June 2008

Narratives Under Siege: Gaza’s 700 Stranded Students

by Haitham Sabbah June 7, 2008

Hadeel Abu Kwaik is one of 7 students whose Fulbright scholarships were recently withdrawn, then swiftly reinstated by the US State Dept. But almost 700 other students remain stranded in Gaza Few days ago, on 1 June, Hadeel Abu Kwaik was sitting in her computer lab at Al-Azhar University in Gaza looking worried, and perplexed. [...]

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Freedom Rider: Slow Death in Gaza

by Haitham Sabbah June 6, 2008

By BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Each American claim to moral authority becomes a foul excretion in light of U.S. complicity in Israel’s barbaric and illegal treatment of the Palestinians. Washington deploys its superpower apparatus to smother dissent against its Middle East policy in Europe and elsewhere, leaving former president Jimmy Carter and [...]

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Killing The Innocent

by Haitham Sabbah June 6, 2008

US Soldiers Discuss Using ‘Drop Weapons’ To Kill Innocent Iraqi. Several soldiers who have returned from combat zones talk with the American News Project about what they say is the widespread practice of using “drop weapons” to cover up the killing of innocent civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Knesset advances bill to make Jerusalem capital of the Jewish people

by Haitham Sabbah June 5, 2008

The Knesset on Wednesday approved in a preliminary reading an amendment to the Basic Law whereby Jerusalem would be considered not just the capital of Israel, but the capital of the Jewish people. The amendment was submitted by the chairman of the National Unity – National Religious Party. It won coalition support and was passed [...]

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Shameless in Ramallah

by Khalid Amayreh June 3, 2008

In order to obtain a certificate of good conduct from Israel and her guardian-ally, the United States, the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority (PA) is betraying the very people it claims to represent and its enduring national cause in ways unprecedented in living memory. This scandalous betrayal assumes many forms, including brazen “security coordination” with the occupation [...]

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Haaretz.com promotes websites advocating genocide and terrorism

by Haitham Sabbah June 3, 2008

“Our land is not Arab land”: An advertisement on the front page of Haaretz.com leads to a website advocating genocide and terrorism. Haaretz.com, the website of the Israeli newspaper often cited as an example of Israel’s liberal, critical media carries paid advertisements from a website openly advocating the total destruction of the Palestinian people, the [...]

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Shaping U.S. leaders at AIPAC 2008

by Haitham Sabbah June 2, 2008

As an Arab, an uprooted Palestinian, the AIPAC annual conference is interesting for me to follow, not because I expect anything good from it, but because this is the annual event in which U.S. leaders show their real mettle. Unfortunately, it was always disappointing for me and others in the Middle East, but we understand [...]

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Murder at Huwara checkpoint

by Haitham Sabbah June 1, 2008

Note: Checkpoints are under 100% Israeli surveillance. After you read the story ask yourself: Why aren’t the surveillance camera tapes being shown to the public? I guess it’s obvious. May the killers never sleep a full night again as they see Fahmi in their nightmares! *** Murder at huwara checkpoint By Aya Kaniuk, Vivi Sury, [...]

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