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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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.
Rwanda-backed M23 fighters have killed, tortured, arbitrarily detained and forced artisanal miners to work at gold and coltan mines in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to new Amnesty International research. Amnesty documented the summary killing of 18 miners at two mining sites and says minerals from M23-controlled areas are being trafficked into neighboring Rwanda with assistance from Rwandan authorities. The organization warns that the alleged plunder may amount to a war crime. The findings also raise questions for global supply chains: coltan is essential to electronics used worldwide. Amnesty is urging governments and companies to stop purchasing Rwandan gold and coltan until they demonstrate effective safeguards against trafficked Congolese minerals.
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Medicaid Changes Leave Nebraskans Without Health Coverage
More than 1,000 Nebraskans lost or were denied Medicaid coverage between May and August after the state became the first to implement new federally mandated work requirements, according to Human Rights Watch. The consequences can be serious: HRW documented a 64-year-old kidney cancer patient whose treatment was delayed after he lost coverage because he was not working, despite being unable to work because of his health. Confusion over exemptions, inadequate training and administrative problems are also affecting patients and state workers. With similar requirements due nationwide by January 2027, HRW warns Nebraska may offer an early glimpse of how bureaucratic barriers could cost eligible Americans their healthcare.
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Hundreds of ICE deportation flights are moving people across the United States and around the world each month, but much of this system remains difficult for the public to see. Human Rights First’s ICE Flight Monitor is changing that by tracking routes, destinations and transfers using aviation data and other verified sources. In June alone, the project documented 288 removal flights to 36 countries. The monitor also tracks transfers to third countries and movements between U.S. detention facilities. This matters because transparency can help families locate loved ones, assist attorneys representing detainees, and allow journalists and advocates to scrutinize whether immigration enforcement complies with legal and human-rights protections.
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The more flights and illegals deported, the safer and less expensive life is for Americans.
Isn't it interesting that before this no one was tracking or caring about the mass illegal migration of foreign invaders sneaking into our country as much as they seem to be now tracking where or how we kick them out? 🤔 The implications of treason against America here is grand!
LEFTY LOONEY NONSENSE PEDDLED BY GRIFTERS FOR UNEDUCATED FOOLS‼️🚫🫏🚫
Biden caused this mess. Now talk about the thousands of Americans raped and murdered by illegal alien thugs Biden let across the border for 4 years!!! And don't forget the hundreds killed and injured by illegal alien truckers and drunk drivers!! Look it up yourself, if you dare. US Customs and Border Protection website, cbp.gov. Huge jumps in all categories under Biden. And the few cases that actually make the news. Or you could stay in your little shell of an uneducated world. Your choice.
They came here illegally, they leave by whatever means necessary
Get them out of the USA o
Millions of Americans voted for Donald Trump believing he would lower costs and improve their economic lives. Now, a new AP-NORC poll finds 65% of U.S. adults say Trump’s policies bear significant responsibility for persistently high prices, while only 17% approve of his handling of the cost of living. For many families, the economy is no longer about campaign promises or political slogans. It is about what they can put on the dinner table, whether they can pay their rent, afford healthcare, or fill their gas tank. The real measure of economic policy is ultimately how it affects people’s everyday lives.
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Which is odd, given I have an easier time putting food on the table under Trump than I do Biden
Every American should read this. I know what caused the problems do you. Since the early sixties in America, we went to the moon. We won all "major" world wars that we were in with our Allies. Backed down the Soviet Union in the Cold War during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Things like the VCR's/TV/Color TV/Microwaves/and many inventions since the 50's gave us a great life. We had the best "public schools " in the world. We had a moral compass to ourselves and our children. We went to the larger cities and shopped and saw the sights without being scared of crime. We road bikes and camped out in the neighborhoods and stayed out sometimes till dark. We had the best comradery in all sports in high school, college, and professional sports. No stabbings, fighting or shootings at these events. We never had drive-by shootings. We didn't have smash and grab. We didn't have carjacking. We didn't have home evasions. We didn't have school shootings. We didn't have people shoving people on too rail tracks at "substations" or cutting their throats on MRT transportation. We didn't have games like "knock out the old people". We didn't have street takeovers, we respected the law instead of shooting, fighting and running away from them. We had people that wanted to work instead of getting handouts. In 1965 our national debt was around 350 billion. Now it is 40 "trillion" dollars because of special interest groups, fraud, waste and bucket voting. Our cheerleaders in school didn't hunch the air and make love to an invisible person. "twerking". We wore our pants around our waist and tattoos were barely done. Queer Drag Queens didn't read books to our kids. Men were Men and Women were Women. No open borders and flooding our country with illegal immigrants just to get votes. Just because you become a citizen doesn't make you an American. Most believe they owe their allegiance or main heritage to another country not ours. Could go on forever. If you don't think how our nation is changing for the worst, you need a brain implant. LBJ needed votes, so he implemented along with the sick democratic liberal party the Voting Act of 1965. A bill that allowed blacks to vote without problems. Today however they have never recognized a day or even mention a thank you for the 620,000 lives lost and bodies mangled that freed them and never will. This bill led to the decay of our cities and towns and our systems of governing local, state and federal. It has been used in demographic voting to elect terrible governors, mayors, and have elected people to Congress who could not govern a cool aid stand. These people elected to Congress have become activist, troublemakers and pure racist. Some actually hate our country. Some were not born here, and you cannot spell or pronounce their names. Some hate the original governing culture and want to cancel it. The liberals cared more about getting votes that what was best for our nation. LBJ said in his memoirs that this bill would forever change the landscape of America and destroy the governing powers given to us by our founding fathers. Brazil who used to give game shows vacations giveaways in Rio opened their borders in 1971 and now the country is a hell hole. Remember this. In all wars foreign and domestic that Americans have been involved in since and before 1776 "85 percent" of the blood spilled and lives lost have been from the "white" culture. Respect your culture people and wake up. Fact checks. Military Lives lost by race by Americans in the Achieves in Washington DC. Americans you have had the "SALAD BOWL" idea shoved down your throat for decades. It doesn't work without a cultural guidance that our Constitutional framers gave us. Some people of this nation feel they are owed something and others want something. If they can't have it. They will take it. Some have a thirst they can't quench. Others have an itch they can't scratch. They destroy our statues, take our religious beliefs from our schools, kneel down and protest our national anthem and burn our flags. Don't give your nation away it's not too late. Vote these crazy idiots and anomalies who are not needed at all in our nation out of office these midterms and all elections. Please copy and paste. See less
The dems didn’t give you lower prices. How people forget.
