Middle East

NOVANEWS Land and property theft and destruction / Ethnic cleansin After Birthright: Hebron - 500 settlers, 2,000 soldiers, and the tensest place I've ever been / Rachel Marcuse ...My discomfort increases as I begin to more fully understand the situation, a situation which is almost literally on top of me. I look up at a net hanging above the souk. It's full of garbage and other debris. The Jewish settlers, who number about 500, have built homes above both sides of the market street. I am told that the net is to protect the Palestinians below from the garbage, urine, eggs and bleach routinely thrown at them by the settlers. I can see evidence of the refuse in the net right above me. One of the shopkeepers shows me egg stains on the scarves he is selling. Hebron feels tense; in fact, it's t...

NOVANEWS Another man dead at Villawood and the government shrugs Settlements must be excluded night and day People smuggling is both necessary and inevitable Listen to the lessons from Haystack or lives may be lost A day at the Villawood detention centre, Australia’s mental trauma ward Another man dead at Villawood and the government shrugs 19 Sep 2010   Settlements must be excluded night and day 19 Sep 2010 A noble attempt by a nation that actually realises indulging illegal colonies does nothing for peace: The Netherlands on Sunday cancelled a tour of the country by a forum of Israeli mayors because their group included representatives of West Bank settlements. The professional delegation, funded by the Joint Distribution Committee, a Jewish-American charity, was suppo...

NOVANEWS AMERICA’S “JUSTICE” IN OCCUPIED IRAQ: WHY TARIQ AZIZ SHOULD BE RELEASED September 18, 2010 by Debbie Menon  By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach via Global Research This image provided by the US Defense Department (DOD) shows Iraq's former Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz as the eight of spades in the DOD's Most Wanted playing cards. The appearance on August 5 of an interview with former Iraqi diplomat Dr. Tariq Aziz in the Guardian was a minor bombshell, whose repercussions were to be felt worldwide. Like an underground explosion, the interview sent waves throughout international waters, rocking many boats and reaching far distant shores. It was not only what the former top Iraqi diplomat said — although his brief statements were of utmost relevance — but the mere fact that he was allowed ...

NOVANEWS 09/18/2010 After Birthright: Hebron – 500 settlers, 2,000 soldiers and the tensest place I’ve ever been Responding to Michael Oren, in his own words Why we are boycotting the Batsheva Dance Company Jewish groups denounce ‘Museum of Tolerance’ builder Simon Wiesenthal Center for support of Islamophobia Bil’in holds weekly protest as Abdallah Abu Rahmah faces two-year sentence Ahmed Moor in the LA Times – ‘Rather than lecture on Israel’s desire for a lopsided ‘peace,’ Oren should begin to imagine a state in which each person is equal under the law’ In Jerusalem, Pipes suggests Muslim polygamy has ended ‘Jane Austen’ England By colonial design Following Israeli assassination of Hamas leader in Tulkarem, Israeli & PA forces detain opponents across the We...

NOVANEWS Tarabut-Hithabrut September 18, 2010 What’s Behind The Demolition of Al-Arakib: Netanyahu’s and Aharonovich’s Battle http://www.tarabut.info/en/articles/article/Campaign-behind-demolitions/ [also in www.kibush.co.il of October 2, 2010] by Gadi Algazi Police forces on their way to the fifth demolition, 13 September So you ask yourselves: if you send 1300 troops, regular policemen and Special Patrol Unit to demolish Al-Arakib for the first time; if so much is invested in thorough demolition of the homes (how many water tanks could be brought in for the same money, how many saplings could be planted, and what fun it would be to build a real school in Al-Arakib!) at the order of the "Green Patrol"; if you then destroy Al-Arakib four more times – during Ramadan as well, and at the heig...

NOVANEWS Some drugs and loss in the noble US army Please sign a piece of paper that accepts Zionist control over us all America, keep your dirty hands away from fighting web repression Yom Kippur bottom assistance Some drugs and loss in the noble US army 18 Sep 2010 This is what war does to the occupier: When Lt. Col. Dave Wilson took command of a battalion of the 4th Brigade of the 1st Armored Division, the unit had just returned to Texas from 14 months traveling some of Iraq’s most dangerous roads as part of a logistics mission. What he found, he said, was a unit far more damaged than the single death it had suffered in its two deployments to Iraq. Nearly 70 soldiers in his 1,163-member battalion had tested positive for drugs: methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana. Others ...

NOVANEWS The F-35s and the Lobby: let’s talk Empire The Lobby-armacore-petrocore nexus is on a serious binge. Newspapers are reporting that the arms deal with Saudi Arabia has swollen to an estimated 60 billion dollars, the largest such deal ever made. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Obama administration is seeking Congressional approval to sell Saudi Arabia 84 F-15s and to upgrade 70 of them. The American defense industry will also sell the Saudis three kinds of helicopters: 70 Apaches, 72 Black Hawks, and 36 Little Birds. Alongside these sales, the administration is discussing upgrading the Saudi navy. That deal is potentially worth 30 billion dollars, and involves littoral combat ships, meant for close-to-shore combat, and blue water warships. The word from US officials is tha...

NOVANEWS 09/17/2010 Feeling the loyalty to the Jewish state Pressure grows on Harvard to cancel Peretz honor Rejecting the ’self-hatred’ label Shining a light on the settlements The Search for 1948 Amira Hass: Israelis ‘are incapable of imagining themselves departing from the privileges that this system confers’ Harvard distances itself from Peretz, but event is still on A joke about Jewish exceptionalism When settlers attack * Feeling the loyalty to the Jewish state Sep 16, 2010 Max Blumenthal and Joseph Dana The Israeli Knesset is debating a bill proposed by David Rotem of the extreme right Yisrael Beiteinu party that would require all Israeli citizens to swear loyalty to Israel as a "Jewish and democratic state." This bill is targeted at increasing pressure on ...

NOVANEWS Israel will do business anywhere (with friend or foe) There’s no truly safe way to surf the web in the Islamic Republic Jon Stewart on using fooking humour to make his point How the rich people speak We weren’t in Iraq for the cheap booze? America embraces poverty and mad capitalism in one clean shot Afghan women and warlords, sitting in a tree… White people have a serious problem Zionist lobby? Never heard of it, doesn’t exist Islam is the enemy, kill Islam immediately Israel will do business anywhere (with friend or foe) 17 Sep 2010 This is a wonderful essay in the New York Review of Books about Dubai, a city continually built by imported slaves, and includes these fascinating insights about the role of the Jewish state in this Arab land ruled by a corrupt roya...

NOVANEWS Thursday, September 16, 2010 Lebanese Christian Anti-Semitism Elie Frizli (a pro-Syrian sectarian Greek Orthodox politician, and a former deputy speaker of the parliament) yesterday said that the American minister in Gainesville, Florida who wanted to burn the Qur'an is in fact a "rabbi who had worked in a synagogue."  He said so on NBN TV. Posted by As'ad at 10:15 AM Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook `Abdur-Rahman Al-Rashid This long time media tool of House of Saud has been fired from Al-Arabiyya TV.  He was also former editor-in-chief of the mouthpiece of Prince Salman and his sons but now he has been banned from writing his regular (propaganda) columns for Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat.  His crime? He allowed the airing of "documentary" that offended Wahhabi cleric...