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[00:04:03]On the program today, Zachary Foster will be back with us of the Palestine Nexus newsletter to talk about the latest in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, East Jerusalem, and more. And later in the show, Dr. Adam Hami, candidate in New Jerseyy's 12th Congressional District, will be with us to talk about the primary, which is next Tuesday, June 2nd.

[00:04:28]Also on the program, food prices are set to rise for the second straight month after nearly four years of decline driven by the Iran war and climate change driven extreme weather.

[00:04:44]>> Trump says he doesn't care about the midterms, though, again, only the war.

[00:04:51]He also threatened to bomb uh Oman, >> a US ally yesterday.

[00:05:00]>> US strikes resume in the Persian Gulf.

[00:05:03]Israel kills at least 14 people in Lebanon and at least 16 people in Gaza.

[00:05:10]Meanwhile, US weapons manufacturers say they'll need at least three years to replenish the very pricey weapon systems that Iran took out with cheap drones.

[00:05:23]>> Trump refunds $20 billion to companies with more to come after the Supreme Court declared his tariffs illegal.

[00:05:32]You think we're going to see that money?

[00:05:34]You think all these companies are going to send us checks for the tariffs we paid?

[00:05:40]Trump's DOJ reportedly launches a criminal investigation into his victim, Eugene Carol, who he was found liable for sexually assaulting in civil court.

[00:05:57]After pardoning a major Republican donor for illegal activity in his last term, Trump awards him an overund million dollar contract from the DOJ.

[00:06:12]The Pentagon says it's preparing itself for a Cuba invasion as the Cuban president roundly denies that they are an imminent threat to the US because yeah, no one's buying this.

[00:06:27]And lastly, Trump refiles his lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal >> over his Epstein ties that they reported on.

[00:06:37]All this and more on today's Majority Report. Welcome to the show, everybody.

[00:06:44]It's an Majority Report Thursday.

[00:06:48]Welcome, welcome. We've got a great show for you. Sam will be out tomorrow. He's got other business to attend to. the business of show.

[00:06:58]Not going to reveal what it is, but you know, Sam Sam's a >> It's also Thursday.

[00:07:05]>> Sam's a thespian. No, tomorrow he won't be in. Tomorrow. Yes. Yes. Uh, >> please don't make tomorrow Thursday.

[00:07:11]>> Yeah, tomorrow is Friday.

[00:07:15]Promise you guys, tomorrow is Friday.

[00:07:17]You're nearly at the end. Um, le let's tuh touch on this here. Um, as I mentioned, food prices are about to rise for the second straight month after nearly four years of declines. We know what rose prices. The once-ina-lifetime hopefully COVID pandemic caused shutdowns across the globe. It resulted in supply chain bottlenecks.

[00:07:45]There were workers who were unable to work and process these goods.

[00:07:51]There were was a backlog. There were shortages and prices went up dramatically. Inflation really hit globally.

[00:08:01]The US was a little bit more insulated from it. But still the economic pain was immensely significant. And as of last month, the wage gains that people were experiencing have now been outpaced by the inflation that's been once again turbocharged by Trump. But this time, this isn't co these are his actions particularly as it erates relates to the war in Iran. So, um, you have these factors here that are, uh, in play in terms of why food prices are going to be going up. You've got the Iran war, but you've also got extreme weather due to climate change, which Trump is turbocharging and high costs for farmers, which are the result of his tariffs and his economic policies. So, you can draw a line right back to Trump's decisions. And I hope the Democratic opposition party does so.

[00:08:58]Again, not holding our breath on that front, but some good Democrats should be doing that. Let's read this part of this really good Bloomberg piece on where we're at with food prices.

[00:09:10]The US saw its warmest ever start to the year with temperatures running about uh 6° Fahrenheit above average through the end of April. According to the National Centers for E Environmental Information, the early heat uh prompted some domestic crops to begin blossoming weeks ahead of schedule instead of remaining dormant uh throughout the winter, leaving them exposed to subsequent frosts. According to Brad Rippy, a USDA meteorologist, beef prices, among the most politically sensitive in the US, rose to a record in April thanks to the smallest cattle herd in 75 years, squeezed by drought and high production costs. And you can see this chart if we can scroll down slightly. Look at how high US beef prices are. As I said, 75year high and the higher costs on uh ranchers and farmers are the result of the tariffs. But in this instance with beef specifically, this drought has been a major problem.

[00:10:14]And we're still going to be experiencing El Nino soon, which is going to make the climate change related extreme weather even worse. Tomato prices, meanwhile, surged 33% over the last two months after two winter storms brought widespread damage during the peak of the growing season in Florida, while shipments from Mexico were declining following the Trump administration's imposition of duties on imports. If we could scroll down uh slightly, heat and drought in the western and central US spell more pressures to come.

[00:10:47]in California accounts for almost half of annual US vegetable and 3/4 of fruit uh and and nut cash receipts and diminished snowpack in the Sierra Nevada this year to just 23% of typical levels as of midappril has raised concerns about irrigation supplies. Drought has also spread across the nation's bread basket where staple wheat crops that are typically used to make all-purpose flour or pasta have withered for lack of rain.

[00:11:14]As of May 19th, 70% of US winter wheat production was in areas of drought along with 25% of corn production according to the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska Lincoln.

[00:11:25]And forecasters now say an El Nino weather pattern is likely to emerge by August with rising odds of an unusual powerful event, unusually powerful event I should say, that will persist persist into 2027 and push global average temperatures higher. So this is the result of climate change and I am begging Democrats to make the very easy case right now that we need to remove our dependency on fossil fuels. And you can make an economic argument which is a lot more salient than the treehugging one that's going to actually have political motivation behind it really easily by connecting it to imperialism, the war in Iran that is causing this and to climate change. And those two things connect. Our wars in the Middle East, our involvement in the Middle East is due to our overcommitment to oil and how the United States has maintained itself as a global hegeimon by securing energy uh passages via military force and the petro dollar being dominant. We have to move ourselves off of fossil fuels, if you don't want to be paying this amount of money at the gas pump.

