Flashpoints Radio July 31: Israel kills, Goldblatt speaks, US Dept of Peace?

Tuesday, July 31, 2001 - Start Audio
-00:00 Dennis Bernstein: Israel kills over a dozen Palestinians in the last 24 hours, including two young brothers, 8 and 10 years old, brothers of surname Salim.. w Shirabi, a representative of Middle East Childrens Alliance: people are very very upset.. crying, angry, afraid of what will happen.. demonstrations broke out spontaneously.. we marched from Dehaisheh refugee camp to Jerusalem.. now there is a lot of shelling and shooting, helicoptors.. in Beit Jala, everybody has been evacuated.. small children are really frightened.. a 13-yr old girl today told Shirabi, \"We don\'t cry anymore\".. childhood denied.. Shirabi: I don\'t know what to tell them anymore. Now w Hussein Ibish of the American Anti-Arab Discrimination Committtee.. \"This is an act of murder.\" Ariel Sharon a lot like Timothy McVeigh, only kills Palestinians, not Americans (yet, that we know of).. If the situation was reversed, how do you think the media would portray it? Israel adhering to a ceasefire? ..No way.. This attack conducted by two helicoptors, paid for by YOU, the US taxpayer.. US/We have a direct responsibility for this state terrorist attack.. Dennis: this is called the \'policy of restraint\'.. Israel is recruiting soldiers around the world now to go kill Palestinians.. Ibish: most of the US media knows better.. This whole set of Israeli provocations over the last five days.. Israel wanting an excuse for an all out attack on the PLO and the peace process.. What does Israel really think is going to be the Palestinian response to their attacks over the last five days.. somebody, sooner or later, is going to suicide bomb or something.. giving the Israeli\'s the excuse they \"need\" to launch a vicious attack on Palestinian civilians, to continue their illegal takeover of Palestine.. Sharabi: People are hopeful that the international community sends observers, will stop just standing by, not doing anything about Israeli greed, violence, insanity.. But people losing hope.. why is the international community doing nothing?.. but the kids still willing to throw stones.. people are frustrated with the PLO too.. need for neutral independent observers.. (But Israel will only accept observers who are agents of the CIA!- how \'neutral\' is that?).. Ibish: the Israelis don\'t want any third party to interfere with their oppression of Palestinians.. recent G-8 statement in favor of international observers means there are limits to Israeli cruelties, thank God.. the myth that Israel offered \"everything\" to the Palestinians.. Shirabi: we will probably see more violence.. i\'m pessimistic
-21:00 (technical problem audio joined in progress) with Terry Greenblatt of Bat Shalom speaking out at a recent Jewish Film Festival... (14 min)
-35:45 w US House representative Dennis J. Kucinich (link2): and his proposal for a US Department of Peace, and his recent bill put before the US House to reserve space for peaceful purposes only, to ban weapons in space.. Space should be \"weapons free\", apolitical, reserved for poetry and spirituality.. if we weaponize space.. US having hegemony over space.. We need to be the nation leading the way for peaceful use of space.. space the last place you want to put weapons.. If an apocolypse is coming.. it is from weapons in space.. House Bill: 2459. mo info: http://house.gov.kucinich
-52:24 End today\'s show.. today\'s review by john lionheart

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