As Palestinian villagers decide to take dismantling the Israeli occupation into their own hands, the Real News Network’s Lia Tarachansky speaks to Jesse Rosenfeld on segregation and the West Bank. Checkpoints and roadblocks play a key role in separating Palestinians from Israelis and Israeli appropriated areas, from commercial areas, and from each other. Since the beginning of the second Intifadah in September 2000 the number of checkpoints in the West Bank increased to over 500. In an act of resistance, the International Solidarity Movement organized a symbolic action of dismantling four roadblocks segregating four villages from each other. Hours after the protest Israeli bulldozers replaced two. This action comes days after former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told in a Yediot Ahronot interview he believes Israel must withdraw from most of the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
This program was produced by the Real News Network for October 17, 2008.
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On January 25, 2002 a remarkable group of 52 soldiers and officers of the Israeli army reserves published a quarter-page letter which appeared in the Israeli daily newspaper Ha’aretz. In this letter, they called on their comrades-in-arms to join their act of refusal to serve in the occupied Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza. In a manifesto published in a book in 2003 entitled “Breaking Ranks: Refusing to Serve in the West Bank and Gaza Strip,” they further declared: “we shall not continue to fight beyond the 1967 borders in order to dominate, expel, starve, and humiliate an entire people.”
Sherif Fam speaks to Oded Na’aman, a 26 year-old former crew commander in the artillery corps of the Israeli Defense Forces, who spent a year as a soldier and commander in checkpoints all over the West Bank, then became a member of “Breaking the Silence.”
This program was produced by This Week In Palestine for WZBC radio on March 3, 2008.
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Anarchists Against The Wall (AATW) is an Israeli group that supports the popular Palestinian struggle. The proximity of the struggle on the ground to Israeli cities presents an opportunity for intense involvement by many Israelis. At the same time, the physical risk in such activity is quite high. It goes without saying that the risks for our Palestinian partners are much higher. As a small group with an aversion to institutionalization, AATW has to be accountable for taking real physical as well as legal risks. We must strive to be democratic and open while carrying out actions that involve a high degree of trust and much outside social selection. We must maintain a situation in which Palestinians are the ones making important decisions, even as they work together with privileged Israelis. I will attempt to expand on these challenges and review the organizational success of AATW.
Kobi Snitz is a member of Anarchists against the Wall. His political involvement started when he joined CUPE local 3902 as a teaching assistant in Toronto. He continued being active as a graduate student in the United States, working on teaching assistant union drives, and to oppose U.S. aggression. His work with AATW started when he returned to his native Israel in 2003.
This program was produced by the Institute for Anarchist Studies during the 2007 Renewing the Anarchist Tradition conference.
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We see images on TV of stone throwing children, the destruction following a suicide bomb attack and Israeli army tanks and helicopters. But what’s behind the conflict? On this program we take a look at the Palestinian’s long history of resistance to colonialism and the current conflict over the Occupied Territories.
Featuring: Hatem Bazian, Professor of Near East Studies at the University of California at Berkeley;
Najiya Shana, a Palestinian American residing in Washington, DC;
Moatsin Agha, a Palestinian from Gaza who was exiled after the 1967 war;
As’ad Abu Khalil, a Research Fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and author of “Bin Laden, Islam and America’s New War on Terrorism”;
Marwan Barghouti, Secretary General of Fatah.
This program was produced for the National Radio Project for May 29, 2002.
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The Israeli army injures a civilian in the Gaza Strip, and abducts at least 13 civilians from the West Bank. These stories and more in today’s update.
Palestine Today for April 16, 2007 was brought to you by Polly Bangoriad and Ghassan Bannoura for the International Middle East Media Center.
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This Week In Palestine for April 7th through April 13th, 2007 is a service of the International Middle East Media Center.
While Palestinian and Israeli officials are negotiating a prisoners’ swap deal, Israeli army continue to attack Palestinian civilians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and Israeli settlers continue to expand and build new settlements. These stories and more in this week’s recap.
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