August 2006

What if Arab Occupies U.S.A.?

by Haitham Sabbah August 31, 2006

Not really… It’s just a nice picture ad from a new ad campaign for the strategy board game “Risk” (the game of global domination); by the advertising giant Saatchi & Saatchi. More brilliant picture ads here. [Via: Boing Boing]

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US military to pay $20 million for “more positive news” from Iraq

by Haitham Sabbah August 31, 2006

U.S. military leaders in Baghdad have put out for bid a two-year, $20 million public relations contract that calls for extensive monitoring of U.S. and Middle Eastern media in an effort to promote more positive coverage of news from Iraq. The contract calls for assembling a database of selected news stories and assessing their tone [...]

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Cluster bombing of Lebanon ‘immoral’ UN official tells Israel

by Haitham Sabbah August 31, 2006

Jan Egeland said civilians were facing “massive problems” returning home because of as many as 100,000 unexploded cluster bombs, most of which were dropped in the last days of the war. He accused Israel of “shocking” and “completely immoral” behavior for dropping large numbers of cluster bombs on Lebanon when a cease-fire in its war [...]

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From the annals of racism in the 21st Century

by Haitham Sabbah August 31, 2006

“You see, the probability that an Arab child will grow up and becomes an Albert Einstein, or Sigmund Freud, or even Alan Greenspan, is equal to the twelfth digit after the decimal point, to the probability that a Jewish child will grow up to become a jihad fighter. Of course, not every Jewish child becomes [...]

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25% of Palestinians Parliamentarians Imprisoned by the Israeli Occupation Government

by Haitham Sabbah August 30, 2006

8/29/06-CFL ALERT: 25% of Palestinians Parliamentarians Imprisoned by the Israeli Occupation Government * In the last two months alone Israel has arrested almost one quarter of the members of the Palestinian parliament as part of its campaign to free an Israeli soldier captured near Gaza in June. Those arrested by the Israelis include 49 senior [...]

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Islamic Or Republican Fascism?

by Haitham Sabbah August 30, 2006

Reclaiming The Issues: Islamic Or Republican Fascism? by Thom Hartmann In the years since George W. Bush first used 9/11 as his own “Reichstag fire” to gut the Constitution and enhance the power and wealth of his corporate cronies, many across the political spectrum have accused him and his Republican support group of being fascists. [...]

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Why should denial of the Holocaust be a crime?

by Haitham Sabbah August 30, 2006

Watching the Zionist propaganda; I received from them today an alert from the Zionist group (Giyus) to vote “Yes” in a poll by BBC History Magazine that asks “Do you think holocaust denial should be made illegal in Britain?” Of course I voted “NO”. This is why: Holocaust denial views only have as much substance [...]

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The Jerusalem Declaration on Christian Zionism

by Haitham Sabbah August 29, 2006

Statement by the Patriarch and Local Heads of Churches In Jerusalem “Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.” (Matthew 5:9) Christian Zionism is a modern theological and political movement that embraces the most extreme ideological positions of Zionism, thereby becoming detrimental to a just peace within Palestine and Israel. [...]

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Political Correctness

by Haitham Sabbah August 28, 2006

The rules of POLITICAL CORRECTNESS when it comes to the Israeli-Arab conflict: by: Unknown Rule # 1: In the Middle East, it is always the Arabs that attack first, and it’s always Israel who defends itself. This is called “Retaliation”. Rule # 2: The Arabs, whether Palestinians or Lebanese, are not allowed to kill Israelis. [...]

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Saad Hariri: Byistehil – ???????

by Haitham Sabbah August 27, 2006

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Frontiers of Dreams and Fears

by Haitham Sabbah August 27, 2006

This is the story of two Palestinian refugee girls whose grandparents were forced to flee from their homes in Palestine in 1948: Hat tip: Robin Award-winning Palestinian filmmaker Mai Masri’s most recent work traces the delicate friendship that evolves between two Palestinian girls: … Mona, a resident of the economically marginalized Beirut refugee camp and [...]

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202 Palestinians killed since beginning of operation “Summer Rain”

by Haitham Sabbah August 27, 2006

And no Gilad Shalit in sight… The report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the territories also says that 44 children are among the dead. http://www.haaretz.com/…

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Wearing t-shirt with Arabic script in America means you are a suspected terrorist

by Haitham Sabbah August 27, 2006

On a trip back from the Middle East, Iraqi blogger and activist Raed Jarrar was not allowed to board a flight at JFK airport because he was wearing a t-shirt that said “We will not be silent” in English and Arabic. Airport security forced him to change his t-shirt saying wearing it was like “going [...]

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Israeli ceasefire violations don’t count?!

by Haitham Sabbah August 27, 2006

“Twelve day ceasefire continues to hold” say the headlines. But what they really mean is that, in the twelve days since the UN-brokered ceasefire began, no rockets have been fired by Hezbollah into Israel. What is left out is that in every single one of those twelve days since the “ceasefire”, Israeli forces have continued [...]

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