The Tunnels

In the second part of our discussion on Palestine we look at the events of The Al-Aqsa Flood, October 07 2023, as well as the surrounding media environment, the hostage situation that has ensued, and some key figures involved in the promotion and enablement of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.

We will be discussing Israel's war crimes and taking an initial look at the widening war in Part 3, coming soon.

You can find all of The Mole's content, and how to support the making of more, on our website: https://www.themoleworld.com

References (and recommendations)
As we progress through our conversation we pull on notes that have been captured prior to recording. Here's a list of some of the sources we used, content we mention, and a few good places to learn more about the war crimes being committed against the Palestinian people:

• Empire Files: Gaza Fights for Freedom - https://youtu.be/HnZSaKYmP2s
• Israeli polls regarding hostage crisis (question 10 specifically referenced) - https://social-sciences.tau.ac.il/sites/socsci.tau.ac.il/files/media_server/social/2023/Findings-November-2023-EN.pdf
• Report on Israeli polls by Time - https://time.com/6333781/israel-hamas-poll-palestine/
• Timeline of October 07, by PBS and Washington Post - https://youtu.be/c5gKaqOrCpk
• Report by Save the Children regarding ongoing violence and abuse of Palestinian children detained by Israeli military - https://www.savethechildren.org.au/media/media-releases/stripped-beaten-and-blindfolded-new-research-rev
• Footage of male hostages on floor including journalist, followed by clips of weapon in different hands
• For a comprehensive analysis on the interference within the Labour party, watch Al Jazeera's Labour files:
  Part 1 - The Purge: youtu.be/elp18OvnNV0
  Part 2 - The Crisis: youtu.be/5DTMF0MSXng
  Part 3 - The Hierarchy: youtu.be/P-cHBQf5z_M
  Part 4 - The Spying Game: youtu.be/db-Gpmfajp8
• To watch Al Jazeera's documentary on interference in American politics by the Israel lobby (especially The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)):
  The Lobby - USA, episode 1: https://youtu.be/3lSjXhMUVKE
  The Lobby - USA, episode 2: https://youtu.be/XytkI7afHcQ
  The Lobby - USA, episode 3: https://youtu.be/Mm-Dm4pO0xY
  The Lobby - USA, episode 4: https://youtu.be/_1OgxfCT044
• The Electronic Intifada - https://electronicintifada.net
• Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) - https://bdsmovement.net/get-involved/what-to-boycott

Clips used
We've used clips from the below sources within the episode, to add context to our discussion:

• Democracy Now headlines January 19th 2024 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxNxT8ki5Jc
• UN speech noting that October 07 did not happen in a vacuum - https://youtu.be/1S2M3R1Q0_s
• Western headlines from October 07 2023:
  BBC News - https://youtu.be/FXrVtabZggI
  Sky News - https://youtu.be/_45HVw5pEA8
  Al Jazeera - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5slJTFa-u8&rco=1
  Fox News - https://youtu.be/PHIOM2HzYj4
• Former Home Secretary Braverman joins pro-Israel rally in London - https://youtu.be/E-6jEYa7g6Y
• Twitter (X) post by official Israel account, promoting posthumous sperm retrieval- https://twitter.com/Israel/status/1724392576516600204
• Regev: Israel does not take ‘responsibility for’ Beirut strike - https://youtu.be/8JG-8TUIP1s

In the first part of our discussion on Palestine we do our best to cover the past 100 years. Through Britain's Mandate for Palestine, the formation of the State of Israel, and the continued project of displacement, occupation, apartheid and genocide that led to the events of October 7, and the horrific events we are currently witnessing.

We will be discussing The Al-Aqsa Flood in Part 2, coming out on 19th January 2024.

You can find all of The Mole's content, and how to support the making of more, on our website: https://www.themoleworld.com

References (and recommendations)
As we progress through our conversation we pull on notes that have been captured prior to recording. Here's a list of some of the sources we used, content we mention, and a few good places to learn more about the war crimes being committed against the Palestinian people:

• Trip to the Left - There and Keir - https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/trip-to-the-left/episodes/S1-E7---There-and-Keir-Solidarity-with-Palestine-e12hkih/a-a5rdf8s
• For further, comprehensive analysis on the interference within the Labour party, watch Al Jazeera's Labour files:
  • Part 1 - The Purge: youtu.be/elp18OvnNV0
  • Part 2 - The Crisis: youtu.be/5DTMF0MSXng
  • Part 3 - The Hierarchy: youtu.be/P-cHBQf5z_M
  • Part 4 - The Spying Game: youtu.be/db-Gpmfajp8
• Watch the Netflix film 'Farha' about the experience of the First Nakba - https://www.netflix.com/title/81612982
• We also recommend Empire Files' documentary 'Gaza Fights for Freedom' (2019), Directed by Abby Martin and available for free on Youtube - https://youtu.be/HnZSaKYmP2s
• Sunak Takes UK Support for Israel to New Extreme (Consortium News on UK involvement, and the 'Suez fiasco' re Egypt and US hegemony, and the UK-made tanks supplied by Wilson) - https://consortiumnews.com/2023/10/19/sunak-takes-uk-support-for-israel-to-new-extreme/
• For a detailed video on the tiers of citizenship that helps Israel to enforce their system of Apartheid, watch 'Inside Israeli Apartheid' by Mondoweiss https://youtu.be/LumgWaM72nU
• For coverage of the revelations exposed in The Palestine Papers, watch 'Al Jazeera Investigates - The Palestine Papers, Day 1, January 23, 2011' - https://youtu.be/0EH-tU2cJ0Y
• Israel's Entryism and the Campaign to Create a Binational Security State (The Watchdog with Lowkey by Mint Press) - https://pca.st/5veudk7f
• Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) - https://bdsmovement.net/get-involved/what-to-boycott

