December 2008

Happy New Year?

by Haitham Sabbah December 31, 2008
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Chris Hedges – Party to Murder

by SR Editor December 31, 2008

Sabbah’s note: As of now, 400 killed and more than 2000 injured. TruthDig.com editor’s note: In light of the recent fighting in Gaza, Truthdig asked Chris Hedges, who covered the Mideast for The New York Times for seven years, to update a previous column on Gaza. Can anyone who is following the Israeli air attacks [...]

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Hussam Ayloush – Dead Palestinian children have names too

by SR Editor December 31, 2008

As a father of five children, my heart breaks every time I hear or read about the brutal death of any child, Palestinian or Israeli, Muslim, Jewish, Christian, or of any background. A child represents innocence, joy, and mercy. When Israel imposes, for more than three years, a complete siege on the Gaza population of [...]

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Mustafa Barghouti – Palestine’s Guernica and the Myths of Israeli Victimhood

by SR Editor December 30, 2008

The Israeli campaign of ‘death from above’ began around 11 am, on Saturday morning, the 27th of December, and stretched straight through the night into this morning. The massacre continues Sunday as I write these words. The bloodiest single day in Palestine since the War of 1967 is far from over following on Israel’s promised [...]

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Eyewitness from Gaza

by SR Editor December 30, 2008

‘The injured were lying there asking God to let them die’ Fikr Shaltoot The Guardian, Monday 29 December 2008 Being a health worker, I had to check the needs of Shifa hospital and the other hospitals in Gaza. The situation in Shifa is really bad. There were corpses in corridors covered with blankets. The mortuary [...]

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Mohamed Khodr – The Hanukkah Massacre in Gaza: The Sacrificial Lamb to Israeli-American-Arab Interests

by Mohamed Khodr December 29, 2008

“What thou hast done to thyself none else did, Thou has caused pain to the spirit of the Prophet Ignorant of the witchery of the Frank (the west), Behold the mischief hidden in his sleeve! By his diplomacy all nations prostrate, Unity of the Arabs crushed to pieces, As long as they are caught in [...]

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Gaza Massacre – Slideshow

by Haitham Sabbah December 29, 2008

This is what Israel and CNN don’t want you to see… Update 2: bubbleshare.com will close down on Nov 15, 2009. I’m uploading the pictures on my blog. (sorry, you can’t embed this slideshow on your website/blog) Update 1: slide.com removed the slideshow after Zionist pressure

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Updated: Gaza Massacre – Photo Gallery

by Haitham Sabbah December 29, 2008

Israeli terrorist massacre in Gaza killed 200, 230, 280, 300, 345, injured 600, 800, 1000, 1400, 1600 and counting…

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Two Poems for the Beloved People of Gaza and Occupied Palestine

by SR Editor December 29, 2008

Not Like Us © Lorelei Loveridge/Orderly Bazaar Records & Publishing, 2008. Raze down those olive trees Bulldoze those houses, please Build the wall and damn them all Raze down those olive trees Fire on the boys with stones Send all those bullets home Lie to the world and deny you killed a schoolgirl Fire on [...]

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Kawther Salam – The Bloody Saturday of Israel in Gaza

by Kawther Salam December 28, 2008

Saturday is the holy day for all Jews in world. This is a well known part of the Jewish customs. During Saturday they exchange greetings, saying “Shabbat Shalom” or “Peace Saturday”. Under the Israeli occupation in West Bank and Gaza since over 41 years, the Palestinians never lived one day of peace, even not one [...]

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Haitham Sabbah – Photos of the day

by Haitham Sabbah December 28, 2008

I selected the following photos to sum up all that can be said to describe the Israeli massacre in Gaza today and what we expect to see very soon. (Click image(s) to enlarge) First, peace! What peace? The Israeli terrorist war machines used 60 jet fighters to attack Gaza and drop 100 ton of explosives [...]

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Richard Falk – Slouching toward a Palestinian Holocaust

by Richard Falk December 28, 2008

The article that caused the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territories to be DENIED ENTRY to Israel 2 weeks ago…he was predicting exactly what we are seeing today…more death and destruction and occupation. And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be [...]

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Kawther Salam – The Rockets of Hunger and Israeli Propaganda

by Kawther Salam December 26, 2008

I received a message from the photojournalist and peace activist Sameh Habeeb from Gaza while I was looking at the news in the Austrian TV, which pierced my ears with talk about the rockets which Hamas supposedly shoots at the “innocent Israeli occupation” which has jailed one and half million in Gaza since before Al-Aqsa [...]

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Haitham Sabbah – Merry Christmas from Palestine

by Haitham Sabbah December 24, 2008
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ACTION ALERT- Urgent call for Action on upgrade of the EU- Israel Association Agreement

by Haitham Sabbah December 24, 2008

*** KINDLY REPRINT AND SPREAD WIDELY *** The recent postponement of the vote in the European Parliament on the extension of existing EU programmes with Israel has been attributed to the great mass of letters received by MEPs, MPs and Ministers, showing the growing influence of civil society on attitudes towards Israel. We now need [...]

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