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Living on Earth: Israel Threatens Renewable Energy in West Bank
http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=12-P13-00009&segmentID=4[font face=Times, Times New Roman, Serif][font size=5]Israel Threatens Renewable Energy in West Bank[/font]
[font size=4]Air Date: Week of March 2, 2012[/font]
[font size=3]Israel says solar panels and wind turbines built in small West Bank villages were installed without permits. Now the state threatens to demolish the renewable energy systems. Host Bruce Gellerman speaks to Elan Orian, an Israeli whose company helped bring alternative energy to the West Bank, and Shuli Hartman, an anthropologist studying the region.[/font]
[font size=4]Transcript[/font]
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ORIAN: Well, you have two populations that live, in some cases, literally meters apart, Palestinian and Israeli citizens, and these two populations are under completely different legal systems. The Israeli settlers, although they are formally outside the state of Israel, are under Israeli civilian law, while the Palestinians who live on their native land are under military law.
GELLERMAN: So, the Israeli government, the military authority that’s in charge of this part of the West Bank, they’ve issued a demolition order. Do you know when they might carry it out, when they might bulldoze the systems?
ORIAN: Unless we are able to postpone it, theoretically the bulldozers can come on Monday, the sixth of March.
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(Transcript and MP3 at link.)[font size=4]Air Date: Week of March 2, 2012[/font]
[font size=3]Israel says solar panels and wind turbines built in small West Bank villages were installed without permits. Now the state threatens to demolish the renewable energy systems. Host Bruce Gellerman speaks to Elan Orian, an Israeli whose company helped bring alternative energy to the West Bank, and Shuli Hartman, an anthropologist studying the region.[/font]
[font size=4]Transcript[/font]
[font size=3]...
ORIAN: Well, you have two populations that live, in some cases, literally meters apart, Palestinian and Israeli citizens, and these two populations are under completely different legal systems. The Israeli settlers, although they are formally outside the state of Israel, are under Israeli civilian law, while the Palestinians who live on their native land are under military law.
GELLERMAN: So, the Israeli government, the military authority that’s in charge of this part of the West Bank, they’ve issued a demolition order. Do you know when they might carry it out, when they might bulldoze the systems?
ORIAN: Unless we are able to postpone it, theoretically the bulldozers can come on Monday, the sixth of March.
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