Nova Newsletter

NOVANEWS We invade and occupy Iraq and now it’s a petrol station for us all What a good journalist should do; ask the IDF for the truth Imperialism with a new face is still imperialism When we kill people, it’s a gentle kind of murder The almost banal nature of Zionist expansion in Jerusalem Zionist leaders in pyjamas Exclusive article: Israel’s economic susceptibility to the BDS movement Your mobile phone can be used to kill The Green Movement doesn’t need help from the Zionist lobby The paper of record waking up to Israeli colonies? We invade and occupy Iraq and now it’s a petrol station for us all  01 Jul 2010 What we gave Iraq. One: The former chief executive of a British chemical company faces the prospect of extradition to the US after the firm admitted million-dol...

NOVANEWS New battleline: ‘Tablet’ calls 4 ‘anti-Israel’ blogs ‘agents of influence’ Birthright travel diary: Arriving in Tel Aviv TIAA-CREF divestment campaign finds strong support among shareholders Paul Berman’s hidden agenda Bil’in leader sentenced to two months in prison for protesting IDF destroys West Bank village after declaring it military zone Israeli report on shootings of ‘4 civilians’ fails to state that they were three sisters, 3, 5, and 9, and their grandmother Netanyahu moves ahead on taking Jordan Valley New battleline: ‘Tablet’ calls 4 ‘anti-Israel’ blogs ‘agents of influence’ Posted: 21 Jul 2010   Tablet ran a piece today on 4 "anti-Israel" bloggers who are allegedly mainstreaming anti-Semitism so as to gin up the traffic numbers of "media companies": St...

NOVANEWS Dear All, While things get worse here, the world goes on as if nothing is happening, as if 100s have not been deprived of homes, as if Palestinians are never unjustly jailed (the only prisoner on everyone’s tongue is an Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit), as if Israel’s laws were always just and democratic (this being ‘the only democracy in the ME’).  Of course there are organizations that do shout out the news, and bds does seem to be getting on, but where are the international governments in all this?  In addition to the below, the radio news announced today (don’t recall at which time) that 10 homes had been demolished in the village of Al Luban—a village that I am familiar with due to having for some years driven a child and her father from there to a hospital in Israel.  Interest...

NOVANEW 16-Year Old Arrested, Fined After Being Shot By Settler Wash. Post column suggests that discovering the ‘Israel lobby’ now helps careers, doesn’t hurt em Thaddeus Russell defends his piece on Israel’s dangerousness Today in Palestine: Only democracy in Middle East will finally allow…. newspapers into Gaza ‘Times’ prints call for ethnic cleansing of Palestinians 16-Year Old Arrested, Fined After Being Shot By Settler Posted: 08 Jul 2010 And more news from Today in Palestine:   Land theft and destruction/Ethnic cleansing Stop work orders handed down in Nablus village Nablus – Ma'an – Israel's Civil Administration handed down three stop work orders to residents in the Nablus village of Burqa on Tuesday, a Palestinian Authority official said.  Ghassan Doughlas, who heads the...

NOVANEWS Growing worldwide pressure on Iran only worsens lives inside the Islamic Republic British Jews can only imagine partition in the Middle East Blair knew about rendition and embraced it Beijing isn’t Washington’s replacement for Tel Aviv Hicks demands justice and transparency for being abused in our care Don’t touch anything Palestinian, it’s toxic Mercenaries are dying in Afghanistan and nobody really seems to care What would a progressive agenda look like? On the move Growing worldwide pressure on Iran only worsens lives inside the Islamic RepublicPosted: 17 Jul 2010 A worrying story in the New York Times that indicates Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s government is cracking down even harder on those not sharing his fundamentalist reading of Islam. The paper regular...

NOVANEWS Hamas is building a society of sorts in Gaza Haiti is the lost ongoing nightmare Since when was a Colombo-friendly source reliable? Indict Bush and Cheney, says Fox contributor Please don’t sanction Israel, we’re charming people really Where’s the outrage over Sri Lanka? Hamas is building a society of sorts in Gaza 14 Jul 2010 There are increasing numbers of reports from inside Gaza, including this piece today in the New York Times that rightly says, “Gaza, on almost every level, is stuck”. Journalist David Rose offers a slightly different view, claiming that while life in Gaza is undoubtedly tough, many people are simply getting on with life and the situation is complex: Reporting from Gaza usually consists of two well worn tropes, and conveys little of the realiti...

NOVANEWS Sunday, July 11, 2010 Winning hearts and minds "According to a just-departed U.S. commander in charge of a big chunk of the area, locals in four critical provinces believe that the Taliban have greater religious legitimacy and a stronger commitment to justice than Hamid Karzai’s government. Coalition forces who aid that government are seen as “naive at best,” and “‘co-conspirators’ at worst.”" Long and prosperous live Gaza tunnels "Egyptian smugglers managed to smuggle nearly 48 new cars into the Gaza Strip via a tunnel specially made for smuggling vehicles." And if you can smuggle cars, you can easily smuggle...potatoes. Hahahaha. Now Hariri This Hariri propaganda website is so pathetic. They found a loony Lebanese Nazi and claims--for the pleasure of Zionist mon...

NOVANEWS Fox News explains racial discrimination in Israel Journalism finds a safe home in Iceland Dissent isn’t so welcome these days in Israel How not to discuss Israel and the Middle East Google and Beijing get back into bed together BP’s stink continues on its deadly way This is what US tax-dollars are paying for Fox News explains racial discrimination in Israel 12 Jul 2010 Well, well. Fox News (!) reports on the difficulty of Palestinians buying land in Jerusalem. The truth is starting to even emerge in corporate America:   Journalism finds a safe home in Iceland12 Jul 2010 The possibility of Iceland becoming a safe haven for investigative journalism has been brewing for some time. The Guardian provides the background to this important development: A resolution ...

NOVANEWS Land theft and destruction/Ethnic cleansing 2,700 houses to be built as soon as West Bank settlement freeze ends Haaretz probe shows regional councils across the West Bank are preparing for continued construction as 10-month freeze end date approaches. http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/2-700-houses-to-be-built-as-soon-as-west-bank-settlement-freeze-ends-1.300114 Jerusalem man forced to demolish home extension Jerusalem – Ma’an – Faced with the prospect of paying thousands of dollars in fines to the Israeli municipality that administers occupied East Jerusalem, a Palestinian homeowner has demolished part of his own house.  Nayef Kasteru, a father of three living in the Aqbat As-Saraya neighborhood of Jerusalem's Old City, on Sunday finished dismantling a 49-meter addition he...

NOVANEWS Dear Friends, At about 6PM spouse and I returned home from a long, hot, day in the Salfit governate of the West Bank. We visited friends and checked out a few places to see if anything had changed since we last were there in April, just before leaving for 6 weeks in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Salfit area is not in the news these days, the focus now being on Gaza and East Jerusalem.   The reasons for their taking the spotlight are justifiable.  Nevertheless it is worth knowing that in this small area of the West Bank, the occupation instead of lessening appears to be becoming ever more entrenched. For instance, the number of buildings in the colony of Revava (built on land belonging to Palestinian residents of Hares) have grown.  When we first began paying attention to the col...