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The Shortwave Report June 7, 2024

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2024 29:00

This week's show features stories from UAE, France 24, Deutsche-Welle, and Radio Havana Cuba. http://youthspeaksout.net/swr240607.mp3 (29:00) From UAE- Afshin spoke with retired US Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell. They start off talking about the increasing risk of the use of nuclear weapons triggered by the wars in Ukraine and Palestine. They discuss who is complicit in the massive number of deaths in Gaza, US politicians attacking the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice, and who was involved in the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. Wilkerson criticizes the new policy of Ukraine using US weapons for attacks inside Russian borders. From FRANCE- A report on demonstrations against the war in Gaza in the French Parliament and on the streets of many French cities. Israel bombed a school housing displaced Palestinians in central Gaza run by the United Nations. From GERMANY- UN Secretary-General Guterres called for taxes on fossil fuel companies to help pay for the fight against climate change. Then an interview with a climate scientist from California about the latest World Meteorological Organization report on the 1.5 degree C warming threshold known as the Paris agreement. From CUBA- A UN Climate executive says that the increasing use of renewable energy is making pledges at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change conference made last year possible. In Mexico, the resounding victory of president elect Claudia Sheinbaum was hailed widely. The US Congress voted to sanction the International Criminal Court over the arrest warrant for Netanyahu. Available in 3 forms- (new) HIGHEST QUALITY (160kb)(33MB), broadcast quality (13MB), and quickdownload or streaming form (6MB) (28:59) Links at outfarpress.com/shortwave.shtml PODCAST!!!- https://feed.podbean.com/outFarpress/feed.xml (160kb Highest Quality) Website Page- < http://www.outfarpress.com/shortwave.shtml ¡FurthuR! Dan Roberts "Let the Palestinians run their affairs: create a situation in which no Israeli soldier will have to maintain public order, whether in Gaza or the West Bank. Let's give it to the Palestinians, as long as there is security for us. No more occupying another people." -Yitzhak Rabin Dan Roberts Shortwave Report- www.outfarpress.com YouthSpeaksOut!- www.youthspeaksout.net

Hard Right Jewish Religio-Ethnic Nationalism. Rabbi Meir Kahane. Reposting.

StocktonAfterClass

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2024 34:56

The Israeli election of November, 2022 brought into the Knesset some of the most extreme individuals in that country's history. To bring himself back into office, Netanyahu brought them into his cabinet. (Smotrich and Bin Gvir get the most attention, but there are others). These were people who had been brought up in the shadow of Rabbi Meir Kahane. Kahane had been banned from office and Netanyahu's new allies had also seen their party banned. But they had reconstituted themselves into a new configuration and evaded the ban. With the horrendous attacks of October 7 and the brutal Gaza war that followed, suddenly the thinking of those religio-nationalists has moved closer to the center of the political system. (Note: 1200 Israelis and Israeli-linked workers were killed on October 7. 22,000 Palestinians are dead as of early January, 2024, 70% being women and children). This is a reposting of an earlier podcast outlining the ideology of Rabbi Kahane. Kahane was born in Brooklyn but moved to Israel and was elected to the Knesset. He was later assassinated. At the time, his views were considered shockingly extreme. He was widely renounced by American Jews and by Israelis. (Note that someone of his thinking had conducted the Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre in Hebron in February, 1994. 29 Muslims had been killed on the first day of Ramadan, plus ten more sot by Israeli soldiers in the aftermath). And someone of this mind-set also assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin). I heard Kahane speak twice in the Detroit area in the early 1980s. I also read two of his books, Time to Go Home [a call for Americans Jews to escape to Israel before the American holocaust] and They Must Go! [ A call to expel all Palestinians so that Israel can become a Jews-only state]. Those books were chilling I also read quite a few essays by him, and one biography. As far as I can tell, those who today embrace his name and his ideas are not fundamentally different from what I heard in the 1980s. Kahane believed that anything is justified to bring the new age and to save the Jews. I thought of the accusations by radical Iraqi Jews that the 1952 bombings of synagogues were done by Zionist commandos in an effort to panic them into fleeing to Israel. I have no way to know if those accusations are correct but such a thing would surely be justified by Kahane. He was filled with hatred of Arabs, Americans and secular Jews. He believed in his cause and would do anything to achieve it. He had a definite support base in the American Jewish community, although certainly not nearly as big as the vast proportion who were hostile to him. I don't want to be inflammatory but I wrote in my notes back in the 1980s that I felt I was in a Munich beer hall in 1924 listening to Hitler polish up a speech. I have never heard anyone quite like him. Note that in the Knesset, there are religious parties connected to the rabbis. Two are United Torah Judaism (Ashkenazi) and Shas (Sephardic). These are NOT Kahanist. If you are interested in how a similar logic works out in American culture you might listen to my podcast on the Replacement Wars.

