Flashpoints spends the hour investigating the situation for the indigenous Bedouin communities of the Negev desert, inside Israel’s 1948 borders. Without electricity, running water, medical clinics or schools, over 76,000 Bedouins, Israeli citizens, face ethnic cleansing and subjugation by the state as home demolitions and civil rights violations continue on a near-daily basis; we’ll visit two communities under siege and talk with a leader of an organization working inside Bedouin villages, trying to bring much-needed attention to the troubling crisis. Also, the Knight Report.

This program was produced by Flashpoints Radio for September 4, 2007.

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Flashpoints Radio looks at the Israeli High Court decision that hands back over a hundred acres of stolen Palestinian land in the village of Bili’in with Yonatan Pollack, an activist with the Israeli Anarchists Against the Wall. Then, Nora Barrows-Friedman speaks with a Palestinian teenager about visiting her father in prison.

This program was produced by Flashpoints Radio for September 5, 2007.

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awalls.org

Flashpoints talks to a Palestinian woman who is challenging the economic effects of the Israeli occupation of Palestine by establishing a women’s traditional embroidery collective inside the besieged city of Hebron in the West Bank; and we re-broadcast a special investigation into how illegal Israeli settlement colonies impact Palestinian villages. Later, Nora Barrows-Friedman files a special report from Hebron.

This program was produced by Flashpoints Radio for September 3, 2007.

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Ziad Abbas from the Ibdaa Cultural Center in Dheishe refugee camp, Palestine speaks on the current situation in Palestine at the US Social Forum in Atlanta, Georgia.

This program was produced by Nora Barrows-Friedman for Pacifica/AMARC Radio at the US Social Forum in Atlanta, Georgia on June 28, 2007.

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Sunday, June 10th marks four decades of Israel’s illegal military occupation of Palestine, against a backdrop of nearly sixty years of ethnic transfer and displacement.

On this national Pacifica special, producers from around the country investigate the cause and effect of Israel’s continuous military occupation policies toward the Palestinians, which permeates every aspect of life — from the suffocating checkpoints and land theft inside the West Bank to the violence and chaos inside a hermetically-sealed Gaza strip; to the issues of identity and culture in a widening diaspora.

This program was produced by Pacifica Radio for June 10, 2007.

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Nora Barrows-Friedman continues her reporting from the occupied West Bank; she documents the ongoing destruction of the city of Nablus and the Balata Refugee Camp by the Israeli occupation military and speaks with a human rights activist who videotaped the Israeli military using Palestinian children as human shields; also, award-winning Palestinian-American poet Suheir Hammad speaks about politics, Palestine and poetry; and the Knight Report.

This program was produced by Flashpoints Radio on April 17, 2007

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suheirhammad.com

Nora Barrows-Friedman reports from the occupied West Bank on the ongoing illegal Israeli settlement colony expansion and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land; she speaks with Jeff Halper of the Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions as he explains the policies, and spends time with residents of a village south of Bethlehem who are losing their land to an encroaching settlement colony; and the Knight Report.

This program was produced by Flashpoints Radio on April 12, 2007

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Flashpoints speaks with Nora Barrows-Friedman from the Occupied West Bank on media censorship by the United States and the current situation on the ground for Palestinians; Also, the humanitarian crisis in Syria grows as more Iraqis flee from U.S. invasion, our special correspondent Dahr Jamail reports from Damascus; The Bush administration’s secret immigration proposal was leaked last week, we talk about indentured servitude with an activist working on policy issues; Also, calls to halt ICE raids; we hear sounds from last weekend’s L.A. protest; and the Knight Report.

This program was produced by Flashpoints Radio on April 10, 2007.

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This week on Crossing The Line, it describes itself as the most important organization affecting the US relationship with Israel. But who is AIPAC? I’ll speak with award-winning investigative journalist Dave Lindorff about the lobby group whose annual budget is more than 65 million dollars and claims a membership of over 100,000. Also this week, we’ll hear from our special correspondent Nora Barrows-Friedman who is currently in occupied Palestine, about the violence that raged over the most holiest weekend in the Christian calendar.

Then later in the podcast our weekly commentary by Mumia Abu-Jamal and The War’s Toll compiled and read by Scott Burgwin of The Stand Independent News Service.

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Nora peaks with former Palestinian child prisoners and documents systematic and wide spread torture being used against children in Israeli prisons and detention facilities.

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