“CNI: Jerusalem Calling” – radio show archives
Posted November 20, 2009
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07-08-10
CNI’s New President Alison Weir interviewed Noam Chomsky, a philosopher, linguistic scientist and activist for Middle East peace, about the many aspects of the Palestinian Israeli Conflict.
07-01-10
Omar Shaban joins host and CNI’s new President, Alison Weir, to discuss the current situation in the Gaza Strip, a personal account of life in Gaza, and the impact of the blockade.
06-24-10
John Mearsheimer joins host and CNI board member, Dr. E. Faye Willams, to discuss recent events in Israel, the effect of the Israeli Lobby in Congress, the impact of the Gaza Flotilla, U.S. foreign policy towards Israel, and the future of peace negotiations.
06-17-10
Guardian columnist Seth Freedman and Gaza flotilla activist Paul Larudee share their views and opinions on the flotilla mission and the siege on Gaza.
06-10-10 USS Liberty survivor and Purple Heart recipient Ron Kukal shares his accounts of the tragic attack that left 34 US soldiers dead, and encouraged many more to question the relationship between Israel and the United States.
06-03-10 The CNI political pilgrims return back from their roundabout tour of the Middle East, and share their unique experience with the American people. Joining them was Ambassador Edward Peck, who recently made headlines after being captured by Israeli forces while aboard a flotilla headed toward Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid.
05-27-10 From Cairo to Beirut, CNI’s Political pilgrims have met with high-profile leaders and officials to gauge the prospects for proximity talks between Israel and Palestine. Delegation leaders Ambassador David Newton and CNI President Eugene Bird, joined host Dr. E.Faye Willams to speak about the experience with insights from the most up-to-date developments in the region, as well as their observations from inside Gaza.
05-20-10 Alan Hart, a former foreign correspondent for Independent Television News and Panorama, BBC TV’s flagship current affairs program, who has covered wars and conflicts world-wide joins the CNI delegation currently in Cairo, to discuss the state of the peace process and new developments in the region with host Alison Weir.
05-13-10 Co-founder, President and CEO of the Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation (HCEF), Sir Rateb Y. Rabie, KCHS joins host and CNI communications director Frederick Butler to discuss the current status of the peace process and the role of Christians in the Holy Land.
05-06-10 Colonel Harry Shaw joined Ambassador Edward Peck on CNI: Jerusalem Calling. Colonel Shaw gave a detailed review of the role armed conflict has played in Israel’s history, and how the US has acted as both enabler and critic of Israel’s reliance on military force.
04-29-10 Former United States Congressman Wayne Gilchrest joins CNI communications director Frederick Butler to discuss environmental issues and the state of the peace process.
04-22-10 Acclaimed author and former adviser to Yasser Arafat, Mark Perry joins CNIF chairman and host Ambassador Robert V. Keeley. Perry recently made headlines with his article in Foreign Policy Magazine on a January 16th meeting between a team of senior military officers from the U.S. Central Command (responsible for overseeing American security interests in the Middle East), at the Pentagon to brief Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
04-15-10 Live from the Mount of Olives the head of the Carter Center in Jerusalem and Ramallah, Dr. Thomas Neu joins CNI board member and host Alison Weir, to share his insight into the current conditions in the West Bank and Gaza, and the future of US-Mideast relations.
04-08-10 Human rights activist Trip Jennings joins CNI board member and host Dr. E Faye Williams. Jennings speaks about his experience in Jerusalem’s old city when tensions erupted into violence. Days later he witnessed the notorious Nablus killings.
04-01-10 Sama Adnan, Ph.D., the founder and executive director of New Policy PAC and the affiliated NewPolicy.org joins host and CNI board member Alison Weir to discuss the aims of the newly founded organization and how New Policy PAC plans to support members of congress whose foreign policy align with America’s national interest.
03-25-10 Ambassador Jack Matlock, author of Super Power Illusions: How Myths and False Ideologies Led America Astray–and How to Return to Reality, joins host Ambassador Edward Peck and shares his insight on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by drawing from his years of diplomatic service.
03-18-10 Co-chair and executive director of the Washington Interfaith Alliance for Middle East Peace (WIAMEP) Nora Bawa, joins host and CNI co-chairman Ambassador David Newton to discuss WIAMEP’s policy initiatives, events and the current status of the peace process.
03-11-10 Middle East news editor Delinda Hanley joins CNI board member and host Alison Weir to discuss the current social and political bias toward Muslims in today’s media.
03-04-10 Former Knesset member and founder of the Israeli Peace Movement Uri Avnery joins CNI board member and host Dr. E. Faye Williams to discuss the current social and political climate in Jerusalem, and potential road-maps for the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations.
02-25-10 Asa’d Ghanem joins CNI board member and host Alison Weir to discuss George Mitchell’s peace efforts in the Middle East, the idea of transferring land and population to a future Palestinian state in exchange for retaining the largest Jewish settlements, and the erosion of the rights of Israeli-Palestinians in comparison to the rights of Jewish-Israelis.
