The Majority Report with Sam Seder - 3654 - Israel Out of Control; ICE Protests Key in NJ Primary w/ Zachary Foster, Dr. Adam Hamawy

Episode Date: May 28, 2026

It's an Emmajority Report Thursday on the Majority Report On today's program: Trump holds a cabinet meeting where he declares that he doesn't care about the midterms and that he will blow up ally Oman if they don't behave. Meanwhile grocery prices are on the rise again thanks to this unnecessary war of choice on Iran. Zachary Foster, historian of Palestine and editor-in-chief of the Palestine Nexus newsletter, joins the program to discuss the recent developments in Israel's genocide on Palestinians. Candidate for NJ-12 Congressional District, Dr. Adam Hamawy joins the program to discuss his campaign ahead of the primary on June 2.  In the Fun Half: Brandon Sutton and Matt Binder join the show. Stephen A. Smith has Dave Rubin on his podcast and Rubin seizes the opportunity to highlight the "silver lining" in American chattel slavery and the Holocaust. Benny Smith live from glassiest of glass houses implies that Texas candidate for Senate, James Talarico, might be in the closet. Zohran Mamdani responds to Jeff Bezos claiming that his taxes could be doubled and it still wouldn't help "that teacher in Queens". Stephen Miller has been let out his crypt to make media appearances again and he picks up right where he left off with his Josef Goebbels' style lying. All that and more. To connect and organize with your local ICE rapid response team visit ICERRT.com The Congress switchboard number is [phone]. You can use this number to connect with either the U.S. Senate or the House of Representatives. Follow us on TikTok here: https://www.tiktok.com/@majorityreportfm Check us out on Twitch here: https://www.twitch.tv/themajorityreport Find our Rumble stream here: https://rumble.com/user/majorityreport Check out our alt YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/majorityreportlive Gift a Majority Report subscription here: https://fans.fm/majority/gift Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here: https://am-quickie.ghost.io/ Join the Majority Report Discord! https://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Get the free Majority Report App!: https://majority.fm/app Go to https://JustCoffee.coop and use coupon code majority to get 10% off your purchase Check out today's sponsors: NUTRAFOL: Get $10 off your first month's subscription + free shipping at Nutrafol.com when you use promo code TMR10 BLUELAND: That's 15% off your first order at Blueland.com/MAJORITY.  SMALLS:  60% off your first order, plus free shipping and free treats for life, when you head to Smalls.com/MAJORITY SUNSET LAKE CBD: Use coupon code "Left Is Best" (all one word) for 20% off of your entire order at SunsetLakeCBD.com Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattLech On Instagram: @MrBryanVokey Check out Matt's show, Left Reckoning, on YouTube, and subscribe on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/leftreckoning Check out Matt Binder's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/mattbinder Subscribe to Brandon's show The Discourse on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse Check out Ava Raiza's music here! https://avaraiza.bandcamp.

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It is Thursday, May 28th, 2026. My name is Emma Vigeland in for Sam Cedar, and this is the five-time award-winning majority report. We are broadcasting live steps from the industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal in the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA. On the program today, Zachary Foster will be back with us of the Palestine Nexus newsletter to talk about the latest in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, East Jerusalem, and more. And later in the show, Dr. Adam Hamawi, candidate in New Jersey's 12th congressional district

will be with us to talk about the primary, which is next Tuesday, June 2nd. Also on the program, food prices are set to rise for the second straight month after nearly four years of decline driven by the Iran War and climate change driven extreme weather. Trump says he doesn't care about the midterms, though. Again, only the war. He also threatened to bomb Oman, a U.S. ally yesterday. U.S. strikes resume in the Persian Gulf. Israel kills at least 14 people in Lebanon and at least 16 people in Gaza. Meanwhile, U.S. weapons manufacturers say they'll need at least three years to replenish the very pricey weapons systems that Iran took out with cheap drones.

Trump refunds $20 billion to companies with more to come after. after the Supreme Court declared his tariffs illegal, you think we're going to see that money? You think all these companies are going to send us checks for the tariffs we pay? Trump's DOJ reportedly launches a criminal investigation into his victim, E. Jean Carroll, who he was found liable for sexually assaulting in civil court. After pardoning a major Republican donor for a legal activity,

in his last term, Trump awards him an over $100 million contract from the DOJ. The Pentagon says it's preparing itself for a Cuba invasion as the Cuban president roundly denies

that they are an imminent threat to the U.S. because, yeah, no one's buying this. And lastly, Trump refiles his lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal. over his Epstein ties that they reported on. All this and more on today's Majority Report. Welcome to the show, everybody.

It's an Emmajority Report Thursday. Welcome, welcome. We've got a great show for you. Sam will be out tomorrow. He's got other business to attend to. The business of show, not going to reveal what it is, but, you know, Sam,

Sam's a It's also Thursday Sam's a Thespian No tomorrow he won't be in tomorrow Yes yes Please don't make tomorrow Thursday Yeah Tomorrow is Friday

Promise you guys Tomorrow is Friday You're nearly at the end Let's touch on this here As I mentioned Food prices are about to rise For the second straight month After nearly four years

Of declines we know what rose prices. The once in a lifetime, hopefully, COVID pandemic, caused shutdowns across the globe. It resulted in supply chain bottlenecks. There were workers who were unable to work and process these goods. There was a backlog. There were shortages.

