is a podcast of the Alternative Information Center (AIC). The AIC is a joint Palestinian-Israeli organization which prioritizes political advocacy, critical analysis and information sharing on the Palestinian and Israeli societies as well as on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
News from Within: Palestine/Israel is a podcast of the Alternative Information Center (AIC). The AIC is a joint Palestinian-Israeli organization which prioritizes political advocacy, critical analysis and information sharing on the Palestinian and Israeli societies as well as on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
News from Within: Palestine/Israel Podcast - Israel's Investigation of Azmi Bishara in Context
On Monday, 21 May 2007, we
spoke with Dr. Jamal Zahalka, Chairman of Balad, the National Democratic
Assembly Party, at his office in the Israeli Knesset in Jerusalem.
Dr. Zahalka, a Palestinian
citizen of Israel from Kfar
Kara in the Galilee, has been a Member of the
Knesset since 2003, becoming the head of Balad following the resignation of
Azmi Bishara in April of this year.
We talked with Dr. Zahalka
about the work of the Balad Party; the implications of recently published
political documents by leaders of the Israeli Arab community, which call for
the legal transformation of Israel into a State for all its citizens; the
Israeli establishment’s reaction to these demands; and the social and political
context of the current allegations and legal investigation against Azmi
Bishara, the former head of Balad, for espionage and money laundering.
News from Within: Palestine/Israel Podcast - Analysis of the Current Situation In the Gaza Strip
On the 18th
of May, 2007, I spoke with Nassar Ibrahim, Palestinian author, political
analyst and co-director of the Alternative
Information Center,
at his office in Beit Sahour. We discussed the current situation in the Gaza
Strip, ongoing Palestinian factional violence and its relation to the Israeli occupation
and international economic boycott, and practical actions that need to be taken
on both a local and international level to create a more secure and stable
situation in the region.
News from Within: Palestine/Israel Podcast - Israeli Economic Policies towards the Palestinians between 1967 and Today
The economic policies that Israel enforces,
control the lives of Palestinians in the territories occupied since 1967.
However, the power structure and the decision-making processes within Israel have
changed drastically in recent years.
The policies Israel implemented in the OPT have shifted
between centralization and de-centralization of power, between unification of the
economies of Israel
and the OPT and separation of the two. These policies were not decided by
Israeli officials autonomously–they were influenced by pressure
from above (i.e., the international community and its financial institutions)
and more importantly by pressure from below (i.e., the Palestinian Intifada).
What exactly are the economic
policies that sustain the occupation? Who came up with them? What are the
reasons underlying the recent changes in the Israeli political-economic policy?
How are all of these decisions affected by the economic needs of Israel?
On Tuesday, the 17th April, 2007 at the offices of the Alternative Information Center in Beit Sahour, AIC Economist Shir Hever discussed these issues in a lecture titled “Israeli Economic Policies towards the Palestinians between 1967 and Today”
News from Within: Palestine/Israel Podcast - Against Models and Solutions: Towards a Bi-National Thinking
In the present podcast, we bring you the last of our three part series, presenting
highlights from the international conference, Building a Future Together:
Alternatives to the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse, which took place in Bethlehem, on 2-3
December 2005. This lecture is from Dr. Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, titled Against
Models and Solutions: Towards a Bi-National Thinking. Dr. Raz-Krakotzkin is
a senior lecturer in Jewish History at Ben
Gurion University
of the Negev in Beersheva.
News from Within: Palestine/Israel Podcast - Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment Against Israel
In this podcast, we continue
presenting highlights from the International conference, Building a Future
Together: Alternatives to the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse, which took place
in Bethlehem, on
2-3 December 2005. Today, we bring you a lecture by Dr. Majed Nassar, titled Boycott,
Sanctions and Divestment Against Israel. Dr Nassar is Executive Director of the
Palestinian Health Work Committees and is member of the Board of Directors of
the Alternative Information Center
(AIC).
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