April 2008

UN expert: Israel like Nazi

by Haitham Sabbah April 8, 2008

The next UN investigator into Israel conduct in the occupied territories has stood by comments comparing Israeli actions in Gaza to those of the Nazis. Speaking to the BBC, Professor Richard Falk said he believed that up to now Israel had been successful in avoiding the criticism that it was due. Professor Falk is scheduled [...]

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How to Become an Israeli Journalist

by Yonatan Mendel April 7, 2008

A year ago I applied for the job of Occupied Territories correspondent at Ma’ariv, an Israeli newspaper. I speak Arabic and have taught in Palestinian schools and taken part in many joint Jewish-Palestinian projects. At my interview the boss asked how I could possibly be objective. I had spent too much time with Palestinians; I [...]

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Child abduction by IOF

by Haitham Sabbah April 7, 2008

This letter is a new example of Israel terrorism: From: Fareed T [fareedt99 @yahoo.com] Date: Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 2:00 PM Subject: child abduction by IOF Dear Friends, My cousin Asef Jameel Awwad is 15 years old boy kidnapped 2 days ago by the Occupation Army and released after more than 30 hours of [...]

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Iran and Israel: Most Negative in Global Poll

by Haitham Sabbah April 6, 2008

On Israel’s 60th year of “independence,” the Jewish state is ranked one before last in terms of its global image, according to a comprehensive BBC poll. According to the annual survey, conducted among 17,000 participants in 34 countries, Iran and Israel “enjoys” the most negative image. As was the case a year ago, Iran and [...]

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Israel Founded On Terror

by Haitham Sabbah April 5, 2008

By Rev Ted Pike Zionist-dominated mainstream media vividly portrays Israel as a tiny embattled nation seeking peace in a sea of Arab hostility.1 Arabs, we are told, commit acts of terror while Israel only resorts to violence out of self-protection. The facts of history paint a very different picture. Far from deploring terror, Israel has [...]

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Funding Our Decline

by Alison Weir April 5, 2008

April 1st I participated in a debate in San Francisco that raised the question of US aid to Israel. It was highly appropriate that this debate was held two weeks before tax day, since in Israel’s sixty years of existence, it has received more US tax money than any other nation on earth. During periods [...]

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Saudi woman killed for chatting on Facebook

by Haitham Sabbah April 1, 2008

The latest crime “in the name of social customs and religious rules.” A young Saudi Arabian woman was murdered by her father for chatting on the social network site Facebook, it has emerged. The unnamed woman from Riyadh was beaten and shot after she was discovered in the middle of an online conversation with a [...]

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Gaza’s suffering children

by Haitham Sabbah April 1, 2008

The Israeli occupation and its relentless attacks destroy the mental health and lives of children of Gaza, writes Saleh Al-Naami. Every once in a while Ibrahim Hawash, 42, calls his wife Noha from his nightshift job to make sure that she has followed the treatment course prescribed by their family doctor for the involuntary urination [...]

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Israel: End Systematic Bias Against Bedouin

by Haitham Sabbah April 1, 2008

Israel should declare an immediate moratorium on demolitions of Bedouin homes and create an independent commission to investigate pervasive land and housing discrimination against its Bedouin citizens in the Negev, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released yesterday The 130-page report, “Off the Map: Land and Housing Rights Violations in Israel’s Unrecognized Bedouin [...]

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Overcoming Zionism

by Haitham Sabbah April 1, 2008

Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine Joel Kovel is both a scholar and an activist. In the former capacity he has published nine books and over a hundred articles and reviews. His books include White Racism, which was nominated for a National Book Award in 1972; A Complete Guide to Therapy; The Age of [...]

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