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Feb 2025
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The Tufan of Return: Ceasefire & the Dis...

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About this episode

This is a light edit of a recent livestream video we hosted with Abdaljawad Omar on our YouTube channel. The conversation was so timely and incisive that we wanted to ensure there was also a version on our audio podcast feed. 

In this discussion we cover the Tufan of Return, talk about the ceasefire, the prisoner exchanges, the decimation of Gaza’s infrastructure, and the concept of Nakba within Palestine, getting into the issues that Abdaljawad has with the divergent meanings of the word, which get conflated in many analyses of 1948 and into the present.

There are 16 episodes we’ve hosted with Abdaljawad Omar on our YT channel, about different topics from the Making of the Palestinian Resistance, the Palestinian Resistance and the Western Left, to Counterinsurgency in the West Bank and analyses during different phases of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, while we have converted 5 of them to audio now, that’s eleven episodes you may have missed if you are only subscribed to our audio podcast feed. So if you are not subscribed to our YouTube channel, hit the link in the show description and subscribe now, we’re only about 650 subscribers away from hitting 10,000.

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