Living and Working in Palestine; Writer, Teacher, and Historian Pam Sakamoto; Right-To-Die Law for Hawai‘i; Atherton Concert Performance
The Conversation: Thursday, January 14th 2016
Living and Working in Palestine: Dr. Hatim Kanaaneh
The ongoing conflict between Palestinians and Israelis continues to fill headlines with violent attacks and counter attacks. A peaceful solution seems elusive with concerns that the Palestinian Authority may be collapsing as radical movements on both sides remain intractable and dangerous. This week, Palestinian Israeli citizen and Harvard public health physician, Dr. Hatim Kanaaneh has been in Honolulu to share his view of life in Galilee.
- Intro Music: Achshav Karov (Closer Now) by The Idan Raichel Project
- Outro Music: Marhaba by Basel Zayed
Writer, Teacher, and Historian Pam Sakamoto
During the Second World War, much of the known world was caught up in the killing, on a scale that’s almost beyond our understanding. Maybe the human cost of that conflict can best be understood on a smaller scale, through the lives of a Japanese immigrant family divided by war. War demands that we subdue our humanity. We are encouraged to think of our enemies as evil, we’re trying to kill them; they’re trying to kill us. But what if the enemy is a member of your own family? Pamela Sakamoto is the author of “Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds.”
- Intro Music: A Thousand Years by The Piano Guys
- Outro Music: New Day Rising by Rin
Right-To-Die Law for Hawai‘i: Dr. Kathy Kozak
Most doctors take an oath to do no harm. For some, that’s the ground on which they firmly stand against the right to die movement and the call from terminally ill people for physician-assisted suicide. That group would not include Straub physician Kathy Kozak. She’s written her second Civil Beat column questioning why Hawaii’s right to die legislation has gone fallow. We spoke yesterday when the column was published - and as she was about to get on a plane, I asked her about how she would answer those who are upset that a doctor would say that there should be a ‘right to die’ law.
- Intro Music: My Sweetheart by Focus
- Outro Music: On Man by Sabreen
Atherton Concert: Doug MacDonald
They don’t call it the sound of surprise for nothing; for the jazz virtuoso, so many decisions are made on the fly, and there’s no time for second-guessing. When two accomplished soloists establish a rapport and find a common musical language, sparks can fly. That’s to be expected this Saturday when guitarist Doug MacDonald returns to Hawaii to perform with pianist Lenore Raphael.
- Intro Music: Umbrella Waltz by Doug MacDonald
- Outro Music: Sounds of a Guitar by Lenore Raphael
