Middle East

NOVANEWS   December 21, 2010   by John Allen   The Mossad My father is an Iraqi Hebrew whose native tongue is Arabic, and my mother is half Moroccan Hebrew who was born in Boston. Her other half is ethnic white Russian. My name is Jonathan Michael Azaziah. I was raised in an outspoken anti-Zionist household, that pushed the boundaries of prejudice towards Ashkenazim, and while I do not condone my father’s feelings exactly, I do believe they are justified and have an undeniable validity. While I do not identify with any religion, I cling to my roots because of the struggle they represent. My uncle Isaac, my cousin Michah, his Palestinian fiancee Jamilah, my Ethiopian Hebrew mentor Nehemiah Judah, my friend Esther Shifaz, and her comrade Reza Ahmad, have all died at the hands of the Zioni...

NOVANEWS Adalah to Housing Minister: Housing Associations that Acquire Public Land to Build Housing Projects Must Abide by Principle of Equality On 12 December 2010, Adalah sent a letter to the Minister of Housing and Construction and the Israel Land Administration (ILA) demanding that they compel housing associations that enter bids for public land to abide by the principle of equality and the principles of administrative law, which prohibit discrimination between citizens. The letter was submitted by Adalah Attorney Haneen Naamneh. According to the bidding process established by the Ministry of Housing and Construction for allocating land to registered housing associations for the purpose of establishing housing projects, these associations are permitted to allocate land exclusively to ...

NOVANEWS   The High Follow-up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel Demands that Education Ministry not Give Preference for Teaching Jobs to Arab Citizens of Israel who Performed National Service On 30 November 2010, Adalah, on behalf of the High Follow-up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel and its sub-group, the Committee against National Service, sent an urgent letter to the Education Minister, Gideon Sa'ar, demanding that those applicants who are seeking employment as teachers not be given preference for performing national service, as there is no relationship between national service and being a good teacher. The letter was sent after Ha'aretz reported that the Education Ministry intends to give 30 bonus points to applicants who performed national service for employment as teacher...

NOVANEWS 19 December 2010   Municipality of Jerusalem Forces Palestinian Traders in East Jerusalem to Add Hebrew Text to their Shop Signs On 19 December 2010, Adalah submitted a letter to the Head of the Municipality of Jerusalem, Nir Barakat, demanding the cancellation of a recent municipal decision that forces shop-owners in East Jerusalem to add Hebrew text to their shop signs, and stipulates that the Hebrew text should take up at least half of the total space of the sign. The decision is part of a wider process of renewing signage in the city in general, and constitutes a condition for the approval of both existing and new signs. Anyone found to be in breach of these directives faces a financial penalty. In the letter, Adalah Attorney Haneen Naamneh argued that the decision, w...

NOVANEWS   Obama wants to keep suspects in jail for as long as he wants Nothing in the Wikileaks documents? Please Our leaders happy to let people starve or die Early indications of Cablegate in July Iraq and Afghanistan come to American streets and homes ABC TV News 24 on refugees and government failures News flash: FT questions privatisation Bradley Manning is a hero Damaged Palestinian property is never investigated Assange: “What we released has moves towards a more just State”   Obama wants to keep suspects in jail for as long as he wants Posted: 21 Dec 2010 03:49 PM PST   If there are any illusions about Barack Obama, this should surely extinguish those forever: The White House is preparing an Executive Order on indefinite detention that will provide peri...

NOVANEWS        *    Wikileaks comes to the Murdoch bosom Fatah keen for occupier to murder Hamas Here’s to a return to Saddam days! Wikileaks reveals Israel rather liked idea of Hamas taking Gaza How to spend 40 years morally corrupting a society Are journalists leaders or followers over war? Murdoch paper echoes Washington line over Wikileaks An Australian call for war crimes to be investigated in Sri Lanka Australians back Wikileaks all the way Assange is The Outsider   Wikileaks comes to the Murdoch bosom Posted: 20 Dec 2010 04:06 PM PST From David Leigh, Guardian’s investigation’s editor: The #guardian published too many leaks for #Assange ‘s liking, it seems. So now he’s signed up “exclusively” with#Murdoch‘s Times. Gosh. Fatah keen for occupier t...

NOVANEWS   Before I read this article, I was pretty sure that the Israeli leadership was shying away, for the moment, from anything like a reprise of the Cast Lead massacre, even though on the night of the 21 there were eight coordinated F-16 attacks on sites in Gaza. I'm a bit less sure now. Ashkenazi's job is to terrify Gaza's civilian population and instill in them constant and grinding terror. But it's also to prepare the ground for the next assault in the eyes of Israeli and especially world public opinion. He told a parliamentary panelthat "The situation in the south is tense and fragile, and it could deteriorate if a rocket attack causes a large number of casualties." As if on cue, a typically psychotic op-ed appeared: "The IDF does not intend to show restraint in the face of the la...

NOVANEWS Dec 21 2010     Zio=Nazi chief of staff Ashkenazi admitted today that Zionist tank hit by Kornet missile in Gaza. ‪‪Ynet reported today that for the first time Zionist Merkava tank was hit by a 'massive' anti-tank missile. In other words, Zio=Nazi power of deterrence belongs to history. Zio=Nazi Ashkenazi was also brave enough to admit that WikiLeaks publications, is  “a very bad thing, which affects our relations with foreign countries."  

NOVANEWS 20 December 2010   Zio=Nazi  government attacked the international human rights organization Human Rights Watch following its release yesterday (19 December) of a report entitled Separate and Unequal: Israel's Discriminatory Treatment of Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.   Zionist Mark Regev, a spokesperson for Zio-Nazi Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, noted that "unfortunately over the past years a series of documented cases have shown Human Rights Watch reports to have clearly been polluted by an anti-Israel agenda."  And while Zio=Nazi Netanyahu did not mention Human Rights Watch or its report explicitly, he noted that “we must expose the hypocrisy of human rights organizations that turn a blind eye to the most repressive regimes in the world, regimes ...

NOVANEWS 21 December 2010   What do you call Palestinians who urge Israel to bomb fellow Palestinians? Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas wanted unprecedented help from Israel in attacking Hamas during the clashes just prior to the militant group’s bloody coup of the Gaza Strip, according to a classified cable leaked by WikiLeaks on Monday. In a cable dated June 13, 2007, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Richard Jones wrote that Shin Bet security chief Yuval Diskin had told him in a meeting that Abbas’ Fatah movement was “desperate, disorganized and demoralized” over the situation in the Gaza Strip. The cable was released as the violent clashes between Fatah and Hamas were underway; three days after the meeting between Jones and Diskin on June 9, Hamas began seizing control of the coastal t...