May 2009

During His Trip to Egypt, Obama Should Visit Gaza

by SR Editor May 30, 2009

by Medea Benjamin* Obama will give a major policy talk at Cairo University on June 4, intended to start mending the rift between the United States and the Arab world. During the Bush years, many Arabs turned against the United States because of the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as the abuses at [...]

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John Berger reads Ghassan Khanafani’s Letter from Gaza

by Ann El Khoury May 28, 2009

In an address to the inaugural Palestine Festival of Literature (2008), John Berger gives a moving reading of Ghassan Khanafani’s “Letter from Gaza”. Crossposted at PULSE & Peoples Geography

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Gaza siege also hits disabled people

by Haitham Sabbah May 28, 2009

By Luisa Morgantini* They worked for years for Israeli companies. For years, they paid their taxes and social insurance contributions in Israel in compliance with Israeli labour and fiscal law. But they also had accidents at work suffering serious and invalidating injuries in Israel’s factories, building sites or fields. Until the period following the Oslo [...]

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Palestine: What it’s all about (video)

by Haitham Sabbah May 28, 2009
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Administrative Detention

by Haitham Sabbah May 27, 2009

Part 1: Part 2: The tyrannical nature of administrative detention and its complete violation of human rights are based on confidential materials kept from the detainee and the lawyer. The confidential materials determine the period of detention and its extension thereafter. The administrative detainee is allowed an appeal before a court martial but the confidentiality [...]

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Der Spiegel’s tale of Hezbollah’s direct involvement in the Hariri assassination irresponsible

by Franklin Lamb May 26, 2009

By Franklin Lamb, Beirut Time for transparency at Der Spiegel? “We don’t know where the Der Spiegel magazine did get their information from and we don’t know where they brought this story from. No one in the prosecutor’s office has spoken to the German magazine about anything. We have a clear policy of not leaking [...]

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Israel: News Roundup

by Haitham Sabbah May 26, 2009

Is Leaked Zionist Plan Pertinent to US? A primer for Zionist subversion caused a sensation in Russia in 1989 because it seemed to prove that Zionism was an ideology dedicated to world domination, not just a Jewish homeland… read more! Algerian daily confirms Mossad training camps for al-Qaida According to sources well informed on the [...]

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Video: A Beit Safafa Demolition

by Haitham Sabbah May 26, 2009

On March 17, 2009, the Israeli authorities demolished a portion of a house in the Bait Safafa neighborhood of Jerusalem. The Arab residents were outraged when the house where they had been living for the past 7 years was destroyed without any prior notice. Since the beginning of year 2009 until the end of March [...]

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Pro-Israel Mouthpiece Says Freedom of Speech Dangerous

by Haitham Sabbah May 26, 2009

By Latuff ‘JINSA’ article says outlets who oppose future wars should be silenced-killed if necessary-by military strike By Michael Collins Piper ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL voices of the pro-Israel lobby has published a shocking essay suggesting that, in the future, there should be “military attacks” on journalists and media outlets that oppose American military [...]

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Israel Steals Palestinian Heritage, History

by SR Editor May 26, 2009

By Karin Friedemann Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayad has made a formal complaint to the Canadian government regarding the intention of Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum to collaborate with the Israel Antiquities Authority to host “Dead Sea Scrolls: Words that Changed the World” from June 27 to January 3, 2010. Palestinian Archaeological Department Director-General Hamdan [...]

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Falsified Map of Palestine

by Haitham Sabbah May 26, 2009

A couple of days ago, the Israeli Ministry of Tourism apologized for featuring a map of Israel that included all Palestinian Occupied Territories as well as Syria’s Golan Heights as integral part of Israel. Israel’s tourist ministry has admitted to a “mistake” over adverts on the London Underground after complaints that they “wipe Palestine off [...]

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Is Canada Becoming A Safe Haven For War Criminals?

by SR Editor May 26, 2009

How Those Who Kill Can Enter Canada While Those Who Save Lives Are Barred By Joshua Blakeney World renowned, award winning journalist John Pilger commented on George Galloway’s autobiography: “Galloway’s work has saved countless lives, particularly in Iraq”. This is an accurate statement about the record of the five-times elected British MP who was described [...]

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Rethinking the costs of peace

by SR Editor May 24, 2009

BY JOSH RUEBNER In pledging to trim ineffective spending, President Obama declared that “there will be no sacred cows and no pet projects. All across America, families are making hard choices, and it’s time their government did the same.” By asking earlier this month for $2.775 billion in military aid to Israel in his FY2010 [...]

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Holocaust and Holodomor (Origins of Anti Semitism)

by SR Editor May 24, 2009

By Nicholas Lyssson 1. ROLE OF JEWS IN UKRAINIAN FAMINE One might think the worst holocaust deniers—at least the only ones who command serious attention—are those who insist the Nazi holocaust, as it involved the Jews only, was without parallel. Guenter Lewy argues for example in The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies (Oxford University Press, 2000) that [...]

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Beholden to the Big Powers: Israel, Gaza and the UN

by Haitham Sabbah May 20, 2009

Action Alert from Media Lens: On December 27, 2008, Israel launched Operation Cast Lead, a massive assault on Gaza. 22 days later, around 1,400 Palestinians, including over 300 children, and 13 Israelis were dead; about 5,000 Palestinians were wounded. Israeli forces bombed and shelled schools, medical centres, hospitals, ambulances, United Nations buildings (including UN schools), [...]

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