Ralph and team spend the entire hour with Israeli reporter, Gideon Levy, a singular voice in an otherwise compliant domestic press to discuss his book “The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe” a series of columns written before and after the October 7
I have immense respect for Gideon Levy. I wish more people in the US were aware of his work. Instead, his voice is drowned out by powerful pro-Israel forces. The US is at a cross-roads. It can support universal human rights, or it can support countries like Israel that engage in the mass extermination. Biden deserves the "Greatest Hypocrite of the Year" award for the way he has handled the Gaza crisis.
I'm still very angry at my friends for giving their votes to genocidal monsters like Joe Biden, Kamala Harris & Donald Trump. Very short sighted and selfish of them!
The repetition of October 7 is misleading. Israeli Authorities admit killing 800 civilian and
300 soldiers on October 7. They admit this in Haaretz. They admit invoking the Hannibal Directive three times to kill 1100 Israeli white citizens. This has been obvious with the melted cars strafed by helicopter gunships and tank fire into houses.
misleading and mendacious. 6 months into a genocide where 100,000 children have been murdered, Levy publishes a book using the term "Hamas scum", when he knows the scum and murderers are Jewish scum.
I agree. Hamas was defended and used by the various Israeli regimes, until it was vilified for following International Law and fighting back against the occupiers. Mahatma Ghandi isn’t being quoted for some reason. The Holocaust Museums are showing a noticeable decline in visitors for some reason.
Susan Abulhawa, human rights activist, novelist and founder of Playgrounds for Palestine
spoke at the Oxford Union recently. She spoke in proposition of the motion that This House Believes Israel is an Apartheid State Responsible for Genocide. I draw your attention to what she said, " in the spirit of Malcom X and Jimmy Baldwin" and recommend you consider her for an interview on the program. She is more certain than Gideon Levy at where this genocide of
our time will end when Zionist impunity has ended; they will leave or finally learn to live with others as equals.
I just have to take issue with the "otherwise compliant media" comment. Democracy Now is always right there, speaki4g truth to power like you. I am very grateful for all of you.
Someone really needs to get Gideon a better AV setup - his voice should be clearer for the world to hear and understand. I'd do it, if I had a way to get it to him.
I'm afraid the next chapter of the privileged Israelis backed up by US zionist interests will be to put the target on Iran as I heard on Kudlow today. They will try to disable the Iranian nuclear installations as they did with Syria. This could be far worse than what has come before. If you follow accurate sources of media out of the US ones, you may get a sense of the reality.
On Friday, Communication Specialist Rosalia Bollen of the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) gave a press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva in which she said:
Children in Gaza are cold, sick and traumatized. Hunger and malnutrition, and the dire living conditions more broadly, continue to put the lives of children at risk. Right now, over 96 percent of women and children in Gaza cannot meet their basic nutritional needs. Most are surviving on rationed flour, lentils, pasta and canned food—a diet that slowly compromises their health.
As winter sets in, Bollen said the conditions of Gaza’s children has “drastically diminished.”
On Friday, a report published by Haaretz quoted Israeli soldiers describing the blatant murder of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. Unnamed soldiers, including career officers and reservists, told the Israeli daily that commanders were given unprecedented authority to operate in Gaza.
According to Al Jazeera, the soldiers said commanders had “ordered or allowed the killing of unarmed women, children and men in the Netzarim Corridor, a seven-kilometer-wide (4.3-mile-wide) strip of land that cuts across Gaza from Israel to the Mediterranean, and which has been turned into a military zone.”
The Haaretz report quoted an officer who recounted an incident, where a commander had announced that 200 fighters were killed, when actually “only 10 were confirmed as known Hamas operatives.” The soldiers told Haaretz they received questionable orders to open fire on “anyone who enters” Netzarim.
So-called Israeli settlers are not "settlers"; they are fanatical religious thieves.
