This week on Crossing The Line, as residents of the besieged Palestinian town of Nahr al-Bared try to piece together their lives, we'll examine the intolerable conditions that the 10,000 - or so - inhabitants who have been allowed to return to the city live under.

Also this week, it is by now a commonplace that President Bush's handling of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict has been a disaster from the start. But who helped shape the foreign policy of the Bush administration into one that is based on fundamentalist ideology rather than solid diplomatic efforts? Noted author and investigative reporter Craig Unger joins us to talk about Bush, the Neo-Cons, and the Christian Right.

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, our bureau chief in Palestine, Rami Almeghari, speaks on the murder and chaos that continues in the Gaza Strip in spite of President George Bush's pledge to see a "so called" peace agreement between the Israeli's and Palestinians after his first official visit to the holy land.

Also this week, we begin our countdown to the 60th anniversary of the Nakba, with the first of several Palestinians eyewitnesses' who fled Palestine when the Zionists invaded the land and expelled more than 700,000 residents from their homes.

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

This week on a special Crossing The Line, we will air the final portion of a speech by Palestinian activist Michel Shehadeh given on Nov 27^th, 2007 the 60^th anniversary of the U.N.’s 1947 Partition Plan of Palestine. Also this week, the Podcast Collective presents an investigative feature on the Israeli army attack of USS Liberty that occurred over 40 yeas ago, all of this and more coming up stay tuned.

This week on Crossing The Line, Jonathan Pollock of Anarchists Against The Wall, talks about the ongoing protests against the apartheid wall and the overall occupation and its impact. Also this week, Dr. Mona el-Fara reports on the affects that the occupation is having on Palestinian children in Gaza and - as always - The War's Toll, compiled and read by Scott Burgwin of The Stand Independent News Service.