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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Full bio
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.
Today’s podcast guest is Aaron David Miller, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Between 1978 and 2003, he served at the State Department as an historian, analyst, negotiator, and advisor to Republican and Democratic secretaries of state, where he helped formulate U.S. policy on the Middle East and the Arab-Israel peace process, most recently as the senior advisor for Arab-Israeli negotiations.
In this episode, we discuss the current state of Israeli-Palestinian affairs and what the prospects are for peace, including regionally, what we may see from the upcoming elections in Israel, the current status of the Iran war and its implications for the region, the Gulf states’ concerns about their security in the war’s aftermath, Israel’s gains and losses from the war, and the state of US foreign policy under Trump toward the region.
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TRUMP’S AMERICA: RUIN, RAGE, AND RECKLESSNESS
Trump’s method is simple: lie, blame, threaten, repeat. He still claims elections were rigged, attacks the press for exposing his failures, and blames Biden for an economy now shaped by his own policies. As inflation rises and Americans face growing insecurity, Trump offers no credible exit from the war with Iran—only threats to “annihilate” it. While the country strains under economic and political turmoil, he pursues monuments, spectacle, and self-glorification. America has endured grave crises before. But it has rarely faced a president so willing to wreck its institutions, endanger its security, and call the devastation leadership.
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Uniparty endeavor
We’re fucked for at least a decade
Coming from a successfully brainwashed libtard 😂
NAZA DIRECTORS FACING DEATH THREATS
FOR THEIR DOCUMENTARY EXPOSING ISRAEL’S ATROCITIES IN GAZA
Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor have not returned home, fearing for their safety after death threats and an escalating official campaign against them. Their documentary NAZA documents Israeli military killings of Palestinian civilians and utter devastation of Gaza. Rather than answer its revelations, Netanyahu has backed proposed legislation targeting Israelis who “defame” soldiers abroad. Culture Minister Miki Zohar has called for revoking their citizenship, while military lawyers have considered legal action. The threat is chilling. A democracy that punishes artists for exposing alleged atrocities is not defending itself—it is silencing conscience. Israelis must resist this assault on truth before fear becomes state policy.
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Ahhh, yes, this is the documentary I have been waiting to see. Does anyone have a link?
Will hopefully see this film soon but what it will show me will not surprise me. I have followed the story of Palestine for many years. If anyone doubts what kind of society Israel is you just have to look and listen to any political speech made by the Prime Minister or any official of that country. To see these threats against their own people for making a film and sharing truth is justification that they never were and never will be ‘the chosen people’…. I hope these brave Jewish film makers stay safe……thank you both for such bravery ❤️🇵🇸🇵🇸
To do such important work in the face of potential ostracisation (at best), but potentially far worse, is commendably brave. Dissenting Israeli voices are so important. We see you and are grateful for you, for the proof that basic humanity flowers in even the most rotten of societies.
GOD BLESS THEM
May God keep them safe
They are heroes already. They are brave.
Hoping that they will be safe.
😡 נתניהו אשם והעם משלם 😡
How can Israel figth the perfect war without harming anyone ? Has any one a solution here ?
Stand firm and take care ❤. Looking forward to seeing your film
Bravery on display. They have made it available for free.
I'm sure they went into the project knowing this would be the outcome but knew the film was more important .
הבית שלהם בעזה לא בישראל
אין לחזור לארץ. תישארו שם בין כל המוסלמים החביבים שצועקים נגד אלימות אבל הם הטרוריסטים הכי גדולים ביקום. פאק יו 2 !
They're in the lions den. I pray for their safety. Bless them for exposing the truth.
Death threats merely illuminate problem that the two directors seek to expose.
עדיף להם להתאסלם.כאן אין להם לאן לחזור. בני ז....ת צואה של חזירים. ימאח שמם
שתי נבלות ,בוגדים ,לכלא לשפוט בכל הדין למצות לזרוק למרתפים ולהעלים ,בושה שהם ישראלים בכלל ,בעיקר ערב רב נצר לרשעים
Heros of humanity 💪
נאחל להם שלא יקומו בבוקר ואם כן שיקומו עם מחלה קשה שתאכל אותם מבפנים .
