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Talk Nation Radio for 2 18 09

Produced by Dori Smith, WHUS FM 91.7 Radio for the People at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT

We hear from MidEast scholars Jennifer Loewenstein, Francis A. Boyle, and Conn Hallinan. First these news updates on raq, Afghanistan and Gaza: The web page ideabeats.org has an archive of Bush audio and video on the Iraq War. It soon becomes obvious that the entire Bush administration was lying its way into an invasion, war, and occupation of Iraq, and then joining in the effort to falsify information before US Congress and the American people in order to maintain that war.

This Week In Palestine: Salma interviews recently released detainee Jamal Juma'

Recently Jamal Juma' was among those arrested by Israel in a campaign targeting grass roots activists in the West Bank. He was released after over a one month detention with no charges.

Jamal was born in Jerusalem and attended Birzeit University, where he became politically active. Since the first Intifada, he has focused on grassroots activism. He is a founding member of the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees, Palestinian Association for Cultural Exchange and Palestinian Environmental NGO Network. Juma' is since 2002 the coordinator of the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign. He has been invited to address numerous civil society and UN conferences, where he has spoken on the issue of Palestine and the Apartheid Wall. His articles and interviews are widely disseminated and translated into several languages. We have the privilege of interviewing him today. Among the subjects we discuss: Apartheid, the Wall, torture, and child imprisonment.