As proximity talks started this week Israeli leaders continued to authorize more settlements in the West Bank putting a doubt over those talks, whilst Palestinians marked the 62nd anniversary of the Nakba this weekend. These stories and more in this week’s update.
This program was produced by the International Middle East Media Center for May 14, 2010.
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Despite escalating provocations by the Israeli hard-right settlement movement, indirect talks begin this week between the Israeli and Palestinian leaderships. On Friday, U.S. envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, will begin shuttling between the two parties in an attempt to build confidence and create the environment for direct talks. Palestinian public opinion is very divided over the start of the negotiations and prominent officials from both sides have suggested it may be too late to create two states, instead opting for one democratic state where all members are equal.
This program was produced by The Real News for May 7, 2010.
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In this week’s report, Israeli attacks escalate in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, while US efforts to re-start Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are ineffective. These stories and more in this week’s update.
This program was produced by the International Middle East Media Center for March 26, 2010.
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Nora Barrows-Friedman reports from occupied Palestine on the accelerated building of illegal Jewish settlements far beyond what was announced by the Israelis today.
This program was produced by Flashpoints Radio for March 10, 2010.
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Protests in the Occupied Palestinian city of Hebron continue for a fifth consecutive day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a new Israeli “heritage” plan. In his plan, national and holy sites in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories will be classified as Israeli “heritage.” This move comes at a time when tensions in the city are already high due to settler takeovers and the commemoration of the 16th annual day of solidarity in memory of the 1994 Cave of the Patriarchs massacre.
This program was produced by The Real News for February 28, 2010.
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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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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As the Israeli military siege on Gaza leaves one patient dead, the Palestine Liberation Organization’s central committee this week renewed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ term in office. These stories and more in this week’s update.
This program was produced by the International Middle East Media Center for December 18, 2009.
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Toufic Haddad, co-author of Israel, the Palestinians, and the U.S. War on Terror, and Palestine correspondent for The Faster Times speaks in Jerusalem to Lia Tarachansky of The Real News about Israel’s “settlement freeze.” He says that accepting Israeli Prime Minister’s offer to enter negotiations simply because of this partial and temporary move would be political suicide for the Palestinian Authority. He speak of the future of Palestinian politics and the death of the “peace process.”
This program was produced by The Real News for December 8, 2009.
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The Jerusalem Fund’s 2009 Annual Conference was held in Washington D.C. last month. This year’s theme was “The Erasure of Palestine.”
The conference’s first panel was chaired by Ms. Nadia Hijab, and featured Dr. Leila Farsakh, Ms. Jennifer Loewenstein and Ms. Phyllis Bennis. The discussion focused on the concepts of “one state” and “two state” solutions and what it really means to attain Palestinian liberation, why internationals must travel to Gaza, the burying of the Goldstone Report, and how the notion of statehood is changing.
This program was produced by The Palestine Center for November 26, 2009.
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