In the West Bank, fascist Israeli settlers set fire to a mosque and vandalized property in the north on Friday, according to the head of the Palestinian village council.
Associated Press reported, “Nasfat al-Khafash, the head of the council in Marda where the attack occurred, said a group of settlers arrived early in the morning, setting the mosque on fire and scrawling hateful messages on it.”
Associated Press video showed spray-painted stars of David and the words in Hebrew, “the mosque will burn, the temple will be built,” an apparent reference to the ultranationalist desire to establish a Third Temple for Jews in Jerusalem at the holiest and most contested site in the Holy Land.
“These slogans reflect their upbringing and hatred towards Palestinians and Arabs,” said al-Khafash, adding that the settlers received “full support” from the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — the furthest-right government in Israel’s history.”
Kiliing people because of killing people does not work out to well , the body the count keeps goes up and both sides that do the counting claim innocents .sure ,, leave your office ,,,, step on to the killing fields ,,I bet it would be over soon ,,,
Many American Christians believe that Israel is God-ordained since its founding in the late 1940s through British intervention. There are large numbers of "Christian-Zionists" believing that whatever Israel does is somehow sanctioned by God.
I wrote this to Scott Lively who I gave money to years ago. It would have been sensible if he had used his legal expertise to do the humble thing and offer free legal services to the needy. Instead he got political fighting in extremist cases.
Scott Lively has been on a number of government lists for his positions and books against homosexuality. I guess a public personality cannot be unpopular on most areas as being a fascist in one area may not mean he'll be a fascist in other areas, but the guy aligned with Trump and the MAGA cause as a lawyer a long time ago.
"Dear Scott;
"I would suggest you read through columnists on the Lew Rockwell site, David Stockman, Reagan's one time budget director has regular and incisive articles well-documented. Many of Napolitano's guests have articles there, thoroughly documented and well-reasoned, very little bias as far as I can see. The United States were founded on the principle that all men are created equal; the Founders had seen many decades of religious factionalism and fanaticism.
"I've regularly read the major news sites, many are highly influenced by the US intelligence agencies. Zionism and Jewish favoritism are heavily represented by the mainstream media. Major legal analysts and the ICC and ICJ and other organizations have heavily documented Israel's war crimes, especially referencing the criminal Netanyahu. Netanyahu, Smotrich, Gen Gvir are fanatics are war criminals. Any objective analysis shows this. We are not in an era when theocracies would have any validity, they would just be demonocracies, serving the devil, which seems to have been modern Israel's current standing, killing innocent people, probably well into the six figures in Gaza; they also have been committing egregious war crimes in Palestinian regions, and in Lebanon, as well as committing other violations of international law.
"War crimes and blood guilt are among the most serious of transgressions, I cannot but imagine a future merciless hell for people who instigate or seek to justify blood guilt. 2 Samuel 21 is just one example of how the murder of the innocent Gibeonites demanded the death penalty for Saul's offspring to satisfy God's judgment. What modern Israel has done is far worse, inviting far more aggressive judgment.
"Israel has justified many of their crimes with fabrications of babies being beheaded on Oct. 7,2023, or atrocities of pregnant women being tortured which did not happen. There is no question that many killings and some limited atrocities occurred on Oct. 7, but nothing as Israel's paid propagandists have claimed. "The Gray Zone" and many other sources have documented the Israeli lies and propaganda. When asked by the ICC for Israel to provide names of those who they claimed were pregnant and had been victims of atrocities, they could not name one.
"The current outrages by Netanyahu should not come as a surprise to anyone who has followed him. He has been calling for the overthrow of governments a problem for Israel since the 1990s, and the US has done his dirty work.
"I'd just ask you, Scott, to provide any significant unbiased foreign affairs expert to refute any of the claims made by long time experts on Israel such as John Mearsheimer or Jeffrey Sachs. No serious student of international affairs regard "Newsmax", "Fox News" or similarly biased sites as credible sources. It all comes down to real evidence and those critical of Israel have plenty of it and in many cases have gained little by being vocal against the type of aggressive militarism that Israel incites."
