Michael Ratner reports on his recent visit to the West Bank. Ratner is President of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York. He has taught at Yale Law School, lectured at Columbia Law School, and was President of the National Lawyers Guild.
This program was produced by The Real News for February 16, 2010.
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In weekly Friday protest in Bi’lin, Palestinian territories, thousands tear through segregation barrier.
During the weekly protest in the Palestinian village of Bil’in, thousands of activists assembled to celebrate five years of non-violent resistance. This form of popular struggle has spread to many other Palestinian villages and areas in East Jerusalem. The protests are made to show opposition to the confiscation of roughly half of the village’s land by the Israeli Jewish-only settlement colony of Modi’in Illit. In 2007, after the village protested every Friday for almost 3 years, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that the barrier does not serve a security purpose and ordered it rerouted. The Israeli army however, did not start to reroute the barrier until last week and informed the village that it will only return 364 (or 60%) of its 575 taken acres. During this week’s protest the army fired dozens of tear gas canisters, shock grenades, and sprayed the crowd with liquid smelling like sewer and feces.
This program was produced by The Real News for February 21, 2010.
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Planting olive trees is a matter of resistance for the Arab Group for the Protection of Nature (or APN), a non-profit organization based in Amman, Jordan.
The organization began in 2003 with the goal of replanting one million trees on Palestinian land. By 2008, they achieved this goal and now hope to plant one million more trees in Palestine. They began organizing in 2001 against the wall being proposed by the Israeli government. Since 2002 the illegal construction of the wall has resulted in the confiscation thousands of dunams (a dunam is the equivalent of 1,000 square meters) of Palestinian land, uprooting olive trees as well. APN was initiated by volunteers brought together under the slogan, “They uproot one, we replant ten.”
Rand Wahbeh details her work with the APN and the continued struggle to save the olive trees. She describes exactly what the olive trees mean to the people of Palestine.
This program was produced by the Electronic Intifada for December 21, 2009.
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There were 29 civilians detained during pre-dawn raids in the West Bank, and armed, Israeli settlers occupy a 500-Dunam Palestinian mountain south of Nablus. These stories and more in today’s update.
This program was produced by the International Middle East Media Center for February 4, 2010.
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Over the weekend, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu reaffirmed the Israeli government’s support of the settlement movement by planting a tree in each one of the three biggest settlement blocks in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Despite the Israeli government’s support, funding, and approval of settlers, they are often presented in the media as in conflict with the state and the army. In this report, The Real News’ Lia Tarachansky looks at this claim through a recent lecture by Shir Hever, an economist with the Alternative Information Center. A perfect example of the methodology Hever describes can be seen in the settlement of Kedumim which lies adjacent to the Palestinian village of Kaft Qadum. The Real News spoke to the village council of the Palestinian village and the associate mayor of the settlement about how they’ve expanded and the impact this has had on their lives.
This program was produced by The Real News for January 28, 2010.
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A brief interview with Ben White, commentator on Palestine who recently published: “Israeli Apartheid: a Beginner’s Guide”. He discusses the similarities and differences with the South African and the Palestinian apartheid. He also discusses the motivations behind his book.
This program was produced for CKUT Radio for October 22, 2009.
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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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Mairead Maguire was 32 when she and Betty Williams won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976. We talk with her from Ireland about her work for peace in Palestine. Maguire was on the ship Spirit of Humanity en route to Gaza when it was boarded by Israeli commandos.
This program was produced by Redeye Co-op Radio on September 19, 2009.
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Joe O’Brien of the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI), following his return from the Middle East, relates Michael FitzGerald an account of his observations while there and offers his recommendations for a just and peaceful resolution to the long-standing problems of the region.
This program was produced by Near 90 fm for September 10, 2009.
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As Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, ordered the construction of hundreds of settlement units in the West Bank this week, military attacks were reported in Gaza resulting in three Palestinian deaths. These stories and more in this week’s update.
This program was produced by the International Middle East Media Center for September 4, 2009.
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