Medea Benjamin, founder of Global Exchange and co-founder of CODEPINK, discusses the US and Middle East climate for war vs peace. She also talks about the Gaza Freedom March planned for December 31st of this year. Hundreds of international citizens are set to pour across the Egyptian border carrying a message of hope about peace and justice.
This program was produced by Talk Nation Radio for November 19, 2009.
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http://talknationradio.com
http://gazafreedommarch.org
Mohammad Othman, a Palestinian human rights activist and advocate of the non-violent civil society campaign of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS), was arrested Tuesday, September 22, 2009 becoming the first Palestinian to be imprisoned by Israel in response to BDS advocacy activity.
In this interview he discusses his work in his hometown, Jayyous, a Palestinian village that is central to the non-violent movement in Palestine and is continually under attack by Israeli forces.
This program was produced by the International Middle East Media Center for February 19, 2009.
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Interview with Andreas Müller about the fifth anniversary of the International Court of Justice’s advisory opinion regarding the “Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.”
Andreas is an Assistant Professor at the Department of European Law and Public International Law at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Currently, he is doing an LL.M. at the Yale University Law School, and is working on his PhD thesis on the international law of occupation. He is also the author of the AIC publication, “A Wall on the Green Line?”
This program was produced by News From Within for July 30, 2009.
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The recent passing of Tanya Reinhart is a sad loss to the movement for Palestinian liberation and peace in the Middle East. Dr. Reinhart was a tireless critic of her own government’s actions and policies. Grounded in a fundamental respect for the dignity of all humans, her writings and speeches helped illuminate alternatives to the conflict. Her voice, like that of the late Dr. Edward Said, will be missed.
Today’s podcast is a discussion with Tanya Reinhart from October 9, 2006. Erica Vowles produced it for The Wire, a current affairs program broadcast on community radio in Australia.
The Hamas-led Palestinian government remains unable or unwilling to form a government of unit with the Fatah party. Fatah is seen as more moderate and the move was aimed at breaking the international embargo that has seen the Palestinian government starved of food and money since Hamas was voted democratically into office earlier this year. The sticking point for the international community remains Hamas’ refusal to acknowledge the right of the state of Israel to exist. One visiting Israeli academic believes we must look beyond the obvious and acknowledge that the situation in Palestinians territories is a problem that will not go away, unless the International community provides enough support and pressure to force both sides to embrace peace. Professor Tanya Reinhart, Professor of Linguistics and Media Studies at Tel Aviv University and author of The Road Map to Nowhere, Israel/Palestine since 2003 discussed how most Israelis view the Gaza disengagement of 2005.
For more information, visit:
http://www.thewire.org.au
http://www.tau.ac.il/~reinhart/ (Dr. Reinhart’s faculty page at Tel Aviv University)
Kristin Ess and the Palestine News Network bring you the Week In Review for March 9th – March 15th, 2007.
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