In the Company Canteen or something but as you know im a big fan of yours and a huge fan of your first book on google, now to come back at this particular moment and talk about facebook, the inside story couldnt be more timely and am going to start off we have lots of places to go with this, im going to start off with something timely, as we came to do the show you heard about the hacking of twitter the fact that trump is going to facebook to get the message out, facebook has had a lot of criticism for a lot of things over the years and i actually wrote a column recently questioning why Mark Zuckerberg has not fact checked the president. Kalisher take on this, what is this relationship between facebook and the white house between facebook and free speech, im gonna throw your big question along to off. Thank you for doing this now and its good to connect with you again. Like a lot of things, you cannot tease that one problem of facebook from the sea dna in its origins in the case of tru
Change will be armed by nationalism all the some more coming up in todays going underground but 1st on wednesdays show we interviewed the chief executive of britains kings fund richard mari he said he believes that failures of the 2012 tory health and social care act have been highlighted by the british response to coronavirus i then asked him this because you were at mckinsey did you see any understanding or consciousness of these kinds of problems ahead of time given that of course it was the gordon brown government that commissioned a mckinsey report that is widely seen as the beginning of the 20 and 12 health and social care act i was at the kids the long before that so i was back in the department of health by the time of the Gordon Brown Administration so i dont think. Because he was very influential on the approach taken by Andrew Lansley hed written up his plans many many years before in response to these allegations mckinsey and company. Referred us to this statement which say
Coronavirus at least one ngo an edge is that israel backed by the u. S. And using british weapons is taking advantage of a pandemic to expand settlements illegal under International Law joining me now via skype from haifa in the middle east is historian and author of the ethnic cleansing of palestine professor hanan pappy thank you so much and for coming on you coined the word no more aside this is been a day like no other except where there are reports of an alleged israeli killing of a teenager in the occupied territories record u. K. Arms sales to israel no Public Mobilization remind us of the significance of not by day in the 1st place for palestine and the world. With a commemorates what happened in 148. 00 and all happening only 48. 00 was a crime against humanity that he still denied or not acknowledge even today in that here these are if forces expelled half of palestines book relation the militia type of palestines villages and destroyed most of the palestinian towns it also t
India and everywhere else for. What is it that the british are attempting to do to kind of you know with the Zionist Movement was radical right well the the basic goal the strategic. Israeli Palestinian Conflict is not the product of ancient ethnic hatreds nor is it the tragic clash between 2 peoples with claims to the same land it is rather a manufactured conflict the outcome of a 100 year old colonial occupation by jewish zionists and israel backed by major imperial powers starting with the british and a century later with the United States this project from its inception has always been about the forest and often violent displacement of palestinians from their land the seizure of that land by the colonisers and the rendering of the palestinians as non people as if they never existed. This century long the so 1st by the zionists and later by israel has always been waged against an addiction is people to force them to relinquish their homeland to another people against their will yet
Against those who speak this truth joining me in the studio to discuss this colonial project is rashid holiday the edward cited professor of modern arab studies at Columbia University and the author of the 100 years war on palestine the history of settler colonization and resistance 1917 to 2017 so you pull from the historical record from documents and make i think absolutely compelling case that from the moment of zionist settlement in palestine they knew exactly what they were doing they knew what the end gold was which theyve largely achieved. And that was surprising for me as you know from what you dug up in their store of whole record how frank you know how clear sighted they were from the beginning haim weissman and others and so talk about that well they were clear sighted and they were fraying but they were more frank in private than they well public because in public they were quite disingenuous really right i mean the british restricted them to a formulation called a National