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NOVANEWS Today’s Show Headlines 7 Years After Killing, Family of Slain US Peace Activist Rachel Corrie Heads to Israel for Wrongful Death Suit Against Israeli Gov’t  RECENT SHOWS Tuesday, March 09, 2010 Headlines 105,000 Tattoos: Iraqi Artist Wafaa Bilal Turns His Own Body into a Canvas to Commemorate Dead Iraqis & Americans The Real Climategate: Conservation Groups Align with World’s Worst Polluters Monday, March 08, 2010 Headlines Bloody Sunday: Thousands Mark Anniversary of 1965 Selma-Montgomery March During Oscar Acceptance Speech, Mo’Nique Cites Hattie McDaniel, First African American Academy Award Winner International Women’s Day Marked Around the World Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Winner Shirin Ebadi Presses Iran on Human Rights and Warns Against International S...

NOVANEWS Posted: 09 Mar 2010  Bit by bit, now in a piece on the "pro-Israel lobby," Andrew Sullivan works his way toward the crucial understanding of the Israel lobby’s role in nullifying American policy in Israel/Palestine. There is simply no way to explain the policy nullification, with respect to settlements, over 7 or 8 US presidencies, without talking about a special interest. And you cannot then talk about the special interest without talking about its lopsided size in the American political process. No one in Washington – apart from a few Likudniks and Palinite end-timers – actually supports more settlements or any settlements in the West Bank. At the same time, Washington exercizes a UN veto to protect Israel from international law, funnels a vast amount of foreign and military ai...

NOVANEWS Haaretz Tuesday   http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1155131.html  By Akiva Eldar  [This is a portion of Eldar’s report today.  For the remainder, follow the link.]  U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, who arrived in Israel yesterday, didn't look for camels among the cars on the road from Ben-Gurion International Airport to Jerusalem. In a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing held two years ago for the United States Ambassador to Israel, James Cunningham, Biden heard that the Israelis even know how to ride bulldozers. Then a senator from Delaware, who chaired the committee, Biden asked for a detailed report on the affair of American peace activist Rachel Corrie, who was run over and killed by the treads of an Israeli bulldozer.  If Biden schedules a meeting with Corrie's parents...

Haaretz Tuesday, March 09, 2010  NOVANEWS  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1155116.html  By Haaretz Editorial   Scandar Copti, co-director of the film "Ajami" that was nominated for an Oscar, declared in Los Angeles that he does not represent Israel. "I cannot represent a country that does not represent me," Copti said, sparking a predictable chorus of shallow responses from the right. Culture Minister Limor Livnat accused him of being an ingrate because his film received financing from the state. Other politicians demanded that from now on, government support be conditioned on a declaration of loyalty.  But the director's words deserve a more serious response: They ought to prompt deep soul-searching among all Israelis who care about the future of the state. Copti is not a devotee of ...

NOVANEWS by Philip Weiss on March 8, 2010 Tomorrow in a Haifa court, a trial will commence of the Corrie family’s civil suit against the Israeli government in the killing of Rachel Corrie seven years ago this month in Rafah, Gaza. Rachel’s parents Craig and Cindy (left) have sent out an appeal for support during this challenging time: The lawsuit is one piece of our family’s seven-year effort to pursue justice for our daughter and sister. We hope this trial will illustrate the need for accountability for thousands of lives lost, or indelibly injured, by occupation—in a besieged and beleaguered Gaza and throughout Palestine/Israel; bring attention to the assault on nonviolent human rights activists (Palestinian, Israeli, and international); and underscore the fact that so many Palestin...

NOVANEWS As the Zionist Power Matrix continues to loot billions in tax dollars from Americans, how many Israelis are facing foreclosure on their homes? Hundreds? Thousands? Try running a Google search and see if you can find just one article reporting the number of Israeli homeowners facing foreclosure. — admin: U.S. Can’t Afford Military Aid to Israel   By Josh Ruebner In his recent State of the Union address, President Obama pledged to “go through the budget line by line to eliminate programs that we can’t afford and don’t work.” One week later, he sent his FY2011 budget request to Congress, which included a record-breaking $3 billion in military aid to Israel. This requested increase in U.S. weapons to Israel — part of a ten-year $30 billion agreement signed between the two countries...

NOVANEWS Here he comes. Ethan Bronner: chief propagandist for the Israeli occupation army, no matter how many war crimes it perpetrates. This article is noteworthy. The New York Times, you see, covers Palestinians as victims--but only when they are victims of other Palestinians. This is a case in point.  Of all the Palestinians that are killed daily, weekly, monthly, and annually by the Israeli occupiers, the New York Times picks a Palestinian who lost a son to a Palestinian bomb or bullet. I mean, how rare is that really. But at least this is the first time that you see Bronner feigning care and sympathy--fake to be sure and only to justify Israeli murder of Palestinians. Notice that he calls Amos Oz a "dove." Oz is a man who brags about his military service in Israel and who has never E...

NOVANEWS This headline in the New York Times talks about US helping "Somalia." Back in 1982, when the civil war raging in Lebanon, the US sent troops to Lebanon to help the right-wing fascist militias of Amin Gemayyel and others. The Reagan administration sold that to the American public as help for "Lebanon." The same thing in Somalia. The US is helping the war criminals' side in a raging civil war, and the New York Times justifies that as "helping Somalia." Which Somalia, o Foreign Editor of the New York Times? Posted by As'ad at 6:29 AM www.angryarab.blogspot.com

NOVANEWS WITH THEIR GENTILE PLANT HENRY PAULSON AT TREASURY, the Jews of Goldman Sachs were preparing to cheat American taxpayers by bailing themselves out ON THEIR OWN and then asking for an ADDITIONAL bailout. Although the TARP Bill was signed into law on October 3, 2008, delivering 700 billion dollars to wealthy Jewish bankers with Goldman getting $10 billion, the top brass (all Jews) of Goldman Sachs began their own ‘bailout’ as far back as March of 2008. In little noticed public records filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission — see here and here — top Goldman Sachs’ executives under the direction of John S Weinberg who reported the sales, moved quickly to sell their shares of Goldman stock to unsuspecting investors while the shares were still trading at a high rate in Marc...

  NOVANEWS SEEKING A GLOBAL SHOWDOWN with Russia and China, Zbigniew Brzezinski, who is recognized and feared by Zionist as Obama’s foreign policy adviser, is intent on bringing Iran back into the Western orbit. In Brzezinski’s world view, Iran could be a valuable US asset to be played against Russia and China. Even with his protege at Defense, Robert Gates, and his reputation as a global strategist, Brzezinski has all but admitted that he simply does not possess the influence to override the power the Zionist lobby wields over Obama’s decision-making in foreign affairs.