Gaza

NOVANEWS Free Gaza Mission Vows Escalation of Struggle Against Israel August 28, 2010 by Michael Leon   We Americans are all Palestinians. From the two small boats that landed on August 23, 2008, we grew to six ships in the last flotilla that saw nine of our brothers murdered, and will have nine to twelve ships in the flotilla this Fall as we go back to Gaza. To borrow from Dr. King who gave a beautiful anthem for justice in Washington D.C. that lives on today, the Free Gaza movement  knows that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. Let us see the day when we can say: “Free at last! free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!” - The international effort to break the illegal Israeli siege of Gaza, shine light on the aparthe...

Published  24.08.2010 Official says fact-finding mission is speaking with witnesses and government officials in Turkey and Jordan, but Zionist hasn't granted the team an invitation. By: NOVANEWS  A United Nations official says Zionist's isn't cooperating with the UN Human Rights Council's probe of May's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. Juan Carlos Monge, who is assigned to accompany the fact-finding mission, says it is speaking with witnesses and government officials in Turkey and Jordan, but Zionist's hasn't granted the team an invitation. Zio=Nazi soldiers aboard the Mavi Marmara Photo by: Motti Milrod Zio-Nazi regimeIsrael's UN mission said Tuesday it wasn't commenting on the investigation. Nazi commandos killed nine activists trying to break the Nazi blockade ...

NOVANEWS A People That Shall Dwell Alone – Israel’s Attack On The Gaza Flotilla August 25, 2010 by Niall Bradley By Joe Quinn, Editor of SOTT.net  Originally published in the July-August 2010 issue of The Dot Connector Magazine. Spyros Fragias/SOTT.net At approximately 4am on May 31st 2010, a group of vessels attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza were attacked by the Israeli navy in international waters off the coast of the occupied Palestinian territories. Nine civilians aboard the largest vessel, the Mavi Marmara, were shot dead by Israeli soldiers and dozens more were wounded. The Israeli government claimed it was exercising its right to self defence. Flotilla members, and much of the international community, saw it as an act of piracy and murder on the high seas that has exp...

An open letter to Israel August 22, 2010  by Michael Leon  So,  there I was, all ready to write my piece, when I came across an article on ynetnews. It sought to spell out the shock perhaps felt by some about the looted goods. A senior Israel Defense Forces officer said of the flotilla thefts: ‘there must be a serious problem in the IDF in terms of values.”   I looked at those words for a long time. And, instead of writing my piece, decided to write to you instead. Because I can’t help wondering, who on earth still has any reserves of ‘shock’ to spare for the behaviour of your military? I mean really, come on guys. Beyond the comfortable avenues of Tel Aviv, the rest of the world finds the phrase ‘Moral Army,’ when applied to the IDF, nothing short of a huge, (sadly catastrophic), globa...

NOVANEWS Murderous attack on the Freedom FlotillaYet another Zionist crime, yet another nail in the coffin of Zionism Background – the siege Since June 2007, Gaza has been under siege and subjected to a land, air and sea blockade.  The 1.5 million inhabitants of this, the most crowded place in the world, have been the target of collective punishment by the Israeli Zionist state, with the full backing of imperialism, in particular US imperialism, for the sole reason that they back the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas.  After every attempt to starve the people of Gaza into submission, to force them to withhold their support from Hamas had failed, Israel waged, again with the complicity and connivance of imperialism, a brutal war against Gaza in December 2008 – January 2009, which w...

NOVANEWS permalinke-mail story to a friendprint version 14 April, 2010, An Israeli court has lifted a gagging order preventing the country's media from covering the case of the journalists accused of revealing classified military information to the press. Yahoo StumbleUpon Google Live Technorati del.icio.us Digg Reddit Mixx Propeller It concerned the controversial killing of Palestinian militants on the West Bank, reportedly against the Supreme Court's ruling, which many claim was murder. The case has sparked major debate on media freedoms in the country. The Israeli media reported it as another West Bank operation in 2007. Two Palestinian fighters were killed in a shootout, one of them 25-year-old Ziad Malaisha. In the village of Jaba in the Palestinian West Bank city of Jenin, a differ...

NOVANEWS Hamas must rebrand and take the wind out of Israel’s and America’s sails August 19, 2010  by Michael Leon   Ismail Haniya - Hamas Leader - I often wonder if the British could have clung on through the London blitz, which my family lived under, if they’d had nothing to fight with and nowhere to run and, in addition, they’d had to contend with Nazi tanks in the streets, thousands of checkpoints, Nazi rifle butts smashing down their front doors, and the foul stench of Nazi stormtroopers in their jackboots ransacking their homes and dragging off family members. - By Stuart Littlewood via MyCarBirdSeat Hamas – indeed, on all Palestinians – should hone their long-neglected public relations strategy, “whoever rules in Palestine will never win any battles with Israel or the US without a...

NOVANEWS Dear Friends, A humanitarian catastrophe of terrifying proportions is unfolding in Pakistan, with a fifth of the country under water, and millions of people homeless and desperately needing assistance. Some relief efforts are underway, but the international response to the mega-disaster has been irresponsibly slow and weak -- the UN has urgently appealed for $460 million of vital aid, but just 40% has been delivered.Relief workers warn that without an immediate increase in aid the death toll could sky-rocket. We can help by sending funds directly to the most reliable aid organizations, and by pressing our governments to step up their efforts. Let's show our leaders what generosity looks like, and demand that they join us. Click here to send a personal message to key d...