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Oct 23
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News Highlights: Oct. 21st – surgery rooms in Gazan hospitals are closed due to lack of anaesthetic as a result of Israeli restrictions; Palestinian human rights groups call on international community to pressure Israel to allow medicine and medical supplies into Gaza. Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails go on one-day hunger strike after Israeli authorities …
Oct 16
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This show includes an interview with American activist and author Lenni Brenner about the new petition campaign calling on the U.S. government to stop selling weapons to both Israel and Saudi Arabia. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_Oct16_2007_8kbps.mp3 (8 kbps encoding, ~3.5MB) VOP_Oct16_2007_16kbps.mp3 (16 kbps …
Oct 16
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News Highlights: Israeli soldiers kill two Palestinians, including a 70-year-old man, in Nablus. U.N. official, John Dugard, says the UN should pull out of the Quartet if the group doesn’t start to take Palestinian human rights seriously; this is the second high-ranking UN official to take this position. Israeli settlers attack Palestinian farmer as the …
Oct 09
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This show includes an in-studio discussion about the diplomatic maneuvers currently happening in advance of the U.S. sponsored summit next month. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_Oct09_2007_8kbps.mp3 (8 kbps encoding, ~3.5MB) VOP_Oct09_2007_16kbps.mp3 (16 kbps encoding, ~7.0MB)
Oct 09
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News Highlights: Israel will expropriate more Palestinian land near East Jerusalem, from four Palestinian villages; experts say the move advances Israel’s plan to join Jerusalem with the settlement of Maaleh Adumim, effectively cutting the West Bank into two and severing the northern and southern regions. Israeli forces overrun Al Bureij refugee camp in Gaza; earlier, …
Oct 02
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This show includes an interview with Mustafa Habib, the coordinator for Marcel Khalife’s North American concert tour. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_Oct02_2007_8kbps.mp3 (8 kbps encoding, ~3.5MB) VOP_Oct02_2007_16kbps.mp3 (16 kbps encoding, ~7.0MB)
Oct 02
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News Highlights: Israel releases 29 Palestinian prisoners from Gaza, a day after releasing 57 from the West Bank; Israeli soldiers shoot and wound a teen and a Reuters photographer when they fire at the crowd waiting to greet the released detainees. New report shows that Israel has changed the route of its apartheid wall to …
Sep 25
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News Highlights: U.N. leader warns Israel that its decision to declare all of Gaza as an “enemy entity” and cut off vital utility supplies violates international law; the Israeli move is backed by the U.S. and was announced just hours following a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Rice. Palestinian prisoners group says Israel has …
Sep 25
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Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_Sept25_2007_8kbps.mp3 (8 kbps encoding, ~3.5MB) VOP_Sept25_2007_16kbps.mp3 (16 kbps encoding, ~7.0MB)
Sep 18
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This show includes a live interview with Professor Joel Kovel from New York, who was coming to Vancouver to make two presentations, one entitled “Overcoming Zionism”. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_Sept18_2007_8kbps.mp3 (8 kbps encoding, ~3.5MB) VOP_Sept18_2007_16kbps.mp3 (16 kbps encoding, ~7.0MB)