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NOVANEWS Dear All, Just 4 items tonight.  I’ve been away from the computer for several days due to unforeseen circumstances.  One result is that you have had less to read.  Nice for a change, I’m sure.  The other result is that the 200 or so emails in my inbox folder that I had before have accumulated to 900 emails.  Since I realize that not in my wildest dreams will I be able to read even 1/8, I intend to delete almost all.  If you have written me or had a question, please resend, and in the subject line please write Attention Dorothy.  I apologize in advance for any duplicates in tonight’s message. The first of the four items is brief.  The term ‘kapparot’ in the title means ‘atonement’ (for one’s sins).  Before Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, religious Jews use chickens ...

NOVANEWS 09/16/2010 Israeli intel firm behind Pennsylvania’s ‘terror’ bulletins on peace, environment, LGBT groups Duss 1, Oren 0 Due to Gaza closure, 40,000 students refused from UN schools Israel issues 16 demolition notices for Palestinian barns & greenhouses in the Jordan Valley Help Mondoweiss continue to grow – give a tax deductible donation today Israeli snipers use live ammunition against demonstrators in Gaza Regrettable accident #1001: Another Palestinian shot in the back (this one was handcuffed) The pharaoh of Jerusalem Israeli intel firm behind Pennsylvania’s ‘terror’ bulletins on peace, environment, LGBT groups Sep 15, 2010 Ali Abunimah   The Institute of Terrorism Research and Response website. Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell has just ordered ...

NOVANEWS Twenty-eight years not enough to heal wounds of Sabra-Shatila massacre By Franklin Lamb Special to The Daily Star September 16, 2010    Listen to the Article - Powered by The untreated psychic wounds are still open. Accountability, justice and basic civil rights for the survivors are still denied. Scores of horror testimonies have been shared over the past nearly three decades by survivors of the September 1982 Sabra- Shatila massacre. More come to light only through circumstantial evidence because would-be affiants perished during the slaughter. Other eyewitness are just beginning to emerge from deep trauma or self-imposed silence. Some testimonies will be shared this month by massacre survivors at Shatila camp. They will sit with the ever growing numbers of internati...

NOVANEWS     Hello, my name is Blackwater and I’d like to protect your wealth Chinese man online; I’m a slave please help me Most asylum seekers in Australia are real, say the facts Who lives permanently at Gitmo? What’s the best to bring reform in Saudi; Washington sells weapons of death Chomsky offers a handy definition on MSM language Hello, my name is Blackwater and I’d like to protect your wealth 16 Sep 2010 The Nation’s Jeremy Scahill continues his seemingly never-ending investigation of Blackwater: Over the past several years, entities closely linked to the private security firm Blackwater have provided intelligence, training and security services to US and foreign governments as well as several multinational corporations, including Monsanto, Chevron, the Walt ...

NOVANEWS WILLIAM COOK: RETURN TO SHATILA September 16, 2010 by Debbie Menon Outside of the Shatila camp, who remembers? What American knows of the massacre? What government agency has investigated our involvement in it? What lives lost haunt the Israeli or American mind for the evil we have done against the innocent who died such ignominious deaths twenty eight years ago? By William A. Cook via My Catbird Seat   “O, that it were possible, We might but hold some two days’ conference With the dead!” (John Webster, IV.ii.18.)  “The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.” (Tennyson, “In the Valley of Cauteretz”) Twenty eight years ago, a scene of unspeakable horror rocked the rubble strewn alleys of Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut as vengeance vied with naked lust in a mass...

NOVANEWS Video: Gaza, Bethlehem, and rememberance (Yizkor) for Bassem In This Issue... Video: Gaza, Bethlehem, and rememberance (Yizkor) for Bassem More Recent Articles Search The Only Democracy? Video: Gaza, Bethlehem, and rememberance (Yizkor) for Bassem   A friend of The Only Democracy? wanted to share the following videos.  Here is a recent one made by someone who spent years trying to visit Gaza.   and here is an older piece, made by residents of Aida refugee camp and Anne who made the first film. It is about the Checkpoint from Bethlehem to what Israel illegally declared Jerusalem (in fact, it stands in the middle of Bethlehem and separates one area of the city from the other, I still have a friend living on the other side who is considered resident...

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NOVANEWS 09/15/2010 South African human rights group responds to Zionist Federation criticism of Ahava boycott Is Muslim life actually “cheap”? From the Diary of a Binationalist On the subject of ‘partners for peace’ Jerusalem planning committee’s contribution to the peace process: 1,362 new housing units in the West Bank Update on the peace talks Will Harvard drop honor for Peretz? South African human rights group responds to Zionist Federation criticism of Ahava boycott Sep 14, 2010 Gilad Isaacs  This is an open letter sent to the South African Zionist Federation (SAZF) from Open Shuhada Street (OSS). OSS recently launched a boycott campaign against Ahava products and received a pernicious response from both Ahava and the SAZF; this is their reply. Open Letter to the ...

NOVANEWS Accepting a Jewish state is treasonous Where is the necessary progressive movement? What the unhinged Israel lovers want next The wannabe porn Zionist The Gaza tunnels from the inside The joys of being under the Murdoch gun Majority Israelis opposed to moratorium KBR and the food shortage in Baghdad American priorities in Pakistan are keeping drones dry Chilean paramilitaries protecting Aussie embassy in Baghdad Accepting a Jewish state is treasonous 15 Sep 2010 Yitzhak Laor in Haaretz: Recognition of an exclusive Jewish nationality for our country, which Netanyahu is demanding from the Palestinians now, is nothing but a demand to recognize the legitimacy of racist discrimination against the Arab minority in Israel. If this minority had been awarded equal right...