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Ten Self-Evident Truths

by SR Editor April 3, 2010

By Gary Lord* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz “We hold these truths to be self-evident…” – Thomas Jefferson, US Declaration Of Independence. Today, much of the world’s most critically important debates are mired in time-wasting, dishonest, pseudo-scientific gobbledy-gook. Politicians and professional spin-doctors muddy the waters with ridiculous, headline-grabbing arguments that do nothing but stall progress. [...]

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Elias Akleh – Racist Israel vs Durban Conference

by Dr. Elias Akleh April 27, 2009

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, who is the Racist of them All By Dr. Elias Akleh* It seems that Durban Anti-Racism Review Conference II that started last Monday April 20th in Geneva has concluded with the worthless ineffective declaration with 143 articles calling for the protection of vulnerable minorities, and urging states to combat impunity [...]

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Mohamed Khodr – Et tu Obama: Who will your Appointees Serve-Israel or America?

by Mohamed Khodr November 16, 2008

Rahm Israel Emanuel: Will Handle U.S. Domestic Policy for Israel Dennis Ross: Will Handle U.S. Foreign Policy for Israel By Mohamed Khodr “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 committed the offence and has [...]

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A Modern Parable For The Middle East

by Ann El Khoury November 15, 2008

Jones, a wealthy financier, had on many occasion in the good old days – when trains were flourishing and coaches were the last word in technological luxury – crossed the continent by Pullman. He was well known and well served and was accustomed to every convenience, particularly when dining. Imagine his exasperation, then, when it [...]

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‘Art Attack’: meet the new creative dissenters for Palestine

by Ann El Khoury January 17, 2008

Artist Peter Kennard meets members of a new generation of artistic dissenters in a movement spearheaded by artist Banksy, whose art has featured in Occupied Palestine as well as his native UK. Art attack by Peter Kennard | New Statesman | 17 January 2008 (cross-posted at peoplesgeography.com) Banksy attracts the press attention, but around him [...]

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Palestine: A Policy of Deliberate Blindness

by Sophia September 2, 2007

By Régis Debray, Le Monde Diplomatique Foreword from the journal: Last year President Jacques Chirac asked Régis Debray to study the situation in the Middle East. On 15 January 2007 Debray sent the French authorities the following document on Palestine. It is an important key to understanding a long policy drift whose results are now [...]

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An Unbroken Agony

by sokari August 7, 2007

I have been invited to Haiti by “Haiti Solidarity” so am off there shortly. I will be staying and meeting with women activists from the Lavalas movement. I have a pretty good knowledge of Haitian history and contemporary politics but there is always more to learn and I needed to focus on details. So for [...]

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Vote for an Academic Boycott of Israel

by Sophia July 25, 2007

The British Medical Journal has featured two opinions on the subject, one for and one against, and is allowing its readers online, either academics or members of the public, to vote. Go to this page. Scroll down a bit and you can find the icon to click on to participate in the vote. Once you [...]

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A Zionist Politician Looses Faith In The Future

by Sophia July 24, 2007

From the New Yorker’s David Remnick: The Apostate Excerpts: Short of being Prime Minister, Burg could not be higher in the Zionist establishment. His father was a Cabinet minister for nearly four decades, serving under Prime Ministers from David Ben-Gurion to Shimon Peres. In addition to a decade-long career in the Knesset, including four years [...]

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On Israel, Zionism, the Memory of the Shoah, and the use of the word “Jew”

by Sophia July 19, 2007

French philosopher Alain Badiou gave this interview to Le Monde last week. The original title was about the crisis of the intellectual Left. While the first two questions focused on the crisis of the French Left, most of the interview was about the particularisms lying at the foundations of Israel as a Jewish only state. [...]

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Why Palestine Matters By Roger H. Lieberman

by Ann El Khoury July 14, 2007

Thanks as well as a hat tip to the great ladies at Jordan Journals for making this article available. (Unless you have a print subscription to the Jordan Times, this article is not freely available online, the only other site that has it requires subscription). Cross-posted at Reclaiming Space at http://peoplesgeography.com by Ann El Khoury. [...]

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My visit to Jenin, April 2002

by Karin June 25, 2007

This blog needs an urgent resuscitation … a sentence which is an oxymoron in itself as every resuscitation is urgent. I am tired of posting articles exclusively, interesting and up to date as they may be – I need something more alive. I like interaction with people, feedback – I hate having monologues. Talking to [...]

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World Walls

by sokari June 13, 2007

Iran is the latest country to sign up to “wall building” borders – in this case along the Iranian Pakistan border in the Baluchistan region. Iran’s justification for the wall is a familiar one. To prevent smuggling of drugs and guns and movement of illegal immigrants. Whilst the Apartheid wall being built by the Israelis [...]

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A Day With Hedy Epstein

by Robin June 10, 2007

A warning to readers, the below article contains graphic passages. In January of this year, my teenage daughter and I went to an event in Los Angeles sponsored by Women in Black at which Hedy Epstein*, a Holocaust survivor, ardent anti-Zionist, human rights worker spoke. Hedy did not speak of her own biography today, but [...]

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New Life

by brownfemipower June 4, 2007

I’ve been thinking a lot about Nadia’s post about sexual violence and historical trauma. In the post, Nadia states: Reading this article makes me think about the types of historical trauma we as Palestinians, and Arabs in general, are carrying around with us. When Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart speaks about sobbing uncontrollably after viewing [...]

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