Brian
Wood on Democracy Now, August 13, 2001
Below is the show's intro and guests:
ISLAMIC JIHAD CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANOTHER SUICIDE BOMBING, THIS TIME IN HAIFA AS THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT SEIZES ORIENT HOUSE, THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY AND A SYMBOL OF INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMACY
A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up at a crowded café in the northern port city of Haifa yesterday, wounding 15 and killing the bomber, just three days after a similar attack in Jerusalem killed 16 people.
The bombing comes as Israeli troops continued their occupation of the Orient House and other Palestinian Authority buildings, leading thousands to protest what even US officials called a dangerous escalation of the tensions in Israel and the occupied territories. Among the protestors are US and European citizens who have come to the occupied territories to act as human shields.
In Hebron, a seven year old Palestinian girl also died yesterday of head wounds she sustained when she was shot by Israeli soldiers during a gun fight with a group of Palestinians.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced that he would allow Foreign Minister Shimon Peres to meet with Palestinian leaders to discuss a possible ceasefire, but declared that the PA would no longer be allowed to operate in Jerusalem.
Guests:
Brian Wood, activist with the Center for Rapprochement in Bethlehem, a
Palestinian center for nonviolence which has coordinated the arrival of US and
European citizens acting as human shields.
Phyllis Bennis, Fellow with the Institute for Policy Studies and author
of Calling the Shots: How Washington Dominates Today's UN.
Azmi Bashara, Palestinian Arab and member of the Israeli Knessett.
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