Also sent him this, when I suggested he was pandering to zionists for financial advantage:
"I'm not intending to be insulting, sorry if you took it as such but frankly everyone I know with a web presence has an audience that they have to cater to. If we offend others we need to be called to account, I've tried to practice that teaching of Jesus, but usually people don't want to hear.
"Judge Napolitano has seasoned experts he interviews on Youtube; I'd recommend you to check them out. Jeffrey Sachs, Scott Ritter, Amb. Freeman, former CIA analysts such as Johnson and Ray McGovern, and others, some are Jewish some are not. They all agree that the Ukraine-Russian war was a needless disaster and that Israel is the biggest menace in the world deserving of no special rights.
"God's people are those who are fulfilling His teachings and His word. The Christians that are the closest to the Bible in my opinion are the Mennonites of the Mid-West, etc.."
Biden I'm afraid has condoned a genocide - one that will be continued by Trump. It seems that the majority of Israelis have easily reverted to being angry tribal apes. Unfortunately these apes have access to state of the art propaganda and horrible weapons without being humane or civilized enough to use them. In addition they hide behind the facade of religious mythology to perpetrate their crimes, as well as using the holocaust as an excuse to murder their genetic cousins. They display the very worst traits of our human tribe and ones that are preventing us from evolving into fully conscious, civilized human beings.
Hey Nader!!! You let a pro-genocide motherfucker call me anti-Semitic, then remove my comment? You can kiss my ass goodbye Nader!!! I will not buy your paper either!!!
Which Jews are you referring to? The violent ethno-nationalist supremacist colonialist who identify as Jewish; the European Zionist that Einstein exposed for organizing their colonial settler cult along the lines of Fascism and Nazism or the anti- Zionist Jews who who share values similar to those of an anti-Zionist congregation like Tzedek Chicago?
Levy makes apology for the Jews' rampage that has so far murdered 100,000: it's understandable because those Hamas guys did some atrocities (beheaded at least 40 babies -- we've got the photos!). Levy is mostly upset that 'the only democracy in the middle east' has collapsed into a rabid totalitarian fascist state for Jews and only Jews.
Great interview. Hard to listen to because there is so little hope for the Palestinians at the moment.
Glad Mr. Levy touched on the not enough talked about "we are the chosen people". This kind of religious zealotry is what leads to wars. It has been like this forever and it looks like it goes strong.
The state of Israel, as it is, needs to end. They are the occupiers, the colonizers, so they need to at least accept the borders that were incredibly generous to them in 1948. It is not possible to just kick everyone out so they all those former leftist Jews Mr Levy talks about jsut proved they never really cared about peace in the region. Oppression, control of calories/day has been the policy towards Gaza forever and Israeli Jews were just too comfortable in their lives to lift a finger for jsitic and human rights. All talk, no action.
On the other hand, this whole thing is just ending the Jewish tropes because obviously, it is al about the Benjamins, and obviously, the Jews control most of the media. I feel sorry for the Jews still fighting fot Palestinian rights.
I propose that we start calling what is happening to the Palestinians the 2024 Holocaust.
And I hope people start saying things like: anti-semitism is real and it happens everywhere. It is but it is not "more real" than any other -ism out there. Let's stop the forever victimhood. This is an American/European thing. In my home country Jews are not the ultimate victims at all. Maybe because the power lies not in their hands. No AIPAC and such there
I have immense respect for Gideon Levy. I wish more people in the US were aware of his work. Instead, his voice is drowned out by powerful pro-Israel forces. The US is at a cross-roads. It can support universal human rights, or it can support countries like Israel that engage in the mass extermination. Biden deserves the "Greatest Hypocrite of the Year" award for the way he has handled the Gaza crisis.
I'm still very angry at my friends for giving their votes to genocidal monsters like Joe Biden, Kamala Harris & Donald Trump. Very short sighted and selfish of them!
