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#1693 Empowering Ethnostates: Ethnically cleansing Gaza and Trump's South Africa fixation

Feb 25, 2025
03:00:42

Air Date 2/25/2025

Racism is at the core of most of what Trump believes so it should be no surprise when he aligns himself and the country with explicitly supremacist projects like the perceived Jewish superiority over Palestinians and the assumed "reverse racism" against White South Africans

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KEY POINTS

KP 1: Trumps Insane Plan To Own Gaza - Pod Save the World - Air Date 2-12-25

KP 2: Elon's African roots - Today, Explained - Air Date 2-13-25

KP 3: Trumps South Africa Fixation - What Next - Air Date 2-12-25

KP 4: American Jews, Israel, and Palestine w Peter Beinart - American Prestige - Air Date 2-11-25

KP 5: West Bank Annexation Inevitable - The Majority Report - Air Date 2-6-25

KP 6: Israelis and Palestinians Standing Together - Ralph Nader Radio Hour - Air Date 2-15-25

KP 7: On The Ground in Gaza Serving the People in Palestine - Rev Left Radio - Air Date 2-11-25

(51:08) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

On why Israel and Gaza are not are complicated as you may think

DEEPER DIVES

(56:45) SECTION A: TRUMP’S GAZA PROPOSAL

(1:10:39) SECTION B: AFRIKANERS AND TRUMP

(1:35:00) SECTION C: WEST BANK VIOLENCE

(1:59:33) SECTION D: HISTORICAL CONTEXT

(2:25:09) SECTION E: RESISTANCE

SHOW IMAGE

Description: Composite showing Netanyahu and Trump with their heads close looking down on a Palestinian flag flying out of the rubble on Gaza.

 

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