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"Overcoming Zionism": Interview with Joel Kovel

Interview with Joel Kovel , author of Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine (Pluto Press 2007). Kovel is currently editor-in-chief of Capitalism Nature Socialism. “The Overcoming of Zionism is its dissoultion,” states Kovel. Here he elaborates on issues like the linkage between Zionism and capital, class struggle and nationalism, and the inviability of a two-state solution. An interview conducted by Nadim Mahjoub for Resonance FM Radio, 04 July 2007 >> Quote: "No state is given to a people on a silver platter." (The Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann)

7/7 Bombings Then & Now - Vanunu Jailed Again

Middle East Panorama show on Resonance FM 104.4 Every Friday 14:00 - 15:00 London Time (GMT) Milan Rai, an anti-war activist and author of 7/7: The London Bombings, Islam and the Iraq War , and Martin Jacques, columnist, writer and currently a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Centre, speak on 7/7 bombings, war, terrorism, the Muslims, and the media. On July 02 Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli whistleblower who served 18 years in prison for revealing Israeli nuclear secrets, was sentenced to six months in prison "for violating a ban on speaking to foreigners." MEP conducted an interview with Vanunu in April 2005. Listen to the repeat and to Yoel Cohen, author of The Whistleblower of Dimona: Israel, Vanunu and the Bomb. >> Yoel Cohen's interview Quote: " Iraq has reached advanced societal breakdown, with ethnic cleansing on a regional, neighbourhood and even street-by-street basis. There has been a mass exodus of its professionals and manage