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NOVANEWS  Einat Weizman: A Jewish and demographic state einatweizman | March 15, 2010 at 18:23 | Categories: Human Rights and Jewish Values, Racism in Israel | URL: http://wp.me/pHlQV-qK Einat Weizman is an actress and living in Tel Aviv. She has a Masters in Culture Research and Political Communications from Tel Aviv University and writes regularly for Maariv. DNA politics [Hebrew version here.] Earlier this month (on March 3 2010) an expanded panel of High Court of Justice judges debated the petition against the "Citizenship and Entry to Israel Law (Temporary Provision)." This is a "temporary provision" that for the past eight years, hour after hour, has been preventing Israeli citizens from being united with their spouses who are residents of the West Bank and Gaza, by barring ...

NOVA NEWS   Yediot exposes police lying on suppression of East Jerusalem protests Didi Remez | March 15, 2010 at 19:37 | Categories: Impunity, Jerusalem | URL: http://wp.me/pHlQV-qy After an interlude, the Jerusalem police resumed arrests of Sheikh Jarrah protesters last Friday (March 12 2010.) On Sunday, the Jerusalem Post, like many other Israeli media outlets, ran the police statement on the incident nearly verbatim Earlier on Friday, about 250 locals and left-wing protesters were stopped by police when they attempted to march toward Jewish houses in Sheikh Jarrah. Police declared that such a march would be illegal and ordered the protesters to return to the site of the demonstration. When they refused to do so, they were pushed back by force. They then began to chant slogan...

NOVANEWS Yediot's Kadmon on Sheikh Jarrah, 1948 and the destruction of the two-state paradigm Didi Remez Yediot's Sima Kadmon is second in stature only to Nahum Barnea and this Friday (March 12 2010) her column opened the paper's influential weekend Political Supplement. Writing in the context of of the US-Israeli crisis on East Jerusalem, she puts the the symbolic, and more importantly, strategic significance of the Sheikh Jarrah front and center on the mainstream Israeli public agenda (full text at bottom): But beyond the destruction of the fabric of relations between Jews and Arabs, and beyond the act of penetration and takeover of Arab neighborhoods, the measures in Sheikh Jarrah put Israel into a considerable legal, political and historic bind: if Jews can sue Arabs for o...

NOVANEWS News Release, For Immediate Release, Monday, March 15, 2010 The organizations are petitioning against a new procedure which almost completely blocks the possibility of relocating from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank. The procedure determines that parent-child and spousal relationships do not constitute “humanitarian” grounds justifying family unification in the West Bank. “Humanitarian” according to Israel: An orphaned child in the Gaza Strip would not be allowed to unite with his surviving parent in the West Bank if any relative in Gaza can care for him. The procedure is another stage in Israel’s policy designed to deepen the separation between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Monday, March 15, 2010 – HaMoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual, Gisha – Legal Center for Fr...

NOVANEWS Foreign Policy writer Mark Perry reports an interesting story, interesting because of course nobody knows exactly who decide to leaks which part of what transpired somewhere behind the closed doors of the Pentagon. Allegedly, Gen. Petraeus, the Proconsul of Arabia, who aims high and probably sees himself as a future president, threw the White House a gauntlet when he asked that Gaza and the West Bank be transferred from EUROCOM to CENTCOM. This is of course very serious. It signals a development that Chalmers Johnson has already predicted as the natural trend in a militarized global empire. As the government in Washington slowly bleeds both its capacity to act and its legitimacy, power is shifting to the Proconsuls, who are in fact the governors of the different provinces and com...

NOVANEWS In the final years of the Apartheid era in South Africa, Coloreds and Indians enjoyed political representation. They elected a Colored Parliament, with 85 MPs, and an Indian Parliament, with 45 MPs.  The whites, for their part, elected a white parliament with 178 MPs. The three chambers combined formed the electoral college that appointed the President and the Cabinet. Thus, Colored and Indian MPs could give speeches, criticize the government, enact laws that applied to their communities, etc., but when it came to actually holding power, the result was inexorable: the President and the Cabinet ministers where all white, courtesy of the absolute majority the whites enjoyed in the electoral college. Indeed there were three parliaments, but one was all-important and the other two wer...

NOVANEWS I don't like flags, and I don't like nationalisms, but...for Palestine and the Palestinians, anything and everything. Look at this picture: it shows why Zionist regime years are numbered. I mean, a Palestinian woman attacked an armed Zionist jeep with a Palestinian flag. And they look scared. (AFP) Posted by: www.angryarab.blogspot.com

NOVANEWS I find it hilarious that anyone in the world would take the Zio-Nazi high court seriously. I mean, it has supported successive war crimes, racism, torture, eradication of Palestinian villages, land theft, occupation and war barriers. And notice that not a single prime minister, no matter what he does, ever serves time in jail. They always seem to come up with some legal loophole that prevents him from serving a day in jail. "The Supreme Court took an unusual step this weekend in rejecting a petition to stop illegal construction at a settlement outpost near Ramallah. Justice Neal Hendel denied the request despite the fact that, at the initial hearing on the matter, the state prosecutor told the High Court the building activity violates the terms of the settlement freeze order as pr...

NOVANEWS "This week saw the highest level of Palestinian injuries in a single-week since the first week of July 2008: at least 72 Palestinians were wounded in various incidents; over half sustained injuries in clashes that took place in East Jerusalem. Twenty-one members of the Israeli security forces were also wounded during the week [March3-9], United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported." Posted by As'ad SEE: www.angryarab.blogspot.com Zionist high court

NOVANEWS THIS ARTICLE ABOUT THE ZIO-NAZI HIGH COURT JUDGE REFUSED TO ISSUE A STOP TO ILLEGAL CONSTRUCTION OF AN ILLEGAL ZIO-NAZI OUTPOST.  1. Haaretz Sunday    High Court rejects petition to stop building in West Bank outpost  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1156246.html By Akiva Eldar  The Supreme Court took an unusual step this weekend in rejecting a petition to stop illegal construction at a settlement outpost near Ramallah. Justice Neal Hendel denied the request despite the fact that, at the initial hearing on the matter, the state prosecutor told the High Court the building activity violates the terms of the settlement freeze order as promised to the U.S. government. This marks the second time in four weeks that Hendel has rejected a request for a temporary injunction to stop sett...