[00:12:42]And if you want your food prices to be in a good place, also affected by the Iran war, because climate change is making these uh issues so much worse for you. And and and the Iran war is directly affecting food as well because fertilizer prices are up 20% since the war be began.

[00:13:07]Onethird of fertilizer passes through the straight of Hormuz. Plus in addition the cost of everything is going up because fuel itself is going up to transport anything. And our reserves are less than two months away it appears from uh uh from being depleted.

[00:13:28]And then we're in five alarm fire territory. But don't worry because Trump's not worried. Trump's not worried about how this is going to impact anybody. It seems like when he talks about how America's been getting richer, he's almost exclusively talking about oil executives or AI executives.

[00:13:48]He's doesn't even really, I think, have the fortitude at this point in his life to like from a messaging st standpoint bring it back to the American people.

[00:14:00]He's just like, "Yeah, I don't care. I don't care if prices go up essentially because this is so important." Just a reminder, he ran on we knew he was lying, but what he ran on to get the voters that he wouldn't he didn't previously was no new wars and I'm going to make prices go down. And now he's doing wars and saying I don't care if prices go up because of the wars that I'm doing. So, here he is saying, "Hey, Iran, if they're trying to hurt us in the midterms, I don't care.

[00:14:39]>> He has no value. Their whole uh economic system is broken down." They thought they were going to outweight me. You know, we'll outweight him. He's got the midterms. I don't care about the midterms. Look what happened last night.

[00:14:52]That was the prelude to the midterms.

[00:14:54]People understand it. They know that very simple. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. I'm doing that for the world.

[00:15:00]I'm not doing it just for us.

[00:15:02]>> Oh wow. So magnanimous. He's doing it for the world. Um where's that Nobel P Nobel Peace Prize? He wants to dust it off because he didn't care about that at all. It wasn't for him. Um it is very revealing. He does this often. Remember when he kind of accidentally said that there were only 1.7 million people left in Gaza? He said that a while ago. And I don't know if that was a bad number, but it would also track with what we know about the fact that really hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza are unaccounted for and presumed dead. It would be interesting to know if that's what he knew. But he often does this. He just says things that you're not supposed to say publicly because he doesn't have the discipline. like he's revealing that he knows that Iran knows that their position strengthens as long as they continue to wait this out and they can punish the United States with economic pain and they want to disempower Trump and the Republicans in the midterms, which they have every right to try to hurt Trump politically um as he's bombing the hell out of their country. It's just crazy how they are portrayed as the savages committed to violence when they're using just like actual political and geographic leverage who needs a nuke. When even when even two nuclear powers bomb them, they're able to have resilience and use different kinds of pressure points to harm the administration. The problem is that just Trump, at least publicly, wants to pretend like he doesn't care about the midterms. I don't think he really does, but um >> I was already elected.

[00:16:40]>> He was already elected and he's a lame duck to this point. Like what is on his legislative agenda? I think he'd prefer it, but he's more interested in personal glory um in the way that he defines it.

[00:16:52]And um yeah, there there was there was something else that he said there that perhaps I wanted to touch on. Um, but here's this other part of the press conference that he me in which he mentions Oman. And um, some people are wondering if Trump got Oman confused with another country. I don't think he did. This is what he said here about Oman, which is a long-standing US ally.

[00:17:18]>> No, the strait's going to be open to everybody. It's >> And who would control?

[00:17:21]>> It's international waters. Nobody's going to control it. We're going to watch over it. We'll watch over it, but nobody's going to control it. That's part of the negotiation that we have.

[00:17:30]They would like to control it. Nobody's going to control it. It's international waters and Oman will behave just like everybody else. So, we'll have to blow them up. They understand that. They'll be fine.

[00:17:42]>> Well, they'll be fine after we blow them up. Hey, so Oman is an ally. They have not yet joined the Abraham Accords, but Trump is also trying to incorporate the negotiations surrounding the Abraham Accords as well into the uh potential for a peace deal. That is I don't know like he's already bit off more than he can chew. He's trying to bite into a live cow or something like that right now. That's not going to happen. You think you can bully these nations into the Abraham Accords after not just failing to uh protect the Gulf uh countries from Iran's retaliation because we were so much more interested in investing in Israel despite the security guarantees that we gave to some of the G uh the Gulf countries. Now you're threatening to bomb one of them because I don't know they're not sufficiently acquiescing to your demands even though your standing with the Gulf countries has been rapidly deteriorating over the past few months since the war began. And I will say because Oman has previously served as mediate as a mediator in US Iran talks um it very much is once again the Israelification of our military tactics or at least our posture. Remember in LA last year when Israel bombed Qatar which is a mediator country and they had to like really apologize for that because it was a major issue. um saying this about Oman is is absolutely insane.

[00:19:24]>> Alra Hormuz is not international waters.

[00:19:26]>> That that's exactly we just had an IM who brought that in saying it's not it's within the borders of Oman and Iran. Um which which is I mean UAE also I believe if I'm going to I'm not great at at thinking about uh maps off the top of my head. Um but yeah, it's uh Iran Trump is trying to look tough uh through a series of truth social posts and bombing threats and this that is what I wanted to say. Dude, you're talking about the primary when he when he said look what happened last night.

[00:20:04]>> It's a prelude.

[00:20:05]>> Yeah. Yeah. You see, this is where it is. He does not care about the Republicans chances. He cares about getting his guys in.

[00:20:12]>> My guy Ken Paxton, he won. Total. And you're right.

[00:20:16]>> You have effectively made the entire Republican base into a cult that does whatever you want regardless of what they purportedly cared about. Thomas Massie was all over the Epstein Files. I don't care. Trump voters just care if you endorse the guy. Um, you do have a cult behind you and he enjoys the thrill of that, but that's not the general, buddy. That's not the general election.

