Hey Jerry R. Hammond is our new research fellow at the libertarian Institute, and he wrote the book, Obstacle to Peace.  He's written a bunch of great articles and blog entries for us at The Institute as well, including his latest great article, "How Israel Supported Hamas Against the PLO," Jeremy R. Hammond, May 7, 2024.  Some very important history here. Welcome back to the show. How are you doing, Jeremy?

You always get cited by me along with Richard Sayle and Andrew Higgins and a few others who told this history because you do such a good job of telling it in your book obstacle to peace so I'm very happy to have this article here at the Institute by you explaining this because of course it's crucial to the story as you say the way that everything is being portrayed in the media now, history began on October the 7th, 2023, but there's so much that came before that.  But I like the way that you have as your introduction here this story, this memo that was leaked from The New York Times and their instructions to their reporters about what language they're supposed to use in order to describe what's happening over there.  And essentially it sounds like the Newspeak dictionary, 11th edition, "We've got fewer words than ever."  But you know from 1984 because and the point being that their choice of words that they are excluding essentially exclude the history of what's Happening you're supposed to know that these people attack these people which is why they're doing the thing that they're doing and it's all that you're allowed to know basically because of the censorship of individual words in vocabulary that pertain particularly to this situation it really is an instruction narrative can you take us through that part of it?

Yeah, sure I was citing The Intercept there which has been phenomenal since October 7th in their reporting, really a rare type of reporting from the Intercept and they had . . .  they're the ones who reported on this memo from The New York Times' editors instructing their reporters to not use terms like to not refer to Gaza or the West Bank as "occupied territories," even though that's their status under international law.