News Highlights:
- Israeli authorities force Palestinian farmers off their land near Salfit, as demolitions also continue in the occupied Jordan Valley.
- Settlement building reportedly becomes critical issue in “peace negotiations” initiated by the U.S. administration as Israeli officials will not commit to extend partial slowdown.
- Israeli settlers attack Palestinian families near Hebron/AlKhalil as part of their “price tag” campaign.
- American actors and theatre professionals support their Israeli counterparts by refusing to perform in Israeli settlements.
- The family of Rachel Corrie continue with their civil suit in Israeli court, and hear new testimony about the flaws in the Israeli military investigation into Rachel’s killing.
Feature:
A live interview with Ehab Lotayef about the Canadian Boat to Gaza (canadaboatgaza.org). Ehab, an Egyptian Canadian living in Montreal, explained how the project developed after Israel’s deadly raid last May on the Mavi Marmara and that groups across Canada were coming on board. He also detailed how CSIS officers had been harassing him about his involvement in this campaign, something he had immediately made public. We were then joined by Derrick O’Keefe from Stopwar about the local efforts to help support this people-to-people aid project.
Focus on Zionism:
Excerpts of a September 6th, 2010 report on the Electronic Intifada by Canadian free-lancer Eva Bartlett about the horrific conditions facing Palestinian families during Ramadan in eastern Gaza’s boundary zone.
Here is an audio file of this show: