Noam Chomsky
MIT
January 13, 2009
with El-
Avi Shlaim
January 14, 2009
The assault on Gaza is entering its nineteenth day, with no end in sight. Israel
continues its intense bombardment of the territory as Israeli troops edge closer
to the heart of Gaza City. Nearly 1,000 Palestinians have been killed, more than
4,400 injured, many of them women and children. Thirteen Israelis have died over
the same period, ten of them soldiers. We speak with Oxford professor Avi Shlaim.
He served in the Israeli army in the mid-
Israel is coming under increasing criticism for its possible use of banned and experimental munitions. Human Rights Watch has accused Israel of illegally firing white phosphorous, which causes horrific burns if it comes in contact with the skin, over crowded refugee camps in Gaza. Medics and human rights groups are also reporting that they are seeing injuries distinctive of another controversial weapon, Dense Inert Metal Explosive, known as DIME, that was designed by the US Air Force in 2006. Those struck by the weapon who survive suffer severe mutilations and internal injuries. We go to the Gaza border to speak with Marc Garlasco of Human Rights Watch and to Norway to speak with Dr. Mads Gilbert, who just returned from the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. He says Gaza is “truly a scene from Dante’s Inferno.”
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January 8, 2009
The Israeli assault on Gaza is entering its thirteenth day. Some 700 Palestinians have been killed, with many thousands more wounded, and a humanitarian crisis is mounting. Ten Israelis have died, four by “friendly fire.” A ceasefire has not been reached, and the offensive continues. We host a debate between Martin Indyk, the former US ambassador to Israel and Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs during the Clinton administration, director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution and author of Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East, and Norman Finkelstein, author of several books, including The Holocaust Industry, Image and Reality of the Israel-
January 16, 2009
It’s Day 21 of Israel’s assault on Gaza. Israeli warplanes attacked forty targets across Gaza overnight, as Israeli troops backed by tanks have pushed deep into the heart of Gaza City. Since Israel started its bombardment of Gaza, over 1,100 Palestinians have been killed and more than 5,200 wounded. At least 700 civilians are among the dead, including more than 350 children. We speak with Columbia University Professor Rashid Khalidi.
As the Palestinian death toll in Israel’s assault on Gaza climbs above 1,100, we take a look behind the statistics. Suleiman Baraka is a Palestinian astrophysicist working at Virgnia Tech with NASA. His eleven-
Norman Finkelstein
with Afshin Rattsani
January 17, 2009
28 minutes
Noam Chomsky
January 23, 2009
In a visit to the State Department Thursday, President Obama made his first substantive
comments on the Middle East conflict since Israel’s attack on Gaza. Obama first mentioned
his commitment to Israel’s security, without affirming his commitment to Palestinian
security. He condemned Palestinian rocket attacks on southern Israeli towns, but
didn’t criticize the US-
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