In the U.S. mass media in-depth criticism of the Israeli government is hard to come by; even harder to find are comments from Israelis and American Jews who oppose the military occupation of Palestinian territory. Among Jews, opinions on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict are diverse — many favor non-violent solutions to the conflict and peaceful coexistence with the Palestinians. On this edition of Making Contact, you’ll hear the viewpoints of Israeli Jews and Jewish Americans who are part of an international peace movement to end the violence in the Middle East. You’ll also hear about an American activist who put her life on the line in the Occupied Territories.

Featuring:
Liot Weingart, co-director of A Jewish Voice for Peace;
Ben Eckstein, an Israeli conscientious objector, or “Refusenik;”
Rabbi Arik Ascherman, Rabbis for Human Rights;
Colin Reese, a close friend of Rachael Corrie, an American activist who was killed by an Israeli Defense Force bulldozer driver in the Occupied Territories;
Cindy Corrie, Rachael Corrie’s mother;
Phan Nguyen, International Solidarity Movement.

This program was produced by Making Contact for the National Radio Project on June 4, 2003.

For more information, visit:
radioproject.org
jewishvoiceforpeace.org
rhr.israel.net
rachelcorriefoundation.org
palsolidarity.org

In this talk, Charles Smith, professor of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona, gives an account of the history of Palestine and Israel. In the first part Smith describes the period from the first wave of Zionist immigrants up to the end of the British mandate in 1948. Smith then takes us from the foundation of the State of Israel to the 1967 war and the occupation of the West Bank. In the third segment, Smith covers the 1967 and 1973 wars, the land-for-peace agreement with Egypt up to the Olso Accords and the first and second intifadas.

This program was produced for Alternative Focus by John Odam in 2006.

For more information, visit:
alternatefocus.org

George Cadman of Free Radio Santa Cruz interviews Phyllis Bennis about the recent Jewish Voice For Peace Conference held in Oakland, Ca. on April 28-29 (at which Phyllis was a featured speaker) and about her upcoming talk in Santa Cruz on Monday, April 30. Phyllis Bennis is Co-founder of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, an Institute For Policy Studies Fellow focusing on the New Internationalism: The Middle East and United Nations Affairs, and a Fellow at the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. She is also the author of many books including, “Calling The Shots: How Washington Dominates Today’s UN” and ” Challenging Empire”.

This program was produced by Free Radio Santa Cruz on April 30, 2007.

For more information, visit:
ips-dc.org (Institute for Policy Studies)

CKUT radio produced a retrospective on the 1967 Naksa (setback) for the 40th anniversary that aired on June 7, 2007. This is part two of that program.

Professor Yakov Rabkin is a Professor of History at the University of Montreal and author of A Threat from Within: A Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism. Prof. Rabkin offers Jewish reflection on the anniversary of the Six Day War.

For more information, visit:
ckut.ca
hist.umontreal.ca/U/rabkin (Prof. Rabkin’s page at the Univ. of Montreal, in French)