Martha Myers speaks about the Israeli government’s changes in the visa regime for international humanitarian workers and how this will possibly impact the work of international non-governmental agencies working in the Occupied Palestinian territories. Ms. Myers, is Chair of the Association of International Development Agencies (AIDA) Executive Committee, and Country director of CARE international in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
This program was produced by News From Within for February 6, 2010.
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With publication of the Palestine Kairos Document, the Alternative Information Center interviewed Reverend Dr. Naim Ateek, a co-signatory of the document and founder of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center based in Jerusalem.
The Palestine Kairos Document, issued at a 11 December meeting in Bethlehem, echoes a similar summons issued by South African churches in the mid-1980s at the height of repression under the apartheid regime. That call served to galvanize churches and the wider public in a concerted effort that eventually brought the end of apartheid.
The authors of the Kairos Palestine Document believe that current efforts in the Middle East are confined to managing the crisis rather than finding pertinent and long term solutions to the crisis.
They reject any use of the Bible to legitimize or support political options and positions that are based upon injustice.
Through the logic of peaceful resistance, the authors believe that resistance is as much a right as it is a duty, as it has the potential to hasten the time of reconciliation. Reverend Dr. Ateek reviews the background and ideas behind the Palestine Kairos Document in this interview.
This program was produced by News From Within for December 21, 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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Nassar Ibrahim, Policy Director at the Alternative Information Center (AIC), discusses the issue of normalization in the Palestinian/Israeli context at the AICafe in Beit Sahour.
This program was produced by News From Within for August 4, 2009.
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The first of two episodes covering lectures presented at the Quaker Friends Center in Ramallah. Shir Hever, economist with the Alternative Information Center, discusses the issue of development in the economy of occupation, concentrating on the question of the role and impact of international aid funds to the Palestinians.
This program was produced by News From Within for September 23, 2008.
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The second of two episodes covering lectures presented at the Quaker Friends Center in Ramallah. Palestinian-American businessman Sam Bahour, discusses the structure, limits and effectiveness of Palestinian economic development taking place under Israeli occupation.
This program was produced by News From Within for September 25, 2008.
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The Alternative Information Center spoke with Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir about their book, This Regime Which is not One – “Occupation and Democracy Between the Sea and the River (1967 – )”, published last year in Hebrew by Resling Press. Ariella Azoulay teaches visual culture and contemporary philosophy at the Program for Culture and Interpretation at Bar Ilan University. Adi Ophir teaches philosophy at Tel Aviv University’s Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas.
This program was produced by News From Within for September 25, 2008.
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On 29 March 2008, Arthur Neslen spoke at the AICafe in the offices of the Alternative Information Center in Beit Sahour. Arthur is the author of Occupied Minds: A Journey Through the Israeli Psyche, which was published in 2006 by Pluto Press. The book features a series of first person narratives, gathered from interviews with more than 50 Israelis from across the social and political spectrum, shedding light on the dynamics of Israeli identity and consciousness.
Arthur was formerly the London correspondent for Aljazeera.net and the website’s only Jewish journalist. He was international editor of Red Pepper Magazine for five years, and worked between 2001 and 2004 as a broadcast journalist at the BBC. Additionally, he has written for publications including the Guardian, the Independent, the Observer, the New Statesman and Private Eye.
This program was produced by News From Within for April 10, 2009.
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On Monday, the 26th of May, 2008, Akiva Orr spoke at the offices of the Alternative Information Center in West Jerusalem. Akiva was born in Berlin in 1931 and immigrated to Palestine with his family in 1934, growing up in Tel Aviv. He served in the Israeli Navy in 1948 and after the war studied mathematics and physics at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In the early 1950s, Akiva became critical of Zionism, joining the Israeli Communist Party in 1953. However, in 1962, he broke from the party and jointly founded the anti-Zionist Israeli organization Matzpen. He has written several books including “The Un-Jewish State: The Politics of Jewish Identity in Israel,” “The Other Israel: The Radical Case Against Zionism,” and the “Direct Democracy Manifesto.”
This program was produced by the Alternative Information Center for June 11, 2008.
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