NOVANEWS nytimes.com Saudi Arabia has financed a large purchase of infantry weapons from Croatia and quietly funneled them to antigovernment fighters in Syria in a drive to break the bloody stalemate that has allowed President […]
NOVANEWS by crescentandcross english.al-akhbar.com Lebanon has become an integral part of the plans of al-Nusra Front. Al-Qaeda’s fastest-growing offshoot is seeking to merge Lebanon’s extreme Islamist factions into a united front. In mid-February, at a location […]
NOVANEWS Upcoming ‘listening tour’ will be about hearing out sides, not imposing new approaches, US secretary of state says Times of Israel US President Barack Obama will not present a new peace initiative when he […]
NOVANEWS independent.co.uk By Robert Fisk Mohamed al-Zawahiri, younger brother of Osama bin Laden’s successor, Ayman, made a particularly intriguing statement in Cairo last month. Talking to that wonderful French institution Le Journal du Dimanche about […]
NOVANEWS washingtonpost.com The Obama administration is moving toward a major policy shift on Syria that could provide rebels there with equipment such as body armor and armored vehicles, and possibly military training, and could send […]
NOVANEWS jpost.com Israeli officials dismissed on Tuesday a Palestinian Authority demand for an international inquiry into the death of Palestinian detainee Arafat Jaradat as a “predictable” maneuver and part of a larger strategy to bring […]
NOVANEWS news.yahoo.com Israel’s Nobel-laureate president, backed by thousands of followers, is leading an effort to press President Barack Obama during his upcoming visit to free convicted spy Jonathan Pollard, ending one of the most painful episodes between the […]
NOVANEWS Policeman, posting ethnic slur against Palestinian woman on Facebook, forced out of service. Police chief says will ‘weed such people out of police force’ ed note–please remember as you read this that it is […]
NOVANEWS Group of young NAZI Jewish girls attack Palestinian woman in J’lem; ‘Religious woman punched her face,’ says passer-by; police investigate possible nationalistic motives ynet The police have launched an investigation into an alleged assault […]
NOVANEWS By Stuart Littlewood A big fuss blew up last week when British Member of Parliament George Galloway, invited to Oxford University to debate the motion “Israel should withdraw immediately from the West Bank”, walked out […]