Susan dr. Peniel joseph, you and i planned this interview three months back, but we got sideways with the covid lockdown. As a historian, how are you processing this time this country is going through . Prof. Joseph i have been writing a lot, both opeds in for a longer piece. It is extraordinary watershed moment. I think we are living through a third american reconstruction effort to reconstruct democracy so that it is multiracial, multicultural. Our first efforts were after the civil war. 1865 to 1877. We did achieve some racial progress. We had 15 black elected officials. We had a freedmens bureau. We had the creation of black churches and Public Schools, but we also institutionalized racial segregation rather quickly by the 1880s and 1890s. We did it through racial violence and public policy. Our second reconstruction is the Civil Rights Movement between 1954 and 1965. When we think about Public School desegregation and the Voting Rights act and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Bute wa
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Major Development Part what else can you tell us. Well u. S. Military medic statements coming from palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas he says that israel will no longer abide by security arrangements with and so users of the Palestinian Authority will no longer buy security arrangements with israel now until now the Palestinian Authority Security Officials and Israeli Soldiers coordinate all Security Operations in the west bank so that is being suspended with immediate effect at the same time as it is breaking off or tied with the United States now he says that he holds United States fully responsible for all injustices towards the Palestinian People and that the United States is a key partner in israels actions against the rights of the palestinians so in that respect he says that the Palestinian Authority is cutting off all its ties with the United States as well now this is coming in response to commands the side to annex its territories in the west bank this is part of the america
So the chairman says this is fine is it fine this is fun just fine. Thank you again. Well this is fine you know the only solution they seem to have over and over is more money printing and the fed is at that again nonstop since 2008 really as paul says fed policies will absolutely not lead to more income inequality this is what he claims last week while cities across america were on fire and notice that he said income inequality you know money printing does it causes asset prices to increase and tech Capital Gains to increase he didnt mention that he didnt mention the wealth gap so i did want to turn to a chart from pew and it shows the share of us aggregate wealth since 1983 to 2016 this is what the fed has been doing this is the upper income went from having 60 percent of all wealth in america back in 1903 to 179 percent and its probably much higher even now middle income has been the huge collapse as you see down from 32 percent to 17 percent so theyre nearly cut in half well this i
So joining us now from tel aviv are very our policy where shes got more on this Major Development power what else can you tell us. Where u. S. Military medic statements coming from palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas he says that israel will no longer abide by security arrangements for woods and so users of the Palestinian Authority will no longer buy security arrangements with israel now until now the Palestinian Authority Security Officials and Israeli Soldiers coordinate all Security Operations in the west bank so that is being suspended with immediate effect at the same time as it is breaking off or ties with the United States now he says that he holds the United States fully responsible for all injustices towards the Palestinian People and that the United States is a key partner in israels actions against the rights of the palestinians so in that respect he says that the Palestinian Authority is cutting off all its ties with the United States as well now this is coming in response