Podcast / American Prestige / Jul 1, 2025

The Continued Assault on Gaza and the West Bank

On this episode of American Prestige, we speak to Dalia Hatuqa about Israel’s never-ending violence against Palestinians.

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The Continued Assault on Gaza and the West Bank | American Prestige
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Derek welcomes back to the showDalia Hatuqa, a journalist specializing in Israeli/Palestinian affairs and regional Middle East issues, to talk about the situation in Gaza and the West Bank. They recap what has been happening to Palestinians in Gaza while the world was distracted by Israel’s war with Iran, discuss the lost generations of Gazan children, the massacres at “aid distribution centers,” increased home demolitions and settler violence in the West Bank, the current relationships of the Palestinian Authority and Jordanian government with Israel, the regional dynamics after the recent war with Iran, and what Netanyahu’s next move might be.

Read Dalia’s piece from March in The Guardian, “For Palestinians, this was never a ceasefire.”

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Members of a diplomatic delegation from the European Union inspect the damage at Kafr Malik village in the occupied West Bank on June 30, 2025, following an attack by Israeli settlers on June 25 that killed at least three Palestinians.

Members of a diplomatic delegation from the European Union inspect the damage at Kafr Malik village in the occupied West Bank on June 30, 2025, following an attack by Israeli settlers on June 25 that killed at least three Palestinians.

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Derek welcomes back to the show Dalia Hatuqa, a journalist specializing in Israeli/Palestinian affairs and regional Middle East issues, to talk about the situation in Gaza and the West Bank. They recap what has been happening to Palestinians in Gaza while the world was distracted by Israel’s war with Iran, discuss the lost generations of Gazan children, the massacres at “aid distribution centers,” increased home demolitions and settler violence in the West Bank, the current relationships of the Palestinian Authority and Jordanian government with Israel, the regional dynamics after the recent war with Iran, and what Netanyahu’s next move might be.

Read Dalia’s piece from March in The Guardian“For Palestinians, this was never a ceasefire.”

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The Political Economy of Porn w/ Molly Lambert | American Prestige
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Danny and Derek welcome to the show Molly Lambert, creator of the JENNAWORLD podcast, to talk about the rise of the modern porn industry and its roots in L.A.’s San Fernando Valley. They discuss the medium’s origins in underground stag films and the porno chic era; the shift to home video and the corporate studio model; breakout stars like Ginger Lynn Allen and Jenna Jameson; porn as an outsider industry mirroring Hollywood; gender, labor, and power in late-20th-century media; the relationship between pornography and evolving feminist politics; porn’s role in the VHS–Betamax war; and how the internet, OnlyFans, and content platforms have affected a formerly professionalized industry.

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Derek Davison

Derek Davison is a writer and analyst specializing in international affairs and US foreign policy. He is the publisher of the Foreign Exchanges newsletter, cohost of the American Prestige podcast, and former editor of LobeLog.

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