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More info at https://www.ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/video/tv-show/tv-specials/holy-land We start in Jerusalem, alive with religious tradition and passion — Christian, Muslim, and Jewish. We then visit cosmopolitan Tel Aviv, with its in-love-with-life beaches; ponder the sad fortress of Masada; and join pilgrims at biblical sights around the Sea of Galilee. We'll also pay our respects at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, drop into an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood, and savor the local cuisine. | © 2014 Rick Steves' Europe

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“Why would an Israeli Jew choose to live in the West Bank?”

That’s the question that motivates writer Wajahat Ali to travel to Israel in a new documentary from The Atlantic. Ali, who has been critical of Israel, embarks on a personal quest to understand the perspectives of some of the 400,000 Israeli Jews who live in the occupied territory in defiance of international law—and to hear from the Palestinians who oppose them.

In his travels through the West Bank, Ali visits the family of a Palestinian terrorist, ventures into the heart of one of the most radical settlements, and speaks to the leader of an NGO focused on creating a dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians.

Read Ali's article in the June 2018 issue of The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/a-muslim-among-the-settlers/559145/

Support for this project has been provided by the Henry R. Luce Initiative on Religion and International Affairs of the Henry Luce Foundation.

It has been 40 years since the overthrow of the Shah of Iran in a revolution that saw his rule replaced with the Islamic Republic.

On Talk to Al Jazeera, we speak to Kamal Kharazi, a former foreign minister, ambassador to the United Nations and a leading voice on the principles of the Islamic Republic. He was also a military spokesman during the Iran-Iraq War, with a central role in Iranian state media.

Kharazi is now chairman of Iran's Strategic Council for Foreign Relations and foreign policy adviser to the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei.

So, 40 years on, has the revolution achieved its goals of resisting Western interference and righting social injustices?

And how is Iran overcoming the challenges of the US withdrawal from the nuclear disarmament deal, the imposition of tougher sanctions, and heightened tensions in the region?

The US's withdrawal from the nuclear deal, or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), was the cause of much consternation, and a number of European signatory countries have vowed to work to keep it alive without the US.

Kharazi says the success of those efforts relies ultimately on European nations and their willingness to act independently of Washington's threats of penalties and sanctions.

However, even European partners who want to stay in the nuclear deal have raised concerns about Iran's ballistic missile programme - especially after a number of missile tests and the unveiling of the new Dezful ballistic missile - fears Kharazi says were unfounded.

He adds that Iran has every right to enhance its defence strategy and that there was no truth in accusations that it was "destabilising the region".

"There are many enemies and they have all kinds of different armaments," says Kharazi. "Those who have developed terrorist groups and have tried to topple existing governments... those are the [some] bodies who have destabilised the region."

"We have tried to keep the status quo by fighting against terrorism in Iraq and Syria, which were defended by the help of Iran. Therefore, Iran has been a stabilising factor, not the destabilising factor," he continues.

On the current relationship between Iran and the US and whether he sees a potential for improved dealings, Kharazi says this is in the hands of the US policymakers.

"There is animosity between Iran and the United States," says Kharazi. "They're using all their instruments to put pressure on Iran."

"They have to change their policies. They have to come up with a new policy. Unfortunately, the United States is trying to materialise financial imperialism. If, in the past, imperialism was dependent on arms and wars, today Americans are dependent on financial instruments," Kharazi said.

Closer to home, regional tensions were discussed. On the GCC blockade and how it affects his country, Kharazi said Iran is unhappy with the way the political impasse has progressed.

"We are not happy that disputes are developing in the region," he said. "That does not help the development of security and peace in the region. We are ready to talk to everyone in the region, even Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates... all other parties. And we believe, eventually, that is the final solution. Out of intervention of foreign countries. If we sit together and talk to each other for the benefit of the region, I believe something will come out of that."

Asked if Iran had been able to reach the goals set forth by the Iranian Revolution 40 years ago, Kharazi says that, although not everything may have been achieved, great improvements have been made.

"I don't think that all the aims of the revolution have been achieved, but there has been a great development in Iran," he said. "What is most important is that all of these [developments] have happened without the support of foreigners. It has been based on self-reliance, by the resources that we have internally. That is why Iran is inspiring."

"I think that you have to be vocal. To be honest, this is one of the things I am haunted by. I think so much about what else I could have done or what I could have done differently. Maybe if I flipped over a table or grabbed somebody by the collar; there is nothing I would not have done to save my wife. My stance was, if I escalate I would be seen as a threat and if I am removed from the hospital, who would be there to advocate for my wife? ... She was my primary concern, I was doing my best to assure her everything would be okay even when I wasn’t sure that was the case."

