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NOVANEWS The "Hebron" account at WeJew.com (a kind of Jewish YouTube wannabe) has just (July 5 2010) uploaded a video purportedly documenting a visit of this month of an Australian Birthright group to the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron. This site is the stated raison d'être of the extremist Jewish Settlement in the the West Bank city and its cultural center. Watch the video (if it's been taken down, my recording is embedded at the bottom of this post): Towards the end, "Daniel", the apparent trip leader, is interviewed. He seems to know exactly what he's doing. What's the problem? Well, for starters, in its Safety and Security rules, Birthright makes an explicit commitment to participants, parents and, presumably, insurers: Our tours do not travel to or through areas of the West Bank, G...

NOVANEWS Dear Everyone, Of the 0 items tonight, the first 4 are reports of events that make obvious that Palestinians and others who get in Israel’s way have absolutely no rights!  Each of these is fairly brief, but not exactly pleasant reading. Item 5 is about the Libyan ship on its way—whether to Gaza or Egypt or elsewhere is not yet certain.  It’s original port was Gaza.  But apparently those in command of the ship do not want to fight Israel’s navy. Item 6 relates that the UN says that 6 years later, the barrier that Israel continues to build remains a problem. Yes, so?  Is anyone except Palestinian/Israeli/international activists doing anything about it?  And all that they can do is protest, faint from tear gas and other fumes that the IOF likes to use, sometimes get a canister in one...

NOVANEWS Hasbarapocalypse -- Leaked Frank Luntz memo: Israeli public diplomacy in US on Flotilla failed dismally Didi Remez | July 5, 2010     Luntz The Israel Project (TIP), an American Hasbara outfit, commissioned Republican political consultant Frank Luntz to examine the effectiveness of Israel's public diplomacy in the US on the Flotilla debacle. TIP gave the memo to the Prime Minister's Office, where someone promptly leaked it to Chico Menashe, Channel Ten TV News diplomatic affairs correspondent. Luntz's findings are grim. Here's a summary: 56% of Americans agree with the claim that there is a humanitarian crisis in Gaza; 43% of Americans agree with the claim that people in Gaza are starving; [Only] 34% of Americans support the Israeli operation against the Flotill...