{"id":2661,"date":"2008-05-06T09:31:03","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T16:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=2661"},"modified":"2008-05-06T09:42:23","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T16:42:23","slug":"life-in-occupied-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2008\/05\/06\/life-in-occupied-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Life in Occupied Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-050508_936\/2008_05_06_baltzer.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-050508_936\/2008_05_06_uprising.MP3\">  the entire program<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"http:\/\/www.annainthemiddleeast.com\/albums\/checkpoints\/lg_huwara_feb.jpg\" alt=\"Baltzer\" \/><em>GUEST: Anna Baltzer, Fulbright scholar, author, and volunteer with the International Women&#8217;s Peace Service. She is the author of &#8216;Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice concluded a two-day weekend trip this Monday to Israel and the Palestinian territories. Ahead of President Bush\u2019s trip next week, Rice held talks on various issues including Israeli checkpoints and manned road blocks in the West Bank in hopes of displaying progress toward peace. The reason for Bush&#8217;s trip is the 60th anniversary of the founding of Israel, which Palestinians refer to as &#8220;al-Nakba,&#8221; or &#8220;the catastrophe.&#8221;  Following Rice&#8217;s departure, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met to discuss prospects for peace. Not prominently mentioned, however, was the continuing siege of Gaza. Former President Jimmy Carter recently met with the Hamas government despite criticism from  Bush and Olmert. As an outcome of the meetings, Hamas has now offered to accept the state of Israel and is willing to call a ten year truce. Meanwhile, violence continues in besieged Gaza as a Palestinian mother and four of her children were killed last week during an Israeli attack. The Israeli military has claimed that Palestinian militants targeted in the missile strike carried explosives that were responsible for the deaths. <\/p>\n<p>Anna will be speaking at the following events in Southern California: <\/p>\n<p><em>May 6: 12 pm; Cal State Long Beach, Long Beach<br \/>\nMay 7: 7:30 pm; Holy Cross Melkite-Greek Catholic Church, Placentia<br \/>\nMay 8: 2:30 pm; Cypress College, Cypress<br \/>\nMay 9: 7:30 pm; Four Points Sheraton Hotel; San Diego<br \/>\nMay 10: 7:30 pm; Unitarian Universalist Church, Studio City<br \/>\nMay 12: 7 pm; First Congregational Church, Long Beach<br \/>\nMay 14: 12 pm; University of California, Irvine<br \/>\nMay 14: 6 pm; University of California; Los Angeles<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For details, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.AnnaInTheMiddleEast.com\">www.AnnaInTheMiddleEast.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program GUEST: Anna Baltzer, Fulbright scholar, author, and volunteer with the International Women&#8217;s Peace Service. She is the author of &#8216;Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories.&#8217; Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice concluded a two-day weekend trip this Monday to Israel and the Palestinian territories. Ahead of President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}