Middle East

NOVANEWS From Dorothy Naor – an Israeli Jew Sunday, November 28, 2010                                                                                                                   to Maurice Ostroff ZNN@yahoogroups.com   Subject: Your Open Letter to Professors Allan Boesak and Farid Esackhttp://dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/ZNN/message/1803   Dear Maurice Ostroff,   I read with great interest your Open Letter to the two Professors.  The result was that I learned that while you and I apparently live in the same country—Israel—we do not see things through the same glasses.  I do not refer merely to opinions, but to statistics and other facts.  I will treat first the issue of equal rights in Israel proper, and then move on to the West Bank and Gaza. In the following, I use the term “Palestin...

NOVANEWS November 26, 2010 by Ken O'Keefe    KEN O'KEEFE IN GAZA Road to Hope (R2H) Convoy Reaches Gaza Despite kidnapping, government obstacles and financial challenges   The Road to Hope Convoy reunited in Egypt after having been split by the Egyptian requirement to charter a ship from Libya to El Arish and the kidnapping of 10 convoy members from Libya to Greece.  3 members of the convoy travelled to Egypt by sea with 30 vehicles and £500,000 of humanitarian aid, 29 convoy members flew in a chartered jet from Libya to El Arish and 3 of the 10 kidnap victims flew from the UK and Greece to Egypt on November 21, 23 and 25, all reuniting on the 25th.  The convoy was subsequently challenged by the Egyptian resistance to the 3 kidnapped convoy members rejoining the convoy, this because they...

NOVANEWS   The apartheid metaphor is fine for polemical purposes. For analytical ends, it is problematic. The central issue is that of labor dependency. Israel long ago replaced Gaza-as-bedroom-community with near-slaves from the Philippines and other Asian countries, and does not rely on West Bank-based Palestinian labor. In contrast, South Africa was vitally dependent on black labor from the Bantustans. So what’s the plan for economic growth in the West Bank (As always, forget Gaza)? A recent essay by Sam Bahour in the Middle East Research and Information Project lays out the economic trajectory of Fayyadism. At best, these economic development programs are composed of industrial zones which “promise menial labor-intensive jobs to Palestinians who are extremely reliant on donor funds to ...

NOVANEWS November 26, 2010     Ken O’Keefe, former US Marine and hero of Israel’s murderous attack onboard the Mavi Marmara in May joins the program from Gaza to discuss his involvement with the latest aid convoy in bringing supplies to the besieged Palestinians. http://theuglytruth.podbean.com/2010/11/26/the-ugly-truth-podcast-nov-26-2010/

NOVANEWS UNITED NATIONS Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs occupied Palestinian territory 10 - 23 November 2010 West Bank 23 Palestinians injured by Israeli forces During the two-week reporting period, Israeli forces injured 23 Palestinians, the majority of them in weekly demonstrations. Since the beginning of 2010, Israeli forces have injured 1,074 Palestinians, of whom 30 percent were injured in weekly protests. In comparison, a total of 764 Palestinians were injured during the equivalent period in 2009. Fifteen Palestinians and one Israeli activist were injured in clashes that erupted during the weekly demonstrations against the expansion of an Israeli settlement (Hallamish) and the construction of the Barrier (Bil’in village) in the Ramallah area, and against restricti...

NOVANEWS     The global lure of Muslim resistance We can define what being Australian is Memo to self; always check you have the right Nazi Israel should fear global opinion realising how it occupies America’s real priorities (and the arms industry are very happy) Using Wikileaks to sue the US Talking to the DPRK is essential Keep those terror threats coming (the dollars are rolling in) Corporate “journalist” channels juicy Zionist quotes over Tehran Inside the Serco British test-case   The global lure of Muslim resistance   25 Nov 2010 Amazing reporting by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad in the UK Guardian: British-based men of Afghan origin are spending months at a time in Afghanistan fighting Nato forces before returning to the UK, the Guardian has learned. They also se...

NOVANEWS Ynet, November 25, 2010         In the name of humanity   Op-ed: Israelis who drive Palestinian women to Tel Aviv beach are heroines, not criminals   http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3989284,00.html   Anat Meidan   In recent months, a group of Israeli women that includes editor Ilana Hammerman and author Klil Zisapel is undertaking a controversial campaign. They use their vehicles to drive Palestinian women from their villages in the territories to the Tel Aviv beach.   These women, who never saw the sea before and whose only contact with Israelis is with armed soldiers at roadblocks, encounter a different life on the Tel Aviv beachfront promenade. After some hours of bathing, observation, and amazement upon seeing the sea for the first time in their lives, they return to...

NOVANEWS November 25, 2010           by Jonathan Azaziah,  www.maskofzion.com   New York (City) is a place that is heavily influenced, and in the majority of instances, utterly controlled by the obscenely wealthy Zionist elite.  The governorship is currently occupied by David Paterson, who replaced the disgraced Zionist Eliot Spitzer. Just two days after Spitzer stepped down, New York’s Zionist leaders fully endorsed Paterson, who had been well known for his charity activities in the Zionist community even prior to becoming governor (1). His lieutenant governor, who controls the state senate, is Richard Ravitch. Though his ascension to the position was ruled unlawful (2), he remains in power.   Ravitch is a powerful Zionist whose construction company built Manhattan Plaza and Watersid...

NOVANEWS Gabriel Ash is an activist and writer. Ash is a core member of IJAN (Inrternational Jewish Anti-Zionist Network), and he co-writes the blog Jews Sans Frontieres. In this article Ash points out a tendency within the Israeli left to blame groups - other than the ruling elite - for the growing racism of Israeli society. Ash claims that it's the policies of the ruling class ("AHUSALIM" - secular Ashkenazi veteran socialist nationalists), not various other groups, even ones who are more overtly racist than those in control, that are responsible for Israel's perpetual motion towards ever growing racist reality. Any strategy aiming to deal with the underclasses - the religious, the emigrants from the former Soviet Union, or the Mizrahim, ends up propping up the ruling class, and is self-...

NOVANEWS Dear Friends, Five Items tonight. The first, about Abu Rahmeh’s incarceration being extended, opens with an intro by me about brainwashing—that is to say, about how Israelis and others are brainwashed by the way news is presented in the press. In item 2 Amira Hass argues that not the soldiers alone but the higher brass—military and government—should stand accused.  I agree.  But this, in my opinion, does not excuse soldiers of doing wrong.  True, they are brain washed, and believe that they are doing right.  But the argument in the Nuremberg trials and in Eichman’s trial here is that claiming that one was merely obeying orders does not excuse one from guilt.  Nor do I believe that Hass means to imply that it does.  But because she is not absolutely clear on this I feel it nece...