July 2009

Rabbi Ovadia describes US president as “a slave” ruling the world

by SR Editor July 28, 2009

By Cherifa Sirry Rabbi Ovadia Yosef , spiritual head of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Shas party which forms part of Israel’s ruling coalition, criticized US president Barack Obama on Saturday describing him as “a slave” who rules the world and who wants to control Israeli policy when it comes to building in occupied Jerusalem. In his weekly [...]

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Katya Adler – Israeli Arabs struggle for land

by SR Editor July 24, 2009

By Katya Adler After Israel’s housing minister called on Jews to move to the north of the country to stop what he described as “the spread of Arabs” there, the BBC’s Katya Adler reports on the struggle for land in the area. Sami Salameh has taken me to what used to be his home before [...]

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Dave Himmelstein – Gaza sets the standard

by SR Editor July 23, 2009

by Dave Himmelstein Gaza is bleeding. Starving. Raising mud huts amid uncleared rubble. The International Committee of the Red Cross confirms that adequate food, medicine and construction material is not being allowed in. Monitoring of mainstream North American media confirms that the news of a five-alarm humanitarian crisis isn’t getting out. Even given the routine [...]

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Football game or tear gas and bullets? Palestinians put racist ad to test

by Haitham Sabbah July 22, 2009

The row over a racist advert of Cellcom – an Israeli mobile phone operator, which shows Israel Occupation Forces soldiers playing football with Palestinians on both sides of the Apartheid Wall, continues. In the Cellcom advert, IOF soldiers on patrol along the Wall stop their army jeep when it is hit by a soccer ball [...]

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When Will Americans Come to the Aid of Palestine?

by Jeff Gates July 22, 2009

By Jeff Gates * Unless President Barack Obama resolves to expunge “special” from the U.S.-Israeli “special relationship,” this entangled alliance will continue to ensure that the U.S. is portrayed as guilty by its association with Tel Aviv’s thuggish behavior in Palestine and elsewhere. And by the U.S. insistence that Israel not be held accountable under [...]

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Israel deploys cyber team to spread positive spin

by Jonathan Cook July 22, 2009

By Jonathan Cook * | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The passionate support for Israel expressed on talkback sections of websites, internet chat forums, blogs, Twitters and Facebook may not be all that it seems. Israel’s foreign ministry is reported to be establishing a special undercover team of paid workers whose job it will be to [...]

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Under investigation

by SR Editor July 21, 2009

UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Richard Falk talks to Amira Howeidy about the pressure mounted on the UN fact-finding mission in Gaza Fathiya Moussa, a Palestinian girl whose parents and siblings were killed in an Israeli air strike at their home in Gaza last January, wants to know why she’s [...]

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Hannah Mermelstein – Security

by SR Editor July 21, 2009

by Hannah Mermelstein “The war is with the Arabs.” I saw this sign as I was entering Nablus last week, again on my way to Ramallah, and again near Bethlehem. The phrase is printed in Hebrew, presumably by Israeli settlers, on huge signs throughout the West Bank. Israeli racism rarely shocks me anymore, but its [...]

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Huwaida Arraf – Free Gaza and Palestine

by SR Editor July 18, 2009

By Huwaida Arraf* Last month I led a group of twenty-one human rights workers on a boat from Cyprus to challenge Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza Strip. We carried toys, medicine, olive tree saplings, toolkits, a fifty-kilo bag of cement and school supplies on our small converted ferry boat. At 2 AM on June [...]

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Adam Shapiro – Threatened And Beaten On The Way To Gaza

by SR Editor July 18, 2009

By Adam Shapiro I departed Cyprus with 20 others on June 29 in a converted ferry carrying humanitarian provisions intended for Palestinians in Gaza cut off from the world by the Israeli military siege. Our intent was to bring Palestinians toys, medicines, toolkits, olive tree saplings, and one 50-kilo bag of cement while breaking the [...]

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EU Eyes Exports From Occupied Palestinian Territories Settlements Labeled “Made In Israel”

by SR Editor July 17, 2009

A German legal dispute over imports from Israel’s settlements in the occupied territories could lead to the imposition of customs duties By Ralf Beste and Christoph Schult As the largest Israeli settlement in the Palestinian-administered areas of the West Bank, Maale Adumim is home to 40,000 people. Bulldozers are clearing lots for new houses on [...]

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Akiva Eldar – How to apply PR spin to the settlement issue

by SR Editor July 17, 2009

By Akiva Eldar America’s best Jewish minds are wracking their brains, trying to find a magic formula that will put the settlements close to the hearts of Israel’s supporters, not to mention its critics. A new guide to the perplexed, disseminated by the leadership of the Israel Project, the organization spearheading Israel’s public relations efforts [...]

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Video: I Resist

by Haitham Sabbah July 11, 2009
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Letter to President Obama: Why Are We Supporting Israel’s War Crimes in Gaza?

by Mohamed Khodr July 6, 2009

by Mohamed Khodr “Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.” —Abraham Lincoln “Right and wrong are the same in Palestine as anywhere else. What is peculiar about the Palestine conflict is that the world has listened to the party that has [...]

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Cynthia McKinney – Letter from an Israeli Jail

by SR Editor July 5, 2009

by Cynthia McKinney* This is Cynthia McKinney and I’m speaking from an Israeli prison cellblock in Ramle. [I am one of] the Free Gaza 21, human rights activists currently imprisoned for trying to take medical supplies to Gaza, building supplies – and even crayons for children, I had a suitcase full of crayons for children. [...]

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