Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reiterated his call for Palestinian national unity this week while the Bil’in conference on popular resistance ends with a nonviolent protest against the separation wall. These stories and more in this week’s update.

This Week in Palestine for June 1 through June 6, 2008 was brought to you by the International Middle East Media Center.

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Flashpoints spends the hour investigating the situation for the indigenous Bedouin communities of the Negev desert, inside Israel’s 1948 borders. Without electricity, running water, medical clinics or schools, over 76,000 Bedouins, Israeli citizens, face ethnic cleansing and subjugation by the state as home demolitions and civil rights violations continue on a near-daily basis; we’ll visit two communities under siege and talk with a leader of an organization working inside Bedouin villages, trying to bring much-needed attention to the troubling crisis. Also, the Knight Report.

This program was produced by Flashpoints Radio for September 4, 2007.

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