Losing Game in Rafah: Biden and Israel March Towards Self-Destruction

On The Freedom Side LIVE, Thursday, 5/16 at 3pm ET/12pm PT, Eugene and Rania are joined by special guests:
Layan Sima Fuleihan- Seven months into the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza that has killed over 40,000 Palestinians, the Biden administration is planning to send $1 billion in weapons to Israel. The move comes days after Biden halted some bomb shipments to Israel and pretended to the media that this meant the administration would turn against Israel if it invaded Rafah. Layan Sima Fuleihan, Education Director at The People’s Forum and editor at 1804 Books, sheds light on the Biden administration’s rhetorical tricks as political pressure mounts from the mass movements for Palestine.
Walter Smolarek- As the 2024 Presidential election heats up, a recent New York Times poll revealed that a majority of US voters are dissatisfied with the political and economic system in the country or want it torn down completely. As dissatisfaction mounts, Biden faces dwindling support in crucial swing states, largely due to his unconditional backing of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Walter Smolarek, Editor of Liberation News, joins Rania and Eugene to delve into the root causes of this discontent and the confines of the two-party system, which leaves voters to choose between two genocidaires who neglect the interests of their constituents.
Mazda Majidi- Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday as the US continues to prop up the stalling Ukraine war that has killed tens of thousands. Despite the US funneling close to $175 billion into the proxy war, Ukraine is facing significant military setbacks, a renewed offensive from Russia, as well as declining public support from the US. How long will the US perpetuate this proxy war? Mazda Majidi, an organizer with the ANSWER Coalition, discusses the prospects for peace as the conflict grinds on.
Anny Viloria Winnett- Over 48,000 academic workers and members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 4811 are voting to authorize a strike in response to the University of California at Los Angeles’s (UCLA) brutal crackdown on student encampments for Palestine. On May 3, the union local filed Unfair Labor Practices charges against the University of California (UC) system, after several UC campuses sent police officers to brutalize student protesters, many of which are graduate student workers represented by UAW. Anny Viloria Winnett, a Graduate student worker and ASE Unit Chair of UAW 4811 at UCLA, discusses how the vote represents a major turning point in the labor movement for Palestine.

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