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Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

The REAL Hezbollah – With Lebanese Journalist Ghadi Francis

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots, LLC

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.64.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Western media presents Hezbollah as a group of savages, targeting civilians and trying to drag Lebanon, and the entire Middle East, into war.

But, Lebanese journalist Ghadi Francis explains, this couldn’t be further from the truth: “The armed resistance in Lebanon and in Palestine and in Yemen and in Iraq is just the reaction to the decades of oppression, to the decades of blood.”

And though Ghadi doesn’t share Hezbollah’s ideology, she is grateful for it: “The ideology gives so much confidence to these fighters and patience and resilience to their families.” And she is grateful that Hezbollah is fighting to protect her, the Lebanese people and the Palestinian people. “The concept of resistance, it's the concept of life, to give my kids a future that I couldn't have.”

Ghadi warns against trusting Western media. “After the 40 beheaded imaginary Israeli babies,” why would we “still believe them?”

Social media is revealing the truth that traditional media has been covering up: “You are seeing now the tremendous videos and feeds coming out from Gaza. I tell you, this is not new. The same things have been happening, but cameras weren't there and social media wasn't there.”

Although Hezbollah and other resistance movements are painted as instigating violence, they are reacting to it. “The armed resistance in Lebanon and in Palestine and in Yemen and in Iraq is just the reaction to the decades of oppression, to the decades of blood.”

Israel’s terrorism is presented as self defense, while Hezbollah’s self defense is presented as terrorism. But “when someone else is killing your infants, you’d have to be like God or a prophet to be able to forgive and forgive and forgive and forgive, decade after decade after decade.”

Subscribe for the full interview with Ghadi Francis on the difference between how Israel and Hezbollah fight wars, the growing desperation in the west that could lead to a ceasefire, and her own experience in Hamas’s tunnels.

00:00 Intro

01:08 Aaron's hate crime

04:56 Blinken celebrates the Geneva Conventions

17:48 Ghadi Francis interview

18:26 What is resistance?

22:12 Who is Hezbollah?

27:06 Does Hezbollah have support in Lebanon?

31:43 Is Iran behind it all?

36:40 The role of Hamas

41:26 The ideology of Hezbollah

46:36 How Israel fights vs how Hezbollah fights



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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to useful idiots. I'm Katie helper. I'm Mary

0:07.9

Matte. Hey everybody thank you so much for being here. Our website is

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useful idiots podcast.com. Go there, support the show, and get bonus content. We really appreciate it because you keep us going. So please go to Useful idiots podcast.com.

0:22.3

Yeah, and you get Thursday through... Please go to Use Philadelphia's podcast. Come.

0:22.9

Yeah, and you get Thursday throw down,

0:25.0

your midweek dose of media madness.

0:26.5

We got some great clips on that for you this week.

0:28.8

And of course, there's always an extended interview,

0:30.6

which you're really gonna enjoy,

0:32.0

because it includes our guest

0:34.3

Gotti Francis talking about being in Hamas's tunnels. Yes our guest this week

0:41.2

Gotti Francis is an experienced reporter, reported from Gaza, from Syria.

0:46.0

She's based in Beirut and has a lot to say about the latest in this never-ending crisis all because Joe Biden won't impose a ceasefire

0:56.5

because he would rather let Nett and Yahoo risk original war and massacre Palestinians at will.

1:04.1

So, Gotti has a lot to say,

1:06.2

and we're very grateful to her for joining us.

1:07.8

So stay tuned for that.

1:09.1

Before we get to our four basic fruit groups,

1:11.0

I'd like to report a hate crime that I experienced this past weekend

1:15.8

one of the most insulting things that's ever been said about me and hurtful

1:20.9

things and I'm gonna go on record about it right now.

1:25.0

I was at a bar with my friend and I got up to get us a drink.

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