Category: Middle East

NOVANEWS In This Issue… Welcome to the Zoo More Recent Articles Search The Only Democracy? By Audrey Farber, crossposted at   Photo by Audrey Farber   My neighborhood doesn’t have street signs. And when it […]

NOVANEWS Dear Friends, Count your blessings.  Only 2 items this evening due to the combination of a meeting that I had to attend and to the news in the newspapers.  Of course there is in […]

NOVANEWS 11/11/2010 U.S. Justice Department prepares for the ominous expansion of law prohibiting ‘material support’ for terrorism Bil’in invaded for the fourth time in three days Why I disrupted Bibi’s speech – A response to […]

NOVANEWS 11/10/2010 My meeting with Henry Waxman Jewish Values vs. Israeli Policies: Why five young Jews disrupted PM Netanyahu in New Orleans Memo to NYT: fix your boilerplate Sisyphus in the South Hebron hills Gaza’s […]

NOVANEWS John Ging: Conditions in Gaza have not changed since Israel declared it would ease the blockade 11 November 2010   John ging: ‘No tangible change has occurred to the lives of Gaza’s people since […]

NOVANEWS 11 November 2010 By Seumas Milne In a quiet street in the Sheikh Jarrah district of occupied East Jerusalem 88-year-old Rifka al-Kurd is explaining how she came to live in the house she and […]

NOVANEWS Netanyahu + Biden = More Illegal Settlements On the eve of yet another meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Vice President  Joe Biden—this time Bibi came to our shores—Israel announced  plans to […]

NOVANEWS 10 Nov 2010 Joseph El-Khoury     In her Nowlebanon article ‘Dangerous Liaisons: Lebanon’s culture of adultery’ Aline Sara seems to hint at some social phenomenon unique to Lebanon. This is in line with […]

NOVANEWS Australian BDS is heating up Privatising war is a beautiful racket most people can’t play Hope, Votes and Bullets; documenting Iranian resistance Colombo and Tel Aviv gaze deeply into each other’s eyes Australian BDS […]

NOVANEWS 10 November 2010 At dawn this morning (10.11.2010), Israeli forces arrested the Secretary-General of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Dr Mahmoud Al-Ramahi, from his West Bank home in the City of Al Bira. According to […]