The following talks recorded at forums in the first half of 2008 have just been added to the Spark Audio archive.
John Edmundson
What future for Palestine?
Phil Ferguson
Iraq five years on
Nick Scullin
The present war in Afghanistan
The following talks recorded at forums in the first half of 2008 have just been added to the Spark Audio archive.
John Edmundson
What future for Palestine?
Phil Ferguson
Iraq five years on
Nick Scullin
The present war in Afghanistan
April marks the 60th anniversary of the Deir Yassin massacre when up to 250 Palestinians, mainly old men, women and children, were massacred by Israeli forces during the establishment of the modern state of Israel.
Come along to this month’s Christchurch Workers’ Forum and hear how and why the Israeli state was set up through the dispossession of the Palestinians, what’s happening in Gaza at present and how we can support the Palestinians.
Speaker: John Edmundson
7pm, Monday, April 28
WEA
59 Gloucester Street
Organised by the Christchurch branch of the Workers Party
John Edmundson
Despite the victory of the radical Hamas movement in the 2006 elections to the Palestinian Authority, Israel still refuses recognise the Hamas government in Gaza, which it labels a “terrorist organisation”. Instead, it will only deal the United States-backed regime of Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah Party, which despite losing the election continues to cling to power in the West Bank territories.
In the meantime, Israel continues with its economic blockade and armed attacks against the 1.4 million people living in the Gaza Strip. With the Red Cross now reporting that 167 Palestinians have been killed in the first two months of 2008 alone, can there really still be any realistic prospects for a just and lasting peace in Palestine?