Middle East

NOVANEWS How easy was that? Visit Syria and see for yourself Not allowing private firms to run our brutal wars Settlers making up crack force of Zionist racism A one-eyed view of Sri Lanka How easy was that? Visit Syria and see for yourself 22 Oct 2010 Behold a rarity. An Australian commentator, Richard Ackland, visits Syria and writes sympathetically about Iraqi and Palestinian refugees. Not allowing private firms to run our brutal wars 22 Oct 2010 Who can blame the Afghan government, as corrupt as it is, resisting the onslaught of unaccountable private military contractors, teams increasingly relied upon by Western states in their futile battle against an indigenous “enemy”? The Afghan president on Wednesday rejected pleas from the international community to reverse his ...

NOVANEWS 10/22/2010 Report from Israel: the occupation is the Stanley Milgram experiment, for American Jews Tibi: American unwillingness to challenge inequality in Israel has gravely damaged its moral authority Image and reality of Barack Obama’s Israel policy Let them eat cake Hebron Fund to celebrate West Bank settlements with faux flotilla on the Hudson river Israel finally confirms the obvious – The collective punishment of the Gaza siege is based on politics, not security Univ. of Michigan students protest IDF speakers Toddler dies after not being allowed to exit Gaza The dam is breaking? Israel’s guardian sews up the Senate Report from Israel: the occupation is the Stanley Milgram experiment, for American Jews Oct 21, 2010 Philip Weiss  At the beginnin...

NOVANEWS Dear All, This message contains but 2 items—both about the Rachel Corrie trial session yesterday.  I’ve read about a dozen reports (Haaretz, Ynet, Guardian, LA Times, NY Times, e.g).  The 2 below are, I believe, the most thorough and revealing. The Al Jazeera report is more a reaction of the journalist to the trial (as the title suggests), but I learned from it why there was no room for myself and my spouse.  Well, actually the fact that the defense filled the room with its observers is only part of the reason.  The room for the trial is one of the smallest ones in the building, with 2 rows, each seats about 15 people.  Undoubtedly, whoever assigned the room knew that this would be a trial that would draw numerous media people, friends of the Corries, and general well wishers.  Th...

NOVANEWS     Oz journalists dare to mention Serco (just a little) Scared Zionist sees Germany and imagines colonial Israel Israel loves colonies so keeps on building merrily away What good friends do for each other; sell death Resist disaster capitalism in Cameron and Clegg’s Britain The UK is entering a period of extremes and mad capitalism is to blame Guide for the 21st century Oz journalists dare to mention Serco (just a little) 21 Oct 2010 All praise this rarity. A story in the Australian media (yesterday’s Australian) on Serco. Short but oh so sweet: A security company contracted by Serco is being investigated over claims it used unlicensed guards at police detention centres. Serco is responsible for running Australia’s rapidly expanding network of immigration de...

NOVANEWS 10/21/2010 Bibi’s poodle Ayed Morrar, the moral giant of Budrus public sculpture in Israel… uh, really? Jewish settlers, returned to the land of the bible, burn a girls school and beat farmers trying to harvest olives 3 Jews showed this video last night at NYU, challenging Zionism I felt the earth move first they ignore you, then they ignore you, then they ignore you, then they melt down like Dershowitz The internet cleansing of Pappe Bibi’s poodle Oct 20, 2010 Philip Weiss  Barack Obama, at Cairo University, June 4, 2009. Speech was titled "A New Beginning:" At the same time, Israelis must acknowledge that just as Israel's right to exist cannot be denied, neither can Palestine's.  The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settl...

  NOVANEWS Dear Friends, Just 2 items this evening.  The first is shocking, but was to have been expected following the loyalty oath bill: Gideon Saar wishes to ban East Jerusalem Arabs from being tourist guides—why?  They are not sufficiently Zionist to hard-sell Israel’s (biblical and more recent) past and present to tourists.  Just to remind us where we are headed for, I precede the news report on MK Saar’s endeavors (backed by 7 additional MKs) with some Nuremberg Laws.  From Saar’s bill to denying Arabs the right to lecture in Israeli institutions of higher learning, from being students in the same, from living in Jewish neighborhoods, from intermarrying with Jews, and all the like is just a step or half-step away. We are not only moving in the direction of Nuremberg—Israel’s leaders ...

NOVANEWS 10/20/2010 How many lies can Alan Dershowitz tell in 60 seconds? This is a pogrom (first they demolished the shepherd’s house, then they came to his tent and kicked his sheep, causing ewe to abort) ‘US Boat to Gaza’ to join efforts from Switzerland, Turkey, Greece, Ireland, Norway, Italy, Sweden, Malaysia & the Netherlands to form the Freedom Flotilla II in March 2011 Harvard student government condemns Peretz fund and calls for an investigation on the decision to honor him New tourism law shows the more the Israeli narrative gets challenged, the greater need there is to enforce it Guilty of being Muslim: A review of ‘Entrapped’ Abulhawa: ‘As Palestinians, we are facing our own extinction’ Two state idea is over because U.S. was ‘repeatedly diddled by a client ...

NOVANEWS Dear Friends, First off, an apology.  I got my Gideons mixed up yesterday.  The person initiating the law to prohibit East Jerusalem Palestinians from being tourist guides is Gideon Ezra, not Gideon Saar.  The two are much alike in their thinking and policies, but are nevertheless 2 different persons.  Sorry. Below are 2 reports, 3 partial reports, and one item consisting of 2 brief letters—6 items all told.  The abbreviated items contain the links, should you wish to read the whole. I find the initial item very disturbing.  Several years back (in 2006) the then Israeli Minister of Education, Yuli Tamir, expressed her intention to reinstate the ‘green line’ (the 1949 armistice line) on maps in textbooks. Her proposal caused such a ruckus in the Knesset that she had to back do...

NOVANEWS October 20, 2010 by Debbie Menon  By Alistair Crooke  ( Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran ) Our friend and colleague, Alastair Crooke, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum, has written the following post about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Lebanon.  We heartily commend it to our readers’ attention. –Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett Firstly, let us put to one side the nonsense: The President of Iran’s visit was not about embedding Lebanon as a part of the Iranian state, nor was it about paving the way for any Hizbullah ‘take-over’ of Lebanon; and nor can the visit be described as a ‘provocation’. It was of course self-evidently intended to express defiance towards Israeli military hegemony and to assert a ...

NOVANEWS Who knew that occupation caused Muslims to hate us? Myopic Jews berate IAJV for caring about human rights Invade, beg, pay Back on ABC TV News24 talking Afghanistan, drugs policy and 9/11 US TV viewers get small taste of Zionist madness Aussie Zionist lobby comically tries to help clueless union Who knew that occupation caused Muslims to hate us? 20 Oct 2010 Robert Pape tells us what we should already know. When the West occupies and kill Muslims, they may want to respond in kind. Funny that: More than 95 percent of all suicide attacks are in response to foreign occupation, according to extensive research that we conducted at the University of Chicago’s Project on Security and Terrorism, where we examined every one of the over 2,200 suicide attacks across the world f...