And prices went up dramatically. Inflation really hit globally. the U.S. was a little bit more insulated from it, but still, the economic pain was immensely significant. And as of last month, the wage gains that people were experiencing have now been outpaced by the inflation. That's been once again turbocharged by Trump, but this time this isn't COVID. These are his actions, particularly as it relates to the war. in Iran. So you have these factors here that are in play in terms of why food prices are going to be going up. You've got the Iran war, but you've also got extreme weather due to the climate change,

which Trump is turbocharging, and high cost for farmers, which are the results of his tariffs and his economic policies. So you can draw a line right back to Trump's decisions. And I hope the Democratic opposition party does so, again, not holding our breath on that front, but some good Democrats should be doing that. Let's read this part of this really good Bloomberg piece on where we're at with food prices. The U.S. saw its warmest ever start to the year with temperatures running about six degrees Fahrenheit above average through the end of April, according to the National Centers for Environmental Information. The early heat prompted some domestic crops to begin blossoming weeks ahead of schedule instead of

remaining dormant throughout the winter, leaving them exposed to subsequent frost, according to Brad Rippey, a USDA meteorologist. Beef prices, among the most politically sensitive in the U.S., rose to a record in April, thanks to the smallest cattle herd in 75 years, squeezed by drought and high production costs. And you can see this chart, if we can scroll down slightly. Look at how high U.S. beef prices are. As I said, 75-year high. And the higher costs on ranchers and farmers are the result of the tariffs. But in this instance, with beef specifically, this drought has been a major problem, and we're

still going to be experiencing El Nino soon, which is going to make the climate change-related extreme weather even worse. tomato prices meanwhile searched 33% over the last two months after two winter storms brought widespread damage during the peak of the growing season in Florida while shipments from Mexico were declining following the Trump administration's in position of duties on imports if we could scroll down slightly heat and drought in the western and central U.S. spell more pressures to come California accounts for almost half of annual U.S. vegetable and three quarters of fruit. and nut cash receipts, and diminished snowpack in the Sierra Nevada this year to just 23% of typical levels as of mid-April has raised concerns about irrigation supplies. Drought has also spread across the nation's breadbasket, where staple wheat crops that are typically used to make all-purpose flour or pasta have withered for lack of rain.

As of May 19th, 70% of U.S. winter wheat production was in areas of drought, along with 25% of corn production according to the National Draft Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. And forecasters now say an El Nino weather pattern is likely to emerge by August with rising odds of an unusual powerful event, unusually powerful event, I should say, that will persist into 2027 and push global average temperatures higher. So this is the result of climate change. And I am begging Democrats to make the very easy case. right now that we need to remove our dependency on fossil fuels and you can make an economic argument, which is a lot more salient than the tree-hugging one that's going to actually have political

motivation behind it really easily by connecting it to imperialism, the war in Iran that is causing this, and to climate change, and those two things connect. our wars in the Middle East, our involvement in the Middle East is due to our over-commitment to oil and how the United States has maintained itself as a global hegemon by securing energy passages via military force and the petro dollar being dominant. We have to move ourselves off of fossil fuels

if you don't want to be paying this amount of money at the gas pump. And if you want your food prices, to be in a good place, also affected by the Iran War, because climate change is making these issues so much worse for you. And the Iran War is directly affecting food as well, because fertilizer prices are up 20% since the war began. One third of fertilizer passes through the Strait of Hormuz. Plus, in addition, the cost of everything is going up

because fuel itself is going up. to transport anything. And our reserves are less than two months away, it appears, from being depleted. And then we're in five alarm fire territory. But don't worry. Because Trump's not worried. Trump's not worried about how this is going to impact anybody, it seems like.

When he talks about how America's been getting richer, he's almost exclusively talking about oil executives or AI executives. He doesn't even really, I think, have the fortitude at this point in his life to, like, from a messaging standpoint, bring it back to the American people. He's just like, yeah, I don't care. I don't care if prices go up, essentially, because this is so important. Just a reminder, he ran on, we knew he was lying, but what he ran on to get, the voters that he wouldn't, he didn't previously, was no new wars and I'm going to make prices go down.

And now he's doing wars and saying, I don't care if prices go up because of the wars that I'm doing. So here he is saying, hey, Iran, if they're trying to hurt us in the midterms, I don't care. He has no value. Their whole economic system is broken down. They thought they were going to outweigh me. We'll outweigh him. He's got the midterms. I don't care about the midterms.

Look what happened last night. That was the prelude to the midterms. People understand it. They know that very simple. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. I'm doing that for the world. I'm not doing it just for us. Oh, wow.

So magnanimous. He's doing it for the world. Where's that Nobel Peace Prize? he wants to dust it off because he didn't care about that at all. It wasn't for him. It is very revealing. He does this often. Remember when he kind of accidentally said that there were only 1.7 million people left in Gaza?

He said that a while ago. And I don't know if that was a bad number, but it would also track with what we know about the fact that really hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza are unaccounted for and presumed dead. It would be interesting to know if that's what he knew. But he often does this. says things that you're not supposed to say publicly because he doesn't have the discipline. Like, he's revealing that he knows that Iran knows that their position strengthens as long as

they continue to wait this out and they can punish the United States with economic pain. And they want to disempower Trump and the Republicans in the midterms, which they have every right to try to hurt Trump politically as he's bombing the hell out of their country. It's just crazy how they are portrayed as the savages committed to violence when they're using just like actual political and geographic leverage. Who needs a nuke? When even when even two nuclear powers bomb them, they're able to have resilience and use different kinds of pressure points to harm the administration. The problem is that just Trump at least publicly wants to pretend like, He doesn't care about the midterms.

I don't think he really does. But, um, I was already elected. He was already elected. And he's a lame duck to this point. Like, what is on his legislative agenda? I think he'd prefer it. But he's more interested in personal glory, um, in the way that he defines it. And, um, yeah, there, there was, there was something else that he said there that, uh, perhaps I wanted to touch on.

