August 2010

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Abbas is a Man in Exile, Even Among His Own

by SR Editor August 31, 2010

By Omar Karmi | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, faces a crisis of credibility among his own people as he heads into direct talks with Israel in Washington this week. Perhaps nothing better illustrates this than a rather awkward security crackdown Thursday in Ramallah, when leftist factions convened a meeting to [...]

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Israel Threatens War with Lebanon

by Stephen Lendman August 31, 2010

If Israel attempts to siphon oil & natural gas from Lebanese waters, conflict could result By Stephen Lendman* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Palestine is belligerently occupied. Threats continue against Iran and Syria as well as Lebanon, specifically Hezbollah, elected partner in the nation’s unity government, bogusly designated a US State Department Foreign Terrorist Organization [...]

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Israeli and US Zionists mount ferocious attack on liberal academics in Israel

by SR Editor August 31, 2010

By Neve Gordon* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz On 31 May, I joined some 50 students and faculty members who gathered outside Ben-Gurion University of the Negev to demonstrate against the Israeli military assault on the flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza. In response, the next day a few hundred students marched towards the social [...]

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Is Mosque Hysteria Being Ginned Up to Bolster Support for the Disastrous Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq?

by SR Editor August 31, 2010

By Phyllis Bennis* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The right-wing mobilization at the core of the Islamic center controversy is about rebuilding political support for the ‘global war on terror.’ At its core, the controversy surrounding the proposed Islamic community center in downtown Manhattan is not about religion. It’s about war. For some years now [...]

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America’s Holy Crusade against the Muslim World

by Michel Chossudovsky August 31, 2010

By Michel Chossudovsky* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz We have reached a decisive transition in the evolution of US military doctrine. The “Global War on Terrorism” (GWOT) directed against Al Qaeda launched in the wake of 9/11 is evolving towards a full-fledged “war of religion”, a “holy crusade” directed against the Muslim World. US military [...]

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Yale University’s Pro-Israeli, Anti-Islamic Conference

by Stephen Lendman August 31, 2010

By Stephen Lendman* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz On August 25, Yale University ended a three day global anti-Semitism “crisis” conference promoting the notion that Israeli criticism is “anti-Semitic,” no matter how justified. Boola boola, for shame, mighty Yale displaying the same type anti-Islamic hatred virulent throughout America, raging daily in headlines over the proposed [...]

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Could Ground-Zero Mosque’s Backers Be Worse Than AIPAC’s?

by SR Editor August 31, 2010

By Grant Smith* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Former American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) staffer M.J. Rosenberg told the Israel lobby to “pull the plug” on activities fanning the “anti-Muslim explosion that has seized this country over the past month.” The former insider charges organizations such as AIPAC, the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish [...]

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The Ground Zero Synagogue – Lebanon Becoming More American than America

by SR Editor August 30, 2010

By Gus Bridi – www.zeropartypolitics.com “There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia. The time for double standards that allow Islamists to behave aggressively toward us while they demand our weakness and submission is over.”- Newt Gingrich Has Lebanon officially [...]

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More pointless talks with Israel?

by Stuart Littlewood August 28, 2010

By Stuart Littlewood* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Send in the clowns The Palestinians’ champion – their White Knight – is preparing to ride forth next week and do battle at the negotiating table with the racist regime’s Black Knight and his minder, the Great Satan. The rules of chivalry don’t apply, so the outcome [...]

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Do most Israelis and many other Jews NEED to feel persecuted?

by Alan Hart August 28, 2010

By Alan Hart* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz I have written and often say that very many if not most Jews do not want to know the truth of history as it relates to the making and sustaining of the conflict in and over Palestine that became Israel. (An essential element of the truth being [...]

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The Israeli Lobby: Declassified Documents Expose Its Influence

by Stephen Lendman August 28, 2010

By Stephen Lendman* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz James Petras’ powerful 2006 book titled, “The Power of Israel in the United States” explained the enormous Jewish Lobby influence on US Middle East policies. Often harming American interests, they’re pursued anyway because of its grassroots and high-level control over government, the business community, academia, the clergy [...]

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Mossad in America

by Philip Giraldi August 28, 2010

Israeli intelligence steps up its activity in the U.S. – and gets away with it. By Philip Giraldi * | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Israeli government claims that it does not spy on the United States are intended for the media and popular consumption. The reality is that Israel’s intelligence agencies target the United States [...]

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Mass Assassinations Lie at the Heart of America’s Military Strategy in the Muslim World

by SR Editor August 28, 2010

By Fred Branfman* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Greatly expanded U.S. military Special Ops teams, U.S. drone strikes and private espionage networks run by former CIA assassins create a threat to our security. “[General McChrystal says that] for every innocent person you kill, you create 10 new enemies.” –”The Runaway General,” Rolling Stone, 6/22/10 The [...]

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Donors Sending Expired Medicine to Gaza

by SR Editor August 24, 2010

By Nicole Johnston As you approach Gaza’s main dump by road you see a massive wall of trash looming over the plain. It’s crawling with around one hundred scavenger dogs and dozens of poor children, combing through the trash for anything they can sell. In this cesspit of disease is 20 percent of all the [...]

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The “Peace Process” is Still Going Nowhere – by Stephen M. Walt

by SR Editor August 23, 2010

By Stephen M. Walt* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz If you think the announcement that the Israelis and Palestinians are going to resume “direct talks” is a significant breakthrough, you haven’t been paying attention for the past two decades (at least). I wish I could be more optimistic about this latest development, but I see [...]

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