Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reiterated his call for Palestinian national unity this week while the Bil’in conference on popular resistance ends with a nonviolent protest against the separation wall. These stories and more in this week’s update.
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As Palestinians mark the 41st anniversary of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Israeli military attacks leave a child and a man killed.
This program was produced by the International Middle East Media Center for June 5, 2008.
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Efforts to negotiate a truce between Israel and the Islamic militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip have hit a snag. As Robert Berger reports from VOA’s Jerusalem bureau, a deadly Palestinian attack has reinforced Israeli concerns.
This program was produced by Voice of America for April 25, 2008.
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Condemnation and condolences for the victims of the shooting attack that killed eight students at the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva in Jerusalem have been swift.
This is in marked contrast to the international silence that surrounded Israel’s recent massacres of Palestinian civilians in the Occupied Gaza Strip. Ali Abunimah comments.
This program was produced by Mordecai Briemberg for Redeye on March 10, 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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The word “genocide” is one of the most powerful words used to describe criminal killing and destruction. It has been used to describe the Nazi holocaust, the killing fields of Cambodia, and Rwanda. More recently, Israeli author and historian Ilan Pappe has used this word to describe Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip. Host Naji Ali* speaks with Pappe about why he sees Israel’s ongoing occupation and killing of Palestinians in Gaza as genocide.
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This program was produced for March 6, 2008.
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A new report by a consortium of British aid agencies says the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is the worst in forty years. VOA’s Jim Teeple reports the report blames Israel for the crisis, but Israeli officials say Hamas militants are to blame.
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Israel kills one resistance fighter in Gaza and one civilian in the West Bank, while resistance group kills an Israeli soldier in the coastal region, these stories and more in Palestine Today from IMEMC.
This program was produced by the International Middle East Media Center for March 6, 2008.
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George Rishmawi, founder of the International Middle East Media Center, speaks with Word Of Mouth about the untold stories of Palestine, community news from the grassroots, and his Canada campus speaking tour.
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Arab Talk Radio speaks with Mohammad Omer of Rafah Today about the current situation in Gaza and the destruction of the border wall with Egypt.
This program was produced by Arab Talk Radio on KPOO for January 24, 2008.
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