Middle East

NOVANEWS 10/24/2010 Israel Crushes A Palestinian Gandhi: Bil’in Organizer Sentenced to 18 months Brooklyn rabbis Lippman and Bachman are part of the Am Yisroel Chai crowd Maybe now Obama can say something? Pelosi’s ‘progressive,’ antiwar challenger is also… pro-Israel Nir Rosen on the media’s double standard for Palestine The death of a child Israel Crushes A Palestinian Gandhi: Bil’in Organizer Sentenced to 18 months Oct 23, 2010 Philip Weiss  The other day I vowed to show this video of Adeeb Abu Rahma till everyone in America had seen it. And I'm just stupid enough to try. Because if anything can change the American paradigm of Palestinian resistance, it is watching Adeeb Abu Rahma, at a demonstration in 2008 in Bil'in, brave bullets and then almost break down as he calls o...

NOVANEWS Dear Friends, Six items below of the many that should be read today.  The first brings more data on the court session of the Rachel Corrie trial in which the bulldozer driver who ran over Rachel Corrie 7 years ago was questioned as witness.  This report is by the Corries and their media advisors.   You can well imagine how difficult a day this was for the family.  Yet understanding is not something that they attained from the defense, which filled the small room with its own crowd.  The 2nd item relates details about what led the Israeli military to bomb a house in Gaza full of members of one family, a family that the IOF had itself made the family stay in.  Pretty disgusting and painful.  But this is what happens when armies fight civilians instead of other armies.  Sickening.  W...

NOVANEWS Israel lobby snares elite, Australian minds (and very few resist) If Washington doesn’t pursue Blackwater, somebody has to Needing security to protect the Wikileaks asset Assange needs to take questions about his position in Wikileaks The Pentagon bathes in blood on a daily basis Serco and G4S are peas from the same pod Online dissent is being crushed (and we don’t feel fine) They torture, we ignore Of course Iran wants to challenge Washington on the streets of Iraq Thank you for outsourcing and protecting our imperial wars Israel lobby snares elite, Australian minds (and very few resist) 24 Oct 2010 Yet more evidence that the Australian political and media are largely bought by the Zionist lobby, unable to think for themselves. This upcoming trip will result in ...

NOVANEWS Don’t see Iran as freedom fighters 22 Oct 2010 While Hugo Chavez shamefully embraces Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and utterly ignores Tehran’s horrific human rights record, Nasrin Alavi highlights the struggles inside Iran that deserve global support: The Iranian state has to come to terms with the reality that, a generation after the revolution, no hardline Islamic student group is (or has been) able to gain control of any Iranian campus through free elections. In the same week that Ahmadinejad was hailed as a hero of resistance in Lebanon, fellow inmates of the imprisoned human rights lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, told of her nightly interrogation sessions and the screams that could be heard from her cell. We have also heard from the father of student Hamed Rouhinejad, ...

NOVANEWS October 23, 2010 Zio=Nazi Extremist settlers spray-painted slogans on graves at a northern West Bank cemetery, Zionist Israel Radio reported Friday. The vandals also sprayed the name of the extremist late Rabbi Kahane on one of the graves. Ab-A$$ security forces alerted Zionist military and said witnesses reported seeing three suspects at the graveyard in the village of Kfar Kadum, near the West Bank city of Qalqiliya. One of the slogans had the words ‘price tag,’ which radical settlers use to describe their revenge campaign against restrictions on Zionist construction in the occupied territory. Responses to “Zio-Nazi settlers desecrate Palestinian graveyard in West Bank” B.A.Frémaux-Soormally October 23, 2010 at 3:42 pm The synonym for DESECRATION = JEW ! B.A.Frémaux-...

NOVANEWS Settlers/Land, property & resource theft and destruction/Ethnic cleansing Settlers attack family picking olives HEBRON (Ma’an) -- Dozens of settlers attacked a family who were picking olives in Yatta, in the West Bank district of Hebron, witnesses said.  Locals said settlers attacked Othman Abu Sabha and his family, damaged his car and stole their olives.  Meanwhile, settlers entered Kfir Qaddum village east of Qalqiliya, and wrote graffiti on the walls threatening revenge.  Palestinian farmers across the West Bank have reported frequent settler attacks since the olive harvest began in early October. http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=326474 Farmers Again Prevented from Entering their Land Today a family in the village of Salim, southeast of Nablus, was prevented ...

NOVANEWS In Uncategorized October 23, 2010 by crescentandcross Most Popular Content All   A Personal Message from Father Elias Zahlawi, a Syrian Catholic priest to Pastor Terry JonesRated 5/5 (21 Votes) Speaking In Tongues–The Deadly Dialect of the Zionist LanguageRated 5/5 (14 Votes) Stuxnet Computer Worm–Israel’s Attempt To Silence Iran on 9/11 or Veiled Threat to the Entire World? By Dr. Franklin Lamb, Shatila Camp “The only solution to the Palestinian issue is for the invaders (Israelis) of the occupied Palestinian land to leave, and give the Palestinians their rights and return all the Palestinian refugees to their original land.  Iran supports Lebanon’s bitter struggle in confronting Israeli assaults. We demand with all seriousness and insistence the liberation of all...

NOVANEWS 10/23/2010 Obama’s gonna have to leave politics before he denounces the occupation Viva Palestina’s ‘Lifeline 5′ convoy reaches Gaza The Democratic-Likud Party Ethnocracy: The true ‘core of the conflict’ Israeli military injures 15 and burns 3 homes, crushing anti-wall protest in Nabi Saleh village Liberal rabbis Lippman and Bachman urge Brooklynites to buy products from Occupied West Bank! Now ‘Newsweek’ pressures Obama to include Hamas Why is the UN hosting events with the Simon Wiesenthal Center (for intolerance)? The power of a walkout Obama’s gonna have to leave politics before he denounces the occupation Oct 22, 2010 Philip Weiss  Today Jimmy Carter and the Elders joined the weekly protest in occupied East Jerusalem of Israel's evictions of Pale...

NOVANEWS October 23, 2010 by Michael Leon - Uri Avnery warns that fascism will overwhelm Israel unless progressive forces “awake from the coma, understand what is happening and where it is leading to, protest and struggle by all available means … in order to arrest the fascist wave that is threatening to engulf us” - By Uri Avnery - via Weimar in Jerusalem: the rise of fascism in Israel In Berlin, an exhibition entitled “Hitler and the Germans” has just opened. It examines the factors that caused the German people to bring Adolf Hitler to power and follow him to the very end… [S]ince childhood, precisely this question has been troubling me. How did it happen that a civilized nation, which saw itself as the “people of poets and thinkers”, followed this man, much as the children of  Hame...

NOVANEWS The statement below, issued October 20 2010 by Physicians for Human Rights, is a single, tangible and terrible reminder of the reality of Gazan life under the long international siege imposed by Israel 's government, bureaucracy and army. Rela Mazali PHR-Israel's Occupied Territories Department: Questioning Israel 's Crossing Policy in the Aftermath of a  Gaza Toddler's Death  Nasma Abu Lasheen died on Saturday, October 16, 2010 in Gaza after Israel failed to issue her an urgent entry permit for life-saving medical treatment at Ha-Emek Medical Center in Afula , Israel . She was two years old. Abu Lasheen, a young resident of Gaza diagnosed with Leukemia was referred for emergency treatment in Israel on October 6, 2010. When requests to the Israeli Army for an entry permit went...