Clips used
We've used clips from the below sources within the episode, to add context to our discussion:

• Top U.S. & World Headlines — December 6, 2023 (Democracy Now!): https://youtu.be/x7hEvAj7qWg
• Balfour Declaration: How 67 words changed the course of Palestinian history (Al Jazeera English) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljzfsxOx_r0
• President Bill Clinton - Remarks on Peace Agreement (on Oslo Accords) - https://youtu.be/FpOCOIcIo30
• How did the Nakba happen? (Al Jazeera English) - https://youtu.be/megzzpTWajg
• Gaza: Palestinians Continue “Great March of Return” Protests for Third Straight Week (Democracy Now) - https://youtu.be/2hPg9fU1Tr0
• Edward Snowden on Pegasus spyware: 'This is an industry that should not exist' - https://youtu.be/I5WjTTi67BE

In the first half of our discussion on the global climate crisis, we discuss the difficult reality we find ourselves in: quickly passing milestones, after which there's no turning back. We look at some of the past decades, discuss key facts and statistics about our rainforests and oceans, laugh at some reactionary discourse, and do our best to grapple with the scale of what this means for our species.

You can find all of The Mole's content and how to support the making of more on our website: https://themoleworld.com

References:

• Graph of anomaly creating new curve in global temperatures: https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iKoz_0SjDvsY/v1/-1x-1.png
• Chemical products and deforestation modify Amazon River water: https://infoamazonia.org/en/2021/10/20/chemical-products-and-deforestation-modify-amazon-river-water/
• The great Atlantic Sargassum belt: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaw7912
• IPCC Reports: https://www.ipcc.ch/reports/
• BBC article on 1.5 degrees limit: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65602293
• NOAA Arctic Report 2016: https://www.arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card/Report-Card-2016
• 'Zombie' fires in Siberia: https://www.insider.com/zombie-wildfires-in-siberia-smoldered-beneath-ice-reignited-2020-9, https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/3/state-of-emergency-declared-in-siberia-over-raging-wildfires
• The effects of Bolsonaro's Climate Change Denial: https://www.democracynow.org/2019/8/28/brazil_jair_bolsonaro_unprecedented_amazon_fires
• IPCC Report changed due to lobbying: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58982445
• Agricultural wastage: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308521X16302384

If you'd be interested in listening to more C-SPAN, we like watching with LeftFlankVets over on Twitch! Where Marcus adds some needed relief, with a game of Bingo: https://www.twitch.tv/leftflankvets

In the second half of our discussion on the global climate crisis, we discuss current emissions, predatory international relationships and loans, lobbying, the media, movements such as Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil and we begin to think about where the conversation should go from here.

You can find all of The Mole's content, and how to support the making of more, on our website: https://themoleworld.com

References

• The 'Kochtupus': https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/koch, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_Maze_of_Money.png, https://www.sourcewatch.org/images/d/d6/W-kochnetwork.jpg
• Why is there so much Right-Wing Media? Covering the Kochs and Wilks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ApjSrB6E1c&t=24s
• Carbon emissions per person
• Carbon emissions per country
• American Military's climate emissions: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18012022/military-carbon-emissions/, https://phys.org/news/2021-11-world-militaries-huge-carbonemissions.html, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/11/worlds-militaries-avoiding-scrutiny-over-emissions
• The Military Emissions Gap: https://militaryemissions.org

The Mole launches it's new podcast, The Tunnels, with an interview with Chris Nineham on the day he launches his new book: Radical Chains.

You can buy Radical Chains: Why Class Matters from the date of posting, here:
https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/radical-chains-why-class-matters

'How We Fight, How We Win: A Rank-And-File Organising Conference by Counterfire can be found here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-we-fight-how-we-win-a-rank-and-file-organising-conference-tickets-566742992547

During our conversation, Chris recommends the book 'On New Terrain' by Kim Moody.

The End of History video series will launch on our Youtube page, which you can find here:
https://youtube.com/@TheMoleWorld

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And we will be back, with fortnightly episodes, from 30 June 2023!

Solidarity.