Noteworthy

Weekend Read: Holocaust, AIPAC, Azmi Bishara and Social Injustice

by Haitham Sabbah April 21, 2007

There are plenty of noteworthy articles that are missed every week. To give them credit and rescue them from going unnoticed by my blog readers, I will try to compile some of these articles every weekend in a ‘Weekend Read’ post. Here is the first one: 1. The Holocaust as political asset By Amira Hass [...]

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World Publics Reject US Role as the World Leader

by Haitham Sabbah April 18, 2007

A multinational poll finds that publics around the world reject the idea that the United States should play the role of preeminent world leader. Most publics say the United States plays the role of world policeman more than it should, fails to take their country’s interests into account and cannot be trusted to act responsibly. [...]

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Blood on Our Hands

by Haitham Sabbah April 17, 2007

[Image by Carlos Latuff] By Uri Avnery’s – Gush Shalom 14/04/07 AT THIS moment, negotiations on a prisoner exchange are in full swing. The term “negotiations” is really inappropriate. “Haggling” seems more fitting. One could also use an uglier expression: “trafficking in human beings”. The planned deal concerns living people. They are being treated like [...]

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A Jewish Plea: How Can Children of the Holocaust Do Such Things?

by Haitham Sabbah April 16, 2007

If you read only one thing today, it must be this piece… By Sara Roy We have nothing to lose except everything. Albert Camus [Image by bendib] During the summer my husband and I had a conversion ceremony for our adopted daughter, Jess. We took her to the mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath where she [...]

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Researcher Says Israel Responsible for at least 97.8 Percent of Serious Human Rights Abuses in Conflict

by Haitham Sabbah April 11, 2007

[Cross posted at Daily Kos] [Image by Carlos Latuff] Dr. Anthony Löwstedt, an independent Swedish researcher released his extensive research analysis titled :”Apartheid – Ancient, Past, and Present: Systematic and Gross Human Rights Violations in Graeco-Roman Egypt, South Africa, and Israel/Palestine.” (PDF File) In his focus on the Middle Eastern conflict since the formation of [...]

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Pussycat

by Uri Avnery April 4, 2007

By Uri Avnery 31/03/07 CAN A pantheress turn into a pussycat? Impossible, a zoologist would say. But last week, we saw it happen with our own eyes. Condoleezza Rice came here to teach Ehud Olmert, once and for all, who is boss. The President of the United States wants to make order in the Middle [...]

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Initiative versus principle

by Haitham Sabbah April 3, 2007

By: Dr. Azmi Bishara [Via: amin.org] According to the US and Israeli foreign ministers, the Arab peace initiative is a non-binding Arab position for which the Arabs deserve a pat on the back and a friendly nudge to modify it. The very quality of eliciting such encouragement is what keeps the initiative from being an [...]

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Amazing speech by Israeli mother before EU Parliament

by Haitham Sabbah March 27, 2007

Last year I published the speech of Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan*; an Israeli women who lost her daughter to a Palestinian suicide bombing (a must read if you haven’t done before. Today I came across another two speeches by the same Israeli mother, which I think are also a must read/listen and watch. Please take the [...]

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Holocaust Denial and The Amazing Warnings of Benjamin Freedman

by Haitham Sabbah January 27, 2007

Update: After reviewing Mark Elf’s objective comments (here & here) and Anna’s concerns more closely, I agree that giving a credit to Freedman’s racist notes concerning the Khazars Jews are not in place and does not serve the purpose, especially that I’m not anti-Jews by anyway, but anti-Zionist by all means. Therefore, I’m striking throughout [...]

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‘Little Mosque On The Prairie’ on CBC

by Haitham Sabbah January 15, 2007

I was told that a new comedy/sitcom aired on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is called “Little Mosque on the Prairie” and it is amazing. So I went searching for some background of the show and came up with these four clips from one of the episodes. I must say, I loved it. It is [...]

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The Problem with Israel

by SR Editor January 3, 2007

This is very long article, if you don’t have the time to read it now, save it for other time as it is a “must read”! The Problem with Israel By Jeff Halper Thursday, November 23, 2006 Let’s be honest (for once): The problem in the Middle East is not the Palestinian people, not Hamas, [...]

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Action Alert: Thank you Jimmy Carter!

by Haitham Sabbah December 18, 2006

Lets say “Thank you President Carter.” You can sign the petition at: http://tinyurl.com/ycegyc This petition was initiated by the Israel-Palestine Working Group of Progressive Democrats of America. They support a US policy that supports the peace, security and welfare of Israelis and Palestinians. Also, write to Congress to support President Carter. It is important that [...]

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Two months before 9/11, an urgent warning to Rice, but no ears!

by Haitham Sabbah October 8, 2006

Tenet and Black felt they were not getting through to Rice. She was polite, but they felt the brush-off. President Bush had said he didn’t want to swat at flies. Officials now agree that on July 10, 2001, Mr. Tenet and his counter-terrorism deputy, J. Cofer Black, were so alarmed about an impending Al Qaeda [...]

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Time to talk peace

by Haitham Sabbah September 25, 2006

Dear friends, First, to my Jewish friends, Shana Tova, and to my Muslim friends, Ramadan Mubarak. It is rather unique that these two events started on the same day this year. So let us hope this is a sign for better days ahead, albeit the world has nearly forgotten how Ramadan would reflect on the [...]

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Most Recent Incursion into Nablus – Palestine

by Haitham Sabbah September 24, 2006

This is a documentation by ISM (www.palsolidarity.org/…/) More clips from the same incident here, here, here and here.

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