October 2003 archive

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This show includes an analysis on the biased (usually by neglect) coverage in our local media regarding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_Oct21_2003_8kbps.mp3 (8 kbps encoding, ~3.5MB)

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News Highlights: Israeli government grants “legal and permanent” status to wildcat settlement outposts, thus providing education and security services – Palestinian analysts state this will create new demographical and geographical facts on the ground. Israeli forces shot and killed Palestinian worker Jamal Ismail Qados, 39, near Nablus. Palestinian leaders denounce the new Israeli decision to …

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This show includes an interview with Mazin Qumiyseh, professor at Yale University and co-founder of Al Awda (Palestine Right to Return Coalition), who spoke about his recent trip to Palestine and also about the new “Geneva Accords”. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_Oct21_2003_8kbps.mp3 (8 kbps …

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News Highlights: Palestinians across the Gaza Strip mourned the dead and wounded from the previous day’s Israeli air raids, and the Nusseirat refugee camp with 7 people killed was the scene of a mass funeral. International leaders and even some Israeli politicians criticized the air raids and their toll on innocent civilians. A 14-year-old Palestinian …

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This show includes an interview with Maxine, a B.C. woman currently in the West Bank for over a month. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_Oct14_2003_8kbps.mp3 (8 kbps encoding, ~3.5MB)

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News Highlights: Israeli raid into Rafah leaves hundreds of Palestinians homeless and eight dead, including two young children; entire rows of houses crushed under bulldozers. Palestinian Center for Human Rights reports that the Israeli army used a banned nerve gas, adamatite, during the attack on Rafah Israel announces plans to deport 18 Palestinian administrative detainees …

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This show includes an interview with with Lynn, a B.C. volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement, who is currently in the West Bank. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_Oct7_2003_8kbps.mp3 (8 kbps encoding, ~3.5MB)

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News Highlights: Two Palestinians killed in southern Gaza strip, a 60 year old man and a 29 year old in two separate incidents; four other elderly Palestinians wounded. New nine-member Palestinian cabinet is sworn in, with Ahmed Qorei as PM, while Palestinian government also declares state of emergency. Syria asks the U.N. Security Council to …

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