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NOVANEWS 30 November 2010   Michael Brull   In September 2009, Antony Loewenstein wrote an article expressing scepticism about the tactical viability of Salam Fayyad's plan to build a Palestinian state in the West Bank, whilst the occupation continued. I said in response that this framework was completely inadequate for understanding the dynamics of the Israeli relationship to Fayyad. Fayyad exists within an imposed framework of Palestinian collaborators with the Israeli occupation, which was essentially the purpose of the Oslo agreement. I went on to make this point: "Any sentient being should know the obvious by now: the US Government, much of the West, and corrupt Arab elites are collaborating in the occupation of Palestine. Arab collaboration is becoming increasingly brazen, with som...

S E C R E T TEL AVIV 000654 SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/19/2019 TAGS: PREL PTER PGOV KWBG IR IS SUBJECT: ISRAEL'S RELATIONS WITH THE GULF STATES FOCUS ON IRAN, PERCEPTION OF ISRAELI INFLUENCE IN WASHINGTON REF: TEL AVIV 605 Classified By: DCM Luis G. Moreno, Reason 1.4 (b) (d) ¶1. (S) Summary. MFA Deputy Director General for the Middle East Yacov Hadas provided PolCouns March 16 with an overview of Israel's relations with several of the Gulf states. Hadas described Israel's relations with the Gulf as a function of the Gulf Arabs' fear of Iran, but also as due to the Arabs' belief in Israeli influence in Washington. Fleshing out some of the points he had made earlier to NEA Acting A/S Feltman (reftel), Hadas described Qatar's shift toward the radical camp in the region as a "g...

NOVANEWS November 27, 2010  by Bob Nichols  Soldiers, Ours, Theirs, Civilians:  It makes NO Difference! (San Francisco) – American Expeditionary Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan use only the best weapons money can buy and American ingenuity can dream up. For twenty years that meant weaponized uranium poison gas and aerosols, a.k.a. “DU,” according to the Pentagon, weapons contractors, university weapons researchers and the political leadership of the United States.   Abrams Tank firing 120mm Gun - Defense Industry Daily Were they Right or Wrong? Not all military officers, experts and politicians agree.  They say there are weapons and systems that shoot farther, faster and more accurately than the weaponized uranium oxide rounds, shells, missiles and bombs.  It makes no difference. Uranium...

NOVANEWS   Welcome to to Zionist lies. Welcome to the elections that will propel Zionist  Mu-Barak to his sixth term as Zionist puppet's -- if his health improves, that is. Otherwise his son Gamal is likely to be named puppet. A recipient of $1.56 billion per annum in US /Zionist assistance, Egypt's population of roughly 80 million still enjoys a per capita income of less than $3,000. And three decades of aid has ensured virtually no diversification of its economy -- tourism remains the country's main industry. Mu-Barak's legislative elections held on Sunday were a sham from the start. A number of opposition parties are boycotting the elections in protest of the government's machinations. The Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan), the largest opposition bloc and a moderate Islamist party, ...

NOVANEWS     Unified Action Plan To 'Develop' Maoist Stronghold Districts Is Not Aimed To Solve Any Basic Problems Of The People, But To Crush The Revolutionary Movement! Punish Traitors Severely, Who Are Involved In Scams Of Billions Of Rupees Of Hard Earned Peo Rajeesh | November 29, 2010 at 8:52 pm | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1WU COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MAOIST) CENTRAL COMMITTEE Press Release November 27, 2010 Unified Action Plan To 'Develop' Maoist Stronghold Districts Is Not Aimed To Solve Any Basic Problems Of The People, But To Crush The Revolutionary Movement! Punish Traitors Severely, Who Are Involved In Scams Of Billions Of Rupees Of Hard Earned People's Money!! Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, yesterday on 26th November, h...

NOVANEWS     Rajeesh | November 29, 2010 Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1WR Arundhati Roy's reaction to yesterday's court order directing the Delhi Police to file an FIR against her for "waging war against the state" The Hindu My reaction to today's court order directing the Delhi Police to file an FIR against me for waging war against the state: Perhaps they should posthumously file a charge against Jawaharlal Nehru too. Here is what he said about Kashmir: 1. In his telegram to the Prime Minister of Pakistan, the Indian Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru said, “I should like to make it clear that the question of aiding Kashmir in this emergency is not designed in any way to influence the state to accede to India. Our view which we have repe...

NOVANEWS Egypt: Systematic Crackdown Days Before Elections Mass Arrests, Intimidation, Campaign Restrictions Make Fair Outcome Questionable November 24, 2010   Riot police form a line as opposition members and supporters gather to support their candidates for the upcoming elections. © 2010 Reuters Related Materials:  Elections in Egypt More Coverage:  More Human Rights Watch Reporting on Egypt The combination of restrictive laws, intimidation, and arbitrary arrests is making it extremely difficult for citizens to choose freely the people they want to represent them in parliament. Repression by the government makes free and fair elections extremely unlikely this weekend. Joe Stork, deputy Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch (Cairo) - Egypt has c...

NOVANEWS November 27, 2010 by Debbie Menon   Influential Druze leader Walid Jumblatt Lebanon is on a knife-edge amid mounting tension over a UN probe into the murder of the country’s ex-premier and efforts by regional leaders to try to contain a potentially explosive situation. “Everyone feels the danger and it’s like a police thriller filled with suspense and where everyone is waiting to see who the murderer is,” said Ghassan al-Azzi, political science professor at Lebanese University. “The nerves of the Lebanese are frayed.” Lebanon has been holding its breath since July when the secretary general of the militant group Hezbollah announced that he believed members of his party would be indicted by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) for the 2005 murder of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri. Th...

NOVANEWS November 27, 2010  by Franklin Lamb  Part II  “Know thyself”  Sun Tzu and Hassan Nasrallah     Sun Tzu and Hassan Nasrallah   Franklin Lamb’s Saturday Mideast Report –- Al Manar According to the Lebanese military, at 11 am and again at 1 p.m.  on 1l/24/10, a total of six Israeli warplanes crossed into Lebanese airspace, and violated for the 8256th time UNSC resolution 1701 that ended Israel’s 5th war against Lebanon, on August 14, 2006. Nearly, daily, and sometimes several times daily, warplanes and/or reconnaissance aircraft invade the skies over Lebanon to frighten, attempt to intimidate, and pressure the Lebanese population. They also to try to keep tabs on Lebanon’s resistance, led by Hezbollah. As every Resistance defender  is aware, if a twice daily high flyover by a US s...