ALL FOR PEACE grassroots
Palestinian-Israeli radio has established a model for others to follow.
They broadcast all day, every day:
RAINBOW -- the English language broadcasts
hosted by Mike Brand -- will be every Sunday, and repeated on Tuesdays:
This Sunday and Tuesday -- March
27th and 29th -- guests will be:
And today more broadcast history
is expected to follow on official Israeli and Palestinian radio.
This Sunday March 27, 2005, 10:00 am, Palestinian radio will broadcast its first-ever Hebrew
song.
At the same time, Israeli army radio
will simultaneously be playing the same track in Arabic.
Bassem Abu Sumaya, director of Voice of Palestine, said about the two
versions of the song, composed and sung by Palestinian and Israeli singers,
hitting the airwaves: "Broadcasting this song shows we are committed
and believe in peace."
The love song, In My Heart, will be sung by
Israeli David Brozza and Palestinian Wissam Murad, who wrote the
ballad together.
The lyrics were written two years ago - at the height
of the Palestinian uprising or intifada - by Broza and Wisam Murad's brother, Said, also a member of Sabreen
(Association for Artistic Development, in
"If Said and I could sit when chaos, bombs and
havoc were all around us and could write about love, then others can," Broza told the Reuters News Agency.
"After all the pain and anger, something sweet can
come out."
Stories about this broadcasting breakthrough are
around the Web, including at: