May 2008

Mob or lynching, are words reserved for Palestinians only!

by Haitham Sabbah May 31, 2008

I kicked the Arab, I stepped on his head By Uri Blau Dozens of teenage boys from Jerusalem received the same ICQ message: “We’re putting an end to all the Arabs who hang out in ‘Pisga’ [Pisgat Ze'ev] and the mall, whistle at the girls, curse, threaten little kids. Anyone who is Jewish and wants [...]

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URGENT APPEAL TO ALL ACADEMICS: CONDEMN U.S. GOVERNMENT COMPLICITY IN BLOCKING PALESTINIAN RIGHT TO MOVEMENT AND ADVOCATE MEASURES TO PRESSURE ISRAEL

by Haitham Sabbah May 31, 2008

The news that the US State Department has decided to cancel all previously approved Fulbright grants to Palestinian students in Gaza is deeply shocking. In yet another clear demonstration of US complicity with the Israeli occupation regime, the State Department has decided to withdraw the grants for graduate studies in the US because Israel has [...]

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U.S. Withdraws Fulbright Grants to Palestinian students

by Haitham Sabbah May 31, 2008

Dear friends, Remind me again why anyone in their right mind would believe that the U.S. can bring a lasting peace to the region when they can’t even get six U.S.-bound students past an Israeli checkpoint? If I had to guess, I think Israel may change their stance on this one…using their infamous posture of [...]

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What d’ya mean you got nothin t’ read?

by Haitham Sabbah May 30, 2008

Welcome to Carter’s ‘Palestine Peace Not Apartheid’ the Book. Here you can find ‘Palestine Peace Not Apartheid’ on the right hand side is the table of contents. Be sure to click on the images so you can clearly see. The blog is for review reference purposes only: http://peacenotapartheidbook.blogspot.com/

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Video: Carter says Israel has 150 nukes

by Haitham Sabbah May 30, 2008

Aijaz Ahmad: Why is corporate media marginalizing a former President? Former US President Jimmy Carter has again come under fire in the US mainstream media, since publicly saying that Israel has 150 or more nuclear weapons in its arsenal. Details about Israel’s nuclear weapons programme started emerging in 1986. International nuclear experts now believe that [...]

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Adalah rally outside UAE UN office in New York

by Haitham Sabbah May 30, 2008

A Jewish-Palestinian advocacy group held a thank-you rally outside the UAE’s representative office in New York on Tuesday over the country’s stand on not allowing a controversial Israeli businessman from opening a store in Dubai. The Coalition for Justice in the Middle East (Adalah) gathered on Tuesday outside the UAE representative office in New York [...]

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Merkel’s Germany wants to take in Iraqi refugees, but ONLY Christians

by Haitham Sabbah May 29, 2008

Racism? Islamophobic? God forbid! Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats on Wednesday said they would like to see Germany take on thousands of refugees from Iraq. The hitch? They only want the Christians. Source: spiegel.de

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UAE Mission to the UN affirm boycotting Israeli settlement-builder Lev Leviev

by Haitham Sabbah May 29, 2008

Officials at the United Arab Emirates Mission to the UN affirmed their government’s commitment to boycotting the businesses of Israeli settlement-builder Lev Leviev in a meeting Tuesday afternoon with representatives from Adalah-NY and Jews Against the Occupation (JATO). Leviev is attempting to open jewelry stores in the Emirate of Dubai and to sell his diamonds [...]

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PETITION! Lift Travel Restrictions on Palestinian Journalist

by Haitham Sabbah May 28, 2008

SIGN THE PETITION To: Israeli and Palestinian Authorities -Palestinian journalist Khalid Amayreh, who lives in the West Bank, has been invited to attend a media conference in Germany. As required, he set about to request all of the necessary travel documents, including a visa that needs to be granted from the German representative office in [...]

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Islamofascism – Zionofascism – Judeofascism – Christofascism – Neofascism etc.

by Zahir Ebrahim May 28, 2008

An equitable distribution of Collateral Language! Why this fanatical preference for waging the ‘war on terror’ against only ‘Islamofascism’ today? [An earlier version of this essay appeared here.] Personally, I think that the fanatics of all ‘religions’ can be equally fascists. It would not bother me so much if all such ‘fundamentalist’ fascist fanatics would [...]

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Video: Na’alin – Direct action to stop bulldozers – 25-5-08

by Haitham Sabbah May 28, 2008

Palestinian youths, men, women, elders and foreigner supporters against the coward Israeli Terrorist Forces, protesting building part of the Apartheid Wall on Na’alin – near Ramallah, Occupied Palestine. Update: On 27th May 2008, Robert Birch, an Australian retiree from Pacific Palms, was shot in the lower-back by a rubber-coated steel bullet while participating in a [...]

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Eighteen years of Work Destroyed in Less than four Hours

by Haitham Sabbah May 27, 2008

Nasser Jaber spent eighteen years building up his chicken farm in the southern Gaza Strip. Two weeks ago the IOF bulldozed his farm, killing 40,000 of his chickens, and destroying his business. “They came at four in the morning, with two bulldozers, and they left before 8am. I own this chicken farm with my three [...]

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Gaza blockade is ‘human rights crime’: Carter

by Haitham Sabbah May 26, 2008

In a speech at a literary festival in Hay-on-Wye, in Wales, the 83-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner said: “There is no reason to treat these people this way,” referring to the blockade, in place since the Islamist Hamas movement seized Gaza in June 2007. While president from 1977 to 1981, Carter was the architect of [...]

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Bible Burning in Zionistan

by Zahir Ebrahim May 26, 2008

The following is an update to Project Humanbeingsfirst’s public service announcement of May 15, 2008 made on the occasion of Celebrating Israel’s 60th Birthday bash, when the President of the United States along with the First Lady had just arrived in Israel. [May 20, 2008] It is known to be customary to celebrate independence day [...]

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It’s Time for a Declaration of Independence From Israel

by Haitham Sabbah May 24, 2008

The former New York Times Mideast bureau chief warns that America’s foreign policy, particularly under the Bush administration, has been subverted by an aggressive and dangerous Israeli agenda that could launch a nightmarish regional war. Israel, without the United States, would probably not exist. The country came perilously close to extinction during the October 1973 [...]

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