02-18-10 National Advocacy Director Josh Ruebner joins CNI board member and host Dr. E. Faye Williams to discuss the cost and benefit of U.S. military aid to Israel, and how ignoring the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories hampers U.S. efforts at engagement in the Middle East.
02-11-10 United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Director of the Representative Office in New York, Andrew Whitley, and CNI board member Anna Baltzer discuss the political and social barriers to relief and reconstruction efforts in the Occupied Territories.
02-04-10 Former Palestinian Presidential Candidate and 2010 Nobel Peace Prize nominee Dr. Mustafa Barghouti and CNI Board Member Dr. E Faye Williams discuss the state of the peace process, issues for Palestinians, Jerusalem, and other topics of ongoing concern.
01-28-10 Ha’aretz columnist Akiva Eldar and CNI Board Member Anna Baltzer discuss the current state of (or stasis in) Pres. Obama’s peace diplomacy, the broader, year-long record of Obama’s Palestinian-Israeli diplomacy, and the political situation in Israel today.
01-21-10 Jeff Halper, co-founder and Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), and CNI Board Member Alison Weir discuss settlement expansion in East Jerusalem, and how Israel uses home demolitions to sow fear among Palestinians in the occupied territories.
01-14-10 PLO Ambassador to the United States Maen Areikat, and CNI Board Member Dr. E. Faye Williams, review the developments of the past year in Gaza, Hamas-Fatah reconciliation talks, Israeli-Palestinian peace initiatives, and the progress of Obama’s Mideast envoy.
01-07-10 Nieman Fellow and acclaimed Mideast Journalist Rami Khouri, and CNI Executive Director Helena Cobban review developments of the past year in President Obama’s Mideast efforts, the Israeli-US-Egyptian siege on Gaza, and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
12-31-09 Helena Cobban talks with Laila El-Haddad, a blogger and journalist from an old Gaza family– and with her father, Dr. Musa El-Haddad, who was in Gaza during the Israeli assault of late 2008 and early 2009. Dr. Musa gives some vignettes of what life was like in central Gaza under the bombardment. He and Leila discuss the broader impact of that war, of Israel’s continuing siege on Gaza, and current international efforts to break that siege.
12-24-09 Zoughbi Zoughbi, a veteran of the nonviolence movement who lives and works in Bethlehem, talks with Helena Cobban and a number of callers about the increasingly closed-in nature of life in Bethlehem, which is nearly surrounded by Israel’s Apartheid Wall. Callers discuss the Palestinians’ experience of nonviolent social action and the different responsibilities of their supporters in both Israel and the United States.
12-17-09 Professor Stephen Walt of Harvard talks with Gene Bird and Helena Cobban about the strength of the pro-Israel lobby today, the lobby’s mounting campaign to escalate tensions between the U.S. and Iran, the policies of the Obama administration, and much more..
12-10-09 Outspoken Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy joined host Alison Weir to discuss the social and political climate in Jerusalem.
12-03-09 Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, and Chris Gunness, the spokesperson for UNRWA, join CNI Executive Director and featured host, Helena Cobban to discuss the humanitarian and political fallout from last winter’s Israeli war on Gaza.
11-19-09 Fresh from their 17-day political pilgrimage to Israel, Palestine, and all their neighboring countries, CNI Executive Director Helena Cobban and Director of Operations Carlton Cobb joined host Dr. E. Faye Williams to discuss the many disturbing things they learned during their trip about the US’s plummeting levels of support from the peoples and governments of the region.
11-12-09 Former South Dakota Senator and CNIF vice-chairman James Abourezk joined host Alison Weir of If Americans Knew. During the show, titled “Where does US Policy go from here?”, Sen. Abourezk and Weir discussed the situation for American policy in the Middle East.
11-05-09 John Duke Anthony head of the National Council for US-Arab Relations and a long time expert in the Mid-East policy, discusses with members of a CNI delegation currently in Damascus, the situation for American policy in the Middle East. The group is headed by former Ambassador to the Soviet Union Jack Matlock and Executive Director of CNI Helena Cobban.
10-29-09 Host Alison Weir and Middle East journalist Jeffrey Blankfort discuss the media’s role in the Middle East. The two deliberate on American media propaganda, Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts, and the power structure of the Israeli Lobby.
10-22-09 Jewish-American Peace Activist Anna Baltzer speaks with Micha Kurz former Israeli Defense Soldier and co-founder of Breaking the Silence. The two deliberate on pressing issues in Jerusalem and the role of the Israeli Military in the occupied Palestinian Territories.
10-15-09 Dr. E. Faye Williams interviews Jala Andoni, a Christian Palestinian woman living under the occupation, and Ruth El-Raz, an Israeli resident of Jerusalem. The women discuss living conditions in Jerusalem, The Goldstone Report, and the role of women in the peace process.
10-08-09 CNI: Jerusalem Calling Host Ambassador Edward Peck and CNI President Eugene Bird discuss the Middle East peace process, and the role of the US.
