Middle East

NOVANEWS Nurit Peled-Elhanan's response to the recent appointment of Yari Naveh as Deputy Chief of Staff was posted yesterday on this list. The following is news of practical activist resistance to this appointment. Peled-Elhanan is one of a group of activists who, along with the Yesh Gvul human rights NGO, has petitioned the High Court of Justice to disallow Naveh's appointment (see Ynet item at: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3990817,00.html). The piece below is Yesh Gvul's December 4th press release announcing the petition.   The blogger Richard Silverstein has described Naveh as having "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...

NOVANEWS Ein Hod and the Israeli Sin   December 4, 2010    Gilad Atzmon   n Israeli press reported today that the wildfire, which has been raging in northern Israel since Thursday, continued to spread on Saturday morning, burning houses in the pastoral artists' village Ein Hod. Ein Hod which lies on the road to Haifa is an Israeli artists' colony. It is located at the foot of Mount Carmel, overlooking the Mediterranean coast.  In the fifties, a group of Jewish artists decided to make Ein Hod into their home. They built studios and workshops. Ein Hod is the only artists' village in Israel, one of the few in the world. Israel and Israelis are very proud of their artists’ colony. Israelis are totally devastated by the impact of the fire on their beloved artist village. Yet, there i...

NOVANEWS NURIT PELED-ELHANAN: ON THE APPOINTMENT OF YAIR NAVEH AS DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF  DECEMBER 4, 2010  GILAD ATZMON Zio=Nazi Yair Naveh The great wonderment with which the appointment of Yair Naveh has been greeted is itself to be wondered at. After all, who else could be appointed as the Deputy Chief of Staff if not Yair Naveh? Who else loves to immediately assassinate everyone who looks suspicious to him, to immediately kill whoever moves, to destroy, to devastate, to conquer, to crush? Yair Naveh is one of the best sons of the army, he learned everything he had to learn and proved himself in the field. The High Court of Justice does not interest him in the least (Uri Blau, thanks to information provided by ex-soldier Anat Kamm, Haaretz, 28 November 2008), he does not recognize hum...

NOVANEWSW WIKILEAKS SHOCKER: Did Abbas know in advance about the devastating blitz on his countrymen in Gaza?   December 3, 2010   by Stuart Littlewood    OPERATION CAST LEAD GAZA!   One of the most grotesque Wikileaks revelations so far is the disclosure that Palestinian top dog (Fatah section), Mahmoud Abbas, was told in advance about the murderous assault on his countrymen in Gaza two years ago. Some claim that the Wikileaks reye-openers are a ‘dirty tricks’ operation by people with a large axe to grind. It is certainly odd that ‘evidence’ is selected to portray Arab states as eager to see Iran zapped for an unproven nuclear threat when, actually, the Middle East is far more anxious about the very real and present nuclear threat from Israel. That same mentality would no doubt wish to...

NOVANEWS 08.11.07 They wanted to be part of the action and found themselves in an impossible situation. One had the task of washing corpses, another was embittered and abused prisoners, and the third told families that their dear ones had been killed. A new film reveals the trauma of the female soldiers of the intifada. By Dalia Karpel One night, Tamar Yarom was awakened by one of the soldiers in her unit. He said he wanted to show her something in the basement of the abandoned building where they were staying. "Before we opened the door, I heard this awful noise from a generator and there was a strong smell of diesel fuel. I saw a middle-aged Palestinian detainee lying with his head on the generator. His ear was pressed against the generator that was vibrating, and the guy's head was vibr...

NOVANEWS 12/05/2010 Odious NGO Monitor smears Electronic Intifada, tries to cut funding First BDS victory in Japan: MUJI cancels plan to open Israeli store Jeffrey Goldberg doesn’t work for ‘The Forward’ any more– and that’s appropriate The American Jewish belief in the endurance of anti-Semitism is at the core of the problem Meet Moshe Soprano Engel and Ros-Lehtinen are quick to try to stifle Palestinian state To Gaza with humble apologies State Dep’t reporters continue to be rambunctious about Israel announcing 625 new houses for Jews Would this work? You get to keep all your letters, and it still sounds like a Jewish state– Odious NGO Monitor smears Electronic Intifada, tries to cut funding Dec 04, 2010 Cecilie Surasky  NGO Monitor was captured perfectly i...

NOVANEWS 12/04/2010: Double your donation in December, get two gifts! ‘Wikileaks’ cable drop is a giant power move for the left Mt Carmel fire is huge news– what about the arson all over Palestine?? The latest from Haiti Why doesn’t the world offer assistance when settlers set fire to West Bank land? Walt: tribalist Goldberg is smearing us because ‘goyim’ aren’t allowed to criticize Israel Today in Bil’in And the winner is . . . We’re married to a man who’s acting erratically and saying racist stuff, and we’ll never get out Ex-CIA official: Obama’s only peace process is to ‘hope for a miracle’ Double your donation in December, get two gifts! Dec 03, 2010 Phil Weiss and Adam Horowitz   Normally we don’t encourage people to donate any specific amount. We're ...

NOVANEWS Has Wikileaks been spun? Joseph Dana on Wikileaks, non-violent Palestinian resistance and subverting Zionism ABCTV News24 on Wikileaks cablegate New Zionist aim; target “political left” to soften occupation brutality What rhymes with Wikileaks? Wikileaks hits front cover of Time Why Wikileaks matters part 9753   Has Wikileaks been spun? 03 Dec 2010 Take this with caution – the people saying it are your run-of-the-mill US elite types who love a good, covert US war – but interesting thought: My powder is dry on the interesting subject that Zbigniew Brzezinski raised on PBS NewsHour. He suggested that in this enormous Wikileaks data dump of largely trivial cables, there are selections of highly pointed and embarrassing material. Brzezinski asks if someone with desi...

NOVANEWS Assange reminds us who the real hero is Nice crime wave across the Zionist state If this isn’t fascism in Israel, then what is? Australia is in Afghanistan to support this?   Assange reminds us who the real hero is 03 Dec 2010 Fascinating Guardian organised online chat yesterday with Julian Assange: Fwoggie I’ll start the ball rolling with a question. You’re an Australian passport holder – would you want return to your own country or is this now out of the question due to potentially being arrested on arrival for releasing cables relating to Australian diplomats and polices? Julian Assange: I am an Australian citizen and I miss my country a great deal. However, during the last weeks the Australian prime minister, Julia Gillard, and the attorney general, Robert McC...

NOVANEWS Dear Friends, This evening is a sad one here in Israel, particularly for those who have lost loved ones in the flames, and those who live in the areas hit by the raging fire, which till now refuses to be contained.  Thousands of trees have been destroyed, 42 people have lost their lives, others have been badly burnt, animals have perished   All this of course touches me deeply.  It is not pleasant to see so much go up in flames.   Yet, at the same time I cannot help in this difficult time but to think of all the 1000s of Palestinian olive trees that Israel has uprooted, of all the Palestinian homes that Israel has demolished, and of all the misery that Palestinians have suffered at Israel’s hands.    The raging flames are a natural disaster, but Israel’s treatment of the Palestini...