Um, but here's this other part of the press conference that he mentioned, in which he mentions, Oman. And some people are wondering if Trump got Oman confused with another country. I don't think he did. This is what he said here about Oman, which is a longstanding U.S. ally. Now, the strait's going to be open to everybody. It's international orders. Nobody's going to control it. We're going to watch over it. We'll watch over it. But nobody's going to control it. That's part of the negotiation that we have. They would like to control it. Nobody's going to control. It's international waters. And Oman will behave just like everybody else

or we'll have to blow them up. They understand that. They'll be fine. They'll be fine after we blow them up. Hey, so Oman is an ally. They have not yet joined the Abraham Accords, but Trump is also trying to incorporate the negotiations surrounding the Abraham Accords as well into the potential

for a peace deal, that is, I don't know, like, he's already bit off more than he can chew. He's trying to bite into a live cow or something like that right now. That's not going to happen. You think you can bully these nations into the Abraham Accords after not just failing to protect the Gulf countries from Iran's retaliation because we were so much more interested in investing in Israel despite the security guarantees that we gave to some of the G, uh, the Gulf countries. Now you're threatening to bomb one of them because, I don't know, they're not sufficiently acquiescing to your demands, even though you're standing with the

Gulf countries has been rapidly deteriorating over the past few months since the war began. And I will say, because Oman has previously served as a mediator in U.S. Iran talks, it very much is once again the Israelification of our military tactics or at least our posture. Remember in last year when Israel bombed Qatar, which is a mediator country and they had to like really apologize for that because it was a major issue. Saying this about Amman is is absolutely insane. The Strait of Hormuz is not international waters. That's exactly. We just had an I.M who wrote that in saying It's within the borders of Oman and Iran, which is, I mean, UAE also, I believe, if I'm going to, I'm not great at thinking about maps off the top of my head. But yeah, it's, Iran, Trump is trying to look tough through a series of true social posts and bombing threats.

and this that is what I want to say. Dude, you're talking about the primary when he said, look what happened last night. It's a prelude. Yeah, yeah. You see, this is where it is. He does not care about the Republicans' chances. He cares about getting his guys in.

My guy won. My guy Ken Pax and he won. Total. And you're right. You have effectively made the entire Republican base into a cult that does whatever you want, regardless of what they purportedly cared about.

Thomas Massey was all over the Epstein files. I don't care. Trump voters just care if you endorse the guy. You do have a cult behind you and he enjoys the thrill of that. But that's not the general, buddy. That's not the general election. And you got to bank on a lot of turnout

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Blu land.com slash majority. Link down below in the video and episode descriptions and at majority.comfm. Quick break and when we come back, we'll be joined by Zachary Foster. We are back and we are joined once again by friend of, the show, Zachary Foster, historian of Palestine and editor-in-chief of the Palestine Nexas newsletter, which is really important because of how much material the Israeli government is attempting to destroy to pretend Palestine never existed. Your work, make sure that that is all archived. Zach, thanks so much for coming on the show today.

Emma, thanks so much for having me. Good to see you again, even though, of course, what we're about to be talking about is yet again, Israel is out of control. I mean, of course we know that the genocide is ongoing and never stopped, but it appears like as these negotiations with Iran continue as the weeks go on. Israel has decided to escalate in a variety of different ways, but particularly in Lebanon and Gaza, their bombing campaigns. Let's start with Lebanon, because there's also the ground invasion that we need to talk about. Israel just bombed Beirut some hours ago, the capital.

And they have continuously now pushed past the yellow line in Lebanon, meaning they are attempting to make their ground invasion. The ground invasion is expanding. What are you hearing about Lebanon right now? Well, let's state the obvious. there is ostensibly a ceasefire in Lebanon right now as we speak. There is supposed to be a ceasefire. Of course, Israel has not ceased fire over the past week or two

as the negotiations between the U.S. and Iran have gained steam and as a memorandum of understanding seems to be on the horizon, Israel has decided to ramp up its attacks in Lebanon. And the reason is very obvious. has no desire for a U.S.-Iranian deal. And Israel realizes that the easiest way to sabotage that deal is to carpet bomb Lebanon. And that's exactly what they've been doing. Over the past 24's 48, 72 hours, Israel has been pushing its ground forces further north.

So the belief is that perhaps once this memorandum of understanding gets agreed to in however many days or weeks, Israel, freedom of action in Lebanon will be more limited, will be more restricted. And therefore, it is doing everything it can right now to push forward, to push this yellow line further north. They just issued a call, was it yesterday for or two days ago? They issued a forcible displacement order to everyone in Lebanon living below, what is it, the Zaharan River. Yes.

And that's something what, oh, it's before. even this is higher than that. Correct. So if you look at the, if we have a map of Lebanon, we can pull up, you'll see the Likani River, which is maybe covering about,

you know, the Lottani River crosses Lebanon east-west and then kind of veers up north. But if you go another 10, 20, 30 kilometers north of that, you have another river, the Zaharani River. They've issued an expulsion order. That's 40% of the country of Lebanon

is now off limits to Lebanese. I mean, the Nazis had a word for this. It was called Leibenzgam. Israel is quite literally trying to push basically half of the Lebanese population out of their homes so that they can literally take over half of Lebanon. That's what we're at right now. They've attacked Beirut. They're attacking the Bukhaw.

Their carpet bombing villages across South Lebanon, they attacked a dam that if this dam were to break, you'd have tens of thousands of Lebanese that would, their homes would be flooded. They would be at a catastrophic risk of death. That's what Israel's doing right now, trying to wipe out. of the country of Lebanon. We're pulling up that map right now, right? Matt, I think he's looking for one that can give us a little bit of a visual here. But the Latani River was typically the area where Israel would be battling with Hezbollah and also with and kind of keeping their expansionist aims within that area. at least for the time being.

