Huwaida Arraf of the Free Gaza Movement and co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement discusses the situation in Gaza and the effort of international peace and justice activists to break the Israeli siege. Ranaan Gissin, former advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister, argues that Hamas is the party at fault. This program was produced by Inside Story for Al Jazeera English for August 24, 2008. For more information, visit: http://english.aljazeera.net http://freegaza.org http://palsolidarity.org

Huwaida Arraf of the Free Gaza Movement and co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement discusses the situation in Gaza and the effort of international peace and justice activists to break the Israeli siege. Ranaan Gissin, former advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister, argues that Hamas is the party at fault. This program was produced by Inside Story for Al Jazeera English for August 24, 2008. For more information, visit: http://english.aljazeera.net http://freegaza.org http://palsolidarity.org

Israeli military forces invade West Bank cities and kidnap 16 civilians, meanwhile Egypt promises Gaza border crossing reopened before Ramadan, these stories and more in today's update. This program was produced by the International Middle East Media Center. For more information, visit: http://imemc.org

Podcasting the Occupation of Palestine

On Monday, the 26th of May, 2008, Akiva Orr spoke at the offices of the Alternative Information Center in West Jerusalem. Akiva was born in Berlin in 1931 and immigrated to Palestine with his family in 1934, growing up in Tel Aviv. He served in the Israeli Navy in 1948 and after the war studied mathematics and physics at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In the early 1950s, Akiva became critical of Zionism, joining the Israeli Communist Party in 1953. However, in 1962, he broke from the party and jointly founded the anti-Zionist Israeli organization Matzpen. He has written several books including "The Un-Jewish State: The Politics of Jewish Identity in Israel," "The Other Israel: The Radical Case Against Zionism," and the "Direct Democracy Manifesto." This program was produced by the Alternative Information Center for June 11, 2008. For more information, visit: http://alternative news.org http://akiorrbooks.org

Podcasting the Occupation of Palestine

Phyllis Bennis: "There were negotiations going on between Israelis and Palestinians back in 2000, then-prime minister Barak, Ehud Barak, offered to the Palestinians, who of course were demanding, appropriately, that their capital of their Palestinian state should be in the Palestinian city of East Jerusalem. And instead, Barak said, of course, we can't allow that to happen, but we'll let you have your capital in Abu Dis. We'll even let you call it Al-Quds, which is Arabic for Jerusalem." This program was produced by The Real News for August 2, 2008. For more information, visit: http://therealnews.com The End of History: With a Period, Not a Question Mark - The Nation http://www.ips-dc.org/

This week on Crossing The Line: An Israeli court found no evidence that soldiers acted improperly in the killing of a Reuters cameraman, wersquo;ll hear from Palestinian journalist Rami Almeghari about the ruling, reactions too it, and doing journalism while under siege. Also this week, Palestinian, Israeli and International peace activists have set sail on two boats for the Gaza coast. Israel has stated that it is within its right to use force if necessary against the activists, wersquo;ll speak with one of the participants ndash; Paul Larudee -- as the boats steam towards Gaza. And finally a commentary by Mumia Abu-Jamal regarding the conflict between Russia and Georgia, all thatrsquo;s coming up stay tuned, but first the news from Palestine. This program was produced by Crossing The Line for August 22, 2008. For more information, visit: http://ctl.libsyn.com http://freegaza.org http://ramiofgaza.wordpress.com

Two converted fishing boats set sail from Cyprus today carrying more than forty activists and humanitarian workers who are part of the Free Gaza movement that is trying to break the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip. The Israeli foreign ministry said in an open letter to the participants, "We assume that your intentions are good but, in fact, the result of your action is that you are supporting the regime of a terrorist organization in Gaza." We speak with three of the activists at sea: Huwaida Arraf, co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement; Lauren Booth, a journalist and sister-in-law of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair; and Israeli anthropology professor Jeff Halper of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. This program was produced by Democracy Now! for August 22, 2008. For more information, visit: http://democracynow.org http://freegaza.org http://icahdusa.org

The Free Gaza Movement has set sail from Cyprus on their way to Gaza. Reports vary as to whether the Israeli government will allow the two boats, the S.S. Free Gaza and the S.S. Liberty, to pass through the naval blockade and reach the Gazan coast. The boats are sending out video updates periodically during their trip. This report was posted from the deck of the S.S. Liberty (named after the U.S.S. Liberty which was fired upon by Israel during the 1967 war killing scores of American crewman) at 7pm GMT on August 22, 2008. For more information and to donate to the Free Gaza Movement, visit: http://freegaza.org