The repetition of October 7 is misleading. Israeli Authorities admit killing 800 civilian and
300 soldiers on October 7. They admit this in Haaretz. They admit invoking the Hannibal Directive three times to kill 1100 Israeli white citizens. This has been obvious with the melted cars strafed by helicopter gunships and tank fire into houses.
misleading and mendacious. 6 months into a genocide where 100,000 children have been murdered, Levy publishes a book using the term "Hamas scum", when he knows the scum and murderers are Jewish scum.
I agree. Hamas was defended and used by the various Israeli regimes, until it was vilified for following International Law and fighting back against the occupiers. Mahatma Ghandi isn’t being quoted for some reason. The Holocaust Museums are showing a noticeable decline in visitors for some reason.
Susan Abulhawa, human rights activist, novelist and founder of Playgrounds for Palestine
spoke at the Oxford Union recently. She spoke in proposition of the motion that This House Believes Israel is an Apartheid State Responsible for Genocide. I draw your attention to what she said, " in the spirit of Malcom X and Jimmy Baldwin" and recommend you consider her for an interview on the program. She is more certain than Gideon Levy at where this genocide of
our time will end when Zionist impunity has ended; they will leave or finally learn to live with others as equals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZCWCGebAuU
Susan Abulhawa | This House Believes Israel is an Apartheid State Responsible for Genocide | 7/8
sadly, with the collapse of the resistance (Hezbollah, Syria, Houthis and Iran) there is no hope for Gaza. Palestine is lost. The Jews have won.
I just have to take issue with the "otherwise compliant media" comment. Democracy Now is always right there, speaki4g truth to power like you. I am very grateful for all of you.
Someone really needs to get Gideon a better AV setup - his voice should be clearer for the world to hear and understand. I'd do it, if I had a way to get it to him.
I'm afraid the next chapter of the privileged Israelis backed up by US zionist interests will be to put the target on Iran as I heard on Kudlow today. They will try to disable the Iranian nuclear installations as they did with Syria. This could be far worse than what has come before. If you follow accurate sources of media out of the US ones, you may get a sense of the reality.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/12/21/swbm-d21.html
On Friday, Communication Specialist Rosalia Bollen of the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) gave a press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva in which she said:
Children in Gaza are cold, sick and traumatized. Hunger and malnutrition, and the dire living conditions more broadly, continue to put the lives of children at risk. Right now, over 96 percent of women and children in Gaza cannot meet their basic nutritional needs. Most are surviving on rationed flour, lentils, pasta and canned food—a diet that slowly compromises their health.
As winter sets in, Bollen said the conditions of Gaza’s children has “drastically diminished.”
On Friday, a report published by Haaretz quoted Israeli soldiers describing the blatant murder of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. Unnamed soldiers, including career officers and reservists, told the Israeli daily that commanders were given unprecedented authority to operate in Gaza.
According to Al Jazeera, the soldiers said commanders had “ordered or allowed the killing of unarmed women, children and men in the Netzarim Corridor, a seven-kilometer-wide (4.3-mile-wide) strip of land that cuts across Gaza from Israel to the Mediterranean, and which has been turned into a military zone.”
The Haaretz report quoted an officer who recounted an incident, where a commander had announced that 200 fighters were killed, when actually “only 10 were confirmed as known Hamas operatives.” The soldiers told Haaretz they received questionable orders to open fire on “anyone who enters” Netzarim.
So-called Israeli settlers are not "settlers"; they are fanatical religious thieves.
In the West Bank, fascist Israeli settlers set fire to a mosque and vandalized property in the north on Friday, according to the head of the Palestinian village council.
Associated Press reported, “Nasfat al-Khafash, the head of the council in Marda where the attack occurred, said a group of settlers arrived early in the morning, setting the mosque on fire and scrawling hateful messages on it.”
