okay, let me introduce our guests for our program, we have first oliver boyd barrett, he's the emiratus professor of ohio and at ohio and california university, and he's also the author of conflict narrative. in syria, oliver barrett, welcome to economic divide, it's good to have you with us, um, to begin with, many are not aware that there has been an arab league boycot of israel, but it's not enforced, it was adopted by them to boycott israel and other relations between the arab states and israel, but the fact that they don't enforce it is where the problem is, tell us why this was adopted, what it's all about and why it's not being enforced, especially at this time i believe that the arab league has in the past has played a very influential role in protecting palestinian interes, it was party to the formation of the palestinian liberation organization for example, but the in my view, the effectiveness the arab league the palestinian cause, began to deteriorate with the oslo accords of 1995, these brought about a reconciliation of sorts between the plo and israel in as much as each re

welcome back to the program, oliver barrett, what we want to uh, focus on in terms of the question i want to ask you, is the information that people were resorting to when it came to this uh, illegal war that uh israel, the genocidal war was raging on palestinians, and for example, generation z really took the social media and looked at twitter, now known as x, and also tiktok um how effective you think that was in terms of educating the masses and for example the generation z to get an idea about the conflict and how uh there's so much disinformation when it comes to uh palestinians we're living this this is an incredibly important moment that we are living through from a geopolitical point of view i think tend to agree with those who feel that uh there is no turning back at this point. uh the the the credibility uh of uh of israel has been gravely uh damaged, there are very few countries in the global south right now, who will feel very enthusiastic about improving their relations with israel, i think the fustering of stronger relations between the arab league and the the bricks an

all right, let's find out what our guests think about all this, and more, we have oliver boyt barrett, emirats professor at ohio, and california university, who rejoins us. welcome back to the program, oliver barret, what we want to uh focus on in terms of the question i want to ask you, is the information that people were resorting to when it came to this uh, illegal war that israel and the genicidal war was raging on palestinians and for example, generation z really took the social media and looked at twitter, now... is x and also tiktok um how effective you think that was in terms of educating the masses and for example the generation z to get an idea about the conflict and how uh there's so much disinformation. when it comes to uh palestinians? we're living, this, this is an incredibly important moment that we are living through, from a geopolitical point of view. i i think i tend to agree with those that there is no turning back at this point, the the the credibility uh of uh of of israel has been gravelly damaged. there are very few countries in the global south right now. um wh