This week on Crossing The Line, after three months of fighting, scores injured and killed, and an infrastructure in tatters, residents of the Palestinian camp of Nahr al-Bared are beginning to return home, but what are they returning home to?

We'll speak to Caoimhe Butterly concerning the return of the displaced home owners.

Also this week, more residents from the Gaza Strip are left stranded at the Egyptian/Rafah crossing trying to get home, while others are refused entry into the West Bank, Israel, Egypt, and Jordan for urgent medical treatment; with the continued siege imposed by the quartet, tensions between supporters of Hamas and Fatah, and the ongoing killings by the Israeli Occupation Forces, how is life for the residents on the ground? We'll talk with Mohammed Omer a Palestinian journalist and resident of Rafah refugee camp about the situation.

Then later in the podcast, The War's Toll, compiled and read by Scott Burgwin of The Stand Independent News Service.

This week on Crossing The Line, we continue with part two of Jerome McDonald's interview with professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt concerning their controversial paper on the pro-Zionist lobby, AIPAC.

Also this week, Mumia abu-Jamal shares a commentary on Iran; wars and rumors of wars. And - as always - The War's Toll compiled and read by Scott Burgwin of The Stand Independent news Service.

This week on Crossing The Line, since 1967 all US presidential administrations have let Israel do as it wishes, but has there ever been a time when the US government has taken a stand against the Jewish State? Nadia Hijab, senior fellow at the Institute for Palestine Studies joins us to discuss the topic.

Also this week, they have written one of the most controversial paper's on the powerful pro-Israeli lobby group AIPAC, and with it's publication in The London Review of Books, the backlash from Zionist circles has been unrelenting. Today in part one of a two-part interview we'll listen to an interview with John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt.

Then later in the podcast, The Stand Independent News Service's own, Scott Burgwin presents The War's Toll.

This week on Crossing The Line, the Israeli Occupation Forces carried out more extra-judicial assassinations in the Gaza Strip killing at least 11 Palestinians in a 24 hour period last week, and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak is threatening to re-invade Gaza after Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert labeled Gaza a "hostile entity." We'll speak with Palestinian journalist Rami Almeghari about the current situation on the ground.

Also this week, with this new label attached to the Strip what does this mean for the more than 200,000 school children who just began school in the past month, as well as the fate of university students? We'll hear from Dr. George Bisharat, professor of law at Hastings College about educational realities for not only children and young adults in Gaza, but also in the West Bank.

Then later in the podcast a commentary by Mumia abu-Jamal, and - as always - The War's Toll, compiled and read by Scott Burgwin of the Stand Independent News Service.