Taymaz Rastin in Conversation with Stephen Buckley
Taymaz Rastin in Conversation with Stephen Buckley
Taymaz Rastin [http://www.Rastin.org] discusses the Israel-Lebanon issue within a broader context of Middle Eastern history and how issues are being reframed in the post-9/11 War on Terror paradigm. Specific topics include:
- Taymaz's academic and research background and interest in the Israel-Lebanon affair
- Hamas and Hezbollah: grassroots political movement or terrorist group?
- Lebanese demands with Israel: Shebaa farms and the release of Lebanese prisoners
- the new role of Arab media in the debate and in affecting the state of Arab politics and democracy
- Israel's perspective in the contemporary conflict
- Saudi Arabia's view of the conflict
- USA's economic support of Lebanon and military support of Israel
- North American mainstream media's presentation of the conflict
- Iran's rising influence and capacity: does this necessarily lead to increased hostility?
- Iran's reducing isolation
- Iran-Arab relations and conflicts
- is Hezbollah a puppet of Syria and Iran?
- US-Iran relations
- Iran and nuclear weapons
- the USA's support of only certain democratic elections
- Saudi Arabia's internal economic problems
- democracy and domestic economic systems
- Karl Popper, "freedom," liberal democracy, limited government and their export to the Middle East
- truncated shuttle diplomacy
Podcast at http://dgiVista.org/pod/taymaz.mp3
Podcast feed at http://dgivista.org/pod/Vista_Podcasts.xml
Podcast feed for iTunes at itpc://dgivista.org/pod/Vista_Podcasts.xml
And *** A bonus link:
For Greg Palast's recent sense of this month in the Middle East, low Hezbollah and Ohmert approval ratings and black gold, see his piece:
http://www.gregpalast.com/blood-in-beirut-7505-a-barrel#more-1466.
Taymaz Rastin [http://www.Rastin.org] discusses the Israel-Lebanon issue within a broader context of Middle Eastern history and how issues are being reframed in the post-9/11 War on Terror paradigm. Specific topics include:
- Taymaz's academic and research background and interest in the Israel-Lebanon affair
- Hamas and Hezbollah: grassroots political movement or terrorist group?
- Lebanese demands with Israel: Shebaa farms and the release of Lebanese prisoners
- the new role of Arab media in the debate and in affecting the state of Arab politics and democracy
- Israel's perspective in the contemporary conflict
- Saudi Arabia's view of the conflict
- USA's economic support of Lebanon and military support of Israel
- North American mainstream media's presentation of the conflict
- Iran's rising influence and capacity: does this necessarily lead to increased hostility?
- Iran's reducing isolation
- Iran-Arab relations and conflicts
- is Hezbollah a puppet of Syria and Iran?
- US-Iran relations
- Iran and nuclear weapons
- the USA's support of only certain democratic elections
- Saudi Arabia's internal economic problems
- democracy and domestic economic systems
- Karl Popper, "freedom," liberal democracy, limited government and their export to the Middle East
- truncated shuttle diplomacy
Podcast at http://dgiVista.org/pod/taymaz.mp3
Podcast feed at http://dgivista.org/pod/Vista_Podcasts.xml
Podcast feed for iTunes at itpc://dgivista.org/pod/Vista_Podcasts.xmlAnd *** A bonus link:
For Greg Palast's recent sense of this month in the Middle East, low Hezbollah and Ohmert approval ratings and black gold, see his piece:
http://www.gregpalast.com/blood-in-beirut-7505-a-barrel#more-1466.
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Yet another take on the region:
http://www.chomsky.info/2006_07_01_archive.htm#115350344072235040
Friday, July 21, 2006
A letter from Chomsky and others on the recent events in the Middle East (July 19, 2006):
The latest chapter of the conflict between Israel and Palestine began when Israeli forces abducted two civilians, a doctor and his brother, from Gaza. An incident scarcely reported anywhere, except in the Turkish press. The following day the Palestinians took an Israeli soldier prisoner - and proposed a negotiated exchange against prisoners taken by the Israelis - there are approximately 10,000 in Israeli jails.
That this "kidnapping" was considered an outrage, whereas the illegal military occupation of the West Bank and the systematic appropriation of its natural resources - most particularly that of water - by the Israeli Defence (!) Forces is considered a regrettable but realistic fact of life, is typical of the double standards repeatedly employed by the West in face of what has befallen the Palestinians, on the land allotted to them by international agreements, during the last seventy years.
Today outrage follows outrage; makeshift missiles cross sophisticated ones. The latter usually find their target situated where the disinherited and crowded poor live, waiting for what was once called Justice. Both categories of missile rip bodies apart horribly - who but field commanders can forget this for a moment?
Each provocation and counter-provocation is contested and preached over. But the subsequent arguments, accusations and vows, all serve as a distraction in order to divert world attention from a long-term military, economic and geographic practice whose political aim is nothing less than the liquidation of the Palestinian nation.
This has to be said loud and clear for the practice, only half declared and often covert, is advancing fast these days, and, in our opinion, it must be unceasingly and eternally recognised for what it is and resisted.
Tariq Ali
John Berger
Noam Chomsky
Eduardo Galeano
Naomi Klein
Harold Pinter
Arundhati Roy
Jose Saramago
Giuliana Sgrena
Howard Zinn
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