![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | This Week In Palestine - US psychologist Dr. Renae Grant views Gaza - Host Sherif Fam
OUTLINE: (1) challenge to get involved; (2) summary of current news highlights for Palestine; (3) Sherif's interview with Dr. Renae Grant, Boston-area psychologist, in the course of her visit in Palestine; (4) closing remarks, including pledge of solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Gaza. PROCEEDINGS: Good morning everyone, and welcome to "This Week in Palestine," a weekly segment of news from Palestine, and discussion of issues relevant to the Palestinians' struggle for freedom from Isra...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: Bir Zeit University Professor Naser Abdel Karim - Sherif Fam
It is Sunday, October 19, 2008. We begin with one announcement and a brief summary of news highlights. Following that is our interview with Bir Zeit University Professor Naser Abdel Karim. The Boston Chapter of the Palestine Children's Relief Fund will be holding a fundraising dinner featuring keynote speaker Harvard Professor Stephen Walt, co-author of the book: "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," a very important book which has stimulated much needed public discussion about the role pl...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine:We interview Ms. Jackie Salloum - Sherif Fam and the staff of WZBC's Truth and Justice Radio
As always, we begin with selected event announcements and a brief summary of this week's relevant news highlights. This week we learn that Israel has hired a British public relations firm to re-market it to the world, and the company is now in the final stages of preparing to launch the new image. This year's Boston Palestine Film Festival formally opened at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts with a showing of a remarkable documentary called "Slingshot Hip Hop," by Palestinian-American Director Jack...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: Mr. Khalid Amayreh - Sherif Fam
After event announcements and a brief summary of this week's relevant news highlights, Sherif interviews Mr. Khalid Amayreh. Amayreh, a US-educated independent journalist and author of 330+ articles and two books, has written a frightening new report on the collusion of the illegal Fatah government of the West Bank with the so-called leadership of Israel. Together they hatched a plot in which Fatah would attack Gaza's Hamas government with the intention of destroying it, or at least provoke civi...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: Mr. Omar Barghouti - Sherif Fam and the staff of Truth and Justice Radio
First, local event announcements followed by a summary of some of this week's relevant news of continuing, frightening, devastating injustices against Palestinians. As in the past, you may need to brace yourself for this. Then in an effort to help sort it out, Sherif interviews independent Palestinian political and cultural analyst Omar Barghouti. Mr. Barghouti is also a human rights activist involved in civil struggle to end oppression and conflict in Palestine/Israel and an organizer of the Ca...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: Dr. Abdel Rahman Tamimi - Sherif Fam
After event announcements and a brief summary of news highlights, Sherif interviews Dr. Abdel Rahman Tamimi (in Palestine) about the extremely serious water shortage being foisted on Palestinians by the Israeli powers that be. Tamimi is Director General of the Palestianian Hydrology Group, and is a member of the Steering Committee of the Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network. He is also a member of the National Water Council and was a negotiator with Israel on water issues...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: boat trip participant Huwaida Arraf - Sherif Fam and the staff of Truth and Justice Radio
Host Sherif Fam interviews Huwaida Arraf, one of 46 activists from 14 countries who recently sailed two small wooden boats (the SS Free Gaza and the SS Liberty) on an epic journey to Gaza without having to go through Israel or get its permission, albeit risking being shot. They took small quantities of food and medical supplies. Read more about this trip at freegaza.org and consider donating and getting involved...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: Professor Adam Habib - Sherif Fam and the staff of Truth and Justice Radio
Sherif presents his personal interview (phoned and recorded) with Professor Adam Habib, who was denied entry into the U.S. because of his voiced opposition to the Iraq war. Professor Habib discusses the role of social movements in the Palestinian context and lessons learned from the South African apartheid experience.
