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NOVANEWS       לקריאת העדכון בשפה העברית   September 21, 2010 In advance of today's meeting of the Ad-hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC) for assistance to the Palestinians, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) released a report detailing steps taken to improve Gaza's economy pursuant to a June 20, 2010 Israeli Cabinet decision to "ease" the closure. The following is a summary of the main points of the MFA report and data which places the information in context. True: "Traffic has increased significantly. The number of trucks coordinated with the PA normally reaches the current maximum capacity of 250 trucks a day". More True: While the volume of trucks has increased, it was still at just 38% of demand in the last month, due to Israel's refusal to re-open crossi...

 NOVANEWS In This Issue... Audrey Farber responds again to NIF guidelines, UPDATED. More Recent Articles Search The Only Democracy?   Audrey Farber responds again to NIF guidelines, UPDATED. By Audrey Farber As anyone knows who has actually seen the new NIF   guidelines , the mention of the character of the state of Israel doesn’t come until the very end. In fact, as would be expected from a grant-making institution, the majority of the guidelines cover standard funding topics. They require the grant applicants to be in full compliance with laws, to be relevant to NIF, to be a non-profit, and to maintain standards of transparency and accountability. Only at the end to we  find the notorious “NIF will never support your organization”...

NOVANEWS September 22, 2010 At last someone calls Israel on its deal-breaking demand Ah well, it doesn't seem to have made it into the print edition of The Guardian but there is an article in The Guardian on line calling into question the, ahem, appropriateness of Israel having its right to exist as a state for the world's Jews recognised. It's by Omar Rahman: Recognising Israel's right to exist in peace and security was an existential question, and a necessary preamble to real and sustained peace between Israel and its neighbours. In so doing, the Palestinians had accepted the partition of their historic land and the two-state solution. Recognising Israel as a "Jewish" state, however, is a question of national character, and is not relevant to the Palestinians living as a foreign nation...

NOVANEWS “Alex Jones supports the Zionist Entity” Feed for this Entry Trackback Address 1 Emily Windsor-Cragg September 20, 2010 This video has to be 20 years old; therefore, it is DYSINFO.Alex Jones KNOWS what “Israel” is up to. crescentandcross, you are not a Truth-teller.–note from me, MG–Alex MIGHT know what Israel is up to, but he will not talk about it. He says Israel was innocent of the USS LIBERTY and that LBJ was the one behind it. He says Israel ‘could not’ have pulled off 9/11 and goes further in saying that the Arabs “own Hollywood”, so shut your yap about me not being a ‘truthteller’ and this video being ‘disinfo’.

NOVANEWS Gilad Atzmon & the Orient House Ensemble   Album Launch / 10th Anniversary Tour   "The vivacity, urgency and spontaneity of the best contemporary jazz...". John Fordham, The Guardian    To listen to music and pre-order   Release Date: October 4, 2010   We will be launching our new album @ Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club on Friday 1st October To book in advance   We'll perform around 40 concerts in the UK  in the next 2 months (see bellow).   For more information and watch a new video click here Gilad Atzmon - alto & soprano saxophone &  clarinet Frank Harrison – piano & voacls Yaron Stavi - double bass and vocals Eddie Hick - drums and vocals   Gilad Atzmon & the Orient House Ensemble-  The Tide Has Change –The 2010 Fall Tour   15 Sep Norwich Art Centre http://norwich...

NOVANEWS  September 20, 2010  Gilad Atzmon Recognizing Israel as uniquely Jewish is one of the key demands  made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the latest  talks with the Palestinians. However, Foreign Minister Lieberman took it one step further. He demands all Israelis swear an oath of loyalty to the Jewish state. Liebermann’s campaign slogan is "no loyalty, no citizenship." "We can't continue to ignore issues like that of Hanin Zuabi, who identifies completely with the other side," Said Lieberman on Sunday. He was referring to an Israeli Arab member of Knesset who was stripped of her parliamentary privileges after sailing aboard the heroic Mavi Marmara, and being witness to the Israeli massacre in high seas. So here we are : Israel is basically a Western liberal ‘multi cultura...

NOVANEWS Elise Hendrick, who knows quite a lot about inter­na­tional law, has a piece up about whether or not the settlers who Hamas killed two weeks ago were civilians: …As such, it is at least arguable that these para­mil­i­tary settlers meet the depen­dency and control test estab­lished by the Inter­na­tional Law Commission’s Draft Articles on State Respon­si­bil­ity and the jurispru­dence of the Inter­na­tional Court of Justice. In essence, this doctrine holds that a person or group can be con­sid­ered a de facto organ of a State – and its unlawful acts thus can be attrib­uted to that State – where that person or group operates under con­di­tions of complete control and depen­dency on that State. While it is not necessary to prove that the para­mil­i­tary settlers are de facto State or...

NOVANEWS September 19, 2010by Gordon Duff   ISRAEL’S WAR WITH ITSELF By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor   JUDAIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN? It is easy to spot a liar if you are willing to take an honest look.  When the American press quoted President Ahmadinejad of Iran saying, “I am going to wipe Israel off the face of the earth” we had our own gullibility thrown in our faces.  We, if willing to look honestly at ourselves, were being humiliated, played for fools.  It is one thing if a spokesman for Bibi Netanyahu’s Likudist government had tried this, but it was all the networks and newspapers in America, all carrying the same story, a story, not only inaccurate but an outrageous lie.  The story, the translation, was so false, that it should have been a joke were it not being used to try to...

TALKING TO A FICKING WALL . AN OLD JEWISH JOKE. I GUESS ZIONIST SHOULD STOP TALKING TO WALLS AND START TO TALK TO THE PALESTINIAN AND IF THEY ARE BRAVE ENOUGH,THEY CAN ALSO TAKE A LOOK IN THE MIRROR.

NOVANEWS A female CNN journalist heard about a very old Jewish man who had been going to the Western Wall to pray, twice a day, every day, for a long, long time. So she went to check it out. She went to the Western Wall and there he was, walking slowly up to the holy site. She watched him pray and after about 45 minutes, when he turned to leave, using a cane and moving very slowly, she approached him for an interview. “Pardon me, sir, I’m Rebecca Smith from CNN. What’s your name? “Morris Feinberg,” he replied. “Sir, how long have you been coming to the Western Wall and praying?” “For about 60 years.” “60 years! That’s amazing! What do you pray for?” “I pray for peace between the Christians, Jews and the Muslims. I pray for all the wars and all the hatred to stop. I pray for all our childre...