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18Jul

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Palestine Affairs, USA

HUWAIDA ARRAF: HOLLYWOOD HOPE FLOATS

NONANEWS From Huwaida Arraf: For those who have not seen Nima's blog, please go to: wideasleepinamerica.org 'Hope' Floats: Hey Hollywood, Time to Put Your Money Where Your Morality Is Nima Shirazi | Wide Asleep In America A coalition of nearly twenty American human rights and peace groups has joined the global justice community and numerous foreign governments in vowing to send more humanitarian aid ships to break the illegal Israeli blockade of Gaza this coming Fall. The coalition, united under the mantle US To Gaza, includes activist organizations such as CodePink, Jews Say No, Veterans For Peace, Voices for Creative Non-Violence, and Jewish Voice For Peace.In the wake of the deadly Israeli raid on an international flotilla carrying over 10,000 tons of humanitarian aid and hundreds o...

18Jul

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Palestine Affairs, ZIO-NAZI

HANNEN YOU DO NOT NEED ZIONIST PRIVILEGES

NOVANEWS 18 July 2010 The 'Only Democracy in the Middle East' Strips Arab Knesset Member of Privileges A Fake Iranian Passport Handed to Haneen Zoabi MK The Day Israel's 'Democracy' Officially Died Yes I can hear the laughter of my Palestinian friends. But it's true. You see even Britain, the biggest colonial power the world has known, maintained democracy of the bourgeois type at home even whilst it perpetrated massacres at Amritsar in India and the Hola Camp atrocities in Kenya. It is one of the ironies of imperialism that democracy at home was bought at the price of repression abroad. But as Karl Marx noted in the Communist Manifesto, a nation that oppresses another nation shall not itself be free. Marx was referring to Ireland but Palestine always was a very similar scenario, as...

17Jul

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Palestine Affairs

PALESTINIAN NON-VIOLENCE

NOVANEWS I am done with Matt Taylor. we now return to normal operating hours Enjoy? Or something? Cross-posted from Mondoweiss. Here is Taylor flailing in response. It is sad. At Mondoweiss and elsewhere, a discussion about “violence” versus “non-violence” has been taking place over the past month-or-so, since the massacre aboard the Mavi Marmara, revealingly joined recently by Nicholas Kristof. In the face of empirical and ethical deconstructions of the argument for “principled” non-violence for Palestinians and the total abnegation of force by solidarity activists, Matthew Taylor has offered a lengthy rejoinder re-stating his case for the moral, ethical, and pragmatic efficacy of Palestinian non-violence. Taylor begins by defining “violence,” goes on to re-assert the utility of Gandhi, ...

16Jul

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Palestine Affairs, ZIO-NAZI

ZOABI DIPLOMATIC PRIVILEGES

NOVANEWS Knesset revokes MK's privileges over flotilla support Friday, July 16, 2010 Interview: M.K. Haneen Zoabi (Zou'bi) Diplomatic Privileges Revoked in Israeli Knesset Bethlehem - Ma'an/Agencies Israel's parliament revoked the privileges of Palestinian Knesset member Haneen Zoabi on Tuesday for her participation in May's Gaza-bound aid flotilla attempting to break Israel's blockade. Following the announcement, Zoabi told Ma'an radio that she was expecting the majority of her peers to vote in favor of invalidating her diplomatic passport and revoking her right to receive funding for legal expenses. "Israel began to incriminate Arab citizens and accuse them of treason, and what I am facing is part of a collective procedure which started with Azmi Bishara, who was accused of treason and e...

15Jul

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Palestine Affairs, ZIO-NAZI

BOYCOTT ZIONIST SETTLEMENT PRODUCTS IS WORKING

NOVANEWS MISHOR ADUMIM, Palestinian Territories — Israeli settler and industrialist Avi Elkayam, 35, has no patience with the Palestinian boycott of settlement products. "It's economic terrorism," he shouts shaking his fist. The months-old campaign has had a limited financial impact so far but it has a catastrophic potential, he says. "It's economic terrorism that will lead to real terror when thousands of people lose their jobs," says Elkayam, who heads the bosses union in Mishor Adumim, the largest Israeli industrial park in the occupied West Bank. A new Palestinian law imposes prison sentences of up to five years and fines of up to 22,000 dollars (18,000 euros) for trading in settlement goods, but the Palestinian Authority (PA) has yet to pass a proposed legislation that would severely ...

