The entire hostage rescue operation is just such an emblematic example of just how devalued

Palestinian lives are that this is somehow celebrated as a success.

The mass slaughter of nearly 300 people to rescue for Israelis.

Everything could have been done on October 8th.

And in fact, Hamas offered that every single hostage without an entry into Gaza.

But we know, Mike, that that was the point.

The point was to use the hostages and use October 7th as the means to justify their end goal,

which is the entire ethnic cleansing and decimation of the entire Gaza Strip so they could recolonize it.

Plain as day, it's absurd that we're still even having this argument.

The question is, will they be able to get away with it?

Welcome to the Empire Files podcast.

This is your host, Abby Martin.

And Mike Prysner, we're going to talk about a couple things today.

Been a minute since we did just a podcast.

We're going to talk about this new exclusive story that we just dropped about the hidden rebellion in the U.S. military against Gaza policy. I'm going to talk a little about

myself and you, Abby, both individually going viral in fake tweets and the kind of whole

world around that of engagement farming, exploiting Gaza, and that leads

to a lot of misinformation that both you and I have been the victim of in a really big way.

Of course, your appearance on Pierce Morgan, your second appearance where you went head to head

with a literal Israeli spy who put Democratic leaders in prison and did a bunch of other awful shit

and that, you know, psycho guy and all the, you know, your firsthand experience from that and

the aftermath. And, you know, we'll give a little update on, you know, gods of related

...