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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Italy is facing a human rights challenge before the European Court of Human Rights after releasing a Libyan warlord wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity. The case raises profound questions about accountability, victims` rights, and whether political and security interests can override international legal obligations.
Today’s podcast guest is Hon. Lise Pearlman (ret.), a former California trial lawyer and first Presiding Judge of the California State Bar Court. Following her retirement from the bench, Judge Pearlman has become a best-selling author and nationally recognized speaker on famous 20th century trials whose books have won multiple awards in the categories of law, U.S. History, and multicultural nonfiction.
In this episode, we discuss her book With Justice for Some: Politically Charged Criminal Trials of the Early 20th Century That Helped Shape Today’s America and a few of the significant cases detailed within, and delve into the injustices surrounding each trial and how they have impacted the American legal system.
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The Palestinians’ lives under occupation are becoming ever more unbearable. They face systemic denial of building permits, making “illegal construction” almost unavoidable; Israel then deploys demolitions and forced displacement to clear “strategic” areas. From November 2023 to October 2024, at least 1,779 Palestinian structures were mercilessly demolished in the West Bank, forcibly displacing 4,527 people and further shrinking Palestinian territorial presence. At the same time, Israel advanced plans for more than 10,300 housing units in West Bank settlements, supporting at least 49 new outposts, alongside plans for over 20,000 units in East Jerusalem. These illicit activities serve the project of territorial reengineering designed to obliterate Palestinian roots from their land, preempting the emergence of a viable Palestinian state.
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A war launched to reshape the Middle East has instead exposed the limits of force—and the cost of misunderstanding a nation that has spent millennia learning how to endure
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Four years into a full-scale war, the stakes here are not only territorial; they are about whether brutal force will once again be accepted as a legitimate instrument of expansionist power. They reveal a broader pattern: an international community that documents, debates, and deplores—but rarely intervenes to halt, redress, or prevent conflicts before they erupt. Our problem is not a lack of information; it is a lack of will. The UN Security Council debates and adopts resolutions that are largely ignored. Peacekeeping missions are deployed with mandates they cannot fulfill and resources they do not receive but are blamed when they fail. Humanitarian appeals are chronically underfunded, forcing agencies into tough allocation decisions. Meanwhile, cities are shattered, children are disappearing, and the death toll on both sides is hard to grasp. And for what? Blind ambition and the illusion of grandeur drive a criminal like Putin.
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North Korea is the most total tyranny on earth. An estimated 80,000 to 120,000 people are held in political prison camps, sentenced by guilt-by-association rules that jail three generations for one relative's words. Survivors describe starvation rations forcing them to eat rodents and grass, forced abortions and infanticide targeting repatriated women, public executions staged for children to watch, and torture designed to extract confessions to invented crimes. Famine returns while the state funds missiles. Radios are fixed to one channel, informants are neighbors, and leaving without permission is treason. A UN inquiry concluded these crimes against humanity have no parallel in the contemporary world, and named the leadership responsible. More than a decade later, no one has been tried. The camps have not closed. They have simply been forgotten. And Trump is in love with Kim Ju-nun, the orchestrator of this horror on earth.
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