In this special 60-minute extended edition, discussion of the recent developments, including the Goldstone report and of the U.S. knee-jerk rejection of it. Also a interview with Professor Joel Kovel, author of Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine (2007).
This program was produced by This Week in Palestine for November 1, 2009.
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Professor Jeff Halper is an Israeli Jew and the Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD). Jeff was on the first of the Free Gaza boats that broke the siege of Gaza. He was jailed for this when he returned home to Israel and is currently out on bail. He has been awarded Palestinian citizenship and has won various honors including the Kant-World-Citizen-Prize for 2009 and the Rachel Corrie Peace Award and was a 2006 nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize.
This program was produced by Sheffield Indymedia and recorded at Central Library Lecture Theatre, Sheffield, September 4, 2009.
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Debates about possible solutions to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict revolve around two proposals: the “two-state solution” and the “one-state solution,” both of which, we keep being told by wise pundits, are “impossible.” The “Two-State Solution” we are told is impossible because of the “facts on the ground,” namely the large number of Israeli settlements; the networks of Jewish-only roads which connect them; and the wall Israel is continuing to build illegally, all of which have carved the West Bank and East Jerusalem into numerous small enclaves, or “Bantustans,” which can not possibly be woven together to form a viable Palestinian state. The “One-State Solution” we are told is “impossible” because Israel would lose its character as a “Jewish State,” and anyone who dabbles with that idea is considered at best a “security risk” or at worst “an enemy” of the state of Israel and treated as such.
This program was produced by This Week In Palestine for WZBC radio on April 29, 2007.
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