Troops injure two Palestinian fighters and attack anti wall protesters in the West Bank. These stories and more in today’s update from Palestine.
This program was produced by the International Middle East Media Center for March 3, 2010.
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Phil Weiss provides us with his experience and analysis of the US media’s stand, and their one-sided coverage and one-sided censorship on issues and cases related to Israel and the Israel lobby. He discusses the parallels between the tactics used in Gaza by Israelis and those implemented during the holocaust. Mr. Weiss talks about the Jewish identity question around the Israel lobby, the Obama administration’s hypocritical stand on and lame no-response response to the Goldstone Report, the importance of Jewish money and the Israel lobby to Obama and the Democrats, the recent changing perception of Israel, and much more.
Philip Weiss is an investigative journalist who has written for The Nation, The New York Observer, The American Conservative, Harper’s Magazine, and New York Times Magazine among other publications. He is the author of American Taboo: A Murder in the Peace Corps and an editor of the website Mondoweiss, which covers the Israel-Palestine conflict.
This program was produced by The Boiling Frogs show for February 19, 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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A high-ranking Fatah official visited the Gaza Strip this week, as the Israeli siege and continued attacks claim the lives two Palestinians. These stories and more in this week’s update.
This program was produced by the International Middle East Media Center for February 5, 2010.
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One killed, and two injured by Israeli attacks on Gaza, while the military detain civilians in the West Bank. These stories and more in today’s update.
This program was produced by the International Middle East Media Center for February 3, 2010.
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One man injured in a shooting in Gaza, whilst the Israeli military prevents farmers from working their lands. These stories and more in today’s update.
This program was produced by the International Middle East Media Center for February 1, 2010.
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Medea Benjamin is a co-founder of CODEPINK a grassroots anti-war group that seeks “positive social change through creative protest, non-violent direct action, and community involvement. Medea is also a member of the advisory committee for The Real News.
Benjamin recounts details of the recent Gaza Freedom March and describes Egypt’s role in attempts to thwart the peaceful mission and the delivery of aid for the people suffering under the siege in Gaza.
This program was produced by The Real News for January 17, 2010.
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As Washington pushed this week for re-launching the stalled Palestinian-Israeli peace talks, Israeli attacks on Gaza and the West Bank left one killed and a dozen injured. These stories and more in this week’s update.
This program was produced by the International Middle East Media Center for January 8, 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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In recent months, since the public push for The Goldstone Report, Israeli authorities have intensified their repression of activists on both sides of the segregation wall. Though Israel tries Palestinians and Israelis under separate legal systems, with the former being prosecuted in a military court and the latter in domestic, civil courts, both have seen an escalation in detentions. The recent cases include Mohammad Srour, Mohammad Othman, and Abdullah Abu Rahma, all activists from the Occupied West Bank. The most recent arrest is of Jamal Juma’, an international known human rights activist and the coordinator of the Stop the Wall Campaign, a grassroots network of popular committees fighting Israel’s segregation wall.
This program was produced by The Real News for December 22, 2009.
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