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: the apartheid issue - Sherif Fam and the staff of Truth and Justice Radio, aired Sundays 6-10am on WZBC 90.3FM, Newton, MA, streaming at wzbc.org
First, an urgent invitation to join forces with the Palestine justice community. Next, a few minutes reviewing this week's frightening news: US turning a deaf ear to injustices in Palestine while rushing to "help" the nation of Georgia; corrupt "exoneration" of Israeli troops who killed a Palestinian journalist; and Israel's spraying of chemical-laden sewage on protesters. We hear field recordings from a recent local event exposing Israel's emerging apartheid structure...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: Dr. Abdel Rahman Tamimi on Israel's strangulation of Palestinian water resources - Sherif Fam and the staff of Truth and Justice Radio, aired Sundays 6-10am on WZBC 90.3FM, Newton, MA, streaming at wzbc.org
First, a summary of this week's gruesome news. Then we return to the urgency of the strangulation of Palestine's water resources by Israel and its settlers. Right now, as we speak, many Palestinian families rely on NGOs and the kindness of neighbors and friends because they have been without water for several months! Imagine what you would do if you had not a drop of water for several months. While several hundred yards away, Israeli settlers consume unlimited amounts of water for their lush gar...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: Israel is controlling, squandering, and ruining the West Bank's water resources - Sherif Fam and the staff of Truth and Justice Radio, aired Sundays 6-10am on WZBC 90.3FM, Newton, MA, streaming at wzbc.org.
[THIS WEEK'S EDITION IS 20 MINUTES IN DURATION, AN EXCEPTION.] Sherif begins with one event announcement and another ever more frightening weekly report on the ongoing Israeli strangulation of Palestine's population. Our topic today concerns the Palestinian water resources in the West Bank; Israel's chokehold on them, preventing Palestinian access to their own water resources; and the Palestinians' desperate need for water...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: an interview with internationally recognized leader Allam Jarrar - Sherif Fam and the staff of Truth and Justice Radio, aired Sundays 6-10am on WZBC 90.3FM, Newton, MA, streaming at wzbc.org. The program's own website is truthandjusticeradio.org.
We begin with a painful accounting of the past week's events. To update us on the serious situation in Nablus (recently attacked), we are very privileged today to welcome Dr. Allam Jarrar as our featured guest. Dr. Jarrar is on the Steering Committee of the Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizationsâ Network, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Medical Relief Society where he is Director of Rehabilitation Services for the Northern West Bank...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine 7-13-08: an interview with Lebanese bombing victim Hussein Chokr - Host Sherif Fam and the staff of WZBC's Truth and Justice Radio, aired weekly Sundays 6-10am ET
After reviewing the week's events, not the least of which were Israeli raids, Iraeli bombings, Israeli incursions, and other Israeli violations of human rights in Palestine and Lebanon, Sherif speaks by phone with Lebanese bombing victim Mr. Abu Mohammad Hussein Chokr. Chokr's wife and all but one of his children were killed during an Israeli bombing raid of his home at 7:15am on July 19th, 2006. You can read more of this story on his website: www.majzarat-al-nabysheet.org...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine 7-6-08: a return interview with college student Shereen Jamil Abu-Khiran in Palestine - Host Sherif Fam and the staff of WZBC's Truth and Justice Radio, aired weekly Sundays 6-10am ET
Welcome to "This Week in Palestine," a weekly forty-five minute segment of news from Palestine, and discussion of issues relevant to the Palestinians' struggle for freedom from Israelâs savage military occupation and colonization of their homeland. This program presents news and analysis from the Palestinian perspective, a perspective we do not get from the mainstream media. After a review of the week's news, we are especially pleased today to welcome Shereen Jamil Abu-Khiran back to our progra...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: We talk with 5-time visitor, "Ben" - Sherif Fam and the staff of WZBC's Truth and Justice Radio
"This Week in Palestine" is a weekly forty-five minute segment of news from Palestine, and discussion of issues relevant to the Palestinians' struggle for freedom from Israel's savage military occupation and colonization of their homeland. This program presents news and analysis from the Palestinian perspective, a perspective we do not get from the mainstream media. First, a summaryIt is now time for our featured guest whom we are very pleased to welcome to our program...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine - activist Gabriel Camacho tells of his Palestine visit - Host Sherif Fam and the staff of WZBC's Truth and Justice Radio, aired weekly Sundays 6-10am ET
After news highlights (which are heartbreaking), we are very pleased to welcome long term Boston area activist Gabriel Camacho who has recently returned from a trip to Palestine. Mr. Camacho has had a long standing involvement in political solidarity work with the Palestinian struggle for self determination, dating back to his days at the State University of New York where he majored in Anthropology in the 1970s, and conducted field work in the village of El Ki'che in Guatemala where he witnesse...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: an interview with Law Professor Francis Boyle - Sherif Fam and the staff of Truth and Justice Radio, aired Sundays 6-10am on WZBC 90.3FM, Newton, MA, streaming at wzbc.org. The program's own website is truthandjusticeradio.org.
