News Highlights:
- Israeli authorities demolish more Palestinian homes in the Jordan Valley.
- More Muslim graves are destroyed in the Maman Allah cemetery in West Jerusalem by Israeli bulldozers, for the 3rd time in just over a week.
- The weekly anti-wall protest in the Bethlehem area also marks the anniversary of the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- Israel threatens to pull out of the U.N. probe into its deadly raid on the Gaza flotilla if the panel insists on questioning any of its soldiers.
Feature:
A special cultural presentation, marking both the second anniversary of the passing of the great Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish and also the 34th commemoration of the fall of Tel Zaatar Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut. We presented Darwish’s famous poem, Ahmad Zaatar, written specifically in dedication to the refugee camp, recited on tape by the poet himself. We also had the English translation, as well as two interpretations of the poem set to music first by Marcel Khalife and then Khalid El-Haber.
Focus on Zionism:
Excerpts of a August 9th, 2010 article about “eco-resistance” in the occupied West Bank, the reality of Palestinian communities there squeezed by settlements and occupation.
Here is an audio file of this show: