Gaza

NOVANEWS by Philip Weiss The American Society of International Law is featuring just one Goldstone panel during a conference filled with discussion of "International Law in a Time of Change," a clear reference to the Goldstone effect. Goldstone’s sure to come up, even in State Department official Anne Marie Slaughter’s appearance at the lead lecture, on changing standards. Here’s the key panel, in the morning, so folks sleep through it… The Goldstone Report and the Modern Law of War 10:45am – 12:15pm Salon I The Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (the Goldstone Report) has given rise to sharp disagreements about the operation of international humanitarian law in modern asymmetric warfare. Two legal experts will offer divergent opinions and exchange v...

NOVANEWS By Jeff Baker, The Oregonian March 15, 2010, 3:33PM Portland writer and cartoonist Joe Sacco won the $10,000 Ridenhour Book Prize, given in honor of Ron Ridenhour, a Vietnam veteran who helped expose the My Lai massacre and later became an award-winning investigative journalist. Sacco won for "Footnotes in Gaza," an investigation into a 1956 mass killing in Gaza that Sacco learned about in 2001. The Ridenhour Prize citation said "Footnotes in Gaza" is "a work of profound social significance, one that explores the complex continuum of history. At a time when peace in the Middle East has never seemed more elusive, Sacco's illustrations bear witness to the lives of those who are trapped by the conflict." Other winners include Howard Zinn, who was posthumously awarded the Ridenhour C...

NOVANEWS (Photo: Max Ajl) Max Ajl, from the blog Jewbonics, is in Gaza and wrote this brief report: [There was] 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-spea...

NOVANEWS FARMERS MARCH WEEKLY AGANIST THE BUFFER ZONE, AN ZIO-NAZI IMPOSED FIREZONE FROM WHICH FARMERS ARE BARRED, PREVENTING THEM FROM CULTIVATING THEIR LAND. FARMERS WHO GOES TO THEIR FARMS WILL BE SHOT BY ZIONIST SNIPERS IN THEIR WATCH-TOWERS, BEHIND RAZOR-WIRE AND MOTION SONSORS. Farmers march weekly--and this week, it seems daily--against the buffer zone, an Israeli-imposed free-fire zone from which farmers are barred, preventing them from cultivating their land. When the ISM goes with them they are maybe a little less likely to be shot by the Israeli snipers sitting in their watch-towers, behind razor-wire and motion sensors.  Soon after we arrived, a few military jeeps arrived in huffing clouds of smoke to the watch-tower on the other side of the fence, presumably to see what the ...

NOVANEWS FARMERS MARCH WEEKLY AGANIST THE BUFFER ZONE, AN ZIO-NAZI IMPOSED FIRE ZONE FROM WHICH FARMERS ARE BARRED, PREVENTING THEM FROM CULTIVATING THEIR LAND. FARMERS WHO GOES TO THEIR FARMS WILL BE SHOT BY ZIONIST SNIPERS IN THEIR WATCH-TOWERS, BEHIND RAZOR-WIRE AND MOTION SENSORS. Farmers march weekly--and this week, it seems daily--against the buffer zone, an Israeli-imposed free-fire zone from which farmers are barred, preventing them from cultivating their land. When the ISM goes with them they are maybe a little less likely to be shot by the Israeli snipers sitting in their watch-towers, behind razor-wire and motion sensors.  Soon after we arrived, a few military jeeps arrived in huffing clouds of smoke to the watch-tower on the other side of the fence, presumably to see what the...

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