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NOVANEWS December 15, 2010   THE GAZA ZIO=NAZI HOLOCAUST ?? Read here

NOVANEWS   The Dividing Line Made From “Cast Lead”At the time   of Israel’s “Operation Cast Lead” in December 2008-January 2009 I had a strong feeling that the outrageous nature of all aspects of the “operation” made the “issues” related to Israel and Palestine so “black and white” so “crystal clear” that the entire world was at an irreversible moment of history beyond which virtually every person was on one side or the other of a “dividing line”. You either supported bombing civilians in an open air prison with no escape with the latest in killing technology, or not. It was that clear. So let’s examine some aspects of the “dividing line” and how it has manifested itself during the two years since “Operation Cast Lead”. Political Clarity The, insane by any measure, actions of Israel in eve...

NOVANEWS No Act of Rebellion Is Wasted   December 14, 2010      By Chris Hedges December 13, 2010 “Truthdig” – - — I stood with hundreds of thousands of rebellious Czechoslovakians in 1989 on a cold winter night in Prague’s Wenceslas Square as the singer Marta Kubišová approached the balcony of the Melantrich building. Kubišová had been banished from the airwaves in 1968 after the Soviet invasion for her anthem of defiance, “Prayer for Marta.” Her entire catalog, including more than 200 singles, had been confiscated and destroyed by the state. She had disappeared from public view. Her voice that night suddenly flooded the square. Pressing around me were throngs of students, most of whom had not been born when she vanished. They began to sing the words of the anthem. There were tears ...

NOVANEWS Letter from an Israeli military prison Please Help the Enrichment Learning Program at the Cave Dwellers Village Umm-Fakra More Recent Articles Search The Only Democracy? Letter from an Israeli military prison   from Abdallah Abu Rahmah. Ed’s Note: As I participated in the December 10th TIAA-CREF Day of Action on Human Rights Day, I felt I had gained a new holiday to my calendar. At the end of the day, as I was unwinding, I received this letter from imprisoned leader Abdallah Abu Rahmah over email, and saw it posted at sites such as Huffington Post. It is a common observation among those of us who work for human rights here in the United States that we would likely be imprisoned or worse for doing the exact same kind of work as Palestinians....

NOVANEWS Public invited to inform on those renting to Arabs   In step supporting rabbis' letter on halachic ruling against renting to Arabs, initiative gives number so public can give names for 'list of disgrace' Yair Altman Published:  12.12.2010 The Lehava organization issued a notice Sunday evening, inviting the public to call a voicemail service and record the names of Jewish Israelis renting apartments to Arabs. Lehava, identified with supporters of Meir Kahane, thus adds its weight to the recent call by 50 prominent rabbis to avoid renting to Arabs which, the organization says, amounts to no less than assimilation. According to the notice, the information given anonymously will be verified, after which the names will be published as a mark of disgrace "so the publi...

NOVANEWS Knesset Approves New Law Preventing Detainees From Meeting Lawyers For Six Month  December 13, 2010 12:51 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC The Legal Committee of the Israeli Knesset decided on Monday to approve a new draft submitted by the Israeli Interior Minister, Yitzhak Aharanovitch, in which he demanded that Palestinian detainees, imprisoned on nationalistic/political grounds, should not be allowed to meet their lawyers up to six months after their arrest, the Maan News Agency reported. File - Image armeianweekly.com   Originally, though not always the case, Israel allows Palestinian detainees to meet their lawyer three weeks after they are arrested. Hundreds of detainees never met their lawyers before court. Israeli TV, Channel 10, reported that during its Monday meeting, the Legal...

NOVANEWS December 12, 2010 by Debbie Menon The settlements were still being built, financed mostly by Jewish money from America, contributions from Wall Street speculators and owners of gambling dens By James Petras Times were tough for Joseph and Mary.  The real estate bubble crashed.  Unemployment soared among construction workers.  There was no work, not even for a skilled carpenter. The settlements were still being built, financed mostly by Jewish money from America, contributions from Wall Street speculators and owners of gambling dens. “Good thing”, Joseph thought, “we have a few sheep and olive trees and Mary keeps some chickens.   But Joseph worried, “cheese and olives are not enough to feed a growing boy.  Mary is due to deliver our son any day”. His dreams foretold of a sturdy...

NOVANEWS More Tamil exclusion in Sri Lanka We pay drug dealers in Afghanistan Don’t tell us that Australia is an honest broker in the Middle East Keeping Assange away from Obama’s gaza Why should Palin actually speak to real Haitian people? Telling Fox News that Assange’s Australian rights must be protected US looks for ways to silence Wikileaks (but failure is likely outcome) Friedman fears a nation with equal rights for all What makes Assange tick from somebody who should know Wikileaks saga as only al-Jazeera can weave it More Tamil exclusion in Sri Lanka Posted: 12 Dec 2010 04:02 PM PST And the world mostly says nothing: The first cabinet meeting convened by Sri Lanka president Mahinda Rajapaksa after returning from London decided to abolish the T...

NOVANEWS   11 Mar 2009 Source: Reuters Robert Evans   * Israel said to violate child rights in Gaza * Islamic states accused of executing children   GENEVA, March 11 (Reuters) - Arab countries and Cuba on Wednesday accused Israel of grossly violating the rights of Palestinian children during its December assault on Gaza. But in a debate in the United Nations Human Rights Council, a coalition of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) charged that a range of Islamic countries, especially Iran, had been executing children, calling it "the ultimate barbarity." The Gaza attack at the end of December "left children as the main victims, with many severely wounded, and even many cases of a serious pathological nature as a result of destruction wrought by Israel", declared a Yemeni delegate. Palesti...

NOVANEWS By Gideon Levy As the war in Gaza raged, Israel Defense Forces reservists apparently thought anything was permissible: It was possible, maybe even necessary, to kill innocents, in the West Bank, too. Under cover of war, they thought, they could also kill a handcuffed Palestinian. After all, they could always claim he tried to steal their weapons - never mind that he was bound with plastic handcuffs practically impossible to get out of. A bullet in the stomach from close range finished him off. Thus ended the life of Yasser Temeizi, 35, who had a work permit and jobs in Israel all of his adult life; in the past year he had worked for the Harash company in Ashdod. He was a young father who'd never gotten in any trouble with the IDF before. The soldiers arrested him for no reason, be...