שימשכו לפחד להגיע לארץ
Страх станет политикой государства, если и дальше управлять страной будет нынешняя коалиция
Courageous
אין להם בית לחזור איליו. הם לא חלק מעם ישראל שיעברו לגור בטורקיה או באירן
They knew that would happen and they still made it because they knew the troth had to be told so. Courage and commitment
NETANYAH’S CATASTROPHIC FAILURE - TO HEED WARNINGS OF HAMAS’ ATTACK
More than a year ago, I wrote in World Affairs that Netanyahu had received repeated warnings of an imminent Hamas attack—from Egypt’s intelligence chief Abbas Kamel, Israeli border observers, and, reportedly, UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed, who called days before October 7 to warn of Hamas’ planned onslaught. Netanyahu ignored them. Whether this reflected catastrophic negligence or something more deliberate remains unproven. But his failure to act preceded the October 7 massacre and the devastating Gaza war that followed, amid grave war crimes and crimes against humanity. Israel now confronts mounting condemnation and growing isolation. Netanyahu’s failure has deeply damaged Israel’s moral standing—and he must pay a grave political price.
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Not a failure, his plan all along.
He was planning it
Klempo čifute jedi govna
Bla bla bla
ISRAEL’S BEST MINDS ARE FLEEING THEIR COUNTRY’S MORAL RUIN
Israel is driving out the people it can least afford to lose. Since 2023, nearly 200,000 Israelis have emigrated from Israel, including doctors, engineers, scientists, and high-tech professionals—an accelerating brain drain that weakens the country’s future. They are not fleeing insecurity or economic uncertainty. Many are abandoning a state sinking ever deeper into moral catastrophe resulting from its malicious devastation of Gaza and the never-ending dispossession of Palestinians in the West Bank. A nation cannot brutalize another people, normalize impunity, and expect its own moral and social fabric to survive intact. Israel’s leaders are destroying Palestinian lives, and in doing so, it is sacrificing its best and brightest who see no future left to return to.
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I will respectfully ask for a source of information for the figure 200,000. I checked this out on Snopes and it said this figure was false. I would be truly interested in an accurate figure.
How nice that they can return to where they came from 😊
Bravo for them
Hope so!
None of it is true. Many Israeli expats went back to Israel to fight rights after October 7. Some came back after that. Israel is a center of tech innovation second only to the Silicon Valley. Despite all the trouble it remains one of the happiest countries in the world.
Alon Arashaa
Woohoo!
Lies! sadly? Not all Jews in 1930 resisited the nazis! Some collaborated.
Zionist Israel must be replaced with one united secular democratic parliamentary Palestinian state in which all the inhabitants of Palestine, Christians, Druze, Jews, Muslims all others are equal citizens under the law, with representatives in parliament, and an independent judiciary. A Jewish apartheid Israeli state is unacceptable.
“Thou shalt not steal" Exodus 20:15. And the Jews of today are stealing the Palestinian lands. God is moral. Exile is coming again. No wonder they were exiled for 3000 years.
I'M surprised there allowed in any other country,
Yes but it is assumed they are leaving because they have a moral compass but it seems they are escaping danger and infiltrating other countries creating their exclusive communities and still supporting the bad behavior of Israel. The pattern is to enjoy the advantages of living elsewhere while supporting and financing Israel. That is how the USA ended up controlled by Israel thanks to American Jewish Zionists money. Israeli immigration to Greek Cyprus is a nightmare for the indigenous people there.
At some point (like in the USA) people will have to look back and see how depraved their society became to allow someone like BB or TRUMP. Against any morals or decency
FACT is... Israel is a failed social experiment. A nation of fuckn vampires and ghouls.
