Palestine
Palestine
Reporting from Ramallah in the West Bank of the Palestinian territories, pop. 4,550,368 (est. 2014) is freelance journalist Nida' Tuma, on travel, internally and when crossing borders. Audio
Amira Hass - Monitoring the Centres of Power
Amira Hass is an Israeli journalist who has spent more than two decades reporting on the Israel-Palestine conflict from within the occupied territories - first Gaza and then the West Bank. The… Audio
Palestinian Foreign Minister visits New Zealand.
The Palestinian Authority wants New Zealand to use its United Nations Security Council seat to help push forward the stalled Middle East peace process. Audio
NZ Mounted Rifle Brigade horses shipped to Egypt
A description of how NZ horses were shipped to Egypt to form the NZ Mounted Rifle Brigade which fought Turkish forces in Palestine. The Mounted Rifle Brigade could move very fast in the desert and… Audio
Our Own Odysseys: A Political View
Cantabrian Richard Burtt and his wife Kate joined a 10-day tour group to Israel and Palestine in September 2014 headed by New York Times Balkans correspondent Nicholas Wood. Audio
Palestine
Reporting from Ramallah in the West Bank of the Palestinian territories, pop. 4,550,368 (est. 2014) is freelance journalist Nida' Tuma. Audio
Yuval Ben-Ami - Lorde in the Holy Land
Yuval Ben-Ami is a Tel Aviv-based journalist, musician and self-described Lorde addict. He's in the midst of a project that aims to create a bi-lingual, bi-national, Hebrew-Arabic tribute to the Kiwi… Audio
Global Neighbours - Palestine
Reporting from Ramallah in the West Bank of the Palestinian territories, pop. 4,550,368 (est. 2014) is freelance journalist Nida' Tuma. Audio
World Vision on the rebuild of the Gaza Strip
It's been nearly two months since Israel reached a ceasefire deal with the Palestinians in Gaza following a devastating war that left over two-thousand Palestinians and 70 Israelis dead. Audio
Palestinians react to Gaza Donor Conference
More than 1.5 billion New Zealand dollars has been pledged to rebuild Gaza. Audio
St John's Archivists
Everyone knows the Order of St John in New Zealand, which operates most of the country's ambulance services. But what do you know about its history? Audio
Dr Izzeldin Abuelaish
Izzeldin Abuelaish is a man who has every reason to seek revenge but chooses not to. Three of his daughters were killed by Israeli mortar in 2009. He tells us why peace, not revenge, is worth fighting… Audio
John Gleisner - volunteer psychiatrist in Palestine
Chris speaks with this New Zealand psychiatrist who's recently returned from a voluntary stint at a hospital in Bethlehem. We glean an insight into the wrongs and rights of the fractured state of… Audio
Peace for the Holy Land?
The cradle that nurtured three major religions is all to often the crucible that foments hatred and conflict. Chris speaks with two sides in the complex argument that is Israel and Palestine. Former… Audio