September 2007

Miss Bahrain, Miss Arab World 2007 and Stereotypes

by Haitham Sabbah September 30, 2007

I admit I have missed the news when it was announced end of last July, but better late than never. Honored to be Bahraini by soul for living in Bahrain for the last four years, I am very happy to know that Wafaa Ganahi, a 23-year-old teacher from the Law Faculty of Bahrain University, won [...]

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Intellectuals urge Olmert to talk to Hamas

by Haitham Sabbah September 28, 2007

AB Yehoshua, Amoz Oz, David Grossman, Yehudit Katzir, etc. petition Olmert to talk to Hamas.

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Digital Resistance: Palestinian Youth Media

by Haitham Sabbah September 28, 2007

In January 2007, a group of media makers and youth organizers from NYC and the Bay Area traveled to Palestine and joined an intergenerational team of Palestinian facilitators to lead digital storytelling workshops with Ibdaa and Lajee, two youth centers in the Bethlehem area of the occupied West Bank. Twelve youth from Aida and Dheisheh [...]

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Go in Peace, Haidar Abdel Shafi

by Haitham Sabbah September 28, 2007

As most of you know, Dr. Haidar Abdel Shafi died. Abdel-Shafi was the chief Palestinian negotiator at Madrid Peace Conference – 1991. At the time, Abdel-Shafi and the other Palestinian delegates had to participate as members of the Jordanian delegation, because Israel was then refusing to recognize that Palestinians exist and/or talk to the PLO [...]

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ACTION ALERT: From the Palestinian American Congress

by Haitham Sabbah September 28, 2007

According to news sources, Israel’s cabinet took a decision to begin to apply large scale collective punishment on the people of the Gaza strip. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon warned that any cutoff of vital services like fuel and electricity would violate international law and punish the already suffering civilian population. The Palestinian American Congress [...]

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For American Jews, Dissent Against Israel Has Become Mainstream

by Haitham Sabbah September 28, 2007

A MUST READ ARTICLE The exceedingly narrow range of “correct opinion” on Israel for American Jews isn’t holding together like it used to. Is a Jewish glasnost coming to America? For American Jews, Dissent Against Israel Has Become Mainstream By Tony Karon [Via: AlterNet] First, a confession: It may tell me that I hate myself, [...]

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ACTION ALERT: Israeli authorities deny entry to clergyman

by Haitham Sabbah September 27, 2007

Israeli Authorities Deny Entry to Clergyman Campaign for the Right of Entry/Re-Entry to the Occupied Palestinian Territories (oPt), A Grassroots Campaign for the Protection of Foreign Passport Holders Residing in and/or Visiting the oPt. In a continuing demonstration of Israel’s arbitrary denial of entry policy and disregard for the Palestinian population’s right to practice their [...]

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Pluto Press Under Attack by Israel Lobby

by Haitham Sabbah September 24, 2007

Pressure Builds on University of Michigan Pluto Press Under Attack by Israel Lobby By ROGER van ZWANENBERG About three weeks ago Pluto books and the University of Michigan Press – our US distributor – came under attack by Stand With Us (a Zionist lobby group) who were objecting to the publication of Overcoming Zionism by [...]

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How The Towers Fell

by Haitham Sabbah September 22, 2007

Richard Gage, member of the AIA and founder of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, gave the following presentation to a packed house at the University of Manitoba on May 29, 2007. Watch one of the best technical analysis of the World Trade Center “controlled demolition theory” on September 11, 2001. Part 1: Part 2:

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Dutch church to reexamine policy of solidarity with Israel

by Haitham Sabbah September 21, 2007

Via Haaretz: After 37 years of boasting of “inalienable solidarity” with the people of Israel, the Netherlands’ second largest church plans to reexamine its stance this fall. A group of notables from the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PCN) warned last week that the organization, which has over two million members, is in danger of [...]

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Collective Punishment (Collective Complicity)

by Haitham Sabbah September 21, 2007

It’s terrible if it’ s done to Israelis (the world would be outraged!), but acceptable if the Israelis do it Palestinians (the world remains complicity silent.)? Ministers declare Gaza ‘enemy entity’, vote to disrupt power, fuel The security cabinet on Wednesday voted to declare the Gaza Strip an “enemy entity,” approving among other things the [...]

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George Bisharat – Palestinian Children without Textbooks

by George Bisharat September 21, 2007

A double standard on academic freedom in the Middle East By George Bisharat Two hundred thousand Palestinian children began school in the Gaza Strip this month without a full complement of textbooks. Why? Because Israel, which maintains a stranglehold over this small strip of land along the Mediterranean even after withdrawing its settlers from there [...]

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We are not Israelis!

by Haitham Sabbah September 18, 2007

This is what the Israeli government IMPORTED: Only a third of Israeli youths born in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) comprised of the former Soviet Union republics or whose families immigrated from there to Israel identify themselves as Israeli, according to a report published Tuesday… “Most youths of families who arrived from the former [...]

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Israeli Control of the Mass Media & the 9-11 Cover-Up

by Haitham Sabbah September 17, 2007

Arnon Milchan – Mossad’s Man in the Middle by Christopher Bollyn 1 September 2007 Photo: Arnon Milchan Mossad’s man in the middle, between two of the architects of 9-11 and the War on Terror: Shimon Peres and Benjamin Netanyahu. The government and controlled media have lied to the public about 9-11 for 6 years. Those [...]

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Saudi Arabia: Sex-segregated sidewalks and women’s car driving

by Haitham Sabbah September 16, 2007

One more brain fart by Saudi Mutaween: Saudi Arabian religious police call for sex-segregated sidewalks – Saudi Arabia’s religious police are insisting that authorities of Medina, one of Islam’s holiest cities, should build separate sidewalks for women, the Kuwaiti Al-Qabas newspaper said Friday. The country’s Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of [...]

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