[00:20:41]And you got to bank on a lot of turnout from those cranks as well. And I'm not necessarily sure you can bank on that because people are looking at their bank accounts. W in a moment. We're going to be talking to Zachary Foster.

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[00:25:32]Quick break and when we come back we'll be joined by Zachary Foster.

[00:25:36]We are back and we are joined once again uh by friend of the show Zachary Foster, historian of Palestine and editor and chief of the Palestine Nexus newsletter, which is really important because of how much material the Israeli government is attempting to destroy to pretend Palestine never existed. Your work makes sure that that is all archived. Uh, Zach, thanks so much for coming on the show today.

[00:26:05]>> Emma, thanks so much for having me.

[00:26:07]>> Good to see you again. Uh, even though of course what we're about to be talking about is yet again Israel is out of control. I mean, of course, we know that um the the genocide is ongoing and never stopped, but it appears like as these negotiations with Iran continue as the weeks go on, uh Israel has decided to escalate in a variety of different ways, but particularly in Lebanon and Gaza, their bombing campaigns. Let's start with Lebanon because there's also the ground invasion that we need to talk about. Israel just bombed Beirut some hours ago uh the capital and um they have continuously now pushed past the yellow line in Lebanon meaning they are attempting to make their ground invasion uh to to the the ground invasion is expanding. Um what are you hearing uh about Lebanon right now?

[00:27:07]>> Well, let's state the obvious. There is ostensibly a ceasefire in Lebanon right now as we speak. There is supposed to be a ceasefire. Of course, Israel has not ceased fire over the past week or two as the negotiations between the US and Iran have gained steam and uh as a memorandum of understanding seems to be on the horizon. Um Israel has decided to ramp up its attacks in Lebanon and the reason is very obvious. Israel has no desire for a US Iranian deal and Israel realizes that the easiest way to sabotage that deal is to carpet bomb Lebanon. And that's exactly what they've been doing over the past uh uh 24 uh 48 72 hours. Israel has been pushing its ground forces further north.

[00:28:00]So the belief is that perhaps once this memorandum of understanding gets agreed to in however many days or weeks um Israel's freedom of action in Lebanon will be more limited, will be more restricted and therefore it is doing everything it can right now to push forward to push this yellow line further north. They just issued a call was it yesterday for or two days ago? Um they they issued a forcible displacement order to everyone in Lebanon living below what is it the Zaharan River >> River. Yes. And that's something what oh it's even higher than that.

[00:28:41]>> Correct. So if you look at the if we have a map of Lebanon we can pull up you'll see the Leani River which is maybe covering about you know the Latani River crosses Lebanon east west and then kind of veers up north. But if you go another 10, 20, 30 km north of that, you have another river, is it the Zahani River? They've issued an an expulsion order that's 40% of the country of Lebanon is now off limits to Lebanese. I mean, the Nazis had a word for this. It was called Leen. Israel is quite literally trying to push basically half of the Lebanese population out of their homes so that they can literally take over half of Lebanon. And that's where we're at right now. They've attacked Beirut. They're attacking the Bah.

[00:29:22]They're carpet bombing uh villages across South Lebanon. They attacked a dam uh that if this dam were to break, you'd have tens of thousands of Lebanese that would their homes would be flooded.

[00:29:32]They would be at catastrophic risk of death. That's what Israel is doing right now, trying to wipe out half of the country of Lebanon.

[00:29:41]>> Um we're pulling up that map right now, right, Matt? I think he's looking for one that can give us a little bit of a visual here. But I I the the Latani River was uh typically the area where Israel would be battling with Hezbollah and also with and and uh uh kind of keeping their expansionist aims within that area at least for the time being.

[00:30:11]But they be moving beyond that is a dramatic escalation. They've bombed Beirut uh over the past few months as well. That was also considered a dramatic uh escalation. But um th this is essentially them saying that we are effectively going to be annexing 40% of the country of Lebanon and what can you do about it?

[00:30:35]>> They've issued an evacuation order for the city of Ty. uh this sur this is I believe the fifth largest city in Lebanon we're talking about 120,000 people they issued obviously in addition to the evacu evacuation orders they had already issued uh to Lebanese to who were south of the latani river now they issued another evacuation order so this would include everyone north of the latani but south of the is it the zahani river I apologize if I'm I'm >> no you're right um we have this map now here >> this is the latani that we can see here um and then above of that is this other river that you're referring to, >> right?

[00:31:13]>> It looks like Yeah. So, >> we're working on it, but uh yeah, >> and meanwhile, the Lebanese government is engaged in negotiations with Israel in Washington, I believe.

[00:31:25]>> And and separate from Hezbollah, we should also be clear there, right? I mean, can you assess that a little bit for our audience and give people a breakdown as to why I mean, it was framed as historic that the government of Lebanon was coming and meeting with Israel face to face in the United States. But, uh, the government of Lebanon is not the relevant actor here.

[00:31:46]It's Hezbollah.

[00:31:49]Usually when there are two parties negotiation negotiating over a ceasefire deal, it's the parties that are are actually fighting each other that are the ones negotiating together. Now, in the case of Israel and Lebanon, that's not the case, right? The Lebanese government barely controls much of of Lebanon. They that the army has been um systematically over the course of many decades stripped of any ability to have any real fighting capability at all.

[00:32:16]This has been an agreement between uh the US and Israel for for a long time that Lebanon that that Israel needs to have military domination, military dominance over all of the of its neighbors, including Lebanon. And so the Lebanese government can't defend Lebanon. In fact, you had families that were displaced in Lebanon. U I I saw this a photo, this video. It's it's truly remarkable. So, Israel has expelled more than a million Lebanese people from their homes. They're trying to find shelter wherever they can.

[00:32:46]Literally setting up tents on the sides of the roads, in front of factory, wherever they can, in front of schools.

