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Jun 05
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News Highlights: Amnesty Int’l. says Israel’s separation wall should be torn down and it has caused death and suffering for Palestinians. Bethlehem residents protest at an Israeli checkpoint, as part of a week of activities to mark the 40th anniversary of Israel’s occupation of Arab lands. Israel sends ground troops and tanks about a kilometre …
May 22
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This show includes an instudio discussion featuring analysis about the internal Palestinian clashes in Gaza, the latest Israeli attacks on Gaza and the developing crisis in the Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_May22_2007_8kbps.mp3 (8 kbps encoding, ~3.5MB) VOP_May22_2007_16kbps.mp3 (16 kbps …
May 22
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News Highlights: May 21st – Israeli forces have killed 36 Palestinians, including 18 civilians in six days of aerial attacks; Palestinian Centre for Human Rights exposes Israeli policy of retaliations against the Palestinian civilian population. Israeli cabinet decides to “intensify its operations” in Gaza, just hours before its assassination attempt on a Palestinian MP that …
May 15
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This show includes an interview with Dr. Ismail Zayid, a Palestinian Canadian scholar and activist from Halifax, about the 59th commemoration of AlNakba, the dispossession of the Palestinian people. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_May15_2007_8kbps.mp3 (8 kbps encoding, ~3.5MB) VOP_May15_2007_16kbps.mp3 (16 kbps encoding, ~7.0MB)
May 15
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News Highlights: 20 Palestinians have died in Gaza in 3 days, most of them in factional clashes, as Palestinian Interior Minister resigns. 13 Palestinians killed on May 15 alone, as the clashes escalate and Israel briefly opens the Rafah crossing to allow 450 Presidential Guard members into Gaza. International Cmte. of the Red Cross, in …
May 08
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This show includes a special Eyewitness Palestine, with excerpts of the article by well-known Israeli journalist Gideon Levy about the brutal killing of a Palestinian teenage girl in Jenin refugee camp by an Israeli sniper, Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_May08_2007_8kbps.mp3 (8 kbps encoding, ~3.5MB) …
May 08
This week …
News Highlights: Israeli human rights groups confirm that Palestinian detainees are tortured by Israel, in defiance of rulings by the Israeli Supreme Court. Israeli soldiers are smashing down doors to homes and harassing school children in the Qalqiya area, all without making any arrests. S. African cabinet minister, Ronnie Kasrils, himself Jewish, denounces critics of …
May 01
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This show includes highlighta of the music of famous Egyptian nationalist singer Abdul Halim Hafez. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_May01_2007_8kbps.mp3 (8 kbps encoding, ~3.5MB) VOP_May01_2007_16kbps.mp3 (16 kbps encoding, ~7.0MB)
May 01
This week …
News Highlights: Thousands protest in Nazareth in support of Azmi Bishara, the Israeli Palestinian political leader and former Knesset member being persecuted by the Israeli establishment. Israel seizes more Palestinian land near Jericho to build the separation wall. A recent UN report shows that the humanitarian situation in the occupied Palestinian territories is deteriorating rapidly; …