News Highlights:
- Israeli government allows more settlement construction, drawing international criticism including from the U.N. and the EU.
- Israeli army carries out large-scale invasion of Nablus area, and abducts 20 Palestinians from the surrounding refugee camps.
- Palestinian leader and former PA cabinet minister says Mahmoud Abbas’ decision to resume negotiations with Israel is “wrong” unless the Israeli government meets certain conditions, including stopping attacks and ending the siege on Gaza.
- Britain bans Israeli Likud leader Moshe Feiglin from entering the country due to his “fostering hatred”; Feiglin is about to come to Canada for a speaking engagement and groups here have called on the Canadian government to follow Britain’s example.
Feature:
A conversation with indigenous writer and activist Lee Maracle, in the second of our shows honouring International Womens Day. Lee spoke about how she had always felt close to the Palestinian people and their struggle and mentioned past solidarity actions that she and her children had participated in. She also emphasized how indigenous women were on the frontlines of struggles here, particularly in the Six Nations land claims, and there was discussion of how women around the world are targeted by imperial powers and often carry the heaviest burden, usually silently.
Focus on Zionism:
Excerpts of a statement released at an Ottawa press conference on March 9th, 2008 by the Alliance of Concerned Jewish Canadians, denouncing the Israeli government’s war crimes and atrocities against the Palestinian people, especially in Gaza.
Here is an audio file of this show: