Haitham Sabbah

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Olympia Food Co-op removes Israeli goods from shelves; first US store to institute boycott

by Haitham Sabbah July 20, 2010

K6S2MA9DFMEQ Olympia, WA– The Olympia Food Co-op Board of Directors has decided to boycott Israeli goods at their two locations in Olympia, Washington. At a July 15th meeting packed with Co-op members, the Board reached this consensus. The Co-op becomes the first US grocery store to publicly join the international grassroots movement for boycott, divestment, [...]

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Bibi Caught Speaking The Truth: ‘America Is A Thing You Can Move Very Easily’

by Haitham Sabbah July 17, 2010

Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6KLFrye9Xk Israel’s Channel 10 released a video (Hebrew) of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recorded in 2001. The video could add some additional strain to the sometimes tense relationship between Bibi and Obama and should be a new lesson for Arabs who believes in any hope for fruitful talks for peace with current [...]

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Bibi Back at the White House – The Consistency of Israeli Duplicity Comes Ever More Clearly into Focus – by Jeff Gates

by Haitham Sabbah July 6, 2010

By Jeff Gates* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz With Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visiting the White House July 6th, it’s time to recall how Tel Aviv deceived Washington throughout the entirety of the U.S.-Israeli relationship. U.S. military leaders will be watching this meeting very closely, as will the veterans community. For me, confirmation of Israel’s [...]

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Protesters picket speech by Israel’s Tzipi Livni at New York City’s Russian Tea Room

by Haitham Sabbah July 3, 2010

Chanting “Tzipi Livni, you can’t hide — we charge you with genocide” and calling for Livni to be prosecuted for Israeli war crimes in Gaza, a group of 50 protesters picketed on West 57th Street outside New York’s venerable Russian Tea Room on Thursday evening in opposition to an appearance there by Tzipi Livni. Ms. [...]

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John Pilger: There Is a War on Journalism

by Haitham Sabbah June 30, 2010

Decmocracy Now! Interview With John Pilger: John Pilger, award-winning investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker. He began his career in journalism nearly half a century ago and has written close to a dozen books and made over fifty documentaries. He lives in London but is in the United States working on a forthcoming documentary about what [...]

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Iraq: The Hidden Story [A Must Watch Video]

by Haitham Sabbah June 30, 2010

In this 45 minute video, Channel 4 news presenter Jon Snow questions whether the Images of Iraq which dominate the Western TV news bulletins are sugar-coating the bloody reality of war and the sectarian violence under the US-led occupation. Iraq: The Hidden Story shows the footage used by TV news broadcasts, and compares it with [...]

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Kenneth O’Keefe – Countering Israeli Propaganda (Must Watch Video Interview)

by Haitham Sabbah June 28, 2010

Gaza Freedom Flotilla Eyewitness Report HARDtalk with Kenneth O’Keefe talks about the attack on the MV Mavi Marmara that was trying to run the blockade on Gaza. Part 1/3: Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb7XOGJoCkg

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Haifa Wehbe denies role in Gaza-bound voyage

by Haitham Sabbah June 22, 2010

By Habib Toumi, Bahrain Bureau Chief Lebanese superstar Haifa Wehbe and Hezbollah have denied media reports that the religious formation had banned the singer from boarding Mariam, the Gaza-bound ship carrying humanitarian aid. Haifa said that she did not sign up to be among the activists planning to board the ship to break the Gaza [...]

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Flotilla Check: Facts and Israeli Lies

by Haitham Sabbah June 18, 2010

Flouting international demands for an independent investigation of its deadly attack on a humanitarian aid flotilla in international waters, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has formed an internal commission composed of three Israelis and two, non-voting international observers. The commission chair, retired Israeli Supreme Court justice Jacob Turkel, expressed his hope that the panel would [...]

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Red Cross – Gaza closure: not another year!

by Haitham Sabbah June 15, 2010

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) – The hardship faced by Gaza’s 1.5 million people cannot be addressed by providing humanitarian aid. The only sustainable solution is to lift the closure. The serious incidents that took place on 31 May between Israeli forces and activists on a flotilla heading for Gaza once again put [...]

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A Voyage of Life and Death [Video]

by Haitham Sabbah June 15, 2010

In the early hours of Monday, May 31, the Israeli navy intercepted a flotilla of boats carrying thousands of tonnes of aid to Gaza. Nine passengers on the Mavi Marmara – the flotilla’s largest boat – were killed. This much we know. In the aftermath of the event, accounts from both sides have diverged wildly. [...]

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B’tselem: Gaza, 95% of factories are closed, 93% of water is polluted

by Haitham Sabbah June 14, 2010

Most of Gaza’s factories have closed and its water is polluted as a result of Israel’s siege policy, according to a new report being released today by the Israeli Human Rights group – B’tselem. The siege policy has “led to economic collapse in Gaza,” B’tselem noted in a 44-page report (PDF) that looked at Gaza, [...]

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Roger Waters – “We Shall Overcome”, Palestine

by Haitham Sabbah June 12, 2010

Roger Waters wrote: “Over the new year 2009-2010, an international group of 1500 men and women from 42 nations went to Egypt to join a Freedom March to Gaza. They did this to protest the current blockade of Gaza. To protest the fact that the people of Gaza live in a virtual prison. To protest [...]

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The Images Israel Didn’t Want Seen: New Video from Gaza Freedom Flotilla

by Haitham Sabbah June 12, 2010

In the wake of the commando raid that left nine dead, the Israeli government confiscated every recording and communication device it could find–thus allowing the state to control what the world learned about the assault. Filmmaker and activist Iara Lee was one of the few Americans on-board the Mavi Marmara. Despite the Israeli government’s thorough [...]

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Was Israel Video of Attack on ‘Mavi Marmara’ Hoaxed?

by Haitham Sabbah June 12, 2010

By Haitham Sabbah | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Three sleuth posters working together at conspiracy forum whatdefuck.com proved the Israeli Defense Force footage of the attack on the Mavi Marmara was a deliberate fabrication as seen in this video originally broadcast by SKY NEWS. The most obvious difference is the bridge or whatever you call [...]

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