But moving beyond that as a dramatic escalation, they've bombed Beirut over the past few months as well. That was also considered a dramatic escalation. But this is essentially them saying that we are effectively going to be annexing 40% of the country of Lebanon. And what can you do about it? They've issued an evacuation order for the city of Tyre. this soar this is i believe the fifth largest city in lebanon we're talking about 120 000 people they issued obviously in addition to the evacuation orders they had already issued uh to lebanese to

who were south of the latani river now they issued another evacuation order so this would include everyone north of the latani but south of the is it the zaharani river i apologize if i'm no you're right um we have this map now here this is the latani that we can see here um and then above the that is this other river that you're referring to. Right. It looks like. Yeah. So we're working on it.

But, uh, yeah. And meanwhile, the Lebanese government is engaged in negotiations with Israel in Washington, I believe. And, and separate from Hezbollah, we should also be clear there, right? I mean, can you assess that a little bit for our audience and give people a breakdown as to why? I mean, it was framed as historic that the government of Lebanon was. coming and meeting with Israel face to face in the United States. But the government of Lebanon is not the relevant actor here.

It's Hezbollah. Usually when there are two parties negotiating over a ceasefire deal, it's the parties that are actually fighting each other that are the ones negotiating together. Now, in the case of Israel and Lebanon, that's not the case, right? The Lebanese government barely controls much of Lebanon. The army has been systematically over the course of many decades stripped of any ability to have any real fighting capability at all. This has been an agreement between the U.S. and Israel for a long time that Lebanon, that Israel needs to have military dominance over all of its neighbors, including Lebanon. And so the Lebanese government can't offend Lebanon.

In fact, you had families that were displaced in Lebanon. I saw a photo, this video. It's truly remarkable. So Israel has expelled more than a million Lebanese people from their homes. They're trying to find shelter wherever they can, literally setting up tents on the sides of the roads in front of factory, wherever they can, wherever they can in front of schools. The Lebanese army is going around and pushing those Lebanese out. They're setting up tents in the wrong places. The Lebanese government is like partnering with Israel on displacing half of the Lebanese.

the country of Lebanon. It's quite remarkable. And it makes sense as to why they want to circumvent Hezbollah there, but also makes total sense as well as to why Iran is attempting, and they have the leverage to do so, to maintain their support for Hezbollah and want Lebanon to be at the center of any agreement that comes into being, the non-aggression agreement that you're talking about, there, which is important because if it's just a ceasefire that's discussed between the United States and Iran, that does not include Israel and it does not include Hezbollah. And Iran wants to make sure that its place regionally is still maintained in terms of its

leverage against Israeli expansion in the region and takeover of the region. And support for Hezbollah is a big part of that. Because Israel and the United States have pursued such an aggressive policy towards Iran over the decades, what Iran has decided, what it decided long ago, was that it needed to establish forward positions, i.e. Hezbollah, i.e. Ansalaa, in Yemen, i.e. the Iraqi militias, i.e. the Assad government that was taken down last year. So that was the Iranian positioning. It was we're going to support our allies, our co-religionists, around the region, and that will act as a deterrent. So that instead of attacking us, it's our allies that face the brunt of the blowback.

So, of course, Iran feels this obligation to come to defend its co-religionists in Lebanon, especially because of how, I would say especially because of how significant a fighting force they have become over the past few weeks and months. If you look at the videos that Hezbollah is releasing, these FPV drones that cannot be jammed by Israeli military at all, they are one after the other. I mean, I just saw this compilation of videos put out by an military analyst that compiles all these drone attacks. on Israeli military targets, and the Israelis are totally defenseless. They have no response to it. You have these drones that are, like I said, Israeli military cannot jam them. And they're these fiber optic drones.

And there are a couple hundred dollars to make. So as well, has thousands of them. And one after the other, they can fire them directly onto and into Israeli military outposts that have been established on Lebanese territory. And so it's a complete nightmare for the Israelis. you see these, and they have video cameras on them. You can see them as they're attacking these Israeli positions. These are terrifying videos.

Israelis running for Israeli soldiers illegally occupying and invading Lebanon, running for their lives. And this is obviously enraged Israeli authorities. And that's why you're seeing the most genocidal rhetoric that we've seen perhaps in many months coming from Israeli officials, which is saying quite a bit. I mean, these people do not mince their words. And now you have Betzel-L Smotrich and I-Tamar,

Benvir, both of them spewing out a really Nazi language. We will take down 10 buildings in Beirut for every single drone that you use to attack us. That's the language coming out of Israeli finance minister, Betzel-L Smotric, straight-up Nazi language. I mean, in Romania in 1941, that's exact. That was Nazi policy. It was for every one Nazi soldier killed, we're going to kill 50 or 100 Jews. It's just straight-up Nazism. Yeah.

And the escalatory rhetoric is also echoed by Trump himself and using bombing campaigns to force people into submission and supposedly weaken their negotiating position as it relates to, you know, Iran in and of itself. But that is not, it's not born fruit. And the desperation of the Israeli government that you're speaking about there doesn't mean that we should underestimate. their ability to execute it because of the amount of impunity that they've been given by the U.S. And the fact that I'm not sure where these negotiations with Iran go because Trump is continuous until we get some sort of agreement, it seems like Israel is going to try to do whatever they can in Lebanon and Gaza before that happens, one, to sabotage it, but two, because they are putting their foot on the gas. And I want to turn to Gaza now because Netanyahu,

who just said publicly and was bragging that we have, he has now taken over more than 50% of the Gaza Strip, over six, and he now says 60% of the Gaza Strip. This is a part of the ethnic cleansing, and we know about the yellow line in Gaza, but they've expanded beyond it, and they're pushing the remaining Palestinians into smaller and smaller territories.

