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The world supports Palestine w/ Saree Makdisi

The East is a Podcast

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The Left Is Not a Left-Wing Party but It's a Progressive Strand

progressive westerners no longer think of themselves as involved in colonial politics for them it's all about bringing the freedom and democracy and rights and equality. Their support historically in the west was always much more on the left than on the right. The weapons and armaments of the israeli army and air force in the 1950s were primarily a combination of british and french so they used to use mirage jets, adagettes and so forth until after 67 when america kind of took them under its wing but there was a kind of handing off from the genesis of the zionist project in palestain Under the tutelage of the primarily the british little bit the

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