Global Day of Protest: Free Palestine (11/17)

How war will end: Israel can kill but can’t win

(BreakThrough News) Premiered 11/16/23, The Socialist Program:

Israeli forces raided Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital, including the emergency department, the surgical department, and the maternity ward in their ongoing assault that has killed more than 11,000 Palestinians.

On Friday, Nov. 17, 2023, people all over the world are walking out, striking, and protesting Israel's genocide.

• Read more at shutitdown4palestine.org

Brian Becker is joined by Layan Sima Fuleihan, a popular educator, organizer, the education director at The People’s Forum, and an editor at 1804 Books.

What are we protesting? State oppression and weapons sales

Loewenstein: Israel is testing NEW WEAPONS on Gaza as arms dealers PROFIT from Israeli War on 

(Democracy Now!) Nov. 14, 2023: Worldwide protests calling for a ceasefire are drawing attention to the role of weapons manufacturers and distributors supplying machinery to Israel's assault on Gaza, with demonstrators blocking shipping tankers and entrances to weapons factories, and unionized workers refusing to handle military material over Israel's settler colonial war project.

There is "a growing public awareness and anger" about the global connection between Western powers (like the U.S.) and the Israeli military industry, says Antony Loewenstein, who has investigated how Israeli weaponry and surveillance technology are used on Palestinians and exported around the world.

"Israel is already, as we speak…live-testing new weapons in Gaza," says Loewenstein. He also discusses what he characterizes as the "intelligence" and "political" failures of the October 7th Hamas incursion.

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