Politics

NOVANEWS IDF intelligence chief: Israel’s next war will see heavy casualties November 3, 2010 In farewell meeting at the Knesset, Gen. Amos Yadlin says next conflict will hit Israel far harder than recent wars in Lebanon and Gaza – and hints for first the time at Israeli involvement in a 2007 strike on a nuclear plant in Syria. In a final meeting at the Knesset, outgoing Military Intelligence chief Amos Yadlin warned on Tuesday that Israel’s next war would be fought on several fronts – causing far heavier damage and casualties than other recent conflicts. Israel was currently enjoying a period of relative quiet, Yadlin said. But its enemies were rearming and now posed the greatest threat to the country since the 1970s. A new war would be far deadlier than Israel’s last two, relati...

NOVANEWS In This Issue... Hebrew Lessons at the Learning and Creativity Center in Susiya More Recent Articles Search The Only Democracy? Hebrew Lessons at the Learning and Creativity Center in Susiya   Guest Post – Yael Arbel “You must come to see Susiya.” In all truth, I am fascinated by the stories I hear about Susya. I have not been there since the cold, muddy winter of 2002, when we trekked with Ta’ayush activists to bring blankets for those living there, only to be detained by the army. I don’t think I even got to see them at the end of that march. [editor comment: that particular march did reach its destination, see here] “People in Susiya really want to study Hebrew. I think it’s a fitting task for you.” Yes, I’ll come to look at it. But onl...

NOVANEWS Were “the chosen people” picked for their virtues or vices? October 31, 2010 by crescentandcross   Most Popular Content All   Speaking In Tongues–The Deadly Dialect of the Zionist Language Stuxnet Computer Worm–Israel’s Attempt To Silence Iran on 9/11 or Veiled Threat to the Entire World? Pastor Terry Jones--All Bark and No Bite When It Comes To Speaking The Truth About Islam and Judaism   Image ‘Copyleft’ by Carlos Latuff More than two thousand years ago, the frenzied multitude rejected Jesus because they thought he was going to rob them of their “chosen people” status and equate them with the rest of mankind. Today, 2000 years later, under the same chosen people rubric, Palestinian villagers, Christians and Muslims alike, are still being chased, assaulted, an...

NOVANEWS November 1, 2010 by crescentandcross  Leapin’ lizards, what IS it with these people? I mean, is it something as primal as magnetic pull that they gravitate towards betrayal, deceit and treason? After all, the law of averages says that once in a while–like the proverbial broken clock being right twice a day–they have to be loyal, even if only ACCIDENTALLY. We are not asking this rhetorically. Curious minds REALLY want to know, and not in the salacious way some tabloid asks whether or not so-and-so starlet is carrying the love child of some space alien, but rather for reasons involving life and death on a mass scale. Why does it seem that every time at that proverbial fork in the road when they can choose “A”–which is to stand by the country of their origin to which they owe th...

NOVANEWS by Gordon Duff THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE HIVE By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor “The age of openness and freedom we were promised is a lie, we live in darkness, censorship, we live under dictatorship as pure as any Orwell could have imagined. The slaves of slaves tell other slaves they aren’t slaves.  We have redefined freedom, we have redefined human endeavor  based on a model that even insects would reject, the instincts for survival of the hive overriding the drive toward mindless self destruction.” A good question to ask, “Is anything happening today, perhaps an election, a war, a conference, the Gaza investigation Israel is subjecting itself to, perhaps some religious synod or the great awakening of guilt brought on by this weeks ‘Wikileak,” is any of it going to st...

NOVANEWS 10/30/2010 Gilad Atzmon As other dissidents from Judaism and the Jewish supremacist, terrorist state of Israel have pointed out, most “Jewish leftists” aren’t really leftists.  They are not leftists, or socialists, egalitarians, multiculturalists, advocates of diversity and human rights WHEN those things are applied to ISRAEL. Supposedly they are for these things for everybody else, but what they really seek is tolerance of Jewish extremism. They don’t dare point out the fact that Israel is RACIAL-RELIGIOUS SUPREMACIST STATE that not only takes away the human rights of non-Jews, if their victims dare to object  — they imprison them, torture them, and bomb and even murder their enemies children. That may sound pretty extreme, but it is true. Facts speak for themselves. One heroic...

NOVANEWS October 30, 2010 by crescentandcross  A top Hamas official warned Saturday against what he said were the consequences of breaking ranks with Hamas policy toward Israel. Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Zahar said that anyone who fires rockets from Gaza into Israel is a “rebel.” In an interview with the Arabic language daily Al Hayat, quoted by Israel’s Channel 10 Saturday, Zahar explained that Hamas vowed to adhere to a cease-fire agreement reached with Israel following Israel’s assault on the Strip in late 2008. “Did we agree to the truce in order to stick to it, or to violate it?,” Zahar said. “Do they expect us to give a round of applause to people who rebel against their organization?” he asked, referring to so-called rebels firing rockets in violation of the truce. Referring...

NOVANEWS Caterpillar Withholding Sale of D9 Death Bulldozers to Human Rights Violator October 30, 2010  by Michael Leon     This is not an earthquake. This is what CAT bulldozers do in Palestine. American Corporation Caterpillar has Taken a Stand for Humans in Stopping the Sales of Bulldozers that Destroy Homes of Indigenious Peoples Jewish Groups for Peace Rejoice with Millions Around the World Via Jewish Voice for Peace, I have remarkable news. The Israeli press is reporting that Caterpillar is withholding the delivery of tens of D9 bulldozers—valued at $50 million—to the Israeli military.(1) These are weaponized bulldozers that are used to illegally destroy homes and orchards of Palestinian families. And they are the very same bulldozers as the one that killed a 23-year-old American pe...

NOVANEWS Jonathan Cook reports that at a demonstration yesterday when right-wing fascists marched through the Galilee town of Umm el-Fahm, Israeli riot police shot rubber bullets at Haneen Zoabi. Calling the bullets "rubber" can be misleading. A "rubber" bullet nearly blinded Matan Cohen. "Rubber" bullets regularly kill people when they impact the head, because of their concussive force. Zoabi reported that police snipers deliberately targeted her, aiming for her neck and back as she sought cover. That is not a joke; it's theoretically an assassination attempt against one of the most articulate, composed, and compelling Palestinian leaders in '48. Nor would it be a novelty: Israeli security forces during the First Intifada regularly sought to decapitate the leadership, assassinating Khalil...

NOVANEWS Ex Head of B’nai Brith/ADL “ashamed” of child porn October 29, 2010 by crescentandcross The former director of B’nai Brith Quebec says he’s ashamed he had pornographic videos on his computer, but Bill Surkis maintains he’s not a sex offender. Surkis, 71, has admitted to downloading nearly nine hours of videos of men engaged in sexual activity with girls, but said it was because he was curious. At his sentencing hearing in a Quebec Superior Court in Montreal on Thursday Surkis’s lawyer asked him how he would feel if his name were added to the national sex offender registry as the Crown is requesting. The father and grandfather said he still has contributions to make to his community and he wouldn’t be able to make them if he were registered. The Crown and the defence are re...