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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)

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

Middle East Panorama show on Resonance FM 104.4 Every Friday 14:00 - 15:00 London Time (GMT) "Can the Arab World be Turned into Gaza's Jailers?" asks the British journalist Jonathan Cook. The author of "Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State" argues that the aim of the sanctions by Israel and the US was not to bring about the fall of Hamas. Cook also draws parallels between Iraq and Gaza. >> Listen to the interview "British and American collusion in the pillaging of Iraq's heritage is a scandal that will outlive any passing conflict," writes Simon Jenkins in the Guardian . >> Read the article Music of war and resistance by Zaineb Shaath, Billy Bragg, Boris Vian, Tom Lehrer, the Group of Musical Research, Marcel Khalife ...

Middle East Panorama show on Resonance FM 104.4 Every Friday 14:00 - 15:00 London Time (GMT) Welcome to Palestine : How do we deal with a coup d'etat by an elected government? Robert Fisk. See also Palestine in Suicide by Roni Ben Efrat Hollow Land - Israel's Architecture of Occupation . A talk by Eyal Weizman, architect and Director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and author of "Hollow Land". "Devotees of the latest nuances of postmodernist styles," wrote Stirling Howieson in his review of 'Hollow Land', "will be disappointed with Weizman's book, for this is not about changing architectural fashions in hot arid climates. Hollow Land is the work of an architect chronicling the physical occupation and colonisation of Palestine by Zionism - in all its forms." The School of African and Oriental Studies, London 13 June 2007. >> Listen to the whole show Quote: " When the first