News Highlights:
- Israel’s new sanctions against Gaza are internationally condemned, and the Israeli Supreme Court gives the government a week to justify its embargo.
- 10 Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups had petitioned the court over the act of collective punishment.
- Human Rights Watch reveals that Israeli forces are preventing Palestinians from receiving medical treatment unless they agree to be informants.
- 4 Palestinians and 1 Israeli soldier killed during Israeli invasion of northern Gaza.
- U.S. firms chosen by the U.S. government will train Palestinian Authority security forces.
Feature:
A live interview with Ali Abunimah, a Palestinian American author and activist and co-founder of the Electronic Intifada. Ali spoke about the failure of the Oslo process and how the situation in Gaza showed that the U.S. and Israel refused to recognize the results of democratic elections. He also talked about his new book “One Country” and the one-state movement that is developing ground as a solution to the Israel/Palestine conflict. Ali detailed the upcoming conference on this issue in London in November, in which he will be a participant.
Focus on Zionism:
Highlights of an October 28th, 2007 IPS report quoting part of a talk in Boston by S. African Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Tutu compared conditions in Palestine to those of S. Africa under apartheid and said a human rights violation is a human rights violation, wherever it occurs.
Here is an audio file of this show: