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NOVANEWS There's been a mammoth splash of commentary about Petraeus's comments about Israeli intransigence threatening American lives. This is supposedly an indication of a rift between Israel and America and a change in policy. The rift will purportedly lead to an end to Israeli irredentism and a change in Obama's policy towards Israel-Palestine. Otherwise it's largely irrelevant. In this narrative, Jewish ethnic interests, nebulously conceived or defined except for what's foggily visible in polls, blindly support an Israel/Jewish/Zionist Lobby that's bad for Israel and bad for Jews and pretty crappy for the Zionist project, too. Pick a blog at random. It's the same stuff. I would say it's old news by now, but it's not, because th torrent of comment about the Lobby it let loose is still f...

NOVANEWS http://chicagohearing.org/index.php An Initiative of the American Friends Service Committee, Chicago The Chicago Hearing is modeled after a Congressional hearing and will be webcast live from a link on the home page. The Chicago Hearing will bring together witnesses to tell seldom-heard stories from Zionist-Palestine that raise critical questions about the effects of U.S. policies in the region. Does Zionist regime 's explanation of security legitimize its violations of international law? Does the U.S. government condone Zionist's policies and practices that would not be tolerated if replicated in America by the U.S. government? The Hearing highlights voices of those on the other end of the pipeline of U.S. aid to Zionist state of 'Israel' . Israeli, Palestinian and American witne...

NOVANEWS by Philip Weiss Ali Abunimah has been shut out of the mainstream media. CNN at last grants him a platform to say the peace process is a mockery: And, after two embarrassing defeats at the Israel lobby’s hands, chances that Obama will use America’s massive financial aid to Israel as leverage are close to nil, especially as midterm elections approach. The administration’s dependence on the goodwill of the lobby was highlighted by the fact that AIPAC’s new president, Lee Rosenberg, was a key member of the national finance committee for Obama’s presidential campaign, and another AIPAC national board member, J.B. Pritzker — who got a shout-out in Clinton’s speech — was national finance chair of Citizens for Hillary. In the closely watched race for Obama’s former Illinois Senate seat, t...

NOVANEWS When the opponents of Zionism question the right of the racist and theocratic Israeli colonial state to exist, they are denounced by the Zionist lobby and its imperialist masters as anti-Semite or Holocaust deniers. Now no less an authority than the American CIA has come to a similarly sober conclusion which we reproduce below - Editor. A study conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has cast doubt over Israel's survival beyond the next 20 years. The CIA report predicts “an inexorable movement away from a two-state to a one-state solution, as the most viable model based on democratic principles of full equality that sheds the looming specter of colonial Apartheid while allowing for the return of the 1947/1948 and 1967 refugees. The latter being the precondition for sus...

NOVANEWS With reference to the book Dark Heart by Nick Davies Now that the ‘credit crunch’ has been officially upgraded to a ‘recession’, which we are told could be with us for between the next 10-20 years, and knowing that the bourgeoisie of all countries will endeavour, as always, to pass the worst effects onto the working class by means of diminishing services, wage cuts, job losses and chronic homelessness, this article seeks to pinpoint the real level of poverty already existing in this country. Why? Not as an academic exercise, but in order to ready workers for the struggles ahead, and to help those who do not yet see, for various reasons, the current reality even before the next attacks on our living standards hit home; to show clearly that even without the periodic and chronic cris...

NOVANEWS There has been no “peace process” since at least 2000. The “road map” to a supposed “Two State Solution” exists only as a fig-leaf to cover the continued expansion and consolidation of settler land grabs on the West Bank, the genocidal siege on Gaza and the ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem. Yet these actions, however, whilst intended to create facts on the ground to the advantage of Zionism, in reality have cut the legs from under any further pretence that such a thing as a “Two State Solution” could ever now work. Whilst increasingly Israel stands condemned by the world for its war crimes, the Palestinian people themselves remain defiant, closing ranks around their chosen militant Hamas leadership and facing down an ever more demoralised settler presence in their homeland. So impo...