April 2008

Portrait by Ben Heine

by Haitham Sabbah April 26, 2008

My dearest friend, Ben Heine drawn this portrait. I can’t thank him enough for all what he is doing as a pro-Palestine activist. His cartoons and artwork always added to the context of my posts. Ben is a Belgian political cartoonist, caricaturist and painter born in June 12, 1983, in Abidjan, Ivory coast. He studied [...]

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Is Dubai helping ethnic cleansing in Palestine?

by Khalid Amayreh April 21, 2008

The government of Dubai recently allowed a major bankroller of Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank to open at least two Jewelry stores in the Gulf emirate. According to reliable sources in the United Arab Emirates, of which Dubai is a key member-state, Israeli billionaire and diamond magnate Lev Leviev is preparing to open [...]

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Our reign of terror, by the Israeli army

by Haitham Sabbah April 19, 2008

In shocking testimonies that reveal abductions, beatings and torture, Israeli soldiers confess the horror they have visited on Hebron. By Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem Saturday, 19 April 2008 The dark-haired 22-year-old in black T-shirt, blue jeans and red Crocs is understandably hesitant as he sits at a picnic table in the incongruous setting of a [...]

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Body of 15 year old Palestinian boy found mutilated in Israeli settlement

by Haitham Sabbah April 19, 2008

At 3pm on Wednesday, 16th April, the mutilated body of 15 year old Hammad Nidar Khadatbh was found in lands of the illegal Israeli settlement of Al-Hamra by his father, who was out searching for his missing son. Hammad had left the house at 9am on Tuesday, 15th April to work on the family’s land, [...]

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Call on Dubai to boycott Leviev’s stores over Israel settlements

by Haitham Sabbah April 19, 2008

New York human rights activists, and representatives of the West Bank Palestinian villages of Bil’in and Jayyous called on the government and the people of the United Arab Emirates to boycott the jewelry stores of Israeli billionaire and diamond magnate Lev Leviev over his companies’ construction of Israeli settlements. According to a flurry of recent [...]

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Netanyahu: 9/11 attacks good for Israel

by Haitham Sabbah April 16, 2008

The Israeli newspaper Ma’ariv on Wednesday reported that Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu told an audience at Bar Ilan university that the September 11, 2001 terror attacks had been beneficial for Israel. “We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq,” Ma’ariv [...]

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Facebook: Danger to Israeli Security?

by Haitham Sabbah April 12, 2008

Read and laugh: Israeli soldiers warned about Facebook [USA TODAY] Israeli defense officials say they’ve identified an unlikely new threat to national security – Facebook. A new list of rules aims to prevent soldiers and Defense Ministry employees from revealing classified information on social networking sites. The officials say some soldiers have uploaded pictures of [...]

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Google and Facebook Celebrate Israel’s 60th

by Haitham Sabbah April 10, 2008

Blair, Gorbachev, Streisand to attend Israel’s 60th President Shimon Peres is bringing in top personalities from around the world to celebrate Israel’s 60th birthday. United States President George W. Bush, Barbra Streisand, Tony Blair, Mikhail Gorbachev and Rupert Murdoch … But guess who is joining the celebration too: The list of confirmed guests also includes [...]

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Updated: Lost Palestinian Refugee Camps on UN-Google Earth Map

by Haitham Sabbah April 10, 2008

It was a happy moment when I heard the news that UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) launched in coordination with Google Earth, a new layer that focus on refugee camps around the world. This should be a great tool to follow the crisis of Palestinian refugees under occupation and expose it to the world [...]

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How Muslims Are Treated In USA? (2nd round)

by Abdussalam Mohamed April 9, 2008

Image by Carlos Latuff Is Big Brother at your mosque? On the first Friday of each month, Mohammed Elsisy, an Egyptian-born software engineer, usually drives from his home in Irvine, Calif., to the King Fahad mosque in Culver City, Calif., to deliver the khutba, or sermon. Elsisy thought the first Friday of this past June [...]

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Israeli democracy

by Haitham Sabbah April 9, 2008

Israel will not allow UN human rights envoy to enter… because he said Israel practiced apartheid… Israel to deny UN official entry for comparing Israel to Nazis By The Associated Press The Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that it will not allow the United Nations official appointed to investigate Israeli-Palestinian human rights to enter the country, [...]

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Israel’s great “humanitarian gesture”

by Haitham Sabbah April 9, 2008

Allowing two Gazans to train for Olympics in Jericho “In a rare move defined by Israeli authorities as a ‘humanitarian gesture’, officials decided to permit two members of the Palestinian Olympic team to cross the borders from Gaza and the West Bank in order to train in Jericho and Jerusalem, so that they can prepare [...]

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Deir Yassin: The Palestinians’ Wounded Knee

by Haitham Sabbah April 9, 2008

A recent poll found that 76 percent of Jewish Israelis support “transferring” the Palestinian citizens of Israel – more than 1.4 million people – out of the country. Today, April 9, marks the 60th anniversary of the Deir Yassin massacre – the most traumatic incident in the campaign to expel Palestinians from their homeland. Deir [...]

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Daily KOS to visit Sderot – paid by Israel

by Haitham Sabbah April 8, 2008

Almost a year ago, old readers here remember my story (along with many pro-Palestine, anti-Zionism bloggers) with the so called American “left-wing” website called Daily KOS. I fell of the chair laughing today when I read that: Prominent writers, members of progressive American organizations known for their heavy criticism of Israel will tour the country, [...]

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Breaking Through the News Filter

by SR Editor April 8, 2008

If it is true that the power belongs to the people in America, and Congress still answers to the people, then what force prevents the people from rising up to demand that Congress answer to the people’s will? The answer to that question is that the “silent majority” is only silent because they have been [...]

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