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Today on Flashpoints:
A preschool teacher and human rights activist goes home to Southern Lebanon and finds both destruction and hope; Israeli snipers kill three more Palestinians in the occupied West Bank as Gazans remain under siege; the battle for a recount in Mexico continues to heat up as striking teachers in Oaxaca seize control of at least eight radio stations in their fight for educational rights; and the Knight Report.

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5:01 PM PST

01:00 The Knight Report

* More cease-fire violations in Lebanon where the multi-national troop contingent continues to be a no-show
* More sectarian strife and a new trial for Saddam Hussein in Iraq
* Some charges have been dropped against US citizen detainee Jose Padilla

Robert Knight
Civillian victims of Israel's destruction - http://www.lebanonundersiege.gov.lb
06:00 Continued Israeli Attacks in Lebanon
Malak Khaled, preschool teacher in Southern Lebanon
Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein

26:00 Israeli Occupation Military Kills 3 Palestinians
Amjad Shawa, Palestinian NGO Network Coordinator in Gaza City
Interviewed by Nora Barrows-Friedman

44:00 Resistance in Mexico
John Ross, Journalist and Author
Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein

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