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Interview With Stephen Zunes About Ongoing Assault on Gaza

by George Cadman
Interview with Professor Stephen Zunes on Monday 1-5-09 on Free Radio Santa Cruz. He recently wrote the article, "America's Hidden Role in Hamas's Rise to Power," which is at http://www.alternet.org
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Dr. Stephen Zunes is a Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco, where he chairs the program in Middle Eastern Studies.
Professor Zunes is the author of scores of articles for scholarly and general readership on Middle Eastern politics, U.S. foreign policy, international terrorism, nuclear nonproliferation, strategic nonviolent action, and human rights. He is the principal editor of Nonviolent Social Movements (Blackwell Publishers, 1999), the author of the highly-acclaimed Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism (Common Courage Press, 2003) and co-author (with Jacob Mundy) of the forthcoming Western Sahara: Nationalism, Conflict, and International Accountability (Syracuse University Press.)
Dr. Zunes has made frequent visits to the Middle East and other conflict regions, where he has met with top government officials, academics, journalists and opposition leaders.
§Zunes also supported the US imperialist war on Serbia!
by Partisana
Aside from his "anti-imperialist" rhetoric, Stephen Zunes was a vocal supporter of the US attack on Serbia. Wouldn't surprise me at all if he had agency ties of some sort.

thank you for calling this guy out! He is an agent of US imperialism, NOT an opponent.
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by Litmus test
The minimum litmus test for any supposedly pro-Palestinian human rights activist must be:

Do you publicly declare yourself to be an anti-Zionist?

Do you speak out against and condemn political Zionism?

Do you believe that political Zionism is a form of racism?

Otherwise, they're a Zionist.
by Roswitha
What's up with you? Stephen Zunes was one of the few people singled out in Santa Cruz for David Horowitz' 'Discover the Networks' list (see http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/17903/index.php )
For some reason, JAnderson doesn't appear to be on the list as well. Anyhow, you sound a bit crazy accusing a scholar who speaks and publishes opinion editorials on these issues of being a zionist. Maybe the word 'zionist' isn't being used correctly, and thus loses meaning at that point? Also, what's the point of diverting the conversation here into pointless agitation. What do you want to happen? Do you think jewish people shouldn't be able to live in west asia in multiethnic states?

By the way, there are other conflicts going on in the world.
by no name
I noticed that these critics didn't remark on the interview or the article that Stephen had on alternet.

It would be more interesting to read their comments if they were an articulate response to what Stephen had to say, rather than just a venomous attack on him.
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