Eric Margolis, journalist and author of American Raj, discusses Palestine’s overwhelming victory in its bid for non-member observer state status at the UN (with the US in lonely opposition); how influential pro-Israel lobbies have paralyzed US Mideast policy; Canada’s own religious right movement; the Israeli government’s fear of Palestine’s new-found access to the International Criminal Court; the double standard on terrorist/freedom-fighter bombers in Kabul and Damascus, respectively; and whether Egypt’s President Morsi is eliminating the remnants of Mubarak’s dictatorship – or establishing his own.

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