Charles Johnson IV’s wife Kira Johnson died on April 13, 2016 -- just eleven hours after a scheduled cesarean section to deliver her second son. A medical investigation found massive internal bleeding caused by medical negligence.

Kira is one of thousands and statistics in the United States on the maternal mortality rate of black women are astounding. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) defines a pregnancy-related death as a woman who dies while pregnant or within one year of the end of her pregnancy. The US ranks 32nd out of the 35 wealthiest nations on infant mortality, and those numbers are largely due the deaths of black babies. Some 700 to 900 maternal deaths occur in the United States each year, and there are about 50,000 preventable near deaths.

Among 46 developed nations studied, the World Health Organization says only Serbia and the United States had maternal death rates that deteriorated between 1990 and 2015. This rate includes mothers who die of complications within six weeks of the end of the pregnancy.

So why is black maternal health in the US so bad? Researchers have identified two major areas. First, toxic stress that racial and ethnic minorities, including African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans, experience - regardless of economic or social success - can damage their physical health. And the second? Medical bias from doctors.

On this episode, we’ll hear the stories behind the statistics, and find out what is being done to reverse the trend.

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Friends, family and campaigners are celebrating Hakeem al-Araibi's return home to the Australian city of Melbourne after Thailand freed the refugee footballer who had been held since November on an extradition request from Bahrain.
After his flight touched down at Melbourne airport on Tuesday afternoon, al-Araibi was met by hundreds of supporters, including members of his football club Pascoe Vale and the Bahraini community in Australia.
Al Jazeera's Andrew Thomas was there when al-Araibi arrived in Melbourne.

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Painkiller delves into the opioid epidemic. It features interviews with families who have lost loved ones, as well as healthcare workers and policy experts who question a health system that favours corporate profits over patients.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is expected to set out his election pitch in the key marginal seat of Corby in the east Midlands. He will accuse Boris Johnson of being a 'fake populist and phoney outsider' in the mould of Donald Trump and promise to do 'everything necessary' to stop a no-deal Brexit following the leak of documents warning of protests and food shortages in the event of such an outcome

'A phoney outsider': Corbyn attacks Johnson as he sets out election pitch

Congressional negotiators in the US have reached a funding deal that covers border security just days away from the latest government shutdown deadline.
That deal came as Trump was campaigning in Texas for his border wall.
But he was also met by opposition from both local residents and city officials.

Al Jazeera's Rob Raynolds reports from El Paso, Texas.

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On The Listening Post this week: We look at the taboo around the Israel-Palestine debate on the American airwaves. Plus, Quechua news and the politics of language in Peru.

The limits on the Israel-Palestine debate
Last week, a CNN pundit delivered a speech at the United Nations in support of Palestinian self-determination and equal rights.

Less than 24 hours later, CNN was done with Marc Lamont Hill. When you boil it down, he was fired for his use of the words 'from the river to the sea' - a reference to the territory of historic Palestine, situated between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean prior to the creation of Israel in 1948.

The reference was deemed anti-Semitic.

Hill's dismissal came on the heels of a seemingly coordinated attack by pro-Israel lobbying groups that have come to have a large say over what constitutes acceptable discourse on Palestine in the United States, by wilfully conflating legitimate criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism, and convincing news outlets to do the same.

Contributors

Omar Baddar - Deputy Director, Arab American Institute
Batya Ungar-Sargon - Opinion editor, the Forward
Abraham Gutman - Opinion & editorial writer, Philadelphia Inquirer
Susan Abulhawa - Writer and author

On our radar
Richard Gizbert speaks to Maria Ressa, founder of the Filipino news site Rappler, about the recent tax evasion charges laid on her, and more generally, about the climate of fear facing all critical journalists in the Philippines amid increasing hostility from President Rodrigo Duterte's government.

Nuqanchik: Peruvian news and the politics of language
Over 45 percent of Peru's population is indigenous - a demographic fact that the country's media have long failed to reflect.

It starts with language. Spanish dominates the airwaves. But over the past year, the country's public broadcaster, Canal Peru, has launched two new news programmes in Peru's main indigenous languages, Aymara and Quechua.

One of those programmes is called 'Nuqanchik', which is Quechua for 'Us'. The appearance of Quechua - the most widely-spoken indigenous language in the Americas - on a national TV channel is being seen as an attempt to redress the racist legacies of the colonial era.

The Listening Post's Marcela Pizarro reports from Lima with the journalists behind 'Nuqanchik'.

Contributors

Clodomiro Landeo - Presenter, 'Nuqanchik'
Marisol Mesa - Presenter, 'Nuqanchik'
Hugo Coya - Director, National Institute of Radio and Television
Raul Castro - Media anthropologist
Patricia del Rio - Host, Radio Television Peru
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With the upcoming visit of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Israel, Israelis welcome him in Hindi - Watch:

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