“So October 7, happens, and the Israeli government and the US government projected a narrative to the world that this is the beginning of history. That this is akin to a second Holocaust, and that Israel is fighting for its very existence against a new iteration of nothing less than the Nazi Party and Adolf Hitler’s forces,” Jeremy Scahill tells Allen Ruff.

“So Israel’s response to the Hamas-led raids on October 7, was to preemptively announce[…] their intent to engage in a scorched earth campaign of collective punishment. From the moment those statements were made, Joe Biden should have said, ‘no US support can be offered for such an affair. We support your right to defend yourself. We support your right to have accountability for what happened on October 7th, particularly at the kibbutzes and the music festival. But we’re not going to get on board with with what already is being framed using,’ what I think clearly can be called, ‘genocidal language.'”

Jeremy Scahill is a Senior Correspondent and Editor-at-Large at The Intercept and he joins A Public Affair to talk about one of his recent pieces ‘This Is Not a War Against Hamas’ and the role of the US in exasperating the violence in Gaza.

 

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