Middle East

NOVANEWS American Jewish magazine Tikkun has turned 25. It’s covered matters related to the Middle East, from a left liberal perspective, for a long time, gradually becoming more alive to the impossibility of the two-state solution. Well, that’s my take anyway. I was asked to write a short reflection on this important milestone and it was published this month. It’s titled, “We Don’t Need Israel to Feel Secure”: As an atheist Jew, I’ve long believed that Judaism and Zionism must not be joined at the hip. I’ve spent time in the West Bank, Gaza, and Israel and seen the effects of decades of an intolerant ideology determined to isolate and demonize the Palestinian people. Judaism should be a religion of tolerance, peace, and understanding, not nationalistic posturing. We can bring social ...

NOVANEWS Just one more way the US political elite backs Israel’s move towards one-state Where’s the celebration that Israel doesn’t see Iran as a threat? No, not just Islam that can be vehemently anti-women ABCTV News24 on US violence and Israeli apartheid Serco, we’re watching you Our war hypocrisy Dictatorship offers US help on secrets post Wikileaks So sorry authoritarian state, America still loves you May the EU grow some balls and treat Israel as it deserves   Just one more way the US political elite backs Israel’s move towards one-state Posted: 10 Jan 2011 02:45 PM PST And not a peep from the Zionist Diaspora about ever-expanding expulsion of Palestinians from Jerusalem: Irving Moskowitz, the retired Florida businessman who is developing a controversial Jewish ap...

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NOVANEWS Will the brave reporters please stand up? A Zionist awakening at Bil’in This is just the beginning of the pressure Rajapaksa will feel So that’s who Israel is trying to emulate Looking for a mercenary in your area? Israeli academics grow a backbone, ever so briefly 0.8% of Cablegate in the public domain Just another story of bitterness and white power in the US Asylum seekers not out of sight or out of mind America’s Left far too blinded by inaction and fear  Will the brave reporters please stand up?Posted: 09 Jan 2011 02:58 PM PST What a sad state of affairs. The vast bulk of American journalists show themselves to be cowards, simply unwilling to defend the importance of what Wikileaks is doing. Too afraid to seriously challenge the Washington line. Shamef...

NOVANEWS   01/10/2011 Dep’t of Homeland Security suggests anti-Semitism may be motive for assassination attempt in Arizona Remnick takes another step– the occupation is ‘deeply wrong’ Angry Arab says that after Bill Clinton got in, Arabists were ‘eliminated’ from State Dep’t Ynet: US gov’t believes that Palestinian state would be ‘disaster’ and 2nd Tehran Amidst ghettoes, camps, and a mural for a mass-murderer, a settler offers his coexistence plan Hillary Clinton condemns Shepherd Hotel demolition as demonstrators cry, ‘This is stolen land’ Abu Rahma family has become symbol of occupation (and of an authoritarian regime– Gideon Levy) Barghouti: Ariel U boycott is first step War and Michael Walzer Israelis demolish Shepherd’s Hotel in occupied East Jerusalem...

NOVANEWS Didi Remez | January 10, 2011 at 17:23 | Categories: Diplomacy | URL: http://wp.me/pHlQV-LN   Netanyahu and Dagan On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot's Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan shared with the reporters the Mossad’s assessment that the Iranians would be unable to develop a nuclear bomb before 2015. Yedioth Ahronoth has learned that Dagan’s statements infuriated Netanyahu, who advocates taking an aggressive approach vis-à-vis Iran. According to a high-ranking political official, Netanyahu reprimanded Dagan and said that his statements had undermine...

NOVANEWS January 5, 2011 by Michael Leon “No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.”   - Clarence Darrow CLICK TO VIEW Via Norman Finkelstein

NOVANEWS January 5, 2011 by Michael Leon In a powerful invitation to all to see for themselves the nature of Israeli “self-defense,” Turkish authorities again opened the Mavi Marmara for visitors to board its decks and examine the blood stains, bullet holes and, most poignantly, the exact locations where the nine civilians were slain. By Faiz Ahmed writing from Istanbul, Turkey for the Electronic Intifada The Mavi Marmara returned to a hero’s welcome at Istanbul’s Sarayburnu port late last month. Docking at its port of departure for the first time since its fateful voyage began seven months ago, it is perhaps the most celebrated of humanitarian relief vessels that set sail to carry foodstuffs, medicine, school materials and other household supplies to the Gaza Strip in defiance of Israe...

NOVANEWS 01/09/2011 The siege of Gaza: Due to attacks on fishermen, now even fish must come thru tunnels from Egypt Report we ran on settlers burning Palestinian tent got some details wrong Wild woman lament for dead children One small step for a man– Jewish Journal states that Israel is ‘imperfect’ Youtube + Warner Music Group + Motorola = internet censorship Jawaher Abu Rahma inspires Boston protesters in snow Israeli killing of 65-year-old Palestinian in bed in Hebron could catalyze Hamas-Fatah talks Some thoughts on Omar, Jawaher and Isabel WWJD They spoke to each other in Arabic about the nature of love… They said they will keep doing this till the world takes notice The siege of Gaza: Due to attacks on fishermen, now even fish must come thru tunnels fr...

  NOVANEWS     Are Twitter, Facebook and/or Google monitoring Wikileaks? Calling all young human rights reporters A necessary art break The new frontier; private firms making money in apartheid West Bank Department of Justice selective outrage over Wikileaks Washington doesn’t care too much about certain leaks   Are Twitter, Facebook and/or Google monitoring Wikileaks? Posted: 08 Jan 2011 03:51 AM PST We are entering an age where the complicity of internet companies in censorship is becoming clear to many. We have allowed them to become too powerful and now they can act like this. By the way, so much for the Obama administration being any different to the Bushies over human rights, secrets and intimidation: WikiLeaks said on Saturday the Twitter accounts of four s...