March 2007

Palestine Blogs Aggregator is BACK!

by Haitham Sabbah March 30, 2007

As you all know, as a result of my server crash last week, I lost all the blogs and data hosted there. Finally, after a week of sleepless nights to put things back, I managed to restore my personal blog (http://www.sabbah.biz) a couple of days ago, and last night Palestine Blogs Aggregator came back live [...]

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IOF filmed beating Palestinian youth and attacked by dogs

by Haitham Sabbah March 30, 2007

This video is one week old. I was going to publish it before when my server hit a wall. But never late than never. This is a sample of the IOF harassment to Palestinians. ‘Brave’ soldiers filmed beating and abusing a 17-year-old Palestinian at the West Bank village of Hawara, near Nablus. The teen was [...]

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Comments are open!

by Haitham Sabbah March 29, 2007

Comments on last few post were closed while I was moving the blog to it’s final destination (new server). They are now OPEN. Sorry for the inconveniences, comments are welcome :-)

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Israeli army kills one Palestinian child

by Haitham Sabbah March 29, 2007

And beside all of this, Palestinians are the terrorist: Israeli army kills one Palestinian child as their forces invade a village near Jenin by Ghassan Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Israeli forces invaded the village of Mothalath south of the city of Jenin in the northern part of the West Bank and killed one child [...]

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Jenin child tells the story of how soldiers killed his father in 2002

by Haitham Sabbah March 29, 2007

“My father was not a fighter. He was not armed. The [Israeli] soldiers took him from our house and tortured him without any mercy, they killed him and gave us his body, my brothers and I are orphans now. Where is the international conscience, where is the United Nations that puts the victim and the [...]

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Australian soldiers who served in Iraq ‘contaminated with radiation’

by Haitham Sabbah March 29, 2007

Sip the sour: TWO Australian soldiers who served in the first Iraq war have tested positive to depleted uranium (DU) contamination despite assurances from the Federal Government they had not been exposed, an anti-nuclear group said. Any such admission from the Government would leave it open to millions of dollars in compensation. [Hat tip: David [...]

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The U.S. State Department’s “Digital Outreach Team,” watching Arab Blogs

by Haitham Sabbah March 29, 2007

Well, now it is official! I wanted to post about this a week ago, but the technical problems kept me away from doing my daily business – blogging – which seems to be disturbing the U.S. State Department to a level that forced them to form a team to fight blogs speaking the truth about [...]

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The Lobby: The richest and most dangerous organization gang in the world

by Haitham Sabbah March 27, 2007

AIPAC and leadership of so called “mainstream” Jewish organizations (AJC, JF, ADL, and all the other of alphabet soup) are pushing for sanctions and confrontation with Iran and since Congress and the white house are Israeli occupied territories, US foreign policy is moving in that direction. Here are some excerpts from an interesting article published [...]

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The Mayor, the Martyr, and the Pomegranate Trees

by Haitham Sabbah March 27, 2007

How the Lebanese town of Aita al Shaab won the war and lost almost everything? An excellent story of the Lebanese and Palestinian refugees in Lebanon who you do not hear about in America.

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A Stanford Jewish student opines: Occupation defies social justice

by Haitham Sabbah March 27, 2007

As a young person, I eagerly absorbed Jewish culture and values, harnessing the lessons of tikkun olum, the Judaic principle which translates to “repair the world.” As I came of age, I became increasingly committed to this principle in my daily life as an activist for social change…. As a trusting and uninformed child, I [...]

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Hard to understand how Israel again coerced world to dance to its tune

by Haitham Sabbah March 27, 2007

The rules of decorum are binding: Welcome – to the U.S. Secretary of State and United Nations secretary-general, who have come here (Israel), and to the German chancellor, who is due next week. But the rules of logic are no less binding, and we must ask: So, why have you come? All three have declared [...]

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Amazing speech by Israeli mother before EU Parliament

by Haitham Sabbah March 27, 2007

Last year I published the speech of Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan*; an Israeli women who lost her daughter to a Palestinian suicide bombing (a must read if you haven’t done before. Today I came across another two speeches by the same Israeli mother, which I think are also a must read/listen and watch. Please take the [...]

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As US’s puppet, Ban Ki-moon was, of course, not listening

by Haitham Sabbah March 27, 2007

Joint Letter of Palestinian Human Rights Organisations Submitted to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on the Occasion of his Visit to the Occupied Palestine. 24 March 2007 Dear Secretary-General Ban, As Palestinian organisations dedicated to the protection and promotion of human rights, we welcome your decision to visit the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) at [...]

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Let’s see: Israel thought Iran kidnapped its soldiers, so it attacked Lebanon…???

by Haitham Sabbah March 27, 2007

Olmert says it’s not about facts, but about image….and is Tsipi Livni going to survive and become Prime Minister?? [Hat tip: David Cohen]

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I am back!

by Haitham Sabbah March 25, 2007

Thanks to everyone who asked and offered support to bring back Sabbah’s Blog back live! As you can see, I’m back after a very complicated issue with the server that hosts my blog(s). The data center failed to diagnose an imminent hard drive failure, at the same time the data backups were failing and data [...]

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