By Mohamed Khodr* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
"We sent thee not, O! Muhammad, save as a mercy to all the people. Say, O! Muhammad: "It has but been revealed unto me that your God is the One and Only God: will you, then, surrender yourselves unto Him?" (Qur'an: 21: 107-108)
There is only one "Absolute" [...]
By Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
THIS week, when I return to my village in the occupied West Bank, I face possible arrest by Israel for engaging in nonviolent protests against abusive Israeli policies opposed by our own government.
This prospect is difficult after 29 years of living in the United States, where such [...]
Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association – 8 March 2010
Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association marks International Women's Day 2010 by honoring, commemorating and saluting Palestinian women political prisoners and detainees in their steadfast resistance against Israeli colonial occupation and struggle towards securing the right of Palestinians to self-determination.
An estimated 10,000 Palestinian women [...]
By Paul J. Balles* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
Living through five or six major wars has hardened me to what I thought were the extremes of inhuman cruelty and brutality.
Two things made those extremes almost bearable: the brutality always revealed – at least according to the media coverage – the viciousness of the enemy. It [...]
By Frank Barat* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
Today, the first session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RTP) will be held in Barcelona. The RTP is a peoples' tribunal focusing not on Israel's obligations under international humanitarian law (IHL) such as the Fourth Geneva Convention, but on the obligations of the international community of signatory [...]
By Yousef Munayyer* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
'TO CUT down on gang-related crimes, policies could be put in place to curb the African-American population growth in places like Harlem and Compton. The government could consider cutting off welfare benefits for families in these urban areas to discourage births of blacks and cut down the supply [...]
By Alan Hart* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
The developing debate about Israel's future offers two scenarios but there is a third which, apparently, should not be discussed in the open, in public. So let's do just that.
Among the most recent contributors to what I'll call the two-scenario debate was no less a figure than [...]
Yesterday marked the premier episode of a 90-part series titled "Sleepless in Gaza … and Jerusalem," which looks into the lives of four Palestinian women, Muslim and Christian, in a new humanistic approach to discussing Palestinian issues in the global media. The women, two living in Gaza and two in the occupied West Bank and [...]
Tagged Gaza, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Sleepless in Gaza and Jerusalem, videoBy Mohamed Khodr* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
"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 has committed the offence and has turned a deaf ear to the victims."
–Prof. Arnold Toynbee, Foreword to the Transformation of [...]
By Amira Hass* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
Something about 12-year-old Bassam caused two Israelis to smile. Two Palestinians noticed, but did not remember their smiles as being disparaging or arrogant. On the contrary. The Palestinians regarded the smiles as a rare moment in which two Israelis – and not just any Israelis, but military judges [...]
By Franklin Lamb* (Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp, Beirut) | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
"We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change or resistance. Small acts, when multiplied by many people, can transform the world"
"If we remember those times and places–and there are so many–where people have behaved [...]
Press TV interview with Lawrence Wilkerson (former Chief of Staff for Colin Powell):
Tagged Al-Qaeda, Guantanamo, Human Rights, Terrorism, Terrorist, US, videoThe hip-hop beats ringing through the muddy, unlit streets of the burnt-out Palestinian refugee camp Nahr al-Bared seem incongruous. But the rhymes are camp-grown – and courageous.
"I'm carrying worries / From inside a destroyed camp / I'm preparing an attack / Words that keep turning in my head / Nahr al-Bared is fenced-in with iron [...]
Masafer Yatta/South Hebron Hills – On Sunday, 20 December 2009, the Israeli army disrupted transportation of children and teachers from Al-Fakheit school to their homes. The Palestinian driver, accompanied by one CPTer, was on his way to pick up children and teachers after school when, at about 1:00 p.m. soldiers in a Humvee stopped the [...]
Tagged Bus, Children, Education, Hebron, Israeli, Kids, Palestine, palestinian, School, Terrorism, Zionist
