DANNY HAIPHONG—Journalist and founder of The Electronic Intifada Ali Abunimah discusses Israel’s precarious situation as it finds itself bogged down by regional opposition from Iran to Hezbollah. Israel must stop its genocidal war now, says Abunimah, or face dire consequences, perhaps even its own eventual dissolution. Abunimah explains the rationale for the “Axis of Resistance”, which is currently rolling back US and European imperialism out of the Middle East. The reasons why Iran’s revolution will not be toppled by cheap manoeuvres, as it represents a hard-won victory over imperialism and the recapture of their sovereignty.
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DANNY HAIPHONG—Former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter and Author and Human Rights Lawyer Dan Kovalik REACT to a new brokered unity deal among Palestinian factions in Beijing which has been in the works for months thanks to cooperation between Russia and China. A new Middle East is upon us, and it’s bad news for Israeli and US dominance. This video breaks it all down.
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MARK TAYLOR—Of the many, non-stop brutal war crimes by US-armed, financed and excused Israeli Israeli “Defense” Force thugs, one of those that embodies the essence of the US/Israeli genocide is the murder of 6-year-old Hind Rajab.
As noted in a Common Dreams report at the time:
The plight of 6-year-old Hind Rajab drew worldwide attention after the Palestine Red Crescent Society published a recording of a desperate phone call made by her 15-year-old cousin Layan Hamadeh to the PRCS as her family came under Israeli tank attack while trying to flee to safety in their car in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood of southern Gaza City at dusk on January 29.
“They are shooting at us. The tank is right next to me. We’re in the car, the tank is right next to us,” Hamadeh said before screaming as gunfire erupts and the call goes silent.
Along with Hamadeh, Rajab’s aunt, uncle, and two other cousins were killed. But Rajab—who was wounded in the back and hand—initially survived.
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RANIA KHALEK—To discuss Israel’s intensifying atrocities in Gaza, including its weaponization of rape, Rania Khalek was joined by Miko Peled, the son of an Israeli general and the head of the newly established Palestine House of Freedom in Washington, D.C. Peled is the author of “The General’s Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine.”
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NASRALLAH—These four points must be detailed as they determine our stance. This was an act of aggression, but it was presented as a reaction, and it had been announced in the days leading up to the aggression that there would be an Israeli response, and that we should all await it. Various countries intervened, many hypocritical, stating that Israel had the right to respond. Respond to what? To the falsification I am about to address.
We completely reject this assessment and characterization: this was an act of aggression. It’s part of the ongoing battle since the creation of this entity, since the massacres of 1947 and 1948 in occupied Palestine, southern Lebanon, Hula, and other parts of southern Lebanon. It’s all part of the Israeli-Zionist-American war against Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and the peoples of the region.
