August 05, 2012

Broadcast Date: 
Aug 5 2012

We speak with Miko Peled, author of The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine; Gilbert Achcar, author of The Arabs and the Holcaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives; and Sanam Anderlini on ICAN's report, "Killing them Softly — The Stark Impact of Sanctions on the Lives of Ordinary Iranians."

Episode segments
  • The General's Son
    Israeli Politics, Israel/Palestine, Palestinian Politics, Occupation
    Miko Peled is the author of The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine.
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    Miko Peled talks of two journeys: that of his father General Matti Peled, supporter of Israel's 1967 pre-emptive attack on Egyptian forces and later advocate for equality among all citizens of Israel and an independent Palestinian state in the occupied territories, and his own development into a peace activist and believer in "universal freedom in a shared homeland."

  • The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives
    Holocaust, Global, Anti-Semitism
    Gilbert Achcar, author of The Arabs and the Holocaust; The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives (Metropolitan Books) is also the author of The Clash of Barbarisms: The Making of the New World Disorder and Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy, Dialogues on Terror, Democracy, War and Justice (co-authored with Noam Chomsky), among many other books.  He is currently Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at the Schoool of Oriental and African Studies in London.
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    Gilbert Achcar talks about the asymmetry in the treatment of the Holocaust and the nakba and challenges the dominant Israeli and Zionist narrative that in the years preceding World War II and the Holcaust, Arabs were pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic and that the Arab world today is a hotbead of Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism. 

  • Killing Them Softly
    International Politics, Middle East
    Sanan Anderlini is co-founder of the International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN) and a leading international advocate, researcher, trainer and writer on conflict prevention and peace building.
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    This week, the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate overwhelmingly passed,  and President Obama is expected to sign, the Iran Threat Reuction and Syria Human RIghts Act--said by AIPAC to be the strongest set of sanctions the U.S. has ever imosed on any country during peacetime. 

    We talk with Sanam Anderlini about the impact of sanctions on the Iranian people and what  changes in policy need to be put in place in lieu of sanctions or military strikes.