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NOVANEWS Send aslyum seekers back to Sri Lanka and have blood on your hands Washington loves its own despots in Kyrgyzstan Realising what the occupation has done to Israel’s heart and soul Living in the West Bank is now (nearly) illegal Send aslyum seekers back to Sri Lanka and have blood on your hands Unsurprisingly, Australia’s latest refugee policy is thankfully slammed as a meaningless sham in an election year, with little care for the lives likely to be shattered: To the roomful of Sri Lankan refugees, little has changed for those left behind since they made their perilous voyage in a wooden boat to Christmas Island last year. Now living in Brisbane, the young Tamil men — granted asylum in the past few months — are adamant that the flow of boatloads of asylum-seekers will ne...

NOVANEWS Dear All, Here is another one for the books!  It’s not enough that the world is going to allow Israel to deport thousands of Palestinians without blinking an eye.  Now this too! The village that the report below is about is much older than any of the colonies whose residents supposedly will be less secure without the fence than with it.  Mas’ha, the village, was a quiet farming community.  But the fence cut the village off from its lands, which means that the farmers are left without anything to farm (this has occurred throughout the West Bank).  At first the farmers were promised that the gates would open to allow them access to their lands 3 times a day.  But in short order, this promise was abandoned, and with it the farmers could not get to their lands, nor the shepherds and o...

NOVANEWS http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArtVty.jhtml?sw=akiva+eldar&itemNo=1161849 Akiva Eldar: In Israel, reality hides under a 'top secret' stamp / Ha'aretz 10/04/2010 10:12 It was spring 1983, the height of the first Lebanon War. A young officer appeared at my door and placed two documents in my hand that had been stamped "Highly Classified." One was an intelligence evaluation that found, unequivocally, that no diplomatic or security purpose was being served by Israeli troops' continued bloodletting on the mountains around Beirut. The second was a plan for the approaching 35th Independence Day parade in Jerusalem. In a bid to raise the nation's flagging morale, prime minister Menachem Begin and outgoing defense minister Ariel Sharon were considering spending tens of millions o...

NOVANEWS Ramzy Baroud UK Tour-Don't miss it!!! http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/ramzy-baroud-uk-tour-dont-miss-it.html  Internationally respected Palestinian/American writer Ramzy Baroud is touring Britain with his phenomenal new book "My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza's Untold Story ' (Pluto Press 2010). REVIEWS: Noam Chomsky: "Ramzy Baroud's sensitive, thoughtful, searching writing penetrates to the core of moral dilemmas that their intended audiences evade at their peril" Gilad Atzmon – : "Ramzy Baroud’s “My Father Was A Freedom Fighter” is more than a book, it is actually a masterpiece .. Ramzy’s father Mohammed, was a freedom fighter. He didn’t win a single war, not even a battle, yet, against all odds, in spite of his poverty and illness, he managed to educate his children and to ...

NOVANEWS Dear Friends, I am sending Amira Hass's report to you without comment.  I just read it and am still in a state of shock.  I know what Israeli leaders (military and so-called civil) are, and know their policies,  but even I could not have imagined that Israel would do this! And to come out on the day that Israel commemorates the attrocities performed by another nation!  I feel quite certain that there will be organized requests for you to protest.  You will receive these along with instructions.  But even before these come,  please write to your own governments and demand that they pressure Israel to retract this disastrous and immoral military order that can at one sweep empty the West  Bank of huge numbers of Palestinians, as well as empty the WB of Israeli and international demo...

NOVA NEWS A minor change in the “special relationship” How the US government knew the Gitmo boys were mostly innocent all along One more nail in the coffin of Israel’s “image” Since when has America had any interest in truly bringing peace to the Middle East? The role of a journalist in a truly free state is to challenge the state A minor change in the “special relationship” A Zionist mailing list sent the following story with the headline, “What next? Yellow armbands?” Yes, the Obama administration is like the Nazis. Seriously (and here’s the yarn via Jeffrey Goldberg): Roger L. Simon usefully posts a translation of a recent article from Ma’ariv, which reports that the U.S. is no longer regularly granting visas to Israeli scientists associated with the Dimona nuclear facility. ...

NOVANEWS DP Directory's Press Release FAQ Q: What is a Press Release?   A: A press release is a communication that you send to magazine and newspaper editors about your software. If they think their readers will be interested in your program, they'll print a New Product Announcement in their publications. Those 300-word write-ups that you see in the computer magazines - they're your competitors' press releases. And they were printed for free. Q: Which media outlets use Press Releases?   A: All of the computer magazines print them. They're eager to tell their readers about the newest hardware and software. Like yours. Business and consumer magazines print press releases. So do daily and weekly newspapers. And radio and television News Directors want to tell their audienc...

NOVANEWS   Waving the flag of humanism at Sheikh Jarrah Didi Remez  Tags: Sheikh Jarrah | Categories: Jerusalem, Suppression of Dissent The sustained protests, against the settlement of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah and the attendant eviction of Palestinian families, have been widely applauded.  However, they have also elicited some fierce push-back. Notably, these have not come only from government and right-wing elements, but also from members of the old "peace camp." When hearing criticism from this quarter, one is hard pressed to escape the impression that it is motivated by embarrassment. These youngsters, with virtually no resources, have pulled-off what seemed like mission impossible over the past decade: Effective mobilization of an anti-Occupation ...

NOVANEWS “They Don’t Want Palestinians Damaging the View:” A report from South Hebron Hills In This Issue... “They Don’t Want Palestinians Damaging the View:” A report from South Hebron Hills More Recent Articles Search The Only Democracy? “They Don’t Want Palestinians Damaging the View:” A report from South Hebron Hills A Report from South Hebron Hills by Shy Halatzi As in every week of the year, we woke up at 07:00 on a Saturday morning to oppose injustice. We, is a group of about 15, mostly Israeli and some International Activists lead by Ta’ayush, a Jewish-Arab organization opposing the occupation and trying to promote equality. The South of Hebron Hills is one of the most difficult regions in the West Bank. Much of the ...

NOVANEWS   Yediot: Israel rejected Didi Remez Israel refuses Barenboim access to Gaza because of Schalit Itamar Eichner, Yediot, April 13 2010 Peres and Barenboim in another era Israel has rejected a formal request by the Spanish government to allow the famous Israeli conductor, Daniel Barenboim, to hold a concert in the Gaza Strip. Barenboim asked permission to enter via the Erez crossing along with his musical ensemble to hold a concert for peace in the Gaza Strip. The ensemble is comprised of young and talented musicians from Israel, Europe and Arab countries. The Spanish prime minister submitted to Defense Minister Ehud Barak the request to hold the concern in Barenboim’s name. A number of consultations were held on the matter in Israel, culminating in a decision to refuse...