Month: March 2010

NOVANEWS IDF to seal off West Bank for the duration of Passover By DPA Israel will close off the West Bank from Midnight Sunday until midnight, April 6, for the duration of Passover holiday, the […]

NOVANEWS Yemeni women who favour child bridesTHE sight of hundreds of women cheering a proposed law banning child marriage, as they did on March 22nd in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, was hardly amazing. No country […]

NOVANEWS By Edmund Sanders Reporting from Jericho, West Bank – As the highest-ranking commander of nearly 8,000 Palestinian security troops, Maj. Gen. Diab Ali is accustomed to being top gun. But the salutes often stop […]

NOVANEWS Palestinian security forces walk a careful line The Palestinian Authority’s reformed forces are more professional than ever. But maintaining legitimacy in eyes of their people despite Zionist limits on their authority is an ongoing […]

NOVANEWS by Philip Weiss My post last night on Dennis Ross was right on time. Laura Rozen at politico reports that Ross is at the center of a battle within the Obama administration about how […]

NOVANEWS by Philip Weiss The BBC says that the U.S. may not veto a Security Council resolution that is critical of Israel’s expansion in East Jerusalem: During their talks, [Qatar Foreign Minister] Sheikh Hamad asked […]

NOVANEWS Today is the beginning of the Jewish holiday Passover, so here’s fundamentalist West Bank Jews Women in Green making a statement to the world: Dear Friends, As we prepare for Pessach, the People of […]

NOVANEWS Arab leaders support peace plan By ASSOCIATED PRES Backing for ‘land for peace’ comes despite opposition to J’lem construction. SIRTE, Libya — Arab leaders on Sunday renewed their support for Mideast peace efforts, rejecting […]

NOVANEWS Delegitimization of Israel – A Strategic Threat Israel delegitimizers threaten its existence. Writing in Haaretz, Reut Institute Founder Gidi Grinstein, who formerly worked in the office of war criminal Ehud Barak, describes an “unholy […]

NOVANEWS It is of course the ultimate, Zionist logic. If you stay in the diaspora or if you leave and then show some sympathy with the ‘goys’ (non-Jews) then you deserve nothing better than to […]