And you see that clip of Netanyahu saying that to the audience, and they start chanting 100. 100. Reflect a little bit on where Gaza is right now. And of course, they've been bombing. They killed over a dozen people last night. Just continuously happens.

But in terms of the land takeover, what's your view on that? It's always strange. Israelis think Hebrew is some kind of secret language that when Netanyahu says, we're going to take over 70% of the Gaza Strip in Hebrew, that we don't have any, way of understanding that here in the United States. Let's let's let's let's go back to October 9th,

October 10th, 2025, because that was when this this ceasefire deal was first reach. And it was supposed to be a three-phase deal. We're still in phase one. Israel has not even lived up to any, any of the things it agreed to do as part of the ceasefire deal. So that includes releasing Palestinian hostages. They did not release the number that said they would. They deported some of them to Egypt and Jordan rather than releasing them to their families and Gaza and the West Bank, they obviously never allowed in the humanitarian aid and the temporary shelters and the tents and the food and the water and the medicine that they said they would let in. I think on average over the past six months, so it's been more than six months since this

quote unquote ceasefire deal was reached, perhaps 100 to 200 trucks are entering Gaza every day. So that's about one-six to one-third of Gaza's medicine, food, and water needs and shelter needs. It's denied tents because the tents use metal poles. And so the metal poles could be repurposed to make rockets. And that's what Israel does. It provides excuse after excuse of why it's denying Gaza aid. Of course, Israel has killed almost a thousand Palestinians in Gaza over the past six-plus months, the vast majority of whom are civilians, these are children.

who cross a line they didn't know existed and an Israeli soldier snipes them with a shot to the head or one of these Israeli drones takes them out or a tank shell kills them? I mean, that's what Israel is doing on a daily bait. There has not been a single day since October 10th, 2025, that Israel has not violated the ceasefire deal. And as you said, over the past couple of days, we've seen Israel ramp up its attacks, killing 12 people just last night. I mean, I don't know if you saw these images. I mean, we're sort of kind of being brought back to the most violent and the most gruesome period of the genocide where every day you see another image of another Palestinian child beheaded, just completely dismembered.

And those are the images coming out of Gaza right now. Right. And it's not a coincidence that they are escalating during Eid as well. This is a long-standing tactic by the Israeli government on Muslim holidays. It's also worth mentioning that it's not just that Israel is violating all the things it agreed to do. But what is it doing in the 60, perhaps now 70% of the Gaza Strip that Israel controls? Let's remember, there are still multiple Palestinian militias. I would call them terrorist organizations.

These organizations are run by criminals, rapists, thieves, drug dealers, murderers. These are the only people willing to collaborate with the Israeli military. And there's two or three of these gangs, the Daghnush gang, Abu Shabag's game, although Abu Shabagab was killed, his gang still survived. So you have three or four of these militias in the Israeli-controlled territory of the Gaza Strip. And there was a video that just surfaced of one of these gangs that Israel had given this gang, one of these very sophisticated Israeli drones. Quite a remarkable video. This was just published by DropSight earlier today. Now, let me ask yourself, why would Israel be giving sophisticated,

armed, deadly drones to Palestinian militias on the eastern side of the Gaza Strip? They're planting the seeds of a civil war. That's what they've been trying to do in Gaza for quite literally two years. There are reports that go back to November, December, 2023 of Israel trying to arm militias in the Gaza Strip. This has been a two and a half year long project to create internal strife and civil war such that the Gaza Strip not only is a place without any shelter and without adequate food or without any hospitals or without clean water, but it's also a place, a place where Palestinians are killing other Palestinians. not as Israel's goal for the Gaza's trip to make it completely and totally unlivable such that everyone has to leave

and that's what they've been doing for two and a half years. Yeah. And as they continue to take more and more territory and cram the remaining Palestinians into smaller and smaller territory as we talked about earlier and there are no cops on the beat. The Trump administration

appears to be okay. with whatever Israel does as long as it doesn't make headlines in the United States. But we should also point out that the violence in the West Bank and the settler violence and in East Jerusalem has been also escalated over the past few weeks. What are you hearing on that front? So maybe we can start with the East Jerusalem. Recall that in 1967, Israel annexed some seven. 70 square kilometers of the West Bank, including Jerusalem, and then called the whole thing East Jerusalem.

And in 1970, they passed a law that said that if at any point in history, any Jew once owned property in East Jerusalem or anywhere in the West Bank, that any other Jew has the God-given right to go reclaim that property. Now, obviously, the law doesn't work in reverse, right? If you're a Palestinian who once owned property in any part of Israel, you have no right to reclaim no property. No right to return. Yeah. No right to return. No right to reclaim your property. So it's a blatantly racist law that has been used over the past 58 years in East Jerusalem and Hebron and other areas of the West Bank to steal Palestinian property.

And this is right now happening at an accelerating pace throughout the old city of Jerusalem. Suq al-Ananin. It's happening in Sheikh Jarrah, famously. Mohamed al-Kur, these Palestinians who are very outspoken speak to those ethnic, those forcible displacements with great, I think, a clarity. But now it's also happening, it's also happening in Silwan, which is the Palestinian neighborhood just outside the old city of Jerusalem, just actually outside the western wall compound.

And so it's considered an important neighborhood for Israel. You have an archaeological park in that neighborhood known as Irdavid or the city of David, which Israeli archaeologists claim once was home to the kingdom, some palace that once belonged to David, to King David, the ancient Israelite figure in the Bible 3,000 years ago. Now, I've talked to many archaeologists who say the whole park is, actually, there's basically no evidence to suggest this was actually King David's Park. It's all political. This park was built and the history is basically being fabricated in order to push Palestinians

out of the city. And just was it yesterday, you have a Betelam report. And I believe this is based on an Israeli military order to ethnically cleanse the entirety of the neighborhood. We're talking 2,000 people. And that could happen at any moment. Remember, the vast majority of homes in East Jerusalem, so we're talking 300,000 Palestinians live in East Jerusalem. The majority of the properties owned by Palestinians in East Jerusalem could be demolished at any moment.

