Podcast - Understanding Israel Palestine Archives • Page 10 of 18 • KKFI

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.

A Zionist and non-Zionist have a conversation

We listen to a conversation between two men: Alan Edelman, a Zionist and longtime Kansas City Jewish professional, and Alex McDonald, a Quaker and non-Zionist who began twenty years ago to study the history of Israel/Palestine and many unresolved issues in Israel/Palestine today. They offer differing narratives about Palestinian refugees...

09/12/2022

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Closure of Palestinian NGOS Poses “Existential Threat”

Omar Shakir, Israel-Palestine director of Human Rights Watch, discusses Israel's Aug. 18 closure of seven leading Palestinian human rights organizations and the threat this poses to Palestinian human rights and to Palestinian civil society in general. The shuttering of these organizations follows Israel's charge in October, 2021, that six of...

09/04/2022

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Breaking the Silence – a dramatization

An offstage Voice begins the play It's What We Do by Pam Nice, prompting each of three Israeli soldiers to tell their stories of military actions in the occupied territories, actions they personally witnessed and participated in, actions that changed them immensely. Inspired to write her play, It’s What We...

08/26/2022

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Israel’s Assault on Islamic Jihad; Troubles at UNRWA

Khaled Elgindy, director of the Program on Palestine and israeli-Palestinian Affairs at the Middle East Institute, explains Israel's three-day assult on Islamic Jihad in August. William Deere, acting director of the U.S. office of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), discusses the agency's shortfall in...

08/19/2022

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A “Poisonous” U.S.-Israeli Relationship

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson was chief of staff to General Colin Powell when Powell was Secretary of State from 2001-2005. Wilkerson offers his insider perspective on the U.S.-Israeli "special relationship," which he says has left Israel feeling immune from investigation, prosecution or accountability for any crimes it commits. The U.S. accedes...

08/07/2022

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Tuwani woman’s story of the village women organizing to get electricity

Keifah Addera tells her story from Tuwani, how she helped organize the women in Tuwani to realize some amazing accomplishments: sending young women to university and bringing electricity to the village. Tuwani is one of many small villages in Masafer Yatta where olive growers and sheep herders have been beseiged...

08/02/2022

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Assessing President Biden’s Visit to the Middle East

Juan Cole, a professor of history at the University of Michigan and editor-in-chief of Informed Comment, a weblog about politics and foreign policy, discusses the significance of President Biden's recent trip to the Middle East. Cole is a non-resident fellow at Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), a non-profit...

07/22/2022

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A Divided House: The Split between Fatah and Hamas

Khaled Elgindy, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute who directs its program on Palestine and Israeli-Palestinian Affairs, discusses the internal and external factors that created the split in the Palestinian government after Hamas won Palestinian legislative elections in 2006. The United States and Israel would not accept the...

07/16/2022

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