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Aug 2024
36m 27s

Miko Peled: Inside Israel’s ‘Insane Soci...

RANIA KHALEK
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To discuss Israel’s intensifying atrocities in Gaza, including its weaponization of rape, Rania Khalek was joined by Miko Peled, the son of an Israeli general and the head of the newly established Palestine House of Freedom in Washington, D.C. Peled is the author of “The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine.”


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