Psychoanalysis in Palestine with Dr. Lara Sheehi, Dr. Stephen Sheehi, and Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian

<p>Regular listeners will know that SWANA Region Radio, which began life as Radio Intifada, maintains its regular coverage of the reality of life for Palestinians across historic Palestine, from the river to the sea, a life lived in persistence and resistance “under and against” Israeli apartheid and settler colonialism, to borrow a phrase from our guests today. Over the past year, and no less under Biden than Trump, or under Netanyahu than Ganz or Lapid, Palestinian reality has become increasingly dire. Almost incessant Israeli raids on the West Bank recently have killed hundreds of Palestinians, including a high number of children and with the usual impunity; house demolitions proceed at an accelerating pace in occupied East Jerusalem as well as on the West Bank, usually in the form of the humanitarian crime of collective punishment and with the ongoing goal of ethnic cleansing; the 18-year blockade on Gaza continues with the customary punitive incursions and bombings that Israeli cynically terms “mowing the lawn”; and the settlements continue to expand and proliferate across the colonized territory of historic Palestine.</p> <p>Yet, in face of a situation designed–as arch-Zionist Zev Jabot-insky strategized–to inspire hopelessness, Palestinians continue to resist. How should we understand this unrelenting refusal to submit, the organized and spontaneous forms of daily resistance that constitute Palestinian existence, an existence that, in its stubborn refusal to disappear, already appears as resistance? How can we understand the refusal to succumb to despair or depression, victimage or trauma, whether among the prisoners held in indefinite detention in Israeli jails or among the families whose children have been murdered by settlers, or the students whose every effort to realize their education is hindered by Israeli checkpoints and closures? What is it that maintains the Palestinian capacity for <em>sumud</em>, steadfastness or stalwartness?</p> <p>Our guests today, Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi offer in the