Uri Avnery on CNI Radio, March 4th
Posted March 3, 2010
On March 4th, Uri Avnery will be our guest on the “CNI: Jerusalem Calling” internet-radio show. Avnery will join CNI board member and host Dr. E. Faye Williams to discuss the current social and political climate in Jerusalem, and potential road-maps for the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations.
Uri Avnery is an Israeli writer and founder of the Gush Shalom peace movement. A member of the Irgun as a teenager, Avnery sat in the Knesset from 1965-74 and 1979-81. He was also the owner of HaOlam HaZeh, an Israeli news magazine, from 1950 until it closed in 1993.
He is famous for crossing the lines during the Battle of Beirut to meet Yassir Arafat on July 3, 1982, the first time the Palestinian leader ever met with an Israeli. Avnery is the author of several books about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including 1948: A Soldier’s Tale, the Bloody Road to Jerusalem (2008); Israel’s Vicious Circle (2008); and My Friend, the Enemy (1986).
The show will air live online from Noon to 1 pm EST (5 pm to 6pm GMT). To listen, go to the show’s home-page, here, and click on the “Listen Live” button for Studio A, at the top left. To call your questions in during the second half of the show, call toll-free: 877-474-3302. International users can ask questions by Skype, by calling Skypename: WSRADIOSTUDIO.
Also, check out the archived versions of our show by clicking on this tab on the left-hand toolbar. Past shows archived there include conversations with Mustafa Barghouti, Akiva Eldar, Stephen Walt, UNRWA’s Andrew Whitley…and many more.
