Middle East

NOVANEWS “Fortress Israel” is a nice place to be Obama still hearts poor little Tel Aviv Murdoch down under shows how powerlesss he is Today’s Pentagon Papers may have similar effect Peres whinges that Britain doesn’t love Israel to death What kind of state wants its youth to destroy homes? Necessary protection for Wikileaks Nothing to see here, simply more Zionist propaganda down under Troubles remain in the Gaza Strip Endangering “informants” in Afghanistan is a murky affair “Fortress Israel” is a nice place to be Posted: 01 Aug 2010 Increasingly, the Zionist world frames itself as the victim in the Middle East – “nobody understands us” and “if only the West would offer unconditional backing for our enlightened occupation” – and this Jerusalem Post interview with Brit...

  NOVANEWS Dear Friends, 4 Items tonight, and probably the final 4 until we (spouse and I) return to Israel towards the end of August.  I will be shutting down the internet on Friday, August 6.  Tonight’s first item takes up a subject that was in yesterday’s mailing: the deportation of children of foreign workers.  The present article is about the debate going on in Israel about the morality/immorality of the decision.  Those who fight for expulsion do so, as is eminently clear from the report below, on demographic grounds. They are scared stiff that Israel will become a country not of Jews nor even mainly Jews but of mixed peoples.  Morality be hanged, say Israel’s leaders.  Jews, Jews, Jews—that’s the song they sing.  Kick the non-Jewish kids out.  There are also those Israelis who put h...

  NOVANEWS Dear All, I had a truly difficult time in trying to decide on what to include, what to exclude—and not only because I ended up with some 18 items (of which 6 only are below).  I also had trouble with themes. There were, for instance, 2 items on the Warsaw Ghetto that I really wanted to include, as they gave me the opportunity to say when will the Palestinians be remembered for their courageous resistance against the colonization of their land and living under a miserable military government, and when will the world commemorate their bravery and revile the injustice dealt them?  Just in case you wish to glance at these items re the Warsaw Ghetto the links are http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/ghetto-uprising-survivor-made-honorary-citizen-of-warsaw-1.305373 and http://www...

NOVANEWS   Posted by : Sammi Ibrahem Chair of West Midland PSC Dear Friends, The 5 items below begin with Robert Fisk’s well placed sarcasm over Israel having ‘crept into the EU without anyone noticing.’  If anything, Fisk is sharper than usual.  But justifiably so.  Israel is not alone at fault for the horrible things it does.  It is nicely helped by the US, Europe, Britain, etc.  Were the rest of the world annoyed with Israel, it would not get by with the things it does. And it does get by with murder and other evils.  So America will give Israel a boost to continue its evil ways with more money than ever before to develop its missile systems. The third item is on a different wave length: “Honoring the Turkish Sacrifice”—very informative. Number 4 is an appeal by Greta Berlin for m...

NOVANEWS If you don’t like people of difference, join Sarah Palin’s party Wash Post study on outsourcing terror (aka intelligence services) West Bank and Gaza separated by more than space Sydney discussion with Diana Buttu and Loewenstein America’s elites benefit from economic meltdown Australian Labor Party loathes Arabs and nothing has really changed Get the EU to grow a voice on Palestine Are former Tiger fighters really a threat to Canada? Book event at New York’s Revolution Books If you don’t like people of difference, join Sarah Palin’s party Posted: 19 Jul 2010 Just how extreme are the Republicans in the US? If you’re against gay people, the UN, sex, taxes and one world government, you’ll fit right in.   Wash Post study on outsourcing terror (aka intelligence se...

NOVANEWS Revolutionary Guards pulling strings in Iran Obama’s Bush mannerisms BDS backers are basically terrorists in disguise (in hasbara minds) A few easy steps to buy products from West Bank colonies The futility and vindictiveness of destroying Bedouin homes Google and CIA work together Anything to protect the privatised asylum seekers YouTube generation gives the finger to the mullahs Knowing that Afghanistan is a failure Open letter to MEAA over ExxonMobil funding of journalism Revolutionary Guards pulling strings in Iran Posted: 30 Jul 2010 A new blog by a colleague who knows Iran inside out. Iran Dispatch is essential reading. Like this post that discusses where real power today lies in the Islamic Republic: Iran’s opposition leader, Mehdi Karroubi says Iran Revo...

NOVANEWS Did Australia cover-up Afghan deaths? How the public can help examine the Wikileaks documents and give context Britain realises that Israel isn’t perfect and Zionists are shocked Children are real in Gaza, read all about it Iraqi state boosted by American money (but details gone missing) Pentagon says that stories about Pentagon aren’t true Christian Zionists and Tea Party folk want more war in the Middle East How to spin away the Wikileaks blues Thank God for Goldstone Is Wikileaks head Assange a serious target? Did Australia cover-up Afghan deaths? Posted: 27 Jul 2010 The Australian Wikileaks connection: Classified US Defence Department documents leaked to the WikiLeaks website this week suggest the Australian Defence Force covered up the kil...

  NOVANEWS Dear Friends, The 5 items below are brief, for a change, but show a face of Israel that is anything but pretty.  Of course, for those who hide their heads in the sand, who do not wish to know, it is entirely possible to ignore events and ideas as those below.  And obviously, the fact that one Rabbi and followers believe it ok to kill non-Jews (including children) does not necessarily represent all Israeli Jews.  But the atmosphere here is bleak, and it’s time that Jews in particular, and the world in general, woke up to the fact that for all its advances in science and the arts, Israel is not a nice place.  It might not be worse than the United States and many other countries that committed atrocious crimes against humanity.  But it is not better.  And in any event, that is no c...

NOVANEWS Land and Property Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Israel demolishes Bedouin village About 300 residents of a village in the Negev desert have lost homes and possessions. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/07/2010727133151458970.html Alert: Thousands of police evacuating and demolishing the village of El-Araqib in the Israeli Negev Thousands of police are in the village of el-Araqib right now – beginning a mass evacuation, demolition, and erasure of this historical Bedouin village. if you have access to the media, please send them to this village as soon as possible! the village of el-Araqib is between Rahat and Beer Sheva, and in a location that the Goldberg commission deemed outside of the areas allowed for the Negev Arabs… an area designated only for Jews…...