Two essential video interviews – plus a third!

JVL Introduction

We link to videos of President of the US-Middle East Project and former Israeli negotiator Daniel Levy, interviewed on BBC World News on 8th October, and Mustafa Barghouti, leader of the Palestinian National Initiative interviewed on CNN.

At the time of the interview Barghouti still believed that Hamas had largely attacked military targets. This jars, knowing what we do now, but Barghouti nonetheless condemned all attacks on civilians as he has always consistently done.

Both interviews give singular insights into the background to the current crisis, and are an important part of the ongoing dialogue we need to encourage, to develop any alternative to the current realities of oppression, occupation and apartheid.

PS: (3.50pm) to which we must add an excellent  Inside Story report on Al Jazeera with Mustafa Barghouti, Daniel Levy and Rami Khouri of the American University in Beirut.