Human Rights

NOVANEWS by crescentandcross in Uncategorized  Reuters An Israeli mother-and-daughter play performed at a recent theatre festival climaxed with the tale of the killing of a Gaza doctor’s family, a 2009 event that brought the Israeli-Palestinian conflict deep into Israeli living rooms. “Explosive: War tourism” culminated with the sounds of an audio recording of Dr Izzeldin Abuelaish’s cries, heard live at the time on Israeli TV, as he pleaded in a phone call to an Israeli reporter friend asking him to get the army to stop shooting at his house. Three of Abuelaish’s daughters and a niece were killed by a tank shell during Israel’s December 2008-January 2009 offensive in the Gaza Strip. The annual Acco (Acre) Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre held in the Mediterranean coastal town i...

NOVANEWS Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Dozens of Palestinians who lost relatives in an Israeli military offensive in Gaza three years ago have been forced to put their compensation claims on hold, saying Israel has placed near-impossible barriers to proceeding with their cases. Israeli restrictions prevent Gazans from entering Israel to testify, undergo medical exams or meet with their lawyers. But the biggest obstacle, the victims say, are steep court fees that can reach tens of thousands of dollars. “The victim must pay for justice,” said Gaza resident Mohammed Abdel-Dayim, whose son and three nephews were killed during a military assault. “Israel should be ashamed.” Israel says the fees prevent frivolous lawsuits. They say they are imposed on many foreigners — not jus...

It seems that at least one of Kit and Jihan, and probably both, is still in Israeli detention. This AFP story was filed minutes ago. My understanding is that among the journalists, Jihan and Hassan refused to sign the deportation order.  http://news.yahoo.com/21-gaza-flotilla-activists-still-israeli-jail-113022900.html  A group of 21 activists who tried to sail to Gaza in breach of an Israeli blockade of the territory remain in Israeli custody, pending legal proceedings, the interior ministry said on Sunday.  "There are 21 passengers detained who refused to be expelled immediately and are engaged in proceedings against their deportation before an Israeli judge," interior ministry spokeswoman Sabine Haddad told AFP.  "Only after these proceedings are complete... can they be deported," sh...

NOVANEWS  "Three Pears" by Suzanne Broussard, New Orleans The Secret to Waging Effective War Against Unarmed Children By Suzanne Broussard There is a group of people that I can only refer to as the Newish Dominant Culture that has provided us with a most brutal police force here in the United States of America. Training has been provided by the Mossad/Israeli Defense League/Anti-Defamation League based on practiced and perfected techniques used on Palestinians living in Jerusalem for about three generations now. Now we all know that a Jew cannot be criticized by a Christian, the penalties being various and severe. Speaking the truth is now illegal here in the United States, such is the value of so many laws that exist today that I must approve of atrocities and you should too if you know...

NOVANEWS UnBelievable! The US is Using Nuclear Weapons in Central Asian War By Bob Nichols (San Francisco) Mr. President, for years now Do-Gooders, PeaceNiks and assorted anti-military types have talked incessantly about the imponderables of possible, potential, IF or maybe war-time use of nuclear weapons. Shoah Media Well, the United States Military has finally done it. They have had and are using nuclear weapons in the Central Asian War; at Fallujah, Iraq to be exact. This War Crime is proven to have commenced at least as far back as 2004. What’s more, the military’s use of nuclear weapons is primarily against civilians, maiming and killing civilians now as well as generations as yet unborn – a cowardly, psychotic [crazed] recognized War Crime. Mr. President, Dr. Busby, a chemical physi...

NOVANEWS  by crescentandcross in Uncategorized Nazi Baruch Goldstein ed note–when Israel produces creatures such as Dr. Baruch Goldstein, who went into a mosque during Purim and machine gunned to death 30 Palestinian muslims as they prayed and who is considered a national hero, as well as those doctors responsible for gutting Palestinians of their organs to be later sold to rich Jews around the world who need them, why then should anyone in his or her right mind be surprised to hear that Israeli doctors are not doing anything about the torture of Palestinians? guardian.co.uk Israeli doctors are ignoring the complaints of Palestinian patients who claim they have been mistreated, according to the report. Photograph: Frank Baron for the GuardianMedical professionals in Israel are being acc...

NOVANEWS  The Palestinian Institutions in Jerusalem strongly condemn the closure of four Palestinian NGOs in Jerusalem . Part of the Israeli policy to control and undermined the role of Palestinian civil society presence and effort Jerusalem . On the 25th of October, the Israeli Police handed a closing order to four registered Palestinian Jerusalemite NGOs for one month. The four NGOs provide services for Palestinian community in Jerusalem . The four NGOs include: ·   Shua’a Women Association: is a community based organization working in Jerusalem . Shua’a is, well known, and well respected Palestinian NGO dedicated to the empowering of women in Jerusalem to achieve their social, economic and political rights.; it provides educational opportunities and capacity building for Palestinian wom...

NOVANEWS Rosenbaum was identified to the FBI seven years ago as a major figure in a global human organ ring. International Business Times, By Michael Billera An Israeli man who lives in Brooklyn pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges of brokering a kidney transplant as part of a black market organ business. This is the first human organ trafficking conviction in the United States. For many years, Israel has been at the top of organ trafficking. Rosenbaum received at least $450,000 for trafficked organs. Rosenbaum was identified to the FBI seven years ago as a major figure in a global human organ ring. Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, 60, confessed to three counts of acquiring human organs for transportation and one count of conspiracy in Trenton, N.J. Rosenbaum also admitted that three ailing people...

NOVANEWS Ahlam and Nezar It is time to tell their stories, and to do so without apology. by James M. Wall Two young Palestinians, Ahlam (left) and Nezar (right) Tammimi, were among the 477 Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli prisons, October 18. They were in the first contingent of what is supposed to become more than one thousand Palestinians released in an exchange for Israeli Sergeant Gilad Shalit. The Western media covered the exchange as a story about the lone Israeli soldier involved. Television captured the dramatic scenes of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greeting the young man who had spent five years in an Hamas prison. The Western public saw and read virtually nothing about the 477 Palestinians who were released from Israeli prisons, except for those stories...

NOVANEWS The international public has so far been oblivious to the so-called “KCK operations” carried out in Turkey by Prime Minister Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party for the past two years. Under the guise of “fighting terrorism,” the Erdogan government has been using the judiciary, the police, and the media to penalize all civic activism in support of rights demanded by Kurdish citizens in Turkey. The “KCK operations” in particular have been deployed to spread fear amongst activists, to silence public dissent, and to normalize the arbitrary arrest of citizens. Ironically, the Erdogan government’s suppression of dissent and of democratic politics has visibly intensified at a time when “Turkish democracy” is being hailed as a model for the Arab world. Since 2009, as many as ...