News Highlights:
- Israeli undercover police beat four Palestinian boys from Beit Surik who were participating in protest against the apartheid wall.
- Jordanian foreign minister meets with Israeli officials, including Ariel Sharon, and establishes joint economic committee; Egypt and Jordan have just sent new ambassadors.
- Israeli attorney Talia Sasson to release report on Israeli outposts, saying there were “blatant violations of law” as government funded and supported the illegal outposts.
Feature:
An interview with UBC Professor of Geography Derek Gregory about his visit
to Ramallah and his analysis on the “war on terror” and Arab cities under
occupation. Prof. Gregory had just given a lecture in Vancouver the night
before, and he spoke with us about Palestine, Iraq and how the public here
are given certain negative cultural images about peoples in the rest of the
world.
Focus on Zionism:
Excerpts of an article from the March 7th Jerusalem Post about Ontario police chiefs visiting Israel at the behest of the Canadian Jewish Congress. One deputy chief said – “Israelis are heroes”; and the Post stated that the
police chiefs felt every western country had to become “a little bit
Israeli”.
Here is an audio file of this show: