George Cadman interviews Professor Stephen Zunes about current Palestinian/Israeli peace negotiations.

Dr. Stephen Zunes is a Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco, where he has taught since 1995. He serves as an advisory committee member and Middle East editor for the Foreign Policy in Focus Project and as an associate editor of Peace Review. He is the author of scores of articles for scholarly and general readership on Middle Eastern politics, U.S. foreign policy, international terrorism, social movements, and human rights. He is the principal editor of “Nonviolent Social Movements” and the author of the highly-acclaimed “Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism” and the forthcoming “Western Sahara: Nationalism and Conflict in Northwest Africa”.

This program was produced by Peace Talks for Free Radio Santa Cruz for January 24, 2008.

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Dr. Qumsiyeh speaks about the current political developments and the futility of the recent conferences at Annapolis and Paris, which had avoided all the main issues. He also discusses his new book, Sharing the Land of Canaan. Dr. Qumsiyeh concludes by detailing the situation on the ground in the Bethlehem area, where he was born and visits often, and tells the story of his elderly mother who is now unable to visit a church in Jerusalem where she annually used to light a candle after Mazin survived a childhood illness.

This program was produced by the Voice of Palestine radio program for December 18, 2007.

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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s coalition government suffered a blow today. Avigdor Lieberman, chairman of Yisrael Beiteinu, announced his party’s resignation from Israel’s coalition government. The Real News speaks with Palestinian journalist Hisham Sharabati.

This program was produced by The Real News for January 17, 2008.

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Paul Jay speaks to David Newman, Professor of Political Geography and a Senior Research Fellow at Ben-Gurion University in Israel, about the recent visit of George Bush to Israel/Palestine.

This program was produced by The Real News for January 14, 2008.

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President Bush has arrived in Israel - the first stop on a Middle East journey designed to bolster the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and foster unity on Iran. VOA White House Correspondent Paula Wolfson reports Mr. Bush immediately went to work, following a formal arrival ceremony at Israel’s main airport.

This program was produced by Voice of America for January 9, 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).

This program was produced by the Alternative Information Center.

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Days before Israel resumes formal peace talks with the Palestinians, a dispute has erupted over East Jerusalem. As Robert Berger reports from Voice Of America’s Jerusalem bureau, Israel has responded defiantly to U.S. and Palestinian criticism of new construction plans in the city.

This program was produced by Voice of America for December 9, 2007.

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The cameras have stopped rolling, the mainstream press has hailed it a step in the right direction, but did the Annapolis peace conference achieve anything at all for either Israelis or Palestinians?

Former CIA Middle East analyst Kathleen Christison and Former CIA National Intelligence Officer Bill Christison join us to talk about the summit that many are euphemistically referring to as - Arabolis - that’s coming up.

Then later in the podcast a poem by noted award-winning Palestinian American poet, Suheir Hammad, and - as always - The War’s Toll compiled and read by Scott Burgwin of The Stand Independent news Service.

This program was produced by Crossing The Line for December 7, 2007.

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suheirhammad.com

Electronic Intifada Co-founder Ali Abunimah, author of One Country, joined Daniel Levy, former Israeli negotiator and adviser in the Israeli prime minister’s office, and Nadia Hijab, senior fellow and co-director at the Institute for Palestine Studies to preview the Annapolis Conference and debate the prospects for a single democratic state in Israel-Palestine.

This program was produced by The Morning Show and hosted by Amy Allison for KPFA on November 25, 2007.

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