Gaza

NOVANEWS ""The Zio-Nazi forces are threatening the families through the children," Shafaa continues. "In the cases when the police come in and arrest the children, they will only release them on an expensive bail, and every day, the community continues to fear what will happen to their kids.""

NOVANEWS "More recently I have provoked the ire of a burly former Zio-Nazi military prison guard at the notorious Ketziot detention camp during the first Intifada, who is among our foremost journalists of the Middle East and given a prominent perch at The Atlantic magazine-- Jeffrey Goldberg. "

NOVANEWS ""In Boston, on March 5, 1770, a crowd of Americans threw rocks at British soldiers and were answered by disorderly gunfire. Five Americans were killed, and we call it the Boston Massacre. What was Gaza? Look again at the numbers. [...] Many witnesses who know both countries will tell you conditions are worse today in the West Bank and Gaza than apartheid was in South Africa. But that analogy surely will not be discussed, not even to be violently rebutted, at the AIPAC convention next week. [...] The truth is that whatever the wild men say, no country of that region threatens any other with extinction; but one country is widely believed to be well equipped for nuclear war, and that country is Israel."" See: www.angryarab.blogspot.com

NOVANEWS  Photos and videos from an event on Thursday to com­mem­o­rate 1000 days of siege, a siege longer than Leningrad’s. The director of the popular committee against the siege spoke and lit the brazier. There were 1000 candles on the ground. There was also a short series of speeches, by Pales­tin­ian leaders and several members of the ISM, and a dancing and singing ceremony by some Pales­tin­ian children. Mostly, it was somber. It is not clear how to resist such a hermetic, technologically-based siege beyond simple survival, and it’s survival under terms that Israel continues to control. Sometimes, it’s not survival–I have learned that treatable cancers are a major source of death here. Nec­es­sar­ily, English-speaking attendees–and there were very few of us, the NGO-people and the j...

NOVANEWS  The Gaza mural Posted by Gabriel @ 8:30 PM Comments   Labels: Cast lead, Gaza

NOVANEWS     Two Israeli soldiers will face charges in a court that they used a young Palestinian boy as a human shield during the country's three-week bombardment of Gaza in 2008-2009. Majed al-Rubah, 10, says soldiers forcibly took him from his family and made him carry out life-threatening tasks during military operations. Many other Palestinians say they have gone through similiar experiences, but this is only the second time Israel has brought charges against its own soldiers. Human-rights groups have accused Israel of committing numerous war crimes against Palestinians during the war on Gaza - in which nearly 1,400 people have died and most of the enclave was left in ruins. Al Jazeera's Ayman Mohyeldin reports from Talal al Hawa, al-Rubah's neighbourhood in Gaza.

NOVANEWS "With more than 300 Palestinian children being held in Zio-Nazi  prisons, human rights groups and Palestinian officials are increasingly concerned about the actions of the Zio-Nazi military.The Israeli human right  group B'Tselem said that security forces had "severely violated" the rights of a number of children, aged between 12 and 15, who had been taken into custody in recent months." Posted by As'ad at 9:51 AM

NOVANEWS Photos and videos from an event on Thursday to commemorate 1000 days of siege, a sige longer than Leningrad's. The director of the popular committee against the siege spoke and lit the brazier. There were 1000 candles on the ground. There was also a short series of speeches, by Palestinian leaders and several members of the ISM, and a dancing and singing ceremony by some Palestinian children. Mostly, it was somber. It is not clear how to resist such a hermetic, technologically-based siege beyond simple survival, and it's survival under terms that Israel continues to control. Sometimes, it's not survival--I have learned that treatable cancers are a major source of death here. Necessarily, English-speaking attendees--and there were very few of us, the NGO-people and the journalists...

NOVANEWS "A second indictment has been filed against Zio-Nazi soldiers who fought in Gaza during  Gaza Shoah , this time accusing two Givati Brigade troops of asking a nine-year old Palestinian boy to open bags suspected to contain explosives." They probably will be honored at the US Congress.

NOVANEWS "This Time We Went Too Far"   By NORMAN FINKELSTEIN Editors' Note: This article is excerpted from Norman Finkelstein’s important new book about the Gaza conflict, “This Time We Went Too Far” published this month by OR Books. To purchase a copy of the complete book please visit OR Books. This book is not available from bookstores or other online retailers. Public outrage at the Gaza invasion did not come out of the blue but rather marked the nadir of a curve plotting a steady decline in support for Israel. As polling data of Americans and Europeans, both Gentiles and Jews, suggest, the public has become increasingly critical of Israeli policy over the past decade. The horrific images of death and destruction broadcast around the world during and after the invasion accelerated this ...