Middle East

NOVANEWS 09/29/2010 New video disproves settler version of Silwan shooting Why aren’t our congressmen hearing from this victim of endless Israeli expansion? Obama continues Bush policy promoting anti-democratic crackdown in the West Bank ‘Why would YOU want to go THERE?’ While the world sends its regrets, settlers move to evict dozens of Palestinians from E Jerusalem homes Walt & Mearsheimer should rename their book, ‘They’ve Got Us by the Short and Curlies’ N.Y. musicians’ union shuts down debate over Israel/Palestine Zionists did BDS Jewish passengers to Gaza said to be detained in Ashdod, shaken but OK New video disproves settler version of Silwan shooting Sep 28, 2010 Adam Horowitz  From the Wadi Hilweh Information Center: Wadi Hilweh Informati...

NOVANEWS The seriously deadly threat of non-violent Jews Hoder sees the darkest side of Ahmadinejad’s brutality Private armies are out and looking for business How to be gay in the Islamic Republic Shell and Iran kissing in a tree Zionist circus swings back into town and media watches Let our Diggers kill at will beause we say they’re noble The seriously deadly threat of non-violent Jews 28 Sep 2010 Israel using excessive force and abusing civilians? Just another day on the job: Israel Defense Forces soldiers used excessive force while taking over a Gaza-bound aid ship organized by Jewish and Israeli activists, the boat’s passengers said Tuesday, countering the military’s official version claiming that the takeover had been uneventful. Earlier Tuesday the IDF reporte...

NOVANEWS Dear All, 4 items tonight—B’tselem statistics, the option that foreign workers children don’t have, Akiva Eldar on “Netanyahu is looking for a magical solution to both let the tractors get back to work in the West Bank and to keep Abbas at the negotiating table” with which I agree.  The 4th is one that you will enjoy.  It will for a change leave you with a good taste in your mouth.  Dorothy -------------------------------------  1. Jerusalem Post, Monday, September 27, 2010   Photo by: Ben Curtis/AP  B'tselem: Since 2000, 7,454 Israelis, Palestinians killed  http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=189392 By JPOST.COM STAFF 27/09/2010   According to human rights group report, 6,371 Palestinian, 1,083 Israeli causalities during armed conflict in last 10 years.   Since September ...

NOVANEWS Privatisation for breakfast, lunch and dinner New Yorker embraces pure surrealism Murdoch hearts anybody other than sensible US politicians The real cost of outsourcing asylum seeker care is more pain Islam is the true enemy, says Republican candidate How we rely on local journalists to show our stupidity Your friendly financial institution assists killers Here’s what Iraqis need; iTunes It is your patriotic duty to provide weapons of death to the state Business as usual in apartheid Palestine Privatisation for breakfast, lunch and dinner27 Sep 2010 Are there limits to privatisation or should we just consider asking multinationals to sell babies to the highest bidder? A private company in Maryland has taken over public libraries in ailing cities in Ca...

NOVANEWS This time we came to the checkpoint especially in order to gather testimony about the  murder of 15.5-year old Fahmi Abd alJawaad alDarduk (فهمي عبد الجواد الدردوك), who was shot by the soldiers at this checkpoint on Monday, May 19th 2008.After he was shot, the army claimed that pipe bombs had been detected in his belt. That wires had been seen hanging from under his clothing. That three pipe bombs had been observed. Later it was said there were five. One of the perpetrators of this crime was cited for excellence. A Palestinian ambulance arriving from Nablus twenty minutes later at the most was  not permitted access to the bleeding boy until 11:30 PM. For two and a half hours he lay on the concrete floor of the checkpoint and no one was allowed to approach him but the Occupa...

NOVANEWS To understand that the Wall is not being built for security purposes but in order to finalize Israel's future borders, a mere look at the map suffices. A clear line passes east of the 'green line' with the sole purpose of including in Israel as many colonies (i.e. settlements) and land as possible, and excluding – respectively – as many Palestinian villages and the least amount of land. Between the colonies of Giv'at Ze'ev, Giv'on and Ramot, along the route of the main Jews-only road, one small village remains which the Wall has not succeeded in peeling away from this terrain. One Palestinian stain in this contiguous Judaized terrain. The village of Nabi Samuil. Issa was sixteen, Kamal fourteen and Hajje Shukriya in her late thirties when, in 1967, the bombings began. The memory o...

NOVANEWS The abuse of Muhammed, Ahmed, Rami and Hussam by policemen is happening for many months. When will you come, tomorrow? No. Tuesday? Wednesday? Next week, said Tami to little Hussam. We'll come next week. Next week? He looked, his face taut with expectation, edged with fatigue – aged and flat – of a child robbed of his childhood. Yes, we said. And he conceded. There is this feeling that it is nearly impossible to help Hussam and his three brothers. even if theoretically we could take them out of their lives (life with an abusive father and collaborating mother who send these four children seven days a week at all hours, winter and summer, no matter what, to sell chewing gum or puzzles or other sundry articles – each child mush bring home 50 shekels, an exorbitant sum for people und...

NOVANEWS PFLP Protests Return to Negotiations, Suspends Participation in PLO 27 September 2010 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)  The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) announced in a press conference on September 25, 2010 that it was suspending its participation in the PLO Executive Committee in response to Abu Mazen's return to negotiations and the illegitimate "approval" of the EC for this dangerous action.  At a press conference held in Ramallah led by Deputy General Secretary Comrade Abdel-Rahim Mallouh and Political Bureau members Comrades Khalida Jarrar and Omar Shehadeh, the Front warned of the serious consequences and repercussions of the policy of concessions and appeasement to the U.S. and Israel. The press conference issued a statement, as...

NOVANEWS 09/27/2010 ‘A higher racism’: The new justifications for Islamophobia and pre-emptive violence ‘J Street’ raised $11 million– and the right howls Between ‘09 and ‘10, Obama dropped demand for an ‘end to occupation’ Israel Museum features art work honoring the right of return Jewish boat to Gaza sets sail from Cyprus No answer at the Egyptian office for Palestinian affairs Agnon: Israel gave us strength to stand up for our lives In 1967, Peretz and Walzer were on the ramparts ‘A higher racism’: The new justifications for Islamophobia and pre-emptive violence Sep 26, 2010 David Green Our political culture has become more civilized, but also more sophisticated in its use of demonization. While overt hatred is no longer generally acceptable, it can be rationalized if it is...

NOVANEWS 09/26/2010 A ‘party for Marty’ greets Peretz at Harvard UN: Two men killed on ‘Mavi Marmara’ were holding cameras when they were shot The legend of the Silwad sniper He willed it but it’s still a dream Two conversations with Europeans in Jordan touch on Jewish fears re anti-Semitism A ‘party for Marty’ greets Peretz at Harvard Sep 25, 2010 Adam Horowitz The following was sent out by the organizers of the "Party for Marty": Over 100 members of the Harvard community and others "welcomed" New Republic editor and the university administration's favorite racist, Martin Peretz, at the 50th anniversary of Harvard's Social Studies program with a combination of protests, walk-outs, and probing questions. Demonstrators at the event confronted Peretz outside Harvard's Science Cen...