News Highlights:
- Israeli authorities forbid a young Palestinian boy from Gaza who lost his mother to join his father in the West Bank.
- Israel plans to allocate $250 million U.S. for settlement expansion over the next two years, according to Peace Now, which adds this is probably just the tip of the iceberg.
- Palestinian MP and House Speakers Aziz Dweik is finally released from Israeli jails, although many Palestinian legislators are still political prisoners.
- Free Gaza movement is planning to send another ship to Gaza in its 8th mission so far to break the siege and collective punishment on the Palestinians there.
Feature:
A special presentation by a member of Jews for a Just Peace, Vancouver about the Israeli refusenik movement. The special included two interviews, one with Rafi Spivak, the editor of the film Raised to Be Heroes and the other with a recent refusenik now living in Canada. Both interviews highlighted the difficult process refuseniks go through and the isolation they face in the broader Israeli society, as well as the attitude of “entitlement” that permeates the actions of the Israeli military.
Focus on Zionism:
Highlights of a June 21st, 2009 report about a lawsuit filed by Israeli human rights groups in the Israeli High Court exposing official government support for Israeli settlement expansion in the West bank.
Here is an audio file of this show: