Middle East

NOVANEWS 10/12/2010 Bil’in leader Abdallah Abu Rahmah sentenced to a year in prison for organizing nonviolent protests against the Wall Turn right at the end: The future of a country that gave up on democracy Follow Mondoweiss on the Kindle Israel’s ethnic cleansing drill a result of nationalists adopting the two-state solution ‘We wouldn’t eat their sandwiches!’ –an interview with Lillian Rosengarten More ‘best shots of Israel’ Activists disrupt JNF conference, including ‘Not in my name’ Jews who are labeled ‘traitors’ bye bye dog talking Donna Edwards flap fosters debate over one-state vs two-state Settlers run wild over the weekend Bil’in leader Abdallah Abu Rahmah sentenced to a year in prison for organizing nonviolent protests against the Wall   Oct 11, 20...

NOVANEWS 10/11/2010 Israeli soldiers don keffiyehs to try to break the back of Palestinian resistance, then stop photographers from filming them Does anyone in Israel have the vision thing? Israeli diplomacy: German development minister barred from entering Gaza Palestinian Israelis are to have ‘Jewish’ nationality (as Jews once had to be public Christians in Europe) Israeli soldiers don keffiyehs to try to break the back of Palestinian resistance, then stop photographers from filming them Oct 10, 2010 Philip Weiss  Notes from the moral battleground: an amazing post by Joseph Dana on a demonstration against the illegal colonization of the village of Beit Ummar in which Zio=Nazi Gestapo's disguised themselves as Palestinian demonstrators in order to arrest three Palestinian ...

NOVANEWS Works in Progress: -          The partition of Palestine (most recently into Gaza Strip; East Jerusalem; West Bank ) -          The partition of Iraq In Iraq , the occupation is attempting "ethnic" partition. See second item below: A statement issued yesterday (October 10, 2010) by the BRusselS Tribunal. In Palestine/Israel, Israel's security forces are now drilling the concentration, in camps, and mass deportation to the Palestinian Authority of Palestinian citizens of Israel: Yesterday, military affairs reporter, Carmela Menashe, reported (in Hebrew; http://www.iba.org.il/bet/?type=1&entity=680286) that a large scale drill simulated "extreme scenarios of violent protests in the Arab sector following accords with the Palestinian Authority on population exchange. A detention c...

NOVANEWS 10/10/2010 Back to Gaza Young Jew at Princeton: Yes, American Jews are to blame for ennabling injustice Reports from the Corrie trial in Haifa true, obvious (40 years ago, and today) A Bedouin boy changed the power balance of my marriage, maybe forever So the post-racial president makes a peace deal, and Livni ‘expects the Jews to understand’ (but what if they aren’t Jews?) What is the Hebrew word for ‘optics’? Back to Gaza Oct 09, 2010 Jared Malsin  I arrived in Gaza on Thursday. This the first time I’ve been back to any corner of Palestine since I was deported by Israel in January. It took a week of paperwork and waiting in Cairo to get approval from Egypt to enter Gaza. After obtaining the permit, I met up with Kristen Chick, the Cairo correspondent fo...

NOVANEWS  Dear All,   The message below is an important one for several reasons.  What takes place in the United States with impunity is likely also to occur in Israel.   And apart from relating what is happening and requesting you to act, the second part of the message contains (thanks to Ed Kent who forwarded) a live case of what can happen and following that instructions of your rights if by chance you find yourself on the suspect side of the coin.   This is not the first time in American history that fascistic acts and principles have entered the American lives.  Apart from the slave trade eras, there was also the 1920s when the Red scare and fear of immigrants deported 100s if not 1000s, killed Sacco and Vanzetti who were accused of being anarchists and of murdering 2 people (but the ...

NOVANEWS “’Democracy is the soul of Israel and we cannot do without it. No one can preach democracy or enlightenment to us," Netanyahu added. "Zionism established an exemplary national state, a state that balances between the national needs of our people and the individual rights or every citizen in the country.’" [ from item 1] Ah yes, dear friends.  Therefore [respecting the democratic nature of Israel] there are no Jewish unrecognized villages in Israel, only Palestinian.  Therefore, only seldom are Jewish homes demolished, whether or nor they have permits for adding on or building anew.  Therefore Palestinians with Israeli citizenship cannot buy land or live wherever they wish in Israel.   Therefore, the Israeli police have never fired a shot at Jewish demonstrators (nor should they), ...

NOVANEWS In transit from Indonesia to Australia News Corp embraces its inner Iran Livni hopes that the noble Zionist state will still inspire In transit from Indonesia to Australia 10 Oct 2010 Just about to leave Bali and head back to Sydney so normal programming will resume in the next 24 hours. The dream is over, real life beckons again. In the meantime, check out these pieces here and here.   News Corp embraces its inner Iran 10 Oct 2010 Who says Rupert Murdoch doesn’t love the Islamic Republic? The News Corp-backed network Farsi1 offers Fox favorites and Telenovelas, and has quickly become the most watched in Iran. Reza Aslan on why Ahmadinejad’s government is worried. Farsi1, a Persian language satellite station partly owned by Rupert Murdoch’s NewsCorp, has become th...

NOVANEWS ARAB REGIME CREDIBILITY HANGING BY ITS LAST INVISIBLE THREAD October 9, 2010 by Alan Hart As I have written and said on more than a few occasions in the past, Zionism’s key players know how to play the cards they were dealt and Arab leaders don’t. On 25 September I wrote a piece headlined Obama speaks at the UN… Goodbye to peace. Since then I’ve seen no need for me to contribute to the debate about the farce that President Obama’s push for peace is and was always going to be. But the Arab League’s decision to give Obama a one-month deadline to rescue the direct talks between Abbas and his quisling administration and Netanyahu and his deluded coalition government demands a comment or two. Arab leaders know that with America’s mid-term elections fast approaching, there is no way ...

NOVANEWS 10/09/2010 Bill spills the beans– linkage of global terror and Palestinian issue The ‘Times’ smooths the path to the next Lebanon war Israel wounds 11 in Gaza with aerial attacks and arrests nearly that many in West Bank nighttime raids Goldwater: Israel lobby is way too powerful, it could send us to war, and money’s at the root of it ‘Notes from the suicide watch’ Could Israel survive without Harvard? The Israel National Library nationalizes Kafka Bill spills the beans– linkage of global terror and Palestinian issue Oct 08, 2010 annie  Speaking to a group of Egyptian businessmen in Cairo Tuesday Clinton said Tuesday that solving the Israel-Palestinian conflict would take away much of the motivation for terrorism around the world. "It will take about half th...

NOVANEWS The way to expand the US system of control Who really runs US foreign policy? Mad people How much death can billions buy? The way to expand the US system of control 08 Oct 2010 How much do you know about the US empire and the countless global bases to maintain it?   Who really runs US foreign policy? Mad people 08 Oct 2010 Love this logic. Israel is a US client state and now we have confirmation that Washington essentially begged Tel Aviv to continue the illusion of a “settlement freeze” over the moribund “peace talks”. God help the Middle East.   How much death can billions buy? 08 Oct 2010 War is Business blog unpacks the true cost of our conflicts: At the start of the Iraq invasion, the US military spent twice as much on its own personnel as it did on procu...