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NOVANEWS Credit where credit is due. Israel intends to allocate NIS 700 million for accelerating economic growth in 10 Arab, Druze and Circassian communities who comprise 30% of Israel's total population of minorities. Cynics will say that similar promises made in the past were never fulfilled. But even so it's encouraging to see that the welfare of Arab citizens is present at least in the discourse of Israel's ruling coalition. There are people in Israel, however, who oppose the plan. Where are those people, you'll ask? In the settlements? In the Talmudic academies? No: in the very same ruling coalition. As Ynet reported: Tourism Minister Stas Misezhnikov slammed Saturday a multi-annual aid plan for the non-Jewish sector to be debated in the cabinet on Sunday. The plan calls for roughly N...

NOVANEWS President Obama, the Afghan war escalator, received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, and proceeded to deliver his acceptance speech outlining the three criteria for a “just war” which he himself is violating. The criteria are in his words: “If it is waged as a last resort or in self-defense; if the force used is proportional; and if, whenever possible, civilians are spared from violence.” After 9/11, warmonger George W. Bush could have used the international law doctrine of hot pursuit with a multilateral force of commandoes, linguists and bribers to pursue the backers of the attackers. Instead, he blew the country of Afghanistan apart and started occupying it, joined forces with a rump regime and launched a divide-and-rule tribal strategy that set the stage for a low-tiered...

NOVANEWS Dear Friend, Shir Regev, 19 years old, an Israeli anarchist, has just been released from his 1st prison term for refusing to serve in the Israeli army. His letter to the Israeli authorities follows. Shir is now awaiting the army's decision in his case. We will keep you updated Best Wishes Yesh Gvul חבר/ה יקר/ה שיר רגב, בן 19, אנרכיסט, סיים לרצות מאסר של 20 יום על סירובו להתגייס לצה"ל בגלל הכיבוש. מכתבו של שיר מופיע להלן. הוא מחכה כעת להחלטת הצבא בעניינו. נמשיך לעדכן בברכה יש-גבול To: Induction Bureau, Haifa Copies : Prime Minister Netanyahu , Minister of Defense Barak Sirs ! My name is Shir Regev and I have been a deserter since 1/12/09. I believe it is my personal duty to refuse and defect from an army whose main purpose is to serve as an occupation police for maintaining "Israel...

NOVANEWS Udi Aloni in Haaretz: The majority of Jewish Israelis are complicit in the perpetuation of the current state of affairs. When growing groups of conscientious people refuse to play the game of building a fictitious democratic sand castle on the shores of the Mediterranean, the Israeli Jew behaves like a spoiled rich brat, who would rather destroy his own castle than see natives share his world and his dreams. See: www.haaretz.com (24.03.2010)

NOVANEWS Last night 60 Minutes ran a feature on the occupied West Bank (the reporter’s blog on the subject clearly sees the Jewish settlers as the main impediment to peace). When the journalist Liam Bartlett told settler leader Nadia Matar that all the settlements were illegal, her response was instructive: The UN is biased, uh uh uh, pro-Arab – we know that. Leave it and where should we go? Where should we go? Back to Auschwitz? Where do you want us to go? This is our homeland. It all sounds so reasonable. And yet decades of violence, stolen land and murder of Palestinians has rightly framed many of the settlers as extreme fascists. The story’s introduction speaks for itself: It was near the top of Barack Obama’s “to-do” list. On day one in the White House, the first overseas call he mad...

NOVANEWS At-Tuwani Reflection: Reading and Writing, Dignity and Resistance By Joy Ellison “They said there are twenty-one kids,” said my teammate Jessica. Jessica and I were sitting on the top of Khourbah hill, waiting to finish what we call school patrol. She had just spoken with our fellow CPTers in the village of At-Tuwani. They were waiting for the Palestinian school children to be dismissed from school and gather together to walk to their homes in the villages of Tuba and Maghayir al Abeed. Our teammates had called to let us know that the Israeli military had arrived to escort the school children past the Israeli settlement of Ma'on and. Havat Ma'on settlement outpost and we could expect to see the children soon – all twenty-one of them. “Twenty-one kids?” I asked, dumbfounded. “Wher...