A VOICE FOR THE VOICELESS IN PALESTINE

(Ben Heine © Cartoons)
What is missing and is desperately needed on the American scene is an organisation called APPAC (American Palestinian Public Affairs Committee). The zionists have their AIPAC (American Israeli Public Affairs Committee), it would only be fair for the Palestinians to have a Lobby as well... a VOICE for the American people to hear. A voice that could tell the world of the genocide, the apartheid, the dehumanisation of an entire people by the zionist regime.

But no, they have no voice. Their suffering goes unnoticed to most as AIPAC paints the picture of the suffering Jewish nation.... most of which is self inflicted suffering or total lies created to cover up the actual truth.

There are friends of Palestine that try to fill the void and provide that voice in the absence of APPAC... among them is a man named Chris Brown, a regular contributor to the following site...

Crossing the Line is a weekly podcast dedicated to giving voice to the voiceless in occupied Palestine. Through investigative news, arts, eyewitness accounts, and music, Crossing the Line does its best to present the lives of people on the ground.

Crossing the Line's host, Chris Brown, is an independent journalist currently living in San Francisco. Brown's South African roots and desire for social change are the reason for his strong solidarity with the Palestinian people. In 1990 Brown was arrested in South Africa where he was detained and tortured for nearly two years by the South African secret police. Brown also lived and worked in the Old City of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.

It is people like Chris Brown that will eventually help in awakening America to the plight of the Palestinians. Read the following, be sure to click on the link to the Podcast and listen to it... save the link and tune in weekly.
THE VOICE OF THE VOICELESS MUST BE HEARD!

Audio: Crossing the Line interviews Osamah Khalil
Podcast, Crossing the Line, 23 July 2007

This week on Crossing The Line: no time in the recent history of the Palestinian people has been so devoid of hope. As in the case of the dark days of the South African apartheid regime, Palestinians are faced with the decision to continue along factional lines or begin to form an umbrella body that has legitimacy both with the country and the international community. Host Chris Brown talks with Osamah Khalil, a doctoral candidate in US and Middle Eastern History at the University of California Berkeley about the need to rebuild the PLO and to rid the country of despotic leaders.

Later in the show, Brown speaks with Gaza resident and businessman Sam Abdelshafi about life after the Hamas takeover several weeks ago and what ordinary Gazans are saying about the need for fundamental change, as well as the dire economic conditions that nearly 1.5 million Gazans face.

Then in the final segment, Rania Masri, assistant Professor of Environmental Science at the University of Balamand, updates us about the renewed shelling of the Palestinian camp of Nahr al-Bared and the ongoing humanitarian crisis for its displaced residents.

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Crossing the Line is a weekly podcast dedicated to giving voice to the voiceless in occupied Palestine. Through investigative news, arts, eyewitness accounts, and music, Crossing the Line does its best to present the lives of people on the ground.

Crossing the Line's host, Chris Brown, is an independent journalist currently living in San Francisco. Brown's South African roots and desire for social change are the reason for his strong solidarity with the Palestinian people. In 1990 Brown was arrested in South Africa where he was detained and tortured for nearly two years by the South African secret police. Brown also lived and worked in the Old City of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.