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Chris Hedges: Israel Is Carrying Out Mass Murder

Massive DC Rally And March For Gaza 2

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Dandelion Salad

with Chris Hedges

RT America on May 15, 2021

On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses the disputes between the Palestinians and Israelis with Palestinian political activist, Dr. Sami Al-Arian.

Hedges argues that nearly all the words and phrases used by the Democrats, Republicans and the talking heads on the media to describe the unrest inside Israel and the heaviest Israeli assault against the Palestinians since the 2014 attacks on Gaza, which lasted 51 days and killed more than 2,200 Palestinians, including 551 children, are a lie.

Israel, by employing its military machine against an occupied population that does not have mechanized units, an air force, navy, drones, missiles, heavy artillery and command-and-control, not to mention a U.S. commitment in 2018 to provide a $38 billion defense aid package for Israel over the next decade, is not exercising “the right to defend itself.” It is carrying out mass murder. It is a war crime.

Israel has made it clear they are ready to destroy and kill as wantonly now as they were in 2014. Israel’s defense minister Benny Gantz, who was the chief of staff during the murderous assault on Gaza in 2014, has vowed that if Hamas, in his words, “does not stop the violence, the strike of 2021 will be harder and more painful than that of 2014.”

Transcript

From the archives:

Enough is Enough: It is Time for Apartheid to End, by Kenn Orphan

Abby Martin: Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019)

Chris Hedges, Abby Martin and Mike Prysner: The Heroic Aspect Of The Palestinian People Who Just Keep Resisting

Dismantling the Settler Colonial State of Israel, by Yanis Iqbal

Occupied Palestine: In The Shadow Of The Pandemic, by Yanis Iqbal

Israel Is Becoming Terrified of The U.S. Empire’s Decline, by Rainer Shea + Strange Slow Dance Between Israel and The Gulf States, Despite Annexation

Chris Hedges: The Colonial War on Palestine

Chris Hedges: The Long, Disingenuous Role The US Has Played In The Israel-Palestine Conflict