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The Case Against Benjamin Netanyahu

The Benjamin Dixon Show

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2023 2:42

Support the show by becoming a patron:Benjamin Netanyahu is widely criticized for empowering Hamas militants by strategically dividing policies between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, coupled with his passive stance towards Hamas's military actions post-2014 and his facilitation of substantial financial inflows to Gaza. This has fueled the belief among many Israelis that Netanyahu has directly bolstered the Hamas militant faction.In 2015, Netanyahu's controversial comments linking a Muslim leader to Hitler's genocide revealed a deeply entrenched suspicion, if not vilification, of Muslims. This mindset, which borders on dehumanization, provides a disturbing context to understand his decisions in the 2023 conflict, where excessive violence led to the tragic death of over 1,000 Palestinian children. Such rhetoric, underlining distrust and hostility, can dangerously rationalize aggressive actions in political leaders' minds.Netanyahu's controversial Supreme Court reforms, which he attacks by calling the court "elitist and liberal," have led to tens of thousands of Israelis protesting for over 36 weeks. These citizens voice their dissent and concerns about an encroachment on democracy, with one poignant remark capturing the sentiment: "democracy dies in a series of small steps." This significant and enduring public outcry highlights Netanyahu's waning popularity and might suggest a motive for seeking distractions from these substantive issues.Benjamin Netanyahu is embroiled in accusations involving bribery, fraud, and breach of trust with allegations that include receiving gifts worth $195,000, such as expensive cigars, champagne, and jewelry. As of June 2023, his trial, which began in May 2020, remains unresolved. In a striking parallel, Donald Trump is also currently facing his own fraud trial. For both leaders, these severe allegations present situations where they might seek external distractions to divert public scrutiny and overshadow their respective legal predicaments.Opposition leaders in Israel have accused Benjamin Netanyahu of being complicit in the assassination of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, suggesting his and others' opposition played a role in the incendiary political climate that led up to Rabin's murder. In the lead-up to Rabin's assassination, Netanyahu, then the opposition leader, attended right-wing rallies where Rabin was branded a "traitor" for signing the Oslo Accords, a peace agreement with the Palestinians. While Netanyahu has consistently denied direct involvement in inciting Rabin's murder, he has been vocal about his opposition to the Oslo Accords, expressing his belief that it was an error to make such a peace agreement with the Palestinians.Jewish American activists, led by groups such as IfNotNow and Jewish Voice for Peace, staged significant demonstrations against the aggressive policies of Prime Minister Netanyahu's right-wing Israeli government towards Hamas. In a profound act of dissent, these demonstrators blocked multiple entrances to the White House, underscoring that not all Jewish people support or align with the actions and ideologies of Netanyahu's administration. The Government of Israel is not synonymous with all Jewish people.Netanyahu is wildly unpopular in Israel86% of polled Israeli Jews fault Israel's government for the surprise attack from Gaza.94% believe the government was responsible for the security breach that facilitated the Hamas infiltration.56% of Israelis feel Netanyahu should resign post-conflict, but only 28% of coalition supporters concur.8. An Egyptian intelligence official alleged that Israel, under the leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, disregarded repeated warnings about a major operation by Hamas. While Netanyahu refuted these claims as "fake news," it's noteworthy to consider that Israeli intelligence agencies, such as Mossad, have been historically renowned for their extensive surveillance and information-gathering in areas like Gaza. Given this extensive intelligence infrastructure, it prompts the question: did Netanyahu intentionally overlook the intelligence, and if so, was it for strategic, political, or other reasons, especially when considering Mossad's reputed omnipresence in the region?

Declassified minutes reveal cabinet concerns in approving Oslo Accords

Kan English

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2023 13:26

Thirty years after the Israeli government approved the first part of the Oslo Accords, declassified minutes from that cabinet meeting reveal the doubts of government ministers, of then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and of then-IDF chief of staff, Ehud Bark, on entering into an agreement with the PLO. Despite his concerns, Rabin still implored the ministers to approve the agreement: "The business is very complicated…There are things which in such a reality have no smooth solutions," he said. Three decades later, the reality remains complicated. Dr. Michael Milstein is head of the Palestinian Studies Forum at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University. He previously served as advisor on Palestinian Affairs in Office of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, and head of the Department for Palestinian Affairs in IDF Military Intelligence. He spoke to KAN's Naomi Segal about his take on what happened in the cabinet meeting 30 years ago, and where the sides are now. (Photo: Associated Press)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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'It's a dark day in Israeli history and I don't see a way back'

Haaretz Weekly

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2023 37:39

As former US ambassador to Israel, Martin Indyk experienced one of the most devastating moments of the country's history - the assassination of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, during the time of Israel's deep divisions over the Oslo Peace Accords. And yet, Indyk tells Haaretz Weekly host Allison Kaplan Sommer, the current split over the judicial overhaul, following the passage of its first piece of legislation on Monday, is a “more fundamental” crisis. One that he says has left him “heartsick.” “Israel was born as a Jewish and democratic state. And throughout its history, for 75 years, there has always been that tension between its Jewish nature and its democratic nature and they remained in balance for those 75 years. Now they are out of balance.” Indyk said he is “deeply worried” both for the future of the US-Israel relationship and for Israel's security after it has become clear that that the government's unilateral actions have “undermined Israel's deterrent capability” given the decision of crucial fighter pilots to suspend their military service in protest of the overhaul. “I think it's a very dark day in Israel's history,” Indyk said. “And I know that the Iranians in particular and their proxies around Israel's borders, and Israel's other enemies, were just sitting back and watching this in amazement, as Israel tears itself apart.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he says, has been “taken hostage” by the far-right parties in his coalition. On the podcast, Indyk also discusses his statements in a recent New York Times column in which he endorses an end to the $3.8 billion in U.S. military aid that Israel receives annually.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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