"This Week in Palestine" is a weekly forty-five minute segment of news from Palestine, and discussion of issues relevant to the Palestinians' struggle for freedom from Israel's savage military occupation and colonization of their homeland. This program presents news and analysis from the Palestinian perspective, a perspective we do not get from the mainstream media. We have the privilege of spending most of our time on the air today with the distinguished international lawyer Professor Francis B...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: an interview with Palestinian independent reporter, author, and Gaza resident Rami Al-Meghari - Sherif Fam and the staff of Truth and Justice Radio, aired Sundays 6-10am on WZBC 90.3FM, Newton, MA, streaming at wzbc.org. The program's own website is truthandjusticeradio.org.
"This Week in Palestine" is a weekly forty-five minute segment of news from Palestine, and discussion of issues relevant to the Palestinians' struggle for freedom from Israel's savage military occupation and colonization of their homeland. This program presents news and analysis from the Palestinian perspective, a perspective we do not get from the mainstream media. After a summary of current happenings, which as usual are heartbreaking beyond comprehension, Sherif conducts an extensive intervie...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: a visit with human rights activist Omar Barghouti - Sherif Fam and the staff of Truth and Justice Radio, aired Sundays 6-10am on WZBC 90.3FM, Newton, MA, streaming at wzbc.org. The program's own website is truthandjusticeradio.org.
Mr. Barghouti is an independent Palestinian political and cultural analyst whose opinion columns have appeared in several publications. He is also a human rights activist involved in civil struggle to end oppression and conflict in Palestine/Israel and an organizer of the Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. He holds a Masters Degree in electrical engineering from Columbia University and is currently a doctoral student of philosophy (ethics) at Tel Aviv University...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: Dr. Susan Akram on the Right of Return - Sherif Fam
We revisit today the topic of the Nakba, or catastrophe, and continue with the subject of the Right of Return of Palestinian refugees. Today is May 25, 2008. May 15th marked the official sixtieth anniversary of the long premeditated destruction of Palestinian civil society to make way for the creation of the state of Israel by mass terror campaigns; the massacre of thousands of innocent Palestinian civilians; the depopulation and extermination of 500 Palestinian villages; and the expulsion by mi...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: Commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Nakba - Sherif Fam (associate producer) and the staff of "Truth and Justice Radio," aired Sundays 6-10am on WZBC 90.3FM, Newton, MA, streaming at . The program's own website is . It links to our playlists, which link in turn to archived audio.
