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Understanding Israel Palestine
This show is inspired 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.
Is Israel a nation founded on the Jewish religion or is it a secular state that is home to Jews, with non-Jewish minorities? Without a constitution ambiguities remain and questions increasingly polarize the Jewish Israeli public. Jewish Israelis who have for months been protesting the possible gutting of the judicial system are primarily self-identified liberal, secular, educated and middle-class. They have not just shunned questions about the occupation, they have forbidden any mention of the occupation. In consequence, Palestinian citizens of Israel have mostly declined to join the movement as it has overlooked them entirely. Some commentators have questioned the continued stability of the state.
