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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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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EDITOR—1943, the Great Patriotic War, territory of Belarus. The 16-year-old boy Flera, having dug out a carbine among scraps of barbed wire, rusty machine-gun belts and shot-through helmets, goes into the forest to join the ranks of the partisans. This film, like no other, shows the tragedy of a child on a battlefield. At the beginning of the picture Flera is just a teenager. But In the end, having gone through horror and fear, child becomes an adult, frighteningly adult – his face is distorted by senile wrinkles, and there is no room for love in his soul…
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ALEKS—Israel has, as all other nuclear powers, a contingency plan, named “Samson Plan”. Which essentially means that it would discharge its whole nuclear arsenal against its enemies before it goes under. This is what makes me think that full destruction of Israel is not the plan of the Axis of Resistance. Rather some kind of “Regime Change” and implementation of Resolution 242.
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EDITOR—Regarding the Palestinian (Hamas) confrontation with Israel, the panel discusses several intriguing aspects of this extraordinary event: Is this a false flag, a new 9/11, set up by Israel to finally get carte blanche to “cleanse” all Palestinians out of “Israeli territory”? Was it done to deligitimate Hamas, an organisation that at one point did work with the West (collaborating in the dirty Jihad against Syria, for example)? Hamas, however, has apologised for that, for being supporters of the color revolution in Syria. But it’s widely known that Hamas was aided by Israel and the West to become a top player in Palestinian politics, one capable of implementing moves favorable to the Zionist state’s ultimate goals.
