News Highlights:
- Israeli forces kill 17 Palestinians, including 5 civilians, during the latest invasion into Gaza City.
- Gazan doctors say there are also many wounded, and question if Israel is using the banned “flechette” shells.
- Hamas leaders criticize the Arab regimes that are cooperating and meeting with the U.S. and Israel.
- Canada’s foreign minister refuses to specifically condemn the Israeli settlement expansion on Palestinian land in “Har Homa”, a settlement that Canada’s Reichmann family helped fund 10 years ago.
- The Palestinian Legislative Council PLC speaker criticizes plans by the PLO Central Council to dissolve the PLC and says its is illegal under Palestinian law.
Feature:
A live interview with Simon Shaheen, a renowned Palestinian musician who is coming to play in B.C. on January 27th, 2008. Simon told us about how he grew up in a musical Palestinian family and also the obstacles he faced as a second-class citizen in Israel. In fact, he currently has a lawsuit against the Israeli government for the confiscation of family land. He returns every year to his hometown to offer music workshops for Palestinian youth, as well as running an Arab music retreat in the U.S. for musicians from around the world to learn the intricacies of classical Arab music. Simon is set to perform on January 27th, 8 pm at Capilano College Theatre.
Focus on Zionism:
Highlights of a January 14th, 2008 report on www.electronicintifada.net documenting how Volvo equipment is also being used to demolish Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem and in the construction of the illegal apartheid wall.
Here is an audio file of this show: