Middle East

NOVANEWS Dear all, Gideon Levy has today excellently responded to Aluf Benn’s horrendous self-revelation.  I thanked Levy.  Had been thinking of writing an op-ed or at least a letter on the subject.  But Levy made that unnecessary.  His response is the first of the 3 items below. The 2nd item shows how even in a Druze village attempts are made to militarize education . The 3rd and final item reports that building is going on all through the West Bank.  Nothing unexpected, nor are the shootings.   A solution is unlikely to emerge from the meetings going on now in Washington.   But as bds grows, and as more Jews shun Israel, we should begin to see a glimmer of the light at the end of the tunnel.   All the best, Dorothy =====================================================                    ...

NOVANEWS September 1, 2010  by Jeff Gates Here’s a news flash for Tel Aviv: it’s not a sign of respect when the bulk of humanity views you as psychopathic. The concerns of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are misplaced. The legitimacy of Israel is no longer threatened. It’s already lost. Long gone. Kaput. Nation states are shared states of mind. The mindset in Iceland differs from India. Israel is the most unlike of all. Founded by extremists and terrorists, it’s been downhill ever since. Psychopaths want to be loved. That’s why they’re so charming, albeit only superficially. They’re also pathological liars, egocentric, callous and remorseless. Those qualities have long been familiar to Israel’s neighbors, particularly the Palestinians. After WWII, Harry Truman was charmed into treatin...

NOVANEWS Israeli rabbi calls for Arabs to perish September 1, 2010  by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat  How could the people who encourage building shrines and museums for the Holocaust- established to bear witness to the Nazi crimes- turn so genocidal? By Dr. Ashraf Ezzat Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. Zio=Nazi Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the current spiritual leader of the Shas political party in the Zionist Knesset, had said during his weekly Shabbat sermon that the Palestinians, namely Palestinian President Mahmoud Ab-A$$, should perish from the world. Nazi Yosef, also described Palestinians as evil, bitter enemies of 'Israel'.  ”All these evil people should perish from this world … God should strike them with a plague, them and these Palestinians,” Nazi Yosef had said. Zio=Nazi Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is highly rever...

NOVANEWS U.S. State Department spokesman Philip J. Crowley condemns Rabbi Ovadia Yosef's 'inflammatory' statement that all Palestinians should perish. By Natasha Mozgovaya Haaretz    The United States on Sunday condemned remarks by the spiritual leader of Israel's leading ultra-Orthodox party, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who said the Palestinians should "perish". "We regret and condemn the inflammatory statements by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef," U.S. State Department spokesman Philip J. Crowley. "These remarks are not only deeply offensive, but incitement such as this hurts the cause of peace." "As we move forward to relaunch peace negotiations, it is important that actions by people on all sides help to advance our effort, not hinder it." Yosef had said during his weekly Shabbat sermon that the Pal...

NOVANEWS Zio=Nazi Army Radio reports racist Rabbi Ovadia Yosef denounces Palestinians as bitter enemies of 'Israel' ahead of upcoming direct 'peace talks'.  Zio=Nazi Shas spiritual leader racist Rabbi Ovadia Yosef denounced upcoming 'peace talks' with the Palestinians, which are set to start September 2 in Washington, and called for Palestinian Puppet Mahmoud Ab-A$$ to "perish from this world," Zio=Nazi Army Radio reported overnight Saturday. Shas Zio=Nazi leader Ovadia Yosef   "Abu Mazen and all these evil people should perish from this world," Nazi Rabbi Ovadia was quoted as saying during his weekly sermon at a synagogue near his Jerusalem home. "God should strike them with a plague, them and these Palestinians." The Shas spiritual leader also called the Palestinians "evi...

NOVANEWS Blair admits to lying (and his nose doesn’t grow longer) Australian Jewish group warms to BDS step by step Palin needs all the Jews she can round up Who knew Iraq could be a bloodbath? Many people Get ready for the Ahmadinejad Google How Lebanon could teach Americans a thing or two about acceptance Overland 200 $100bn to combat climate change How do you spell Palestinian complicity? Finding arms deals in the strangest of places Blair admits to lying (and his nose doesn’t grow longer) 31 Aug 2010 Tony Blair admits, in the context of Northern Ireland peace talks, that politicians were obliged from time to time to “conceal the full truth, to bend it and even distort it” in the interests of bigger strategic goals.   Australian Jewish group warms to BDS step by st...

NOVANEWS Max Blumenthal finds some real terrorist-loving religious leaders   by Jesse Bacon Max Blumenthal exposes some religious leaders calling for the actual killing of babies and other Palestinians, a far worse rehtorical offense then “failing to condemn terrorism.” According to the book’s author, Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, ‘Non-Jews are “uncompassionate by nature’ and should be killed in order to ‘curb their evil inclinations. If we kill a gentile who has has violated one of the seven commandments… there is nothing wrong with the murder,’ Shapira insisted. Citing Jewish law as his source (or at least a very selective interpretation of it) he declared: ‘There is justification for killing babies if it is clear that they will grow up to harm us, and in such a situation they may be har...

Video – Israel: 60 years of Ethnic Cleansing and Mass Murder November 8, 2009 by aletho November 8, 2009 – M. Ballan Zionist massacres, 1948-2009. This is what Israel thinks of peace…

NOVANEWS 08/31/2010 PLO urges Yale president to speak out on ‘anti-Arab hate-mongering’ conference Rocket Redux, the Israeli fiction Writers Oz, Yehoshua, Grossman back artists’ boycott of Ariel settlement Stuck inside of Cairo with the Gaza blues again 40 percent of Palestinian prisoners from Jenin are denied family visits– NYT Op-Ed offers tiresome dichotomy of good Zionists vs bad religious settlers What Lebanon can teach the U.S. about religious tolerance Back on TV due to popular demand…. ‘The Peace Industry’ More on the ‘Firedoglake’ controversy Handicapping Islamophobia PLO urges Yale president to speak out on ‘anti-Arab hate-mongering’ conference Aug 30, 2010 Philip Weiss Last week we reported on a disgraceful 3-day conference at Yale that described criticism of Israel...

NOVANEWS  09/01/2010 Code Pink aims to stage barbed-wire Gaza outside White House tomorrow Meshal: Most Palestinians, from elites to regular people, reject the talks Smear campaign targets pro-Palestinian Brooklyn College professor; alum suspends ’significant bequest’ Unchallenged violence and intimidation, coming soon to a mosque near you Signed sealed delivered I’m yours Some diasporas from persecution have honor ‘How to kill goyim and influence people’ Now Israeli academics sign on to occupation-boycott, citing disaster for Jewish state Advocates for 3 U.S. hikers captured by Iran spotlight their leftwing activism 3-year-old in Hebron has cerebral atrophy, but Israel won’t let her mother in Gaza come back to her Code Pink aims to stage barbed-wire Gaza outside White House t...