SAYED HASAN—Norman Finkelstein refuses to accept that the people of Gaza, or Hamas militants themselves, are “legitimate targets” of extermination. “It is so appalling, it’s not just the despiriting, it’s so appalling, the reaction of all of these cowards and careerists and scum who use their microphones called Twitter to just denounce the Hamas attack. Most of the Hamas militants, probably the ones who broke through the fence, it’s their first time out of Gaza because you assume they’re mostly in their 20s. The blockade has gone on now for 18 years. They grew up in a concentration camp. They want to be free…”
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DAN COHEN/ MINTPRESS NEWS—Filmed during the attack and in the days following the ceasefire, the documentary tells the story of how Gaza’s armed resistance groups outwitted the vastly superior Israeli military and established their ability to intervene against Israeli ethnic cleansing of neighborhoods like Sheikh Jarrah and provocations at the al-Aqsa compound in occupied East Jerusalem. “The Palestinian military capabilities are not highly sophisticated and destructive, but it becomes so effective when it’s used by smart Palestinian youths who believe in their rights and freedom,” a masked al-Qassam commander says.
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JAY JANSON—It is common knowledge that Israel maintains an illegal air, sea and land blockade on Gaza, not allowing anyone, including children, to escape being bombed to death. The US government, providing Israel with warplanes, missiles, weapons, ammunition and political and diplomatic backing, is complicit in this ongoing genocide of bombing to death thousands of militarily confined civilians, mostly women and children.
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An overview of the current situation with the Blowback roundtable crew, co-hosted by Ben Toth,
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BILLY BOB—”How do they get out of this”??? This is the million dollar question that will be answered within the next five years.
Unfortunately, the ruling class has created a status quo which is incapable of rational behavior. The diverse centers of power within the ruling establishment (including Democrats, Republicans, Zionists, and big business (Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big Oil, the Weapons manufacturers)) make rational consensus impossible.
