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NOVANEWS Washington agrees that Wikileaks harmed nobody but US war-making Resistance vs terrorism is a complex beast; enter the Tamil Tigers “The Palestinians want to destroy the world” More on Tony Abbott mixing with the “enemy” in Sydney Speaking to Finkelstein in Sydney to raise money for Gaza flotilla Washington agrees that Wikileaks harmed nobody but US war-making16 Oct 2010 So after all the huffing and puffing and accusations, Wikileaks is only “guilty” of harming US interests? Surely questioning the rationale behind criminal American foreign policy is highly praise-worthy: No U.S. intelligence sources or practices were compromised by the posting of  secret Afghan war logs by the WikiLeaks website, the Pentagon has concluded, but the military thinks the leaks c...

NOVANEWS Dear Friends, 6 items below, 2 of which are videos that I hope that you will watch.  One of these is about the Breaking the Silence organization and the flack that they receive.  The other shows the hard sell that kids on the Birthright trips are exposed to. Apart from that, the first item tells us that every other day the IOF kills a Palestinian civilian with impunity.  Items 2 and 3 are the videos, neither more than about 10 minutes.  Item 4 is an itinerary for Partners for Peace, in which our own Ruth Hiller (one of the founding members of New Profile) is participating in.  Item 5 informs us that Israeli officials justify the building in East Jerusalem, which of course tells us that they are more interested in expansion than peace—nothing new in that stance!  An item that I sen...

NOVANEWS Dear All, Before I run through the 5 items below, I have to tell  you about an incident  yesterday.  Actually, the day as a whole was lovely.  Spouse, I, and two acquaintances from abroad went to spend the day in the West Bank, mostly in the village of Qira.  That’s right.  Lina’s village (for those of you who know who Lina is; for those of you who don’t, she’s a Palestinian child who today is 8 years old, but was only 3 years old when she had a kidney transplant.  But that’s another story).  In short, Lina’s family as many Palestinian villagers now were busy yesterday harvesting olives.  We joined them and also 3 German girls who had come for that purpose.  For anyone who has not experienced this, it’s difficult in just a few words to explain.  The work is not easy, but there is ...

NOVANEWS Keeping kids behind bars has become the Australian way Wikileaks and avoiding September 11 How torture was freely used in a post 9/11 moral haze Serco and friends line up for dirty and profitable work Meeting Tony Abbott in Sydney and shooting the Palestinian breeze Assange; the importance of making powerful enemies Using bio-fuel and chocolate to cure the world Serco and friends take refugees and show them the door Australian unions recognise the power and necessity of BDS Keeping kids behind bars has become the Australian way 15 Oct 2010 With news that Australia may soon release a number of families and children from immigration detention to live in the community while their claims are processed, Mary Crock, Professor of Public Law at the University of Sydney, ...

NOVANEWS 10/15/2010 When will Americans be informed of what is stirring in Israel? The yearly settler festival of destroying the Palestinians’ olive trees and orchards Brooklyn-Jenin: ‘The Messiah will only come the day after his arrival.’ Blogging for the enemy ‘The Palestinians have won’ Can you support the Palestinians when you live on their stolen land? Cold Turkey Donna Edwards’s pro-Israel identity Jewish groups seek to bar Abunimah from campus Judt’s beautiful bloody mind When will Americans be informed of what is stirring in Israel? Oct 14, 2010 Philip Weiss  This is reportedly a Gush Shalom ad in Haaretz: A state That declares war On a fifth Of its citizens – Can it be called “Democratic”? A state That persecutes Its minority – Can it be called “Je...

NOVANEWS 15 October, 2010  PSC Weekly update 15th October 2010  War criminals not welcome Convoy to sail to Egypt this Sunday Israel's racist Loyalty Oath No OECD meeting in Jerusalem Veolia demo and more...   Also in this week’s update:  DUMP VEOLIA DEMO: SATURDAY 23 October, 3 - 5pm, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD - Join us for an 'Alternative Exhibition'.  BDS French activist update – case dropped! Thank you for responding to last week's action alert MEMO/PSC meeting with Professor Richard Falk: The Israeli assault on human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Dec 1st - plus interview  Israel's loyalty oath: Discriminatory by design  Gideon Levy: The Jewish republic of Israel  Breaking the silence nominated for Peace p...

NOVANEWS 38 HIROSHIMAS HIDDEN: How’d The Army Do That? October 15, 2010 by Bob Nichols   Why not a matchbox sized nuke? Easy to use, not detectable. (San Francisco) – Dr. Chris Busby, a world famous UK based physicist, was at the UN last week with the results of his health survey comparing the health of the city of Fallujah, Iraq with 38 Hiroshimas. The results were truly astonishing, even to the jaded eyes of UN representatives, old retired war fighters and politically connected bureaucrats. No armed force had accomplished this level of death and disease in a civilian population before. What Weapons Do Many Hiroshimas? There it was in black and white, on paper, from an internationally respected physicist – the utterly unbelievable, but certified results: Fallujah’s leukemia rate was 38 t...

NOVANEWS PRESIDENT AHMEDINEJAD ARRIVES LEBANON TO FANFARE, ROSE PETALS AND SWEETS October 14, 2010by Debbie Menon Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves to the crowds from the sunroof of his SUV upon his arrival in Lebanon on Wednesday. Thousands of cheering Lebanese welcomed the Iranian President, throwing rose petals and sweets at his motorcade at the start of his visit — AP Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s emphasis on the resistance and consolidation of unity among the Lebanese has outraged Israel, says Iran’s ambassador to Beirut. YouTube - Veterans Today - “President Ahmadinejad’s visit to Lebanon is aimed at fostering unity among the Lebanese and calling all Lebanese to stand beside each other for resistance and that is why Israel is furious and has threatened Lebanon,...

NOVANEWS Destroying Euro ghettos and pushing the problem elsewhere Have Zionist nukes, will travel A terrorist because we say so The struggle for a free Burma Censoring millions of Chinese posts daily Serco continues its glorious work in the UK They don’t hate us for our freedoms Destroying Euro ghettos and pushing the problem elsewhere 14 Oct 2010 Europe’s growing anti-immigration racism reminds us of dark periods in the continent’s history: “These are dark-skinned people [Roma], not Europeans like you and me,” said Riccardo De Corato, who is Milan’s vice mayor from Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s ruling party and who is in charge of handling the camps. He later added: “Our final goal is to have zero Gypsy camps in Milan.”   Have Zionist nukes, will travel 14 Oct 20...

NOVANEWS In This Issue... Premiere of a Film Documenting Relationships between Israelis and the People of Palestinian Susiya More Recent Articles Search The Only Democracy? Tuesday, September 28th, brought us at the Villages Group great satisfaction. On that day, we and many of o ur friends in Susiya had the pleasure of attending the world premiere of the film “The Human Turbine” at the Haifa International Film Festival. Over a period of two years from 2008 to 2010, a film crew headed by director Danny Verete and producer Yehuda Bitton documented the evolving ties between the people of Susiya and the Israelis who visit them regularly activists in the Villages Group and the Comet-ME NGOs. The resulting hour-long film follows the various projects made possible by the cooperat...