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NOVANEWS Here's an article in Ha'aretz by David Landau. It's one of those, "if we're not careful Israel will cease to be Jewish and democratic" articles that is either seeking to lock the stable door after the horse has bolted, ie, seems not to have noticed that there has been quite a lot wrong with Israel since its inception or it is pretending not to have noticed that the stable was wide open in the first place. Since last Passover, over the first year of Benjamin Netanyahu's prime ministership, Israel has slid almost inadvertently a long way down the slope that leads to McCarthyism and racism.....Inadvertently. That must be the explanation. Otherwise, how to explain the dismal fact that during this year a heinous travesty was perpetrated against Naomi Chazan - and the streets of our cit...

NOVANEWS The WEDO controversy – Hard Cases deployed to make Bad Laws Omar Barghouti and PACBI are in an unenviably vulnerable position as the people pushing for academic and cultural boycott of Israel. This has proven to be the most controversial part of the boycott, divestment, sanctions campaign, and attacks on the campaign invariably are expressed as attacks on PACBI. The latest controversy concerns Daniel Barenboim’s orchestra (or West-Eastern Divan Orchestra - WEDO). PACBI was accused of fanaticism because of its position that this orchestra facilitated ‘normalisation’ and should be boycotted. They’ve responded here, but their critics still run with the publicly aired accusations. This overlong (you’ve been warned) blogpost is less about the rights and wrongs of this fairly insignific...

NOVANEWS Jonathan Cook, Foreign Correspondent Health officials in Israel are subjecting many female Ethiopian immigrants to a controversial long-term birth control drug in what Israeli women’s groups allege is a racist policy to reduce the number of black babies. The contraceptive, known as Depo Provera, which is given by injection every three months, is considered by many doctors as a birth control method of last resort because of problems treating its side effects. However, according to a report published last week, use of the contraceptive by Israeli doctors has risen threefold over the past few years. Figures show that 57 per cent of Depo Provera users in Israel are Ethiopian, even though the community accounts for less than two per cent of the total population. About 90,000 Ethiopians...

NOVANEWS The Zio=Nazi army has put a closure on the West Bank for Passover. The closure will last from from midnight Sunday night to April 6 at midnight, according to a statement from the Zionist regime. During the closure, Palestinians will NOT be permitted to cross into Zionist state of 'Israel' for medical care. The military's Civil Administration will NOT authorize the entry of humanitarian aid, as well as doctors, medical personnel, NGO members, lawyers and additional professional groups. In addition, 1,250 religious workers and 550 students and teachers have NOT received authorization to enter 'Israel' from the West Bank. Zio=Nazi Defense Minister Ehud Barak ordered the closure. West Bank closures are common during Jewish holiday periods.

NOVANEWS The Egyptian regime’s decision to build a sophisticated underground steel wall along the Gaza-Sinai border is a cardinal crime bordering on attempted genocide. Other similar epithets are used to describe this wall of shame built by an Arab state for the purpose of starving and killing an Arab people, already facing a virtual genocide at the hands of the Zio=Nazi state of 'Israel'. The description “attempted genocide” is quite adequate because cutting off food from the virtually imprisoned people of Gaza means one thing: killing them by starving them to death. In Islam, murder is the greatest crime against God after idolatry. The Quran states that in Suratul Ma’aida (the Table) Verse-32, that “We ordained for the Children of Israel that if any one slew a person - unless it be for m...

NOVANEWS Al-Azhar head dies in Saudi Arabia. Tantawi wrote a number of books, including a 15-volume interpretation of the Quran [AFP] Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, Sunni Islam's most senior religious figure, thank God has died during a visit to Saudi Arabia. The 82-year-old Bu-Barak Dog, who had previously undergone heart surgery, suffered a heart attack as he boarded a flight early Wednesday morning, mu-Barak television said. He was admitted to the Amir Sultan hospital in Riyadh where doctors proclaimed him dead.Tantawi - who headed al-Azhar, Sunni Islam's highest seat of learning - was known for his controversial ban of the niqab. He also wrote a number of books, including a 15-volume, 7,000-page encyclopedia on the interpretation of Quran. His body is likely to be sent back to Cairo ...

NOVANEWS An anti-Zionist television series first broadcast in Turkey will now be shown in Saudi Arabia and Dubai. "Separation: Palestine In Love and In War," a 13-episode series, depicts Zio-Nazi soldiers as killing Palestinians civilians, including babies and the elderly. It is set to begin showing Saturday in Saudi Arabia. No date has been set for the series debut in Dubai. Nazi's Foreign Ministry summoned Turkey's acting ambassador when the series aired on state-run television in October. The incident contributed to tense relations between the two countries, which began during Zio-Nazi Holocust in Gaza. In January, another Turkish television series contributed further to the tense relations when Zio=Nazi Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon publicly humiliated Turkey's ambassador.

NOVANEWS Kenyan job seekers travelling to Saudi Arabia may soon have to seek clearance from government before taking up jobs.The Kenya government has held inter-ministerial meetings to establish a framework that would protect Kenyans seeking employment in the oil producing state. The director of the Middle East Office at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mr Ken Vitisia said among the conditions in the agreement is a proposal for a contract between the Saudi Arabia government and the employee before travel. “Most of the contracts being signed currently are between agents and the employee and later the agent draws another between the agency and the employer,” Mr Vitisia explained. The director further hinted that the Ministry of Foreign affairs was working with the Ministry of Labour to stream...

NOVANEWS RIYADH, Saudi Arabia RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia on Wednesday condemned Israel's "arrogant" policies of building settlements in east Jerusalem, saying they violated the rights of Arabs and Muslims and... RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia on Wednesday condemned Israel's "arrogant" policies of building settlements in east Jerusalem, saying they violated the rights of Arabs and Muslims and cast doubt on its seriousness in peace negotiations. In a strongly worded statement carried by the official news agency, a government official asked the Quartet sponsoring peace talks, consisting the U.S., EU, Russia and the U.N., to take Israel to task for its recent announcements to expand Jewish housing in east Jerusalem. "Saudi Arabia is looking for explanations from the int...

NOVANEWS by Michael Leon Defense Minister Ehud Barak in the U.S. last week From Haaretz, via Norman Finkestein Here’s how Democracy works: We give them U.S.-taxpayer money in the form of “aid.” They use the “aid” to purchase goods from American merchants of death. And the politicians and media babble about whether Netanyahu insulted Biden. Haaretz As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in Washington this week absorbing the full wrath of the Obama administration, the Pentagon and Israel’s defense establishment were in the process of sealing a large arms deal.According to the deal, Israel will purchase three new Hercules C-130J airplanes. The deal for the three aircrafts, designed by Lockheed Martin, is worth roughly a quarter billion dollars. Each aircraft costs $70 million. The aircraft...