(2011/04/23) Unsettling settlements (Israel)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 23 April 2011
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Edition #479
Unsettling settlements
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Act 1: Operation Overreaction - Mark Fiore
Song 1: Overreacting - Brad Sucks
Act 2: Two Jews debate Israel policy - On the Media
Song 2: Circles - Soul Coughing
Act 3: Meet Pray Love - Daily Show
Song 3: Broken chair - Chris and Thomas
Act 4: Obama caves on settlements - The Progressive
Song 4: Turn this boat around - Matt & Kim
Act 5: Hamas signal they will accept peace deal for 1967 borders - Young Turks
Song 5: Accept yourself - The Smiths
Act 6: Bieber to solve the Israel/Palestine conflict - The Bugle
Song 6: Baby (Acoustic Version) - Justin Bieber
Act 7: Escalations begin when Israel says they do - Counterspin
Song 7: When your mind's made up - Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova
Act 8: Egyptian revolution shows insanity of Israel's Palestinian policy - The Progressive
Song 8: This land is mine - Dido
Act 9: Palestinian State - Peace with Israel - Young Turks
Song 9: High hopes - Frank Sinatra
Act 10: King Abdullah II of Jordan - Daily Show
Song 10: On a Neck, On a Spit - Grizzly Bear
Act 11: No support in congress for Palestine - Mike Malloy
Voicemails:
Just became a member - Shane from Cleveland, OH
Show suggestions: Skeptically speaking - Nick from Knoxville, TN
Canadian elections coming up - Paul from Winnepeg
Call the GOP "fascists" - Mike From Texas
Would I support a primary candidate? - Earl from Nashville, TN
Voicemail Music:
Ghostwriter - Rjd2
Final comments on the use of Nazi comparisons, name-calling and referrals to Eps # 452 and #456 regarding my take on a potential primary candidate against Obama
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
The Killing Tree - Daily Show
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| 0:00.0 | The following clips were slowly collected over the course of the last 10 months, so this |
| 0:05.9 | episode is even more retrospective than the norm. |
| 0:09.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left Podcasts with clips today from MarkFurray.com |
| 0:13.6 | on the media, the Daily Show, the Progressive, the Young Turks, the Bugle, Counter-Spin |
| 0:18.7 | and the Mike Moly Show with a bonus video clip for our Apple iOS and Android app users |
| 0:23.4 | from the Daily Show. |
| 0:30.4 | In a world where one nation's sovereignty is under attack, where real danger lurks around |
| 0:37.8 | every corner, a world where confrontation must be met with brute force and the march of |
| 0:45.7 | humanitarian aid must be stopped in this world, one nation. |
| 0:54.1 | Has managed to do exactly what it was trying to prevent. |
| 0:59.5 | Operation Overreaction, starring the Israeli defense forces, free Gaza Flotilla, Benjamin |
| 1:06.3 | Netanyahu, Hamas and one and a half million blockaded civilians, also starring in the |
| 1:13.4 | biggest supporting role ever, cold hard cash, Operation Overreaction because sometimes |
| 1:21.7 | you have to do exactly what you're trying not to do. |
| 1:29.5 | Much of the criticism of the IDF's handling of the Flotilla was voiced within Israel itself, |
| 1:58.3 | their debate over Israeli policies is often more robust than it is here. |
| 2:02.8 | In a much-discussed essay in the New York Review of Books this month called The Failure |
| 2:06.6 | of the American Jewish Establishment, author and journalist Peter Bynart argues that groups |
| 2:12.3 | like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee or APAC, or the Conference of Presidents |
| 2:17.5 | of Major American Jewish Organizations, or the Anti-Defense League, squelch criticism |
| 2:23.1 | on these shores by regarding critics of Israel as enemies of Israel. |
| 2:28.5 | We asked Bynart and Stephen Rosen, the former Director of Foreign Policy Issues at APAC |
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