March 2006 archive

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This show includes an in-studio discussion about the result of the Israeli elections, held March 28th, and the swearing in of the new Palestinian government, set to happen March 30th. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_Mar28_2006_8kbps.mp3 (8 kbps encoding, ~3.5MB) VOP_Mar28_2006_16kbps.mp3 (16 kbps encoding, ~7.0MB)

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News Highlights: Both the outgoing and new Palestinian governments condemn the compensation paid to the Israeli soldier who murdered Iman Al Hams, a 13-year-old Palestinian girl. Al Bireh, near Ramallah, no longer has places to bury its dead due to Israel preventing the construction of a new cemetery. Israeli election results show Ehud Olmert’s party …

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News Highlights: British Foreign Office criticizes Israel after border policemen shot dead a 10-year-old Palestinian girl in Yamoun. Director of CARE Int’l in the West Bank says the route of the wall matches that of water resources, with many aquifers now located on the “Israeli side”. Extremist settler leader, Baruch Marzel, campaigning for the upcoming …

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This show includes a live interview from Palestine with Tom, a Vancouver activist volunteering with the International Solidarity Movement. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_Mar21_2006_8kbps.mp3 (8 kbps encoding, ~3.5MB) VOP_Mar21_2006_16kbps.mp3 (16 kbps encoding, ~7.0MB)

ISM-Vancouver report

Following is a report sent today from Robin, whom we interviewed on the Voice of Palestine on Tue. Mar. 21, 2006, Robin is a member of ISM-Vancouver, and this is his second trip to Palestine. Destruction and Defiance in the Shadow of Bethlehem: Unable to enter the al-Walaja village, I waited for close to an …

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This show includes an interview with Splitting the Sky, an indigenous activist, who talked about the recent trip of the Assembly of First Nations chiefs to Israel, and the response. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_Mar14_2006_8kbps.mp3 (8 kbps encoding, ~3.5MB) VOP_Mar14_2006_16kbps.mp3 (16 kbps encoding, ~7.0MB)

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News Highlights: Israel invades Jericho and raids a Palestinian prison compound, kidnapping the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine; Ahmed Saadat was being guarded by British and American monitors who left the prison just before the Israeli raid. Palestinian official Saab Erekat says Western donors never gave money directly to the …

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This show includes a live interview with Mohammad Ayyash from Balata Refugee Camp near Nablus in the West Bank and about the recent Israeli attacks on the camp. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_Mar07_2006_8kbps.mp3 (8 kbps encoding, ~3.5MB) VOP_Mar07_2006_16kbps.mp3 (16 kbps encoding, ~7.0MB)

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News Highlights: March 6th – International human rights groups and UN officials call for Israel to stop its assassinations of Palestinians. UNICEF says 5 Palestinians kids killed on Monday, two of them bystanders to an Israeli extra-judicial assassination. New Palestinian parliament votes to revoke the last-minute legislation giving extra presidential powers, passed by the previous …

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