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Addameer Press Release: International Women's Day 2010

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Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association marks International Women's Day 2010 by honoring, commemorating and saluting Palestinian women [...]

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Stuart Littlewood – Losing patience with squabbling '2-rump' Palestine

By Stuart Littlewood* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
"O wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!"
A few weeks ago, on the annual Robert Burns Night, these immortal lines from 1786 were being recited all over the world, but probably not in Palestine. The leadership there aren't blessed with the gift [...]

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Gaza: Not Immune To Swine Flu (H1N1)

By Omar Ghraieb in Gaza | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
Following the global pandemic known as Swine Flu (H1N1) in most parts of the world, Gazans started to believe they might be immune to its ravages.
Their sense of assurance ended on December 6th when the first swine flu patient died in Gaza. People here were over [...]

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Stuart Littlewood – What festive cheer will the West bring to the Holy Land this Christmas?

By Stuart Littlewood* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
The UK is now in the grip of festive fever as the nation prepares for the customary annual binge called Christmas. Despite the recession families are being urged to spend, spend, spend on an excess of food and alcohol and extravagant presents. For them there is also the [...]

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Tragedy At Ft. Hood: A Catalyst For Change?

By Dr. Alan Sabrosky *
The incident at Ft. Hood was a genuine tragedy. I'm only surprised it didn't happen sooner, there or somewhere else. It is going to take time for the details to be sorted out.
Generalizing from a single incident is always dangerous, no matter how compelling it seems. Sometimes an isolated tragedy [...]

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Making Sense of the Tragedy at Fort Hood

Since he survived the shootings, Major Hasan will now have his forty years to relieve the massacre and try to make some sense of it. War just isn't worth it and this shooting proves it.
By Eddie Zawaski
(PATAGONIA, Argentina) – Making sense of the Fort Hood shootings will be a difficult process for Americans. While some [...]

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Israeli blockade strangling Gaza agriculture

By Mya Guarnieri *
Recently, Israel announced that it would import palm fronds from the Gaza Strip for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. The move came at the behest of Minister of Religious Services, Yakov Margi, who feared that a shortage of palm fronds and a local monopoly on the item would send prices skyrocketing for [...]

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Amnesty International: Israel rations Palestinians to trickle of water (NEW REPORT)

Amnesty International has accused Israel of denying Palestinians the right to access adequate water by maintaining total control over the shared water resources and pursuing discriminatory policies.
These unreasonably restrict the availability of water in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) and prevent the Palestinians developing an effective water infrastructure there.
"Israel allows the Palestinians access to only [...]

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