Palestine in Context

Trent and Caitlin talk to Layla al-Sheikh, who provides the history and context of the establishment of the Israeli state on Palestinian land, the many displacements and violent ethnic cleansings of the last century in that region, and the evolving relationships of the surrounding nations with the United States.Resources:Theodore Herzl https://britannica.com/biography/Theodor-HerzlNakba https://un.org/unispal/about-the-nakba/ The Disinherited: Journal of a Palestinian Exile https://monthlyreview.org/product/disinherited/ Dear Palestine https://sup.org/books/middle-east-studies/dear-palestine Said on the Oslo Accords https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Edward-Said-%C2%B7-The-Morning-After-%C2%B7-LRB-21-October-1993.pdf US as “Israel’s Lawyer” https://aljazeera.com/news/2011/1/24/israels-lawyer-revisited America and Iran https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/59417/america-and-iran-by-john-ghazvinian/Brokers of Deceit: How the US Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East https://beacon.org/Brokers-of-Deceit-P1029.aspx Image of Dead Sea: https://openverse.org/image/collection?source=flickr&creator=trialsanderrors