That's because when Israel occupied East Jerusalem in 1967, they established a permit regime that effectively denied Palestinians building permits to build new homes. What they did was they encircled around all the built-up areas of East Jerusalem. Jerusalem. They drew lines. They drew these zoning lines. It said, you cannot build outside of the already built up areas in East Jerusalem. And that's why when you drive around East Jerusalem, there's open areas everywhere, these large open areas. And you're wondering, this makes no sense. Right. But the reason is very simple. Israel does not want Palestinians to build in Jerusalem. It wants them to leave Jerusalem because it wants to preserve a super majority, a Jewish supermajority in Israel's capital. And now it's not just denying Palestinians,

the right to the bill. It's actively pushing them all out. And Silwan is just the latest example of that. Yes. And it gets less attention because I think, you know, one, because of the occupation and the seizure of land happened so long ago, but also I think, you know, the settlement operation in the West Bank and the the rolling just violence that we see. see there. It's, it's escalating too. It's just been like, I think, more in people's public minds about it. Because I think, you know, we see some of the images there have been, there's been great reporting from independent journalists in the West Bank and others about what, just the, the casual violence that is inflicted on Palestinians there. And how the, how much that's been escalating,

I guess, over the past few years. Before we wrap here, Zach, if you could just give us an update on the West Bank. Yeah, so since October 7th, more than a thousand Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank. And this is a very violent process that involves forcible expulsions. So we're talking about pogroms in which Israeli settler terrorists, sometimes dozens of them, sometimes hundreds of them at night during the day in the morning, in the evening, about 12 happen every day. Those are the latest numbers.

So we're talking 12 terrorist attacks every day on Palestinian communities. Oftentimes these shepherding and hurting communities in area C of the West Bank in the Jordan Valley, South Habron Hills, the E1 zone, the areas around Nablus, areas around Sebastian, right? So basically wherever you go in the West Bank, there are active attempts by Israeli settler terrorists, to forcibly expel Palestinians from their homes. I think the most, South Hebron Hills is very active. Just the other day,

Mohammed Hisham, a Palestinian from Masafariata, reported on Israeli settler terrorists, beating Palestinians with metal sticks and metal rods in the middle of the night. We just saw that video surface the other day. Now they're trying to expel the residents of Khan al-Ahmar, which is in the E-1 zone.

This is the area that U.S. and EU leaders have claimed as a red line for quite literally decades because it's this area lies right in the center of the West Bank. And so if Israel takes it over, in theory, that would dissect the West Bank into two, effectively making a Palestinian say impossible, even though it's been impossible for decades because no Israeli leader, not on the left, not on the far left, not even merits, which is the far leftist, Israeli political party you're going to find, not even merits is interested in even talking about a Palestinian state. So the full Israeli spectrum from left to right is Jewish supremacy from the river to the sea,

and that is reflected every single day in the West Bank. And let me just make one final point. You saw that in December, 2024, in January 2025, the Israeli military expelled about 40,000 Palestinians from the Janine to Lukatim and Nurisham's refugee camps. Now, just in the past week, what they're doing is they're building Israeli military bases in those refugee camps in area A, in areas where they're not even supposed to be in the first place, according to the Oslo Accords.

They're quite literally throwing the Oslo Accords in the garbage. I mean, they've obviously been doing that for three decades, but they're just making that policy official now. And you're not going to be able to return to your home, if you're a Palestinian, from Janine to Kutrim, or Nurichum's refugee camps, because those camps are now being turned into Israeli military bases. Yeah.

I mean, it's absolutely unconscionable. And it's incredible to see, I think, you know, the tactics that we've seen in the West Bank being used in Lebanon with no real recourse whatsoever. And with, you know, an administration here in the U.S. that could yank on the leash at any point, but actively chooses not to. Same thing that we discussed with the Biden administration as well. Zachary Foster, really appreciate your time today. Everyone should check out the Palestine Nexus and your work on that newsletter, editor-in-chief of the Palestine Nexus newsletter. Thanks so much. Really appreciate your time today. Thanks so much for having me.

Of course. Quick break, folks. And when we come back, we'll be joined by Dr. Adam Homoie candidate in New Jersey's 12th congressional district. We are back, folks. And we are joined now by Dr. Adam Homoie. candidate in New Jersey's 12th congressional district. Dr. Hamoui, thanks so much for coming on the show today. Thank you for having me.

So, of course, I'm from New Jersey, by the way. I'm from Essex County, so I do have to ask you some quick questions right off the rip. Your district is what I would say is in Central Jersey. Some people deny that Central Jersey exists. It's just North and South, so I would like your answer here. Do you believe that there is such a thing as central Jersey? Of course. You know, there is something else that exists below Newark,

and there's a central jersey. And then there's South Jersey, which is really out in the middle of nowhere, but you could bring that up with them. Okay, I'll bring it up with them. You accept the existence of Central Jersey, and then I need to follow up in that instance, because if Central Jersey exists, what is it? Porkroll or Taylorham?

Neither one. I'm a halveh, so I tell you. Okay. All right, fair enough, fair enough for people that don't know. It's a real controversy. The North Jersey people say it's called Taylorham. South Jersey says it's pork roll. But, you know, that was a very diplomatic answer for you there, Dr. Hamoui.

