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Trump, Netanyahu just proved Charlie Kirk right on 7 October attacks, Gaza?
The extraordinary mercy petition filed by Donald Trump and now Benjamin Netanyahu in the latter’s corruption cases appears to give huge legitimacy to Charlie Kirk’s public outbursts over 7 October attacks. Rifat Jawaid asks if Kirk was spot on with his analysis as he pieces together the chain of events to arrive at a fair conclusion. This wouldn’t go down well with the Republican support base of Trump in the US.
123. Israel Is Collapsing From Within - Ilan Pappé Explains Why
Is Israel beginning to collapse from within? In this in depth conversation, renowned Israeli historian Ilan Pappé explains why he believes Zionism has entered its final phase, how Israeli society is disintegrating internally, and what a just future for Palestinians and Israelis could look like.
Pappé, director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies and author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic and Israel on the Brink, draws on decades of archival research to argue that Israel is a classic settler colonial project built on ethnic cleansing, apartheid and permanent military rule over Palestinians. He details the social implosion inside Israel, the growing split between secular and religious Jews, the role of the U.S. and European powers, and why he thinks decolonization is inevitable.
We discuss 1948 and the Nakba, the Gaza war, accusations of genocide, the collapse of the two state solution, one democratic state between the river and the sea, Jewish-Palestinian coexistence, and what real decolonization might require in practice. For anyone trying to understand the future of Israel-Palestine, this is an unfiltered, long form analysis from one of the conflict’s most important dissident historians.
