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NOVANEWS GENERAL BARNO, THE MAN WHO LED THE HUNT FOR LONG DEAD BIN LADEN NOW IN HOT WATER By Josh Rogin for The Cable (thecable.foreignpolicy.com) Retired Lt. Gen. David Barno, the former top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, has been under investigation for over a year amid allegations he grossly mismanaged a Pentagon-funded research center. Barno currently runs the National Defense University’s Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, which was established in 2000 and brings together thinkers from 25 countries across the broader Middle East for dialogue and education. NESA is the youngest of five such regional centers at NDU, and lists 21 faculty members and four senior leaders on its website. According to four current and former NESA Center employees, all of whom asked ...

NOVANEWS By Akiva Eldar Haaretz The strife between Israel and the United States concerns something far bigger than the proximity talks with the Palestinians. As far as President Barack Obama and his senior advisers are concerned, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to blame for nothing less than damaging the standing of the U.S.in the Middle East and the Muslim world. Just as Netanyahu received his standing ovation at the AIPAC conference, Obama and his advisers were ruminating over an altogether different convention - the Arab League begins a meeting Tripoli on Saturday. For the Americans, Netanyahu's Likudnik speech and the Shpeherd Hotel project matched in embarrassment the scandalous announcement of construction in East Jerusalem during Vice President Joe Biden's visit here. This year...

NOVANEWS http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1159301.html By Yossi Verter Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned from the United States Thursday with egg all over his face but also with a painfully sharp insight - gone are the days when the White House was considerate about the intricacies of Israeli domestic politics. Former prime ministers used to tell American presidents, "Understand, I have a problematic coalition." This no longer works. Obama is not making any effort to show sensitivity to Netanyahu's distress and worse - he's ignoring it as though he intends to wreak some political chaos here. "Obama isn't only sticking the knife in," a minister said, "he's twisting it and enjoying it." Shock treatment, a senior Likud figure said Thursday about Netanyahu's experience in Washingto...

NOVANEW [Middle East News Service comments: Two of the best items I have seen to help readers make an intelligent assessment on the differences that have developed between Israel and United states. Yossi Verter, the senior writer of Israeli party politics for Haaretz is quite blunt in his approach: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned from the United States Thursday with egg all over his face but also with a painfully sharp insight - gone are the days when the White House was considerate about the intricacies of Israeli domestic politics.” The Hebrew headline is even blunter: “Netanyahu has undergone shock therapy.” The choice Netanyahu is offered is simple: ditch his hard right allies, bring in Tzipi Livni’s Kadima and try to find a formula that will placate the Obama Administrati...

NOVANEWS Haaretz http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1159155.html By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in Washington this week absorbing the full wrath of the Obama administration, the Pentagon and Israel's defense establishment were in the process of sealing a large arms deal. According to the deal, Israel will purchase three new Hercules C-130J airplanes. The deal for the three aircrafts, designed by Lockheed Martin, is worth roughly a quarter billion dollars. Each aircraft costs $70 million. The aircrafts were manufactured specifically for Israeli needs, and include a large number of systems produced by Israel's defense industry. The deal will be covered by American foreign assistance funds. The Pentagon will issue a formal announcement on the ma...

NOVANEWS WITH CONGRESS FOISTING socialized medicine on unwilling Americans, the leading figure behind health care reform is the Zionist billionaire George Soros joined by Zionist medical, political, and academic professionals. With his endless purse of money—gotten by sinking the US economy in 2008 and at the same time making billions doing it—to back whatever cause he chooses, Soros has the means to engineer the destinies of entire nations. Indeed, Soros has already implemented his global agenda in both Georgia and Kosovo. Known as Obama’s “money man,” Soros’ involvement with Obama’s political career began in 2005 with Soros heavily contributing to Obama’s Senatorial campaign and continued through Obama’s 2007 Presidential launch with huge fundraising operations. Soros has also been pouri...

NOVANEWS Pressure on Israel from America? What pressure? Here's Ha'aretz: As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in Washington this week absorbing the full wrath of the Obama administration, the Pentagon and Israel's defense establishment were in the process of sealing a large arms deal. According to the deal, Israel will purchase three new Hercules C-130J airplanes. The deal for the three aircrafts, designed by Lockheed Martin, is worth roughly a quarter billion dollars. Each aircraft costs $70 million. The aircrafts were manufactured specifically for Israeli needs..... What does that mean, they only kill Arabs?

NOVANEWS Ehud Yaari Ehud Yaari answers questions about U.S.-Israeli relations and the Middle East peace process. EHUD YAARI is Lafer International Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and Middle East Commentator for Channel 2 news in Israel. He is the author, with the late Ze'ev Schiff, of Israel's Lebanon War and Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising -- Israel's Third Front. Israel and the Palestinian Authority should agree to establish a Palestinian state within temporary armistice boundaries. Without it, the Palestinians may abandon the idea of a two-state solution altogether. What to Read on the Middle East Peace Process Steven A. Cook An annotated Foreign Affairs syllabus on the Middle East peace process.Read ForeignAffairs.com. Click here to download th...

NOVANEWS by James Buchanan The Republicans have been staying within their carefully constructed political playpen –the one which keeps them from going after issues, which unnamed censors tell us are “off limits” for polite politics. Well, we just got our medical industry socialized while the Republicans were being nice and polite. Vicious unethical criminals in the Democrat Party just passed what-should-have-been a Constitutional Amendment that requires a two-thirds vote, with a bare majority. There’s a way to derail Obama and his legislation before the 2010 election, but it involves showing some guts and not letting the liberal media dictate to you what’s “off limits”. The nuclear counter-strike that can kill off Obamacare is a no-holds-barred attack on Obama’s citizenship. Contrary to po...

NOVANEWS Al Jazeera’s Inside Story program recently hosted Ali Abunimah, John Mearsheimer, and Meagan Buren of the Israel Project. As usual, Abunimah spoke clearly without euphemism. For instance: “Because of the intransigence of the lobby, there will be no two-state solution and that really means the end of a Jewish state of Israel.” To her credit, Buren bravely resisted the rhetorical onslaught, retaining her composure long enough to regurgitate AIPAC’s (and Clinton’s, and Schumer’s) talking points: “trust measures… ten-month moratorium… peace… come to the table… Palestinian partner… prosperous future for both sides…etc.” The real star of the show however, was Mearsheimer. One of the frustrating features of the conversation on Palestine/Israel is that many sober minded analysts hedge the...