AUDIO: Ali Abunimah on Israel's killing of 26 Palestinians in one week

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00:00 Robert Knight and the Knight Report.. Robert: Confrontation in southern Africa.. 17 dead 100, injured in Jerusalem when a Palestinian explodes on a bus in retaliation for an Israeli missile attack on Palestinian militants and civilians.. charges of treason in Zimbabwe.. Liberia beseiged president Charles Taylor.. Ghana is optimistic.. cholera and other diseases loom though..
-03:53 Dennis: while the US corportate media continue to tout Bush's Roadmap to Hell.. while demonizing every Palestinian.. now w Ali Abunemah of Electronic Intifada.. Ali: 26 people killed today and rising.. a second Israeli homicide helicopter attack in Gaza.. one of the lies the US media is pushing is that this spate of violence started with the killing of five Israeli soldiers last Sunday.. but the Israelis have been killing Palestinian civilians everyday for months.. the next day an Israeli army death squad.. home demolitions.. father injured by gunfire, and the home demolished.. on the day Israeli dismantled a couple empty mobile homes of settlers.. the same day Israel demolished 30 Palestinian homes.. Sharon panicked.. why he carried out the order to murder the Hamas leader.. now the horrible response.. Dennis: the Roadmap to Peace, really a Roadmap to War?.. Ali: the obligations on Israel ignored, a dead letter.. only the Palestinians now obligated by Bush to end violence.. the Roadmap more fair than what is being implemented.. Sharon gives himself license to kill all he wants.. Dennis: Bush played down Israeli violence.. Ali: on our website we examine the media role in playing along with downplaying the constant Israeli attacks.. for example the Chicago Tribune.. said there was no Israeli-Palestinian violence the day of the summit.. ignoring the attacks on Palestinians.. called the attack on the five soldiers the 'first violence since the Summit'.. what this does, repeats a pattern.. dozens of Pals killed, called a period of calm because no Israelis were killed.. conceals the enormous amount of violence the Israelis commit.. the media and Bush are.. pretending.,. turning things on their heads.. the great majority of violence is coming from the Israelis, when the exact opposite is true.. Dennis: all this orchestrated by Sharon.. Ali: his visit to the Temple Mount was calculated to provoke and it did.. about the dummy settlements.. one piece of good news.. a court in Belgium has ruled that the perpetrators of Sabra and Chatila can be tried.. Israeli families mourning the horrible crimes in Jerusalem today and many Palestinian families mourning as well..
-18:15 Dennis: now w NGO worker, Amani, in Gaza City.. Amani: since yesterday.. fire started.. fired on a house where three people were sitting eating their supper.. killed them.. today they killed another two guys in their car.. missiles hit a crowded area.. many injured, children.. all the people very very angry.. there was a march.. asking for freedom, asking for a state.. Dennis: Gaza has been under attack for months.. Amani: everyone is struggling to get rid of the occupation.. how to stop such mess.. to have proper and peaceful solution.. among the children.. this makes them ready to die.. to get a state.. of course we don't want to die.. but people are ready to give more.. about the suicide bombing today?.. no one likes to see anyone else die.. but if the Israelis continue killing Palestinians, I don't think the suicide bombing will stop.. what is going on now, will unify the Palestinians more..
-24:43 Dennis: now w Barbara Lubin of the Middle East Childrens Alliance, a good friend of Amani's.. Barbara: this is very upsetting to hear what is going on down there.. I remember being in her apartment, and seeing the missiles and bombs coming.. we were all hiding together in the center of the living room.. I am sad.. and sad about what is happenig in Jerusalem.. all on the hands of the Israeli and US government.. the sham of dismantling settlements.. nothing would make me happier than to see a true Roadmap to Peace.. this is yet another (phoney) peace plan.. always less and less land offered to the Palestinians.. unbelievable to see Sharon and Bush talk about peace, when we send billions of dollars of weapons to Israel.. the only thing we ask is for Israel to abide by all UN resolutions and international law.. Dennis: the majority of affected are children.. Barbara: 50% of Pals are under age 15.. no jobs.. little schooling.. the caloric needs of the kids.. widespread problems of hunger.. in the West Bank and Gaza.. a huge number of kids can't speak anymore.. have become silent.. then a kid sees his father humiliated, his mother shot in the head, his older brother taken away he doesn't know where.. I don't know what it takes for people here to get it.. CUT ALL AID TO ISRAEL, CUT ALL AID TO EVERY COUNTRY THAT DOESN'T ABIDE BY INTERNATIONAL LAW.. Dennis: KQED reports 4 times an hour about Israel soldiers who are killed while illegally occupying Palestinian land.. and ignoring the same soldiers killing Palestinian civilians 24/7.. Barbara: I am more concerned and saddened than I am angry.. US taxpayers must do something.. about the wall that Israeli is building to take even more Palestinian land.. Bush and Sharon are not even mentioning this wall.. the Palestine prison state.. we build a facsimile wall at 6th and Parker.. Israel is an apartheid state.. I support a boycott of Israeli products.. just like I supported the boycott of South African products.. Alice Walker and Maya Angelo.. this is not about Judaism, or being Jewish.. here in America, we believe in the separation of church and state.. Dennis: my uncle fought in the Supreme Court for the separation of church and state..
-41:00 Dennis: the massive Indonesia assault on Aceh.. enters the 4th week.. a US jounalist, Billy Nesson, fired upon by the military.. now w wife of Billy Nesson, Shadia Marbanche.. Shadia: I spoke to him on the phone.. he was trying to surrender to the military.. heard gunshots.. he told me he had to run.. the line went dead.. haven't heard from him since.. a very difficult situation on the ground.. he was there four weeks.. Dennis: Billy a well known journalist.. now w Indonesian activist Kurt Biddle.. Kurt: Billy has covered Indonesia for years.. for the Boston Globe and SF Chronicle, and Z Magazine.. foreign and domestic journalist increasingly coming under fire by Indonesia.. Indonesia sending out soldiers in uniform with press stickers on the window.. earlier today a mass grave uncovered with 17 bodies.. the Indonesian military out of control.. last week shot a German tourist and his wife.. killed him.. Shadia: I'm now in Singapore.. I am a journalist and translator.. I received a threat that the Indonesian police were going to arrest me.. I was working for the BBC.. reporting 7 civilians killed, 4 children.. that made the military mad, they were going to arrest me.. the number of schools burned is now 367.. systematically done for days now.. the Indonesian military has a license to kill.. think they have a right to kill.. Dennis: the Indonesians taking clues from the US.. 'embedded journalists'.. calling human rights activists 'terrorists'.. Shadia: one military man called me that they were following their guru, the US.. trying to paint as terrorists, the Free Aceh Movement.. Billy always wanted to go to Aceh and see what is really happening there.. on the ground.. he witnessed the atrocities.. Kurt: the US has been training the Indonesian military.. but they have killed two US citizens.. about the arms supplied by the US to Indonesia.. important for people to get involved.. the debate on Capitol Hill.. some want to get 'back in touch' with the Indonesia military.. mercenaries for Exxon-Mobil.. Shadia: I will stay put in southeast Asia for a few months.. Kurt: to help, call 510-559-7762 or visit us on the web at IndonesiaNetwork.org
-58:00 Dennis: wrapup