Gideon Levy: Israel, Palestine & American Empire
Geopolitics & Empire
Geopolitics & Empire
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🗓️ 20 January 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Author and journalist Gideon Levy discusses Israeli politics, the fate of Palestine and the role of American empire in the Middle East.
Show Notes
Netanyahu’s son caught on secret recordings outside strip club talking about major energy deal http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/09/netanyahus-son-caught-secret-recordings-outside-strip-club-talking
Abbas Is Right. Why Does Israel Keep Saying He’s Wrong? https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/abbas-is-right-why-does-israel-keep-saying-he-s-wrong-1.5744750
Gideon Levy: Does unconditional support for Israel endanger Israeli voices? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGO3eBxQX7Q
Gideon Levy: Americans “Are Supporting the First Signs of Fascism in Israel” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-QNP4Zw-KQ
Website
https://www.haaretz.com/misc/writers/1.4968119
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About Gideon Levy
Gideon Levy is a Haaretz columnist and a member of the newspaper’s editorial board.
Levy joined Haaretz in 1982, and spent four years as the newspaper’s deputy editor. He is the author of the weekly Twilight Zone feature, which covers the Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza over the last 25 years, as well as the writer of political editorials for the newspaper.
Levy was the recipient of the Euro-Med Journalist Prize for 2008; the Leipzig Freedom Prize in 2001; the Israeli Journalists’ Union Prize in 1997; and The Association of Human Rights in Israel Award for 1996.
His new book, The Punishment of Gaza, has just been published by Verso Publishing House in London and New York.
*Podcast intro music is from the song “The Queens Jig” by “Musicke & Mirth” from their album “Music for Two Lyra Viols”: http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)
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| 0:00.0 | We are joined by Israeli journalists and author Gideon Levy, who also served as a political |
| 0:11.3 | aid to President Shimon Peres. |
| 0:13.6 | We will discuss Israeli politics, Palestine, and U.S. foreign policy. |
| 0:18.1 | I'd like to first discuss domestic Israeli politics. Recent leaked transcripts |
| 0:23.0 | detail Benjamin Netanyahu's son admitting to backroom gas deals. Netanyahu's wife also has |
| 0:29.7 | been caught with her hand in the cookie jar and has been under investigation. Netanyahu |
| 0:35.0 | himself audaciously has stated that no charges will ever stick |
| 0:39.7 | against him. |
| 0:41.0 | I recently returned from Israel and a local Israeli told me that the opposition in Israel |
| 0:46.1 | has always been trying to unsuccessfully take down Netanyahu and that things will |
| 0:50.3 | continue as is. |
| 0:52.2 | In your latest piece for Heretz, you say the opposition is a |
| 0:55.1 | non-opposition fighting over trivialities. Do you think Israeli politics will be at all shaken, |
| 1:02.1 | or shall the status quo continue? I think it will not be shaken because there is no incentive |
| 1:08.0 | to shake the Israeli politics, because life in Israel is quite good, |
| 1:13.3 | and brainwore system is quite effective. |
| 1:16.6 | And even if Netanyahu will apparently fall, |
| 1:20.8 | and the opposition will win, |
| 1:23.6 | we will not see a dramatic change. |
| 1:26.2 | There will be change in rhetorics. |
| 1:28.5 | There will be some better atmosphere. |
| 1:32.1 | But by the end of the day, when it comes to the core issues, and above all, the continuous |
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