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NOVANEWS From International Solidarity Movement <palreports@gmail.com>  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 19 March 2010 US CITIZEN SHOT, HOSPITALIZED, THREE PALESTINIANS WOUNDED AND THREE ARRESTED DEMONSTRATING AGAINST LAND CONFISCATION ACTIONS OF THE HALAMISH SETTLEMENT.  ***PHOTOS AVAILABLE*** During a demonstration in An Nabi Saleh today, US citizen and International Solidarity Movement volunteer Ellen Stark was shot from less than four meters away with a rubber bullet, which lodged in her arm left arm, breaking her wrist. Omar Saleh Tamimi, Amjad Abed Alkhafeez Tamimi and International Solidarity Movement co-founder Huwaida Arraf were arrested as they asked Israeli military personnel to stop firing tear gas canisters and rubber bullets at Stark as she was helped to safety. Alkhatib Mahmud T...

NOVANEWS « Our fine Saudi mates Pressure on Israel grows, but what will be the real response? » IDF caught on camera abusing Palestinians (but this is not news) Published on 18 March 2010 in Israel. 0 Comments Tags: Judaism, Palestine, West Bank, Zionism.  Print This Post The Christian Peacemaker Team have released the following video: On the morning of Thursday 7 January 2010, Israeli soldiers attacked and injured Palestinian shepherds from the Musa Rabai family, as they grazed their sheep in Humra valley, near the village of At-Tuwani in the South Hebron Hills. Five members of the family were hospitalized. Before leaving the area, the soldiers arrested one of the shepherds, Musab Musa Rabai. Raba’i was interrogated and tortured for four hours. ShareThis

NOVANEWS Pressure on Israel grows, but what will be the real response? Published on 19 March 2010 in Israel. 1 Comment Tags: Barack Obama, Gaza, Judaism, Palestine, settlements, United States, West Bank, Zionism.  Print This Post The latest court gossip about the Israeli/American relationship. Wake me up when the Jewish state actually reverses any of its occupation. The Guardian: King Abdullah of Jordan added to pressure on Israel over its settlements policy today, demanding the international community take firm action over what he called the “red line” of Jerusalem. Abdullah, a close ally of the US and Britain, demanded “firm, swift, direct and effective action to stop Israel’s provocative measures in Jerusalem that seek to change its identity and threaten holy sites”. “Jerusalem is a re...

NOVANEWS http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3864150,00.html Brazilian president places wreath on Arafat's tomb; calls for end to Gaza siege Silva tells reporters in Ramallah 'brave steps needed to leave behind 50 years of pain'; calls to dismantle West Bank security barrier. Abbas urges on Israel to live up to Roadmap obligations  Ali Waked  Brazil's president has placed a wreath on the tomb of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, despite criticism from Israel. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva visited Arafat's grave Wednesday during a trip to Ramallah, where he called on Israel to dismantle the West Bank security barrier and lift its blockade on Gaza. "The world cannot accept fences of any kind," he said. During a joint press conference with Palestinian President Mahmoud Ab...

NOVANEWS On 15 March 2010, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz published an article by Amira Hass which details an attack in At-Tuwani two months ago. During the attack, two squads of Israeli soldiers injured and traumatized several members of a Palestinian family. Footage of that attack, filmed by CPT volunteers, is available for viewing online. On the morning of Thursday, 7 January 2010, Israeli soldiers chased and beat Palestinian shepherds from the Musa Raba’i family, as the family grazed their sheep in Humra valley, near the village of At-Tuwani in the South Hebron Hills. When more Tuwani residents arrived on the scene, the soldiers threw stun grenades and tear gas canisters. The soldiers also shoved the internationals accompanying the shepherds and intentionally broke a video camera. Two w...

NOVANEWS Haaretz  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1157044.html  By Jack Khoury  For three years, a Bedouin family has been waiting to move to the house they rented on Moshav Nevatim in the northern Negev. The moshav secretariat demanded the family appear before a selection committee, and the Be'er Sheva District Court ruled the demand irrelevant. However, the Supreme Court hinted last week it may overturn this ruling and allow the moshav committee meeting, angering both the Jewish landlord and would-be tenant. A decision is expected in the next few days. The uproar has not been limited to Nevatim; moshav movement heads wanted to join the appeal against the district court ruling for fear a Supreme Court ruling would set a precedent about the right of other moshavim to hold selection com...

NOVANEWS Original Message ----- From: amos Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 4:25 PM Subject: Fw: don't say we did not know 205   Don't say we did not know #205  An outcome of the expansion of the settlement Carmel is the matter of privacy of the Bedouin women from nearby Umm El-Kher. Umm El-Kher is surrounded from three sides by the settlement. On the fourth side there's a road .Previously, the absence of toilets was never the problem that it is today.  To solve this, it was decided to build 10 toilets.  A few months ago an Italian organization purchased the building materials, but before the construction began the Civil Administration came and confiscated those materials. Ta'ayush activists built four toilets. This week, Civil Administration workers issued demolition orders on the toilets....

NOVANEWS Jewish extremists to model Bar Refaeli: Don't marry DiCaprio Jewish extremists have urged supermodel Bar Refaeli not to marry her actor boyfriend, Leonardo DiCaprio, because it would dilute the Jewish race, according to media reports. In a letter to Refaeli, far-rightist Baruch Marzel wrote on behalf of nationalist group Lehava, which aims to fight assimilation among Jews: "It is not by chance that you were born Jewish. "Your grandmother and her grandmother did not dream that one of their descendants would one day remove the family's future generations from the Jewish people," the letter continued. "Assimilation has forever been one of the enemies of the Jewish people." Lehava in Hebrew means "flame" but it is also an acronym for "Preventing Assimilation in the Holy Land." Accord...

NOVANEWS Lawrence Wright authored ‘The Looming Tower,’ which is widely regarded as the definitive account of al-Qaeda. The book is called the ‘bible’ by intelligence operatives. Now what does this text say of the fateful triangle (Israel, Palestine and Islamic militancy). Page 151: Bin Laden would later say that the United States had always been his enemy. He dated his hatred for America to 1982, when America permitted the Israelis to invade Lebanon and the American Sixth Fleet helped them. He recalled the carnage: "blood and severed limbs, women and children sprawled everywhere. Houses destroyed along with their occupants and high rises demlished over their residents…The situation was like a crocodile meeting a helpless child, powerless except for his screams." This scene provoked an int...

NOVANEWS People are talking about this inspired attack by Juan Cole on the "burly former Israeli military prison guard at the notorious Ketziot detention camp" — former IDF Corporal Jeffrey Goldberg.  The accomplishment of this piece is that when Cole is not pointing out the confused loyalty issue that pervades our discourse (the Washington Post worries about Obama’s approval rating in Israel; why not George Bush’s in France), he demonstrates that he is restrained with respect to Palestinian rights (would extinguish right of return with compensation), but when you look at the other side, that portion of the Israel lobby that claims to believe in two states, they are extremists. By failing to criticize Netanyahu on a colonial project, by lining up behind the vigilant organizations and polit...