Sherif Fam presents this special segment on The Nakba ("catastrophe"), incorporating part of the first hour of IMEMC's 18-hour marathon broadcast on 5-15-08. For the entirety of IMEMC's marathon, go to imemc.org and click on the "Radio Free Palestine" icon (now on the left column). Or use humanrightsmedia.org/nakba.html to download individual components. Thursday, May 15th, 2008, commemorates 60 years of the Palestinian Nakba...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: Zionism on the Nakba's 60th Anniversary plus a visit with activist Rachel Baker - Sherif Fam and the staff of WZBC's Truth and Justice Radio
As Israeli and diaspora Jews celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel, an increasing number of people around the world have started to ask questions about the circumstances of its creation and the myths they have been fed during all those years. More and more people are beginning to acknowledge the fact that Israel was not created of Immaculate Conception, and that the Zionist leaders of Israel had intentionally destroyed the fabric of Palestinian civil society to fo...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine - interview with Dr. Naseer Aruri - Sherif Fam and the staff of WZBC's Truth and Justice Radio
We are very privileged today to welcome Dr. Naseer Aruri, Chancellor Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, founding member of the Arab Organization for Human Rights, Cairo and Geneva in 1982, former member of the Board of Directors of Human Rights Watch/Middle East Section, and three-term member of the Board of Directors of Amnesty International USA over the years 1984 to 1990...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: a very special lecture by Professor Ilan Pappé - Sherif Fam (associate producer) and the staff of "Truth and Justice Radio"
Professor Pappé gave this lecture on 5-2-08 in Montreal. He is author of "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine." We presented it on 8-3-08 in lieu of this week's "This Week In Palestine" while our host, Sherif Fam, is taking much-deserved time off. It's an extremely important speech, in which Professor Pappé steers peace activism toward a vision of a search for normality and emphasizes the importance of remembering 10 historical facts which undergird all discussions of the Israeli-Palestinian con...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: Dr. Mustafa El-Hawa with heart-rending news from Gaza - Sherif Fam and the staff of WZBC's Truth and Justice Radio
Sunday April 27, 2008 on Truth and Justice Radio's special weekly feature, "This Week In Palestine": TWIP host Sherif Fam interviews Dr. Mustafa El-Hawa by phone link to Gaza. Dr. El-Hawa is a Professor of Environmental Management and Sustainable Development at Al-Quds University in Gaza. The conditions in Gaza are dire and get worse with each passing day that Israel is permitted, even encouraged, to pursue its genocidal policy of bombs, bombs, and more bombs, plus "security" checkpoints, plus b...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: A visit with eminent Palestinian scholar of the Nakba, Dr. Salman Abu Sitta - Sherif Fam and the staff of WZBC's Truth and Justice Radio
Sherif interviews Dr. Salman Abu Sitta on the recent history of Palestine, the Nakba, the Palestinian Refugees' Right of Return and what it means to Palestinians. Dr. Abu Sitta is a former member of the Palestine National Council on which he served for 20 years; founder and President of the Palestine Land Society of London; and Director of International Development Projects in Palestine. Forced to become a refugee at the young age of 10, Dr...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: a discussion of the Nakba, and what it means to Palestinians, with distinguished Palestinian physician/scholar Dr. Ghada Karmi - Sherif Fam and the staff of WZBC's Truth and Justice Radio
Today, we have the privilege of continuing our discussion of the recent history of Palestine and the Nakba, and what it means to Palestinians, with the distinguished Palestinian physician and scholar, Dr. Ghada Karmi, research fellow and lecturer at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter in the UK, and world renowned author and commentator on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: A Visit With Irish Human Rights Activist Darryl Li - Sherif Fam and the staff of WZBC's Truth and Justice Radio
Host Sherif Fam begins this week's program with a list of local event announcements, including a talk April 2nd by the iconic, world-renowned, and much-maligned author/scholar Norman Finkelstein at MIT. We continue with selected, horrifying, news items, including yet another gravely ill Palestinian denied entry to vital Israeli medical care as a "security risk." We follow this with a few carefully chosen words of analysis...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: A Visit with Photographer and Longtime Human Rights Activist Skip Schiel - Host Sherif Fam
First a summary of news highlights: This bit of news from our own backyard happened eleven days ago but is so explosively shocking that it deserves special mention: On Wednesday, March 12, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni was received with great pomp and ceremony at the Massachusetts State House, on the occasion of Israel's 60th anniversary. A group of people attempted to deliver a letter to their state reps and senators when they were met by members of the Jewish Community Relations Council...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: updated report on the deepening Israeli oppression In Gaza, with independent Palestinian reporter Mohammad Omer - Host Sherif Fam
