Mairead Maguire was 32 when she and Betty Williams won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976. We talk with her from Ireland about her work for peace in Palestine. Maguire was on the ship Spirit of Humanity en route to Gaza when it was boarded by Israeli commandos.
This program was produced by Redeye Co-op Radio on September 19, 2009.
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The AIC interviewed Shawan Jabarin, the director of al-Haq Center, about the U.N. Goldstone Report, which accused Israel and the Hamas of war crimes in the Gaza Strip during the last Israeli offensive in December 2008 and January 2009.
This program was produced by the Alternative Information Center for October 8, 2009.
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United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict
Joe O’Brien of the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI), following his return from the Middle East, relates Michael FitzGerald an account of his observations while there and offers his recommendations for a just and peaceful resolution to the long-standing problems of the region.
This program was produced by Near 90 fm for September 10, 2009.
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First, IMEMC’s current weekly report of current events. Then, Amy Goodman’s interview of Professor Norman Finkelstein. Finkelstein is one of today’s clearest voices about Israeli war crimes, which is not heard in mainstream media. He points out the obvious and normally overlooked fact that the massacre of Gaza was not part of any war. Gaza has no soldiers, only victims, some of whom are labeled as “militants.”
This program was produced by This Week in Palestine for September 19, 2009.
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http://normanfinkelstein.com
Lia Tarachansky speaks to Fatou Bensouda, the Deputy Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) about the Palestinian Authority’s appeal to join the group of nations over which the court has jurisdiction. Bensouda says that before the ICC can investigate the perpetration of war crimes during Israel’s recent attack on Gaza, the court would have to rule on whether it has jurisdiction in the Palestinian Territories. For that, there would have to be clear borders identified, a task the UN would have to take on. Once the court rules on jurisdiction it would be able to prosecute anyone who committed war crimes, crimes against humanity, or genocide within the territory, even if (such as in the case of Israel) the perpetrator is not part of the International Court.
This program was produced by The Real News for September 4, 2009.
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http://www.icc-cpi.int/Menus/ICC?lan=en-GB
George Cadman of Free Radio Santa Cruz interviews Peretz Kidron about the current political situation in Israel and about his book, “Refusenik! Israel’s Soldiers of Conscience”. Peretz Kidron is a freelance journalist, broadcaster and writer. In the late 1960’s he became active in the radical left and the peace movement in Israel. He is a founding member of the Israeli Council for Israeli-Palestinian Peace and serves on the steering committee of the Israeli human rights group B’tselem. Having refused to perform military duty in the occupied Palestinian territories, he now handles international contacts for Yesh Gvul (There Is A Limit). Founded at the time of the invasion of Lebanon in 1982, the group has become the voice and campaigning vehicle for the so-called refuseniks-Israeli soldiers who refuse morally objectionable assignments (notably in the West Bank and Gaza).
This program was produced by George Cadman for Free Radio Santa Cruz on September 7, 2006.
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http://otherisrael.home.igc.org/ICIPP.html (Israeli Council for Israeli-Palestinian Peace)
http://btselem.org
http://www.yeshgvul.org/
We are specially pleased today to welcome our featured guest, Professor Norman Finkelstein. Professor Finkelstein teaches political theory at DePaul University in Chicago and is the author of 5 seminal books. His first book “The Rise and Fall of Palestine: a personal account of the Intifada years” was published by the University of Minnesota in 1996. His second book, co-authored with Ruth Bettina Birn “A Nation on Trial: the Goldhagen thesis and historical truth” was published by Henry Holt in 1998. His third book “Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict” was first published in 1995 by Verso with an expanded second edition in 2003; his fourth book “The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the exploitation of Jewish suffering” was published by Verso in 2000 with an expanded edition in 2003; and his fifth, and most recent book, “Beyond Chtutzpah: On the misuse of anti-Semitism and the abuse of history” was published by the University of California Press in August of 2005.
Professor Finkelstein has lectured widely at Universities across the US and is the subject of several independent documentaries currently in production. In 2002, he delivered the annual memorial lecture in history at Alfred University, and in 2005 was the presenter for the hour-long documentary: “The Final Insult” based on The Holocaust Industry, to be broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK. He joins us now by telephone.
This program was produced by This Week In Palestine on WZBC Boston for March 25, 2007.
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Interview with Adam Shapiro and IMC-Palestine. CKUT Radio spoke with Adam after he successfully negotiated an ambulance into President Arafat’s compound. He was the only international non-Palestinian in the compound. A US citizen with the International Solidarity Movement, which brings together Palestinians & Internationals, Adam spent Friday being a “human shield” for ambulances attempting to get past Israeli soldiers.
This program was produced by CKUT Radio in 2002.
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Ilan Pappe on Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006). Interviewed by Nadim Mahjoub on Resonance FM Radio, 27 October 2006.
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In the West Bank, Israeli bulldozers destroy farmland near Um Salamunah village, south of Bethlehem, targeting farmers with plastic bullets, tear gas, and sound bombs. Palestinians near Hebron were abducted by the Israeli military. In Nablus, operation “Hot Winter” seemed to come to a close. In the Gaza Strip Israeli gunships opened fire on fisherman and civilians at Tal Al Sultan beach near Rafah. East of Rafah, farmers were attacked by tank fire. The Al Quds Brigades, an offshoot of Islamic Jihad, claimed a rocket attack on Israeli areas outside the northern end of the Gaza Strip in retaliation.
Palestine Today for February 27, 2007 was brought to you by Polly Bangoriad and Ghassan Bannoura for the International Middle East Media Center.
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