Middle East

NOVANEWS Viewing cable 09DAMASCUS804, IS NOW THE TIME TO RAISE HIZBALLAH WITH SYRIA? If you are new to these pages, please read an introduction on the structure of a cable as well as how to discuss them with others. See also the FAQs Understanding cables Every cable message consists of three parts: The top box shows each cables unique reference number, when and by whom it originally was sent, and what its initial classification was. The middle box contains the header information that is associated with the cable. It includes information about the receiver(s) as well as a general subject. The bottom box presents the body of the cable. The opening can contain a more specific subject, references to other cables (browse by origin to find them) or additional comment. This is followed...

NOVANEWS Viewing cable 09DAMASCUS804, IS NOW THE TIME TO RAISE HIZBALLAH WITH SYRIA? If you are new to these pages, please read an introduction on the structure of a cable as well as how to discuss them with others. See also the FAQs Understanding cables Every cable message consists of three parts: The top box shows each cables unique reference number, when and by whom it originally was sent, and what its initial classification was. The middle box contains the header information that is associated with the cable. It includes information about the receiver(s) as well as a general subject. The bottom box presents the body of the cable. The opening can contain a more specific subject, references to other cables (browse by origin to find them) or additional comment. This is followed...

NOVANEWS Dear Friends, I was hoping to find an article in the San Francisco Chronicle or Oakland Tribune today about the ads put up at Bart stations (metro stations), or perhaps in the LA Times.  But found nary a word on them.  Perhaps tomorrow.  Surely there will be a hue and outcry against the ads by the supporters of Israel, but they will or should have a tough time fighting the argument that the US needs money for domestic purposes, not foreign ones.   May their message spread.  Obama should have used that argument from the start.  It’s pure bullshit that the US has no lever with which to push Israel into ending colonization.  Who else gives Israel $3billion taxpayer dollars worth of military aid every year, guaranteed for the next 10 years!  WOW! That’s a lot of money—and dear America...

NOVANEWS More allegations that Wikileaks is helping terrorists Is Qatar unduly affecting al-Jazeera’s clarity? Of course MSM wish leakers had come to them first Ending the occupation by telling Israel there will be a price Rudd misses main message of Wikileaks dump Wikileaks insurance policy is the internet itself Finding ways to wipe Tamils from the picture entirely Leading Australian politician defends Wikileaks More on the Assange accuser New South Wales Greens embrace BDS   More allegations that Wikileaks is helping terrorists   Posted: 06 Dec 2010 01:00 PM PST More challenges to the heart of the US empire: Wikileaks raised the stakes in its battle with America last night by releasing a secret list of all the global industries and assets that the US most wishes to...

NOVANEWS Australia likes the role of regional bully rather well Australia shows true colours over Wikileaks (and the look is bad) The deep love between Canada and Israel Scahill faces threats from deep inside the Empire Rajapaksa learns something about how he’s seen in civilised society Why not bomb Syria? PayPal takes the gutless option Monsters, the kind of political sci-fi film with passion Wikileaks has allies, many of them Does the Australian government work for its own citizens?   Australia likes the role of regional bully rather well Posted: 05 Dec 2010 03:09 PM PST No wonder Australia is so upset over Wikileaks; released cables show a government keen to keep military options (aka US fire-power) on the table. And Canberra’s enthusiasm for special forces in Paki...

 NOVANEWS The Deadly Fires: Israel’s Katrina? More Recent Articles Search The Only Democracy? The Deadly Fires: Israel’s Katrina?   The Israeli authorities announced Sunday night that the fire ranging in the Carmel hills since Thursday, Israel’s most devastating fire on record,  is now under control. An even worse disaster was averted. The fire did not seriously spread into  Haifa, Israel’s third-largest city, or its suburb Tirat HaCarmel. The main reason for the unacceptably high death toll, estimated at 40+ persons – far larger than any single terror attack on Israelis since 1978 – was irres- ponsibility in sending unprepared unprotected personnel right into the fire, esp. one tragic bus of prison-service cadets. Will this disaster open Israelis’...

NOVANEWS Zio=Nazi Netanyahu, Ab-A$$ hold rare phone chat over fires Ab-A$$ sends firefighters to extinguish blaze in Carmel. 04 December 2010   Flames engulf trees in the Carmel Forest on the outskirts of Haifa.   OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (Agencies) Ab-A$$ civil defense forces have joined the huge international operation to tame the massive blaze ravaging in Carmel, Ab-A$$ office said on Saturday."The three units of the Palestinian civil defense were sent to assist in extinguishing the fires in the Carmel," said a statement from the office of Ab-A$$.    Puppet Mahmud Ab-A$$ on Saturday received a telephone call from Zio=Nazi Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressing his gratitude for the help of Palestinian firefighters.   The massive fire, which broke out on Thursday morning, has so f...

NOVANEWS After hearing the announcement on the Israeli TV news (channel 1), I searched the papers--international and local.  Finally did an internet search, which turned up the following (except for the Buenos Aires one, which I found by looking at Argentinean newspapers in English).  Oddly, most of the electronic media that I checked do not yet have this (including BBC, Reuters, Guardian, Independent, NY Times, Washington Post, Al Jazeera, and Ynet and Haaretz), or at least didn't have it when I began writing this message.  What will come of this recognition, hard to tell. Dorothy   Jerusalem Post    Monday, December 6, 2010  21:46 IST       Argentina follows Brazil, recognizes Palestinian state    http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=198279   By JPOST.COM STAFF 06/12/2010      ...

NOVANEWS Dear Friends, Just three items this evening—not because there was nothing else of interest to forward, but because these three have a common thread running through them, and also because the third is quite long.  The subject is Israel’s handling of Palestinians, namely Palestinians who are either herdsmen or farmers, some who live in the West Bank, some who live in the Negev and are citizens of Israel.  The third item is about Palestinians who are citizens of Israel, and about a village that you already have heard of, Al Araqib.  Israel has demolished it 7 times, attempting to force its residents to move to one of the miserable cities that Israel has built to ‘contain’ Bedouin.  The Bedouin are either husbandmen or farmers.  To stuff them into a city is itself bad enough.  But to ...

NOVANEWS ISRAELI RIGHTS ACTIVISTS FILE COMPLAINT AGAINST IDF DEPUTY CHIEF, ACCUSING HIM OF ‘CRIMES’ AND ‘IMMORALITY’     Gen. Yair Naveh's promotion called 'immoral' by Israeli rights activists (Yonatan Shaul) Alongside the newly named IDF chief of staff, Yoav Galant, his new deputy chief will be Gen. Yair Naveh.  Naveh has the distinction of being responsible for the Palestinian targeted killings which Anat Kamm leaked to Haaretz journalist, Uri Blau.  These West Bank murders completely contravened Supreme Court rulings which directed that such assassinations be avoided if there were civilians present and likely to be harmed; or if there were non-violent means available to apprehend the suspects. Maariv quotes Naveh’s reply to this claim: “Stop bothering me with the rulings of the Supre...