Israel & Palestine Archives - Keeping Democracy Alive

We all know what terrorism is. We’ve seen it on the ground in Israel. That’s terrorism on the cheap. Is the answer the most modern ultra high tech bombers to decimate the enemy? For centuries, a key measure of modernity The post Are High Tech Weapons The Answer to Low Budget Terrorism? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Innumerable people have tried over many years to stop the  forever wars between Israel and Palestine. With the world now horrified by the use of starvation as a weapon, the urgency of a resolution has never been greater. Even if The post A Blueprint for A Future Israel/Palestine appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Storytelling is a venerable and often the most accurate way to teach history. Our guest co-author of the new A Line In the Sand, Miles Spencer, traveled with his partner along the 1100 mile trail of clues left by TE The post One Eternally Explosive Line in the Sand appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

In light of the Israeli state’s massive assault on Gaza, and now Lebanon, the question comes up: What does it mean to be a Jew? Our guest veteran New York Times sportswriter Robert Lipsyte says being a Jew entails certain The post On Rosh Hashanah: Netanyahu, The Israeli Right, and Jewish Identity appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

It was only discovered in an architectural trade journal: Netanyahu’s “Gaza 2035.” Architects were hired to provide models of a new Gaza , the old one having been flattened. Steel and glass high risers being erected where once a people The post Architecture as the Ultimate Expression of Power: Gaza 2035 appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

In light of the Israeli state’s massive assault on Gaza, the question comes up: what does it mean to be a  Jew? Our guest veteran New York Times sportswriter Robert Lipsyte says being a Jew entails certain responsibilities and obligations; The post Netanyahu and Jewish Identity appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Large transfers of population, meaning massive destruction of living areas. Racist colonialism; the intent to eliminate. Total domination through force. On this show Franklin and Marshall College History professor Van Gosse talks about similarities and differences between the American War The post Israel’s Vietnam? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

In the pivotal yer of 1916, Jewish leaders like Jacob Schiff opposed creation of a Jewish state. That was the majority opinion, unlike now. The financier who was instrumental in creating the Wall St we know today, made sure to The post Mainstream Jewish Americans Opposed Creation of Israel appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

In the pivotal yer of 1916, Jewish leaders like Jacob Schiff opposed creation of a Jewish state. That was the majority opinion, unlike now. The financier who was instrumental in creating the Wall St we know today, made sure to The post Mainstream Jewish Americans Opposed Creation of Israel appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

The Republican led Congress declared antiZionism to be one in the same as antiSemitism. But is that accurate? Judaism has been around for thousands of years, Zionism only 150 or so. Does the Israeli state get to define my Jewishness? The post Who Defines the Jewish Self? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Keeping one ethnicity in control: The Israeli state and Modi’s India. Palestinians and India’s Muslim minority. The chumminess of Bibi and Modi. And in both cases, the oppressors ask: who lit the fire? On this show, Stan Cox explains the The post Parallels: Israel and India; Bibi and Modi appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

No one wants to be labeled “anti-Semitic.” But there’s a massive yet secret Israel-run spy network not only spying on American university protesters but intimidating them, affecting their lives and job prospects. On this show author James Bamford reveals the The post Israel’s American Objective: Create Fear Among Students appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcas...

The unquestioned backing by Jewish Americans for the State of Israel started to fade about ten years ago, well before the current war.  This keepingdemocracyalive is from 2016, in which Allan C. Brownfield  reveals the relatively short shelf life of The post From 2016: Israel Conflates Religion with Nationalism appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Violence in the West Bank has ramped up markedly in recent days. Jewish settlers there see the barbaric and evil acts of October 7th as a green light. They’re not just vigilantes, they are subsidized by the Israeli government and The post Rabbi in The West Bank Calls for Torat Tzedek, An End to Settler Brutality appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

It’s been an exceptionally long and bloody stalemate. And with the far right anti-democracy government of Netanyahu turning its wrath on Jewish Israelis, and opinion in the US and the world showing real shift, our guest Mitchell Plitnick of ReThinking The post 2023: A Turning Point for Israel/Palestine? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

When Republicans win power, they use it. Obama tried bipartisanship. There was little, if any, perceptible change. In the following campaign in 2016, Trump said “I made a promise to the forgotten men and women of this country that I The post Michigan Moves Forward, Arkansas Clamps Down on Rights appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Suddenly in 2023, the aspiration of  being the only democracy in the middle east is unraveling itself from within. With its turn to the far right, antidemocratic political Zionism is overpowering traditional spiritual and cultural Zionism. On this show, The The post The Israeli Far Right 2023: The Mask is Off appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

In walling out Palestinians, the State of Israel has walled in themselves. Former Zionist Israeli Defense Forces paratrooper Sylvain Cypel speaks to us from Paris about his evolution.  As a Jewish Frenchman, he says how that country’s experience with Algeria The post The State of Israel vs The Jews appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

The world sees the “flare up” but not the ongoing banal policies that are at cause. The State of Israel is copying the successful “settling” of the American west, so what options for resistance are open to Palestinians being evicted, The post People Refusing to be Erased appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Interviewed in Israel, Jewish author Larry Derfner says Israel has never been held accountable and argues the International Criminal Court is right to investigate Israel for war crimes. Boycott, Divest,and Sanction has been ineffective and that the right has used The post Jewish Israeli: Time to Hold Israel Accountable at The Hague appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio...

The world is as they say it is. Never mind the people who actually live there, Trump and Pompeo decided and imposed new boundaries between Morocco and Algeria. It may start a war between them but at least it gets The post Trump and Pompeo Dictate New Map on Africa//Franco Still Dead appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

The slogan was Build Back Better. In terms of foreign policy, our guest today Foreign Policy In Focus’s John Feffer says: “Thanks in no small part to Donald Trump, the United States just doesn’t matter much anymore,” our leadership is The post Biden’s Better Foreign Policy? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

The president calls it a “previously unthinkable regional transformation.” But perhaps it both solidifies the power of medieval monarchies masquerading as modern states, as it ramps up sales of US weapons systems to them. Retired US Army Major Danny Sjursen The post Trump and Netanyahu’s “Peace Deal” appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Sh...

How is it that Jewish liberals felt the State of Israel was exempt from criticism applied elsewhere? Our guest today Benjamin Balthaser, who teaches multi-ethnic literature at Indiana University, talks about a little known history: Most liberal and left Jewish The post The Jewish Tradition of Anti-Zionism appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

A two state solution to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is no longer possible. In his book Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality, our guest Ian S. Lustick, political science professor at U of Penn, reveals that Israel changed drastically The post One State: A Reality But Not Yet a Solution appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .