Norman Finkelstein on Gaza and Saeed Ahghari M.D., just back from Gaza April 10th, 2009
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Talk Nation Radio for April 9, 2009
Norman Finkelstein on Gaza and Saeed Ahghari M.D., just back from Gaza
This show features part one of a longer talk by Norman Finkelstein on Gaza which we will upload in the next few days. Dr. Saeed Ahghari visited Gaza as an emergency medicine specialist treating wounded and assessing the crisis for civilians.
(We have also uploaded part two of last weekâs interview with Ellen Hodgson Brown. See below.)
TRT:29:54 Produced by Dori Smith, WHUS, Storrs, CT Download at Pacificaâs Audioport here Or at radio4all.net and archive.org later today
We hear from Middle East expert Norman Finkelstein who spoke at the University of Connecticut April 7th as he talks about the history of Israeli policies leading up to the attacks on Gaza that began December 27th, and generated massive protests. In addition to attacks on a UN compound where 700 civilians were seeking sanctuary, Israeli troops also bombed a UN school killing some 40 people, many of them children. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Physicians for Human Rights Israel, and other groups, are calling for an investigation into Israeliâs attacks on heavily populated civilian areas, direct attacks on women and children, and even emergency medical teams as they tried to apply lifesaving techniques. A growing number of people world wide have offered the assessment that the Israeli state was itself harmed by itâs own actions, though the US under Barack Obama has thus far continued to resupply them with heavy weapons despite requests from Amnesty International that they not do so.
First, weâre joined on the phone by Dr. Saeed Ahghari, an emergency medicine specialist who recently returned from Gaza where he helped treat the wounded after Israeli air and ground attacks in December and January.
Dr. Ahghari will be speaking at the Charter Oak Cultural Center Gallery, 21 Charter Oak Avenue, Hartford Connecticut on Saturday April 11th at 1 PM and the public is invited to see his slides and hear him talk about what he witnessed in Gaza as he was offering medical care.
Part two: Ellen Hodgson Brown here
Program ends with full instrumental of the classic song: Brother Can you Spare a Dime by Sarah Nello
Next time Alain Gresh, editor of Le Monde Diplomatique, on how the Gaza war changes the Middle East equation at Israelâs expense, See: Le Monde Diplomatique February 2009