It is widely thought that the flare-up in Israel and the Occupied Territories began with the kidnapping of three Israeli teens in the West Bank just more than a month ago. But our guests — author Norman Finkelstein and Palestinian political analyst Mouin Rabbani — argue that such a narrative ignores the broader context of decades of occupation and recent events highlighting the expansionist goals of the Israeli government in the Palestinian land under its control. Whenever the Palestinians seem like they are trying to reach a settlement of the conflict — which the [Fatah-Hamas] unity government was — at that point Israel does everything it can to provoke a violent reaction, in this case from Hamas, break up the unity government, and then Israel has its pretext, Finkelstein says. Rabbani and Finkelstein are co-authors of the forthcoming book, How to Solve the Israel-Palestine Conflict. democracynow.org/2014/7/15/after_palestinian_unity_deal_did_israel
Posted on: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 18:13:51 +0000
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