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NOVANEWS Please send out to lists: Israeli Peace Groups in Support of UC Berkeley Divest Bill    Dear Members of UC Berkeley’s ASUC: We, Israeli organizations, comprised of Jewish and Palestinian women and men, dedicated to building a just peace, promoting human and civil rights in Israel/Palestine, join the call made to the UC Berkeley Senate to overturn the veto of Senate Bill 118A and to stop investing in the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory. It has come to our attention that the UC Berkeley student Senate voted 16 to 4 to divest from two American companies, General Electric and United Technologies, whose activities materially and militarily support and maintain the Israeli occupation, in violation of international human rights and humanitarian law. We understand that t...

NOVANEWS Dear,   Lieberman and his pals want to keep the Cold War going. Chip in to help us fight back with ads like this one.   One year ago in Prague, President Obama declared his intention to rid the world of nuclear weapons. Yesterday, messages of support from 40,000 TrueMajority members like you were delivered to the White House while the President negotiated a great new agreement with world leaders to make our future safer.1 This big agreement comes on top of the new treaty with Russia to reduce nuclear stockpiles by 30 percent. But a group of Senate conservatives led by Joe Lieberman are stuck in a Cold War mentality, and lining up to stall the first progress in decades.2 We need the Senate to ratify that big arms reduction treaty NOW. If Lieberma...

NOVANEWS   ?p=1843 Didi Remez | April 14, 2010 at 20:26 | Categories: Freedom of the Press, IDF, Satire | URL: http://wp.me/pHlQV-tJ KammSince the gag order was lifted last Thursday(April 8 2010), the Israeli public debate has been largely engaged in indignant verbal stoning of whistle-blower Anat Kamm and journalist Uri Blau. The most vicious attacks have focused on the treasonous criminality of the theft (Kamm) and possession (Blau) of classified documents. Indeed, Kamm has been charged with "aggravated espionage." A few writers (albeit mostly bloggers and Haaretz columnists) have tried to provide some reasonable context.  In a country where the army is so closely integrated in society as it is in Israel, classified documents in civilian, certainly journalistic, hands are a very comm...

NOVANEWS Video Of Cops Beating Student Shocks America   © Sky News 2010            Footage of police beating an innocent basketball fan unconscious as he was celebrating a win by his college team has sent shockwaves through America. Skip related content Video Of Cops Beating Student Shocks America Play video Video Of Cops Beating Student Shocks America Play video Video Of Cops Beating Student Shocks America. Related content Video: Video Of Cops Beating Student Shocks America University of Maryland student John McKenna was attacked after their victory over arch rivals Duke. CCTV pictures show him skipping down the street waving his arms in joy. He is then approached by police on horseback who stand over him before other cops in riot gear swoop and start hitting him wit...

NOVANEWS              The Green Party vowed "fair is worth fighting for" as it launched its General Election manifesto. Skip related content Green Party urges 'fairer society' Enlarge photo Related content New Fashion Mag Encourages Ethical Living Driver Blames Little Green Men For Ticket Ship bearing MOX sets sail from France for Japan Related Hot Topic: Environment Have your say: Environment Unveiling the party's policies in Brighton, home of their main target seat, party leader Caroline Lucas said: "In our manifesto we've put the economy and the environment foremost at the very heart and our overall aim is to set out how to make Britain a greener and much fairer society." The party is hoping to capitalise on voter dissatisfaction with the main political parties and ...

NOVANEWS Boy, 13, Charged With Murder Of Asylum Seeker © Sky News 2010           A 13-year-old boy has been charged with murdering an asylum seeker in Newcastle Upon Tyne. Skip related content Boy, 13, Charged With Murder Of Asylum Seeker Enlarge photo More photos: Crime Related content Boy, 13, remanded on murder charge Takeaway shooting girl critical Boy, 13, to face court over murder Related Hot Topic: Crime Have your say: Crime Alioune Cisse, 30, died in Newcastle General Hospital three days after he was found slumped in the Benwell area of the city on February 12. Doctors said he had suffered a brain injury. Mr Cisse, who was also known as Papa Mody Mbaye, had gone to Tyneside to seek asylum from Senegal a few months earlier. The boy, who cannot be named for legal...

          NOVANEWS          *   Jew who loves Israeli soldiers, makes him proud to be Jewish Israel is behaving like Fidel Castro, says Fox News Are Western reporters also just printing Pakistani spin? The “idealism” of Iraq and Afghanistan Israel and its 300 nukes An Israeli Arab has some rights How Israel markets the joys in Gaza Boycott Iran but embrace Israel like a young girl in need When most Iranian Twitter fiends were actually living in the US Does the Rudd government care what happens to refugees when sent home? Jew who loves Israeli soldiers, makes him proud to be Jewish Joel Chasnoff, stand-up comedian and author, tells us one of the reasons he just adores Israel: Drop-dead gorgeous Israeli soldiers. The men are hunky, the women beautiful. Try n...

NOVANEWS Israel Demolishes and Silences its Bedouin Villages and more In This Issue... Israel Demolishes and Silences its Bedouin Villages How to Market Gaza as an Israel Success Story More Recent Articles Search The Only Democracy? Israel Demolishes and Silences its Bedouin Villages By Yeela Raanan of Regional Council for the Unrecognized Bedouin Village (RCUV). (ed’s note: This piece shows how home demolitions are not limited to Palestinians in the Occupied Territories or those who  are suspected of crimes.) April 13, 2010. The Government of Israel is putting me on trial next week (Monday, April 19th, 11:00am in Beer Sheva): for expressing my displeasure at the brutal home demolitions in the Unrecognized Bedouin Villages. The government and its acting bo...

NOVANEWS Mossad Hunts Reporter in Hiding, ‘Takes off Gloves’ in Israel’s Pentagon Papers Case by Michael Leon Uri Blau, journalist pursured by Israel for telling truth on war crimes Israel is hunting down a journalist who exposed its human rights violations in the 2008 Israeli massacre in Gaza in which over 1,400 innocents were killed. Uri Blau, a reporter with the Haaretz newspaper, has gone underground in London and is threatened with espionage by the notorious Shin Bet, Israel’s secret police. First Israel went after innocent Palestinians, then they came for human rights activists, then they came for journalists. Who is next? Ask Mordechai Vanunu, who 24 years ago blew the whistle on Israel’s nuclear weapons of mass destruction what awaits Blau. We hope that Uri Blau, a hero for trut...

NOVANEWS  by Khalil Nouri By Khalil Nouri STAFF WRITER During the last few days, President Karzai has thrown the “kitchen sink” at his allies, and his own people. Did the American’s rig the election? Is Karzai joining the Taliban or retiring to the south of France? Some say it is drug use, some say simply stress, depression or Napoleonic delusions, but whatever it is, this kind of behavior is signaling the end of any credibility of Karzai as a leader—with some options for his removal. I’m sorry to hear that President Obama has not continued the typical Bush buddy style monthly video conferencing with you. But was it such a harsh reality request to ask for your personal cooperation in shaping up your country at the expense of American blood and billions of tax dollars? And I’m sorry to...