Middle East

NOVANEWS 11/30/2010 If you’re going to cite Arabs re Iran in Wikileaks, why not re ‘Israel causing U.S. to lose Muslim hearts and minds’? Clinton ‘tore the fabric’ herself long before we ever heard of Wikileaks WikiLeaks docs expose Egyptian complicity with Israeli war crimes (again) 7-year-old assaulted, 15-year-old detained and father of 3 taken from home under cover of night What would you do if . . . Sedek review: The concrete steps needed to implement a vision Sedek review: Stuck on the right of return The (old) news from wikileaks so far – The US is Israel’s greatest enabler Israeli protesters to the Cape Town Opera House: ‘We believe that today Tel Aviv is a kind of ‘Sun City”   French firm Veolia reported to drop out of E. Jerusalem rail project under ...

NOVANEWS 11/29/2010 Wexler told Israelis, American people will support attack on Iran if talks are tried and fail The opening of an American mind: Chalmers Johnson Wikileaks ‘Embassy cables’ are now breaking… Egypt’s military dictatorship holds parliamentary elections The regrets of a war-party liberal Yehoshua sanitizes Emily Henochowicz lost an eye? No harm, no foul U.N.: ‘The family has requested a tent as they have nowhere else to live’ (US: ‘What, me worry?’) 25 rendered homeless in latest Israeli demolition JNF embarks on NY gaywashing   Wexler told Israelis, American people will support attack on Iran if talks are tried and fail Nov 28, 2010 Philip Weiss   From the Wikileaks US Embassy cables. Robert Wexler is the former Florida congressman who has ...

NOVANEWS Handy reminder of reporter’s role in the Wikileaks story Israel can handle killed Iranians to end regional threat The inside workings of a paranoid super-power The Wikileaks cable drop begins Who is really the bad guy in the Wikileaks story? Turkey first major nation to embrace one-state? IAJV November newsletter How scared are Western governments over Wikileaks? US aims to destroy Wikileaks   Handy reminder of reporter’s role in the Wikileaks story 28 Nov 2010 Great piece by Simon Jenkins at the UK Guardian that reminds journalists our job is to expose secrets and not protect governments. Unless, of course, you’re on the official drip-feed: Is it justified? Should a newspaper disclose virtually all a nation’s secret diplomatic communication, illegally downl...

NOVANEWS Failing work in Afghanistan is signal for a promotion Delegitimisation inc. Inside the Tamil Tigers from a man who knows Canberra just desperate to do America’s bidding, anywhere anytime So much for the noble power that helps its democratic mates US embassy in Tehran in 1979 had no idea about much   Failing work in Afghanistan is signal for a promotion 29 Nov 2010 This is what we’re doing in Afghanistan: For more than a year, Afghan police chief Rajab Mohammed and his men have worked out of a dark, cramped mud home in a remote corner of Afghanistan while waiting in vain for construction workers to finish building the U.S.-funded police station across the street. With winter fast approaching, some of the men, who’d been sleeping in a dirt courtyard, recently took...

NOVANEWS  In This Issue... Midnight raids continue, father of three taken from home. More Recent Articles Search The Only Democracy?   From the Palestine Solidarity Project Early Thursday morning, at approximately 2:00am, Israeli forces from the Gush Etzion military base came to the homes of brothers and National Committee members Yousef and Mousa Abu Maria. Both are also co-founders of the Palestine Solidarity Project.  Mousa, whose wife and baby girl–both Israeli citizens–were visiting family, was forced outside while his home was searched. 3 computers belonging to the Palestine Solidarity Project were taken. Yousef, father of 10 year-old Reem, 4 year-old Obay, and 1 month-old Della’, was also taken from his home in the middle of the night. Both were ...

NOVANEWS     The following is an excerpt from a letter by Palestinian political prisoner and civil society leader Ameer Makhoul, written in response to a postcard featuring an image of a lighthouse sent by The Electronic Intifada contributor Adri Nieuwhof. A citizen of Israel, Makhoul was arrested in his home on 6 May 2010 and held in isolation and refused a meeting with his lawyers or family for 12 days following the arrest.   The Israeli government indicted Makhoul with trumped-up charges of espionage and assistance to the enemy in a time of war, which carries a life sentence. According to Makhoul, during that time the Israeli authorities used severe interrogation methods that caused him both psychological and physical harm. Last month Makhoul agreed to a plea deal to avoid length...

NOVANEWS Dear Friends, Just 3 items this evening.  Most of the international press is full of the Wikileaks, and the domestic press with the usual chit chat.  The 3 items below don't touch these, but will hopefully interest you.   The first item is actually 2 in 1—the Guardian and the Independent on the same subject: Israel trying to clean up its image abroad—in other words, propaganda.  But each of the reports contains details that differ from the other, even though they speak of the same subject.  So, for a well-rounded picture, you have both.   In item 2 Akiva Eldar talks about Israel’s attempts to counter the delegitimizing that seems to be growing in Europe.  Eldar says in plain words, it’s not a battle on delegitimizing that’s needed; it’s the government’s policies that need revising...

NOVANEWS   John Bolton considering bid for US president in 2012 In radio interview, former US ambassador to UN slams US foreign policy, says Obama trying to “restructure the American way of life.”   Former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton on Sunday night announced that he is considering a bid for US president in 2012.   Speaking on Jerusalem-based Aaron Klein‘s WABC Radio show, Bolton said he was motivated to run for president over concern “about the direction of national security policy.” When asked what factors he would consider in making his final decision, Bolton replied: “I think it’s very important on the Republican side that we have a candidate against [US President Barack] Obama who can address these national security issues and to be able to debate him as an equal when you get...

NOVANEWS  In This Issue... Wave of Israeli demolitions culminates in destroying a mosque More Recent Articles Search The Only Democracy? Wave of Israeli demolitions culminates in destroying a mosque   Here is an al Jazeera video of Israel pulling down a mosque in the Jordan Valley village  of Khirbat Yarza, Tubas, yesterday morning (deep inside the West Bank).   Over 60% of the Jordan Valley in the West Bank is under “Israeli control”, though  in practise, all of the Palestinian territories are. But in this case, it means, Palestinians cannot build or repair houses without  Israeli permission. In 95%, however, Palestinians do not get permission to build or repair,and in the few cases they do get permission, they have to wait for years. Accordin...