Today’s podcast guest is Daoud Kuttab, an award-winning Palestinian journalist and former Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University. He is author of State of Palestine NOW: Practical and logical arguments for the best way to bring peace to the Middle East.
In this episode, we discuss the deterioration of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process since the 1993 Oslo Accords, the failures of Israeli and Palestinian leaderships in the intervening years, and what steps can be taken now to revive the peace process and work toward realizing a Palestinian state.
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Prime Minister Netanyahu does not seek a negotiated peace with the Palestinians; instead, he perpetuates constant hostilities as a means to incrementally seize ever more territory in the West Bank and Gaza—territory he knows he could never secure at the negotiating table.
Israel is committing crimes against humanity in broad daylight. In one single afternoon, several horrific human right violations in the West Bank have been perpetrated against the Palestinians: The forced emptying of entire hamlets after nights of attacks by masked settlers, escorted by soldiers, storming in, firing in the air, beating shepherds, and telling families their children will be killed if they do not flee; whole communities pack in the dark and abandon homes, herds, and memories. In others, settlers descend on villages during harvest, torching groves, smashing cars and water tanks, and assaulting farmers while soldiers stand by or join in; decades-old olive trees are left charred, a family’s only livelihood turned to ash in a single afternoon. This is and will always be Israel’s legacy.
Pam Bondi’s record as Florida’s attorney general is a cautionary tale in corruption, incompetence, and betrayal of public trust. She blurred ethical lines by using her office for political influence, accepted lavish gifts from lobbyists, misused state funds for partisan purposes, and routinely shielded Trump’s interests while pursuing his critics. She has demeaned and disgraced the Department of Justice itself. For justice and the rule of law, she should resign without delay.
Trump’s Misreading of Iranian Escalation
Trump publicly argued that overwhelming force would quickly coerce Iran and usher in regime change while keeping fighting “over there,” yet he appears not to have anticipated the breadth of Iranian retaliation against neighboring Gulf states or a prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz. The IRGC’s effective shutdown of the strait, including attacks and threats against commercial shipping, has produced global energy shocks and exposed the fragility of US planning assumptions. For Gulf leaders, this underscores how inadequate Washington’s war planning was in accounting for second- and third-order consequences. Of course, Trump will paint his misadventure in the Iran war as a success, but we know better. Sooner than later, he will pay a painful political price for his arrogance and falsehood.
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JUST MORE LIBERAL PROPAGANDA AND MISINFORMATION 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
And the people will also have to pay for his sins!
Trump is already preparing to wage war on the midterms because he is viscerally afraid of what a Democratic House would do to him. He knows that if Republicans lose the chamber, impeachment becomes not a threat but a calendar item—and if the Senate refuses to remove him, he will still be exposed as a politically crippled, humiliated lame duck. That terror drives everything: schemes to force last minute registration hurdles, weaponize proof of citizenship rules, drag federal agencies into partisan “verification,” and trample states’ constitutional control over elections. His purpose is brutally clear: strip Black, Hispanic, and immigrant communities of their voice, suppress opposition turnout, manufacture chaos, and cling to power by poisoning faith in the vote itself.
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"Democratic" says the side that didn't have a primary for Kamala 🤣🤣
Best April Fools post I've seen all day.
If he is frightened That indicates he is surely Guilty
Vote BLUE
Trump is said to have discussed firing Attorney General Pam Bondi as he grows frustrated with her leadership at the Justice Department and her handling of the Epstein files. Trump is lining them up for firing. He uses them and then throws them to the wolves.
Meir are Marxist?
No
Demadummy propaganda post…
Trump isn't afraid of anything
If democrats take both houses communism is on the way
Awe, so much bullshit to to package there. Where does one start…..
Democrats need to have more Soviet Union flags at their No KIingons rally's. That will help sway a lot more dead people votes. You know what I'm saying, Comrade?
STFU already, If Obamanation hadn't done away with the law that made lying and propaganda a felony, All this BS would not be allowed and all you libtards spreading this BS would be in jail. Liberals suck🖕
He likes to strip the law just like the children he molested.
You’re an anti-semitic idiot that has become wearisome , Blah blah blah blah blah . Hate Trump , Hate Israel , Hate Trump , Hate Israel , Hate Trump , Hate Israel . Got anything else that actually required some “logic” professor ?
TRUMP NEEDS TO DROP DEAD, WITH HIS ENTIRE REGIME...
TDS in full effect You do realize that literally every single thing the Democrats are accuse Trump of is projection How do you not see that after all of the LAWFARE attempts trying to remove him from the ballot, including the two assassination attempts Wake the fuck up when you take all this flack, it means you’re directly over the target Trump has all the goods on all of these people, including the corrupt Republicans too remember, he sees all the confidential information If Trump in the military intelligence could take down your criminal empire, you would do everything to take him out and that’s exactly what you’re seeing!
