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Jamal Kanj: The myth of the Jewish people

Jamal Kanj highlights recent scientific research which proves that in 1948 “the children of the original Jews” – the Palestinians – were replaced by 8th century converts with no roots in the Middle East.

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Paul Craig Roberts: What If?

What ifs are provocative, and that is what makes them fun. Thinking is America’s national disability. I’m all for anything that provokes Americans to think.

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History, Israel, Zionism
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On Earth: You’re Either a Superior Jew OR an Inferior Gentile Anti-Semite (GAS)

Zionism was to be the cure for “anti-Semitism” and the savior of Jews; however it turned out to be the Jews’ greatest threat and nightmare. So much for God’s “Promised Land” to the Jews. If God himself gave Palestine to the Jews (of yester years, not those of today) wouldn’t every Jew immigrate to the Promised Land and fulfill and obey God’s command and promise?

Obviously not. The majority of Jews rejected God’s covenant and promise preferring the capitalistic success and power they have in western nations, none more so than in the Jewish compliant U.S.

In fact more Jews are leaving Israel than are entering it.

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Economics, History, Science and Technology

Chris Hedges: The Myth of Human Progress

The human species, led by white Europeans and Euro-Americans, has been on a 500-year-long planetwide rampage of conquering, plundering, looting, exploiting and polluting the Earth-as well as killing the indigenous communities that stood in the way. But the game is up. The technical and scientific forces that created a life of unparalleled luxury-as well as unrivaled military and economic power-for the industrial elites are the forces that now doom us.

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History, Israel, Palestine

No More Israel in 10 Years

Maybe Israel will help out by shooting itself in the foot once too often. Pressuring Washington for favors harming US interests can’t go on forever.

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History, Israel, Opinion, Palestine, Zionism

Ilan Pappe: Israel is an Apartheid State

Liberal Zionists though find it dangerous, and for many years have been trying to square the circle in an attempt to justify Israel’s apartheid policies. Jewish communities, of course, are allergic to the very idea. No, it’s not the recognition that Israel is an apartheid state that’s dangerous, it’s Israel itself that is dangerous; dangerous to Palestinians, dangerous to Jews in Israel and abroad, and dangerous to the world beyond.

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History, Israel, Palestine, United States, Zionism

A Marriage of Morons: Romney and Netanyahu

“No solution” gives an impression of “everything will remain as it is”. That is a mistake. Nothing remains as it is. Things move all the time, settlements expand, Palestinians will rise up, the world is in flux, the Arab world changes, some day an American president will put the interests of the US ahead of those of Israel. Where will we be then?
THE GIST of Romney’s message is that the two-state solution is dead. This reminds me of Mark Twain’s famous: “The report of my death was an exaggeration.”
It is now in fashion to say so. Quite a trend. However, different people have different reasons for believing that the two-state solution is dead.

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History, Israel, Palestine, Zionism

Palestine Israel History and Theirstory (Part 3/4)

The problem with the argument that the recognition of Israel by the United Nations provides legitimacy for the state of Israel is that the United Nations, by recognizing Israel, contradicted main tenets of it´s own charter. The right of Palestinians, Arab, Muslims, Christians, and Jews alike, was grossly neglected by allowing the establishment of a new state within the territory of another, without at least a referendum. The argument that the State of Israel has achieved legitimacy by being recognized by the United Nations Security Counsel and the United Nations General Assembly is thus at least highly problematic, and most likely legally invalid.

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Economics, History, Iran, UK, United States

Why the West is demonizing Iran

Why are we hearing non-stop, loud-mouthed sabre-rattling against Iran when we should be extending the hand of friendship and reconciliation? Why the West are demonising Iran instead of righting the wrongs? Why not live and let live? Because the political establishment is still smarting. They are the new-generation imperialists.

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History, Israel, Palestine

The Real Story of How Israel Was Created

The details of threats and bribery that led to the 1947 UN recommendation to partition Palestine and includes quotes demonstrating strong State Department and Pentagon opposition to it.

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History, One State, Palestine, Zionism

Alternatives to Partition Palestine: Geopolitical Dimensions

Palestine has resisted, and endured, all attempts of geographic partition and segmentation over the last 100 years. Today, Israel controls the totality of historic Palestine, while exerting pressure, locally and internationally, for its recognition as a Jewish state without drawing its final borders. Zionism has hereby reached an impasse in its attempt to build an ethnic Jewish state.

It is a well-established fact that Israel is the only state in the world that was established without defining its borders, which corresponds to the flexibility of Israeli citizenship; it does not align with geographic boundaries of a state as predominates in the rest of the world.

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History, Israel, Palestine, Politics, Zionism
Greater Israel Map

The big bluff

If the 60 million Christian Right expect a Second Coming of Jesus Christ into the Holy Land, they are in for a shock. His Jewish Mother would not be good enough to get Him residency.

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History, Israel, War, Zionism

Who Speaks Up For Holocaust Survivors?

