G’Day World #359 – Antony Loewenstein on Gaza

Summary: You've seen it in the news over the last month. On December 27, Israel broke a six-month truce with Hamas (the democratically-elected leaders of the Palestinian people living in Gaza) and launched a three-week long attack on the small, densely-populated region. Palestinian casualties - 1,400 dead <a href="http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Israel_resumes_attacks_in_Gaza,_Rice_asks_for_war_crimes_investigations">including more than 400 children and 100 women</a>. Israeli casualties - 12 Israeli soldiers and 3 civilians. My guest on this show is <a href="http://www.AntonyLoewenstein.com">Antony Loewenstein</a>, Sydney-based journalist, author and blogger. Read more: <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/04/gaza200804">David Rose article in Vanity Fair </a> <a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n02/sieg01_.html">Henry Siegman, director of the US Middle East Project in New York, former national director of the American Jewish Congress and of the Synagogue Council of America, article "Israel’s Lies"</a> <a href="http://tpn.thepodcastnetwork.com/pledge">PLEASE SUPPORT THE TPN PLEDGE.</a> A note about this show: With the help of my two assistants <a href="http://twitter.com/tim_grainger">Tim Grainger</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/synapticmysfire">Jonathan Hewlett</a>, we ran a LIVE TWITSTREAM of the interview through the <a href="http://twitter.com/gdayworld">gdayworld twitter account</a>. We asked people to submit questions via Twitter during the interview and I fed those back to Antony during our call. It was my first attempt at podcast twinterviewing and the results were interesting. Thanks to <a href="http://twitter.com/ireckon">Darryl King from iReckon</a> for seeding the filthy idea into my head over coffee a few days ago.