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NOVANEWS Dear All, There is so much worthwhile reading today that deciding what to forward was not easy.  I try below to balance the scale with reports and opinion pieces that seem to me important.  Also, below the 6 items are 5 links.  I hope that you will read all 6 items, and if you have time or can manage so much, to also at least glance at the articles that the links take  you to. I do not mean to say that these are all that there is to read today.  They are merely the items that I think you should be aware of. If you are short on time and can read but one item, then please make it the third one in which Terry Crawford Browne advises: “To end the occupation, cripple Israeli banks” Of the 6, the first two items are the briefest, and furnish info about life in these parts.  Regarding th...

NOVANEWS Maariv: Netanyahu won’t meet Clinton; ‘sources’ say she “isn’t relevant” July 1, 2010 Didi Remez Do they honestly think that publicizing a quote like this, on record or off, works to their advantage? Israeli diplomatic [euphemism for Prime Minister's Office -- DR] sources said: “Clinton isn’t relevant and is out of the circle of influence. Mitchell has taken over the peace process to a great extent and Obama, in any event, is the important person in this story because he is the one who decides.” Netanyahu to meet Obama, but not Clinton Eli Bardenstein, Maariv, July 1 2010 [page 7; Hebrew original here and at bottom of post] Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is to leave next week for Washington, where he will meet with US President Barack Obama. Rather curiously, he is not schedu...

NOVANEWS Palestinian “leader” begs Zionists to be nice Neo-cons dare to speak about failed states Israeli hack talks of Iranian armageddon Can somebody tell them that slamming Islam isn’t great for Zionist spin How close is BP with Obama? Sydney Greens forum on Israel/Palestine The rise and rise and rise of BDS Zionist lobby in Australia denies there is Zionist lobby Why Gillard is acceptable to the foreign policy elites Caring about Shalit is so touching (but shame about those imprisoned Arabs) Palestinian “leader” begs Zionists to be nice  30 Jun 2010 The delusion of the colonised. Please sir – the ones who have spent their entire lives demonising, killing and occupying us – please treat my people well. God help the Palestinians under Mahmoud Abbas: The Palestinians ha...

NOVANEWS Dear Friends, 5 items from over a dozen that I deliberated sending.  Since 2 of the 5 are rather long, I thought you’d probably have enough with just the 5.  One can read so much.  I’m not always so considerate, but when I find it too difficult to decide for you, I send the whole or almost the whole and let you decide what you wish to read, what not. The first 2 items are reports.  The initial one relates that Israel is now making good its threat that I noted a few days ago.  The 4 Hamas members of the government whom Israel told to leave their homes and families refuse to leave.  Well, would you willingly leave your family, friends, home because a government told you to?  Israel will undoubtedly expel them.  Meanwhile it is jailing them.  These are not, by the way, individuals wh...

NOVANEWS The Independent Tuesday, 29 June 2010 Barred from Jerusalem for crime of being Palestinian Engineer's battle to overturn loss of residency highlights plight of thousands http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/barred-from-jerusalem-for-crime-of-being-palestinian-2013066.html By Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem Samir Abu-Khalaf holds a photograph of his son Murad, whose East Jerusalem residency was revoked by Israeli authorities To say that Palestinian Murad Al-Khalaf's roots are in Jerusalem is a serious understatement. His family lived in the Baka district of West Jerusalem until they were forced to leave in the war of 1948. They have since lived – and live – in the inner East Jerusalem district of Ras al-Amud. His family doctor father's clinic in East Jerusalem's main s...

NOVANEWS     There is a Zionist lobby in Australia and let’s look inside some more Chomsky on the invisible Iranian nuclear ghost Is there a connection between Dubai and Gilad Shalit? We’re dying in Afghanistan and you want to hug a general? Walid Shoebat should not be heard in Pakistan The battle between Wikileaks and Miley Cyrus What is wrong with this picture? Don’t speak to terrorists because we must keep Israel strong The people of Gaza are too fat and healthy There is a Zionist lobby in Australia and let’s look inside some more  29 Jun 2010 Following the story in yesterday’s Fairfax media about Prime Minister Julia Gillard and her love for Israel and its cuddly lobby here in Australia, the following letters appear in the Age today: Peace throughout the Middle...

NOVANEWS I’m crushed and livid (massive Jewish expansion set for Obama’s lap, East Jerusalem) Religion doesn’t matter any more, Supporting Iraq war was, and apparently still is, a good career move The movie where Ari Ben Canaan finds out his father is Darth Vader Elena Kagan made who/whom mistake in 2006 To defuse one-staters, liberal Zionist must justify ‘wrongs’ of ‘48 Anti-Zionist show in Rochester is back on, though not in original church venue ‘NYT’ makes excuses for Netanyahu Long predicted, Goldberg’s eclipse finally begins I’m crushed and livid (massive Jewish expansion set for Obama’s lap, East Jerusalem) Posted: 28 Jun 2010 I'm crushed and livid. Jerusalem master plan: Expansion of Jewish enclaves across the city: The Jerusalem District Plannin...

NOVANEWS hey Eric didn’t I tell you you were too dumb to write about Palestine? I have just seen Eric Alterman’s response to the response to the Nation’s cool-tempered editorial on the massacre on the Mavi Marmara: You know, it's funny. Israel, Egypt and the Palestinian Authority are all engaged in this blockade (which I strongly oppose). But if you read The Nation's editorial on the topic, "Free Gaza," you'd have to assume that they are all doing this because it's fun, or because they are big meanies or, at best, for no reason at all. Never mind priorities, that the siege in intolerable and must end. Never mind reality, which is that Israel is engaged in a terroristic blockade to overthrow a democratically elected government. Never mind that Egypt complies because it does what America a...

NOVANEWS  Maariv: MEPs warn Peres of gathering boycott momentum Didi Remez [Teaser] Is the whole world against us? [Headline] European Parliament: "Phenomenon of boycotts against Israel gaining momentum" [Sub-headline] Members of the European lobby for Israel warn: The deterioration in the political climate is increasing boycotts of Israeli products, companies and businessmen; requested that Peres utilize his stature and appear before the European Parliament David Lipkin, Maariv, June 28 2010 [page 4 of business section; Hebrew original here and at bottom of post]   The leaders of European Friends of Israel (EFI), the European lobby for Israel and its economy, warned yesterday of a deterioration in the political climate in Europe against Israel, and an increase in the phenome...

Ezra Nawi, after a day in the mud NOVANEWS: June 26, 2010   Bi’r el-’Id There’s a strange beauty in the viscous black mud that comes up from the depths of the earth, from the bottom, or somewhere near the bottom, of the well we are cleaning in Bi’r al-’Id. Bucket after bucket of it, lifted by pulley from down below, straggles to the surface, where we unload it and pour it out on the rocky escarpment. Its texture changes remarkably over the long morning hours from a watery top layer to heavy, shiny dark loam to a granular, sticky brown. It has a strong smell, like the sulphurous mud from the Dead Sea (not very far away) that people smear over their bodies for healing. Yehuda says the Palestinians of Bi’r al-’Id should bottle it and sell it at the airport: “Sacred Mud from the Sacred Dese...