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NOVANEWS Irish Trade Union solidarity with Palestine. On Friday there was one of the most significant events yet in Palestinian solidarity work in Ireland. The Irish Congress of Trade Unions held a conference on Palestine/Israel and on how to build solidarity links. It was reported and attacked in the media and, in a nutshell, it was a very successful conference – one that will lay the basis of future union campaigning on Palestine. The purpose of the conference was to discuss the implementation of the 2009 ICTU resolution which called for a comprehensive boycott, divestment and sanctions on Israel The main success lay in it being held the way it was – with senior leaders from all major Irish unions present, and the fact it took place in Dublin Castle, a venue which was donated by the Iris...

NOVANEWS Cameron berated in his own constituency             An ex-soldier berated David Cameron for failing to help him as the Tory leader staged a walkabout in his own constituency. Skip related content Cameron berated in his own constituency Related content Conservatives make appeal to older voters Tories 'need a decisive victory' Cameron to face Paxman grilling Related Hot Topic: David Cameron Have your say: David Cameron The man, accompanied by his young daughter, confronted Mr Cameron as he canvassed voters in the town of Witney. The man, an ex-army soldier, described how, on his return from Kosovo he tried to contact Mr Cameron as he needed help with finding a home for him and his family. "Thirty odd phone calls and you didn't ring me back once" he said. Mr Camer...

NOVANEWS DAVID GORDON: AMERICA FIRST, THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT, CHARLES LINDBERGH AND THE 2ND WORLD WAR  by Gordon Duff America First: the Anti-War Movement, Charles Lindbergh and the Second World War, 1940-1941  By David Gordon                Democratic nations seldom go to war willingly.  The natural instinct of voters is to preserve peace whenever possible.  Aided by a free press, there is also never a shortage of those ready to suggest alternatives to conflict. Yet sometimes war is inevitable.  This is most obviously true when a nation is attacked.  For some there is no other legitimate reason for war.  Others believe that hostile intent on the part of other countries is also sufficient cause.  The legitimacy of this view, as well as the question of how one measures intent, can be the ...

NOVANEWS  by Bob Higgins * By Zeev Sternhell Haaretz   East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. Photo: Daniel Bar-On Thanks to an attempted settler takeover of the Sheikh Jarrah quarter, that quiet neighborhood of East Jerusalem has turned into a kind of microcosm of the illnesses that are poisoning relations between Jews and Arabs. The worst of these is the refusal to recognize the finality of the situation that was created at the end of the War of Independence. It is possible to understand the settler right, whose existential aim is the continued conquest of the land. But how is it possible that state institutions will lend a hand to an act that destroys the very land under our feet? Indeed, this time the settlement is not being carried out merely with brute force like in other p...

NOVANEWS GORDON DUFF: “DOES THE HOLOCAUST PROVE THE CHRISTIAN GOD IS DEAD?”  by Gordon Duff ISRAEL’ POSTITION ISN’T WITHOUT MERIT ARE THEY ON THE SAME PATH? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Today, in Germany, Bishop Williamson of the city of Regensburg, was convicted of saying that Jews were not killed in gas chambers.  He was fined 10,000 euros for this crime of politically unpopular speech.  Dow chemical, on its website, says that Agent Orange was “made to exacting government specifications” and has not been proven to have been harmful.  The families of thousands of dead Vietnam veterans will feel this like a hammer blow.  Today, Israeli reporters are in hiding, hunted down by the Mossad, because they have evidence of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, a process deeply parallel...

NOVANEWS Reading Ethan Bronner in Gaza The razor-wire and concrete frontier between Israel and Gaza is intermittently interrupted by remote-controlled metal observation towers equipped with motion sensors. When the sensors detect something, the metal petals atop the towers peel back, blooming. A small bloom means the interior camera is peering around. A big bloom occurs when the people controlling the machine guns inside the turret are thinking about blasting someone. On Tuesday, in a border area near Atatra, a neighborhood in Beit Lehiya in northern Gaza, the top only opened a little - just looking around. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) software operator saw us nearing the border, perhaps 200 Palestinians and seven internationals. The Palestinians marched, boisterously and peacefully, ho...

NOVANEWS Court Martial of Army Doctor Could Demand Obama Birth Records Court Martial of Army Doctor Could Demand Obama Birth Records by James Buchanan A recent news article reports “U.S. military officials tell NBC News that the U.S. Army will court martial a lieutenant colonel who refuses to deploy to Afghanistan because he considers orders from President Obama to be ‘illegal.’ Army doctor Lt. Col. Terry Lakin believes Obama does not meet the constitutional requirements to be president and commander-in-chief, because he believes… that Obama wasn’t born in the United States. Lakin refused this week to report to Fort Campbell, KY for deployment to Afghanistan, but instead showed up at the Pentagon… Lakin was informed by Roberts that he would face court martial…” Putting Doctor Lakin throu...

NOVANEWS Labour's spending cuts pledge: "We'll cut your throat slowly, the others will cut your head off." posted by lenin "Labour’s Ronnie Campbell, fighting to be re-elected as Blyth Valley’s MP, has warned politicians on all sides that they most be more open about the harsh realities of so-called “efficiency savings” and the impact they will have in places such as the North East. "In an outspoken interview he said his own Labour party was proposing spending cuts which would “cut your throat slowly”. But, Mr Campbell, said the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats proposals would “cut your head off”." Labels: elections, lib dems, neoliberalism, new labour, public spending, recession, spending cuts, tories

 NOVANEWS Prelude to Transfer - Military Orders 1649 and 1650 As the editorial from Haaretz states, Israel’s new military orders 1649 and 1650 ‘is liable to give the world clear-cut proof that Israel's aim is a mass deportation of Palestinians from the West Bank.' Haaretz, being an impeccably Zionist newspaper, but of a liberal disposition, is worried that the ethnic cleansers, murderers and self-declared racists that constitute Israel’s government, are doing more damage to the Zionist cause than anything the Palestinians have yet been able to muster. The Zionist position though has always been clear. A Jewish State could only be established where there was a clear Jewish majority and in 1947-8 this entailed the expulsion of the Arab population of Palestine, who even in the area allott...

NOVANEWS Mezan Center: “Zionist Deliberately Killed Reuters Cameraman” On the third anniversary of his deal, the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights reported that the Zionist army deliberately shot and killed Palestinian cameraman, working for Reuters, Fadel Shana’a, 23, in the Gaza Strip. Fadel Shana'a Center called on the International Community, regional and international Press Agency and agencies that defend the freedom of press to practice more pressures on their governments to seek the prosecution of Zio=Nazi  official involved in such crimes. The Center added that three years after the killing of Shana’a and despite the clear evidence of his murder by the army, “justice seems to be far away from being achieved. Shana’a and his crew were first targeted by a missile and less than five m...