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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.
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 funds and controversy over plans to address it. Dalal Yassine, a lawyer and advocate for Palestinian refugees who has written about UNRWA’s, addresses the economic and political threat to UNRWA, with Israel and the United States seeking to deprive UNRWA of funds and limit the number of refugees it serves as a way to affect the right of return for Palestinian refugees.
