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Episode 459 Promo - International Lawlessness (w/ Craig Mokhiber)

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🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Former United Nations human rights official Craig Mokhiber returns to Bad Faith to weigh in on recent developments in Palestine, including Israel's choice to end the ceasefire, the catastrophic Israeli strikes resulting in the death of about 400 Palestinians, nearly half children, the recent U.N. report on Israel's use of sexual violence against Palestinians, and the state of international law as it attempts to hold Israel accountable. It's an expansive, philosophical conversation that probes the possibility of U.N. reform in light of American funding and veto power, and the declining utility of "international law." Stay until the end for a powerful argument for the value of a human rights framework despite how limited our international legal institutions are in enforcing said framework.

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Produced by Armand Aviram.

Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

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even the most Zionist genocide deniers out there, by their own logic, as they constantly say,

0:06.3

it can't be a genocide because millions of people haven't been killed. At that point, even they

0:10.4

would have to concede that that's what Israel did. Realistically speaking, how do you see this

0:16.6

playing out? Genocide has already been perpetrated. And they have already succeeded in wiping out a

0:25.3

significant portion of the population of Gaza, because the way genocide always works is that a part of it is

0:32.1

done through bombs and bullets, beatings and stabbings and all those sorts of things. A part of it is done through mass

0:38.5

incarceration and the abuse of people there and the breaking of their bodies and spirits, as

0:43.5

is happening in Israeli dungeons as we speak. And then the largest numbers of killings are done

0:49.3

through denial of food, water, or medical care. And Israel has systematically created conditions in Gaza

0:57.6

where it will be years, if not decades, before basic capacities adequate for 2 million people

1:04.3

for food and medical care and water. By the way, they're surrounded by dust and toxic substances and unexploded

1:14.0

ordinance and all sorts of things that will hasten the illness and death of lots of Palestinians.

1:20.4

So when you hear the kinds of statistics that come out of the health ministry, those are people

1:25.3

who have been killed by bombs and bullets who have been retrieved

1:29.6

from under bodies or rubble who are brought into the hospital with those injuries and have died

1:35.3

and who are identified. It is a tiny fraction of the number of actually been killed in the genocide

1:40.9

so far because of so much death from disease, from hunger, from a lack of

1:46.0

medical care, not just for things that were suffered as a result of the genocide directly,

1:51.9

but people who had medical conditions and then couldn't get the care for those medical conditions.

1:57.2

And they have created, again, that's the language of the genocide convention, creating conditions

2:02.0

of life calculated to bring up out the destruction of the group.

2:04.8

That has been what Israel's planned.

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