NOVANEWS Air Force strikes numerous sites in Strip overnight, Palestinian sources say; Hamas targets hit, casualties reported. Meanwhile, Palestinian Authority warns Israel to act ‘responsibly’ in wake of terror offensive that left eight Israelis dead […]
NOVANEWS Call for regime change signals Libya replay Justin Raimundo Amid the outcry over the Syrian government’s crackdown on protesters, and now President Obama’sdemand that dictator Bashar al-Assad step down, the “world community” is not in the […]
NOVANMEWS Fisk on Assad’s real worry (and it isn’t poor little Obama) Posted: 19 Aug 2011 Indeed: Obama roars. World trembles. If only. Obama says Assad must “step aside”. Do we really think Damascus trembles? Or […]
NOVANEWS If 1.5 million Jews were locked up in Gaza, where would ‘Commentary’ be on violent resistance? Here’s hoping that rightwing crazies’ support for Israel– Rick Perry!– will make liberal Jews do a reality […]
NOVANEWS by PHILIP WEISS I kept one eye on former Pentagon adviser Michael Rubin during the Iraq War drumming because he was young and red-cheeked and not as smooth as the grownup monsters (Abrams/Perle/Feith) and I thought he […]
NOVANEWS A person who wishes to remain anonymous sent me this: The American Enterprise Institute’s Middle East “expert” Michael Rubin quotes “a Syrian Muslim Brotherhood activist” in a blog post, also published in Commentary Magazine: […]
August 19, 2011 The Honorable Barack Obama President of the United States The White House Washington, DC Dear President Obama: We commend you for your administration’s statement that “the future of Syria must be determined […]
NOVANEWS Conservatives suggest Syria next steps By Josh Rogin President Barack Obama said yesterday that he wants to see Syrian President Bashar al-Assadstep down from office, and promised to implement more sanctions on the Syrian regime. But conservatives in Washington […]
NOVANEWS Why has Amnesty International been silent in the last few months when Israel has been killing Palestinian civilians? “Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups must refrain from indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks harming civ Amnesty: […]
NOVANEWS “There is no assertion anywhere in the document that Libya is an “Arab state”, and this omission cannot be anything but deliberate. Libya: no longer an ‘Arab state’ This week the Libyan National Transitional […]