So you've been endorsed by care, track APEC, Justice Democrats, Bernie Sanders, AOC, Rishita Talib, Summerlee. could go on and on in your race. You've got a lot of great endorsements. What do those endorsements mean to you? And what do you, what does it say about the nature of your candidacy? So I'm honored, first of all, to have been able to earn those endorsements. It's a lot of hard work. And it really reflects what's happening here on the ground. You know, someone like Senator Sanders and really all the organizations really look at what you're doing here in a district. if you're speaking to the people on the ground,

what kind of campaign. We have a large grassroots movement here where people are knocking on doors. We've built a coalition that really spans not just a progressive space, but, you know, I have progressives, I have pro-Palestinian groups, I have veterans groups, science, climate change.

It really shows the full spectrum of the district here. And in New Jersey, central Jersey where I'm at, It's progressive. People are intelligent. They are active. And they are thirsty for someone that's going to speak to them and their needs and not the same politics as usual, which is unfortunately what we've seen, Phil Washington, D.C. And, you know, this is the district that belongs to Bonnie Watson Coleman, who's retiring and stepping down. And we need someone like her who's going to be speaking to what the people want and what the people need. need and continue her fight in Washington. You mentioned your district. It's a really interesting district because it's a mix of affluent suburbs like Princeton, but you also have more middle income diverse suburbs too, like Plainsborough. You got north-south Brunswick, I believe.

And then you have smaller cities like Trenton and Plainfield that have, say, like, larger black and Latino population. there's also a large Asian population in the district. Like it's as diverse economically, racially as it gets, but it's also a very blue district. So can you reflect on what it means, I guess, to run in that district and what the needs of those constituents are, despite the fact that it's such a wide range of people?

Yeah. I mean, it is one of the most diverse districts in the entire country. We have the whole breadth of socioeconomic range, like from Trenton to Princeton, and they're only about 20 minutes apart. And we have the same thing of also the cultures. I mean, we're right here where we have people from all countries that are immigrants working. And we have – so to run in a district like this, you have to be able to speak to actual people's needs.

You can't be really representing one small group and think that you're going to succeed here. You have to be able to walk into communities, be able to relate to the problems that they have, and speak from experience rather than talk at them. And this is what I felt is me at being a physician who's been working in Central Jersey for most of my life, seeing, you know, these people come in as my patients. I know the problems that people face because I see it every single day. And I think that's what's really helped me, you know, connect with most of the voters here. You mentioned your work as a physician.

I think it's important for us to mention how incredible your work has been in war zones. I did not know that you treated Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth, who lost both of her legs in Iraq. And she was integral in lobbying the Biden administration at the time because you and your team were in Gaza, performing surgeries on victims of the Israeli genocide. And there was no one advocating for you. And Tammy Duckworth was like, this man treated me. I mean, speak about your story because it's quite remarkable. Yeah, our connection goes back a long time.

And I was a combat trauma surgeon in Iraq in 2004 when her Black Hawk was shot down with an RPG. and I was the surgeon that took care of her and stabilized her was able to, you know, have her survive that initial injury and get onto an evacuation back to Germany and eventually back to the United States. So I treated her and was able to save her life back then, and she returned a favor to me many years later two years ago when I was in Gaza with the medical team on a mission. And our team got trapped in there when Israel closed the – seized a border between Egypt and Gaza.

And after a lot of pressure trying to get out, she was like one of the people in Washington and really pushed the Israelis to allow our team to leave. And can you talk about your experience there? We've had doctors on our program speaking about the horrors of the Israeli genocide. I know you operated on many children. What would you want our audience to know about your experience there? So I've been doing this for over 30 years. So in addition to being a combat trauma surgeon in Iraq with the U.S. Army,

I've also volunteered in war zones all over the world. I've been to Central America. I've been all over the Middle East. And what I saw in Gaza was something completely different at a scale, much larger, where there's deliberate targeting of civilians every single day. And seeing that horror, like, you know, that, my tax dollars were funding fundamentally changed the way I look at politics and really pushed me to get involved because normally after my mission trips, I come back, I work,

I go back to my practice and cover my district and take care of them. I couldn't do that anymore just to forget about what I saw. I needed to be a witness and I started going to D.C. working with, you know, Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman, working with, you know, many of the senators trying to talk to them and reach, you know, tell them this is what our country is using its resources for is to fund the genocide. Unfortunately, most of the lawmakers wouldn't even give me an audience. They wouldn't open their doors and listen to what I had to say, whether they agree to or not. And it's that reason why when Representative BoniWaSan,

Washington Coleman decided to, you know, retire this year, I felt I had to jump in and I had to just go there because my perspective is fundamentally needed there because we need these resources right here at home. I mean, I'm in Trenton right now. You know, we have problems with infrastructure. We have problems with health care. People don't have insurance. They're trying to pay their medical bills at the same time they can't afford their rent. And at the same time, I saw that we're spending it on bombs. We're spending it on, you know, on aircraft carriers and stealth bombers. I've seen both sides of this, and we're just making the wrong choices. So that's right.

I mean, it gives a whole new meaning to Trenton makes the world takes, which is the slogan. I mean, like, this is a question of resource allocation. And I'm glad to hear you speak about it in those terms. because, you know, just in, for example, and what we've spent on this war in Iran, we could clearly fund college for all and other major programs, for example, which are you, I'm not sure if you're in favor of college for all,

you can expand on some of your other policy positions, but I think people can really fundamentally understand when you show them what our tax dollars are going to and what it could happen, could be going to in their everyday life. Absolutely. I mean, we're told that we can't afford Medicare for all, but we have been spending a billion dollars a day on this war. With just, you know, from when we started to now, we could have eliminated medical debt, you know, in the United States. We could have funded, you know, tuition-free public education.

