Podcast - Understanding Israel Palestine

The show is hosted by Citizens for Justice in the Middle East, a local group that has advocated for 20 years for a fair and even-handed U.S. foreign policy that recognizes the rights of both Palestinians and Israelis. Our program offers interviews with journalists, scholars, policy experts and activists to offer multiple perspectives, and to clarify the underlying issues that are often obscured by headline news.

Medical Missions in Gaza: On the Ground Experiences

Margot Patterson concludes last week's conversation with Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson about the U.S.-Israeli relationship. Wilkerson  was chief of staff to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and now teaches government and public policy at the College of Willliam and Mary. She then speaks to Dr. Majdi Hamarshi, a Kansas City...

We All Live in Gaza: Reporting from the Rubble

Documentary filmmaker Maurice Jacobsen speaks about his efforts to tell Gaza's stories amid the carnage and destruction of Israel's onslaught. Maurice works with a team of Gazan filmmakers called the Gaza Media Group who have been documenting the last several months of war despite much of their equipment being destroyed....

US. Militarism Raises Risk of Wider Mideast War

Co-host Margot Patterson talks with Phyllis Bennis, a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC, where she directs the New Internationalism Project, focused on U.S. mllitarism, tthe Middle East, and the United Nations. Bennis discusses how the United States is fanning tensions in the Middle East and...