June 5, 2011

Broadcast Date: 
Jun 5 2011

The New York State budget was on time, but with lots more losers than winners, says State Senator Liz Krueger; and in A Rift in Time, Raja Shehadeh traces his great uncle's footsteps through Ottoman-era Palestine. Plus Obama and Netanyahu, AIPAC and Congress: a brief visit.

Episode segments
  • New York State's Budget: the winners, the losers
    New York Politics
    Senator Liz Krueger represents Manhattan's 26th district in the New York State Senate.  She is the ranking member of the Senate's Finance Committee.
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    For only the fourth time since 1983, New York State passed its budget by the April 1st deadline.  Once again, we talk with Senator Liz Krueger about the budget and its winners and losers.  We also talk about the prospects for renewing rent regulation, passing a property tax cap and marriage equality.

  • A Rift in Time
    Israel/Palestine, Occupation, Literature

    Raja Shehadeh is a lawyer, a human rights activist, and writer and in 1979 he was the co-founder of Al-Haq.  He is also one of Palestine's most important writers and memoirists.  He is the author of A Rift in Time: Travels with My Otoman Uncle and Palestinian Walks: Notes from a Vanishing Landscape.

     

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    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    We talk with Raja Shehadeh about his great uncle Najib Nasser, whose opposition to the Ottomon Empire's entry into WWI on the size of the Germans led him to flee his home and travel through the region of the great Rift Valley (today divided among the states of Israel and its Occupied Territories, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan).  In A Rift in Time, Shehadeh traces his great uncle's footsteps and experiences both a temporal and geographic rift.

  • The Speeches
    Foreign Policy, National Politics, Israeli Politics, Domestic Policy, Israel/Palestine, Jewish
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    In the conclusion to our show, we play two short excerpts from President Obama's talk before AIPAC and Prime Minister Netanyahu's address to the U.S. Congress.