Parallax Views w/ J.G. Michael
Society & Culture
On this edition of Parallax Views, Ralph Leonard, a contributor to publications like UnHerd, Sublation Magazine, and Aero Magazine, joins the show to discuss a potpourri of topics related to Israel/Palestine including the uses and abuses of antisemitism, Hamas and the misunderstanding of Frantz Fanon, the Nakba (or Catastrophe) of 1948), the Likud Party and Ze'ev Jabotinsky's Revisionist Zionism, Jabotinsky's Iron Wall essay, what Jabotinsky admits about the grievances of Palestinians that his modern day heirs in the Likud Party don't, Avraham Stern and the Haavara Agreement, the Israeli New Historian Benny Morris and the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, clashing nationalisms in the Israel/Palestine issue, his UnHerd article "Hamas apologists have misunderstood Frantz Fanon", Zionist paramilitary groups like the Stern Gang & Lehi and Irgun, Jabotinsky Vs. the mainstream left-wing Zionists, the spectrum of Zionist thought historically and the triumph of Revisionist Zionism, Ralph's tweet that "The recent political conflict within Israel has basically been a struggle between the state of Judea & the state of Israel", the "eradicate Hamas" rhetoric used by the Israeli government, the ethics of violence and the debate around armed conflict, Israel's kibbutzim, comparisons between Israel/Palestine & Algeria and Israel/Palestine & Liberia, revenge bombing in Gaza, blowback, the cold realistic strategic view on Israel's Gaza operation, the Palestinians won't be willingly driven into the Sinai and the belief that trying that would lead to stability is foolish, the one-state dystopia vs. the one-state utopia, the fragmentation of Palestinian politics, and more,
Netanyahu’s Clampdown on Israeli Dissidents, the History of Hamas, and the Blowback of Netanyahu’s Divide-and-Conquer Strategy w/ Zachary Foster
Israel/Palestine, the Bombing of Gaza, Hamas, and the Danger of Irrationality in the Current Moment w/ Ian S. Lustick
Israel/Palestine, Hamas, the Bombing of Gaza, 9/11, and Blowback w/ Scott Horton
The Calculus of Hamas and the Strategy of Atrocity in Warfare w/ Christopher W. Jones
Continued Coverage of Hamas Attack, Israel’s Retaliation in Gaza, and Events Unfolding in the Middle East w/ ReThinking Foreign Policy’s Mitchell Plitnick
Hamas Attack, Israel’s Retaliation in Gaza, and More w/ Abe Silberstein
The Hamas Attack, Israel/Palestine, U.S. Foreign Policy, and How Hamas Got Power in the First Place w/ Prof. Stephen Zunes
Hamas’ Unprecedented Attack on Israel and How It May Change Middle East Geopolitics Irrevocably w/ James M. Dorsey
The Secret History of Watergate: Nixon, Howard Hughes, and Blackmail in Politics w/ Jonathan Marshall
The Political Right and Equality: Turning Back the Tide of Egalitarian Modernity w/ Matt McManus
Nagorno-Karabakh and the Persecution of Armenians w/ Alfred de Zayas, Former UN Independent Expert on International Order
U.S. Foreign Policy, Great Power Competition, and the Azerbaijani Ethnic Cleansing of Armenians w/ Mark Movsesian
Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories w/ Mike Rothschild
The Afghanistan Ouroboros, the BCCI, and 9/11 w/ Blowback’s Noah Kulwin
Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times
War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine w/ Norman Solomon
Military Carbon Emissions & Congressional Blocking of DoD Emission Reduction Efforts w/ Hanna Homestead
Unanswered Questions: What the September Eleventh Families Asked and the 9/11 Commission Ignored w/ Ray McGinnis
No Justice, No Police?: The Politics of Protest and Social Change w/ Matt Clement
Tyranny Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty and What to Do About It (+ Opposing the Eugenicist, Nietzschean Right) w/ Sohrab Ahmari
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