France

NOVANEWS David Cronin Yesterday, I was in a Brussels coffee shop, where I picked up a copy of Le Monde. In a section marked “The laboratories of the future”, the French daily had a full-pagefeature about the Israeli Institute for Technology in Haifa, which is better known as the Technion. Described by the paper’s headline writer as a “high-tech Eden”, the university was lavished with praise for its innovative work on treating Parkinson’s disease and sending microsatellites into Space. Peretz Lavie, the university’s president, was quoted as arguing that the Technion was a model for coexistence between Israeli and Palestinian students and that there would be peace in the Middle East if everyone else could follow the Technion’s example. Indeed, the only hint that the region’s problems may enc...

NOVANEWS Former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas referred in a book he published entitled “Coups et blessures” (Assaults and Injuries), that “The “Israelis” are doing whatever they want in France, and are controlling the French Intelligence with what serves them”. Former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas referred in a book he published entitled “Coups et blessures” (Assaults and Injuries), that “The “Israelis” are doing whatever they want in France, and are controlling the French Intelligence with what serves them”. On another hand, Dumas confirmed that the “Israelis” are mistaken not to negotiate with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, even if the latter refuses any kind of agreement. He also added, “I made some special relations with him [Bashar al-Assad] like those I had with ...

NOVANEWS Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem Chair of West Midland Palestine Solidarity Campaign   Women wearing hijab and the burqa in France A French journalist and filmmaker says that President Nicolas Sarkozy is promoting anti-Muslim laws, such as the recent burqa ban, to gain the support of the French National Front for his re-election. “I think Sarkozy probably thinks he is going to get back the vote of some of the National Front that he’s been losing. And I think he doesn’t care at all about the burqa,” Naima Bouteldja said in an interview with Press TV’s Rattansi and Ridley (R&R) program. “I mean this is concerning a very tiny minority of women in France. No one has been asking them what they think, not even progressive organizations, and he’s just basically trying to...