On Monday, the 26th of May, 2008, Akiva Orr spoke at the offices of the Alternative Information Center in West Jerusalem. Akiva was born in Berlin in 1931 and immigrated to Palestine with his family in 1934, growing up in Tel Aviv. He served in the Israeli Navy in 1948 and after the war studied mathematics and physics at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In the early 1950s, Akiva became critical of Zionism, joining the Israeli Communist Party in 1953. However, in 1962, he broke from the party and jointly founded the anti-Zionist Israeli organization Matzpen. He has written several books including “The Un-Jewish State: The Politics of Jewish Identity in Israel,” “The Other Israel: The Radical Case Against Zionism,” and the “Direct Democracy Manifesto.”
This program was produced by the Alternative Information Center for June 11, 2008.
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On Monday the 28th of April, 2008, Bryan Atinsky spoke with Nassar Ibrahim in the offices of the Alternative Information Center in Beit Sahour. Nassar, a longtime Palestinian writer, journalist and activist, is Policy Director of the AIC. We discussed the implications of the recent visit of former US President Jimmy Carter to the Middle East, the possibility of a long-term ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, the context of recent US and Israeli diplomatic maneuvers in the region, and Palestinian plans for events to commemorate 60 years since the Nakba.
This program was produced by the Alternative Information Center for April 28, 2008.
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On 28 November 2007, Meron Benvenisti presented a lecture in West Jerusalem at the monthly Last Wednesday Forum of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), which it hosts together with its outreach center Daila. Meron Benvenisti served as Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem under Teddy Kollek from 1971 to 1978, administering the city’s annexed Palestinian sectors. In 1982, he established and directed the West Bank Database Project, one of the first attempts to gather comprehensive data on Israeli settlement and governmental policies in the West Bank. He is a regular contributor to the major Israeli daily Haaretz, and author of numerous books, including: Jerusalem: The Torn City (1977); Intimate Enemies: Jews and Arabs in a Shared Land (1995); City of Stone: The Hidden History of Jerusalem (1996); and Sacred Landscape: The Buried History of the Holy Land since 1948 (2000).
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On 12 June, the Alternative Information Center (AIC) spoke to Michael Warschawski, longtime Israeli political observer and analyst, as well as co-founder of the AIC, about understanding binationalism in both an Israeli and Palestinian context, against the backdrop of 40 years of occupation. We spoke to him about the Israeli/Palestinian peace movement in the light of the larger struggle against globalization and neo-colonialism, as well as discuss some issues regarding the future of the peace movement in Israel, including one of its more controversial figures, Tali Fahima.
This program was produced by the Alternative Information Center for June 12, 2007.
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On 19th of June 2007 in West Jerusalem, Clemens Messerschmid presented the second of a two-part lecture series sponsored by the Alternative Information Center, titled “Till the Last Drop: The Palestinian Water Crisis in the West Bank, Hydrogeology and Hydropolitics of a Regional Conflict.” Mr. Messerschmid is a German hydrogeologist who has worked for many years on international water projects in the West Bank.
In this lecture, Clemens focuses on the hydro-political developments during the Oslo and post-Oslo periods up to the present, examining the diverging agendas of Palestinians and Israelis, and also of the donor states and their water projects.
Finally, Clemens presents a critical discussion of possible solutions to the situation, examining their technical and political merits.
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On June 12th 2007, at the Daila center in West Jerusalem, Clemens Messerschmid, presented the first of a two-part lecture series sponsored by the Alternative Information Center, titled “Till the Last Drop: The Palestinian Water Crisis in the West Bank, Hydrogeology and Hydropolitics of a Regional Conflict.” Mr. Messerschmid is a German hydrogeologist who has worked for many years on international water projects in the West Bank.
He introduced the physical settings of water resources in the region and their extremely asymmetrical allocation between the Palestinians and Israelis.
In addition, he gave an introduction to the hydrogeology of the shared aquifers and an overview of the historical development of their utilization, focusing on the years of overt occupation between the 1967 War and The Oslo Interim Agreement of September 1995.
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electronicintifada.net/v2/article6983.shtml (Separating the Waters, Part 1 by Clemens Messerschmid)
electronicintifada.net/v2/article6982.shtml (Separating the Waters, Part 2 by Clemens Messerschmid)
On Monday, July 23, 2007, Shir Hever, economic researcher with the Alternative Information Center (AIC), interviewed, Prof. Jonathan Nitzan about two recent articles which he co-authored with Shimshon Bichler, titled “Cheap Wars” and “Israel’s Roaring Economy.”
Jonathan Nitzan is a professor of Political Economy at York University in Toronto Canada and the author of numerous articles and books dealing with the regional and international political economy, including The Global Political Economy of Israel, published in English in 2002, which he co-authored with frequent collaborator, Shimshon Bichler.
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bnarchives.net (The Bichler and Nitzan Archives)
The conference, The Bilbao Initiative: Another Future is Possible, was held in Bethlehem on Friday, 27 July 2007.
Endorsed in 2003, by over 20 Palestinian and Israeli organizations, the Bilbao Declaration presents the minimum conditions under which a just and lasting peace can be formed, as well as providing a concrete foundation upon which Palestinian and Israeli activists can work together.
Over 100 Palestinian, Israeli and international social activists met at the conference, to jointly analyze the current political situation, endorse the Bilbao Declaration and form a steering committee to update this 2003 document for use in future joint advocacy.
In this show, we bring you the lecture of Dr. Majed Nassar, titled, “The Takeover of Gaza: What Next?” Dr. Nassar is Deputy Director of the Palestinian Health Works Committee (HWC) and a board member of the Alternative Information Center (AIC).
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This week marks the 40th anniversary of the Six Day War of June 1967, which resulted in Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights. As time has passed and the occupation has become an increasingly permanent reality, the question remains as to why peace has continued to be unattainable for Israel. Many claim that even the June 1967 War was a direct consequence of Israel’s inability or unwillingness to accept the comprises that peace requires.
On Monday, the 4th of June, 2007, The Alternative Information Center spoke with long-time Israeli peace activist Uri Avnery at his home in Tel Aviv. Mr. Avnery, who was born in Germany in 1923 and moved to Mandate Palestine at the age of ten, is an Israeli journalist and former Knesset member.
This program was produced by the Alternative Information Center for June 6, 2007.
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In this podcast, we continue presenting highlights from the International conference, Building a Future Together: Alternatives to the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse, which took place in Bethlehem, on 2-3 December 2005. Today, we bring you a lecture by Dr. Majed Nassar, titled Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment Against Israel. Dr Nassar is Executive Director of the Palestinian Health Work Committees and is member of the Board of Directors of the Alternative Information Center (AIC).
This program was produced by the Alternative Information Center for April 19, 2007.
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