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NOVANEWS AMMAN — Jordanian activists and trade unionists slammed Zionist Mu-Barak regime  on Thursday for denying them entry to the Gaza Strip for the second time in less than a month to deliver aid to the blockaded Palestinians. "We are not shocked that Zionist Mu-Barak prevents us from delivering aid and medical supplies to Gaza," Ahmad Armuti, president of the Islamist-dominated unions' council, said. "We regret, reject and condemn Zionist Mubarak unacceptable position, not only towards our brave people of Gaza, but also towards all Jordanians." Armuti called on the Jordanian government to demand clarification from Egypt, which "should be pressed to change its position." "This will not stop the Jordanian trade unions from working hard to break the unjust blockade and resisting any form ...

NOVANEWS Moscow, June 12, 2010 (Pal Telegraph-- by Rachael Rudolph)-  In most countries the duty of an officer of the law is to protect ordinary citizens, and not to brutally beat, torture and kill those they are charged with protecting.  Two officers, Mohamed Alfallah and Awaad Elmokhber, have been accused of beating, torturing and killing Khalid Saeed in Alexandria, Egypt.  For many human rights observers the death of young Khalid is just one of many cases that have occurred at the hands of the current Egyptian government under the so-called Emergency Laws.Khaleed Saeed, a 28-year old, was in an internet café that he frequently visited when the officers stormed in demanding to see the identification cards of all those present.   Under Egyptian emergency laws, enacted following the assass...

NOVANEWS  by Sherwood Ross Although Egypt’s heir apparent Gamal Mubarak says next year’s election “is going to be free and fair,” his father Hosni’s regime has tightened the election laws to block other contenders to his presidency, an American magazine says. Mubarak senior has also used the odious Emergency Law to jail five of the 16 leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in the past year and is imprisoning secular critics as well. People are afraid to speak out, much less run for office. Gamal Eid, executive director of the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, told Joshua Hammer of The New Yorker magazine that “Hundreds of bloggers are being summoned, kept for days, or weeks, or months, and then released.” One blogger, Mosaad Abu Fajr, who ripped the government’s human-rights abuse...

NOVANEWS "Egyptian State Security Intelligence (SSI) in Fayoum City summoned Taha Abdel Tawab Mohammed, a physician from Fayoum governorate in Egypt who had been organising support for Dr. Mohammad Al Baradei, a potential presidential candidate in Egypt's 2011 presidential elections."

NOVANES "Egypt has canceled the inauguration of a restored synagogue citing the Israeli oppression of Muslims in the occupied territories as well as excesses by Jews during an earlier ceremony at the synagogue." Notice that the anti-Semitism of the pro-US regimes is always forgiven. And this Hawas guy has clear anti-Semitic tendencies. Posted by: www.angryarab.blogspot.com

NOVANEWS The Arab blogsphere is full of references and celebrations regarding the death of Mu-Barak qui rit. There are even songs.

NOVANEWS The head of the Information Committee of the ruling party in Egypt said that whoever asks him about the next president of Egypt is impolite. A woman in the audience said: I am impolite. (thanks Moustafa) Posted by As'ad at 7:53 AM SEE:www.angryarab.blogspot.com

NOVANEWS The building housing the Egyptian Journalists’ Syndicate is not beautiful. Its beige concrete is filthy with Cairene grit. Towering meter-square concrete columns stand in rows in front of a cobalt-blue mirrored-glass façade, a jarring mix of faux-Greek architecture and modernist conceit. It has a large set of steps in front of it, rising for 5 or 6 meters. On Saturday, on those steps, over 200 Egyptian activists for Palestinian rights, alongside 20 or more international sympathizers, condemned the underground metal wall the Zionist Mubarak government is now building on the Gaza-Egypt border. The event was filled with energy. One participant clambered atop the riot barriers, holding on to two fellow demonstrators for support, leading the protesters in a call-and-response chant: “Ho...

NOVANEWS By : Max Aji Zionist regime of Mu-Barak in Egypt is taking a lesson from its financier. You don't like what's coming over your border? Solution's simple. Lock it down. In lieu of gassing the tunnels while Palestinians are inside them--with mounting deaths--Mu-Barak has decided to drop huge steel slabs 20 to 30 meters deep into the earth. They will cut off most, but not all, of the ongoing "smuggling": food, fuel, water, medicine. Electronics, cows, and quartered cars. The cars, perhaps the Palestinians can do without for the moment. They're only accessible to the ~10 percent of the population that effectively participates in the money-economy. Lack of cars tends not to kill. Food is a bit of a problem. So is gas. The tunnels supply all of the commercial-use petrol and diesel avail...