Flashpoints Feb 24, 2003: Kristen Schurr in Gaza; Pilger's "Palestine is Still the Is : Indybay

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2/19 Anne Gwynne Shot In Nablus Rampage
2/20 Anne Eyewitness To Home Demolitions
2/21 Anne Witnesses Execution of 10 Year Old
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Monday, Feb 24, 2003

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-00:00 Dennis Bernstein: introduction: ISM member Kristen Schurr in Gaza City, about the killing of 3 dozen Palestinians and the demolition of hundreds of homes in the last week.. and excerpts from John Pilger's documentary, Palestine is still the Issue..
-00:44 Robert Knight and the Knight Report.. Robert:

dueling resolutions and a showdown at the UN.. audio of UN ambassador John Negroponte.. British ambassador circulates new resolution.. Powell says US ready to go to war in three weeks.. France submits its own resolution, a resolution for peace.. for tri-weekly inspection reports.. Non-Aligned nations protest US 'war to dominate the world'.. FARC captures three CIA agents.. in the Philippines, US in combat
-04:56 Dennis: in Gaza hundreds of

home demolitions in the last weeks.. dozens of Palestinians killed.. "Kristen

now with Flashpoints special correspondent and member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM).. note that her cell phone is being jammed by the Israeli colonizers.. Kristen: everyday there are more people killed (EI report).. 8 killed yesterday, the day before even more.. the bodies are so charred, hard to count the bodies accurately..

shelling from an illegal Israeli settlement.. the military regularly coming into Gaza City.. attacking with Apache homicide helicopters.. no place for the people to hide.. some try to resist.. the death toll horrifying, the people entrapped.. Dennis: we hear the UN is having a hard time feeding the children?.. Kristen: the UN pulling out of certain areas, too.. in Rafah, in the very south,

the UN come in after the people are killed, after the homes are destroyed.. I've seen whole families wandering the street with one small box labeled UN.. if the Israelis were abiding by UN resolutions this wouldn't happen.. Israel needs to be held accountable.. homes demolished, 1700 in Rafah alone.. normally when people are killed, their homes are taken, and Israel takes the land, bulldozes the houses flat, so they can say later that nobody lives there.. the people will eventually die, no food, no shelter.. Dennis: the Israelis

>say they are firing only at combatants.. Kristen: they are firing at kids, at schools, at ambulances, at all infastructure.. everyone has the right to defend themselves against invading military.. these people are defenseless.. it is amazing that Israel gets away with saying these things.. Dennis: none of this information is getting out, the progressive media is dropping the ball..
-13:40 "John

Dennis: now excerpts from the new documentary, Palestine Is Still The Issue, by award winning journalist, John Pilger.. "Occupation has become the cancer that is eating the lives of poor people.. a huge lot of the Israeli society thinks that any critism of its policy is anti-Semitism.. the Israeli mothers should come and see what their children are doing here.. " [more excerpts from the documentary, including Pilger's introduction, and his tour of the Cultural Ministry, where Israel troops vandalized children's art, and defecated everywhere inside, even inside the photocopier.. 'the terrorism of the Israeli state']..
-29:29 this is a Pacifia Network pledge drive period, make a donation today.. premiums include Pilger's new documentary, Palestine is Still the Issue.. call 510-848-5732 or 800-439-5732..
-xx:xx Dennis: wrapup: see Greg Palast at the First Congregational Church, Berkeley, Feb 26, 7PM, $15 tickets, no one turned away, wheelchair accessable.. more info call 510-548-0542.
-xx:xx End today's show. today's review by john lionheart

Friday, Feb 21, 2003 - Start Audio

-00:00 Dennis Bernstein: introduction: Anne Gwynne in Nablus, eyewitness to execution yesterday of a ten year old boy, and the death of his father.. Native American scholar, Ward Churchill, on the history of US use of chemical and biological weapons against Indians.. more of Edward Said's recent lecture at UC Berkeley..
-00:42 Dennis:

more phone messages last night from Anne Gwynn member of ISM in Nablus.. ANNE GWYNN'S EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE EXECUTION OF A TEN YEAR OLD BOY IN NABLUS BY AN ISRAELI SNIPER
-00:42 beseiged city of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank.. 3:23AM Anne: another day of terror here.. we had to run.. a tank.. Druze.. enormous amount of shooting.. demolished more houeses.. three jeeps surround our ambulance.. 3:27 This is the sound of two tank two feet from us.. the tank cannon pointed directly at us.. followed by two hummers.. .. here a peaceful city square.. they just torched a car.. the sound of children throwing small stones at a jeep.. 3:33: yet more tanks, more hummers, more armored cars.. this is terrorism gone mad.. now they have started shooting, someone else calling for an ambulance.. none left.. just children here throwing stones.. just one side attacking, totally unarmed people.. an APC approaching down the sidewalk, no way we can get away from them, especially when you see the Druze.. killer carriers.. three jeeps, two APCs.. unbelievable.. I don't know how many tax dollars we are being menaced with.. later: we are trying to escort three people home.. they are really menacing us now.. the gun swivel.. 3:54am: the tank up opposite, swiveled its 80mm cannon at us, 20 feet away.. it is very very scarey.. now the APC come back, rifles.. 3:58am: we are a small group of people standing on the corner with our hands up.. being menaced by rifles.. terrorism inflicted daily on the people of Nablus.. now w Anne.. all of us in Nablus are not doing well.. although the Israelis left for a couple hours today.. home demolitions continue.. Dennis: an ongoing onslaught, correct?.. Anne: yes, since Sunday, except for one small break.. I heard the Israeli commander address arrested people in a school (what he said to them).. about the father and son walking holding hands.. the child was shot, the father not shot, but as he leaned over his child he had a massive heart attack, and fell over his child.. they refused to let us pick up the bodies until ten oclock this morning.. a ten year old boy.. IT IS JUST TOO MUCH, TOO MUCH.. HOW MUCH MORE OF THIS TERROR CAN WE TAKE?.. the ambulance driver has been working everyday for two months.. takes 70 people or corpses to the hospital every day.. Dennis: why did you get involved?.. Anne: I found KPFA and got involved with Palestine.. I am in the most determined city in the whole West Bank.. the freedom fighters here have only old rifles.. no match for armored weapons.. but the fighters all left Sunday, and the last six days the Israelis have been attacking children.. the name of the ten year old who was killed was Akmed.. the hospital full of wounded people, no one complaints, not the doctors or the wounded.. almost unimaginable, their strength.. (also see this: Pal.Chron article by Gwynne)
-16:10 Dennis:

Native American professor and activist, Ward Churchill speaks out on the suffering of Native Americans from US historical use of weapons of mass destruction, including chemical and biological weapons.. how the US is the biggest roque state in the world and the biggest supporter of international terrorism..
-26:50 Dennis:

hear more of Edward Said's address to UC Berkeley on Feb 19, 2003.. [end today's review]
-33:00 Dennis: this is a Pacifia Network pledge drive period, make a donation today.. call 510-848-5732 or 800-439-5732..
-xx:xx Dennis: wrapup: see Greg Palast at the First Congregational Church, Berkeley, Feb 26, 7PM, $15 tickets, no one turned away, wheelchair accessable.. more info call 510-548-0542.
-xx:xx End today's show. today's review by john lionheart

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