William A. Cook

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America’s Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost

by William A. Cook January 4, 2012

“Violence begets violence, hatred begets hatred, terrorism begets terrorism,” so rings the prophetic knell of the Reverend Wright to his congregation one of whom happened to be our current President Barack Obama. Would that he had listened, for if any man was ever elected to the office of President to change the world, this was the man and he has failed.

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Obama at the UN: the Speech that Might Have Been

by William A. Cook September 21, 2011

My friends, it is time to speak truth to power. A postscript introduces this talk: “Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.” I have had to face the excoriating judgment of Frederick Douglass, “There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices , more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour”.

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Nakba: a Remembrance

by William A. Cook May 12, 2011

I share this tent of sorrow and of shame,
The darkness in the soul, the guilt and blame,
A seared image of suffering and pain–
The curse of Cain rises– once again.

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As The Dominoes Flow Toward Israel

by William A. Cook January 30, 2011

How strange to watch our CNN talking heads, especially the Israeli trained Wolf Blitzer, former editor of AIPAC’s in house “Near East Report,” stuttering before the cameras as he recalled the fall of the Shah of Iran, America’s staunch ally for 25 years, as a direct result of similar riots by Iranian civilians, and the resulting loss of America’s control in Iran. He failed to mention that our friend had subjugated the Iranian people beneath the boots of his SAVAK mercenaries that protected his elegant life style while the people suffered under his despotic regime. Then as now our Presidents spoke of America’s support of human rights neglecting to mention the CIA’s overthrow of the elected nationalist (1951) Mohammed Mossadegh as Prime Minister.

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A Reply To Rupert Murdoch – Hiding Truth Behind Euphemisms, Omissions, Slanders And Lies

by William A. Cook November 3, 2010

Not content with such slander against innocent people indignant at the unconscionable brutality of the Israeli war machine, Murdoch chooses to slide silently by the horrific massacres inflicted on the people of Palestine during the Nakba, insisting that Israel suffered decades of “straightforward” military force by those attempting to “overrun Israel.” He should read the reality of those days as described by Dr. Ilan Pappe in his work, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. This was the beginning of the genocide against the Palestinians as recorded in The Plight of the Palestinians recently published by Palgrave Macmillan that continues to this day.

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One Wall, Two People, No States: the Peace Pretense

by William A. Cook October 12, 2010

If the future state of the Palestinians is a mirage, the present Israeli State mocks the definition of a nation State; a true state has jurisdiction over a given territory. The state of Israel refuses the demarcation of its borders and refuses to abide by the United Nations resolutions that demand it return the land it has illegally occupied to the people of Palestine. Given this defiance, the possibility of establishing “two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side” can be construed as nothing less than hypocrisy.

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Return to Shatila

by William A. Cook September 16, 2010

“O, that it were possible, We might but hold some two days’ conference With the dead!” (John Webster, IV.ii.18.) “The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.” (Tennyson, “In the Valley of Cauteretz”) By William A. Cook* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Twenty eight years ago, a scene of unspeakable horror rocked [...]

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Protecting America’s Security from the USS Liberty to the Freedom Flotilla

by William A. Cook June 6, 2010

By William A. Cook* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz “We do not need to apologize for defending ourselves. The armada of hate and violence is merely one manifestation of the constant provocation Israel faces.” (Danny Ayalon, Deputy Foreign Minister of Israel) Only a member of the Netanyahu Court could stand before the TV cameras of [...]

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A Nation Born in Deception

by William A. Cook April 27, 2010

By William A. Cook* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz As Israel attempts today to gloss over the reality of its birth 62 years ago with a sweeping public relations campaign extolling the miraculous “resurrection” of ancient Zion in contemporary times, a new nation seeking only peace with its neighbors, it might be enlightening and valuable [...]

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Rule by Law or Defiance

by William A. Cook April 5, 2010

By William A. Cook* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Unauthorized statements have been made to the effect that the purpose in view is to create a wholly Jewish Palestine. . . . His Majesty’s Government regard any such expectation as impracticable and have no such aim in view. Nor have they at any time contemplated [...]

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Selling Cell Phones with Soccer Balls and Criminal Walls

by William A. Cook March 17, 2010

By William A. Cook* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz “Kurt Zehmisch of the 134th Saxons recorded in his diary: ‘The English brought a soccer ball from the trenches, and pretty soon a lively game ensued. How marvellously wonderful, yet how strange it was. The English officers felt the same way about it. Thus Christmas, the [...]

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Anti-Semitism: Silencing The Messenger Of Truth With Canada’s “Hate Provisions”

by William A. Cook March 15, 2010

By William A. Cook* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz As an American living under Bush’s Military Commission’s Act, I feel a bit unnerved when charged with “allegations” of hate crimes issued by Canada’s Council on Human Rights, “allegations” made by an unidentified group against the editors of “Peace, Earth and Justice,” (PEJ Internet publications), and [...]

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William A. Cook – Rethinking “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been”

by William A. Cook February 7, 2010

By William A. Cook* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Five decades ago, the “Pied Piper of Tucson,” a psychopathic killer, roamed the streets of this Southwest city seeking, seducing and killing teen-aged girls. Strangely, teenagers throughout the Tucson area that knew of his lawless and abnormal behavior kept silent, saying nothing to parents or police. [...]

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A Christmas Remembrance

by William A. Cook December 19, 2009

By William A. Cook* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz “The white civilized man (is) the most ferocious animal on the face of the earth.” (Herman Melville, 1840s) In 1841, Melville sailed aboard the Acushnet, a whaling vessel, on a three year trip to the South Seas. By July of 1842, Melville and a shipmate, Toby [...]

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William A. Cook – Walled in by Myth and Deceit

by William A. Cook December 5, 2009

By William A. Cook* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Ben Gurion “…realized that the holy book could be made into a secular national text, serve as a central repository of ancient collective imagery, help forge the hundreds of thousands of new immigrants into a unified people, and tie the younger generation to the land.” (Shlomo [...]

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