I had the honor and pleasure of joining Kyle Anzalone on his show today to discuss what is happening in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, including the continued takeover of the West Bank, the ongoing genocide in Gaza, Israel’s overall aims regarding borders, and shifting public opinion toward Israel in the US.
Kyle is opinion editor of Antiwar.com and news editor of The Libertarian Institute, where I am a research fellow. He’s also host of the institute’s Conflicts of Interest podcast and the Kyle Anzalone Show.
Watch the full episode:
Topics we discussed include:
- How the mainstream media deceive the American public into believing that Israel supports the two-state solution despite its government having always opposed it.
- How Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu maintained a policy of utilizing Hamas as a strategic ally to block any movement toward peace negotiations with the Palestinians.
- How two weeks before the Hamas-led attacks in Israel on October 7, 2023, Netanyahu was at the UN General Assembly holding up a map of “The New Middle East” showing no state of Palestine or even occupied Palestinian territories but only Israel from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
- How the US-led so-called “peace process” was always the means by which Israel and its superpower benefactor blocked implementation of the two-state solution.
- How it has always been Netanyahu’s goal for Israel to take over all of the West Bank.
- What the “Disengagement Plan” was and how Israel has pursued a “divide and conquer” strategy toward the Palestinian leadership.
- How Israel is now aiming to complete its military conquest of northern Gaza and expel or exterminate the residents of Gaza City.
- How the Trump administration explicitly encouraged Israel to violate its ceasefire with Hamas and resume its genocidal assault on the civilian population of Gaza.
- How Netanyahu is serving the religious extremists who have openly advocated ethnic cleansing and genocide to establish Jewish sovereignty over all of the former territory of Palestine—and beyond.
- How Israel’s ongoing genocide is an effort to finish the job that the Zionists started in 1948 by ethnically cleansing most of the Arab population of Palestine to establish their demographically “Jewish state” of Israel.
- How the public perception of Israel in the US has become increasingly negative, and how the genocide in Gaza has opened people’s eyes to the true face of modern political Zionism.
- Why only the American people have the power to stop the inhumanity and bring peace to the Middle East.
- How Christian Zionists in the US want to usher in Armageddon, and how they just might achieve their goal.
At the end of our discussion, Kyle had this to say about my book Obstacle to Peace: The US Role in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict:
“Your book Obstacle to Peace is a must-read for people who want to have a deep understanding of this subject, to be able to not only understand the propaganda of the past, but also to see through the propaganda they’re going to roll out for you tomorrow, next month, next year, as the US continues to back the Israeli conquest of Palestine.”
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Cross-posted from JeremyRHammond.com.
