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For the full discussion, please join us on Patreon at - Palestinian-American historian Rashid Khalidi analyzes Joe Biden and what influences his view on Israel. He describes Biden as “someone who's clearly been brainwashed by the Israeli politicians and the lobbyists who have focused on him for his entire life, starting with Golda Meir. He has described her impact on him. We can go on what he’s said. He was taken by Golda. And I think he has a casual contempt for the Palestinians. Many of the things he's said are insulting and dehumanizing to the Palestinians. What he said about Palestinian casualties. He's a man who decided support of Israel was an important part of his political persona early on. And there are many, many, many statements by him, “if Israel didn't exist, we’d have to create it, I’m a Zionist” and so on. He’s surrounded himself with people like Blinken, like Sullivan, like Admiral Kirby, who have a contempt for and ignorance of the Arab world and of the Palestinians.” Rashid Khalidi () is the Edward Said professor of modern Arab studies at Columbia University and was an advisor to the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid and Washington Arab-Israeli peace negotiations from October 1991 until June 1993. He is the author of: The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917- 2017 (2020); Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. has Undermined Peace in the Middle East (2013); Sowing Crisis: American Dominance and the Cold War in the Middle East (2009);The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (2006); Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East (2004); Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (1996); Under Siege: PLO Decision-Making During the 1982 War (1986); British Policy Towards Syria and Palestine, 1906-1914 (1980); and co-editor of Palestine and the Gulf (1982) and The Origins of Arab Nationalism (1991), and The Other Jerusalem: Rethinking the History of the Sacred City (2020). You can get Dr. Khalidi's book “The Hundred Years' War on Palestine“ here or if you must on Amazon
