The emotional roller coaster that every Palestinian has been riding over the last year: oscillating between hope and despair. Fantastic conversation. I wish it lasted longer.
Abdel Razzaq Takriti, Trita Parsi, and now Tareq Baconi. You've now interviewed 3 of the greatest minds on Israeli + Palestinian politics. There is no one better who calls for, and has done more to advance the struggles of the Palestinian diaspora + movements like Tareq. Thank you, thank you, thank you, for this. Only point of contention I have is in regards to the 33:50 minute mark. While Hamas viewed Morsi's government as an ally, it still wasn't able to open the Rafah border beyond humanitarian needs as it would allow Israel to claim that there is no blockade on Gaza, thereby giving it an excuse to shut down crossings into Israel, cutting off incoming humanitarian aid, and more importantly, individuals who had work permits to work in Israel proper. Morsi + Hamas both were both constrained by the 2005 "Agreed Arrangements", as well as the international framework that prevented either from truly taking advantage of the opportunity for real trade between the 2 governments. Saying all that, I agree that neither Mubarak, nor the Muslim Brotherhood's government were as suppresive as Al-Sisi's. Also, to your arguments at the end about Palestinians employing the South African model, it appears Israel is finding itself similar to the situation the South African apartheid regime was in at the end of it's run. Getting involved in wars in Namibia as well as Angola, and not doing as well as it originally set it out to dealt a huge blow to it's ability to maintain the apparatus functional. Castro and Cuba's peace agreement with SA had as much to do with the end of apartheid as internal ANC strategy did.
Tareq’s book is not the “only book” from the Hamas perspective nor even the most recent-Leila Seurat’s excellent “The Foreign Policy of Hamas: Ideology, Decision Making and Political Supremacy” (2022), and Paola Caridi’s revised edition of “Hamas” (2023) are more recent and similarly advert to Hamas’ archives, oral history interviews, etc. But the foundational studies, which Baconi cites in his own work, are Khaled Hroub’s “Hamas: Political Thought and Practice” (2006) and Azzam Tamimi’s “Hamas: A History for Within” (2007; published as “Hamas: Unwritten Chapters” in the UK). For instance, Baconi relies on the latter two books to analyze the 1988 Al-Mithaq written by Abd al-Fattah Dukhan.
baconi’s book is not the only work on hamas from their own perspective. Azzam Tamimi’s book Hamas: Unwritten Chapters had already been released for many years before Baconi’s for example.
One of the best episodes. I’m so glad Tareq Baconi was able to appear.
The emotional roller coaster that every Palestinian has been riding over the last year: oscillating between hope and despair.
Fantastic conversation. I wish it lasted longer.
Abdel Razzaq Takriti, Trita Parsi, and now Tareq Baconi.
You've now interviewed 3 of the greatest minds on Israeli + Palestinian politics.
There is no one better who calls for, and has done more to advance the struggles of the Palestinian diaspora + movements like Tareq.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, for this.
Only point of contention I have is in regards to the 33:50 minute mark. While Hamas viewed Morsi's government as an ally, it still wasn't able to open the Rafah border beyond humanitarian needs as it would allow Israel to claim that there is no blockade on Gaza, thereby giving it an excuse to shut down crossings into Israel, cutting off incoming humanitarian aid, and more importantly, individuals who had work permits to work in Israel proper. Morsi + Hamas both were both constrained by the 2005 "Agreed Arrangements", as well as the international framework that prevented either from truly taking advantage of the opportunity for real trade between the 2 governments.
Saying all that, I agree that neither Mubarak, nor the Muslim Brotherhood's government were as suppresive as Al-Sisi's.
Also, to your arguments at the end about Palestinians employing the South African model, it appears Israel is finding itself similar to the situation the South African apartheid regime was in at the end of it's run. Getting involved in wars in Namibia as well as Angola, and not doing as well as it originally set it out to dealt a huge blow to it's ability to maintain the apparatus functional. Castro and Cuba's peace agreement with SA had as much to do with the end of apartheid as internal ANC strategy did.
Excellent presentation! Thank you.
Excellent discussion, thank you. I am learning so much from this podcast.
Tellement soulagée de vous retrouver et de prendre connaissance de vos réflexions. Merci.
Brilliant speaker
Thank You So Much Maqdisi Bros ❤💐🦋 And, Please host Tareq Baconi again soon 🌺🌺
Wonderful discussion with Tareq.
Excellent podcast! Thank you so much 🙏
We love Tareq in Cape Town
Tareq’s book is not the “only book” from the Hamas perspective nor even the most recent-Leila Seurat’s excellent “The Foreign Policy of Hamas: Ideology, Decision Making and Political Supremacy” (2022), and Paola Caridi’s revised edition of “Hamas” (2023) are more recent and similarly advert to Hamas’ archives, oral history interviews, etc. But the foundational studies, which Baconi cites in his own work, are Khaled Hroub’s “Hamas: Political Thought and Practice” (2006) and Azzam Tamimi’s “Hamas: A History for Within” (2007; published as “Hamas: Unwritten Chapters” in the UK). For instance, Baconi relies on the latter two books to analyze the 1988 Al-Mithaq written by Abd al-Fattah Dukhan.
baconi’s book is not the only work on hamas from their own perspective.
Azzam Tamimi’s book Hamas: Unwritten Chapters had already been released for many years before Baconi’s for example.
On the wanton depravity, see Laurent Guyenot's essay, 'Israel, The Psychopathic Nation, written I believe in 2017.
Invite Zizek and confront him
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H@m8s prison break!!! Words matter!
Vous oubliez l Algérie
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