Politics

NOVANEWS Palestinian community in US: Ab-A$$ only met with Zionist community [ 25/09/2010 WASHINGTON, (PIC)-- The Palestinian community in the US has denied that de facto Palestinian Ab-A$$ had met with its members, affirming that he only met with a limited number of PA employees other than meeting the Zionist community. The Palestinian community said in a statement on Saturday that the alleged meeting with Ab-A$$ never happened. "We challenge the PA in Ramallah to declare the name of one Palestinian institution or society that participated in this alleged meeting," it said. The community noted that the only meeting for Ab-A$$ with Palestinians was the one held in New York with very few people most of whom working with the PA missions in New York and Washington. It added t...

NOVANEWS PRESS TV — TALKS TO IRAN’S ENVOY AND JAMES MORRIS ABOUT THE ANTI-ISRAEL IAEA RESOLUTION September 25, 2010by Debbie Menon   Iran’s envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency Ali Asghar Soltanieh discusses the rejection by the 51 mostly Western countries of a resolution urging Israel — reportedly the sole possessor of a nuclear arsenal in the Middle East — to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and allow UN inspections of its covert nuclear facilities. Iran's envoy to IAEA Credit Press TV The following is the transcript of Press TV’s interview with Iran’s envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Ali Asghar Soltanieh in Vienna.  In the interview Soltanieh discusses the rejection by the 51 mostly Western countries of a resolution urging Israel — reportedly t...

NOVANEWS By Daniel Byman September/October 2010 Summary:  Hamas is central to Israeli security and Palestinian politics, yet the international community refuses to work with it. This is a mistake -- Israel, the United States, and others should exploit Hamas' vulnerabilities with a mix of coercion and concessions. DANIEL BYMAN is a Professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University and a Senior Fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of the forthcoming book A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism. www.ForeignAffairs.com. The biggest obstacle to peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians is not the Palestinians' demand that Jewish settlements in the West Bank be dismantled, the bar...

NOVANEWS     Where is Israel? crescentandcross | September 24, 2010  | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p2dGk-w7 Read more of this post

NOVANEWS Alex Jones on Israel critics--"weak minded idiots", "mentally ill" and "FBI agents" crescentandcross | September 23, 2010  | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p2dGk-w5 If--according to AJ, I am an "FBI agent", where's my badge, gun, health insurance and pension?

NOVANEWS URI AVNERY: GANDHI’S WISDOM September 24, 2010 by Gordon Duff   Uri Avnery GANDHI’S WISDOM September 25, 2010 Gandhi’s Wisdom SURFING THE television channels, I came across an interview with the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi on an American network (Fox – would you believe it). “My grandfather told us to love the enemy even while fighting him,” he said, “he fought against the British resolutely, but loved the British.” (I quote from memory.) My immediate reaction was baloney, the pious wish of do-gooders! But then I suddenly remembered that in my youth I had felt exactly the same, when I joined the Irgun at the age of 15. I liked the English (as we called all the British), the English language and English culture, and I was ready to put my life on the line in order to drive the Eng...

NOVANEWS UN on Israel’s Deadly Assault: Guilty of Summary Executions, Cruel Violations of Human Rights September 23, 2010 by Michael Leon   Freedom Flotilla: Massacre at Sea - UN  Human Rights Council Report on Flotilla of Ships Carrying Humanitarian Assistance - By Greta Berlin Israeli troops broke international law by storming an aid flotilla bound for Gaza, according to a UN inquiry, which found that the killings of activists on-board were comparable to “summary executions”. Today the UN report was issued, a 56-page indictment of Israeli actions the night of May 31. Although the first 20 pages outline the legal ramifications of Israel’s actions, international law, maritime law, and what, exactly the Oslo accords …  accorded, the final 36 pages read like a murder mystery, and you will n...

NOVANEWS September 23, 2010  Gilad Atzmon The UN probe into the Israeli massacre in high seas concluded yesterday that Israeli forces violated international law and showed ‘incredible violence’ when they raided a flotilla attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. The UN fact finding mission also  argues that Israel's naval blockade of the Palestinian territory was unlawful because of the humanitarian crisis there, and described the military raid on the flotilla as ‘brutal and disproportionate.’ According to the UN probe, there is "clear evidence to support prosecutions" against Israel for "willfull killing" and “torture”. One would expect that after a publication of such a harsh report, Israel would self reflect, repent and vow to change its attitude toward international law and h...

by Gilad Atzmon   NOVANEWS    September 23, 2010 A meeting between Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and Israeli deputy foreign minister Danny Ayalon ended abruptly yesterday. The dispute followed the Israeli deputy foreign minister’s demand that the meeting’s summary should refer to the notion of ‘two states for two peoples,’ rather than just ‘two states.’  "I wanted that at the very least it will note two states for two peoples. I demanded to know what they meant. One Palestinian state and one bi-national state, or another Palestinian state?" the deputy minister told Ynet. "I made it clear that we were out of the picture if the summary didn’t say two states for two peoples." The Palestinian PM could not accept such a demand for very many reasons: Israel is located on hist...

NOVANEWS Flag for the Commander-in-Chief of the German Armed Forces (1935–1938). עברית אחרי האנגלי - Please distribute widely - Dear Friends, CO Omer Shoshan, 19, from the town of Yehud, near tel al-rabea 'Tel Aviv', was sentenced to 20 days of imprisonment. Omer Shoshan enlisted in the Zio=Nazi military eight months ago. It was already as a soldier that he decided to refuse to continue his military service. In his statement of refusal Omer wrote: I refuse to be part of the Israel Defence Forces, an army that occupies and oppresses a Palestinian population on a daily basis, which undermines the chances to achieve peace, and thus also Israel's security, and which corrupts the moral and democratic character of the state. For more than 40 years the IDF has been daily oppressing the Pales...