Middle East

NOVANEWS "Palestinian women in particular continue to face extremely difficult circumstances due to human rights violations perpetrated against them. Violations of women's rights peaked during the latest Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip, which took the lives of 111 women. According to the documentation of the Palestinian centre for Human Rights (PCHR), the suffering of Palestinian women in the Gaza Strip has notably increased during the past few months due to the continued tightened siege imposed on the Gaza Strip, as well as the impacts of the Israeli offensive, which are still outstanding due the lack of reconstruction opportunities." Posted by As'ad at 7:14 AM www.angryarab.blogspot.com

NOVANEWS "Unlike other Arab Gulf women, Saudi women still face an uphill struggle to gain political and social rights and need the consent of male guardians for almost everything, including obtaining a passport and travel. They are also forced to cover up from head to toe when in public, and due to strict segregation rules their work opportunities are severely restricted." Posted by As'ad at 7:12 AM www.angryarab.blogspot.com

NOVANEWS The caption reads: "A Palestinian militant clashes with an Israeli policeman in Jerusalem's Old City on February 28. Photo: Isranet" (thanks Hussein) Posted by As'ad at 6:55 AM www.angryarab.blogspot.com

NOVANEWS by Anonymous on March 7, 2010 · A scene from the protest in Sheikh Jarrah (Photo: Yotam Ronen/ Activestills.org) Last night’s huge demonstration against the Israeli government’s program of Judaizing East Jerusalem, which took place at Sheikh Jarrah, looks to me like it could become one of those historic symbols that mark a fundamental turning point. It’s not the first such moment for Israel/Palestine, by any means, but it’s big and striking and (I hope) will take its place in the history of the struggle. For other contexts, think Stonewall. Think Rosa Parks. Think Selma. Think Little Rock. Think the great march on Washington. I have tried in recent months to convey my own sense of how the discourse about Israel/Palestine has been changing and also about how thrilling it has ...

NOVANEWS by Philip Weiss on November 12, 2009 The "price tag" for the government "pressure" on "illegal outposts" is more attacks on the Palestinians and their way of life. Who do I get to be angry at for this? Zionism? Barack Obama? The lobby? Pls advise. Ynet:  Akram Amram of Burin told Ynet that at around 5:30 am he had discovered 97 uprooted olive trees on his land. "I am not embarrassed to admit that when I discovered the massacre which took place on my land, I cried," he said. "These trees are more than 60 years old and I raised them just like I raised my kids." Related posts: The sovereign in action: Israeli backhoes uproot Palestinian olive trees, yesterday My grandmother’s trees changed the face of Palestine Israeli occupation, not Islam, forcing Palestinian Christians...

Just to show you the damage that Yaser Arafat (who is not dead enough, as far as I am concerned) has done: since Oslo, Zionist state  managed to increase its foreign diplomatic presence from less than 50 countries around the world to around 150 countries today.

by Qadir I was at the Apartheid Week event Thursday night at NYU, "The Indigenous Struggle: A Call for the Boycott of Israel." The talk was a BDS call against Israel by groups of Native Americans, South Africans, and Palestinians. The speakers were Nada Khader, the director of WESPAC, a Native American woman whose name I didn’t catch and can’t find, representing the Indigenous Delegation to Palestine, and Gilad Isaacs, an NYU graduate student from South Africa. Seemed like it was going to be a pretty unremarkable night in the anti-war movement until a few minutes into the talk, when streams of pro-Israel jihadis began streaming into the room. I’d say that between a quarter and a third of the audience were members of this group, obviously organized, wearing blue and white, along with prin...

NOVANEWS In case you were wondering how the UK government is going to justify changing the law to allow Zionist war crimes suspects a free pass to enter and leave the UK without the fear of prosecution, yesterday's Guardian showed the way in an article by Alan Travis and Ian Black: Changes in the law to remove the threat of foreign politicians becoming victims of "politically motivated" war crime arrests every time they visit Britain have been postponed until after the general election.  

NOVANEWS "Israeli Jews will never accept a one-state solution." This is a Zionist tenet indefatigably repeated every time someone proposes that equal rights be granted to Jews and Palestinians under a single polity between the Jordan and the Mediterranean. Let us assume, for the sake of argument, that the statement is accurate. It is also accurate to state that Rosarians (is that the demonym for my city?) are not prepared to pay $7 for an orchid. The result: orchids are not available at Rosario's flower kiosks. Peace, like flowers, is a commodity. You want to have it, you've got to pay for it. Now it's not that Israeli Jews reject the idea of paying a price altogether. They would be happy to give the Palestinians a collection of cantons with no contiguity, no borders with any country other...

by Philip Weiss on March 5, 2010 Europe is impatient and Israel says it should chill. In the International Herald Tribune, Israel’s ambassador to Ireland, Zion Evrony, is given a platform to instruct Palestinians to have patience if they want freedom. Because the Israelis must have many reassurances from them first before such a thing can come to pass. For Israel, the vital interest is its recognition by Palestinians as the nation-state of the Jewish people, existing with adequate security arrangements alongside a demilitarized Palestinian state. For Palestinians, the vital interest is independence and freedom within their own state.…As W.B. Yeats wrote, “Peace comes dropping slow.” There is no doubt that we must be patient, avoid setting unrealistic deadlines and above all, keep in min...