[00:32:51]The Lebanese army is going around and pushing those Lebanese out. They're setting up tents in the wrong places.

[00:32:59]The Lebanese government is like partnering with Israel on displacing half of the country of Lebanon. It's it's quite remarkable. A and it makes sense as to why they want to circumvent Hezbollah there, but also makes total sense as well as to why uh Iran is attempting and and they have the leverage to do so to maintain their support for Hezbollah and want Lebanon to be at the center of any uh agreement that comes into being um the non-aggression agreement that you're talking about there, which is important Because if it's just a ceasefire that's discussed between the United States and Iran, that does not include Israel and it does not include Hezbollah. And Iran wants to make sure that its place regionally is still uh maintained in terms of its leverage against Israeli expansion in the region and takeover of the region and support for Hezbollah is a big part of that >> because Israel and the United States have pursued such an aggressive policy towards Iran over the decades. What Iran has decided, what it decided long ago was that it needed to establish forward positions, i.e. Hezbollah, i.e. Ansarah in Yemen, i.e. the Iraqi militias, um, i.e. the Assad government that that was taken down last year. So that was the uh Iranian uh positioning. it was we're we're going to support our allies, our co-religionists around the region and that will act as a deterrent so that instead of attacking us, it's it's our allies um that face the brunt of the blowback. So, of course, Iran feels this obligation uh to come to defend its um its its co-religionist in Lebanon, especially because uh because of how I I I would say especially because of how significant a fighting force they have become over the past few weeks and months. If you look at the videos that Hezbollah is releasing, these FPV uh drones um that cannot be jammed by Israeli uh military at all. They are they are uh one after the other. I mean, you just I just saw this uh compilation of videos put out by an anal a military analyst that compiles all these uh drone attacks on Israeli military targets and the Israelis are totally defenseless. They have no response to it. You have these drones that are like I said, Israeli military cannot jam them and they're these fiber optic drones and they're a couple hundred dollars to make. So Hezbollah has thousands of them and one after the other they can fire them directly onto and into Israeli military outposts that have been established on Lebanese territory. And so it's a complete nightmare for the Israelis. You see these and they have video cameras on them. You can see them as they're attacking these Israeli positions. Um, is it's these are terrifying videos.

[00:36:09]Israelis running for Israeli soldiers illegally occupying and invading Lebanon running for their lives. And and this has obviously enraged Israeli authorities and that's why you're seeing the most genocidal rhetoric that we've seen perhaps in many months coming from Israeli officials which is saying quite a bit. I mean these people are not sh do not mince their words. And now you have Betsel Motric and Itamar Benvir both of them spewing out geni language. We will take down 10 buildings in Beirut for every single drone that you use to attack us. That's the language coming out of Israeli finance minister Betsmotrich. Straight up Nazi language.

[00:36:46]I mean in Romania in 1941 that's exact.

[00:36:48]That was Nazi policy. It was for every one Nazi soldier killed, we're going to kill 50 or 100 Jews. It's just straight up Nazism.

[00:36:56]>> Yeah. And and the the escalatory rhetoric is also um echoed by Trump himself. Uh and using um bombing campaigns to uh uh force people into submission and supposedly weaken their negotiating position as it relates to, you know, Iran in and of itself. U but that is not it's not borne fruit. uh and and the the the desperation of the uh Israeli government that you're speaking about there doesn't mean that we should underestimate their ability to execute it because of the amount of impunity that they've been given by the US and the fact that I'm not sure where these negotiations with Iran go because Trump is continuous until we get some sort of agreement. It seems like Israel is going to try to do whatever they can in Lebanon and Gaza um before that happens.

[00:37:48]One to sabotage it, but two because they are putting their foot on the gas. And I want to turn to Gaza now because Netanyahu just said publicly and was bragging that we have he has now taken over more than 50% of the Gaza Strip.

[00:38:04]Over six he now says 60% of the Gaza Strip. Um, this is a part of the ethnic cleansing and we know about the yellow line in Gaza. Um, but they've expanded beyond it and they're pushing pal the remaining Palestinians into uh smaller and smaller territories. And you see that clip of Netanyahu saying that to the audience and they start chanting 100 100. Um, reflect a little bit on where uh Gaza is right now. And of course they've been bombing they they killed over a dozen people last night just uh continue continuously happens. But um in terms of the land takeover, what's your your view on that?

[00:38:46]>> It's always strange.

[00:38:48]Israelis think Hebrew is some kind of secret language that when Netanyahu says we're going to take over 70% of the Gaza Strip in Hebrew that we don't have any way of understanding that here in the United States.

[00:38:59]Let's let's let's go back to October 9th, October 10th, 2025 because that was when this this ceasefire deal was first reached. And it was supposed to be a three-phase deal. We're still in phase one. Israel has not even lived up to any any of the things it agreed to do as part of the ceasefire deal. So that includes releasing Palestinian hostages.

[00:39:20]They did not release the number that said they would. They deported some of them to Egypt and Jordan rather than releasing them to their families in Gaza in the West Bank. They obviously never allowed in the humanitarian aid and the temporary shelters and the tents and the food and the water and the medicine that they said they would let in. I think on average over the past uh 6 months, so it's been more than 6 months since since this quote unquote ceasefire deal was reached. Perhaps 100 to 200 trucks are entering Gaza every day. So that's about 16 to oneird of Gaza's medicine, food, and water needs and shelter needs. It's denied tents because the tents use metal poles.

[00:40:01]And so the metal poles could be repurposed to make rockets. And that's the ex and and that's what Israel does.

