Shows featuring Avi Shlaim

  • Obama Admin Urges Israeli-Palestinian Final-Status Talks But Abandons Insistence on Israeli Settlement Freeze

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    The Obama administration has abandoned a demand that Israel freeze settlement expansion before the resumption of peace talks. President Obama signaled the shift on Tuesday as he met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. We speak to Diana Buttu, a Palestinian lawyer and former legal adviser to the Palestinian...
    September 23, 2009 | Story

  • Leading Israeli Scholar Avi Shlaim: Israel Committing "State Terror" in Gaza Attack, Preventing Peace

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    The assault on Gaza is entering its nineteenth day, with no end in sight. Israel continues its intense bombardment of the territory as Israeli troops edge closer to the heart of Gaza City. Nearly 1,000 Palestinians have been killed, more than 4,400 injured, many of them women and children. Thirteen Israelis have died over the same period, ten of them soldiers. We speak with Oxford professor Avi...
    January 14, 2009 | Story

  • Philip Berrigan and Ploughshrares Action
    From a prison in Pennsylvania, we now go to one in Maine where
    anti-war activist Father Philip Berrigan is presently incarcerated in the
    Cumberland County Jail.

    Philip Berrigan, and his brother Daniel, rose to prominence more
    than thirty years ago leading creative, non-violent resistance to the
    Vietnam War. Both brothers have continued the anti-war tradition until this day. Philip was a founding...

    March 06, 1997 | Story