November 25, 2007

Broadcast Date: 
Nov 25 2007

A discussion with journalist Akiva Eldar on the history of the Israeli settler movement, plus a rebroadcast of our interview with Shock Doctrine author Naomi Klein.

Episode segments
  • Lords of the Land: The War Over Israel's Settlements
    Israel/Palestine, Occupation
    Akiva Eldar is the chief political columnist and editorial writer for Ha'aretz and author with Idith Zertal of Lords of the Land: The War Over Israel's Settlements in the Occupied Territories: 1967-2007
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    A discussion about Israel's settlers--their religious and political ideology, their development as a political force--and the role of Israel's governments, on both the left and the right, in enabling their project.

  • The Shock Doctrine
    Foreign Policy
    Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, and author of the international bestseller No Logo and, most recently, The Shock Doctrine
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    In her new book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Metropolitan Books), Naomi Klein shows how conservative leaders exploit natural disasters, wars, and other crises to forward their agenda of radical privatization.