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.
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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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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REPRESSION DOESN’T STOP AT THE BORDER
More than 130 UN human rights experts are sounding the alarm over the growing use of transnational repression—governments targeting critics, journalists, activists, and human rights defenders even after they flee abroad. The tactics are chilling: killings, torture, harassment, arbitrary detention, travel bans, threats against family members, misuse of INTERPOL Red Notices, and increasingly, digital surveillance and spyware. No government should be allowed to export repression across borders with impunity. States must investigate abuses, hold perpetrators accountable, regulate surveillance technologies, and strengthen protection for those at risk. Seeking safety abroad should mean safety—not living under the continued reach and intimidation of an abusive government.
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130 UN Human Rights experts? Was Iran represented on this panel of “experts”?🙄😂🤣
There are other borders. Try crossing them
We do not care. In fact we should be more like Poland. Use rifles on invaders.
You can call Enforcing our Laws and Protecting our Citizens anything you want. Won't stop us.
The UN has no authority over our borders,,, PERIOD
UN bullshit!
Ahhh you're jewish aren't you? I think Israel needs to open up their borders to multiculturalism. Diversity can be their strength.
And the ONE WORLD ORDER people have spoken. They want countries ashamed for not allowing masses of people walking into your country.
Transnational repressions of illegal aliens? Send them home and there is no transnational B.S.
Tell Mexico and all Mexicans to fix viva Mexico
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.
Fk the UN too.
UN DATABASE: 214 COMPANIES LINKED TO ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS
The UN Human Rights Office has added 61 companies to its database of businesses involved in activities linked to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, bringing the total to 214 companies across 11 countries. The UN says these business activities raise serious concerns over violations of Palestinian human rights. The continued expansion and economic entrenchment of settlements must be unequivocally condemned. Businesses should not profit from activities that contribute to dispossession, displacement, or violations of fundamental rights. Governments and corporations must ensure accountability and respect for international law. Palestinian civilians deserve the same protection, dignity, and basic human rights afforded to all people. These companies must not be allowed to operate with impunity while gross human rights violations are committed in broad daylight.
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Please publish the list!
We want names and countries
Please publish which ones.
Give us the names
Companies listed here www.ohchr.org/en/business/bhr-database
Yes, List names.
Motorola, remax, trip advisor hayovel, friends of ir David, Expedia, booking holdings, Airbnb www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session63/advance...
Name the companies!
What a surprise!
there is a lot more than that
This just shows the economic power when a civilized society makes proper use of land
We want the list so we can support these companies.
"Database of Business Enterprises Pursuant to Human Rights Council Resolutions 31/36 and 53/25" www.ohchr.org/en/business/bhr-database
214 businesses i will do business with ...
Aftonbladet Expressen Ekstra Bladet VG Aftenposten The Guardian Reuters The Irish Post
It is all the companies we use to make travel and accommodation arrangements! Bummer. Would appreciate a list of alternatives to use instead.
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Looking at the list, I see things like Booking.com and Airbnb. I hope that bookings through those companies in Israel go to Israel. I have used them, sadly.
www.google.com/search?q=list+%C2%A0of+companies+financing+the+settlements+in+israel&sca_esv=0187d...
Take a moment to read another excellent post, this one by Aino Lahdenperä…. Gazans reap what they sow. None of the war would have happened, had Gazans supported peace and opposed terrorism. They chose otherwise - they chose terrorism and war. They also chose to put their civilians into terrorist locations - i.e. into legal military targets - in order to protect terrorists. No one else but the people of Gaza are responsible for their society, government and the actions of that government. Hamas would not be in power without widespread support from the people of Gaza. Also, no government can stay in power if majority of people oppose it. Gazans have already for 20 years failed to oppose terrorism and stand up for peace and democracy. Allowing terrorism is not a human right. Allowing terrorism makes you complicit in terrorism. By allowing terrorism, you give up your rights. Because the rights of your victim to defend itself overrides your rights.
NAME THEM NOW!!
Definitely needs to be published asap for the world to see!👍🤗🙏🥰
ISRAELIS MUST RISE TO STOP CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY COMMITTED IN THEIR NAME
Israel’s assault on Palestinians is a moral catastrophe that demands outrage, not silence. International pressure is essential, but Israelis themselves must rise and categorically denounce these crimes committed in their name. Their government is not merely harming Palestinians; it is destroying the moral foundations on which Israel was created and staining the conscience of the Jewish people everywhere. Its dehumanization of Palestinians imperils its future and raises profound questions about its own right to exist. Israelis cannot merely mourn or dissent quietly. They must organize, resist, protest, and strike. They must demand an immediate end to state brutality. If they don’t, they will be left with a hollowed-out state, unworthy of its name, and pay the ultimate price.
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G-d will bless you. 🙏
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Easy....Give up your Guns....You'll get more help than you can deal with.
That's no better than when the Iraqis were asked to rise up against Saddam Hussain after the first Bush war. Knives against machine guns, tanks and artillery.
If those that are saying that Israel is carrying out Genocide for almost 3 years in Gaza, my question is if the intent of Israel is to carry out a Genocide, then why is there over 1 million Gaza’s located in tent encampments within open areas less then a minute by war planes, why are those in the encampment not dead, 500,000 Killed in Syria not a Genocide, 500,000 Killed in Sudan not a Genocide, 377,000 Killed in Yemen not a Genocide, Over 10 000 gunned down in one day in Iran not a word.
Here are statistics and facts to disprove the lies of "genocide" or "ethnic cleansing" by Israel in Gaza. In 1967, when Israel took over Gaza, it had a population of 360,000. Today its population is two million. Is that “genocide”? Is that "ethnic cleansing."? The only ethnic cleansing that has ever taken place in Gaza was in 2005 when Israel removed every last Jew out of the Israeli developed Gaza Strip as a sacrifical peace offering to the Palestinians. That was a deliberate ethnic cleanding of Jews by Israel to make way for a peaceful Palestinian future in Gaza. As for today, demographics will prove that by the end of 2026 there will be more people in Gaza today than were living there five years ago, even accounting for 40,000 dead Palestinian terrorists. In short. No "genocide." This is based on official UN, Save the Children figures as well as the Palestinian Center Bureau of Statistics which point to 130 births a day in Gaza. Therefore, claims of "ethnic cleansing" and "genocide" lack honesty and are deliberate emotion-based lies meant to falsely blacken Israel's reputation undertaken by Jew haters. Even Jew haters in high places.
You know..... the kibbutz that were attacked on Oct 7, 2023..... were filled with Jews who supported Gaza and the palestinian people. They slaughtered them. Used the time they worked in the kibbutz, mapped out the layout and gave it to Hamas. Just saying. Palestinians would NEVER differentiate between a Jew against a FAKE genocide and a Jew who fought for their country.
Here is what i think about the ""Gaza fake genocide".... every word is the truth, 2 years worth of research. 73,000 deaths, 58,000 of those HAMAS, leaves 15,000 civilian deaths. THIS IS STILL TRAGIC.... however, Israel sends text messages, drops leaflets and makes phone calls to warn the people, before they take out a Hamas stronghold. The IDF stopped the DEFENSIVE war, in Sept 2024 to Vaccinate 1.6 million Palestinians for Polio, they have removed thousands of children to get them help, provided MILLIONS of tons worth of aid, the UN even just came out and said Gazans are FAT. ISRAEL was brutally attacked by PALESTINIANS on Oct 7, 2023, hamas knew they wouldn't win, so they videotaped everything, and then on Oct 8, started screaming about "genocide". GENOCIDE HAS A DEFINITION..... losing a WAR, does NOT equal genocide. Only people pushing a GLOBAL INTIFADA, Jew/ Israel hate are screaming about a FAKE GENOCIDE. Stop using lies to push fake sympathy for a WAR THEY STARTED. ANY INNOCENT DEATH IS NOT OK.... BUT..... the blame lies squarely on HAMAS. The GOVERNMENT OF GAZA, who has built their military bases UNDERGROUND, beneath 2.1 million people. 600 kms worth of tunnels underneath a 8km x 41km piece of land. They dress in civilian clothes, use homes, schools, mosques and hospitals as their hide outs and took 251 HOSTAGES, INJURED 6,000, and SLAUGHTERED 1300 They raped, tortured, burned alive, necrophelia, families were forced to commit sexual acts on each other while LIVE STREAMED to the world and then murdered.... they cut the beasts off women, cut babies out of pregnant women, tied families up and burned them alive, tied up to trees and mass r@ped women AND men at the Nova Music Festival, using foreign objects and complete destroying their low bodies. They fired THOUSANDS rockets, attacked at 6:29 am on the MOST HOLY DAY of the year for Jews, went for innocent farming communities..... 6,000 Palestinians crossed into Israel, 126 locations..... INNOCENT PEOPLE..... because they were JEWS, thats it, its right in Hamas charter. Now tell me..... WHY am I supposed to care when the people who CHEERED in the streets of Gaza, held hostages and NEVER ONCE HELPED..... WHY am I supposed to care about anything other than their soul for the Kingdom of God? Do children under 12 deserve it? No.... but 98% of the people in Gaza, on Oct 8, 2023 SUPPORTED the attack on Israel..... So STUFF your "poor Palestinian" garbage up your ass. Am Yisrael Chai♥️🇮🇱♥️ I am a Non Jewish, Biblical Zionist and a Canadian 🇨🇦 I stand with the Jews and with ISRAEL. Long live the IDF, the most moral army in the world.💪🇮🇱💪
Yes!! Most Agents of The Pakistani ISI Agree.
And being a descendant of Holocaust Survivors makes you an expert on anything, how exactly?😂
I agree. Thank G-d Israel is crushing the genocidal dreams of the Gazan terrorists.
VOTE NETANYAHU OUT WAR CRIMINAL !
Once we stop fale news, this should also settle down nicely.
‼️Alon Ben-Meir - you are a self hating shameful “Jew”, spreading vicious lies about your own people. What is your end game exactly??😡
They are not just quiet, they are encouraging and approving this nightmare.
Sadly, we're seeing more Jews in the US protesting the genocide than in Israel where STILL over 70% approve of what was done in Gaza and 14% think the government didn't go far enough.
What is a "Free Palestine' when it's ruled by Hamas terrorists? What borders do you consider to be "Palestine"? What should happen to Jews currently living there? What do you say to Israel is less than 1% of middle east land mass - why can't Palestinians find anywhere suitable within the 99% that shares the same religion of peace?
These goofs are afraid of tgeir own shadow
Leftists refuse to ever learn. More the fools, them.
The worst of the useful idiots.
Tell the Paleswine to stop slaughtering Jews.
