Stalemate: Israel and the Palestinians after Gaza
Analysis
BBC
4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
After another round of violence, a two state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict appears farther away than ever. Edward Stourton examines the future.
Guests include: Ahmad Samih Khalidi - Senior Associate Member at St Antony's College, Oxford Anshel Pfeffer - Senior Correspondent, Haaretz Dore Gold - former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations & President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Jake Walles - former US Consul General in Jerusalem Salem Barahmeh - Executive Director of the Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy Sawsan Zaher - Deputy General Director, Adalah Shlomo Ben-Ami - former Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs & Vice President of the Toledo International Center for Peace.
Producer Luke Radcliff Editor Jasper Corbett
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| 0:41.0 | Hello, thanks for listening to this edition of Analysis, the podcast that looks at some of the ideas |
| 0:47.3 | behind the news. |
| 0:48.9 | I'm Edward Sturtin, the presenter of this edition. |
| 0:51.9 | Over the next half hour I'm going to be exploring the stalemate between |
| 0:54.9 | Israel and the Palestinians after the latest conflict. Even by the famously robust standards of Israel's Parliament, this session last |
| 1:18.7 | month was unusually raucous and bitter. The question under consideration was raw is Israel becoming an |
| 1:25.3 | a passate state like the old South Africa. It's a shocking idea to many Israelis. |
| 1:30.9 | The shouting you can hear comes from an MP from the Religious Zionist |
| 1:34.9 | party, but it's gaining more and more currency among critics of the way Israel treats Palestinians. |
| 1:41.5 | The system privileges one group of people over another and it's been built in a way that maintains |
| 1:46.6 | the dominance of one group over another. |
| 1:48.7 | And if you look up that definition in a legal textbook, this is dreaded word the a word of apartheid comes up. |
| 1:58.2 | The debate, broadcast by Ignesset TV, was all the more remarkable for being sponsored by a party which is part of Israel's government. |
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