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Treason for Apartheid March 20, 2010 by Michael Leon · Leave a Comment Share As the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Michael Mullen warns that an Israeli attack on Iran would endanger Americans in the Persian Gulf (Haaretz) and directly result in the deaths of American soldiers (Greenwald, Salon), rightwingers committed to a militaristic Israel in a phrase: Don’t care. In this spirit of treason, what are they protecting? An apartheid state. * Share/Bookmark Related Products & Services:

NOVANEWS Restrictions on the transfer of goods to Gaza: Obstruction and obfuscation January 2010 Introduction – restrictions not about security Beginning in September 2007, Israel openly stated that it would restrict the movement of goods into and out of Gaza not in order to protect against security threats stemming from the transfer, but rather as part of a policy to apply "pressure" or "sanctions" on the Hamas regime. Until 2007, Israel had stated that its restrictions on the entrance of goods into Gaza stemmed from security concerns – either threats to the crossings themselves which would result in preventing passage, or security concerns stemming from the nature of the goods entering (i.e. "dual use" goods which have both a civilian as well as a military use). With the passage of a Sep...

NOVANEWS LA Times Israeli military kills Palestinian teen after fight over West Bank well A feud over a water well in a village near Nablus spurs an 'illegal riot,' Israeli officials say. One boy is killed; another is critically wounded when shot in the head. By Edmund Sanders Reporting from Jerusalem Israeli forces killed a Palestinian teenager and critically injured another Saturday after a clash between Jewish settlers and Palestinians over a West Bank water well, officials said. It marks some of the worst such violence in more than a year and comes at a time of heightened tensions over Israeli settlements. Feuding between Palestinians and Jewish settlers over a spring at Iraq Burin village near the city of Nablus has occurred almost weekly. Palestinians accuse the settlers of trying to...

NOVANEWS Forwarded message ---------- From: Irish Date: Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 17:52 Subject: [GazaFriends] Thanks everyone - I'm OK - Huwaida Arraf To: gazafriends Dear friends, Thanks so much for your concern, solidarity and support. I was released last night at around 6:45pm from Neve Tirtze prison in Ramle. Save for minor cuts and bruises, I am OK. I haven't gotten a chance to see Ellen Stark (the ISM volunteer shot in the arm) yet. I hear she has a broken wrist but is doing OK. I was arrested on Friday at around noon as I tried to get the Israeli soldiers to stop shooting at people in Nabi Saleh (a small village of about 400 people), especially after ISM volunteer Ellen Stark was shot in the arm. We were in Nabi Saleh for a weekly demonstration by the villagers against the theft of th...

NOVANEWS http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1157854.html By Udi Aloni The terrifying specter of non-violent resistance to the occupation and the apartheid regime is hovering over the State of Israel, and all the state's dignitaries have been recruited to battle it. This non-violent resistance operates both in areas under Israel's reign of control, in the form of a popular struggle on both sides of the green line, and across the globe, through the Israeli and international affirmative response to the Palestinian call for boycotts, divestment and sanctions on Israel, until it ends the occupation and grants full equality to people from both nations living under its rule. As an act of solidarity with the subjugated Palestinian people, a group of Jewish Israelis has decided to join those Pales...

NOVANEWS http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1157857.html By Jack Khoury and Dana Weiler-Polak, Haaretz Correspondents The current Knesset is the most racist Israeli parliament since the country's founding, according to a report published Sunday by the Coalition Against Racism and the Mossawa Center, which works to promote equality for the Palestinian citizens of Israel. According to the report, published to mark International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the number of laws that discriminate against Arab citizens proposed in the current Knesset bypassed all previous years, increasing by 75 percent. "There has never been a Knesset as active in proposing discriminating and racist legislation against the country's Arab citizens," said the report's authors Lizi Sagi and Ni...

NOVANEWS The Guardian Palestinians shot dead by Israeli troops near Nablus. Guardian sees x-ray of bullet lodged in protester's skull contradicting claims by Israel that live rounds were not used. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/21/palestinians-shot-dead-isreal-nablus Rory McCarthy in Nablus guardian.co.uk http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1157845.html ] Also, most important, read the Palestinian version of Saturday’s shooting: http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article1309 Israeli troops shot dead two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank today amid a new descent into violence. The two, who Palestinians claimed were detained while ploughing a field of olive trees near Nablus, were shot several times. Palestinian officials said both were 17. The Israeli military said...

NOVANEWS ""The IDF confirmed that soldiers used rubber bullets and tear gas canisters to disperse rock-throwers near the village of Burin, 7 km. southwest of Nablus, and that a preliminary investigation had ruled out the possibility that Zio-Nazi soldiers used regular bullets. But Pollak contended that Qadus was indeed killed by live ammunition." one side confirmed, the other merely contended."

NOVANEWS This will not be a headline in the New York Times: "Zio-Nazi troops shot dead two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank today amid a new descent into violence. The two, who Palestinians were detained while ploughing a field of olive trees near Nablus, were shot several times. Palestinian officials said both were 17. The Zio-Nazi military said they had tried to stab a soldier." See: www.guardian.co.uk

NOVANEWS URGENT ACTION: Protest against Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, Monday 22nd March, 5pm, London. Nir Barkat, the mayor of Jerusalem behind the announcement of 1,600 new settlement units in East Jerusalem, will be visiting London early next week. A total of 50,000 housing units have planned in the coming years - doubling the settler population - and reducing the Palestinian population to a third. Israel's plans to restore Hurva synagogue a few hundred meters from Al-Aqsa mosque has led to clashes over the last few days - men under 50 have been refused entry into Al-Aqsa since Friday. Israel has deployed some 3,000 security forces across the city. He will be speaking at Chatham House (10 St James's Square, London SW1Y 4LE). Come along and protest against the ethnic cleansing of Palestinia...