Middle East

NOVANEWS Hamas Re-positioning Themselves as American Solidarity Grows September 8, 2010  by Michael Leon   Mr. Khaled Misha'l - Resistance Movement -- (Hamas) Political Bureau  - As world-wide resistance to the terror state of Israel grows, so too does American solidarity for Middle-East justice groups fighting off Israeli oppression and aggression. Such solidarity has shed light on Israel’s anti-negotiation, anti-peace stance, thus improving understanding by the American people of the position of Israel’s victims. “Negotiation today does not serve the Palestinian side… Just as there is currently no parity in the field of confrontation, there is also no parity around the negotiating table,” says Khaled Mesh’al, resistance movement. - By Stuart Littlewood at MyCarBirdSeat–Hamas have been c...

NOVANEWS We’re supposed to believe Zionist groups care about Islamophobia? Are urban slums the future? Castro tells Ahmadinejad to respect the Jews Decency to the stranger hasn’t gone out of fashion Come bow down to the Murdoch King John Mearsheimer and co on the futile “peace process” We’re supposed to believe Zionist groups care about Islamophobia? Posted: 08 Sep 2010 When the Jewish press in the US writes that Jewish groups there are working to combat anti-Muslim sentiment, it’s hard to take it seriously. The amount of Zionist racism and violence directed at Palestinians and Arabs in general is largely ignored, if not supported, by the Zionist lobby. Hypocrisy is their middle name.   Are urban slums the future? Posted: 08 Sep 2010 Dhaka, in bustling Bangladesh, is a ...

NOVANEWS Israel: Activist Convicted After Unfair Trial Leader of Protests on Unlawful Land Confiscation Faces 20 Years in Jail September 8, 2010 Palestinians hold a symbolic key during a protest in the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah on May 14, 2010. © 2010 Reuters Related Materials:  Israel: End Crackdown on Anti-Wall Activists More Coverage:  More Human Rights Watch reporting on Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories Israel's conviction of Abu Rahme for protesting the unlawful confiscation of his village's land is the unjust result of an unfair trial. The Israeli authorities are effectively banning peaceful expression of political speech by convicting supporters of nonviolent resistance. Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch (Jer...

  NOVANEWS 3 Files  View Slideshow  Download All Amnon Neumann Testimony.pdf (209KB); Amnon Neumann_The Nakba2.jpg (68KB); Amnon Neumann- The Nakba1.jpg (55KB) I recommend reading the interview.  It touches on what soldiers did to Palestinians during the Nakba (the Catastrophe 1948-9) and also touches on the effect of their acts on some of the soldiers. Because the interview is from the perspective of someone who participated in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, it is worth reading even for those of you familiar with Ilan Pappe's The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine and either edition of Ben Morris's The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem.   Many thanks to those who conducted the interview and made it available to the rest of us.  Dorothy ----------------  From: 1948 LEST WE FO...

NOVANEWS   September 8, 2010   Gilad Atzmon Needless to mention, I don’t hold my breath for the outcome of the current ‘peace talks’. As I mentioned many times before, Israelis are not interested in peace as they fail to grasp what peace is all about or what it stands for. Shalom, the Hebrew word for peace, is interpreted by Israelis and most Jews as ‘security for the Jews’. Shalom therefore has nothing to do with reconciliation or living amongst others. Shalom is a judeo-centric concept, it conveys an image of hope to one people only. The Israeli Palestinian conflict can never be resolved by a ‘shalom initiative’. Shalom is there to split the land and  separate the people. It is there to deny the Palestinians of their elementary rights such as  the Right of Return. But let us ass...

NOVANEWS Dear All, Wishing all my Jewish friends a better and happier year to come, and likewise to my Muslim friends.  Eid ul-fitr mabruck Now back to business, regarding the first of the 2 items this evening: I do not know whether or not its statistics include also Israeli teachers and schools in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.  I suspect not, since it is generally known that their conditions are superior to those of schools within Israel.  If indeed the stats do include schools in the OPT, then I would imagine that without them the stats on expenditures for education would be lower yet and class size higher.  In any event, the Israeli government has money. But prefers to spend it on expansion and ethnic cleansing and propaganda instead of on educating its children. The 2nd item anno...

NOVANEWS  09/07/2010 Who are we stand in moral and legal judgment of the settlers’ killers? Settlement boom! 1000s of new homes underway! Gov’ts look away! and other news from Les cheveux, le chemise, les sans-boutons, l’ideologie– tout wrongee!! Groundbreaking letter – ‘Israeli theatre artists have refused to allow their work to be used to normalize a cruel occupation . . .We stand with them’ Smoking gun: even as it enters into talks, Israel declares policy of separating Gaza and W.B. U.S. has ‘rock solid’ commitment to Israel’s security as Mossad impersonates U.S. intelligence Neoconservatism is rightly seen as a ‘current of Jewish culture’ Who are we stand in moral and legal judgment of the settlers’ killers? Sep 06, 2010  Max Ajl I appreciated David Samel’s thoug...

NOVANEWS                “Warrior pundits” are always wrong so ignore them Do we want the bio-terror threat managed by faceless men? Obama finds a bankrupt Afghan policy (so he keeps it going) Neo-cons heart conflict Palestine not for sale Yes, racism is in Australia Standing up to Murdoch’s dodgy tactics What happened to Ban Ki-Moon in Sri Lanka? (hint; not much) Few easy steps to Mid-East failure “Warrior pundits” are always wrong so ignore them07 Sep 2010 TomDispatch reminds us of the faces we constantly see in our media, pontificating about the glories of war: Pentagon foreign policy is regularly seconded by a growing cadre of what might be called military intellectuals at think tanks scattered around Washington.  Such figures, many of them qualifying as “warrior ...

NOVANEWS EYE-WITNESS TO SABRA-SHATILA MASSACRE Dr.Ang Swee Chai "The slaughter of unarmed children, women, the aged and the infirm was shocking. For me, I was doubly outraged that I had to discover the truth about a brave and generous people only through their deaths. Until then, I never knew Palestinian refugees existed. As a fundamentalist Christian, I had been a supporter of Israel, hated Arabs and saw the Palestinian Liberation Organisation as terrorists to be loathed and feared." Extract from the back cover of her book "From Beirut To Jerusalem" Dr Ang Swee Chai talking at a London Mosque. (Out of respect for Islam she wore a head scarf in the Mosque) Dr Ang Swee Chai grew up supporting Israel. Arabs, she was told, were terrorists. But in 1982, on the television she saw the...

NOVANEWS Monzer Zimmo: Palestinian recognition of Israel, a Jewish state – Why?    September 7, 2010   Gilad Atzmon http://alcanaanite.wordpress.com/2010/09/07/palestinian-recognition-of-israel-a-jewish-state-why/ Why do Benjamin Netanyahu, Avigdor Lieberman, and other Zionist leaders insist that “without Palestinian recognition that Israel is the state of the Jewish people, there will not be peace”?  They have declared themselves as such.  They enjoy the support of most European nations, United States of America, Canada, Australia, and many other countries in the world that have no problem whatsoever in describing the state of Israel as such.  Many Arab countries – with leaders suffering from near-sighted vision – would have no problem going along with that concept.  Almost eve...