[Sethreports] Palestine Reports: Occupation and Annexation in the Golan Heights

[Seth Porcello]

Palestine Reports: Occupation and Annexation in the Golan Heights
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To Listen or Download:
http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/07/10653.php
OR
http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=19055
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Hello Everyone - here's a radio documentary from the Golan Heights  
recorded in July 2006 (just prior to the war on Lebanon).

This documentary features audio of the people in the village of  
Majdal Shams shouting across the minefield (1967 cease fire line)  
that separates them from their relatives in Syria. This very tangible  
sound of a border, and occupation, serves as a point from which to  
tell this story. As you hear the Safhia family, who very graciously  
allowed me to record their conversation, you hear without  
interpretation what it is to go on living and coping with the reality  
of never being able to reunite with your family. Through their  
bullhorns they give voice to the border through the silence of the  
minefeild.  Through a documentation of this border, the reality of  
life in the Golan comes into focus as the boundaries of land and  
water resources reinforce this basic structure of the occupation that  
begins at the shouting mountain.
Listen in Stereo.

ALSO: Be sure to check out the IMEMC.org to find out more about the  
current crisis in this region.  I've since heard from people in  
Majdal Shams, who are stuck very close to the center of this  
conflict.  The nearest town to Majdal Shams is Kiryat Shimona where  
Israel is firing many of the shells that are currently tearing  
Lebanon apart.  Since the making of this documentary the situation  
has deteriorated tremendously.  Historically Israel has used the  
Syrian town of Majdal Shams as a human shield from which to attack  
Syria (Syria being reluctant to return fire into this very densely  
populated Syrian town).  If Syria somehow becomes active in this  
conflict it will go badly for the people in this documentary.   
Something to consider, when reading the news.

Solidarity - seth
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