Hey everyone, this is Abby Martin. You're listening to the audio version of this episode,

which you can watch at YouTube.com slash Empire Files.

Peter Joseph.

Hey, Abby.

Thank you so much for coming on the Empire Files, Peter. It's been quite a while

since I've had you on. I appreciate you coming back on. It has been a while. I know. Time just keeps

flying by the nightmare of existence. It's flowing, flowing away. Great to have, great. Thank you for

having me. It's great to be here and good to see you again. It's great to see you, Peter. Given everything that's going on in the world today, I really wanted to get your insight,

and I think a lot of people who follow you will also, would also love to hear what you have to say,

because you've been posting so much about the genocide going on in Gaza.

And I've just, you know, we've been talking about it off air a lot.

Obviously, I, you know, I look up to you so much, Peter,

and I just really wanted you to expand on what you've been saying on social media,

and I think we can glean a lot from what you have to say.

Yeah, in my interest to sort of get away from the social media ecosystem,

this had to happen and bring me back so I can rant away.

I've posted quite a bit about this because it's such a unique event,

and people seem to just nonchalantly think this is just another little war and this plague of wars of human civilization.

But this is very specifically a longstanding problem and a particular nuance of a conflict

that is just so outrageous.

It's so offensive and it's so shocking to me that so many people out there are just

floating along in their lives with this sort of attitude that this is a just another war,

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