"Oct. 7th was Inevitable" - Max Blumenthal

David Barsamian (Alternative Radio), Max Blumental (thegrayzone.com); Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

October 7th was Inevitable

Program #BLUM003. Recorded in Boston, Massachusetts on Dec. 14, 2023. Rated 5.00 out of 5.00 based on 2 customer ratings (2 customer reviews).

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Audio sample: Gideon Levy, the noted Israeli journalist, says “Gaza is a cage, the biggest prison in the world.” [It's really a concentration camp, not a prison. Humans would never be treated so poorly in a prison.] There are 2.3 million Palestinians locked in a small area, a strip of land five miles wide, 25 miles long.

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For years they have been under siege by the bully Israel trying to starve them, relocated, and now bomb them out of existence. Now a relentless bombing campaign, with American funding and weapons transfers, has resulted in tens of thousands of killings in a Zionist-Jewish genocide of massive destruction.

If you’re trapped in a cage, you’ll try to break out. Millions of Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem have been under the boot of Israel troopers called the IDF, enduring decades of occupation, random killings, oppression, false imprisonment of thousands, illegal evictions, land seizures, roadblocks, checkpoints, walls, and fences.

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WH Auden: Selected Poems

That explains what happened on October 7th. It doesn’t excuse it. As the great poet W.H. Auden wrote, 

“I and the public know

What all schoolchildren learn,

Those to whom evil is done

Do evil in return.”

[Translation: "Hurt people hurt people."]

Speaker: Max Blumenthal (The Grayzone at thegrayzone.com) is an award-winning Jewish journalist and editor-in-chief of The Grayzone. He is the author of Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel, The 51-Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza, and The Management of Savagery.

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