Amy Goodman
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After Palestinian Unity Deal, Did Israel Spark Violence to Prevent a New "Peace Offensive"?
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9:22Now PlayingIt is widely thought that the flareup 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 [FatahHamas] 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 coauthors of the forthcoming book, "How to Solve the IsraelPalestine Conflict."
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