Middle East

NOVANEWS Passengers grabbed Israeli weapons to stop the killing In Uncategorized on October 1, 2010 by crescentandcross      

NOVANEWS Finalist in UN Media Peace Awards 2010 David Cameron’s love affair with a Sudanese butcher Afghans, your nation is paradise so please bugger off home Remembering the Tamil struggle Roll up for another few decades of settlement expansion in Palestine Finalist in UN Media Peace Awards 2010 01 Oct 2010 In April this year ABC Radio National’s 360 broadcast my documentary, “A Different Kind of Jew“, about Jewish dissent and Israel/Palestine. This week I was informed the piece is a finalist in the 2010 United Nations Association of Australia Media Peace Awards in the “Best Radio” section with my producer Sharon Davis and sound engineer Tim Nicastri. The winner is announced at the end of October. I’m honoured and wish everybody good luck (well, you have to s...

NOVANEWS Gaza Blog, January 2010 – Day 1.   After flying to Cairo and then going by bus on a four-hour drive through the Sinai desert, we arrived at the Rafah crossing point between Egypt and Gaza at 1 pm today, Friday, and presented our passports.  Although we had been reassured that everything was arranged and we would be allowed into Gaza, most of us were secretly worried that there would be some last-minute hitch and we would be refused entry or at least kept waiting for a long time.  However it all went very smoothly. It took us no more than half an hour to get through the Egyptian side and onto the bus that takes you across the actual border. I should explain that there are seven crossing points into Gaza, six from Israel – most of which are closed at the moment – and just one fr...

NOVANEWS September 30, 2010 by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat   The exodus of the Palestinians from Palestine is the Israeli idea of an everlasting peace. By Dr. Ashraf Ezzat FM Clinton at an opening session of the Mid-East talks. I don’t really believe that a lot of people will be surprised to find out that the current Palestinian-Israeli peace talks has come to a dead end once again. Israel’s decision not to extend a ban on West Bank settlement building has nearly called off the peace talks that America was trying hard to boost. The unwillingness of the Israeli side to freeze the construction of new settlements on the occupied Palestinian west bank has instead frozen the yet to start peace negotiations. The USA – as usual- said that it was “disappointed” by Israel’s decision not to extend a ban on W...

NOVANEWS Sep 30, 2010  Gestapo soldier holds a tear gas canister during a demonstration by Palestinian and foreign activists. Locals in an Zionist-occupied neighborhood find traces of banned weaponry, used by Zio=Nazi forces in their crackdown on a recent wave of protests.The Silwan neighborhood of East al-Quds (Jerusalem) has been swept with outrage at a curfew imposed following the troops' killing of two Palestinians on September 22, the Palestinian Ma'an news agency reported. The order prevented movement between al-Quds' neighborhoods. The area of the clashes was scattered after the suppression with expired and oxidized tear gas canisters. Medical staff said those injured in the incidents displayed signs of poisoning. Residents, meanwhile, reported an increase in the symptoms of fatigu...

NOVANEWS Australia may have followed Julian Assange into the toilet New Greens MP; sustainability doesn’t mean just selling more coal to whores Hello my name is Barack and please don’t hate me for begging Israel on a daily basis Yes, Rupert, progressives are destroying the world so save us! Disaster capitalism envelops us all Mearsheimer/Walt enter the best-seller list via Franzen Whatever you do, don’t allow Cuba use its own resources The Zionist lobby sure doesn’t have much appeal anymore with the yoof The modern slave trade for our culinary enjoyment How to receive a White House pat on the head Australia may have followed Julian Assange into the toilet 30 Sep 2010 Exposing state crimes in the “war on terror” comes with a price. And don’t expect governments t...

NOVANEWS 09/30/2010 Avigdor Lieberman’s UN speech shows the true face of Israel Rosengarten, sole American on boat: It is Jew against Jew B’Tselem: In the 10 years since the beginning of the second intifada Israeli forces killed 6,371 Palestinians, including 1,317 minors. Once again, PA caves on Goldstone Report UN report: Israeli interception of the Gaza flotilla was illegal In NYT, Robt Wright dares to suggest that Palestinians should have a right to, unh, vote Freeze was meaningless Sailing into the storm Pseudo-freeze ends, pseudo-liberals rejoice IDF used excessive force to take Jewish Boat to Gaza. Shapira: ’soldiers’ actions were violent and disgusting’ Avigdor Lieberman’s UN speech shows the true face of Israel Sep 29, 2010 Alex Kane  Yisra...

NOVANEWS Help APHEDA pick a worthy winner Which companies would benefit from a nuclear waste dump? Pentagon watches books go up in flames South Africa joins the ever-growing club of activists on Palestine Why on earth would America want to help the people they’ve invaded? Countless Iranian names whose lives are changed forever Iceland looks to actually find transparency in its politicians ABC Radio Overnights on Middle East realities Opposition to Serco isn’t solely by refugees Help APHEDA pick a worthy winner Posted: 29 Sep 2010 05:25 PM PDT One of Australia’s finest NGOs, APHEDA – Union Aid Abroad, last night hosted its annual fund-raising dinner and launched the following advertisement to 400 intrigued people. Give now, give generously:   Which companies ...

NOVANEWS September 28, 2010 Trailer: Seven Deadly Myths  "We didn't come to them [the Palestinian villagers in the Negev] to collect their taxes. We came to inherit the land from the hands of strangers. That was the basis of our thinking. To inherit the land. And he who inherits, dispossess others. That's why we wouldn't let them return" - Amnon Noiman

NOVANEWS Dear All, The big story of the day in Israel today is not the boat to Gaza but Israel’s Foreign Minister’s speech at the UN, in which he declared that peace would take decades, maybe 3.  This at a time when Israel’s PM is supposedly trying to reach a peace agreement with the Palestinians.  Netanyahu distanced himself from Lieberman’s remarks, saying, apparently, that Lieberman had not notified him of what he was going to say when addressing the UN.  I have not included info on this below. But while I was searching for reports about today’s boat to Gaza, I learned from Ynet that Mairead Maguire had been denied entry into Israel.  That news was only in 2 of the dozen or so newspapers that I read on line—the one below in Ynet and in the Independent.  As for the boat, I enclose 3 repo...