Several important events occurred this week (as of 3-16-08), among them this: Vanity Fair published an amazing article entitled "The Gaza Bombshell." The article explicitly revealed for the first time what had been an open secret well known to knowledgeable observers, of how President Mahmoud Abbas became the patsy of the U.S. which dictated every single one of his moves; plotted to foment a civil war in Palestine; and planned a coup against the elected government of Hamas, which Hamas forestall...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: a visit with Gerard Horton, Australian lawyer working as International Advocacy Officer for Defence for Children International, Palestine Section - Host Sherif Fam
No one can possibly claim to understand the plight of Palestinians without knowing something about the thousands of prisoners Israel is holding in its jails; under administrative detention for undetermined or unlimited periods of time; without charge; and with little if any access to legal representation, family visits, or hope for a fair hearing in court. The accepted estimate of the number of prisoners is 11,000, but the real number is likely higher due to the dozens of people Israel routinely...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: former IDF crew commander Oded Na'aman of "Break the Silence" - Host Sherif Fam
On 1-25-02 a remarkable group of 52 soldiers and officers of the Israeli army reserves published a quarter-page letter which appeared in the Israeli daily newspaper Ha'aretz. In this letter, they called on their comrades-in-arms to join their act of refusal to serve in the occupied Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza. In a manifesto published in a book in 2003 entitled "Breaking Ranks: Refusing to Serve in the West Bank and Gaza Strip," they further declared: "we shall not continue...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: Palestinian journalist/photographer Mohammad Omer in Gaza - Host Sherif Fam
Host Sherif Fam interviews award-winning Palestinian journalist/photographer Mohammad Omer, located in Gaza. In their conversation, Omer reveals some of the suffering borne by Gazans under the brutal Israeli siege, and the lack of meaningful help from the European and even the neighboring Arab community. In parting words, Sherif mentions as a sign of hope the recent seven-ton convoy of foodstuffs and personal belongings recently delivered to Gaza as a gesture of good will by the PEOPLE of Israel...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: European Parliament Vice President Luisa Morgantini (2-17-08) - Host Sherif Fam
Host Sherif Fam interviews her excellency Luisa Morgantini, Vice President of the European Parliament via transatlantic phone. They discuss Israel's brutal treatment of the Palestinian community, European trade agreements and trade practices, and enforcement (or lack thereof) of their human rights provisions on trade with Israel. "This Week In Palestine" is a weekly feature of WZBC's Truth and Justice Radio, aired weekly Sundays 6-10am ET...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: Gazan journalist and mother Laila El-Haddad - Host Sherif Fam
While suckling her newborn baby, Ms. El-Haddad recounts grisly detail after detail of the life Gazans are barely living, and what is not being done by the world community to make it better. She runs a blog site at http://a-mother-from-gaza.blogspot.com.
Keywords: Palestine; Gaza; occupation; brutality; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine - Professor Joel Kovel - Host Sherif Fam
This is a weekly 45-minute segment of news from Palestine, and discussion of issues relevant to the Palestinians' struggle for freedom from Israel's brutal military occupation and colonization of their homeland. Today, after yet another barrage of frightening news, we have the privilege of interviewing Professor Joel Kovel, author of the recent pathbreaking book, "Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine."
Keywords: Palestine; Zionism; occupation; apartheid; brutality
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| This Week In Palestine: Philip Rizk on Gaza's plight - Host Sherif Fam
This is a weekly 45-minute segment of news from Palestine, and discussion of issues relevant to the Palestinians' struggle for freedom from Israel's brutal military occupation and colonization of their homeland. This week we discuss the charade of Bush's highly touted visit with the quisling "leaders" of Palestine (dismissing Gaza as part of Palestine). Sherif interviews freelance journalist Philip Rizk to discuss the devastating effects of border crossing closure, checkpoints, and denial of bas...
Keywords: Palestine; Zionism; occupation; apartheid; brutality
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| This Week In Palestine: Ramzy Baroud - Host Sherif Fam
This is a weekly 45-minute segment of news from Palestine, and discussion of issues relevant to the Palestinians' struggle for freedom from Israel's brutal military occupation and colonization of their homeland. Bush & associates have turned Palestine into a bigger living hell than ever. The West Bank is in flames, and Gaza is a laboratory for the murder of an entire population, all under the auspices of, and with funds and encouragement from, the United States...
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