On today’s program, Allen Ruff speaks with friend of the show, Mouin Rabbani, about Yasser Abu Shabab, the continuing genocide in Gaza, the chaos created by US-backed aid organizations, and Israel’s military and political interventions in surrounding states like Syria, Yemen, and Iran.
Rabbani describes how the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a joint US-Israel project, is weaponizing aid in order to gain control over the distribution of supplies. The GHF’s former leader, Jake Wood, was an exorbitantly paid US mercenary and well known Christian Zionist, resigned last month saying the organization couldn’t meet humanitarian standards.
Meanwhile, this week Israel abducted European aid workers and activists on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. Rabbani says that European leaders have been tepid in their response, and the media is too focused on criticizing the courageous activities instead of focusing on the issue of Israel’s actions. He adds that Israel’s international immunity is growing, and is a privilege granted by Israel’s international sponsors and allies who are providing Israel with diplomatic cover. 

Mouin Rabbani is an expert on Palestinian affairs, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the contemporary Middle East. He’s currently a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies. Rabbani is co-editor of the e-magazine Jadaliyya and a Contributing Editor to the Middle East Report. He’s written widely and provided expert analysis to a variety of international and US national press, including Al-Jazeera, The Nation, and Democracy Now!.
Featured image of humanitarian cargo being unloaded in Gaza via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).
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