[00:40:07]It provides excuse after excuse of why it's denying Gaza aid. Of course, Israel has killed almost a thousand Palestinians in Gaza over the past six plus months. Um the vast majority of whom are civilians. These are children who cross a line they didn't know existed and an Israeli soldier uh uh snipes them with a shot to the head or one of these Israeli drones takes them out or or a tank shell kills them. I mean that's what Israel is doing on a daily ba there has not been a single day since October 10th 2025 that Israel has not violated this ceasefire deal. And as you said, over the past couple of of days, we've seen Israel ramp up its attacks, killing 12 people in just last night. I mean, I don't know if you saw these images. I mean, we're we're we're sort of we're kind of being brought back to the most violent and the most gruesome period of the genocide where every day you see another image of another Palestinian child beheaded, just completely uh dismembered and and those are the images coming out of Gaza right now, >> right? And it's not a coincidence that uh they are uh escalating during Eid as well. This is a long-standing tactic by the Israeli government on uh Muslim uh holidays.

[00:41:21]>> It it's it's also worth mentioning uh that it's not just that Israel is violating all the things it it it agreed to do, but what is it doing in the 60 perhaps now 70% of the Gaza Strip that Israel controls? Let's remember there are still multiple Palestinian militias.

[00:41:41]I would call them terrorist organizations. These organizations are run by criminals, rapists, thieves, drug dealers, murderers. These are the only people willing to collaborate with the Israeli military. And there's two or three of these gangs. The Dagmush gang, um, um, Abu Shabbag's game, although Abu Shabbad was killed, his gang still, uh, survives. So, you have three or four of these militias in the Israeli controlled territory of the Gaza Strip. And there was a video that just surfaced of one of these gangs um that that Israel had given this gang one of these very sophisticated Israeli drones. Quite a remarkable video. This was just published by Dropsite earlier today.

[00:42:20]Now, let me ask yourself, why would Israel be giving sophisticated armed deadly drones to Palestinian militias on the eastern side of the Gaza Strip?

[00:42:31]They're planting the seeds of a civil war. Yeah, that's what they've been trying to do in Gaza for quite literally two years. There there reports that go back to November, December 2023 of Israel trying to arm militias in the Gaza Strip. This has been a two and a half yearlong project to create internal strife and civil war such that the Kasa strip not only is a place without any shelter and without adequate food or without any hospitals or without uh clean water, but it's also a place and a place where Palestinians are killing other Palestinians.

[00:43:04]>> That is Israel's goal for the Gaza Strip to make it completely and totally unlivable such that everyone has to leave. And that's that's what they've been doing for two and a half years.

[00:43:13]>> Yeah. Um, and as they continue to uh take more and more territory and cram the remaining Palestinians into smaller and smaller territory, um, a as we talked about earlier, and there are no cops on the beat. The the Trump administration appears to be okay with whatever Israel does as long as it doesn't make headlines in the United States. Um but we should also point out that the violence in the West Bank and the settler violence and in East Jerusalem uh has been also uh has also been escalated uh over the past few weeks. What are you hearing on that front?

[00:43:56]>> So maybe we can start with the East Jerusalem. Recall that in 1967, Israel annexed some 70 kilometers of the West Bank, including Jerusalem, and then called the whole thing East Jerusalem.

[00:44:09]And in 1970, they passed a law that said that if at any point in history, any Jew once owned property in East Jerusalem or anywhere in the West Bank, that any other Jew has the God-given right to go reclaim that property. Now, obviously, the the law doesn't work in reverse, right? If you're a Palestinian who once owned property in any part of Israel, you you have no right to reclaim your property.

[00:44:39]>> Yeah.

[00:44:40]>> No right to return. No right to reclaim your property. So, it's a blatantly racist law that has been used over the past 58 years in East Jerusalem and Hebrron and other areas of the West Bank to steal Palestinian property. And this is right now happening at an accelerating pace throughout the old city of Jerusalem, Sukul Ananin. It's happening in Sheh Jar famously Muhammad al- Kur alur these Palestinians were uh who who are very outspoken uh speak to those uh ethnic those forcible displacements with great um I think um uh clarity but now it's also happening it's also happening in Silwan um which is the which is the Palestinian neighborhood just outside the old city of Jerusalem just actually outside the um the western wall compound and so it's considered an important neighborhood for Israel. You have a um you have a um an archaeological park in that neighborhood known as Davidid or the city of David which Israeli archaeologists claim uh once was home to the kingdom some some palace that once belonged to David to King David the the the ancient Israelite figure in in in in the in the Bible 3,000 years ago. Now, I've talked to many archaeologists who say the whole park is actually there's basically no evidence to suggest this was actually King David's Park. It's all political.

[00:46:03]This park was uh built and the history is is basically being fabricated. Um in order to push Palestinians out of the city and just and just uh was it yesterday um you have a Betellum report uh and I believe this is based on an Israeli military order um to ethnically cleanse the entirety of the neighborhood. And we're talking 2,000 people >> and that's that could happen at any moment. Remember >> the vast majority of homes in East Jerusalem. Um so we're talking 300,000 pe Palestinians live in East Jerusalem.

[00:46:35]The majority of the properties owned by Palestinians in East Jerusalem could be demolished at any moment. That's because when Israel occupied East Jerusalem in 1967, they established a permit regime that effectively denied Palestinians building permits to build new homes.

[00:46:53]What they did was they encircled around all the builtup areas of East Jerusalem.

[00:46:57]They drew lines. They drew these zoning lines that said you can you cannot build outside of the already built up areas in East Jerusalem. And that's why when you drive around East Jerusalem, there's open areas everywhere, these large open areas, and you're wondering, "This makes no sense, >> right?"

[00:47:12]>> But the reason is very simple. Israel does not want Palestinians to build in Jerusalem. It wants them to leave Jerusalem because it wants to preserve a supermajority, a Jewish supermajority in Israel's capital. And and now it's not just denying Palestinians the right to the build, it's actively pushing them all out. And Sanwan is just the latest example of that.

