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NOVANEWS Israel as a Macabre Monster Losing Its ‘Horror Power’ June 22, 2010 by Michael Leon   Is Israel Chuckie - There’s a joke of sorts among Israel observers that the Massacre on the Mediterranean epitomizes Israel’s weakness—Turkish human rights workers try to calm down over-weight Israeli commandos bent on the macabre acts of vicious children resembling characters in a bad Chuckie movie, the 1990s American horror film series. Writes Uri Avnery of Gush Shalom, “Terrified women with wounded babies in their arms, men with amputated limbs, demolished homes. When one sees a hundred pictures like that for every picture that shows another Israel, Israel becomes a monster.” A monster indeed, losing its ability to frighten even as it becomes more desperate and deadly. Even as rightest th...

NOVANEWS GORDON DUFF: MID-EAST SITREP: TIME TO WALK AWAY AND CLEAN OUR OWN HOUSE June 22, 2010  by Gordon Duff · CAN ANYONE PROVE KARZAI IS BETTER THAN THE TALIBAN? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Do we actually call what we are doing in Afghanistan a war?  Recent estimates are that 88% of the people support what we call “the enemy.”  The German’s were much more popular than us during their occupation of France during World War 2.  What does that say about our friends?  Even Petain and Laval, the French Vichy traitors, had more public support that Karzai has in Afghanistan. There is some indication that Afghanistan would rather have us change sides, fight Karzai, our Indo-Israeli puppet, and let us leave, believing we had won.  What have we accomplished?  We have created the...

NOVANEWS GORDON DUFF: ISRAELI AMBASSADOR ADMITS ROGUE OPERATIONS, SPYING AND WORSE June 22, 2010  by Gordon Duff ROGUE ISRAELI-SOVIET SPY, JONATHAN POLLARD ISRAELI AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES, MICHAEL OREN  “WE DON’T SPY ON AMERICA, ROGUE ISRAELI GROUPS DID IT” By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor “…we’re talking about an event that was run by a rogue organization in the Israeli intelligence community” (Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren on the Jonathan Pollard  spy case) In a shocking revelation today, Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren admitted that super-spy Johnathan Pollard, responsible for the murder of 100 CIA agents and the turnover of 360 square feet of vital intelligence to the Soviet Union wasn’t really working for Israel at all.   In 1998, the government of Israel admitte...

NOVANEWS Sand flies infect U.S. forces with parasite that leaves them with ‘Baghdad Boil’ June 22, 2010  by Michael Leon   Sand Fly By Eric Athas in the Post Mason Alsaleh was sound asleep when he was attacked at a U.S. Army outpost in northwest Iraq.What happened that August night last year left the 48-year-old interpreter disfigured and unable to sleep, his mind muddled with paranoia, his temper short.  But Alsaleh’s injuries — including what look today like third-degree burns on his neck and arm — weren’t caused by gunfire or an explosion. His enemy that night was a tiny insect that injected a flesh-eating parasite into his skin. Alsaleh, a Jordanian-born military contractor who works for Falls Church-based Global Linguist Solutions, is a victim of leishmaniasis, a disease carried ...

NOVANEWS Palestine Think Tank Free Minds for a Free Palestine  .HomeContactPTT TVRESISTANCE & STRATEGYAbout.Rich Forer – Cutting Through the Confusion about Israel/Palestine By Guest Post • Rich Forer Jun 21st, 2010 at 16:16 • [A letter I wrote to a college student who had written the Coalition to Stop $30 Billion to Israel asking the group to remove a billboard that said "Tell Congress. Stop Killing Children. No More Military Aid to Israel." The billboard was erected in Albuquerque in the Spring of 2009 after the Gaza catastrophe.  I was the spokesperson.] [If you click the link, the billboard in question is shown. D] http://palestinethinktank.com/2010/06/21/rich-forer-cutting-through-the-confusion-about-israelpalestine/ Hi J, Thank you for your letter. First, I assume you are Jewish....

NOVANEWS Haaretz, June 28, 2010 Jerusalem master plan: Expansion of Jewish enclaves across the city. The Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee is set to approve a master plan that calls for the expansion of Jewish neighborhoods in East Jerusalem. http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/jerusalem-master-plan-expansion-of-jewish-enclaves-across-the-city-1.298651 By Akiva Eldar and Nir Hasson The Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee is set to approve an unprecedented master plan that calls for the expansion of Jewish neighborhoods in East Jerusalem, a move largely based on construction on privately owned Arab property. The committee's proposal would codify the municipality's planning policy for the entire city. In essence, Jerusalem would uniformly apply its zonin...

NOVANEWS http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/06/27/2739793/jewish-groups-to-send-gaza-flotilla June 27, 2010 JERUSALEM (JTA) -- A coalition of international Jewish organizations sympathetic to the Palestinians will send a flotilla to Gaza to try to break Israel's blockade of the Hamas-run strip. The "Jewish Boat to Gaza" will sail next month from an undisclosed location carrying passengers from the United States, Germany and Britain. At least one passenger is reported to be a Holocaust survivor. American Jews for a Just Peace announced last week that it will serve as the U.S. coordinator for the Jewish boat. The other groups participating in the flotilla include "Judische Stimme" ("Jewish Voice" for a Just Peace in the Near East) and Jews for Justice for Palestinians, a British organizati...

NOVANEWS Dear,   Obama fired the general, but not the war. Tell Congress we want more, we want an end to the war.   Last week, President Obama fired Gen. Stanley McChrystal after he gave a crude and candid interview to Rolling Stone in which he insulted the president, the secretary of defense and most Americans for not doing more to support the war.1 Unfortunately, Obama fired only the general, not his strategy -- and he's planning to continue with the wrongheaded plan to escalate the war in Afghanistan that McChrystal championed.2 Obama made the right decision but for the wrong reasons. Now, we're running out of time to change the future, and not just the leadership, of this war. This week, the House is set to vote on the funding that will keep McChrystal's war a...

NOVANEWS Permanent Depression, Oil Patch and Dustbowl Blues—Part I June 27, 2010 by Michael Farrell Veterans Coming Home I’ve been reading Sebastian Junger’s book WAR and I am finding it painfully accurate; soldiers suffer, the grunts suffer the most, and the experience transcends human life. It makes no sense to many who watch it from the sidelines – firefighters, cops, coal miners and fishermen probably understand it better than most, but ultimately, as he said on a recent interview, it’s about brotherhood. And then, of course, you come home and life just sucks, and entropy being what it is, generationally it gets weirder –when the World War II generation came home, there were jobs and the GI Bill paid for just about everything.  Korean Vets faced a similar situation; Vietnam vets f...

NOVANEWS GORDON DUFF: THE AFGHANISTAN CIRCUS, McCHRYSTAL LEAVES THE CENTER RING June 23, 2010 by Gordon Duff DID PAT TILLMAN REACH OUT FROM THE GRAVE? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Why would a general want to leave a command, especially one as challenging as Afghanistan?  Think of it, no more meetings with President Karzai.  Picture yourself, sitting in Kabul.  Still in Kabul, looking south at failure.  Long ago, when Paul Wolfowitz and Karl Rove, called “Dog Boy and Turd Blossom” by President Bush,  were selecting the worst possible weaklings and con men to act as American puppets, the new governments of, first Afghanistan and then Iraq, the names Hamed Karzai and Ahjmed Chalibi were, not just the short list, they were the only list.  The task was simple, as outlined by Vi...