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Understanding Israel Palestine
This show is inspired by Citizens for Justice in the Middle East, a local group that has advocated for 20 years for a fair and even-handed U.S. foreign policy that recognizes the rights of both Palestinians and Israelis. Our program offers interviews with journalists, scholars, policy experts and activists to offer multiple perspectives, and to clarify the underlying issues that are often obscured by headline news.
The Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, historian Rashid Khalidi discusses the current Israel-Hamas war in the context of the past century of Israeli settler colonialism and Palestinian resistance. The current war has seen Israel push Palestinians in Gaza from the north to the south and is another step in a process of ethnic cleansing and depopulation long pursued by Zionist forces and the Israeli state, with the support first of Great Britain and later the United States. Khalidi notes the growth of Hamas stems from the failure of the U.S. -sponsored peace process over the past 30 years to deliver an independent Palestinian state. He says one-sided U.S. support for Israel has consistently undermined the prospects of peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
This program has updated news briefs but is otherwise the same as the program with the same named aired six. weeks earlier.
