next episode delayed (Patreon)

First, and most importantly, to hell with the IDF, the fascist Israeli apartheid state, the nightly Kristallnacht, the loathsome pig settlers stealing Palestinian homes, and everything (particularly the billions of dollars, every goddamn year, in American aid and weapons) that's enabled this horrific pogrom, and god save the Palestinian people and give them back their homeland.  To hell with anyone equivocating about one of the best-funded, most heavily-armed militaries in history, with the imprimatur of every powerful nation on Earth, letting loose on an immiserated, stateless people living under violent occupation and completely bereft of legal or political rights.

Second, I'm sorry to announce this, but I have to postpone the episode that would normally come out today (i.e. Friday).  Those of you who have listened to the show for a while will know that I'm not in very good health, and I'm going through a particularly bad stretch right now.  I've tried to work through it and keep releasing shows, but I've been ill almost every day for 2 months now, and I'm in the middle of a medication withdrawal that's knocked me on my ass and made it impossible to carry on a thought for more than a few minutes, much less do the research, production, etc., required to get an episode out.  I tried today, and I just can't do it.  I'm sorry.

There's nothing to talk about at the moment other than Palestine, anyway, and frankly I feel disgusted with the idea of adding any more noise or "nuance" to the exposed bones of things.  They are not "complex," and this is not an "age-old conflict."  This is an ethnic-supremacist state murdering at will and with impunity.

If I can, I'll do some kind of extra thing before the next show; I really don't know how long I'm going to be sick, and I wish I could tell you more.

Apologies, and Eid Mubarak

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