convince the un of his vision for middle east peace process. and i will not be but if you're all americans. believe norman finkelstein has never shied away from controversy. the american jail banned from israel and pledges support for the palestinian people the author and former professor has lost jobs and get the pigmy an average. family heated debates documented in the film american radical i subject we begin with during our teeth interview i want to start with a question about your new documentary american radical it has been described in many ways one being an intimate portrait of a man behind the controversy tell me about the documentary why you decided to make

this film where you actually have not seen the documentary. but many of your sort of stories about you know some reason i didn't want to see myself on the silver screen and so i chose not to watch it but my friends many of my close friends watched it and for better or for worse they said it's an ocular per trail of me but i was obviously involved in the making of the documentary. not to be consulted about the content and they were in the future to say that i was making a promo for myself. involved in the money basically if feeling was well my closest friend over many decades is professor chomsky and i tried to look to him for moral guidance and he made many films or he would participate in these films about himself and about his personal background so i thought there was nothing politically incorrect or vain about

participating in such a. and so i went ahead and did it but one thing that didn't quite turn out right was i thought there would be a lot more on my time in telus and to meet some of my friends from their blood when we went over to shoot that segment of the documentary i was barred entry and so we never really got a full picture from that or you brought up faster chomsky and michelle being barred from entering israel we know that he was personally in that same situation but were you surprised were you not surprised because you yourself had experienced that i was a little bit surprised because professor chomsky is in a category all of his own and however much jews may feel still believe towards him for his political views they still take pride in the fact that professor john chomsky is a certified in their knowledge genius so they take pride in the fact that he's

jewish and a genius and it was surprising that a person of his stature would also have been turned away and there represents i think you know a serious deterioration in israeli let's just call it decision making the israelis for a long time prior themselves and being very rational as against the emotional arabs but now they're acting in clearly a very irrational and also counterproductive from their own point of view counterproductive way to make a terrible p.r. for denying an eighty two year old man who is by any reckoning one of the greatest minds in human history denying him entry because it used to be that when israelis dissented the world praised them look how beautiful the israelis are when they do wrong they feel anguished they feel tormented but now for the first time the

world is saying we don't care about your anguish and. torment we're holding you legally responsible for what you're doing don't give us the anguish and torment there as it's called in israel the shooting and crying we don't want the tears we want accountability and now israelis feel very threatened because the for the first time in the specially after the goldstone report and the threats of holding israel before the international criminal court they don't want to hear from dissent anymore because they're being asked to pay a price last time we sat down. shortly after the war gaza and it was right before. obama became president you were very open in your opinion on what took place and who was wrong and that and that military conflict. it's been over a year since there's really assault on gaza what's your assessment of how the

obama administration has done so far in bringing permanent peace to the middle east at the time when they made those comments they appear to be very controversial indeed you might even say they were extreme but when the goldstone report came out and bear in mind richard goldstone is not our only a respected jurist but he's also jewish and by his only reckoning he says zionist goldstone report concluded there unarmed quoting here that israel launched a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish and terrorize the civilian population while those are pretty strong words punish. civilian population as to the record of the obama administration my recollection is that they didn't have great expectations from one. administrator and in fact it's quite

clear that nothing much came. there are occasional spats you might call them between israel and the united states but there's been no american initiative to try to resolve the conflict in terms of international law the resolution of the conflict which the rest of the world embraces if you move for a moment away from israel palestine and you take the case of iran since that's very topical now. around kept promise. kept promising there's going to be a change there's going to be a change but in fact as several commentators wrote the barack obama administration is carrying on like all other administrations there was an offer made in october two thousand and nine by the u.s. administration to iran and how to resolve the nuclear issue around that time rejected the offer for several reasons mostly because it didn't trust the main powers who were involved france the u.s.

even russia but now except to go the offer and as the leading academic specialist on the topic american academic specialists trita parsi dr parsi wrote in the washington post he says that barack obama is refusing to take yes for an answer and so there is no real difference between the so-called diplomatic approach of barack obama and the. mill touristic approach as it's sometimes claimed or belligerent approach of the bush administration at the end of the day their demand their what they want is for around to cry uncle for iran to get into u.s. power maybe barack obama does it with softer words and presents it with a more. appealing image but the policy is basically the same do you think that there was

a sound and message also sent possibly to turkey and purcell what that. with draft resolution being introduced so quickly after this the fuel swap t l y's are agreed upon with turkey personnel and iran you know well it's quite clear that the united states feels like power shifting it's becoming more die fuse and the us doesn't call the shots in every place in the world. turkey has carved out a more independent half in recent years most low notably when it refused to participate in the us attack on iraq. brazil is an emerging power and this was an attempt to cut them down to size less than the topic of the united nations and diplomacy because from what i understand you are lobbying to speak at the your lack of why and what you want to say well i have been involved in the conflict in a public way for the past thirty years i first got involved in june one nine

hundred eighty two when israel invaded lebanon and i do feel that in the wake of the massacre in gaza the goldstone report public opinion has changed its dramatically changed not only internationally but in the united states and there's a real opportunity known to put forth a reasonable settlement to the conflict not only to put it forth but for there to be a receptive audience for such a real reasonable settlement and i feel that given my personal background the fact that my parents were both survivors of the nazi holocaust my father was a survivor of auschwitz concentration camp my mother my down there concentration camp every member of their families on both sides were exterminated during the war we never had the nuance on close cousins grandparents nothing we were just as my late mother used to say five people in the world my mother my father and my two brothers and myself my family background my professional background i have written