15Jul

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Palestine Affairs, Russia

RUSSA ARMORED VEHICLES TO PUPPET AB-ASS

NOVANEWS File: Russian paratroopers atop armored personnel carriers. Russia's Foreign Ministry has announced it will provide 50 armored personnel carriers to Palestinians, Reuters reported Thursday. "In the coming days 50 armored personnel carriers will be delivered to Jordan and then will be handed over to Palestiniansecurity forces in the West Bank," Reuters quoted spokesman Andrei Nesterenko. Russia offered to supply Palestinians with the vehicles for internal security as early as 2005, but Zio-Nazi army initially opposed the delivery.

15Jul

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Palestine Affairs, ZIO-NAZI

ZIO-NAZI REGIME EXPEL PALESTINIAN POLITICIANS

NOVANEWS Israeli authorities have threatened four Palestinian politicians with expulsion from Jerusalem because of their affiliation to Hamas in a case which could have wide ramifications for others deemed undesirable by the Jewish state. Mohammed Abu Tir, 59, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), is in police custody for failing to leave the city by the end of last month. Instantly recognisable for his dyed orange beard, Abu Tir was released from an Israeli prison in May after almost four years, and was immediately told he must abandon political activity or leave Jerusalem. Two other members of the PLC and a former Palestinian minister have moved into the grounds of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent in East Jerusalem in protest at the deportation orders. The me...

15Jul

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Palestine Affairs

YOU KNOW FINKELSTEIN INTERESTED IN PALESTINE

NOVANEWS There's a lot to say and get pissed off about in Jamie Stern-Weiner's recent interview with Norman Finkelstein. Some of it will definitely be taken up by others. Finkelstein no longer strikes me as very radical, nor does he strike me anymore as very thoughtful, or, better, reflective. His concern for Palestine has always had a diamond-hard outrage at its core, but it is also aging into a resigned pragmatism. His prose and his thinking both lately have these machinic cadences, and I wonder where the man is who called Hezbollah heroes for fending off the Israeli army, and captivated me into caring about this conflict on a more intense level with his own intense moral clarity and his harsh Spartan judgments, "incensed that history should even have versions." Jamie asks and NF answers...

14Jul

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Palestine Affairs, ZIO-NAZI

PALESTINIANS DON'T NEED ZIONIST TUTEIAGE WITH NONVOILENT PROTEST

NOVANEWS by Ofer Neiman A popular colloquial expression in Hebrew regards the futility of “selling ice to an Eskimo”. Perhaps the New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof should take note. In a recent blog entry, Kristof wrote that “Israeli civil society promotes democratic values in Palestinian communities”, and that “…the weekly Sheikh Jarrah protests in East Jerusalem, in which Israeli Jews play a major role, offer a useful model of peaceful protest”. Unfortunately, Kristof presents a patronizing and misinformed view of the history of the Palestinian struggle against Israel’s policies of land grab and occupation. It is true that some Palestinians, especially former prisoners who have risen to leadership roles, openly state that they have learned a lot about Israeli society during their impriso...

13Jul

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Palestine Affairs

THE HYPOCRISY OF PREACHING NONVIOLENCE TO PALESTINIANS

NOVANEWS http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/12-0 Published on Monday, July 12, 2010 by CommonDreams.org by Ira Chernus Nicholas Kristof is in Palestine, though like all mass media journalists he calls it "the West Bank." He has just discovered that many Palestinians are resisting the Israeli occupation nonviolently, though scholars of nonviolence started writing about the Palestinian resistance over 20 years ago. So Kristof is "waiting for Gandhi," as the title of his latest New York Times column puts it, or at least a "Palestinian version of Martin Luther King Jr." Perhaps I should not be so cynical. Kristof has gained fame as a crusader for human rights, especially women's rights. Now he's taking a real risk by advocating for Palestinian rights and praising Palestinian resistanc...