he thinks you can bring peace to the region. will not be five. year old american crime. norman finkelstein has never shied away from controversy. the american jailed banned from israel and pledges support for the palestinian people the author and former professor has lost a job. working at the pygmy everything my family he did to be documented in the film american radical 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

surprise 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 though i asked not to be consulted about the content i didn't want anyone to future to say that i was making a promo for myself. as to why i got involved in the money basically 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 in the bar his personal background so i thought there was nothing politically incorrect or vain about

participating in such you. 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 palestine 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 professor chomsky and the issue of being barred from entering israel you know that he was recently in that same situation were you surprised were you not surprised because you yourself had experienced that i was a little bit surprised because professor chomsky is in the 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 johns 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 with 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 that word 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 were no i'm 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 at that time rejected the offer for several reasons mostly because they didn't trust the main powers who were involved france the u.s.

even russia but now it 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 a belligerent approach of the bush administration at the end of the day they demand their what they want is for around to cry uncle for iran to give in to 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 are ways out also slant possibly to turkey and purcell what that.

draft resolution being introduced so quickly after this fuel swap the 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 the if you use and the us doesn't call the shots in every place in the world and 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 a 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 thousand nine hundred 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 the put 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 any on so uncles 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 a. 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 in 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 the 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 he 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 no 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 skulls 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 who 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 be right there thank you very much for staying out of speaking with me thank you.

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hello and thank you for joining me for the sports news and here the top stories walk of fame russia stanislav get all young off strolls to glory on the opening day of the european athletics championships. while targeting the truck inslee is in it to go to remain inside iraq aiming to reach europe's biggest club competition. and then the beginning brazil's latest coachmen as as rigorous the changes as he takes over from indonesia. but we start with athletics where russia has taken the first gold medal at the european championships stanislav yaml young off on the men's twenty kilometer walk in barcelona he came home in one hour twenty minutes and ten seconds that was twenty eight seconds ahead of italian actress a while portuguese shalvey i took the bronze another russian country revolved in the sticks and there's a further chance of gold for russia in the women's event on wednesday this double world champion all got cars miskin are sponsored by many to win that one.

event will now doesn't simply just work out your romanian side in a rare as a trainee in the third qualifying round of the champions league on tuesday night was despite the russian side being clear favorites that coach and china's for letters says his men have to beat a dangerous team so let's have been training at the star stadium in bucharest which is being used for the match as only raise ground only holds seven thousand fans and statistics suggest this should be an easy win for the same petersburg team who top the russian premier league and on a ten day winning streak despite that it's well at least being cautious having seen the red play his former club last season which is under supervision but here's the thing and it's going to dish you would have to have lots of good qualities and know you know very good team who deserved to be here because this last year when they played a strong one in the first. so it looks like you know i have a big child on their hands and know if they have a chance of reaching the playoffs they have to get something from this match before the return leg next week their main site has made

a poor start to their domestic season following a gold stroll with and judy at the weekend and i look super cup defeat to kluge and coach ronnie levy isn't exactly upbeat i think. not just the best most of the best coach very good player is. very difficult to play against. but this is i would like you. to play in the best but this is the worst that you can get. better he thinks his side of the underdogs spare a thought for a welsh league side to the new saints they're playing host to belgian champions and elect and will face them at rex's racecourse ground because their own stadium only holds two thousand fans the saints did play liverpool four years ago in the champions league manchester united in the away for cup seven is a guy going to choose the night's game relishing the chance to play another big

name to play budget less probably bigger than the whole league i would say but you know i think what it was a game to be involved in was a tremendous a great history of the club and in our thing you know we've just got to enjoy the cage and make sure we don't last as well alice randall let's they must be quite confident on paper at least the tie is a mismatch with anderlecht having won five european titles in the past but as their manager points at being favorites doesn't guarantee anything if you say. they're on the small teams. i think that all teams does deserve respect. bigger teams have been pretty 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

also given his wise opinions on the game has been brazil's latest coach man i met as as after he was officially revealed as the new national coach on monday the forty seven year old is in charge of brazilian club corinthians before being named as dumbass replacement meses has already picked his first quarter twenty four players they'll fly to new jersey for a friendly with the united states on august the tenth the top stars are missing after world cup duty as only alvarez but i mean this silva and ravinia are included from the team that went to south africa well though the new coach says there must be changes after the national sides disappointing quarter final exit. so losses are always difficult to do with in a team that is always considered the best in the world and i always think that had it better than most of the teams that would have been hit hard in the last two years we couldn't be like that in the last two world cups but for he will have to take his back we still have technical moves it is true that maybe it will have to invest more to develop the maturity of our players because the only living to

europe is very harmful in some situations. i mean one is a big day for diego maradona as it will be decided if he stays on as argentina coach the forty seven year old led his country to the world cup quarter finals as has he wants to remain in charge only his entire backroom staff maradona met the president of the argentine football association on monday for two hours of talks meanwhile the president a geisha has moved on to the president on day two of their three day evaluation of australia's world cup bid the officials told the sun core stadium which could be one of the venues to host the tournament in trying. twenty two while other arenas in the state of queensland were showing off a purpose built exhibition the visiting officials also met young local players the fee for team has six more countries to inspect including russia before announcing their verdict and december the second and the australians say the real tenterhooks until then. exalting charm it's a way of the same of the sea for

a successful to get the twenty twenty two feet for world cup the biggest challenge the biggest show in the world for that matter and what better place to host the world cup but here in queensland meanwhile russian premier league strugglers crew yesterday at else have brought back coach alexander cock on off to help them fight off relegation conifer turn seven years later to take up an ailing korea who reached a goal list or get a spot in the latest match however all of the other weekend matches did produce scoring results and hear all of them it's goals below. thank.

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now concentrated freezing training. with sun so it's actually very difficult moments which will you know it's a gets hit you get when you're on top of that there is you see that this has all been worth it worth it and that's all for sports join us for another update in time and. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. that every month we give you the future we help you understand how we'll get there and want to bring the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world to join us for technology update on our g.

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