Historian Rashid Khalidi DEMOLISHES Zionist Talking Points

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Palestinian-American historian and Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University Rashid Khalidi explains the connection between wars abroad and wars at home, fascism and imperialism and why Israel could never exist and there would be no war on Gaza without the direct participation of the United States. "We're more than just backers" of the war, Khalidi says. Plus Khalidi discusses the connection between Ireland and Palestine and Katie mocks fired Israeli propagandist Eylon Levy for his self-own on Ireland and Palestine.

Rashid Khalidi () is the Edward Said professor of modern Arab studies at Columbia University and was an advisor to the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid and Washington ArabIsraeli peace negotiations from October 1991 until June 1993. He is the author ofThe Hundred Years' War on PalestineA History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 19172017 (2020); Brokers of DeceitHow the U.S. has Undermined Peace in the Middle East (2013); Sowing CrisisAmerican Dominance and the Cold War in the Middle East (2009);The Iron CageThe Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (2006); Resurrecting EmpireWestern Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East (2004); Palestinian IdentityThe Construction of Modern National Consciousness (1996); Under SiegePLO DecisionMaking During the 1982 War (1986); British Policy Towards Syria and Palestine, 19061914 (1980); and coeditor of Palestine and the Gulf (1982) and The Origins of Arab Nationalism (1991), and The Other JerusalemRethinking the History of the Sacred City (2020).

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