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NOVANEWS 10 September 2010 Stop Israel's Torture and Beatings of Palestinian Children There can be nothing more despicable than the mistreatment and torture of Palestinian children. Of the 10,000+ Palestinian prisoners that Israel holds, some 700 are aged 16 and under. There are no special rights for them. There is no right to see a lawyer in the first weeks of imprisonment or any other rights. Sexual threats, use of dogs etc. is part of the standard treatment. This takes place against the background of a major controversy over a book by Lubavitch Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira's and his controversial book (only in Israel that is) "Torat Hamelech", which advocates the killing of Palestinian civilians, including children. Apparently the ‘freedom of speech’ of those who study the Torah was being...

NOVANEWS http://maxblumenthal.com/2010/09/we-are-going-to-carry-this-cause-on-for-everyone-who-cannot-rachel-corries-family-vs-the-israeli-government/ Rachel Corrie’s Family Confronts The Israeli Military In Court On 09.09.10, By Max Cindy, Sarah, and Craig Corrie in the Haifa District Court for the second round of hearings in their civil suit against the Israeli government. In a small courtroom on the sixth floor of Haifa’s District Court, a colonel in the Israeli engineering corps who wrote a manual for the bulldozer units that razed the Rafah Refugee Camp in 2003 offered his opinion on the killing of the American activist Rachel Corrie. “There are no civilians during wartime,” Yossi declared under oath. Yossi made his remarkable statement under withering cross examination by Hussein...

NOVANEWS By crescentandcross Group opposing Ground Zero mosque is organizing rally on the 9th anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks. Talkbacks (33) WASHINGTON – A woman who with her husband has contributed large sums to pro-Israel and Jewish groups is the principal funder of the group that has taken the lead in opposing an Islamic center in lower Manhattan. Jihad Watch, the group that is organizing a rally against the planned Islamic center timed for the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 2001 attacks – the center is planned for within three blocks of the site of the attacks – is funded by Freedom Center, a conservative group based in Los Angeles. An investigative report appearing on the online version of Politico on Saturday says that it has confirmed that the “lion’s share” of th...

NOVANEWS Nuclear Hypocrisy: UN Atomic Agency Curtails Probe of Israel’s Nuclear Capability September 8, 2010  by Michael Leon  Nukes okay if held by Israel - World’s worst nuclear offender gets another pass - By Jonathan Tirone September 06, 2010 (Bloomberg) -Sept, 03, 2010– United Nations investigators, ordered to write a report about Israel’s atomic capabilities, said they couldn’t compile enough information to assess the extent of the country’s nuclear program. The International Atomic Energy Agency released documents today showing a split between member countries who want more light shed on Israel’s nuclear work and others that say the Vienna-based organization doesn’t have the right to pry. The IAEA’s 151 members voted in September 2009 to have the agency review Israel’s program as p...

NOVANEWS So I lied. Cross-posted from Mondoweiss. I appreciated David Samel’s thoughtful essay on the Hamas-claimed killings of the four paramilitary settlers in Hebron—paramilitary settlers, and not simply “settlers.” I appreciated it both because it was thoughtful and because it was lucid (although I appreciated more Seham’s list of unreported attacks against Palestinian lives and livelihoods in the past few months). Samel’s lucidity makes it very easy to pinpoint where he goes wrong, and it isn’t within the logic of his dissection of the morality or efficacy of the attack. The problem is larger. It’s in his defense of the binary he presents between those who “defend” the attacks using a sophistical logic much like what Israel’s hasbara-artists deploy, and those who unequivocally condemn...

NOVANEWS “ZOMBIE CONTRACTORS,” THE PENTAGON’S 100 BILLION DOLLAR BOONDOGGLE September 5, 2010 by Gordon Duff   PENTAGON SCAM ENRICHES “REVOLVING DOOR” BUDDIES COOKIES AND BIBLE VERSES By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor A water truck backs up to the Euphrates River in Iraq.  The driver, a Ugandan or maybe an Ethiopian, gets out, lowers a hose into the sewage ridden flow and fills his truck.  5 miles away, a US Army water purification center sits, too far away.  The driver thinks, “water is water.”  Another of the Pentagon’s “Zombie Contractors” take their toll, part of the army of “undead” and unqualified who are the world’s most expensive work force. The driver, an employee of a company once headed by the Vice President of the United States, could care less, clean water, filth or s...

NOVANEWS September 04, 2010 Great news from Ireland. According to The Guardian Blair thought that the Irish would love him so much for the fact that he put the finishing touches to a peace process in Ireland that was initiated by his Tory predecessor, John Major, that he wouldn't get the rough ride he can expect in the UK when he flogs his stupid book. Violence has broken out at the first public signing for Tony Blair's memoirs, with anti-war protesters hurling shoes and eggs at the former prime minister.The projectiles did not hit Blair as he arrived at a bookshop in Dublin, Ireland, to be greeted by scores of demonstrators chanting that he was a "war criminal" and had "blood on his hands" because of the invasion of Iraq.Irish police blocked off streets around the Eason store on O'Conne...

NOVANEWS     Must See Interview with Ken O'Keefe crescentandcross | September 3, 2010  Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p2dGk-tu

NOVANEWS     Ali Abunimah “exposed” as smooth sophisticate by bigots More Recent Articles Search MuzzleWatch Ali Abunimah “exposed” as smooth sophisticate by bigots StandWithUs again attempts to take someone down, in this case Palestinian American author Ali Abunimah. As one might expect from such a hateful crew, they don’t do a very good job. Abunimah responds to their dossier, The StandWithUs dossier is a mishmash of biographical information about me, much of it taken from my own writing, but wildly distorted and wrapped in hostility. Its main purpose it to advise anti-Palestinian activists how to “expose” me. Parts of it are quite complimentary though: “When Ali Abunimah comes to your campus, be prepared for a sophisticated, smooth advocate of radical Palestinian posi...

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