February 2009

Conn Hallinan – Israel Treated Gaza Like Its Own Private Death Laboratory

by SR Editor February 13, 2009

Israel tested out a “focused lethality” weapon that minimizes explosive damage to structures while inflicting catastrophic wounds on its victims. Erik Fosse, a Norwegian cardiologist, worked in Gaza hospitals during the recent war.”It was as if they had stepped on a mine,” he says of certain Palestinian patients he treated. “But there was no shrapnel [...]

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Video: Israel’s Crimes in Gaza

by Haitham Sabbah February 13, 2009

Retired US army colonel Ann Wright talks about her recent trip to Gaza. Throughout Israel’s intensive war in Gaza, reporters and international observers have been barred from entering the region. Wright says that the damage is extensive and Israel’s disproportionate response “criminal.” During her visit to Egypt and Gaza, Philip Rizk, a 26 year old [...]

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UN says Israel blocks most Gaza aid

by Haitham Sabbah February 13, 2009

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says Israel only allows a meager amount of humanitarian aid to enter the impoverished Gaza Strip. The United Nations strives to provide relief to one million people daily inside a coastal sliver that is home to 1.5 million people, Ban said during a news conference on Tuesday. Israel, however, is [...]

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Jonathan Cook – Israeli University Welcomes “War Crimes” Colonel

by Jonathan Cook February 13, 2009

By Jonathan Cook * | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The Israeli government has moved quickly to quash protests over the appointment of the army’s senior adviser on international law to a teaching post at Tel Aviv University. Col Pnina Sharvit-Baruch is thought to have provided legal cover for war crimes during the recent Gaza offensive. [...]

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Video: Israel Just Committed A Massive Atrocity

by Haitham Sabbah February 13, 2009

Controversial American Jewish scholar and specialist on the Middle East, Norman Finkelstein, says Israel committed massive atrocities in Gaza during the three-week war against Hamas militants.

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Yves Engler – Canada becomes Israel

by SR Editor February 13, 2009

Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper’s government publicly supported Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza and voted alone at the UN Human Rights Committee in defense of Israel’s actions three weeks ago. Now Canada has taken over Israeli diplomacy. Literally. In solidarity with Gaza, Venezuela expelled Israel’s ambassador at the start of the bombardment and then broke [...]

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Debbie Menon – Can Obama escape the dominating influence of AIPAC and the American Jewish/Zionist Israeli lobby?

by Debbie Menon February 13, 2009

No one in Mainstream US media, is addressing the real problem which is, the fact that nothing contrary to Zionist, Israeli and American Jewish lobbies, AIPAC and other Pacs interests, which are all-dominating in the American political scene, will go very far. Anyone who supports such a move will have no tomorrow in American politics [...]

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James Petras – From Gaza to Tehran: Israel Asserting Middle East Supremacy

by James Petras February 1, 2009

By Carlos Latuff “The Israeli Defense Force is the most moral army in the World!” –Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany bombed, invaded and annexed countries and territories as a prelude to their quest for World Empire. Israel’s drive for regional dominance has followed in their footsteps, imitating their style: Indiscriminate [...]

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Uri Avnery – The Boss Has Gone Mad

by Uri Avnery February 1, 2009

169 YEARS before the Gaza War, Heinrich Heine wrote a premonitory poem of 12 lines, under the title “To Edom”. The German-Jewish poet was talking about Germany, or perhaps all the nations of Christian Europe. This is what he wrote (in my rough translation): “For a thousand years and more / We have had an [...]

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Israel denies Gaza access to clean water

by Haitham Sabbah February 1, 2009

Israel has refused to allow a French-made water purification system into Gaza amid a drinking water crisis in the Palestinian strip. The French Foreign Ministry said Friday that Tel Aviv had blocked the entry of a much-needed water purification station into Gaza and had forced its repatriation. Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Eric Chevallier said [...]

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Financed by the British taxpayer, brutal torturers of the West Bank

by Haitham Sabbah February 1, 2009

The horrific torture of hundreds of people by Palestinian security forces in the West Bank is being funded by British taxpayers. An investigation by The Mail on Sunday has found that the forces responsible get £20million a year from the UK. The victims – some left maimed – are rounded up for alleged involvement with [...]

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