All lies
More bullshit from the left blaming Trump for everything that the Democrats started and did and now they’re trying to blame him
Trump has just boasted that if talks with Iran fail, he will “blow up and completely obliterate” the country’s power plants, oil fields, Kharg Island, and “possibly all desalination plants.” This is not a strategy; it is the unfiltered sadism of a malignant narcissist, publicly fantasizing about plunging tens of millions into thirst, darkness, and disease. Even to articulate such mass cruelty is to spit on the laws of war, on basic humanity, and on every American who believes our power should mean more than terror from the sky. It would be a textbook crime against humanity and an indelible stain on the United States. He does not care what it does to America’s image; he cares only that the world recoils in fear from him.
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go for it
Real deal maker there!
He could do more !!!
Trump has proven he means what he says. If Iran doesn't agree with never having nukes and screwing up shipping...that's on them.
Sorry you don’t want to win war!
So what’s the problem?
Evol cruel unnecessary This Malignant Narcissist is spreading death and destruction to prove his Superiority even as he falls Deeper into confusion and Dementia
Makes sense make millions of innocent Iranians suffer with no power and water. 🙄
Total lunacy…
Trump is over the line. What a criminal.
The cost of Trump’s habitual blunders
Trump’s Iran adventure is not an isolated blunder but the latest, and perhaps most explosive, expression of his assault on an already fragile global order. By discarding restraint, sidelining allies, and weaponizing American power for short-term political gain, he has accelerated the erosion of US credibility, fractured Western alliances, and opened new strategic space for Russia and China. The Gulf States are simply the newest casualties of this disorder: their cities struck, economies shaken, and security assumptions shattered. Whatever emerges from this war, it will not be a restored status quo, but a more fragmented, volatile Middle East in which Israel and the United States confront a diminished margin for error and a far narrower circle of willing, trusting partners.
Continue reading: alonben-meir.com/writing/an-ominous-reckoning-for-the-gulf-states/
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Zelenskyy has made his choices plain. Alliances are being realigned.
The World Today 💔 😭 Imagine a showdown between Jesus and Genghis Khan, with Na5hanyahu as the commentator: "In this corner, Jesus, the Prince of Peace, with followers of... um, let's say, 'spiritual influencers'. And in the other corner, Genghis Khan, the Gulf warlord, with followers of... well, a lot of destroyed citizens and cities. Who will win? According to Na5hanyahu, it's a no-brainer, billionaire Genghis Khan, hands down 😂 By The Editor Maurice Modupeh Taylor MSc US Trained Evangelist
And the Gulf nations supported the US onslaught
Fake news
THE TROUBLE WITH ALL JIHADISTS IS THAT THEY CONSIDER CHRISTIANS WEAK BECAUSE OF THEIR LOVE WALK!!! THEY PREFER ALLÃH AS "GOD" BECAUSE THE PRINCE OF DECEIVERS ALLOWS THEM TO MURDER, RAPE, LIE, AND STEAL AS LONG AS THE VICTIM IS AN UNBELIEVER OF ISLAM!!! AND THEY HOPE TO GET REWARDED FOR THEIR EVIL DEEDS, ESPECIALLY SHOULD THEY GET MARTYRED FOR THE SAKE OF ALLÃH IN SUICIDE BOMBINGS!!! WHAT NEVER ENTERS THEIR MINDS IS THAT RIGHTEOUS MEN WILL STAND UP AGAINST THEIR TYRANNY, AND BRING A HALT TO THEIR BLOODLUST AND OBSESSION FOR GLOBAL INTIFADA!!! SINCE THE WEAK WEST HAS ALREADY CAPITULATED TO MUSLIM INVASION FOR FEAR OF ISLAMAPHOBIA, IT INFURIATES YOU THAT DONALD TRUMP AND BENJAMIN NETANYAHU SHOULD STAND UP AGAINST YOUR JIHAD AND SLOW DOWN THE RAPID ARRIVAL OF YOUR MAHDI, THE BIBLICAL ANTICHRIST!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
.A great example of how sick the TDS brain is .. they clutch pearls over $200 billion to end a 47 year war... but were just fine with the Biden Administration’s student debt cancellation policies that cost $870 billion to $1.4 trillion. JUST TO BUY VOTES..
Pourquoi que L’Iran attaque pas la demeure de Trump en Floride et tout ce qu’il possède il a détruit et tuer une école d’enfants et violer et tuer le Leader de L’Iran et il est très dangereux complètement en délire S.O.S Arrêtez tout suite Trump avant qu’il pèse sur le Bouton Nucléaire Il a plus rien a perdre et il va tuer tout ce qui est vivant pour vaincre et vengeance qu’il a en lui Svp 🙏 arrêtez le et mettre en prison tout suite pour sauver tout les pays et enfants qui il a tuer et les gens Faites Vite je vous en supplie avant qu’il soit trop tard Arrêtez le massacre et ce tueur Maintenant
FAKE NEWS AND PROPAGANDA
This slop article has no clue what is actually happening 🙄 your corrupt new world order is getting trashed, the corruption exposed, energy unleashed, currency that will change, power back to the people and this doofus Alon wants the rest of the retards to panic. 🙄 GFY
Still pédophilie lier killer pédophilie lier
