FLASHPOINTS: LA 8 and Rainbow groceries and the boycott of Israel

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00:05 Robert Knight and the Knight Report.. Robert: More resistance to occupation troops in Chechnya and Iraq...a failed coup attempt in Liberia...more turmoil in Zimbabwe.
-05:50 Dennis: The open secret of Israel's stockpile of nuclear weapons, its apartheid practices, the killing of UN workers and violations of UN resolutions sheds light on a glaring disparity between US rhetoric and actions to the rest of the world. While the US has failed to uncover a single Weapon of Mass Destruction, while it controls, runs and surveils a post-Saddam Iraq, it continues to refuse to acknowledge the existance of Israel's nuclear arsenal...We'll be speaking with Felice Cohen-Joppa, the coordinator for the Campaign to Free Mordechai Vanunu. Vanunu first exposed Israel's nuclear program back in 1986. He was then kidnapped by the Israeli intellignece and then imprisoned. He's been in solitary confinement almost ever since...Felice, Welcome to Flashpoints...First of all, remind people who is Mordechai Vanunu, and how did he end up for almost 18 years in the Israeli clink? FELICE: Mordechai Vanunu did a very courageous thing...(INTERVIEW CONTINUED) Website: http://www.nonviolence.org/vanunu
-17:45 Dennis: Today, around the world, is an International Action Day for Palestine. Palestinians and their supporters have declared today, June 5, 36 years after Israeli re-occupied Palestine, a day of protest against the ongoing Israeli occupation. Today on Flashpoints, we'll consider the Israeli occupation in the context of an illegal colonization like that of the former apartheid South Africa. Oftentimes, the story of this illegal occupation gets turned into a religious war, or holy war, but at its heart, occupation is about stealing land and resources and ethnically cleansing the Palestinians from their original homeland...Here to talk about this is Michel Shehadeh, community activist from LA and Emily Katz-Kishawi of the Committee for Justice in Palestine, working on the US BOYCOTT OF ISRAELI PRODUCTS...(INTERVIEW CONTINUES)
-37:30 MUSIC BREAK
-39:25 Dennis:In conjunction with International Action Day in Palestine, the Middle East Children's Alliance (MECA) has erected a copy of Israel's new apartheid wall outside of their offices in Berkeley...Joining us to talk about the wall and the brutalities of living under Israeli occupation are Uda Walker and Barbara Lubin of MECA, and also joining the discussion is Rashad and Ahmed, two Palestinian youth from Dahatia Refugee Camp on the West Bank of occupied Palestine...UDA: The wall is being built as a separation wall to keep Palestinians and Israelis separate; but what it is in actuality and on the ground is a 25-foot high, 500-mile long wall that will indeed separate the Israelis from the Palestinians, but it's being built on Palestinian territory...(DISCUSSION CONTINUED...PLEASE LISTEN, ESPECIALLY TO THE TWO PALESTINIAN YOUTH -- ELOQUENT AND COURAGEOUS). MECA phone number: (510)548-0542.