The next live episode of my podcast is this upcoming Tuesday, September 29, at 10:00am EDT with Tony Klug, senior advisor on the Middle East to the Oxford Research Group and a consultant to the Palestine Strategy Group and the Israeli Strategic Forum. He has written extensively about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since the early 1970s and was one of the first advocates of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel in the wake of the 1967 war. For many years he worked at Amnesty International where he headed the international development program.
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Today’s podcast guest is Alex de Waal, Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation. Considered one of the foremost experts on Sudan and the Horn of Africa, his scholarly work and practice has also probed humanitarian crisis and response, human rights, HIV/AIDS and governance in Africa, and conflict and peace-building.
In this episode, we discuss the background of the current war in Sudan, both the immediate spark and the underlying history, the role of external forces in the conflict, the prospects for a resolution to this conflict, and the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe that has been fueled by this war.
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Alex de Waal is the Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation. Considered one of the foremost experts on Sudan and the Horn of Africa, his scholarly work and practice has also probed humanitarian crisis and response, human rights, HIV/AIDS and governance in Africa, and conflict and peace-building. His latest book is Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine (Polity Press 2017). He is also he author of The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa (Polity Press, 2015), a full list of his publications is available below. Following a fellowship with the Global Equity Initiative at Harvard (2004-06), he worked with the Social Science Research Council as Director of the program on HIV/AIDS and Social Transformation, and led projects on conflict and humanitarian crises in Africa (2006-09). During 2005-06, de Waal was seconded to the African Union mediation team for Darfur and from 2009-11 served as senior adviser to the African Union High-Level Implementation Panel for Sudan, where he took on a number of roles in the negotiations leading to the independence of South Sudan. He was on the list of Foreign Policy’s 100 most influential public intellectuals in 2008 and Atlantic Monthly’s 27 “brave thinkers” in 2009.
The scale, frequency, and brazenness of human rights violations around the world have not diminished, but rather have grown profoundly, raising the question of whether the very notion of “civilization” is little more than a veneer. Scores of countries spanning the globe have committed large-scale, documented abuses against their own populations and/or native groups, and against civilians in neighboring countries, and are doing so with impunity.
Today’s podcast guest is Aaron David Miller, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Between 1978 and 2003, he served at the State Department as an historian, analyst, negotiator, and advisor to Republican and Democratic secretaries of state, where he helped formulate U.S. policy on the Middle East and the Arab-Israel peace process, most recently as the senior advisor for Arab-Israeli negotiations.
In this episode, we discuss the current state of Israeli-Palestinian affairs and what the prospects are for peace, including regionally, what we may see from the upcoming elections in Israel, the current status of the Iran war and its implications for the region, the Gulf states’ concerns about their security in the war’s aftermath, Israel’s gains and losses from the war, and the state of US foreign policy under Trump toward the region.
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ISRAELIS MUST RISE TO STOP CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY COMMITTED IN THEIR NAME
Israel’s assault on Palestinians is a moral catastrophe that demands outrage, not silence. International pressure is essential, but Israelis themselves must rise and categorically denounce these crimes committed in their name. Their government is not merely harming Palestinians; it is destroying the moral foundations on which Israel was created and staining the conscience of the Jewish people everywhere. Its dehumanization of Palestinians imperils its future and raises profound questions about its own right to exist. Israelis cannot merely mourn or dissent quietly. They must organize, resist, protest, and strike. They must demand an immediate end to state brutality. If they don’t, they will be left with a hollowed-out state, unworthy of its name, and pay the ultimate price.
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A CENTURY LATER, MILLIONS ARE STILL ENSLAVED
A century after the 1926 Slavery Convention, millions of people around the world are still denied their most basic freedom. Modern slavery persists through forced labor, human trafficking, sexual exploitation, forced marriage, and other forms of abuse. This is an unacceptable failure of the international community. Governments cannot celebrate a century of commitments while millions remain trapped in exploitation and coercion. The UN is calling for stronger laws, enforcement, accountability, and protection for survivors. Slavery is not merely a horror of the past—it remains a human rights crisis today. A hundred years of promises must now be matched by decisive action. Freedom cannot wait another century.