[00:47:33]>> Yes. and and it gets less attention um because I think you know one because the occupation uh and and the the seizure of land happened so uh long ago but also I think you know the the settlement operation in the West Bank and um the the the the rolling uh just violence that we see there it's it's escalating too um it's just been like I think more in people's public uh minds about it because I think you know we see some of the images there have been there's been great reporting uh from independent journalists in in the West Bank um and others about what just the the the casual violence that has inflicted on Palestinians uh there and how the how how much that's been escalating I guess over the past few years. Uh I before we wrap here, uh Zach, if you could just give us an update on the West Bank.

[00:48:34]>> Yeah, so since October 7th, more than a thousand Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank. And this is a very um a very violent process that involves uh forcible expulsions. So, we're talking about pagomes in which Israeli settler terrorists, sometimes dozens of them, sometimes hundreds of them at night, during the day, in the morning, in the evening, about 12 happen every day. Those are the latest numbers.

[00:49:04]So, so we're talking 12 terrorist attacks every day on Palestine communities. oftentimes these shephering and hurting communities in area C of the West Bank in the Jordan Valley, South Hebrron Hills, uh the the E1 zone, the area areas around Nablas, areas around Sebastia, right? So all the basically wherever you go in the West Bank, the um there are active attempts by Israeli settler terrorists to forcibly expel Palestinians from their homes. The the I think the the most um uh we South Habs is very active. Uh ju just the other day um Muhammad Hashem uh a Palestinian from Mafari Yata reported on Israeli settler terrorists beating Palestinians with metal metal sticks and metal rods in the middle of the night. We just saw that video surface the other day. Now they're trying to expel the residents of Khan al which is in the E1 zone. This is the area that US and EU leaders have claimed is a red line for quite literally decades because it's this area that lies right in the center of the West Bank.

[00:50:02]And so if Israel takes it over, in theory that would dissect the West Bank into two, effectively making a Palestinian state impossible, even though it's been impossible for decades because no Israeli leader um not on the left, not on the far left, not even Meritz, which is the far-leftest Israeli political party you're going to find, not even Meritt is interested in even talking about a Palestinian state. So the full Israeli spectrum from left to right is Jewish supremacy from the river to the sea. And that is reflected every single day in the West Bank. And let me just make one final point. You saw that in in December 2024, in January 2025, the Israeli military expelled about 40,000 Palestinians from the Janine Tulkaram and Nuresam's refugee camps.

[00:50:47]Now, just in the past week, what they're doing is they're building Israeli military bases in those refugee camps in area A in areas where they're not even supposed to be in the first place.

[00:51:00]According to the Oslo Accords, they're quite literally throwing the Oslo Accords in the garbage. I mean, they've obviously been doing that for three decades, but they're just making that policy official now. And you're not going to be able to return to your home if you're a Palestinian from Janine to Karim or Nur Trump's refugee camps because those camps are now being turned into Israeli military bases.

[00:51:22]>> Yeah. I mean, it's it's absolutely unconscionable. Um, and it's incredible to see, I think, you know, the tactics that we've seen in the West Bank being used in Lebanon, uh, with with no real recourse whatsoever. And with, you know, an administration here in the US that could yank on the leash at any point, but actively chooses not to. Same thing that we discussed with the Biden administration as well. Uh, Zachary Foster, really appreciate your time today. Everyone should check out the Palestine Nexus and your work uh on that newsletter, editor-inchief of the Palestine Nexus newsletter. Uh thanks so much. Really appreciate your time today.

[00:52:02]>> Thanks so much for having me.

[00:52:04]>> Of course. Quick break, folks, and when we come back, we'll be joined by Dr. uh Dr. Adam uh Hamawi, candidate in New Jerseyy's 12th Congressional District.

[00:52:15]We are back, folks, and we are joined now by Dr. Adam Hamoi, candidate in New Jersey's 12th Congressional District. Uh Dr. Hamoy, thanks so much for coming on the show today.

[00:52:28]>> Thank you for having me.

[00:52:30]>> Um so, of course, uh I'm from New Jersey, by the way. I'm from Essex County, so I do have to ask you some quick questions right off the rip. Uh your district is what I would say is uh is in central Jersey. Some people deny that central Jersey exists. It's just north and south. So I would like your answer here. Do you believe that there is such a thing as central Jersey?

[00:52:53]>> Of course. You know, there is uh something else that exists below Newark and uh there's a central Jersey and then there's South Jersey which is really out in the middle of nowhere. But you could bring that up with them.

[00:53:04]>> Okay, I'll bring it up with them. You accept the existence of Central Jersey.

[00:53:08]And then I need to follow up in that instance because if Central Jersey exists, what is it? Pork Croll or Taylor Ham?

[00:53:16]>> Uh neither one. I'm so I >> Okay.

[00:53:24]>> All right. Fair enough. Fair enough. For people that don't know, it's a real controversy. North Jersey people say it's called Taylor Ham. South Jersey says it's pork roll. Uh but you know, that was a very diplomatic answer for you there, Dr. Hamoy. Um, so you've been endorsed by Care, uh, track, Apac, Justice Democrats, Bernie Sanders, AOC, Rashidita Talib, Summerly, I could go on and on in your race. Um, you've got a lot of great endorsements. What do those endorsements mean to you and what do you what does it say about the nature of your candidacy?

[00:54:00]>> So, I'm honored, first of all, to have been able to earn those endorsements. Uh it's a it's a lot of hard work and it really reflects what's happening here on the ground. Um you know someone like uh Senator Sanders and really all the organizations really look at what you're doing here in a district if you're speaking to the people on the ground uh what kind of campaign. We have a large grassroots movement here where people are knocking on doors. We've built a coalition that really uh spans not just the progressive space, but you know, I have progressives, I have pro Palestinian groups, I have veterans groups, um science, climate change. It really shows um the full spectrum of the district here and in New Jersey, central Jersey where I'm at, it's progressive.

