May 2011 archive

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News Highlights: Egypt relaxes crossing procedures at the Rafah border with Gaza, but only for the movement of persons, not goods. Israeli military raids the Palestinian village of al Tuwani and demands villagers stop their non-violent protests to protect their lands. Israeli Foreign Minister thanks Stephen Harper for objecting to any specific mention of 1967 …

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This show includes a live interview with Kevin Neish from Victoria about the one-year anniversary of the deadly Israeli attack on the Mavi Marmara and the upcoming flotilla to break the siege on Gaza. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_May31_2011_32kbps.mp3 (32 kbps encoding, ~14MB)

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News Highlights: Israeli forces begin to install a barbed wire fence around a Palestinian village in the northern West Bank, completely closing it off. Israeli forces detain a 70-year-old Palestinian woman, in what prisoner advocates say may be an attempt to pressure her activist son. Barak Obama rejects Palestinian statehood moves at the UN, in …

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This show includes a live interview with Khalid Mouammar, the president of the Canadian Arab Federation CAF, about issues of importance both here in Canada and in Palestine. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_May24_2011_32kbps.mp3 (32 kbps encoding, ~14MB)

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This show includes a live interview with Monzer Zimmo, a Palestinian Canadian living in Ottawa who recently spoke at a Vancouver fundraiser for the Canadian Boat to Gaza. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_May17_2011_32kbps.mp3 (32 kbps encoding, ~14MB)

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News Highlights: Palestinian refugees in Lebanon bury the victims of Israeli violence on Nakbe Day, where at least 15 Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire in Lebanon, Syria and Palestine. UN agency says that Israel’s demolition policy of Palestinian homes has displaced 149 Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank so far this year. Egyptian …

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This show includes a special Eyewitness Palestine: The Continuing Nakbe and included two reports of how Palestinians are still being ethnically cleansed and dispossessed 63 years later, be they under occupation or in the diaspora. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_May10_2011_32kbps.mp3 (32 kbps encoding, ~14MB)

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News Highlights: Freedom Flotilla 11 will set sail for Gaza in June, to once again try to break the Israeli siege on the Gazan population. Israeli military forces dispersed a protest in northern Gaza today against Israel’s unilaterally imposed no-go zone within Gaza that blocks cultivation of some of its most fertile farmland. Several Arab …

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News Highlights: Israeli settlers attack Palestinian construction workers in Hebron/AlKhalil, who were restoring a Palestinian home on Shuhuda St. which was previously closed due to settler violence. Israel’s Finance Minister says he will freeze transfers of Palestinian tax money that Israel collects, due to the national reconciliation agreement amongst Palestinian groups. Israeli forces continue to …

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This show includes a live interview from Beit Sahour, Palestine with Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh, a veteran Palestinian activist and academic. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_May03_2011_32kbps.mp3 (32 kbps encoding, ~14MB)