Radio War Nerd EP #432 — Reporting Palestine, feat. Ali Abunimah
Guest: Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada
Recorded: March 12, 2024
We talk to Ali Abunimah about Israel's forced starvation campaign, the founding of Electronic Intifada, war propaganda, the ground invasion & more...
Read The Electronic Intifada. Follow Ali on Twitter.
Articles mentioned:
-"In memory of Dr. Refaat Alareer,"
-"NY Times revives Israel’s rape propaganda"
-"Is Israel running short of armored vehicles?"
-"UN report launders Israel’s fraudulent “mass rape” propaganda"
-"Released captive tells how Israeli fire killed kibbutz resident"
-"Israeli HQ ordered troops to shoot Israeli captives on 7 October"
Total time: 1:43:20
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Comments (29)
Great episode. As a side note: “forgotten weapons” has a breakdown of the Hamas produced sniper rifle video. It looks like it is most likely just a disassembled Iranian import. Still not to take away from all the other innovative things and tactics taking place by a very underfunded organization compared to the IDF. The video can be found on YouTube
Great episode. Sounds like we need a Jon Elmer follow up!
Very solid episode, thank you for keeping the focus on Gaza as the media worlds focus has shifted to “the economy “ or “the US election”.
Immigration. MSM is scared shitless of discussing the economy
Great on talking about the Qassam Brigade videos (which are inspiring, a ray of hope). The production involved in them means that they not only set up their videos, but they had to know that they could take out these Israeli tanks reliably. And they knew this within days of 10/7.
Hezbollah proved the Merkava was a paper tiger two decades ago
Excellent guest and thoughtful interview. I look forward to seeing Abunimah on MSNBC, CNN, ABC, etc. Or maybe not.
Watch electronic intifada
Great episode. Especially liked Ali Abunimah talking about the transition in Euro elites... Almost everyone has skipped it or treated it jocularly without assigning it the seriousness it requires
Overwhelmed by all the truth bombs! Great episode.
This is a great summary of the (propaganda) war. Would be great to make public!
Agreed. Unlock it.
Great interview
Is Cockburn coming back to discuss his article on AI and recent world of wars wars, specifically his bits on Israeli AI?
Really great episode guys. Thank a lot to the war nerd team and Ali.
My take on the European attitude is that it's a symptom of a lack of overal vision, Israël is a proxy for identitairian signaling.
The Christian-democratic identification with Israel was always there. As was the Atlantic deference to the USA. What’s new though are the far right parties who see Israel as an inspiration for how to deal with domestic minority populations.
"I feel like they declared they would annihilate the Gazans because they couldn't actually do it" I mean, this is like the 4th time Israel said they would wipe Hamas out to a man and this is also the bloodiest fight the IDF has ever seen (no solid casualty figures but IDF disability org claims 20,000 IDF have become disabled since the start of the war- this obviously includes everyone from PTSD to explosion survivors). I mean, 20k wounded is an insane figure after hearing your whole life about how Israel survived 4 to 1 odds with like 300 KIA or whatever wild shit This is all to say that, they are leaning very heavily on deprivation to do all their dirty work because they can't actually wipe them out, though they are trying very hard. At least that's my interpretation.
Even if the Israëlis manage to continue this and chase/cleanse the Palestinians and get Palatine's demographics in check. Their forgetting that Hamas has shown on Oct 7th that it can beat their ai turrets, and future proof superior defence strategies. This only has political objectives and won't serve Israël well long term.
The War Nerds deserve applause for this, as well as the other episodes on the Gaza War/Genocide. From the first days of this conflict, the War Nerds have provided timely, accurate, and insightful commentary on this catastrophe, shaming such outlets as the NYT and WaPo. At least in the War Nerd universe, truth is not the first casualty of war, pax Aeschylus.
grim episode but I think it’s what we all need to hear. I’m afraid people in the West will become numb to the news about Palestine as the days grind on. Ali’s words on the situation have really fired me up about it.
Finally!
"War and rape go together" might be true in general but it's typically stochastic, and Israel has hinged its argument on the idea not so much that it happened but that it was organized, which is the opposite
there are tons of examples of moron 'strategists' who think slaughtering civilians causes them to turn on their government and as far as I have seen it has failed every single time weirdly, the civilians tend to get mad at the guys shooting at them and not the guys who allegedly started the war
Has “breaking the population” EVER worked?
Hasn't it repeatedly been shown to do the opposite? After WWII, post-war assessments showed that Allied bombing actually bolstered German morale, same with the massive bombardment of North Vietnam. It's a lesson we keep refusing to learn.
Great job identifying the pattern of this type of propaganda popping up in Libya, Russia & Israel 🙏
HELL YEAH. A Superman + Batman level teamup
Looking forward to listening. Thanks guys.