[00:54:48]Um people are intelligent. They are they are active and they are thirsty for someone that's going to speak to them and their needs and not the same politics as usual which is unfortunately what we've seen fill Washington DC and um you know this is uh the district that belongs to Bonnie Watson Coleman who's retiring and stepping down and we need someone like her who's going to be speaking to what the people want and what the people need and uh continue her fight in Washington.

[00:55:21]>> You mentioned your district. It's a really interesting uh district because it's a mix of affluent suburbs like Princeton. Um but you also have more middle income uh diverse suburbs too like Plansboro. You got North South Brunswick I believe. Um and then you have smaller cities like Trenton and Planefield um that have say like larger uh larger black and Latino population.

[00:55:45]There's also a large Asian population in the district. like it's as diverse economically, racially as it gets, but it's also a very blue district. So, can you reflect on what it means, I guess, to run in that district and what the needs of those constituents are despite the fact that it's such a wide range of people?

[00:56:03]>> Yeah, I mean, it it is one of the most uh diverse districts in the entire country. Uh we have the whole breadth of socioeconomic range like from Trenton to Princeton and they're only about 20 minutes apart. Um, and we have the same thing also the cultures. I mean, we're right here where we have, uh, people from all countries that are immigrants working and, uh, we have, so, uh, to run in a district like this, you have to be able to, uh, you know, speak to actual people's needs. Um, you can't be really representing one small group and think that you're going to succeed here. Um, you have to be able to walk into communities, be able to relate to the problems that they have and speak from experience rather than talk at them. And this is what I felt is me at being a physician who's been working in central Jersey for most of my life, seeing, you know, these people come in as my patients. I know the problems that people face because I I see it every single day. And um and I think that's what's really helped me um you know connect with uh with most of the voters here.

[00:57:09]>> Um you you mentioned your work as a physician. Uh I think it's important for us to mention how incredible your work has been in war zones. Uh, I did not know that you treated uh, Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth, who lost both of her legs in Iraq, and she was integral in lobbying the Biden administration at the time because you and your team were in Gaza performing surgeries on victims of the Israeli genocide. And the there was no one advocating for you.

[00:57:44]and Sammy Duck Tammy Duckworth was like this this man treated me. Um I mean speak about your story because it's quite remarkable.

[00:57:54]>> Yeah, our connection goes back a long time and I was a combat trauma surgeon in Iraq in 2004 when her Blackhawk was shot down with an RPG. and I was the uh the surgeon that took care of her and stabilized her was able to, you know, have her survive that initial injury and and and get on to uh an evacuation back to Germany and eventually back to the United States. So, I treated her and was able to save her life back then. And she returned the favor to me many years later uh two years ago when I was in Gaza with the medical team on a mission.

[00:58:29]And uh our team got trapped in there when Israel uh closed the uh and seized the border between Egypt and uh and Gaza. And after a lot of pressure trying to get out, um she was like one of the people in Washington and really pushed um the Israelis to allow our team to leave.

[00:58:49]>> And can you talk about your experience there? We've had uh doctors on our program speaking about the horrors of the Israeli genocide. I know you operated on many children. What would you want our audience to know about your experience there?

[00:59:04]>> So I've been doing this for over 30 years. So, in addition to being a combat trauma surgeon in Iraq with the US Army, I've also volunteered in war zones all over the world. Um, I've been to Central America. I've been all over the Middle East. And, uh, what I saw in Gaza was something completely different at a scale much larger where there's deliberate targeting of civilians every single day. and seeing that horror like at the you know that my tax dollars were funding fundamentally changed the way I look at politics and really pushed me to get involved because normally after my mission trips I come back I work I go back to my you know my practice and you know cover you know my my district and take care of them. I couldn't do that anymore just to forget about what I saw.

[00:59:54]I needed to be a witness. And I started going to DC, working with, you know, Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman, working with, you know, many of the senators, trying to talk to them and and reach, you know, tell them this is this is what our country is using its resources for is to fund the genocide.

[01:00:13]Unfortunately, most of the lawmakers wouldn't even give me audience. They wouldn't let open their doors and listen to what I had to say whether they agreed to or not. And it's that reason why when representative uh Bonnie Watson Coleman decided to, you know, retire this year, I felt I had to jump in and I had to go there because my perspective is fundamentally needed there because we need these resources right here at home.

[01:00:41]I mean, I'm in Trenton right now. You know, we have problems with infrastructure. We have problems with health care. People don't have insurance. They're trying to pay their medical bills. At the same time, they can't afford their rent. And at the same time, I saw that we're spending it on bombs. We're spending it on, you know, on aircraft carriers and stealth bombers. I've seen both sides of this.

[01:01:02]And we're just making the wrong choices.

[01:01:04]So, >> it gives a whole new uh meaning to Trenton makes the world takes, which is the slogan. I mean, that like this is a question of resource allocation. And I I'm I'm glad to hear you speak about it in those terms. Um because you know just in for example and what we've spent on this war in Iran, we could clearly fund college for all and other major programs for example which are you if I'm not sure if you're in favor of college for all you can expand on some of your other policy positions. But um it it I think people can really fundamentally understand when you show them what our tax dollars are going to and what it could happen could be going to in their everyday life.

[01:01:51]>> Absolutely. I mean we we're told that we can't afford Medicare for all but we have been spending a billion dollars a day on this war with just you know from when we started to now. We could have eliminated medical debt you know in the United States. we could have uh funded, you know, uh tuitionfree uh public education. You know, think of the infrastructure projects and fixing roads or building housing or, you know, so many things that we need right here that every day we're told that it's like we don't have the budget for it, we can't afford it, like it's going to increase our taxes. No, we we could definitely afford these things. We're seeing that when we need to make bombs, there's no hesitation, you know. So between, you know, a trillion dollars a year that they're saying that they want to make a$1 and a half trillion dollars a year um for a war department because that's really the the only thing it really is.

