Category: Middle East

NOVANEWS Dear Friends, Early and brief!  Both because this afternoon I will go to the Old City in Jerusalem to attend a photo and slideshow exhibition at the Austrian Hospice.  The exhibit is by Pat Westwater-Jong on […]

NOVANEWS Last minute complaint regarding the ‘sea worthiness’ of the Audacity of Hope puts the US Boat to Gaza in jeopardy Gaza Summer Games kick off with Olympic-style torch festival Another sign of int’l isolation […]

NOVANEWS Dear Friends, Just 7 items tonight, except, of course, that item 7, ‘Today in Palestine’ is a compilation, but one that you should not miss, even if you read nothing more than the brief […]

New New York Times editor on her Jewish identity Non-violence training in Athens for 2nd Gaza flotilla Alice Walker on why Gaza Flotilla 2 is essential This is what US aid brought Egypt New New […]

NOVANEWS 6, count em 6, members of Congress sign letter to Clinton expressing concern for ‘safety’ of US citizens on flotilla Hillary gives Israel green light to ‘defend’ itself from flotilla Bachmann takes it to […]

NOVANEWS Dear Friends, 8 items tonight—too many, I know.  But I omitted as many as I have included.  Sorry. But there are times as these, and we do our best—I by trying to furnish the more important […]

NOVANEWS Bin Laden wanted to re-brand his little firm  Posted: 24 Jun 2011   Fascinating, if true: As Osama bin Laden watched his terrorist organization get picked apart, he lamented in his final writings that al-Qaida […]

Of course the war against Libya is about securing oil Israel struggling with that narrative thing US official; we love the internet (as long as views approved by State Dept) Should society be promoting privatised […]

NOVANEWS America’s drone wars are wonderful earner for conflict addicts What Murdoch offers; Afghans don’t care about living poor lives Of course politics and sports mix over Colombo’s crimes Flashmob in Paris to remember oppression […]

NOVANEWS 12 times in the last year Israel has shot and wounded Palestinians working to collect scrap near fence in Gaza– 12 times U.S. State Dep’t to American flotilla passengers: Drop dead “As long as […]