When prices were almost double under Biden the pos I didn't hear no one complain you stupid people
Of course Trump, Vance & their 2025 Plan plus Trump's beautiful bill, are directly responsible for what the majority in the country are going through with ever rising inlation.
Maybe if he got a little cooperation from liberals it wouldn't be this way. The level of hatred in this country from liberals is amazing. They fight harder against this country then they do for it.
This is a lie! By the way the Democrats have an 86% disapproval!
Liars.🥱
Naaa....I blame dividers like you Alon, you can get good mental health therapy at Rula.com.
TRUMP HAS NO PROBLEM HOSITNG BIG EXPENSIVE STATE DINNERS
60% are mental socialist turds that are lazy ass motherfuckers that choose not to work!
fake news
he said ..I love poorly educated
Ridiculous. Democrats are 100% responsible for all of it.
Still leaves 35% that are fucking idiots.
In my opinion Trump is a spoiled toddler who is always taking a temper tantrum for any reason. Although he and his "government friends" are absolutely incompetent and stupid they have always pulled stuff right out of the book of Hitler. While Hitler was 100× smarter than they are, Trump and his buddies are the same, a bunch of delusional madmen. 1. Hitler created the SS to round up foreigners and people against him. Trump recreated and altered I.C.E to round up foreigners and intimidate anyone who supports foreigners or other political parties. Both were/are allowed to commit murder with no consequences. 2. Hitler silenced the press so he could control the Naxi propaganda machine to brainwash the public and only allow them to hear what he wanted. Trump is presently starting the same thing. 3. Hitler used his assassination attempts to make people think that a super being or power was protecting him so he could lead the country to victory. Trump's staged BS assassination attempts are a facade to accomplish the same support and belief. 4. Hitler sent the Nazi army and the SS to overtake election polling stations to deter and intimidate and even arrest non Nazi voters from going and voting. Trump is planning the same thing. 5. Hitler created the mother's award for a select population for Aryan Race mothers with a financial gain. To qualify they had to be in his inner circle or married to ranking officers in the army. Trump has offered extra child bonuses to white high class families. 6. Hitler simply executed those who thought or acted against him. Trump fires them, sues them, or financially destroys them, since simply killing them today would be too obvious. 7. Hitler built a huge bunker system as a last defense against both his own people who may turn on him (IE: The Resistance Fighters) and the enemies. Trump's big beautiful ball room is now including a bunker. Which is ridiculous because the Whitehouse already has a bunker. 8. Hitler created ties with communist countries to strengthen is allegiance create a fake friendship so he wouldn't have to worry about them, and gain war knowledge then he tried to destroy them. Trump is making friends with Putin, Xi Jinping, and Kim Jong Un after all his spewing political and financial crap towards them. There are several documentaries, but you should watch a documentary called "To Kill A Dictator (Hitler Before the War), The rise of Hitler, The Nazi war machine, Doctor Death - Dr. Mengele, The Aryan Race, Secret Nazi Science. 1000% exactly what Trump is doing play by play, right out of the book written by Hitler himself. Anyone who does not see the similarities is blind, deaf, and dumb!
It would be a lifetime of struggle under the Democrats. VOTE RED!!!
The other 35% is what Trump calls HIS “POORLY EDUCATED” and apparently they are too “POORLY EDUCATED” to figure out HE keeps calling THEM STUPID!
TROLL TROLL TROLL AWAY!
Perhaps the reason that groceries are so expensive is because of the millions of illegal alien invaders and lazy welfare grifters get theirs for free that I pay for with my tax dollars.
PTICES ARE HIGHER NOW THAN EVER UNDER TRUMP AND NOW BECAUSE OF TRUMPS IRAN WAR AND THE COST OF DIESAL- TRUCKERS ARE NOW ON STRIKE. NOW EVERYTHING WILL RISE AGAIN. YUP! TRUMP HAS DONE THAT TOO!
