Tulkarem-based journalist and researcher Anan Quzmar joins the show to break down Israel’s escalating violence in the occupied West Bank. Quzmar calls the violence a “natural outcome” of the “Israeli leadership’s ideological trajectories of further entrenching the occupation and displacing Palestinians” and the “continued international support shielding Israel from accountability.” Israel’s frequent violent incursions, Quzmar explains, are “indirect recruitment for insurgency rather than counter-insurgency,” adding, “you are forcing people into a desperate situation where they are more likely to pick up guns and try and resist.”
Democracy Now! Eleven peace activists and one journalist on board the Gaza Freedom Flotilla ship, the "Madleen," were detained by Israeli soldiers as their ship carrying vital humanitarian aid for starving Palestinians approached Gaza. The ship was intercepted by Israeli forces in the middle of the night in international waters. Its supplies were seized and communications jammed. The unarmed activists will likely be transported to Israeli detention or "immediately deported," says Ann Wright, a U.S. military veteran who has participated in four Freedom Flotilla journeys and now serves on the steering committee of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition. She calls on citizens of countries around the world to push for the activists' release and an end to Israel's war on Gaza.
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