News Highlights:
- Recent reports stated that in one week at the beginning of March, Israeli forces killed 5 Palestinians and injured 47 more, as well as engaging in collective punishment and other human rights violations.
- New Palestinian unity government may be announced soon, as Hamas and Fateh officials meet to resolve final issues.
- Several Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, criticize Israel for setting preconditions to any Middle East peace talks and urge Israel to accept the “2002 Arab initiative”.
- Palestinian MP is rearrested after just being released by Israel last month from “administrative detention”, which is imprisonment without charge or trial.
- New reports say Israel was preparing for an aggression into Lebanon long before two Israeli soldiers were captured last July; information is based on testimony by Israeli PM.
Feature:
Highlights of a speech by Adam Haniyeh, from the Coalition against Israeli Apartheid, who was in Vancouver from Toronto and addressed a public meeting on March 11th. Adam’s speech was on the issue of “Challenging Apartheid in the Middle East” and he talked movingly about the harsh and discriminatory conditions Palestinians face in their daily lives. He also detailed some of the campaigns underway in Canada, especially in the labour movement and the boycott against Chapters/Indigo.
Focus on Zionism:
Excerpts of a March 9th, 2007 dispatch from the Christian Peacemakers Team in Hebron/AlKhalil, that documented Israeli military and settler harassment of a 73-year-old Palestinian shepherd.
Here is an audio file of this show: