Electronic Intifada contributor and producer of the weekly podcast Crossing the Line Christopher Brown interviews EI co-founder Ali Abunimah on his new book One Country and the problem of partition as a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Abunimah explains, “This goes back to the very origins of the idea of partition when you had a growing Zionist movement brining Jews from Europe into an overwhelmingly Arab country and the British who were in charge in the 1930s appointed a royal commission which looked into this seemingly irreconcilable, growing problem and said the only solution is partition. The only problem with that solution is that you cannot partition the country between Arabs and Jews because you just can’t draw a line between them. So the solution that the British Royal Commission recommended was partition but there would have to be the transfer — voluntary or otherwise, as they put it — of hundreds of thousands of Arabs to make room for a Jewish state. So from the very beginning partition was inextricably linked with what we would today call ethnic cleansing, and of course that’s what happened in 1948 in order for the State of Israel to be born.”
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Former President Jimmy Carter was invited to speak at Brandeis University about his latest book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. Brandeis is a Jewish-affiliated university. Despite much fanfare about protests and possible interuptions, President Carter was well received. This audio recording of his remarks was produced by Brandeis University.
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The apartheid that exists in Palestine is predicated not on racism, but on the desire of a minority of Israeli leaders to acquire and keep Palestinian land. And in doing so, they occupy the land, they confiscate it, they colonize it, they displace Palestinians from their own homes, their own fields, their own pastures, and then they subdue and persecute the Palestinians when they object to this crime against themselves.
That’s what former U.S. president Jimmy Carter had to say during a recent interview with Jonathan Curiel, staff writer for The San Fransisco Chronicle’s Insight section. Carter spoke with Curiel about his controversial new book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.”
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In today’s podcast, we’ll listen to excerpts from Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, President Jimmy Carter’s challenging and courageous assessment of what must be done to bring peace to Israel and Palestine with dignity and justice.
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