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Jul 13
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This show includes an interview with the new president of the Canadian Arab Federation, Omar AlGhabra, about the activities of CAF, especially its recent press release on the apartheid wall. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_July13_2004_8kbps.mp3 (8 kbps encoding, ~3.5MB)
Jul 13
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News Highlights: July 12th – an elderly disabled Palestinian man crushed to death when Israeli troops demolish his home on top of him in Gaza. U.S. and Israeli officials begin talks on defining boundaries in the West Bank within which Israel can continue settlement expansion; U.S. says Palestinian state in 2005 “increasingly unlikely”. July 12th …
Jul 06
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This show includes a special Eyewitness Palestine in a series about the apartheid wall and its impact on Palestinian daily life in the West Bank. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_July6_2004_8kbps.mp3 (8 kbps encoding, ~3.5MB)
Jul 06
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News Highlights: July 6th – Israeli forces in Nablus kill a respected Palestinian academic and his son during a military raid near a refugee camp. July 6th – Israeli High Court issues temporary injunction to halt work on one section of the apartheid wall near Azzawiya; protests continue by villagers and internationals as Azzawiya will …
Jun 29
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This show includes a live interview with Sid Shniad from Stopwar.ca about the recent sham U.S. “handover of power” in Iraq, conducted in secret two days in advance to the announced date. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_June29_2004_8kbps.mp3 (8 kbps encoding, ~3.5MB)
Jun 29
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News Highlights: Israeli troops take over part of northern Gaza Strip today; preparing for “a prolonged operation” according to Israeli officials. Israeli incursion into civilian areas follows attack by Palestinian resistance on Israeli military base June 28th, in which at least one Israeli soldier was killed. Two Palestinians shot dead in Gaza on June 28th, …
Jun 22
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This show includes an in studio discussion about the trends developing in the Arab and Moslem Canadian community leading up to the federal elections. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_June22_2004_8kbps.mp3 (8 kbps encoding, ~3.5MB)
Jun 22
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News Highlights: June 22nd – Israeli forces demolish a house in Jerusalem to make way for construction of the apartheid wall; 47 Palestinian homes demolished so far just in Jerusalem in 2004. June 22nd – Israeli soldiers teargas and interrogate scores of students at Al Quds Open University in Yatta. Two 15-year-old Palestinian girls arrested …
Jun 15
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This show includes another in the series of Eyewitness Palestine reports on the apartheid wall; this one consisting of two reports, one a personal testimony of a Palestinian villager and the second a commentary by Israeli peace activist Uri Avnery. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: …
Jun 15
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News Highlights: June 14th – Israel starts to annex 150 km in the northern Western Bank for further construction of the apartheid wall, and plans a new settlement south of Jerusalem. Despite “promises” to the U.S., Israel is proceeding with the wall east of the large settlement of Ariel. Israel is also considering building thousands …