Gideon Levy: ‘Israel Turned Gaza into Hell’, SLAMS Hypocrisy of Israeli Liberals Living in DENIAL

Episode 28 November 30, 2024 00:28:29
Gideon Levy: ‘Israel Turned Gaza into Hell’, SLAMS Hypocrisy of Israeli Liberals Living in DENIAL
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Gideon Levy: ‘Israel Turned Gaza into Hell’, SLAMS Hypocrisy of Israeli Liberals Living in DENIAL

Nov 30 2024 | 00:28:29

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Show Notes

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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Gideon Levy, a veteran columnist for the Haaretz newspaper and author of ‘The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe’. He discusses his friendship with a Palestinian in Gaza ‘M’ who refers to in his new book and his daily life in the last year facing Israel’s genocidal slaughter in Gaza, the etymology of the Hebrew word for Gaza which derives from the word ‘hell’ and Israel’s campaign to turn Gaza into a hell on Earth, young Palestinians writing wills in the occupied West Bank out of fear of death at the hands of the Israeli occupation, Israeli leftists opposition to Netanyahu and their similarity to Israel’s right-wing in ignoring the genocide in Gaza and occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, how squarely blaming Benjamin Netanyahu is a ‘comfort zone’ which hides the fact that the problems stem from Israel’s society, and whether Israel will attack Iran before Donald Trump is inaugurated as President of the United States in January. In the second half of the interview, he discusses why he has little hope for Donald Trump’s second term on imposing conditions on aid to Israel to change the behaviour of the Israeli state towards Palestinians, why terror has become the only avenue for Palestinians to fight for the future and why Palestinian armed resistance will continue against Israel, the trends within Israel to authoritarianism even against Israeli Jews, the convenient ignoring of Israel’s atrocities in Gaza by Israeli society to remain within the comfort zone of calling the rest of the world ‘anti-Semitic’ for opposing Israeli atrocities, the lack of opposition from major cultural figures and artists in the West and his friendship with Roger Waters who has consistently opposed Israeli occupation and atrocities, whether Israel will continue to exist, and much more.

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