The ethnic cleansing of Palestine continues. As Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his government expand settlements in the West Bank while asserting that “painful concessions” are being made, what is really going on behind the scenes? Host Naji Ali speaks with Ramallah-based activist Neta Golan.

Crossing the Line is a weekly podcast dedicated to giving voice to the voiceless in occupied Palestine. Through investigative news, arts, eyewitness accounts, and music, Crossing the Line does its best to present the lives of people on the ground.

This program was produced for February 26, 2008.

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Sherif Fam talks to Dr. Uri Davis. Davis is a dual citizen of the State of Israel and the UK, and an Observer-Member of the Palestine National Council (PNC). He has been at the forefront of the defence of human rights, notably the defence of Palestinian rights inside and outside the State of Israel, since the mid -1960s. Born in Jerusalem in 1943, when Palestine was still undivided. Dr. Davis describes himself as a “Palestinian Jew.” He is a founder and chairperson of “MAIAP”, the Movement Against Israeli Apartheid in Palestine. His autobiography, published in 1995, is entitled “Crossing the Border: an autobiography of an anti-Zionist Palestinian Jew.”

This program was produced by Truth and Justice Radio for November 4, 2007.

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Palestine rarely sees a day when Israel’s army does not attack its population centers. Even more rare is the day when Israel’s army does not destroy priceless historical and cultural buildings during its raids, along with schools, hospitals, roads, and water and sewage systems. Nablus, the largest city of the West Bank, has been particularly targeted because of its deep historical roots. Archaeologists have identified Nablus as one of the oldest cities in the world, possibly first established as early as 9000 years ago. Its Hebrew biblical name is “Shechem” meaning shoulder or high land. The newer city, which became known as Flavia Neapolis, was built in 70 AD by Titus the Roman in honor of Flavius Vespasian, the Roman Emperor at the time. Possibly the richest city in the West Bank in terms of archaeological treasures, it has seen many of them intentionally destroyed under the catch-all pretext of “hunting suspected terrorists.”

Today, Sherif Fam discusses this little explored topic with well-known activist and UK architect, Mr. Abe Hayeem. Mr. Hayeem is an Iraqi Jew from Bombay, and a veteran of the Anti-Apartheid movement in South Africa, who has extensively studied, and challenged Israel’s use of architecture to consolidate its brutal military occupation and erase the memory of Palestine’s historical and cultural heritage. He is the founder and UK Chairman of Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine.

This program was produced by This Week In Palestine for WZBC radio on June 17, 2007.

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Marian Finucane, one of Ireland’s most widely heard radio host, speaks to Pres. Jimmy Carter about his latest book, Palestine: Peace not Apartheid.

This program was produced by RTE Radio 1 on May 20, 2007.

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Debates about possible solutions to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict revolve around two proposals: the “two-state solution” and the “one-state solution,” both of which, we keep being told by wise pundits, are “impossible.” The “Two-State Solution” we are told is impossible because of the “facts on the ground,” namely the large number of Israeli settlements; the networks of Jewish-only roads which connect them; and the wall Israel is continuing to build illegally, all of which have carved the West Bank and East Jerusalem into numerous small enclaves, or “Bantustans,” which can not possibly be woven together to form a viable Palestinian state. The “One-State Solution” we are told is “impossible” because Israel would lose its character as a “Jewish State,” and anyone who dabbles with that idea is considered at best a “security risk” or at worst “an enemy” of the state of Israel and treated as such.

This program was produced by This Week In Palestine for WZBC radio on April 29, 2007.

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On June 10-11, the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and United for Peace and Justice are sponsoring a two-day mobilization in Washington, DC to protest against 40 year-old Israeli illegal military occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip. Under the banner, “The World Says No to Israeli Occupation,” the US Campaign and UFPJ will hold a massive rally and teach-in starting at 1 pm on Sunday June 10 in Washington DC, followed by a grassroots lobbying day on Monday, June 11.

Today’s featured guest today is Dr. Farid Esack, William Henry Bloomberg Professor at the Harvard Divinity School for the 2006-2007 academic year. Dr. Esack is a scholar of Islam, and a veteran of the South African struggle against Apartheid.

This program was produced by This Week In Palestine on WZBC Boston.

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This show includes an Eyewitness Palestine with a special report from the Israeli newspaper Haaretz on fundraising in the U.S. to support expansion and strengthening of the Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

This program was produced by Voice of Palestine for Vancouver Cooperative Radio on March 6, 2007.

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This show includes highlights of a speech by Adam Haniyeh, from the Coalition against Israeli Apartheid, who was in Vancouver from Toronto and addressed a public meeting on March 11th.

This program was produced by Voice of Palestine for Vancouver Cooperative Radio on March 13, 2007.

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Electronic Intifada contributor and producer of the weekly podcast Crossing the Line Christopher Brown interviews EI co-founder Ali Abunimah on his new book One Country and the problem of partition as a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Abunimah explains, “This goes back to the very origins of the idea of partition when you had a growing Zionist movement brining Jews from Europe into an overwhelmingly Arab country and the British who were in charge in the 1930s appointed a royal commission which looked into this seemingly irreconcilable, growing problem and said the only solution is partition. The only problem with that solution is that you cannot partition the country between Arabs and Jews because you just can’t draw a line between them. So the solution that the British Royal Commission recommended was partition but there would have to be the transfer — voluntary or otherwise, as they put it — of hundreds of thousands of Arabs to make room for a Jewish state. So from the very beginning partition was inextricably linked with what we would today call ethnic cleansing, and of course that’s what happened in 1948 in order for the State of Israel to be born.”

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Former President Jimmy Carter was invited to speak at Brandeis University about his latest book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. Brandeis is a Jewish-affiliated university. Despite much fanfare about protests and possible interuptions, President Carter was well received. This audio recording of his remarks was produced by Brandeis University.

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