Middle East

NOVANEWS 31 December, 2010 Press Release 31 Decemebr 2010 Bil'in Female Protester in Critical Condition from Tear-Gas inhalation  Jawaher Abu Rahmah, 36, was evacuated to the Ramallah hospital after inhaling massive amounts of tear-gas towards protesters in Bil'in earlier today. She is currently in critical condition and is not responding to treatment. Another protester required hospitalization after being hit in the face with a tear-gas projectile shot directly at him. Doctors at the Ramallah hospital are currently fighting for Jawaher Abu Rahmah's life, after an acute deterioration in her condition this evening. Abu Rahmah suffered from severe asphyxiation during today's demonstration in Bil'in as a result of tear-gas inhalation, and was evacuated to the Ramallah hospital. She is curren...

NOVANEWS   Dear ,   At the threshold of the New Year, I write to wish you a new year of freedom and liberation. This has been an unbelievable year for me in both highs and lows. A year during which I have witnessed how, despite repression, ordinary people all across Palestine take to the streets for freedom.   In my village, Bil'in, thousands of people marched on the Wall today to take it down. During the demonstration, one protestor, a 36 year old resident of the village, Jawaher Abu-Rahmah, was critically injured by severe tear-gas inhalation. She is currently hospitalized in Ramallah, unresponsive to medical treatment as the doctors are fighting for her life.   Bil'in has been struggling for almost six years against the Wall that was built on our lands. The illegality and absu...

NOVANEWS Dear friends,   Three items below.   Item 1 is a translation of a letter that was sent to Israel’s Attorney General on December29, 2910.  It appeals to the Attorney General to ask the police to investigate those who published and signed the letter from the Rabbi’s wives.  The quotations of Nazi laws and writings were inserted already in English.    The translation is followed by background about the letter from 3 sources—IMEMC, Arutz 7 (a far right-wing station), and the Guardian.  The Guardian report is especially useful, as it also relates the statistics on Israeli society’s reaction to the Rabbi’s letter forbidding renting and selling of Jewish property to  letter.  The stats show that racism in Israel is not limited to fundamentalist Jews.  It exists in a large part of society...

NOVANEWS    By Phil Giraldi   Violence erupted throughout Europe in 1848, a time that was later dubbed the “year of revolution.”  Though the motives and perpetrators varied from country to country and even from region to region, the frequently violent protests sought major changes in the status quo, to include political emancipation and economic reform.  The revolutionaries were eventually suppressed by use of military force, but the ideas of national rebirth and political change lived on to resurface in Italy, Germany, and France later in the century. What drove the revolutionaries was the principle that the old system that had for centuries regulated the lives of Europeans was broken beyond repair.  The old land-based economy had produced starvation and the control of the political str...

NOVANEWS 30/12/2010   How much public influence does a pro-Palestinian Israeli have? Amira Hass - Haaretz - I don`t know what other option there is in so extreme a situation, in which four million people are being kept under a military regime without democratic rights by a country that is interested in presenting a democratic image. In a situation where there is a blockade and collective punishment of 1.5 million people, can one hesitate at all whether to hold a very minimalist protest in Tel Aviv? It seems to me part of the duty of a human being, the least we can do. The question is not why I need all this mess but why so few people join in.     `Am al-Ara`is and Bi`r al-`Id David Shulman - By now a truly amazing caravan of military and police vehicles have descended u...

NOVANEWS   December 30, 2010 by Michael Leon As we close a year in which our country,our country, has aided in the slaughter of innocents; we ask: What were the Israeli commandos thinking when they boarded the Gaza-bound freedom flotilla and killed ten people? When Israel illegally held Nobel Peace Prize winner, Mairead Corrigan? When Israel killed a young American peace activist, Farrakhan Dogan? Knowing well this killing would have the almost unimous support of the U.S. Congress and President Obama. More importantly we say: Not in our name, Mr. President. Israel is no friend of ours. When a Palestinian loses his home to bulldozers; when Israel imprisons and slaughters Gazans, we say: No more, because: No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part ...

NOVANEWS “Among the recipients of U.S. military and economic aid and diplomatic support, Israel occupies a unique place. Israel is generally portrayed by the U.S. mass media as the victim of terrorism. (…) Its own role as a major perpetrator of state terrorism is consistently downplayed  or ignored. (Edward Herman, Excerpt from The Real Terror Network, South End Press, 1982)” “The Israeli prime ministers: 1-Menachim Begin took part in terrorist acts in the 1940s, including the attack on the King David Hotel which killed 91 people. 2-Yitzhak Shamir was the operations commander, and later leader, of the Stern Gang, a terrorist group which was responsible for a string of political assassinations. 3-Ariel Sharon initiated the Sabra-Shatila massacre in which between 1000 and 3000 people were ...

NOVANEWS December 30, 2010 "But those Arabs who do serve in the IDF are respected and honored" -- Not With regard to the Arab population of Israel, there do exist issues. Nobody's denying that, but they're the result of the conflict and of the Arab unwillingness to serve in the Israeli Defense Forces. Those who do serve, however, get the same privileges as the Jews do in all walks of Israeli life. This is the kind of nonsense Zionists can peddle with impunity because, logically, we can't trace every last Israeli Arab who served in the army to see if they're granted the same rights as the Jews. We'll have to make do, then, with those who make it to the headlines. A few days ago, Ynet reported: Arabs flee home due to racist threats Five residents of the north, four Muslims and a Druze, wer...

NOVANEWS December 30, 2010 by Gordon Duff  ANOTHER STORY “DISAPPEARED” FROM THE NEWS, “WIKI-STYLE” “Prosecutor: Genesee County jail inmate tried to poison serial killing suspect Abuelazam Suspected serial stabber Elias Abuelazam appears in court earlier this month. ASSOCIATED PRESS FLINT, Mich. — The Genesee County prosecutor’s office says a jail inmate has been charged with trying to poison serial killing suspect Elias Abuelazam (EE’-lee-uhs A’-boo-LAH’-zuhm).  Prosecutor David Leyton tells the Flint Journal an inmate tried to put an oven cleaner in Abuelazam’s food. Leyton says it happened some time ago and he isn’t revealing the suspect’s name. Attempted poisoning can carry a penalty of up to 10 years in prison.  Abuelazam faces charges of murdering three people and trying to murder...

12/30/2010 Never again? Elderly Palestinian women called ‘whores’ on Yad Vashem tour, while racism explodes across Israel Hatem, 17, was shot in the head while purchasing strawberries to sell at market in the Gaza Strip, about 800 metres from the border fence with Israel. SJP statement on FBI intimidation: ‘We live in an age in which silence is not only criminal but suicidal – we shall, therefore, make as much noise as we can’ Why doesn’t CNN hold Fran Townsend to the Octavia Nasr standard? Gaza was #11 in the long sad caravan of Israel’s wars of regime change ‘The Palestine Cables’: Other countries want to ’smoke out’ Israel on NPT and Mossad use of passports Lanny Davis drops Ivory Coast account Am I allowed to be a Palestinian Jew? Cast truth Only Jews get...