Understanding Israel Palestine
Understanding Israel/Palestine advocates for a fair and even-handed U.S. foreign policy that recognizes the rights of both Palestinians and Israelis. The program offers multiple perspectives through interviews with journalists, scholars, policy experts and activists to clarify the underlying issues that are often obscured by mainstream media.
Understanding Israel Palestine
Latest Episodes
Bills Before Congress Deepen U.S.-Israeli Military and Intelligence Ties
Ben Freeman discusses a provision in the fy 2027 National Defence Authorization Act that would deepen and entrench U.S.-Israeli military cooperation to an unparalleled degree, creating partnerships hard to unravel and gutting Congressional over...
The Premeditated Clampdown: Alison Weir on the Calculated Campaign to Protect Israeli State-Sponsored Destruction
The Premeditated Clampdown: Alison Weir on the Calculated Campaign to Protect Israeli State-Sponsored DestructionIn this archival dive from September 2021, Alison Weir, executive director of If Americans Knew
Part II of 'From Oslo to Gaza': Mideast Peace Negotiator Robert Malley on the Errors of the Past
This is Understanding Israel Palestine. I'm Margot Patterson, the producer of this week's episode. ’ll be talking to Robert Malley again, Mideast peace negotiator and author of the recent book Tomorrow is Yesterday: Life, Death a...
The Architecture of Empire: Walter L. Hixson on the Israel Lobby and the Machinery of Endless War
The Architecture of Empire: Walter L. Hixson on the Israel Lobby and the Machinery of Endless WarPart Two: The Nakba’s Blast Radius and the Capture of U.S. Foreign PolicyEpisode DescriptionSeventy-eig...
From Oslo to Gaza: Mideast Peace Negotiator Rob Malley on the Revenge of History
Longtime Mideast peace negotiator Robert Malley discusses how diplomatic illusions, blunders and deceptions undermined the Oslo Accords and created an endless, unproductive peace process that led to the atrocities of Oct. 7 and Israel's calamit...