many books in the topic and i think it's fair to say with. out sounding immodest am a recognized authority on the conflict and. the fact that i have been personally involved i've made a substantial commitment one might even say my own little way i've paid some price for the commitment of made and most importantly i've tried very desperately very hard to be reasonable to figure out the reasonable proposal based on international law to end the conflict but we should be clear i have no interest in being a vet victory over a vanquished israel i have no desire to no interest and wanting to humiliated embarrass it degraded or as they say push it against the wall so it feels like it has no choice except to strike out we won a reasonable settlement we want a settlement which allows everyone to live proud productive and peaceful lives we

want a settlement allows everyone to live in dignity and we want a settlement obviously which is in the accordance with the law with what the world should look like now you're right in the real world the law is often disregarded and replaced by the use of a big club when you crack people scolds but we're talking about how we think the conflict should end and i think most people understand maybe not people in power regular people but understand the rule of law and that we should respect the law and i think you can reach a large audience without principle and i think the audience is now ready to listen and that's why i want to go to the united nations and hopefully achieve our reasonable settlement of the conflict and we're going to leave her right there thank you very much for staying out of speaking with me thank you.

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hello there welcome to the sports news and the midst of a headlight. champions league dreams any face you know rare is they'd be terrific europe's biggest club competition. while brazil's new boss rings the changes as he takes over from dungan. there's a jubilant homecoming for tour de france king alberto contador. first as any face remaining inside unirea in the third qualifying round of the champions league tonight despite the russians being clear favorites their coach luciano says his men have to beat a dangerous teens any to have been training at the star stadium in bucharest which is being used for tonight's game as you know rees grand only home with seven thousand fans and the start suggests this should be an easy win for the simply disappeared the top the russian premier league and are on a ten game winning streak but despite that split is cautious having seen him play

his former club last season which is under supervision but mr playing in this competition would have to have lots of good qualities and don't know you know a very good team who deserved to be here you could see this last year when they played in the first round warnings. so you then have it all to do and they know if they have a chance of reaching the playoffs they have to get something from this match before the return leg next week they've had a poor start to their domestic league goalless draw with a pen jury at the weekend in an early super cup fate to kluge and coach running levy isn't exactly upbeat i think. not just a boost to most of the school really good players. very difficult to play against. but this is a. player but this is.

towards the good. things his side are up against is there a thought for welsh league side the new saints they face belgian champions and elect them or play them at rex's racecourse ground because their own stadium only holds two thousand fans new saints did play liverpool four years ago in the champions league and also manchester united in the u.a.e. for cup seven years ago and going into tonight's game they are relishing the chance that another. player budget. bigger than the whole league. i think. what a game to be involved in a tremendous set of great history of the club and in our thing we've just got to enjoy the cage and make sure we don't. ask around the lake they must be quietly confident on paper at least it is a mismatch with and like having won six european titles in the past but of course their manager points out being favorites doesn't guarantee anything is it to say. they're on the small teams. think that all teams deserve respect.

bigger teams have been through the small teams of other qualities. it's a competition where you know that. after four games at this stage you can. reach. the most important position in europe. through both of these of the qualities in this. in this. might be as important but also giving his wise opinion on the game is being brazil's latest coach man a man is as he was officially revealed as their new man on monday the forty seven year old was in charge of corinthians before being named as dungarees replacement a man as is has already picked his first squad of twenty four plays they fly to new jersey for a friendly with the united states on august the tenth top stars are missing after world cup duty and only our version ramirez silver and robin you are included from

the team that went to south africa although the new coach says there must be changes after the national sides disappointing quarter final world cup exit. well the hottest so losses are always difficult to do with in a team that is always considered the best in the world and always think that the better than most of the teams all that would have been hit hard in the last two years we couldn't be like that in the last two world cups who have to take this back we still have technical quality to achieve that but maybe we'll have to invest more to develop the maturity of our players because their living to europe is very harmful in some situations. meanwhile the fifa delegation shadow to visit russia next month has stopped over in a stroller to evaluate their bid to host the world cup in two thousand and twenty two coming straight from south korea chile and football federation president may nicolas and his assistants were welcomed at sydney opera the sydney opera house by the head of the striding football federation frank lowy and other officials while

an aboriginal group performed a traditional smoking ceremony i think the delegation will be down in the three days before moving on to other countries vying to land the world cup in the twenty four years later russia england the usa as well as joint bids from belgium the netherlands and spain and portugal are in the running for both of ends while a stray has opted to focus only on twenty twentieth's. we just need to be ready to show the whole we are what we are this is not a. competition between the other countries it is in the way but i think what we have to offer is unique very real need to point those things out. and i think we will my order here are a good team here and. i believe we will be impressed with what we can do time now to indulge in the highlights from last weekend's football in the

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a french champion alberto contador are rapturous homecoming the spaniard is back in his town of pinto just outside and great after winning the yellow jersey for a third time he has cycling's new superstar in the twenty seven year old could well surpass lance armstrong's total of seven tour de france titles not to mention the five one by spain's other cycling great miguel indurain contador telling the crimes that gathered his latest success was to everything this way. the race is what it is you can either win or not swim in the behind it's all there are many months away from home concentrated freezing training with water with snow with sun there's actually a very difficult moments but once you get here when you're on top of the podium in paris you see that this has all been worth it. and finally n.b.a. star kobe bryant expects himself to be one hundred percent fit for the pre-season training camp which starts in the twenty fifth of september the l.a. lakers guard announcing that in china at a meeting with fans just over

a week after undergoing surgery to his right knee which hampered him during the playoffs however the two. tonight champion won't be able to play for the training team championships in a. five time n.b.a. champion and tell fans the last trifle satisfy most special for me is is this last one. was last year because it was it was a hardest one to get you know the celtics were very tough to play this very well so your last year's championship to be a small special because it was ours war. brings the end of the sport. they still. hungry for the full story we've got it for us the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers.

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