Gaza

NOVANEWS   Here's an article on Jnews on how Israel uses the Gaza blockade to benefit its economy by exploiting the captive Gazan market.  The article is based on a little publicised Wilikeaks document titled, "Shin Bet Talks Gaza Economics" written by David R. Burnett, Economic Counselor in the US embassy in Tel Aviv: It describes a briefing given to Embassy officials by senior members of the Israeli Shin Bet*, on how Israel uses the banking system in Gaza to increase the political influence of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in Gaza, by attempting to starve the Hamas government of cash. The Shin Bet informed the US embassy that banks in Gaza know that they must neither allow Hamas members to open bank accounts nor have salaries deposited into existing accounts. If the banks disobey, they ...

NOVANEWS Palestinians wait for answers on Israeli war in Gaza   Human rights groups demand progress in inquiries over Israel's conduct in Operation Cast Lead, reports Donald Macintyre           Breaking the Silence, the Israeli veterans? group, has published testimonies from 30 soldiers charging that rules of engagement were loosened in the Gaza conflict After two years, a UN-commissioned report accusing Israel of widespread violations of international law and possible war crimes, and the opening of 52 separate military police investigations, the only soldier jailed so far for his conduct in the 2008-09 Gaza war was convicted of stealing and using a Palestinian's credit card. In this special report, The Independenthas examined progress in the investigations arising from the warin the ...

NOVANEWS   Bitter-sweet stuff happening in Palestine over the rising in Egypt.  Both the PA in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza have suppressed solidarity demos only to yield to popular demand eventually.   Both Hamas and the PA appear to be fearful of their own people as far as spontaneous demonstrations go.  Meanwhile Israel's "demographic threat" can really shake its booty: As long as they don't keep having children...

Issued by: CPGB-ML Issued on: 31 May 2010 Early this morning, in international waters some 100 miles from Gaza’s coastline, Israeli commandoes forcibly boarded a peaceful convoy of aid ships that was headed to Gaza city. Exact numbers are not yet known, but so far at least 16, possibly 20 volunteers aboard the main ship, the Mavi Marmara, are confirmed to have been murdered by Israeli forces, who were using live fire against the people on board. Dozens more have been wounded and all passengers have been abducted to an unknown location in Israel. The 800 volunteers trying to deliver 10,000 tonnes of vital aid to Gaza are from 40 countries and include parliamentarians, journalists, women, children and the elderly. Forty members of the flotilla are British. The flotilla’s cargo of essential ...

NOVANEWS   Ken O'Keefe AT THE SCENE-MEDICAL SUPPLY CENTER DESTROYED SECRET ISRAELI/US BOMBING PROGRAM EXPOSED By Ken O’Keefe and Gordon Duff “We’re in the building here, what do we have here?  Medical supplies…Jesus Christ.” Ken O’Keefe February 9, 2011 (VT) Gaza:  Last night, Israeli planes bombed a medical supply center in Gaza. The bombing attack lasted only 20 minutes or so, short when compared to the “London blitz” during World War II but similar in other way.  Israeli planes were still overhead while film crews were on the scene. Israel has yet to release a statement taking credit for the attack. The systematic destruction of necessary support services, health care, water, sewage, electric, schools continue.  Were our film team not to have been on the scene, media would likely have ...

NOVANEWS by crescentandcross    From Palestine Corespondent Falastine M El-Ghezawi…     Time is merciless, moving forward no matter what the cost. But time is also about renewal and hope. Two years ago at this time, the people of Gaza began to slowly dig themselves out of the destruction laid upon them at the cold and pernicious hands of the Israelis. It’s hard to believe two years has passed. When I close my eyes and think back, it seems like only yesterday. There was no warning of the war on Gaza before it happened. Things were calm and everything was going normally; at least normal for Gaza. There was a lack of the usual – medicine, milk, diapers, even electricity – but we have long suffered to simply acquire our daily needs. I certainly didn’t expect anything horrifying. Three n...

NOVANEWS   The Arab World Plays Dominoes with Empire   Is this how empires end, with people flooding the streets, demanding the resignation of their leaders and forcing local dictators out? Maybe not entirely, but the breadth and depth of the spreading protests, the helplessness of the U.S.-backed governments to stop them, and the rapidly diminishing ability of the United States to protect its long-time clients, are certainly resulting in a level of revolutionary fervor not visible in the Middle East in a generation. The legacy of U.S.-dominated governments across the region will never be the same. The U.S. empire’s reach in the resource-rich and strategically vital Middle East has been shaken to its core. By Phyllis Bennis There’s a domino effect underway in the Arab world. Tunisia was t...

NOVANEWS crescentandcross      We are joined by Ayman Quader, a young Palestinian from Gaza giving his personal testimony concerning Zio-Nazi Holocaust in Gaza ' Operation Cast Lead' and what it is like to live under Zionist occupation.   Listen Here    nomorewarsforisrael@gmail.com   http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com      Please check out the brand new book detailing Israel’s deliberate attack on the USS LIBERTY here

NOVANEWS   Zio-Nazi After  'Gaza Holocaust' INTERVIEW YOU WILL NOT SEE IN ZIONIST CONTROLLED AMERICAN MAINSTREAM MEDIA They were told: “ENTRY WOULD BE DIS-PROPORTIONATE” The orders were to: “CLEANSE THE NEIGHBOURHOOD” “Every house gets a shell, that was our job…” “We were to shell the top and shell the bottom…” “The moment the tank hit the second shell, we see processions of the family walk out with children, with babies, with white flag on a stick….” “We entered the city in a big hullabaloo…” “The squadron… with a lazer marked clearly the houses that had to be shelled….” Alex Thompson has their story here…   Channel 4 News – Dispatches from Gaza – 26 January 2011   Enough of  Hamas Rocket fire ? After Sabra & Shatila, Jenin, Nablus, Rafah, and Gaza massacres.  Sixty years of brutal ‘...

NOVANEWS   Some of you know that I left Gaza last Thursday, spent Friday and Saturday in Cairo, and left early Sunday morning. Consequently I missed the beginnings of this beautiful Egyptian revolt, and landed in the land of blizzards on Sunday afternoon. Little did I know what a treat I would find at Customs and Immigration. On my customs form, in the section for “Countries visited on this trip prior to U.S. arrival,” I put Egypt. I had also been in Gaza, but had been slightly befuddled as to how to list it. Palestine is not yet a country. So I scribbled, “Occupied Palestinian territories,” attentive to the fact that the customs forms warn us that making untrue statements is illegal. The “Occupied” caught the eye of the guy at the desk blankly sifting through customs forms. He handed me o...