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[Episode 98]

“We did this documentary in the hope that settlers could look at themselves from outside, to realize the contrast between the spirituality and the daily life”. With this words the director Gianluca Iazzolino introduces his work “Guns’n'Moses”.
The movie is a documentary about the Israeli ultra nationalist-religious settlers and their ideology in their own words and in the ones of the Israeli and international pacifists and the Palestinians from Hebron.
Guns’n'Moses is also an inquiry on the the mystery of the choice made by four people which decided to leave behind their background to adopt an identity to defend, if necessary, with guns.
“In Palestinian territories, we decided to focus on a barber’s shop, a place where people talk about everything peacefully” said Mr.Iazzolino explaining how he decided to portrait the Palestinians.

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[Episode 97]

In recent episodes of our show we highlighted how Italian foreign policy had become Pro-Israel, but it’s important to remember that Italian policies hadn’t be always like this. Once upon a time the Italian civil society had always been near to Palestinian fight for freedom and auto-determination. During ’70s and ’80s Italy was the most pro-Palestinian country in western world. In that time Italian President was Sandro Pertini. In this days, on 22th February, in Italy we are celebrating 20 years since his death, so this is why we want to let you listen a part of  his new yer speech of 1983. “Once ago it was Jews that had known the diaspora, they were driven out middle east and scattered around the world. Now it’s the turn of Palestinians.  And so I went to say again that Palestinians have the right to a homeland as Jews, Israelites had have” said Partini during the new year speech.

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[Episode 96]

Violence against women in the Occupied Palestinian Territories is widespread and chronic, yet it remains under the radar. Women find it difficult to report abuses because there is little or no legal framework in place to protect them - and because the “honor” of their families is considered more important than the crimes committed against them. Having a place to be mlistened to - and in some cases also to be fostered - is the first step to break this silence and antiviolence spots are getting more and more in the Territories thanks to international cooperation projects. Guest of this show is Irene Agnello, Italian psychotherapist and member of the association Differenza Donna, which has been working on  violence against women for the past 20 years in Italy and in foreign countries such as Russia and the Occupied Territories.

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