"No peace and prosperity with apartheid" w/ As`ad Abukhalil
Makdisi Street
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🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
The brothers welcome Lebanese scholar and original "Angry Arab" Asad AbuKhalil, author, columnist, professor, and public intellectual. The discuss the increasing depravity of a long history of Israeli wars on Lebanon going back to 1948; why so many in Lebanon continue to put their faith in the pipe-dream of peace with a state that is actively committing genocide, the neglect of the South during the decades of alleged Lebanese prosperity in the run up to the civil war, the origins of the Dahiye, why the current Lebanese government has turned its back on resistance, and the extent to which Lebanese leaders and politicians have collaborated with Israel since 1948, the difference between the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and today, the price of, and discontent with resistance, and the anti-Shii bigotry of Lebanese political culture.
Date of recording: May 13, 2026
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| 0:00.0 | I personally think we will never be allowed to live in peace and prosper alongside the |
| 0:05.6 | upper side state of Israel. |
| 0:07.2 | We've seen what they think of Arabs. |
| 0:09.7 | And I think that the idea that Israel can occupy Lebanon, kill its people, and we go to |
| 0:15.0 | Washington to sign a peace agreement with them, is a repetition of the same pipe dream that |
| 0:20.1 | was experimented by the Amin Jemail government, |
| 0:23.0 | and it lasted one year only because, not because the Syrian government did not like it, |
| 0:29.1 | not because Libya did not like it, but because there were enough Lebanese who did not want |
| 0:33.6 | to live in the humiliating conditions of the May 17 agreement and have Israel have free |
| 0:38.9 | rain in their areas in South Lebanon. |
| 0:41.3 | The Lebanese government is operating on the assumption yet again that South Lebanon is not |
| 0:45.8 | part of Lebanon. |
| 0:46.6 | It should belong to Israel. |
| 0:49.2 | Okay, good morning, guys. |
| 0:50.6 | How are you? |
| 0:51.3 | Welcome to a new Magdi-C-Street episode. |
| 0:54.0 | And today we're going to be |
| 0:55.7 | having on very soon, Asaad Abu Khalil, a professor of political science at Cal State University |
| 1:02.6 | in Stanislaus in California. Before we get to Asad Sadi, first of how are you? And what's the latest in terms of what's going on in terms of... |
| 1:15.6 | It's bad. |
| 1:16.6 | The situation in the world, yeah. |
| 1:18.5 | Well, it's bad, particularly our part of the world. |
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