Literature

NOVANEWS   Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem Chair of West Midland Palestine Solidarity Campaign   Fatal Embrace: Christians, Jews, and the Search for Peace in the Holy Land By Mark Braverman with Foreword by Walter Brueggemann Synergy Books: Austin, Texas; $16.95, 416 pages www.SynergyBooks.net Reviewed by SAM BAHOUR Fatal Embrace: Christians, Jews, and the Search for Peace in the Holy Land by Mark Braverman is a courageous book, filled with urgency and hope. In the expanding library of literature that seeks to shine a rational light on the ever-deteriorating situation in Palestine and Israel, Braverman’s contribution has a very particular and useful focus. It speaks personally and intimately to Jews and Christians about the interconnectedness of the roles of their respec...

NOVANEWS     THE TRANSFER AGREEMENT – a book by Edwin Black, 1984 This book explains How ZIONISTS used the Transfer Agreement to allow Hitler to succeed in War and the proceed with the Holocaust of Jews by the millions. The agreement transferred 60,000 Jews and $100 million dollars to Palestine on the condition that Zionist organizations would halt their economic boycott of NAZI Germany – a strategy that threatened to openly topple Hitler’s government, then only in his first year of power. YouTube - Veterans Today - Greedy and ideological Zionists contributed to the growth of the Third Reich via the so-called “Transfer Agreement” – a business arrangement to transfer German Jews to Palestine. In return, German exports would be bought through Zionist entities to ensure the econom...

NOVANEWS by crescentandcross ''Anti-semitism is old Zionist Propaganda''   Ed note–an excellent piece of writing from my good friend Bill over at the Alaska Intel Report As the grandson of European immigrants, I can tell you without hesitation my grandparents made no bones about how they felt about ‘the jews’ when I was a youngster growing up. Most of what they said, the opinions, stories, etc. were not spoken out of malice or hatred, but were presented in a ‘matter of fact’ way as a result of what they had experienced at the hands of jewish bankers, landlords, shop keepers etc in Europe, and was merely presented as ‘facts of life’. This was not some hate filled ravings about ‘They killed Jesus’ (a subject for another time) but rather as a warning about what we should expec...

NOVANEWS   By: Dr Virginia Tilley “Is Israel really an apartheid state? YES.” Author: Prof. Virginia Tilley, Cape Town February 2011 Note: Analysis in this summary draws partly from the full study: Virginia Tilley, ed. Occupation, Colonialism, Apartheid? A Reassessment of Israeli Policies in the Occupied Palestinian Territories under International Law (Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa, Cape Town, 2009).   CONTENTS: 1. What is apartheid? 2. Can a State other than South Africa be guilty of apartheid? 3. How do we know whether a State is practicing apartheid? 4. Is Israel guilty of apartheid? a.      Considering Israel’s policies throughout the territory under its control. b. Racial Domination. c.     Population Registry Act. d.     Geographic Segregation. e.   ...

NOVANEWS Judith Butler   An ongoing trial in Tel Aviv is set to determine who will have stewardship of several boxes of Kafka’s original writings, including primary drafts of his published works, currently stored in Zurich and Tel Aviv. As is well known, Kafka left his published and unpublished work to Max Brod, along with the explicit instruction that the work should be destroyed on Kafka’s death. Indeed, Kafka had apparently already burned much of the work himself. Brod refused to honour the request, although he did not publish everything that was bequeathed to him. He published the novels The Trial, The Castleand Amerika between 1925 and 1927. In 1935, he published the collected works, but then put most of the rest away in suitcases, perhaps honouring Kafka’s wish not to have...

NOVANEWS   The new Jew Der neue Jude Rises at night Puts his uniform on, Kisses his wife and child, And, in two or three hours, destroys A quarter in one of Gaza's ghettos. He manages to make it back In time for coffee and rolls. In the paper, The fresh picture of women and children Picking through islands of rubble, Like frightened hens, Pales besides The shuttle within That professional gesture. All the while, above, a helicopter Observes the grounded humanity Of those who laugh When they are tickled, And bleed when they Are shot by snipers, And, in memory's skies-- Packed with cliches And plays on words-- It outlines a lazy spiral, Enclosing once and for all Identity within parenthesis. Whether it be a barbed-wire fence Or with a ring of outposts: Identity becomes the ghetto, An...

NOVANEWS   By Stephen J. Sniegoski A friend, Phil Collier, an avid student of and sometime writer on Middle East affairs (and  a National Master in chess),  recently  informed  me that Avi Shlaim, in his recent book, Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations, had one chapter, “Palestine and Iraq,” that presents a thesis almost identical to what I have written in The Transparent Cabal.  This naturally encouraged me to obtain the book, and Collier’s description turns out to be correct. Now this similarity is quite significant since what I have written on the neocons regarding their strong influence on U. S. Middle East policy and their connection to Israel is taboo in the American mainstream, with even numerous antiwar individuals (especially those with higher status) an...

NOVANEWS   By Ed Warner   History is full of examples of a determined minority prevailing over a more passive majority. A case in point is the neoconservative effort to bring the United States into war with Iraq largely for the protection of Israel. Despite the dubious reasons the neoconservatives advanced — Iraq has WMDs, ties to al-Qaeda — they managed to overcome the resistance of the military, the State Department and CIA partly by infiltrating them for their own ends. As the book title suggests, much of this was done in the open, a transparent cabal.   The cabal is described in convincing detail by author Stephen Sniegoski, who, somewhat retiring, lets the neoconservatives tell much of it in their own words — and what words! full of the passion of their endeavor: “Creative destructio...

NOVANEWS The Biography of a Movement (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010), 366 p. By Stephen J. Sniegoski Author of The Transparent Cabal: The Neoconservative Agenda, War in the Middle East, and the National Interest of Israel Website: http://home.comcast.net/~transparentcabal/ The mainstream media acclaim Neoconservatism:  The Biography of a Movement as the best book on neoconservatism—the definitive account—and portray its author, Justin Vaïsse, a French specialist on American foreign policy and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, as a veritable Alexis de Tocqueville for his masterly insights. The mainstream’s high praise of this book, however, would seem to be due in large part to its minimization of two taboo issues—neoconservatism’s Jewish nature and its focus...