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It's high time governments step up their game!".It's high time governments step up their game!".
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Thanks to Muslim and African countries...
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Why do you faile to mention that this is largely an islamic/muslim issue?
It’s nice that you care so much about slavery now. What about the Palestinians you motherfucker
When governments allow genocide in Gaza and Sudan and Congo, is there anyone believing they do sincerely care about slavery?
And the biggest number of modern slaves are in Muslim shit holes
Imagine what people in hell going there for eternity. Something to this
Because of the HUMAN NATURE of all those who rule nations of the world.
It’s only going to get worse with the advent of Oligarchs ruling the world on very cheap labour and AI to dumb the peasants down even more
Joshua Divens Are you born stoopid or you have to work to achieve it? We have almost half a million American children that disappear every year We have 50,000 fresh sex slaves every year imported into the USA... She talking about Olivia these gangs work for us and armed by us If you're talking about Africa Waring tribes do that to each other because we destroyed any hope of law and government they had
It worked when the british empire still controlled the world, but then the UN took over and its not working anymore because the UN is run now by the countries that needed to be controlled!
FREE PALESTINE
So says a genocider. Fancy that
Where. not America.
GAZA’S CHILDREN WILL MARK ISRAEL WITH ETERNAL STAIN OF SHAME
What physicians describe from Gaza is beyond horror: children burned beyond recognition, torn apart by explosions, and left bleeding on hospital floors while doctors, overwhelmed and deprived of supplies, must decide whom they can save. One physician who worked there said he saw more incinerated children in a single week than in his entire medical career serving in several war zones. These are not statistics. They are children—each with a name, a family, a future—destroyed by Israel’s relentless subhuman assault. No political objective, no invocation of security, can excuse the mass killing and maiming of children. What Netanyahu and his evil government have inflicted on Gaza’s children will mark Israel with a lasting stain of shame.
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Gaza little PARASITES
Palestinians animals attacked Israel without warning and they killed innocent children in daycare and they killed the elderly in their homes took many many hostages killed raped and tortured them what did these Savages expect? Sow violence and you shall reap violence. Palestinians did this!
Netanyahu’s address to the United Nations was not a defense of Israel; it was a chilling display of hypocrisy, deception, and moral bankruptcy. To claim that Israel “prevented genocide” while Gaza has been reduced to rubble, tens of thousands of Palestinians—overwhelmingly civilians—have been killed or injured, and starvation haunts those still alive is an affront to truth and human conscience. His accusation that the delegates who walked out were “shameful” only deepened the obscenity. They did not disgrace themselves; they refused to sit silently through lies, distortion, and the justification of unspeakable crimes. Netanyahu stood before the world convinced of his righteousness. Instead, he revealed the cruel, shameless character of his leadership.
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Listening to others, even though we disagree is respectful. We might even learn something and add it to our thinking process. A closed mind and Heart gets people nowhere; How can we ever achieve any unity by shutting others up?
It was a brilliant and courageous speech. No question.
Bibi confronted the UN for its hatred of Jews. He was BOLD. He did his job. He is the Lion of the ME. God Almighty bless Bibi.
I kept a clip from when they walked out on the Hospital bomber it's good for a laugh
A great leader, a great orator; a powerful and moving speech that begins with personal memories, moves on to the confrontation with opponents, and touches upon identity and history. The moment he shows the Starlink is extraordinary.
His speech was right on the money.
The amount of bots on this post is mindblowing!
He gave an excellent speech.
He did a great job.👏👏👏👏👏
Great speech from a great leader. Straight to the point and truth..
Best speech
Netanyahu was awesome!! Spoke truth 👏👏👏👏❤️🇮🇱
Great speech
It was Awesome! Bibi rocks!
Alon ben meir is a traitor
A leader is never going to turn his back on random attacks and then the Oct 7th put him over the edge and he decided to permanently solve the problem. I pray that he is successful and deletes his enemy, so his people are safe.
His speech was amazing. TRUTH MATTERS. 🇮🇱
Long live Israel
Brilliant Speech 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Live and Unfiltered 100% Free World 🌎
Loved the speech 👍🏾
God bless Israel 🇮🇱
He's a great leader and Israel is a great Country
Well said