[01:02:42]You know, we call it the Department of Defense. The only, you know, correct thing the Trump administration did was fix the name because that's all it is.

[01:02:50]And we're funding the military-industrial military-industrial complex. We're funding Boeing. We're funding, you know, Lockheed Martin. We're Rathon. We're making all these bombs and they're thriving right now. They're booming because they can't keep up with the demand. At the same time, people are struggling working 40 hours a week, you know, to be able to put food on their table, pay rent. They're doing all the right things and yet they're falling behind every single year. And this can't go on. This can't be normal. And we need to fix that. Otherwise, you know, this whole country is falling apart, you know, and we see this happening and it's getting worse every single year. And we need new leaders in Washington that are going to address these problems once and for all. And that's what I plan to do.

[01:03:38]>> Uh, absolutely. Again, June 2nd is the primary. Just want to make sure we sprinkle that in throughout the interview so people know if they haven't uh voted yet. Um, just less than a week away. Sorry. and and the uh and the polls are open right now. So, it's not just June 2nd. If you want if you could go out and vote today or tomorrow, they're poll they're open all the way till Sunday. So, get out to vote. If you have ballots at home, fill them out and send them. It's not doing any good in the kitchen table.

[01:04:07]>> Exactly. Right. Um I I wanted to just quickly though turn to uh the ICE protests uh not in your district, it's north of you in Newark. um about these the the the conditions uh in this detention facility in Newark run of course by a private company GEO Group.

[01:04:26]Um it's been a real flash point right now in politics in New Jersey. I was encouraged to see uh Senator Andy Kim show up uh there and he was actually pepper sprayed. Unfortunately, Cy Booker no show even though he used to be the mayor of Newark interestingly. Um, what would your leadership look like? Would it be more, you know, what we're seeing with say Representative McCyver and Meia, Representative Meia, or are we talking Cy Book or No Show?

[01:04:58]>> Well, I was there. I uh I was there.

[01:05:00]>> Oh, you were there. There you go.

[01:05:01]>> I was there. Yes, I was. I was uh there on uh I'm losing track of the days now, but I was there with Andy Kim and Anna Leah was there as well. we have uh I mean so many of our you know the delegation actually showed up which is like great and that makes the absence of certain people even more apparent and um if we're not going to go and stand up to fascism and tyranny when it's right here at home and in our state then how could we expect you know to be able to stand up for it in Washington because we are supposed to be the voice of the people we're the representatives here and whether it's in your district or not it's all connected And um and it's like you said, you know, Geog Group is a for-profit group. Again, we're talking about allocations and money. We've spent $170 billion giving it to ICE. And that's not including the $9 million a day we're spending for these private, you know, for-profit prisons that are just, you know, making money, you know, day after day offer off the misery of others. And you know, I was there. They had mass stormtroopers there, full body armor. They had a armored vehicle with, you know, this uh pepper spray gun right on top aimed at the protesters and just waiting for a fight. And every day there's something like just uh two nights ago, they kidnapped a a army um not he's a veteran. I don't know if he's army, he's a veteran medic. They they rushed into the crab.

[01:06:32]>> Yeah. Yeah.

[01:06:32]>> Beat him up, took him, and then they like drove him off and dropped him beat up like, you know, miles away in the middle of the street at night just like some like like it's like some gang. You know, these are this is these are the troops that are being used by this administration. And another reason why we need to abolish ICE, I mean, at this point, they're just a bunch of criminals terrorizing the community and not really making anyone feel any safer. And and it's also a question of resource allocation. Like I mean, how would you respond to people saying, "Hey, I support a lot of your positions, but I'm a little scared to abolish ICE." I'm throwing this out there even though I agree with your position. Um, how do you answer that question? Uh, because I think sometimes people the abolition language can freak them out, right? Like defund the police maybe wasn't the best slogan. It's about changing resources to go to different parts of public safety. It's the same thing here with immigration enforcement.

[01:07:36]>> So there was life before ICE. You know, ICE was formed in 2003 after 9/11. And uh the excuse first of all was done in a rush. The excuse was again border security. But uh they failed at their task. you know, uh there's the southern border doesn't stop at Trenton and yet they're in the streets every day, you know, picking up, you know, people dropping their kids off at school. You know, they are uh not making people any safer and they seem to be targeting really only black and brown communities.

[01:08:08]Um this is not an immigration system.

[01:08:10]So, yes, we should have a system that's orderly, that allows people to legally come in um with a process that's known, that allows talent to to come into this country, which is really how this country was built with the help of immigrants generation after generation, which is what made this country what it is today. And we should be able to respect human rights. We should be able to suspect ci respect civil liberties and have a process that doesn't have people waiting decades to be able to rejoin families or have a lottery system. You know, this isn't reinventing the wheel. It's about, you know, picking a priority. And this has been dropped by both parties. You know, every time they come in, they say going to fix it, but the other party opposes it. And it's a failure for both. And it's about time that we addressed it in a real manner rather than, you know, coping out and saying the only way to do it is to just, you know, grab everyone off the streets and um and and and just ship them somewhere else.

[01:09:11]>> Well, um I really appreciate your time today, especially ahead of a, you know, a really busy next few days for you before election day on Tuesday, June 2nd. Um, but as the good doctor mentioned, you can vote in New Jersey all the way up to Sunday prior to that.

[01:09:30]Um, really appreciate your time today.

[01:09:32]Uh, Dr. Hamoi, a surgeon running to represent New Jerseyy's 12th Congressional District in Congress.

[01:09:40]Thanks so much for your time today. I really appreciate it. And we will put a link to your website where people can help and get out the vote in the final hour uh final hours of this race down below wherever people are listening to or watching this.

[01:09:54]>> Yes. Go to hamoway fornj.com. Thank you all very much. Get out to vote.

[01:09:59]>> Thanks so much. Appreciate uh you coming on the show and best of luck.

[01:10:03]>> Thank you for having me. Have a great day.

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