This Week on GR

by C. L. Cook

And, Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will be here at the bottom of the hour to bring us newz from Victoria's street community and beyond. But first, Jon Elmer live from Bethlehem.

 

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at:http://cfuv.uvic.ca.  He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, www.pacificfreepress.com.

 

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Ten years after Israel's then-defense minister and aspirant prime minister, Ariel Sharon storm Jerusalem's al-Asqa mosque with a thousand of his closest friends, touching off the beginning of the so-named 'Second Intifada' what has changed? While the grandstand political move to march into the mosque grounds is widely believed to have put Sharon into the leadership seat, the subsequent violence and ill-will this stunt created persists a decade later, even as the former prime minister languishes still in a stroke-induced coma.

 

This past week, Israel went ahead with its declared end to the official ban on settlement building by Jews in the West Bank, guaranteeing, as Sharon's calculated trespass did in 2000, years more of death and enmity on both sides of the Palestine-Israel divide.

Jon Elmer is a Canadian photo-journalist who has lived in, and reported from Palestine for more than a decade. He is currently living in Bethlehem, Palestine, reporting on the West Bank for the Inter Press Service and Al Jazeera among others. Jon Elmer in the first half.

And, last week, international peace activist and founder of Aloha Palestine, Ken O'Keefe was in Victoria promoting his organization, and recounting his experiences aboard the ill-fated Mavi Marmara, the Turkish flagged ship attacked May 31st of this year by the Israeli military. That attack resulted in the murder of nine of the Mavi's roughly seven hundred peace activist passengers as they sailed with humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip. Israel has subsequently been deemed by a United Nations investigation into the events of May 31st to have broken many international laws, not least being the execution-style murders of at least four of the nine killed that night.

 

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