Israel’s assault on Gaza, and the dramatic political fallout at home.
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CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—Israel propaganda looks like the IDF publishing a computer-generated video of a multi-level Hamas command headquarters underneath Al-Shifa Hospital.
Palestine propaganda looks like humanitarian organizations saying Israel has been bombing hospitals throughout Gaza and shooting patients through hospital windows.
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CANDACE OWEN—Candace speaks with political scientist and activist Norman Finkelstein whose primary fields of research are the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust. His parents are Holocaust survivors and in 2020, he was named the fifth most influential political scientist in the world. Ep.252
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PAUL EDWARDS—By the time of the American Empire’s Afghanistan and Iraq obscenities the self-defense con for inflicting mass murder on civilians had been seriously vitiated. Fallujah made it a sick joke. Paradoxically, though it was exposed as a punctured cliche for giving patchy cover to military murder, it continues to be used by stupid high brass and fogged heads of state content to be known universally as psychopathic liars and criminally insane.
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ERIC ZUESSE—”Since October 7, there has been no shortage of genocidal calls from Israeli leaders, as well as clear plans, also at ministerial level, for the complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza. And while the usage of biblical euphemisms like Prime Minister Netanyahu’s “Amalek” reference may appear too vague for some, even if the story suggests killing infants, on Sunday retired Major General Giora Eiland, former head of the National Security Council and current advisor to the Defense Minister, decided to spell out genocide more explicitly.”
