Interview · moment 14 of 28
Was There a Better Response to October 7th?
from Bonus Episode: Abby Martin
3 min
Guest
Tim presses Abby on what an appropriate Israeli response would have looked like instead of what he calls carpet bombing, and Abby argues you have to address root causes of occupation and siege rather than just react militarily.
- The ADL retroactively changed its articles to call 'Free Palestine' genocidal incitement, when it previously described it as a common protest phrase.
- Tim describes the contradiction of one side committing genocide while justifying it by claiming the other side would do the same hypothetically.
- Any response other than carpet bombing the entire area would have been better, but the real question is how October 7th happened in the first place.
- The root cause of the violence is occupation and siege—you cannot treat people that way without consequences.
- Carpet bombing is an incredibly brutal way to eliminate Hamas and will probably create new generations of terrorists.