December 2007

2007: 131 Palestinians who did not participate in hostilities killed by Israel

by Haitham Sabbah December 31, 2007

Israeli human rights group B’Tselem today (Monday, 31 Dec.) releases its year-end report. According to B’Tselem data, the number of Israelis and Palestinians killed in clashes in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip dropped. However, there has been deterioration in many other measures of the human rights situation in the Occupied Territories. The primary [...]

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Outcomes and Statistics of Siege imposed on Gaza Strip

by Haitham Sabbah December 31, 2007

52 Patients killed by Israeli Occupation due to Closure! 96% of factories are closed 67 thousand factories employee become out of work 25 thousand of textile workers became jobless 100% of textile factories are closed $58 million are the losses of wooden industries 570 thousand of wooden industries workshop are closed 20-30 food lorries inter [...]

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War Crimes: Out of the Lion’s Mouth

by Haitham Sabbah December 30, 2007

israeli_air_force_captainFormer captain in the Israeli Air Force speaks about the crimes of IOF in Gaza. You won’t see this on CNN or Zionist controlled media. Israel war crimes is a systematic plan to kill as much regardless of the age or background.

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Year End Bazaar: Community Service for War Criminals

by Haitham Sabbah December 30, 2007

Israeli Justice: Israeli policeman gets community service for shooting, paralyzing Palestinian A Tel Aviv Court on Sunday sentenced a Border Policeman who shot and paralyzed a Kafr Qasem resident to six months of community service and a one-year suspended prison term. In 2003, Haim Castro shot Salah Amar from a distance of a half a [...]

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US Congress getting involved with Fatah Constitution

by Haitham Sabbah December 28, 2007

This is unbelievable and really shows how absolutely clueless American politicians are: A push by right-wing American Jewish activists to change the constitution of the governing Palestinian party is gaining momentum in Congress, even as Israelis are dismissing the document as “irrelevant,” and the umbrella body of American Jewish organizations has voted against taking up [...]

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Israel finds dropping 4 million cluster bombs legal

by Haitham Sabbah December 28, 2007

Whew… Israel – and its army – saved again from that nasty anti Semitic PR by parents of dead children ( I remember those pictures, doesn’t anyone else? More massacre albums here, here, here, here and here ) by its its own extremely fair and just politicians… The Israel Defense Forces will not take legal [...]

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Join ‘Readers of Sabbah’s Blog’ Group on Facebook

by Haitham Sabbah December 27, 2007

More than 100,000 individual people read Sabbah’s Blog each month. Why have I set up this Facebook Group? Well, I’ve always wanted my own fan club . . . JOKE! Seriously, from time to time there will be events on the blog which I would like to notify my readers of. You won’t be bombarded [...]

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Protest Against Israeli Racism

by Haitham Sabbah December 27, 2007

Protest Against Israeli RacismIOF installed barbed wire in an attempt to prevent the protesters from reaching the highway. However, the villagers insisted and managed to reach the road. Troops fired several rounds of rubber-coated steel bullets and tear gas at the protesters, however no injuries were reported.

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Stealing Lots o’ Palestinian Land, Caroling against Leviev

by Haitham Sabbah December 23, 2007

New York Human Rights Carolers Debut Songs Protesting Lev Leviev’s Israeli Settlements New York, NY, Dec 22 – Fifty New York human rights carolers sang parodies of holiday tunes today in front of LEVIEV New York to protest Israeli diamond mogul Lev Leviev’s destruction of communities in Palestine, Angola and in New York City. This [...]

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Israel Rejects Hamas Truce Offer, Continues Attacks on Gaza

by Haitham Sabbah December 22, 2007

Image by: Carlos Latuff Israel Rejects Hamas Truce Offer, Continues Attacks on Gaza (via: Washington Report) As Muslim and Christian Arabs, Europeans, and Americans celebrate Eid and Christmas-and Jews having recently celebrate Hanukkah-Israel is attacking Gaza. In less than a week-since Tuesday, Dec. 18-Israeli air strikes and ground troops have killed 20 Palestinians, and injured [...]

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Blueprint of a Palestinian State

by Haitham Sabbah December 21, 2007

Cartoon by: Steve Bell – Guardian

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Fellowship of Christians & Jews buys seat for Christian Zionist on Board of Jewish Agency

by Haitham Sabbah December 21, 2007

Watch out where your church’s money goes: The Jewish Agency is to appoint a Christian representative to its board of directors for the first time, following an agreement this week with the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ) to increase cooperation between the organizations. The IFCJ raises funds for Israeli and Jewish causes among [...]

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Israeli soldiers indicted for torturing Palestinian prisoners

by Haitham Sabbah December 21, 2007

According to the indictment, the soldiers were responsible for transferring 13 Palestinian detainees from the Tulkarm Regional Brigade to an IDF military court in northern Israel in April 2006. During the journey, the soldiers grabbed the prisoners by their hair, struck their chests and necks and demanded they repeat the number soldiers had previously assigned [...]

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