Chris Hedges talks to Farah El-Sharif
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Chris Hedges has some of the most interesting, and unique, interviews you can find. I’d never heard of Farah before but she was a great interview.
Arab Regimes and the Betrayal of Palestine (w/ Farah El-Sharif) | The Chris Hedges Report by The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel (YouTube)
The first 15 minutes were an absolute tour-de-force of history and erudition by Farah El-Sharif. She is extremely well-spoken and brilliant, works at Stanford, and “served as Stanford’s Abbasi Program’s Associate Director from 2021-2023”.
Check out the people in this video:
People mentioned in this video − including Muhammad
Farah was being interviewed, OK. Muhammad has no picture 😹. And I don’t think Chris would have chosen Jared Kushner to be highlighted as having been mentioned in his video. It’s true that he is mentioned, but I think that this is just how automation can give people the wrong impression from content.
I learned that plans for the global war on terror/Islam (GWOT) were hatched in 1979 or, at the latest, in 1982, by Netanyahu.
At 14:30, Farah says,
“We should not forget that this campaign that we are seeing now, is exactly out of Netanyahu’s kind of wet dream for the Middle East: to take all of it, essentially. In 1996—you know better than me, Chris, about the clean-break policy that was designed to take out seven countries in five years, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, and then swallow the region whole. And for anybody to look at one regime-change and to say that that’s not part and parcel of this campaign…even the war on terror was cooked up in Tel Aviv in 1982, or even before in 1979, through the Jonathan Institute (Wiki Spooks) that Netanyahu himself founded.
“He said, ‘we’re done with the red threat. Now is the green threat, that of Islamic Terror.‘ And so, a lot of Muslims even internalize this war-on-terror rhetoric, and they themselves start being apologetic and say, ‘oh Islam is peaceful. Islam is this. Islam is compatible with democracy. Islam is compatible with civility.’ And I see that as a sign of decimated consciousness, not just double-consciousness. They don’t know their own faith. They don’t know their own history. And so, they start being apologetic about it and that is a position of weakness.”