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[Episode 99]

Mr. Frank Barat is one of the  promoters of the Russel Tribunal. The first session of this International Court of Justice ended the 3th of March, in Barcelona. Mr. Barat resumed the outcomes of this meeting. “We first established the illegality of Israel’s actions. Then we focused on the EU. The EU and its member states are therefore under an obligation to react in application of international law to prevent violations of peremptory norms of international law and to counteract their consequences” told us Mr. Barat.
The Russell Tribunal on Palestine seeks to reaffirm the primacy of international law as the basis for the settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It will build its work around the enunciation of law by authoritative bodies. The International Court of Justice in its Opinion on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, has analysed the relevant provisions of International Humanitarian Law and International Law of Human Rights and the dozens of international resolutions concerning Palestine.

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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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