he's a human rights lawyer and professor of law at the university of galloway. now raymond, good of you to join us. you also served as a un peacekeeping with una, fell in love and on. and i want to ask you what you make of what is happening at the moment in southern lebanon, specifically, cause you well as, as i said, a full, i'm a peacekeeping that yeah, this situation for the peacekeepers similar to the situation 1st, civilians in the area is quite precarious. there costs between 2 warring factions at this stage or between the conflict that is a merge between these really forces and his father insult them. and on the situation over the last couple of days, it was as good as his very seriously. and the un peacekeepers we must recall, have a very limited amount of days. it's a try and then a resolution 1701, which was adopted in 2006. and if you look at the terms of the resolution, actually many of the many, many issues raised in the resolution are quite unrealistic. i'm. one of them was actually to ensure that his ball a would withdrawal from an area between leb

galloway. francis boyle is a professor of international law at the university of illinois, a harvard graduate. he's represented international bodies on human rights, war crimes and genocide. boyle served as counsel to bosnia and palestine, advised on peace negotiations and drafted the biological weapons anti-terrorism. act of 1989, eminent, eminent intellectual in the field of law, whom i have had the privilege of knowing for many decades. professor boyle, thank you for joining us, i posed what for me is what the americans used to call the $64,000 question, namely, are all these courts and judicial bodies and the rest merely lipstick. a pig, or can it be said that they mean anything when their decisions are simply ignored by the person in the doc, namely? well, george, great to see you again, and thank you for having me back in my best to your listening audience. i agree with everything you said in your opening statement. but the point is we are fighting back uh against netanyahu and the israeli government by these legal mechanisms. that we do have uh, we, lawyers are fighting back all over th

galloway. francis boy is a professor of international law at the university of illinois, harvard graduate. whom i have had the privilege of knowing for many decades. professor boyle, thank you for joining us. i posed what for me is what the americans used to call the $64,000 question, namely, are all these courts and judicial bodies and the rest merely lipstick a pig, or can it be said that they mean anything when their decisions are simply ignored by the person in the dock, namely netanyahu at all? well, george, uh, great to see you again, and thank you for having me back in my best to your listening audience. i agree with everything you said in your opening statement, but the point is we are fighting back against netanyahu and... the israeli government by these legal mechanisms that we do have, uh, we, lawyers are fighting back all over the world, we have an ngo organization now of groups all over the world, fighting back by means of international and international organizations, it's it's a tough fight, george, we're... against israel and behind israel is the most powerful country in th

long as god gives me breath, not least here on have it out with galloway, francis boyle is a professor of... international law at the universityn in? dock, namely, well, george, uh, great to see you again, and thank you for having me back in my... to your listening audience, i agree with everything you said in your opening statement, but the point is we are fighting back uh against netanyahu and the israeli government by these legal mechanisms that we do have uh, we, lawyers are fighting back all over the world, we have an ngo... organization now of groups all over the world uh fighting back by uh means of international on international uh organizations. it's it's a tough fight, george, we're up against israel, and behind israel is the most powerful country in the world, the united states of america and also britain, mr. starmer there is continuing to... support the israelis too, and the uh german government is supporting them and in a good deal of uh european state, so yes, we are up against enormous uh political, military, economic power, there's no doubt about it, george. there's no doubt that the legal front is an importan

galloway, the role of china in the middle east. stay tuned. ken hammond is professor of east asia and global history at new mexico state university and an activistnational spirit, in other words, they're walking softly, they're carrying a big stick, but they're walking softly, is that correct? i think that's very correct, i think that china has spent lot of uh invested lot of resources in recent years in developing its military capabilities, this is primarily of course directed at defending itself from the aggression that the united states has been enhancing and and ramping up whether it's in the south china sea or the taiwan straight or other areas where the united states has been menacing china, and you know china of course has the right to defend itself and has been very very serious about ensuring that the united states is not going to intimidate it uh, and so when we see china's military capabilities, they are, as i say, they are essentially of a of defensive nature. china only has one military installation overseas, which is facility at djibooti in in east africa as part of a united nations anti-piracy uh initiative there, but that doesn't

galloway, the role of china in the middle east. stay tuned. ken hammond is professor of east asia and global history at new mexico state university and an activist with pivot to peace. thank you uh professor for joining us on have it out with galloway. uh let's start with where i left off. it would be fair to say that china has not yet begun to exercise. in foreign policy, anything like the weight that it possesses as the world's greatest manufacturing power, possibly the world's greatest economy, with the biggest navy and with an unvanquishable national spirit. in other words, they're walking softly, they're carrying a big stick, but they're walking softly. is that correct? i think that's very correct i think that china has spent lot of invested lot of resources in recent years in developing its military capabilities. this is primarily of course directed at defending itself from the aggression that the united states has been enhancing and and ramping up, whether it's in the south china sea or the taiwan straight or other areas where the united states has been menacing china, and you know china of course has the right to defend itself and has be