US Election 2024 Special | S4 E9 | Guests: Jeff Cohen and Dr. Zaher Sahloul

This week, here on “The Ray Hanania Radio Show" we address the year-long and escalating violence that has plagued the Middle East. Violence has always marked relations between Israel and the Palestinians in the face of opposition to peace and solutions like the Two-State Solution, and also the role of the Western news media in covering and spinning the conflict.

It has been a long conflict marked by explosions of violence including the violence committed by Hamas on October 7, 2023 that took more than 1,200 Israeli lives, and the year-long violence by Israel in Gaza that has taken more than 54,000 lives, also mostly all civilians. But it didn't just start on Oct. 7 as Israel's government contends, and criticism of Israel's government is not anti-Semitic.

With me today to discuss this ongoing tragedy are two individuals who will help us look at this growing crisis.

Jeff Cohen ... Jeff was founding director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College, where he was an associate professor of journalism. He founded the media watch group FAIR in 1986, and cofounded the online activist group RootsAction.org in 2011. Cohen has coproduced documentary movies, including "The Corporate Coup D'Etat" and "All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception and the Spirit of I.F. Stone." He is the author of Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media. He has been a TV commentator at CNN, Fox News and MSNBC, and was senior producer of MSNBC's Phil Donahue primetime show until it was terminated three weeks before the Iraq invasion. He can be reached through these websites:

His organizational website is RootsAction.org
His personal website is JeffCohen.org
FAIR's website is FAIR.org
Twitter @Jeffcot
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Dr. Zaher Sahloul, president and founder of Med Global who is with us addressing the growing crisis for displaced people in Palestine, Lebanon and the region. The number of refugees and medical needs have risen to crisis proportions. More importantly, there has been a huge increase in the number of doctors and medical professionals who have been targeted by Israel's government in the Gaza and Lebanon conflicts. www.medglobal.org Twitter @Sahloul @MedGlobalorg

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