Our main feature this week is a talk by Max Blumenthal, author most recently of The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza. Blumenthal was actually in Gaza during that "war" (actually a brutal one-sided attack by Israel with U.S. support).
One year ago today, Israel invaded, bombed and shelled Gaza, and continued to do that for the next seven weeks. According to the U.N., at least 2,104 Gazans were killed â 1,462 of whom (69 percent) were civilians, including 495 children. A total of 6 Israeli civilians, and 66 soldiers, were killed. The shockingly high civilian death rate in Gaza included the now-iconic imagery of four young boys from the same family being killed by Israeli warships while they played on a beach in front of a hotel filled with foreign journalists.
But first, we read an article by our colleague Samer Jaber, reporting on our courts' outrageous treatment of Rasmea Odeh. She was sentenced to prison for allegedly falsifying a U.S. citizenship application. She had been tortured and imprisoned by Israel forces, reporting honestly on her application that she had never been imprisoned for a crime she committed. The judge in her case wouldn't allow the real story into evidence, adding to her sentence for trying to do so.
This Week In Palestine (a weekly part of Truth and Justice Radio) is an award-winning three-quarter-hour segment of news from Palestine and discussion of issues relevant to the Palestinians' struggle for freedom from Israel's brutal military occupation and colonization of their homeland. It speaks from the point of view of Palestinians and those who care about them. It's a regular part of Truth and Justice Radio, aired Sundays 6-10am ET on WZBC 90.3FM, Newton, MA, streaming and archived for two weeks at wzbc.org; TJR's website, truthandjusticeradio.org, has a link to This Week In Palestine archives back thru 1-6-2008; earlier editions are obtainable from radio4all.net or by navigating through our playlists. (At this important time, TJR has been airing a lot of Palestine coverage IN ADDITION to that provided by This Week In Palestine.) We hope you'll write to us at tjr@bluebottle.com if you rebroadcast our work, or have questions or comments.
This Week In Palestine 9-20-2015
Max Blumenthal, who was inside Gaza during Israel's attack
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