Doctor From Gaza Frontlines Exposes Israeli Torture Programs and Missile Attacks on Hospitals
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Back in April of 1994, some of the worst atrocities of the modern era broke out in the landlocked Central African country of Rwanda. To make a very complicated story short, the dominant tribe in Rwanda, the Hutu tribe, which controlled the government and had the majority of the population, for a bunch of different reasons, rose up under the direction of their leaders and attempted to exterminate the minority tribe in the nation called the Tutsis. And for 100 days, they did their best. They killed hundreds of thousands of them, more than half a million of them, many with machetes or burned alive or buried alive. And they raped even more than that. And not just raped, but literally corralled AIDS patients in AIDS hospitals and sent them out to rape Tutsi women and to affect them with HIV, which they did.
It was horrifying, and as the details of what happened during what is now referred to as the Rwandan genocide filtered out to the rest of the world, people were stunned and nauseated by it and really bewildered that something like this could happen not that long after the most famous genocide in history in the 1940s in Europe, to which we'd all said, well, that could never happen again. Well, it did. A version of it did happen in Rwanda in 1994. But what was even more distressing and in some ways shocking was that the world knew it was happening as it happened and did nothing to stop it and in most cases said nothing about it, even when it was in progress. From the very beginning, four days after the genocide of Rwanda started, a Swiss journalist in Kilgali, the capital, published a piece in a French newspaper saying, I have interviewed eight officials who
And there's a genocide going on in Rwanda. This ran in a Western paper and then was picked up in other Western papers. But no one did anything. So the Red Cross knew it was happening. The UN knew it was happening. There were UN troops in Rwanda. The French government knew it was happening. There were French troops there. The nation of Israel knew it was happening. Israel had been a supporter of the Hutu government for decades. In fact, it seems pretty obvious that some of the bullets and grenades used to murder Tutsis were sold to the Hutu government by the Israelis. And in fact, there's some evidence apparently that the Israeli government sold weapons to the Hutu government during the genocide, which were used to murder Tutsis.
What did Dr. Maynard witness during his time in Gaza?
We say apparently because the documents surrounding this have been classified. They're under seal per orders of an Israeli court. On the grounds that were they to become public, it would be bad for Israel's image globally. So the Israelis knew and the Clinton administration famously knew it was happening, but for domestic political reasons, didn't act to stop it. So the lesson is something horrible, in fact, genocide can happen. The world can know what's happening and allow it to happen.
How have Israeli attacks affected healthcare workers and hospitals in Gaza?
That's the lesson. And it's a lesson that a young Harvard law student called Samantha Power thought about a lot as she was getting her degree in Cambridge. How can a genocide take place within living memory of the Second World War and the civilized world does nothing about it? Well, in 2002, she published a book on that exact question. The book was called A Problem from Hell. It won the Pulitzer Prize and all kinds of other prizes. And Samantha Power's case was pretty simple. The world cannot allow genocide to happen again. If people find out this is happening, they have to act. That's the mark of civilization. Do you stop mass murder of civilians on ethnic grounds?
What are the reported casualties in Gaza since the conflict escalated?
Genocide. And if you don't, then you're not civilized. The United States, she wrote, has a moral obligation to intervene with force against if it determines that a genocide is underway? What's the point of having the world's largest military if you can't at least try to prevent a genocide? Well, as noted, she was lauded for this. The book changed her life. She became one of the most famous people in the world. And in a fairly short period of time, a close advisor to then candidate Barack Obama.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:35
2
What did Dr. Maynard witness during his time in Gaza?
2:35–3:06
3
How have Israeli attacks affected healthcare workers and hospitals in Gaza?
3:06–3:48
4
What are the reported casualties in Gaza since the conflict escalated?
3:48–4:35
5
How did the events of October 7th change the situation in Gaza?
4:35–8:30
6
Are Israelis aware of the situation in Gaza?
8:30–8:50
7
What actions are UK politicians considering regarding Gaza?
8:50–10:50
8
What is the role of international aid in Gaza's healthcare crisis?
10:50–1:56:24
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