Episode 380 - The Ceasefire Shell Game (w/ Sam Husseini)

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🗓️ 13 June 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Independent journalist and bête noire of White House press flacks Sam Husseini returns to Bad Faith to break down the Biden administration's spin over who is really responsible for stalling a ceasefire deal that would bring an end to the carnage in Gaza. Husseini reacts to Hasbara from Jake Tapper and analyzes how hostages have been cynically weaponized by pro-Israel actors to generate sympathy for Israel's siege (and oust progressive news hosts), all while the families of hostages have clearly said that they are far from Israel's priority. Husseini also discusses a new UN report out Wednesday that confirms that claims of mass rape on October 7th are completely unsubstantiated, but that Israel likely implemented the "Hannibal directive" against its own citizens and enacted gross abuses -- including sexual assaults -- on Palestinian victims.

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0:00.0	the whole narrative that they put out early on about the mass rapes and the systematic rapes
0:06.4	and the headed babies and all of that. Why did they do that? They did that to buy themselves enough time because they knew that they were going to slaughter a bunch of Palestinians and if they were going to slaughter a bunch of Palestinian babies and they wanted the world and especially the US public to be impervious to that, to not feel that and to have in their mind that, oh, Hamas is unspeakable evil, so any images that I might see of bad things resulting from Israel's actions, we have to excuse them because they are babbling unprecedented evil.
0:40.3	That is why those stories were put out there.
0:43.0	That is part of the genocidal intent. So, I feel like last time we spoke or maybe shortly thereafter you felt like you were on
1:22.1	the naughty list in terms of press briefings you had
1:25.1	upset the powers that being weren't getting called on anymore am I
1:27.4	remembering that right? Yeah I've gotten called on exactly once by Miller
1:31.9	since October 7th I've gotten called on exactly once by Miller since October 7th. I've inserted myself a few times.
1:36.9	The assistant Patel has called on me, I don't know, maybe five times.
1:42.3	Okay.
1:43.6	What was the question again that got you put on the no-ask list?
1:48.3	I think it's a systematic thing.
1:50.7	I ask barely pointed direct questions and they don't like that. I don't think it's any one particular thing.
1:59.0	I mean, most of the places I've gotten in have been to show that the US doesn't recognize the Geneva
2:04.1	conventions as applying to Palestinians which I think is kind of important.
2:07.7	And now I remember that's what it was.
2:10.1	All right well it's my pleasure to have back on Bad Faith podcast, Sam Husaini, you know him as one of the most pointed best question-askers at the White House press briefings and State Department press briefings that often go viral on
2:26.7	Twitter and beyond. He's an independent journalist and you can find him at Husseini.
2:30.8	Substack.com. Welcome back to Bad Faith.
2:33.0	Great to be with you. I don't know if I should voice my outrage about
2:38.0	recent happenings with you or if I should congratulate you on your new found freedom.
2:42.0	I like that framing.
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