Middle East

NOVANEWS Dear All, While it might benefit some to have Israel as a member-in-good-standing in the OECD [Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development], it is totally unjust. Yet worse is the organization’s decision to hold its annual Tourism Conference in Jerusalem.  What could have been going through the minds of the decision makers when they selected Jerusalem—the city now undergoing Judaization and ethnic cleansing, neither of which those attending the conference are likely to see.  Please do your best to induce your organizations to write to the OECD (as instructed below), and to protest the decision.  And please also write your own letters, or send the one below adding your name, to the first four members of the OECD mentioned below.  I have copied the attachment below for yo...

NOVANEWS July 29, 2010 by Sherwood Ross   End War - Nation-building starts at home - By Sherwood Ross The solution to our fiscal crisis, The Nation magazine editorializes, is to “end the wars, allow the tax cuts to expire and restore robust growth.” That’s because nearly the entire deficit this year and those projected at least for the short term are the result of “the ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Bush tax cuts and the recession,” the publication says in its lead editorial of August 2nd.  Yet, while the Obama administration has just pushed through $59 billion more to send 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan to intensify that war and for “nation-building”, it has done way too little to help the States maintain needed jobs. “Spending on local projects plummets,” was a June 25t...

NOVANEWS Wikileaks? Nothing to see here, move on please Don’t even think about bombing Iran after Wikileaks release On the media’s response to Latin America Rabid Jew just a product of the Zionist system How BDS becomes normalised Wikileaks? Nothing to see here, move on please  28 Jul 2010 CNN’s Anderson Cooper publishes on his website this almost hilarious spray against Wikileaks by Clint Van Winkle, the author of Soft Spots: A Marine’s Memoir of Combat and Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder: We sent troops to Afghanistan to avenge the 9/11 attacks and few people objected. Now, the Nation is having second thoughts. People want timetables and quick victories, not a prolonged war. Well, it doesn’t always work that way. War isn’t always quick and it is never neat. When you send U....

  NOVANEWS Dear All, Tonight’s message is on a single subject: the demolition of an entire village in the Negev, in the south of Israel.  This was a Bedouin village, and was a so-called ‘unrecognized village.’  The Bedouin have endeavored to be loyal Israeli citizens.  The males have in the past traditionally volunteered to enlist in the IOF, and many still do, albeit the numbers have dropped.   Why should they volunteer for the army when their homes are destroyed, their livelihood stolen by the government of the country that they are citizens of!!! There is absolutely no way that official Israel will consider a Palestinian citizen as equal to a Jewish one.  Makes me sick to my stomach.  And doubly sick to think that Jews, who have known racism and suffering, can do such things to another ...

NOVANEWS Wikileaks is just warming up and democracy should be thankful A day at Revolution Books The hidden Tamil nightmare Times buries civilian killings in Wikileaks story Australian Zionist head wants West Bank settlements to thrive Why can’t Australians speak to refugees? Real journalists welcome Wikileaks and don’t feel threatened by its power The West dances with the Pakistani devil Wikileaks reveals the supposed trail of Bin Laden in Afghanistan (maybe) Is a journalist’s job to please or offend the White House over Wikileaks? Obvious, really Wikileaks is just warming up and democracy should be thankful Posted: 26 Jul 2010 An exciting time to be a journalist and citizen of the world. Wikileaks is showing the corporate media that transparency and real reporting is the ...

NOVANEWS Dear Friends, The 5 items below include some positive news—not the first item, though.  On the face of it, it would seem to be positive—the High Court demanding of the state “to justify its position” on the validity of a “land seizure order, issued in 2006.”  However, there is little reason to hope that the court will ultimately decide for the petitioners.  Should the state claim ‘security’ as justification, the court will undoubtedly judge for the state and the validity of the land seizure order.  We’ll keep our eye on the case. Nor is item 2 exactly positive, as the title indicates: ‘What does it mean when the Shin Bet [General Security Service—a counterintelligence office] calls you up for a chat?’ The fact that their game has been reported in the press won’t stop the Shin Bet ...

NOVANEWS Wikileaks blows the cover off the war in Afghanistan Facebook prohibits the word ‘Palestinian’ Jacob Weisberg sees the power of BDS, and is scared Israeli BDS bill would turn opponents of the regime into enemies of the state Let the apologies to Goldstone begin Freeman says special friendship has damaged US ‘values… influence, leadership, credibility’ Service with meaning– the IDF Al-Awda: two-state solution would only prolong oppression Haaretz: Sheikh Yassin would have cut deal for statehood Wikileaks blows the cover off the war in Afghanistan Posted: 25 Jul 2010 Whistleblowing in the age of the internet. From the Guardian: A huge cache of secret US military files today provides a devastating portrait of the failing war in Afghanistan, revealing how coalition fo...

NOVANEWS Return To Gaza documentary Iran is allowed to examine its nuclear options An anti-war tabloid press would be just lovely The Church should embrace all kinds of sex and enjoy it Return To Gaza documentary Posted: 25 Jul 2010 This is a documentary that is finally finished and soon to be screened in Australia and globally. I was interviewed a number of years ago and remain pleased it’ll see the light of see. The Palestinian story told in the first person: ‘Return To Gaza’ is a personal insight into the Middle East Conflict through the eyes of a Palestinian Australian, born on a refugee camp in Jordan, who wants to return to Gaza with his family. This 53 minute documentary covers the difficult journey of Fetah Sabawi, a successful Melbourne musician whose dreams of peace t...

NOVANEWS The new mixed-Jewish establishment Couldn’t ‘Commentary’ go with the non-Zionist flow? Israel destroyed the USS Liberty, OK. But what was the motive? Smear tactics show that lobby is losing power in discourse Today, no problem The new mixed-Jewish establishment Posted: 24 Jul 2010 From Mike Allen's Politico Playbook for this weekend: --PEOPLE magazine: “Clinton is Methodist and Mezvinsky is Jewish, but it’s unlikely either will convert, says a source, adding, ‘It will be an interfaith ceremony.’ … WEDDINGS: --Anne Kornblut and Jon Cohen, in Napa. Campbell Brown is a bridesmaid, Dan Senor is doing the ketubah ceremony, Jessica Yellin will read a poem (sans teleprompter). Guests include Laura and Bill Burton, Stephanie Cutter, Sarah Feinberg, Todd Harris, Leibo and Rus...

NOVANEWS Giving Goldstone a much deserved apology Unregulated capitalism is out of the control but the rich feel fine Jeffrey Goldberg no longer impresses as an IDF prison guard Giving Goldstone a much deserved apology Posted: 24 Jul 2010 A friend sends on this wonderful piece by the anti-Apartheid South African journo Allister Sparks that rebukes his country’s Chief Rabbi, Warren Goldstein, over the latter’s strongly expressed criticism of Constitutional Court member Richard Goldstone as well as Goldstone’s role in heading the UN’s fact-finding mission for Gaza: Sparks starts by noting that three of the major IDF war crimes reported by the Goldstone commission in Gaza were in fact recently confirmed to have been such by a military investigation undertaken by the IDF high comma...