Press TV, Iran hosts a non-standard panel discussion of Lebanon under Israeli fire

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I find it hard to remember the last time I shared a podium with an advocate of Marxism-Leninism to  student activists. Those student activists just happen to be Palestinians.

 Press TV this morning provided such an opportunity when I joined  Khaled Barakat of the Masar Badil Movement, also known as the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path, to discuss the present situation in Lebanon under Israeli attack.

 I present the result of our 15 minute on-air discussion in the belief that it was not only challenging but also illuminating. And, I note with pleasure, that the level of our interaction was far more civilized than my recent ‘debate’ with a Harvard educated journalist based in Moscow a week or so ago.

See https://www.urmedium.net/c/presstv/131444

Translation below into German (Andreas Mylaeus)

Press TV, Iran, veranstaltet eine nicht standardisierte Podiumsdiskussion über den Libanon unter israelischem Beschuss

Ich kann mich kaum daran erinnern, wann ich das letzte Mal mit einem Verfechter des Marxismus-Leninismus vor studentischen Aktivisten auf einem Podium saß. Diese studentischen Aktivisten sind zufällig Palästinenser.

Press TV bot mir heute Morgen eine solche Gelegenheit, als ich mich Khaled Barakat von der Masar Badil-Bewegung, auch bekannt als Palästinensischer Alternativer Revolutionärer Weg, anschloss, um die aktuelle Situation im Libanon unter israelischem Beschuss zu diskutieren.

Ich präsentiere das Ergebnis unserer 15-minütigen On-Air-Diskussion in der Überzeugung, dass sie nicht nur herausfordernd, sondern auch aufschlussreich war. Und ich stelle mit Freude fest, dass das Niveau unserer Interaktion weitaus zivilisierter war als meine jüngste „Debatte“ vor etwa einer Woche mit einem in Harvard ausgebildeten, in Moskau ansässigen Journalisten.

Siehe https://www.urmedium.net/c/presstv/131444

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