Associated Press video showed spray-painted stars of David and the words in Hebrew, “the mosque will burn, the temple will be built,” an apparent reference to the ultranationalist desire to establish a Third Temple for Jews in Jerusalem at the holiest and most contested site in the Holy Land.
“These slogans reflect their upbringing and hatred towards Palestinians and Arabs,” said al-Khafash, adding that the settlers received “full support” from the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — the furthest-right government in Israel’s history.”
Kiliing people because of killing people does not work out to well , the body the count keeps goes up and both sides that do the counting claim innocents .sure ,, leave your office ,,,, step on to the killing fields ,,I bet it would be over soon ,,,
Any takers ,?
Good luck America
Have a great day my friends
Many American Christians believe that Israel is God-ordained since its founding in the late 1940s through British intervention. There are large numbers of "Christian-Zionists" believing that whatever Israel does is somehow sanctioned by God.
I wrote this to Scott Lively who I gave money to years ago. It would have been sensible if he had used his legal expertise to do the humble thing and offer free legal services to the needy. Instead he got political fighting in extremist cases.
Scott Lively has been on a number of government lists for his positions and books against homosexuality. I guess a public personality cannot be unpopular on most areas as being a fascist in one area may not mean he'll be a fascist in other areas, but the guy aligned with Trump and the MAGA cause as a lawyer a long time ago.
"Dear Scott;
"I would suggest you read through columnists on the Lew Rockwell site, David Stockman, Reagan's one time budget director has regular and incisive articles well-documented. Many of Napolitano's guests have articles there, thoroughly documented and well-reasoned, very little bias as far as I can see. The United States were founded on the principle that all men are created equal; the Founders had seen many decades of religious factionalism and fanaticism.
"I've regularly read the major news sites, many are highly influenced by the US intelligence agencies. Zionism and Jewish favoritism are heavily represented by the mainstream media. Major legal analysts and the ICC and ICJ and other organizations have heavily documented Israel's war crimes, especially referencing the criminal Netanyahu. Netanyahu, Smotrich, Gen Gvir are fanatics are war criminals. Any objective analysis shows this. We are not in an era when theocracies would have any validity, they would just be demonocracies, serving the devil, which seems to have been modern Israel's current standing, killing innocent people, probably well into the six figures in Gaza; they also have been committing egregious war crimes in Palestinian regions, and in Lebanon, as well as committing other violations of international law.
"War crimes and blood guilt are among the most serious of transgressions, I cannot but imagine a future merciless hell for people who instigate or seek to justify blood guilt. 2 Samuel 21 is just one example of how the murder of the innocent Gibeonites demanded the death penalty for Saul's offspring to satisfy God's judgment. What modern Israel has done is far worse, inviting far more aggressive judgment.
"Israel has justified many of their crimes with fabrications of babies being beheaded on Oct. 7,2023, or atrocities of pregnant women being tortured which did not happen. There is no question that many killings and some limited atrocities occurred on Oct. 7, but nothing as Israel's paid propagandists have claimed. "The Gray Zone" and many other sources have documented the Israeli lies and propaganda. When asked by the ICC for Israel to provide names of those who they claimed were pregnant and had been victims of atrocities, they could not name one.
"The current outrages by Netanyahu should not come as a surprise to anyone who has followed him. He has been calling for the overthrow of governments a problem for Israel since the 1990s, and the US has done his dirty work.
"I'd just ask you, Scott, to provide any significant unbiased foreign affairs expert to refute any of the claims made by long time experts on Israel such as John Mearsheimer or Jeffrey Sachs. No serious student of international affairs regard "Newsmax", "Fox News" or similarly biased sites as credible sources. It all comes down to real evidence and those critical of Israel have plenty of it and in many cases have gained little by being vocal against the type of aggressive militarism that Israel incites."
Also sent him this, when I suggested he was pandering to zionists for financial advantage:
"I'm not intending to be insulting, sorry if you took it as such but frankly everyone I know with a web presence has an audience that they have to cater to. If we offend others we need to be called to account, I've tried to practice that teaching of Jesus, but usually people don't want to hear.
