On this episode of the Start Making Sense podcast, a conversation about Israel, Hamas, and the Palestinians.
An Israeli soldier walks past a destroyed house in Kibbutz Be’eri, near the border with Gaza, on October 11, 2023.(Menahem Kahana / Getty)
EDITOR’S NOTE:
After we recorded this interview, Israel presented evidence that the center of the explosion in the hospital compound in Gaza City did not have a bomb crater, which Israel says demonstrates that the explosion was caused by an errant rocket fired by Palestinian Islamic Jihad rather by than an Israeli airstrike. The US has backed Israel's position, but independent investigations are ongoing.
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Israel and Gaza, Hamas and the Palestinians, war crimes and mideast history: On this episode of the Start Making Sense podcast, we have comment and analysis from Amy Wilentz, Nation contributor and former Jerusalem correspondent of The New Yorker.
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Israel and Gaza, Hamas and the Palestinians, war crimes, and Middle East history: On this episode of the Start Making Sense podcast, we have commentary and analysis from Amy Wilentz, Nation contributor and former Jerusalem correspondent of The New Yorker.
Here's where to find podcasts from The Nation. Political talk without the boring parts, featuring the writers, activists and artists who shape the news, from a progressive perspective.
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Jon WienerTwitterJon Wiener is a contributing editor of The Nation and co-author (with Mike Davis) of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties.