My next podcast guest on Tuesday, September 1, at 10:00am EDT is Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, Founding Director of the Center for Governance and Markets and a Professor at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Public & International Affairs. She is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a Distinguished Fellow of Peace and International Cooperation at the Institute for Humane Studies.
Listeners can register for the live podcast recording with Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili on Zoom; link in bio.
Archived episodes will be released the following day, on Wednesdays at noon. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app, including Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and Spotify, to be sure to always get the latest episodes.
Russian authorities have banned at least nine LGBT support organizations as “extremist,” escalating an unprecedented crackdown on human rights, free expression, and civil society. As authoritarianism deepens, human rights defenders warn that Russia’s campaign is not only against LGBT communities, it is against fundamental freedoms and human dignity.
Today I am joined on the podcast by Alon Liel and Ziad AbuZayyad. Alon Liel is a veteran of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, serving in various positions, including as Director General of the Foreign Ministry. He is one of the instigators of an Israeli campaign to advance recognition of a Palestinian state by European parliaments and governments.
Ziad AbuZayyad is a Palestinian lawyer, journalist, and politician. He is the co-founder and editor of the Palestine Israel Journal, and former Minister of State in the Palestinian Authority. AbuZayyad also served as an advisor to various Palestinian negotiating teams.
In this episode, we assess the prospects for the release of Marwan Barghouti, a Palestinian political leader who has been imprisoned since 2002. We discuss Barghouti’s political and peace efforts both prior to his imprisonment and while in prison, the perception of him as a widely uniting figure among the Palestinians, and what conditions in Israel will be necessary to allow for his release.
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The next episode of my live podcast is this upcoming Tuesday, August 25, at 10:00am EDT with former Israeli diplomat Alon Liel and former Palestinian minister and peace negotiator Ziad Abu Zayyad. Alon Liel is the former director general of the Foreign Ministry of Israel and was also Israel`s ambassador to South Africa. Ziad Abu Zayyad is a former Palestinian Authority Minister and Member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, a former negotiator, and the co-editor of the Palestine Israel Journal.
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Toward Moscow, the man who bullies allies becomes solicitous. Trump speaks of mutual respect with Putin and offers to help him strike a deal on Ukraine, announces theatrical three-day ceasefires, and meets him as a peer while withdrawing much of the support keeping Ukraine alive. Kyiv is presented with terms rather than consulted; Zelensky learns of his country's future from press conferences. This is not diplomacy, which requires leverage; it is deference, which invites more. A war launched to erase a nation's existence is treated as a real-estate dispute between great men, and the victim is asked to pay the settlement. Rewarding conquest guarantees the next one, in the Baltics or the Black Sea. The clearest signal any aggressor has received in a generation is that patience and brutality pay.
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My next podcast guest on Tuesday, September 1, at 10:00am EDT is Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, Founding Director of the Center for Governance and Markets and a Professor at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Public & International Affairs. She is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a Distinguished Fellow of Peace and International Cooperation at the Institute for Humane Studies.
Listeners can register for the live podcast recording with Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili on Zoom at the following link: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/2017863746957/WN_2JL8RszUR4GSfcG3_wwvNA
Archived episodes will be released the following day, on Wednesdays at noon. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app, including Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and Spotify, to be sure to always get the latest episodes.
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This upcoming Monday, August 31, at 10:00am EDT, I welcome to the podcast Mordechai Kedar, an Orientalist and lecturer in the Department of Arabic at Bar-Ilan University, and a Research Fellow at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies.
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The conclusion is unavoidable. No matter what Israel or the Palestinians do on their own, and regardless of international consensus, the responsibility falls, in the final analysis, on the lap of the United States. There will be no long-term settlement, no security for Israel, and no stability in the region unless a two-state solution takes hold. And there will be no two-state solution unless the United States finally puts its foot down and implements what it has preached for decades. That is the decision the next administration must make. The two-state solution is the only option that can finally bring an end to this nearly eighty-year conflict. The question is no longer whether Washington knows what must be done. It is whether it will, at last, find the will to do it.
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