You know, think of the infrastructure projects and fixing roads or building housing or, you know, so many things that we need right here that every day we're told it is like we don't have the budget for it. can't afford it, like it's going to increase our taxes. No, we could definitely afford these things. We're seeing that when we need to make bombs, there's no hesitation. You know, so between, you know, a trillion dollars a year that they're saying that they want to make a one and a half trillion dollars a year for a war department, because that's really the only thing it really is. You know, we call it the Department of Defense. The only, you know, correcting the Trump administration did was fixed in aim because that's all it is. And we're not. we're funding the military industrial complex. We're funding Boeing. We're funding, you know,

Lockheed Martin, we're Raytheon, we're making all these bombs. And they're thriving right now. They're booming because they can't keep up with the demand. At the same time, people are struggling, working 40 hours a week, you know, to be able to put food on their table, pay rent. They're doing all the right things, and yet they're falling behind every single year. And this can't go on. This can't be normal. We need to fix that. Otherwise, you know, this whole country is falling apart, you know, and we see this happening and it's getting worse every single year. And we need new leaders in Washington that are going to address these problems once

and for all. And that's what I plan is. Absolutely. Again, June 2nd is the primary. Just want to make sure we sprinkle that in throughout the interview so people know if they haven't voted yet, just less than a week away. sorry and and the and the polls are open right now so it's not just soon second if you if you could go out and vote today or tomorrow they're pull they're open all the way till sunday so get out the vote

if you have ballots at home fill them out and send them it's not doing any good in the kitchen table exactly right um i wanted to just quickly though turn to uh the ice protests uh not in your district it's a north of you in new work um about these the conditions in this detention facility in Newark run, of course, by a private company, geo group. It's been a real flashpoint right now in politics in New Jersey. I was encouraged to see Senator Andy Kim show up there, and he was actually pepper sprayed. Unfortunately, Corey Booker, no show, even though he used to be the mayor of Newark, interestingly. What would your leadership look like?

Would it be more, you know, what we're seeing would say, Representative McIver and Mejia, Representative Mejia, or are we talking Cory Booker, no show? Well, I was there. Oh, you were there. There you go. Yes, I was there on, I'm losing track of the days now, but I was there with Andy Kim and Anna Leia was there as well. We have, I mean, so many of our, you know, the delegation actually showed up, which is like great. and that makes the absence of certain people even more apparent. And if we're not going to go and stand up to fascism and tyranny

when it's right here at home and in our state, then how could we expect, you know, to be able to stand up for it in Washington? Because we are supposed to be the voice of the people. We're the representatives here. And whether it's in your district or not, it's all connected. And it's like you said, you know, Geo Group is a for-profit group. Again, we're talking about allocations and money. We've spent $170 billion giving it to ICE,

and that's not including the $9 million a day. We're spending for these private, you know, for-profit prisons that are just, you know, making money, you know, day after day off the misery of others. And, you know, I was there. They had mass stormtroopers there, full body armor. They had a armored vehicle with, you know, this pepper spray gun right on.

on top aimed at the protesters and just waiting for a fight. And every day there's something like just two nights ago, they kidnapped a army, not he's a veteran. I don't know if he's Army. He's a veteran medic. They rushed into the crab, beat him up, took him. And then they like drove him off and dropped him beat up like, you know, miles away in the middle of the street at night, just like some like, it's like some gang. You know, these are, this is, these are, these These are the troops that are being used by this administration. And another reason why we need to abolish ICE. I mean, at this point, they're just a bunch of criminals terrorizing the community

and not really making anyone feel any safer. And it's also a question of resource allocation. Like, I mean, how would you respond to people saying, hey, I support a lot of your positions, but I'm a little scared to abolish ICE. I'm throwing this out there, even though I agree with your position. How would you answer that question? Because I think sometimes people, the abolition language, can freak them out, right? Like, defund the police maybe wasn't the best slogan.

It's about changing resources to go to different parts of public safety. It's the same thing here with immigration enforcement. So there was life before ICE. You know, ICE was formed in 2003 after 9-11. and the excuse, first of all, it was done in a rush. The excuse was, again, border security, but they failed at their task. You know, the southern border doesn't stop at Trenton. And yet they're in the streets every day, you know, picking up, you know, people dropping

their kids off at school. You know, they are not making people of any safer. And they seem to be targeting really only black and brown communities. This is not an immigration system. So, yes, we should have a system that's orderly that allows people to legally come in with a process that's known, that allows talent to come into this country, which is really how this country was built with the help of immigrants, generation after generation, which is what made this country what it is today. And we should be able to respect human rights. We should be able to respect civil liberties and have a process that doesn't have people waiting. decades to be able to rejoin families or have a lottery system. You know, this isn't reinventing

the wheel. It's about, you know, picking a priority, and this has been dropped by both parties. You know, every time they come in, they see going to fix it, but the other party opposes it, and it's a failure for both. And it's about time that we addressed it in a real manner rather than, you know, copying out and saying the only way to do it is to just, you know, grab everyone off the streets and just ship them somewhere else. Well, I really appreciate your time today, especially ahead of a really busy next few days for you before election day on Tuesday, June 2nd.

But as the good doctor mentioned, you can vote in New Jersey all the way up to Sunday prior to that. Really appreciate your time today. Dr. Hamawi, a surgeon, running to represent New Jersey. Jersey's 12th congressional district in Congress. Thanks so much for your time today. I really appreciate it. And we will put a link to your website where people can help and get out the vote in the final

hours of this race down below wherever people are listening to or watching this. Yes, go to Hemley forNJ.com. Thank you all very much. Get out to vote. Thanks so much. Appreciate you coming on the show. And best of luck. Thank you for having me.

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