Interview of Dr. Paul Larudee by Dimitris Konstantakopoulos for DefendDemocracy.Press and Militaire.gr
Trump is not absolutely identified with Netanyahu, but he knows that the margins for emancipating himself from the Israeli Prime Minister are limited—at least if the US President wishes to survive! With the American observer and political activist Paul Larudee, we discuss the ongoing tragedy in Syria, a country he knows very well; the Kurds, whom the Americans abandoned to their fate, like so many other allies who trusted them; and what is happening in Iran. He explains why the Israelis have suffered a strategic defeat, with a large part of the population of their state leaving it (unfortunately, of course, by “settling” and “colonizing” Cyprus, if not Greece as well), at the very moment when a record number of Palestinians are now joining Hamas.
These are among the things Paul Larudee tells us, breaking through the unprecedented propaganda of the global systemic mass media, in a sweeping interview. Paul Larudee is one of the best-informed and most objective observers of developments in West Asia. Holding a PhD in linguistics from Georgetown University in Washington, Paul Larudee spent 14 years working in West Asia (the Middle East). He directed a program of the Ford Foundation, served as a Fulbright–Hays professor in Lebanon, and also worked at San Francisco State University, the University of San Francisco, St. Mary’s College in Moraga, and Haigazian College in Beirut.
He was a co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement with Palestine, as well as a co-founder of the “A Ship to Gaza” movement, together with Vangelis Pissias. He traveled on the ship that broke the blockade in 2008 and with the flotilla that was subjected to a bloody attack by Israel in 2010. In 2002 he was shot by an Israeli soldier, while on other occasions he was beaten and deported by the Israelis. He was also a co-founder of the Global March to Jerusalem, the Free Palestine Movement, and the Syria Solidarity Movement. He served as an observer in the Syrian presidential election of June 2014. He writes on Substack, Dissident Voice, and other outlets.
In other words, Paul Larudee is an exemplary representative —a symbol—of the global struggle for human freedom and dignity.
