Gaza

NOVANEWS January 6, 2009     As soon as the slaughter began, I avoided it–meaning the internet–like the plague. I had already been through it before–a thousand times at least–and knew if I was to keep what little sanity I had left I simply could not do it, meaning looking at the photos, and particularly those of innocent kids being shot and blown to pieces. It’s not that I’m the typical callous, stupid American who would rather see Britney Spears wiggling and jiggling herself to pieces in some new music video than the real-life suffering of real-life others. Rather, it is the other direction–I’m over-sensitive to it and for the easy-to-understand reason that those pictures look just like any one my 9 kids. Just about every boy or girl–Palestinian, Lebanese, Iraqi or whatnot–is a spitting...

NOVANEWSW  Joseph Massad, The Electronic Intifada, 4 January 2009   Nazi troops round up Polish Jews during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in May 1943. (Photographer Unknown) One is often baffled by the ironies of international relations and the alliances they foster. Take for example the Zionist colonial settlement that had declared war on the Palestinian people and several Arab countries since its inception while at the same time it built alliances with many Arab regimes and with Palestinian leaders.While Hashemite-Zionist relations and Maronite Church-Zionist relations have always been known and documented, there has been less documentation of the services that Zionist has provided and continues to provide to Arab regimes over the decades. It is now recognized that Zionist's 196...

NOVANEWS “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 happened so fast but th...

NOVANEWS December 28, 2008     “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 deaths) must–if it is to be understood correctly–be placed within the historical context of the rel...

NOVANEWS   By Donald Macintyre Friday, 30 May 2008   Archbishop Desmond Tutu has denounced the international community for its "silence and complicity" on what he called Israel's "abominable" 11-month blockade of Gaza. The South African Nobel Laureate, who ended a three-day visit to Gaza yesterday, strongly condemned the blockade imposed after Hamas's enforced takeover of the Strip last June that has reduced electricity, severely cut fuel supplies and brought industry to a halt. The Archbishop, mainly here on a UN mission to investigate what he called the Beit Hanoun massacre of 21 civilians by Israeli tank shelling 18 months ago, said: "All we had heard about conditions in Gaza – deprivation, a sense of despair, the lack of economic activity – had not prepared us for the stark reality w...

NOVANEWS “There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.’’ Zionist PM Golda Maier A Zionist government minister warned that increasing rocket fire from Gaza would bring Palestinians a SHOAH*-the Hebrew word normally used to denote the Nazi Holocaust inflicted on Jews during the Second World War. The declaration by the deputy Zionist Nazi Defence Minister, Matan Vilnai, come amid fresh calls from some Zionist politicians for a ground invasion of Gaza. Zionist Vilnai declared: ‘ As the rocket fire grows, and the range increases-and they haven’t yet said the last word on this, they are bringing upon themselves a greater SHOAH because we will use all our strength in every way we deem appropriate, whether in air strikes or on the ground. (6) Cutting off a million-and –a half peopl...