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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.
Twenty international aid organizations issued a public letter Jan. 29 protesting the decision of the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and more than a dozen other Western nations to suspend aid to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) following allegations that a dozen of UNRWA’s employees in Gaza are linked to Hamas’ attack on Israel Oct. 7. Scott Paul, associate director of peace and security at Oxfam America, talks about why aid groups are alarmed by the pause in funding to UNRWA, the main aid agency in Gaza offering services that Paul says are indispensable in the current crisis. Oxfam, Save the Children, the AFSC and other international aid organizations working in Gaza say cutting aid to UNRWA will have devastating effects on what is already a humanitarian catastrophe. The cuts in aid to UNRWA come on the heels of the World Court ordering Israel to take provisional measures to prevent genocide in Gaza. Margot Patterson talks to Chimène Keitner, an expert on international law and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Law at the University of California-Davis, about that ruling and its significance and impact.
