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1902 18th St NW • Washington, DC 20009 | (800) 368-5788 • Fax: (202) 265-4574 ACTION ALERT October 6, 2010 Contact: newseditor@wrmea.com We've been asked to forward this to our e-mail action alert list. UNRWA needs our help now. If you're having trouble viewing this email, you may see it online UNRWA is an agency in crisis.  For more than 60 years, it has tirelessly served as a lifeline for Palestinian refugees, but 2010 is different.  UNRWA is simply overstretched and underfunded.  Due to the increased demand for services and the global financial crisis, the Agency is facing an $80 million deficit and as a result, UNRWA cannot pay staff salaries in November. This is a devastating reality for the 29,000 staff members, 99% of whom are Palestinian refu...

NOVANEWS Dear Friends, 4 not very long reports—beginning with an anticipated one (continuation of colony construction), the second an angry Amira Hass relates how the Shabak (General Security Service) treats Palestinians in dire need of medical assistance and the ok of the Israeli consensus, the third and fourth both about possible boycotts against Israel.   Should they materialize, should the great granddaughter of Wagner declare that her decision to not come to Israel is in effect her Boycott, and should one or both soccer organizations kick Israel out because of its treatment of Palestinian soccer players, each of these will hurt,  Will Israel be forced to at the least alter its treatment of Palestinian athletes?  Not likely.  It will be another indication for the Israeli public on how ...

NOVANEWS Israel is now punishing Palestinians shamelessly What is delaying treatment of a 47-year-old Palestinian woman, if not punishment of someone who opposes her foreign rulers? By Amira Hass Behind a modest desk with a view of Beit Jala sits a nameless Shin Bet security service officer who is very pleased with himself. He has just saved the Jewish people in Israel from yet another grave security risk by preventing a 47-year-old woman, for five weeks now, from going abroad for urgent medical tests. Palestinian women argue with an Israeli soldier while attempting to cross the Kalandia checkpoint August 27, 2010 Photo by: AP Or perhaps this isn't a story about just one officer, but rather about a committee of three. What matters is that Khalida Jarrar, a resident of Al-...

NOVANEWS Yet more signs of an insecure Islamic leadership Israel continues settlements and the world smiles with thanks Nothing pretty about Zionist colonists Is a social impact bond more than just a buzz world? Yet more signs of an insecure Islamic leadership   06 Oct 2010 Why does Tehran continue playing into America and Israel’s hands? Repression is a bad look, politically and morally repulsive: Reporters Without Borders is outraged that the Iranian government is reinforcing and extending its online censorship and repression of netizens. Several news and information websites have been blocked in the past few days including those of two influential Grand Ayatollahs, which have been inaccessible in Iran since 3 October. Online women’s rights and student activists are among th...

NOVANEWS By Franklin Lamb On a clear day you can see Akka, Palestine from my favorite Lebanese village, Maron al Ras, where more than a few analysts here conjecture that the next and 6th aggression by Israel against Lebanon will begin. On any day, but particularly since 9/21/10, you can also see beefed up Zionist military patrols, assorted electronic listening posts, sundry spy devices, new Raytheon-produced surveillance equipment, two new supposedly camouflaged cinder block one room shacks with Zionist soldiers peering out menacingly while talking on their (Hezbollah-monitored) cell phones to girlfriends, mothers, pals and their HQ’s. They frequently glare from windows heavily-screened to keep out stones that tourists on the Lebanon side of the ‘blue line’ regularly throw at them when UNI...

NOVANEWS 10/05/2010 before the flood, intelligent life dwelled here Bibi buries Barack’s Pax Americana Where is the Gandhi of Israel? Settlers attack West Bank mosque, burn prayer rugs and Korans and write “revenge” on a wall in Hebrew Early front runners for the Israel Project’s ‘Best Shots of Israel’ contest Halper: American Jews (and the Congress) don’t want an Israel at peace Exhibit a: Muhammad cartoons Israel’s Palestinian citizens are not a negotiating chip A Call for Support: The trial of Ameer Makhoul enters a new phase What Obama hasn’t changed about the peace process Before the flood, intelligent life dwelled here Oct 04, 2010 Philip Weiss Memo to Chris Matthews. These headlines are from a New York Times story, 60 years ago, when it was not verbot...

NOVANEWS        *    McGeough shows how few MSM reporters tell the truth Ubud, B ali calling Bombing will continue as long as we continue bombing Another day of Jews abusing Arabs under their control Israel is slowly but surely building an army of extremist Jews No pressure to act on climate change McGeough shows how few MSM reporters tell the truth 05 Oct 2010 A masterful speech by Sydney Morning Herald journalist Paul McGeough at last weekend’s Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney. He covers the non-existent Middle East “peace process”, Zionist paranoid and bullying, media coverage and the colonial project known as Israel. Such honesty is rare in the MSM. Savour it: Since 1948, a constant in Israeli-Palestinian relations has been Israel’s coveting of Palestinian land – re...

NOVANEWS 10/06/2010 Chicago faith leaders issue statement in support of activists targeted by the FBI Chicago group brings campaign to end US aid to Israel to transit riders The latest entries for the Israel Project photo contest Gideon Levy in NYC: Israel is ‘the only occupier in history that’s completely convinced of its own present ongoing victimhood’ What does effective solidarity with Palestinians look like in the US? Abergil redux: YouTube video shows IDF soldier dancing beside bound Palestinian woman Not in the NYT: Israeli poet says Israel is apartheid state Al Gore, Donald Graham, and David Ignatius signed letter flogging Marty Peretz fund Marty Peretz internship nominee More on Jewish racism towards Palestinians Chicago faith leaders issue statemen...

NOVANEWS 10/04/2010 IDF soldiers convicted of using 11-year-old as human shield in Gaza Meeting Alan Dershowitz IDF soldiers convicted of using 11-year-old as human shield in Gaza Oct 03, 2010 Kate  And more news from Today in Palestine: Land and property theft and destruction / Ethnic cleansing / Apartheid Acting Hebron governor slams land confiscation HEBRON (Ma'an) -- The acting governor of Hebron denounced on Saturday the confiscation of 66 dunums of land in the Taffuh village in the district. Samir Abu Zneid said Israeli forces delivered confiscation warrants to the Banat Khalet Hatem area on plot number 24 in the village, which falls under the Dura Municipality's jurisdiction, a statement read. http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=320212 Israel's homeless bedouin t...

NOVANEWS Dear All, Just 4 not very long items tonight.  If you are interested in additionally reading the Supreme Court’s reasoning about why to deny a Nobel Prize Laureate entry, please check out http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israel-rejects-pro-palestinian-nobel-laureate-s-deportation-appeal-1.317188 or  http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3964109,00.html The verdict was to have been expected.  This, after all, is Israel. The initial 2 items are about Israel’s military—‘the most moral army in the world,’ you know.  Actually, the first item by Amira Hass, in which soldiers reveal how they are brain washed to prepare them to do anything, could serve as a case in point for Kathleen Barry’s new book, “Unmaking War, Remaking Men.” The 2nd item is about a soldier being photographed...