The forces that define America—its creativity, capacity for reinvention, scientific genius, and moral imagination—are stronger than any one man’s madness. They cannot be extinguished; they can only be surrendered.
The next episode of my podcast "On the Issues" is this upcoming Tuesday, October 6, at 10:00am EDT with Michael Wuthrich, Associate Professor of Political Science and the Associate Director for Global & International Studies at the University of Kansas. He received his PhD in Political Science from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey in 2011. His research focuses on Middle East politics, particularly Turkish, Kurdish, and Iranian politics, electoral behavior, religion and politics, and nationalism. He is co-author of the 2022 book, Beyond Piety and Politics: Religion, Social Relations, and Public Preferences in the Middle East and North Africa.
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Today’s podcast guest is Tony Klug, a Middle East analyst who has been a senior advisor on the Middle East to the Oxford Research Group and a consultant to the Palestine Strategy Group and the Israeli Strategic Forum.
In this episode, we discuss the plausibility of a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the feasibility of such a resolution, the past negotiations between Israel, the Palestinians, and involved Arab states, and what can be done based on the current facts on the ground.
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Dr. Tony Klug has been a 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. His PhD thesis (1979) was on the Israeli occupation of the West Bank. For many years, he worked at Amnesty International, where he headed the international development program.
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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The forces that define America—its creativity, capacity for reinvention, scientific genius, and moral imagination—are stronger than any one man’s madness. They cannot be extinguished; they can only be surrendered.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has detained Mark Mabasa, the son of murdered Philippine journalist Percival “Percy Lapid” Mabasa. Mark fled to the US after receiving death threats following his father’s 2022 assassination and sought asylum. Human Rights Watch reports that he has work authorization but was detained after returning to Los Angeles from Chicago. He is now being held at an ICE processing center in California. A man who came to the United States seeking protection from credible threats should not be subjected to arbitrary detention. I call on U.S. authorities to release Mark Mabasa unless they can demonstrate a lawful and compelling case against him, and to ensure his asylum claim receives a fair hearing.
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So what
FUCK ICE, VOTE IN NOVEMBER, JUSTICE IN JANUARY ON THE BLUE WAVE
Amnesty International just dropped a devastating bomb on the US government. They're demanding Congress fully ABOLISH Gestapo ICE right now. A massive new report exposes horrific abuse inside immigration detention centers-claims of violent terror, illegal killings, and conditions bad enough to be called TORTURE.
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Karma is real talaga pag magulang may mga winalanghiya. Ang pagpatay sa ex bayaw kong hayup na si Percy Lapid Mabasa simula palang ng hagupit ng unos sa pamilya nya. Ngayon ayan anak nya na sumunod sinisingil ng karma. Hindi tao si Percy. Imagine, namatay ang kapatid nya na ex husband ko, nilapastangan legal rights namin as his late brother's legitimate family. Mga anak kong legitimate children take note! Di sinabihang patay na papa nila. Di ba napakawalanghiya?! Kung ako lang Wala na kong pakialam sa asawa ko sa laki ng kasalanan sakin dahil sa mga pang-aabusong ginawa sakin, pero ang mga anak namin, legitimate children sila pinagkaitan ng legal rights na pasimuno hayup nasi Percy. Ngayon ayan anak nya sumunod kinarma. Baka sa susunod sa asawa na nyang si Lizang pokpok may mangyaring masama. Sana nga pati apo ni Percy magbayad sa mgakawalanghiyaang ginawa nya bago sya napatay. At eto pa, un bahay ng byenan ko sa San Beda Homes, Las Piñas, bago napatay ang Percy an yan minagic nagpagawa ng pekeng titulo nakapangalan sa pokpok na asawa nya (nanay ni Mark Mabasa). Gahaman di ba eh community property un dahil conjugal property ng magulang nila. Tanga din un pumatay sa kanya eh. Dapat sana minassacre nalang sila sa bahay sinama na pati mga apo ni Percy. Di malayong demonyo din mga un pag magsilaki kasi dugong nananalaytay. May pagmamanahan ng pagka-Satanas! Kya sumpa yan may dadating pang masasakit na unos sa buhay ng pamilya nila Percy. Lahat ng nagwalanghiya sakin hinagupit ng masakit na unos!
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More than 150,000 people have been forced from their homes in Afar as renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia threatens to spiral into a broader conflict. Tigrayan forces have seized strategic areas and airports, while clashes with federal forces have intensified. Médecins Sans Frontières reported treating at least 720 war-wounded people by September 25. The escalation is especially alarming after the devastating 2020–2022 war, during which UN investigators documented war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Global Center for the Responsibility to Protect warns that civilians again face grave risks and is calling for immediate de-escalation, humanitarian access, and renewed diplomatic efforts to prevent further atrocities.
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Rabbi Steve Leder’s attack on Adam Brody for speaking out about Gaza is deeply troubling. Brody said publicly that he believes what is happening in Gaza is genocide and that he supports a free Palestine. Leder responded by calling him a “relatively ignorant Jew,” suggesting that he knows nothing about the subject and should say nothing. I wholeheartedly share Brody’s view. What Israel has committed in Gaza constitutes genocide. Being Jewish does not require blind support for any Israeli government. On the contrary, speaking out against the immense suffering of Palestinians inflicted by the Netanyahu government is totally consistent with Jewish values. Remaining silent in the face of Israel’s atrocities is a betrayal of these values that saved the Jews throughout the millennium. Wake up, Rabbi Steve Leder; it is you who is ignorant about what Jews should stand for.
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God Bless you Adam Brody 💕
God bless, protect him and everyone who stands up for the right, For Gaza children and babies!
I see that virtually no one has an idea of what Israel’s response should’ve been after October 7. That being the case, I always wonder what these people‘s response would have been if it happened to them or their country. It’s always easy to criticize especially when you have no ideas of your own.
#freepalestine
Terrorist is not an ethnicity. It is a vocation. The term genocide is not applicable here.
It’s not a genocide. It doesn’t matter what people believe. It’s a fact.
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I hope these Rabbis completely understand how antihuman they look when they say shit like this.
Explain why Israel sends in 3000 calories of food per person per day and it’s a genocide. Then tell us why Hamas is hoarding the aid and using it to prostitute women in order for them to get food for their kids
Explain why Israel gave a million polio vaccines to gazans in 2025 of its a genocide
lol genocide is there the population goes down like what happened to European Jews during ww2 or the Armenian Christians from turkey. Palestinians population have increased.
Zionist are abominations! Palestinians are semetic people killing them is antisemitic!
Israel has to be isolated completely from the rest of the world, just like Germany in the previous century.
The truth is that you are a Kapo loser.
Steve leder is an evil person not a rabbi or a Jew
Most gews are useless, not Brody!