"Judge Napolitano has seasoned experts he interviews on Youtube; I'd recommend you to check them out. Jeffrey Sachs, Scott Ritter, Amb. Freeman, former CIA analysts such as Johnson and Ray McGovern, and others, some are Jewish some are not. They all agree that the Ukraine-Russian war was a needless disaster and that Israel is the biggest menace in the world deserving of no special rights.
"There are so many of these Scriptures that far from speaking of any unique role for Israel speak of the opposite: https://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/36-16.htm
"God's people are those who are fulfilling His teachings and His word. The Christians that are the closest to the Bible in my opinion are the Mennonites of the Mid-West, etc.."
Biden I'm afraid has condoned a genocide - one that will be continued by Trump. It seems that the majority of Israelis have easily reverted to being angry tribal apes. Unfortunately these apes have access to state of the art propaganda and horrible weapons without being humane or civilized enough to use them. In addition they hide behind the facade of religious mythology to perpetrate their crimes, as well as using the holocaust as an excuse to murder their genetic cousins. They display the very worst traits of our human tribe and ones that are preventing us from evolving into fully conscious, civilized human beings.
Hey Nader!!! You let a pro-genocide motherfucker call me anti-Semitic, then remove my comment? You can kiss my ass goodbye Nader!!! I will not buy your paper either!!!
Michael,
Which Jews are you referring to? The violent ethno-nationalist supremacist colonialist who identify as Jewish; the European Zionist that Einstein exposed for organizing their colonial settler cult along the lines of Fascism and Nazism or the anti- Zionist Jews who who share values similar to those of an anti-Zionist congregation like Tzedek Chicago?
https://www.tzedekchicago.org/our-values
Recommend you see "From Ground Zero" if playing in your area.
It shares a truism that was also shared by Susan Abulhawa.
Levy makes apology for the Jews' rampage that has so far murdered 100,000: it's understandable because those Hamas guys did some atrocities (beheaded at least 40 babies -- we've got the photos!). Levy is mostly upset that 'the only democracy in the middle east' has collapsed into a rabid totalitarian fascist state for Jews and only Jews.
Thank you Ralph Nader for bringing Gideon Levy’s writing to those of us
who care about the Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank. I, unlike many
in my war mongering government,
hope for and stand every Saturday in
a vigil for, Palestine to be a free state
separate and equal to Israel. I hope for the Zionist Regime to be taken down by those Israelis who are brave
enough as is Mr. Levy.
Linda
Great interview. Hard to listen to because there is so little hope for the Palestinians at the moment.
Glad Mr. Levy touched on the not enough talked about "we are the chosen people". This kind of religious zealotry is what leads to wars. It has been like this forever and it looks like it goes strong.
The state of Israel, as it is, needs to end. They are the occupiers, the colonizers, so they need to at least accept the borders that were incredibly generous to them in 1948. It is not possible to just kick everyone out so they all those former leftist Jews Mr Levy talks about jsut proved they never really cared about peace in the region. Oppression, control of calories/day has been the policy towards Gaza forever and Israeli Jews were just too comfortable in their lives to lift a finger for jsitic and human rights. All talk, no action.
On the other hand, this whole thing is just ending the Jewish tropes because obviously, it is al about the Benjamins, and obviously, the Jews control most of the media. I feel sorry for the Jews still fighting fot Palestinian rights.
I propose that we start calling what is happening to the Palestinians the 2024 Holocaust.
And I hope people start saying things like: anti-semitism is real and it happens everywhere. It is but it is not "more real" than any other -ism out there. Let's stop the forever victimhood. This is an American/European thing. In my home country Jews are not the ultimate victims at all. Maybe because the power lies not in their hands. No AIPAC and such there
Gideon Levy would of been great for the Nazis in the 1930s