Gaza

NOVANEWS 1/27/2009 We Will not Go Down (In Gaza Tonight) I wanted to share this very moving song with the readers and listeners at shoahph.com It is a beautiful song by the songwriter and singer Michael Heart. It may be hard for some European Americans to understand it,  but the Palestinians are being suppressed and murdered by the very same power that is destroying the heritage and rights of the European people: the power of international Zionism and Jewish extremism. The Zionist state has not only committed terrorism against Palestine and many other Mideast people, Zionist has committed bloody terrorism directly against U.K And America! In the Lavon Affair Zionist made terrorist firebomb attacks against American installations in Egypt trying to get us into a deadly and costly, unjust...

NOVANEWS 12/28/2008   “The amount of death and destruction is inconceivable” Safa Joudeh writing from the occupied Gaza Strip, Live from Palestine, December 27 & 28 2008 It was just before noon when I heard the first explosion. I rushed to my window and barely did I get there and look out when I was pushed back by the force and air pressure of another explosion. For a few moments I didn’t understand but then I realized that Israeli promises of a wide-scale offensive against the Gaza Strip had materialized. Israeli Foreign Minister Tzpi Livni’s statements following a meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak the day before yesterday had not been empty threats after all. What followed seems pretty much surreal at this point. Never had we imagined anything like this. It all ...

NOVANEWS   Top Military Rabbi tells Zionist troops to show no mercy to the innocent in Gaza Rights Group Complains After Troops Told That Gaza’s Civilian Population Was Not Innocent Israeli human rights group Yesh Din is calling for the ouster of the military’s top rabbi, Nazi Brigadier General Avichai Rontzki over his messages to soldiers during the 22-day Holocaust in the Gaza Strip. The primary concern was a booklet which, among other things, contained a rabbinical edict against showing mercy. The booklet contains quotes from a nationalist Nazi rabbi which declares that showing mercy during the battle would be “terribly immoral” and quotes a medieval sage who cautioned Jews not to “be enticed by the folly of the Gentiles who have mercy for the cruel.” Yesh Din says the booklet could ha...

NOVANEWS 12/30/2008 The Hanukkah Massacre in Gaza   JUDAISM IN ITS FINEST HOUR   The Hanukkah Massacre in Gaza by MARK GLENN  “When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are to possess and casts out the many peoples living there, you shall then slaughter them all and utterly destroy them…You shall make no agreements with them nor show them any mercy…You shall destroy their altars, break down their images, cut down their groves and burn their graven images with fire. For you are a holy people unto the LORD thy God and He has chosen you to be a special people above all others upon the face of the earth…” –Book of Deuteronomy, 7:1-8 The aerial assault on Gaza thus far resulting in several hundred deaths and close to a thousand casualties (much of which will result in even more d...

NOVANEWS   by Mehdi Hasan  28 December 2010   New documents reveal the deliberate callousness and cruelty of the Israeli blockade. I'm delighted to reveal that Amira Hass, the award-winning Israeli reporter and correspondent for Haaretz, and a journalistic hero of mine, has written our cover story on Gaza for the New Year special issue of the New Statesman - which hits the newsstands tomorrow. Two years on from the Israeli onslaught on the strip, Hass examines the legacy of the three-week war and asks whether Israeli troops are preparing for another conflict with the poor Palestinians of Gaza. I've written a short "box" to go with her essay, in which I examine the ongoing Israeli-Egyptian blockade against the Gazans and note the release of three official Israeli government documents whi...

NOVANEWS  30 Dec 2010      Where to Park a Hospital   By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler   *HAIFA, Northern Israel, Dec 17, 2010 (IPS) - At the Rambam medical centre here in Israel’s third largest city just 30 odd kilometres from Lebanon, they are working around the clock, racing against time.*   http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=53892   Another evil twist by the Zionists - they will be marketed through Agrexco Gaza farmers pack strawberries and hope for export.   Rami Almeghari, /The Electronic Intifada,/ 29 December 2010   http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11694.shtml   A few days old: 3/12/10     *Strawberry Fields Forever* http://www.gazagateway.org/2010/12/strawberry-fields-forever This week the Israeli Ministry of Defense announced the “beginning of the export season” in...

NOVANEWS This is the Press Release... 30th December 2010 St. John's Church, Waterloo, London to be held from 1st to 11th February 2011 An exhibition of artwork made by children from Gaza caught up in Israel's 2008/2009 bombardment is coming to St John's Church in February. Around 50 sometimes heart-rending painted, drawn and crayoned pictures express the children's reaction to the assault, the deaths and trauma that they witnessed and suffered and the aftermath. Some of the pictures also reveal their dreams of a peaceful Gaza. The pictures were made both during Israel's 'Operation Cast Lead' and in the following months. They were drawn as part of a programme of Psycho-Social Help for the Traumatised Children, or by children who were specifically asked to set out their feelings for the ben...

NOVANEWS Dec 30, 2010 Members of the Asia to Gaza Caravan Zionist Mu-Barak has prevented some 50 Iranian and Jordanian activists on the Asia 1 aid convoy from reaching the Gaza Strip through its soil. The Pro-Zionist Egyptian embassy in Damascus, Syria, has informed the convoy of a permit that allows only 120 activists to pass through Egypt and then enter Gaza via El Arish port, the Zionist Mu-Barak Egyptian daily Al-Ahram reported Thursday. Palestinian authorities said that Zionist Mu-Barak is also denying entry to 10 generators donated by Iranians. This will decrease the size of the humanitarian convoy to below 300 tons, which will be limited to food and medical aid, in addition to toys, for the besieged Palestinians. Gaza has been under a crippling blockade since 2007. The Asia to G...

NOVANEWS   December 27, 2010 by Michael Leon The Gaza massacre, which Israel launched two years ago today, did not end on 18 January 2009, but continues. It was not only a massacre of human bodies, but of the truth and of justice. Only our actions can help bring it to an end. By Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada The UN-commissioned Goldstone Report documented evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in an attack aimed at the very “foundations of civilian life in Gaza” — schools, industrial infrastructure, water, sanitation, flour mills, mosques, universities, police stations, government ministries, agriculture and thousands of homes. Yet like so many other inquiries documenting Israeli crimes, the Goldstone Report sits gathering dust as the United States, the Eur...

NOVANEWS   Posted By: Zahi Damuni To: Members in Palestinian Refugees Right to Return - Al-Awda      An Open Letter from Gaza: Two Years after the Massacre, a Demand for Justice   Besieged Gaza, Palestine   27. Decemebr.2010   We the Palestinians of the Besieged Gaza Strip, on this day, two years on from Israel's genocidal attack on our families, our houses, our roads, our factories and our schools, are saying enough inaction, enough discussion, enough waiting - the time is now to hold Israel to account for its ongoing crimes against us. On the 27th of December 2008, Israel began an indiscriminate bombardment of the Gaza Strip.   The assault lasted 22 days, killing 1,417 Palestinians, 352 of them children, according to main-stream Human Rights Organizations. For a staggering 528 hours, Isr...