May 2012 archive

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This show includes a live interview with Moira Jilani from Palestine about the murder of her husband Ziad two years ago at a checkpoint and the refusal of Israeli officials to bring charges against the Israeli border policeman responsible. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_May29_2012_32kbps.mp3 …

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News Highlights: Palestinian detainee on hunger strike for 72 days, football player Mahmoud Sarsak, is in deteriorating health; meanwhile, Israeli officials continue to renew administrative detention orders for other Palestinian political prisoners, including MPs, despite the agreement reached last month. Palestinian grassroots activist Bassem Tamimi from Nabi Saleh is sentenced to 13 months imprisonment already …

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This show includes a live interview with Ehab Lotayef from Montreal, an Egyptian Canadian activist and poet, about the new project entitled Gaza’s Ark, Building Hope. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_May22_2012_32kbps.mp3 (32 kbps encoding, ~14MB)

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News Highlights: Israeli Assoc. for Civil Rights issues new report saying 84% of Palestinian children in occupied Jerusalem live below the poverty line. Reporters without Borders criticize the arrest by Israeli troops of the director of the Palestinian Prisoner Channel in Jenin, the third such attack on the Palestinian media by Israel this year. A …

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This show includes a special presentation to commemorate the 64th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, which included an analysis by a Palestinian journalist from occupied East Jerusalem about the continuing Nakba as well as several stories from Palestinian teens living in refugee camps in Lebanon. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen …

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News Highlights: 2000 Palestinian political prisoners end their hunger strike after reaching an agreement with the Israeli Prison Authorities. Prisoner rights group Addameer is concerned Israel may not respect the terms of the agreement, which included an end to the abusive use of solitary confinement and other punitive measures, as well as some changes in …

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This show includes a speech given by Ilan Pappe on May 5th, 2012 at the Vancouver public library: “The False Paradigm of Peace: Revisiting the Palestine Question” VOP_May08_2012_32kbps.mp3 (32 kbps encoding, ~14MB) Note: Due to audio difficulties in-studio, we have made available special, high-quality downloads containing the full speech of Ilan Pappe (in MP3 and …

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News Highlights: 10 more Palestinian detainees are transferred to hospital, as the hunger strike against administrative detention and other severe restrictions continues and grows, with over 2000 Palestinian prisoners now involved in the strike. The Int’l Committee of the Red Cross warns that 6 of the hunger-strikers are in “imminent danger of dying”. Israeli officials …

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This show includes a live interview with Khaled Almudallal, the operations coordinator for UFree, the European Network to Support the Rights of Palestinian Prisoners. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_May01_2012_32kbps.mp3 (32 kbps encoding, ~14MB)

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News Highlights: After over 60 days of hunger strike, two more Palestinian detainees are at risk of death and have been transferred to an Israeli hospital; 4 more prisoners are also currently hospitalized in an Israeli prison medical facility, including Ahmad Saadat, the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Israeli government …

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