George Cadman of Free Radio Santa Cruz interviews Peretz Kidron about the current political situation in Israel and about his book, “Refusenik! Israel’s Soldiers of Conscience”. Peretz Kidron is a freelance journalist, broadcaster and writer. In the late 1960’s he became active in the radical left and the peace movement in Israel. He is a founding member of the Israeli Council for Israeli-Palestinian Peace and serves on the steering committee of the Israeli human rights group B’tselem. Having refused to perform military duty in the occupied Palestinian territories, he now handles international contacts for Yesh Gvul (There Is A Limit). Founded at the time of the invasion of Lebanon in 1982, the group has become the voice and campaigning vehicle for the so-called refuseniks-Israeli soldiers who refuse morally objectionable assignments (notably in the West Bank and Gaza).

This program was produced by George Cadman for Free Radio Santa Cruz on September 7, 2006.

For more information, visit:
freakradio.org
otherisrael.home.igc.org/ICIPP.html (Israeli Council for Israeli-Palestinian Peace)
btselem.org
www.yeshgvul.org/

We are specially pleased today to welcome our featured guest, Professor Norman Finkelstein. Professor Finkelstein teaches political theory at DePaul University in Chicago and is the author of 5 seminal books. His first book “The Rise and Fall of Palestine: a personal account of the Intifada years” was published by the University of Minnesota in 1996. His second book, co-authored with Ruth Bettina Birn “A Nation on Trial: the Goldhagen thesis and historical truth” was published by Henry Holt in 1998. His third book “Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict” was first published in 1995 by Verso with an expanded second edition in 2003; his fourth book “The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the exploitation of Jewish suffering” was published by Verso in 2000 with an expanded edition in 2003; and his fifth, and most recent book, “Beyond Chtutzpah: On the misuse of anti-Semitism and the abuse of history” was published by the University of California Press in August of 2005.

Professor Finkelstein has lectured widely at Universities across the US and is the subject of several independent documentaries currently in production. In 2002, he delivered the annual memorial lecture in history at Alfred University, and in 2005 was the presenter for the hour-long documentary: “The Final Insult” based on The Holocaust Industry, to be broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK. He joins us now by telephone.

This program was produced by This Week In Palestine on WZBC Boston for March 25, 2007.

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truthandjusticeradio.org
www.normanfinkelstein.com/

Interview with Adam Shapiro and IMC-Palestine. CKUT Radio spoke with Adam after he successfully negotiated an ambulance into President Arafat’s compound. He was the only international non-Palestinian in the compound. A US citizen with the International Solidarity Movement, which brings together Palestinians & Internationals, Adam spent Friday being a “human shield” for ambulances attempting to get past Israeli soldiers.

This program was produced by CKUT Radio in 2002.

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www.palsolidarity.org
www.ckut.ca

Ilan Pappe on Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006). Interviewed by Nadim Mahjoub on Resonance FM Radio, 27 October 2006.

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www.ilanpappe.org/
www.resonancefm.com/

In the West Bank, Israeli bulldozers destroy farmland near Um Salamunah village, south of Bethlehem, targeting farmers with plastic bullets, tear gas, and sound bombs. Palestinians near Hebron were abducted by the Israeli military. In Nablus, operation “Hot Winter” seemed to come to a close. In the Gaza Strip Israeli gunships opened fire on fisherman and civilians at Tal Al Sultan beach near Rafah. East of Rafah, farmers were attacked by tank fire. The Al Quds Brigades, an offshoot of Islamic Jihad, claimed a rocket attack on Israeli areas outside the northern end of the Gaza Strip in retaliation.

Palestine Today for February 27, 2007 was brought to you by Polly Bangoriad and Ghassan Bannoura for the International Middle East Media Center.

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In the West Bank a Palestinian civilian was killed when a Palestinian Police officer shot him by mistake, and the Israeli military invaded the cities of Hebron, Jenin, and the Bethlehem area of Hindaza. In the Gaza strip, one Palestinian man was shot and injured by Israeli army fire in the eastern part of the Gaza strip, and residents continue to fear a large-scale invasion as Israeli forces mass near the southeastern border and warplanes step up flights.

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Tanya Reinhart is a professor emeritus of linguistics and cultural studies at Tel Aviv University and currently Global Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at NYU and a professor at the University of Utrecht. She has written several books on the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, has a column in Israel’s largest daily, Yideot Aharonot, and has had many articles published in international journals. Her latest book, The Roadmap to Nowhere: Israel/Palestine Since 2003, is published by Verso Press.

This interview was conducted in April 2006, shortly after the Israeli elections, and Prof. Reinhart discusses the implications of the election win by Olmert’s Kadima Party, the Labor party’s agreement to join in a coalition government, historical background about Amir Peretz, the current head of the Labor party, the ongoing international sanctions against the Hamas led Palestinian government, the international community’s relations with Israel and support for the continuation of the Occupation of Palestinian land, the opportunities and limits of the international and local movement against Israeli policies, and background about her support of academic boycott and its relation to leaving her position as professor at Tel Aviv University.

Prof. Reinhart was interviewed by Bryan Atinsky of the Alternative Information Center (AIC).

For more information, visit:
www.alternativenews.org
www.tau.ac.il/~reinhart/

The Experience in Latin America and its Relation to the Situation in Palestine

On Feb 6 2007, the Alternative Information Center (AIC) and the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), jointly hosted a lecture by Judge Juan Guzman at the Ambassador Hotel in East Jerusalem. Judge Guzman is a retired Chilean judge who became internationally famous for being the first judge to prosecute former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet on human rights charges, after Pinochet’s return to Chile following more than a year of house arrest in London, England. He spoke together with Israeli Human Rights Lawyer, Lea Tsemel on “International Legal Solutions for War Crimes and Human Rights Violations: The Experience in Latin America and its Relation to the Situation in Palestine.”

For more information, visit:
www.alternativenews.org
www.icahd.org

His brother and two cousins were shot and killed. Four brothers were injured. The family home was bulldozed with his mother inside. His father was jailed for twelve years. These are just some of Mohammed Omer’s family stories.

Mohammed is 22 and was born and raised in the Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.

He is a photojournalist, and he has been documenting his own life, and the lives of other Gazans, since 2002. Dick Gordon talks to Mohammed about growing up in one of the most dangerous places on earth on The Story.

For more information, visit:
www.thestory.org
www.rafahtoday.org/ (Mohammed Omer’s weblog)

The nearly two-month long Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip continues to exact a heavy toll on the 1.4 million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip. Two hundred and two Palestinians have been killed since ‘Operation Summer Rains’ began. One Israeli soldier has been killed in the same period. In addition, thousands of Palestinians have been forced to flee their homes due to repeated ground incursions and intensive shelling by the Israeli army. Mordecai Briemberg speaks to Ali Abunimah of Electronic Intifada.

This program was produced in Vancouver by Redeye Radio.

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www.vcn.bc.ca/redeye/
electronicintifada.net