Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reiterated his call for Palestinian national unity this week while the Bil’in conference on popular resistance ends with a nonviolent protest against the separation wall. These stories and more in this week’s update.
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The Israeli army kills two in the Gaza strip and invades cities and attacks Palestinian homes in the West Bank. These stories and more in today’s update.
Palestine Today for September 27, 2007 was brought to you by Louisa White and Ghassan Bannoura for the International Middle East Media Center.
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In the West bank, Israeli forces invade a number of towns and cities, kidnapping several Palestinians. In the Gaza Strip meanwhile, at least six home-made shells are launched from the northern part of the region. These stories and more in today’s update.
Palestine Today for September 12, 2007 was brought to you by John Smith and Ghassan Bannoura for the International Middle East Media Center.
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The Israeli Army attacks the West Bank city of Qalqilya and injures 34 civilians, meanwhile in the Gaza strip the deposed Palestinian cabinet claims it’s working hard to end the sanctions. These stories and more in today’s update.
Palestine Today for August 29, 2007 was brought to you by Kate Orwell and Ghassan Bannoura for the International Middle East Media Center.
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Israeli army plane attacks a car in Gaza and Palestinian employees take the government to court. These stories and more in today’s update.
Palestine Today for July 30, 2007 was brought to you by Bill Mcgrath and Ghassan Bannoura for the International Middle East Media Center.
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This week the Israeli army killed 9 Palestinians during attacks in Gaza and in the West Bank while Palestinian Authority published its new platform in which, for the first time, no reference to armed struggle is made. These stories and more in this weeks program.
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Last week we introduced you to the Palestinians of the Al-Waleed Camp, just a few of the millions of refugees from the war and ongoing violence in Iraq. This week we’ll look a little more closely at life in this desert encampment, and hear a little bit about how the Palestinian Authority has performed in supporting their citizens who, until recently, were living quite peaceably in Iraq.
The Palestinian citizens now trapped in Al-Waleed Camp accuse the Palestinian Authority of using their suffering to play political games with Israel. The Palestinian Authority announced that it would accept its citizens back in the West Bank. As the situation worsens, there is no immediate prospect of a solution. The only proposal thus far, an offer by the Palestinian Authority to take in the refugees, was rejected by Israel.
However, the refugees express the feeling that the situation is not as simplistic as it seems. They claim that other states, particularly in Europe, have since expressed willingness to resettle them, but that the PA refuses to accept these solutions, preferring to leave their citizens in the desert, pawns in a political game with Israel.
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This week the Israeli government releases 250 Palestinian political prisoners while the army continues to attack Palestinian civilians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. These stories and more in this weeks program.
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As death tolls and temperatures rise in Baghdad, there are more than 1400 Palestinians stranded in a purgatory between Syria and Iraq. These Palestinians find themselves not only reviled and targeted in Baghdad, where many have lived for the past 60 years. Now they live in tents in the desert, left to wonder why none of the world’s governments will give them safe passage. Furthermore, so they claim, when the rare offer of resettlement comes, they’re left waiting desperately, hoping the government of “their country,” the Palestinian Authority, will permit the move. Many claim the PA is using them as just another pawn in a shell game of victimhood, distraction, and deal-making.
In part one of a two part series, these Palestinians (or are they Iraqis?) speak about desperate circumstances in Baghdad, and the reasons they fled the country they called home for generations. After they fled Baghdad, they found their circumstances still desperate, and perhaps in some ways worse. Syria has closed its borders to Palestinians, Jordan is closed to Palestinians and Iraqis alike.
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Dr. Bazian, adjunct professor of Islamic Studies at UC Berkeley and Islamic Law at Boalt Law School discusses the crisis in occupied Palestine in connection with the 59th anniversary of the Nakba, including the collaboration of the Palestinian Authority with US and Israel.
This program was produced by Jeff Blankfort for KZYX Radio on May 30, 2007.
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