Last week, 17 men were arrested in New York for defrauding Germany out of $42 million in payments to phony holocaust survivors. Tens of thousands of American Jews had filed for pensions from Germany claiming to be concentration camp survivors. All swore they had been in the camps, told stories about gas chambers, human skin lampshades and such but not a single one had been in a camp at all. The state of Israel claims to have, alive today, nearly one million holocaust survivors.

As many as 90% of these may well be, not only frauds but many could easily be former concentration camp guards themselves, far more likely than surviving death camps. What better place to hide than Israel?

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De-Zionise Israel or live in Herrenvolk apartheid system

The racist and colonialist characteristics of Zionism were quite evident since its inception. Stability and peace in the Middle East are unattainable without first deconstructing the settler-colonial attitude upon which Israel is founded.

If sincere, Israel’s liberal who support a two-state solution to “save Israel from itself” should start advising their friends to de-Zionise their institutions and laws. For without such a move the Israeli polity will continue to be nothing but a Herrenvolk democracy and an apartheid system. This is no recipe for peace. On the contrary, it is a cause for conflict.

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History, Israel, Palestine, War Crimes, Zionism

The great book robbery of 1948

A new documentary reveals a hidden chapter in the history of the Nakba — the Palestinian expulsion and flight at the hands of Zionist militias as Israel was established in 1948 — which saw the systematic looting of more than 60,000 Palestinian books by Israeli forces and the attempted destruction of Palestinian culture. As Palestinian homes sat silent in the haze of conflict, however, a systematic Israeli campaign was underway to enter the homes and rob them of a precious commodity — their books.

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History, Israel, Palestine, Zionism

The Real Bloomers of Palestine

Shedding more light on the Zionist lies about Palestine being “a land without people.” In December 1945 and January 1946, the British Mandate authorities carried out an extensive survey of Palestine , in support of the work of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine. The results were published in the Survey of Palestine. One of the subjects investigated in the Survey of Palestine is land use; specifically, which crops were Palestine’s leading agricultural products at the end of the British Mandate, and whose farms were producing them.

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History, Israel, Palestine, War Crimes, Zionism

The secrets in Israel’s archives: Evidence of ethnic cleansing kept under lock and key – by Jonathan Cook

By Jonathan Cook * | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz History may be written by the victors, as Winston Churchill is said to have observed, but the opening up of archives can threaten a nation every bit as much as the unearthing of mass graves. That danger explains a decision quietly taken last month by Binyamin [...]

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History, Israel, Palestine, Terrorism, Zionism

Israel Classifies its Past as Top Secret – by Lawrence Davidson

By Lawrence Davidson* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Israel is a land built on myths. It is, of course, not unique in this. Indeed in this way Israel is very much like its patron, the United States. In order to build and maintain a mythical status a nation must create a picture of itself from [...]

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Gaza, History, Israel, Palestine, War Crimes, Zionism

Yousef Munayyer: Israel’s History of Impunity

By Yousef Munayyer* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Last week the government of Israel announced the launch of an investigation into the events surrounding the deadly Memorial Day flotilla raid which left nine activists dead. Many international bodies including the United Nations (UN) and the European Union (EU), as well as human rights groups like [...]

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History, Israel, Politics, United States, Zionism

America Held Hostage: Year 62

By Sina Alavi | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz “Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.” -Thomas Jefferson We are approaching another ominous anniversary in American History without anyone acknowledging it- not even a peep from the mainstream media. When Iranian students [...]

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History, Israel, Palestine, Zionism

A Nation Born in Deception

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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History, Israel, Palestine, Zionism

Hasbara or Za’bara

By Dr. Salman Abu Sitta* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz To maintain a façade of moral code, you do not kill a friend, you kill an enemy. You do not rob another man’s house, you recover your long-forgotten property. These are the principles adopted in all wars and conflicts. That is why it was always [...]

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History, Israel, Palestine, Videos, Zionism

Palestine/Israel History since 1878

Pass this short video to your friends to answer the basic questions about the history of Palestine/Israel conflict and 1948 Nakba: Video link: http://blip.tv/file/3467330

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History, Israel, Palestine, War Crimes

Nakba, the Forgotten Child of the Holocaust

By Steve Amsel | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Sunday evening at sundown, sirens will sound throughout Israel to commemorate the start of Holocaust Remembrance Day. On Monday, ceremonies will be held in various cities, the main one being at Yad Vashem, the memorial park in Jerusalem. Friday was the anniversary of the massacre at Deir [...]

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History, Israel, Palestine, Zionism

Israel and the “de-legitimization” oxymoron

By Alan Hart* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz For readers who may not be intimately familiar with English terminology, an oxymoron is a figure of speech by which contradictory terms are combined to form an expressive phrase or epithet such as cruel kindness and falsely true. (It’s derived from the Greek word oxymoros meaning pointedly [...]

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History, Israel, Palestine, Religion, War Crimes, West Bank, Zionism

No light ahead

By Khalid Amayreh* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz While the Palestinian Authority (PA) seems prone to agree to “indirect talks” with Israel without the latter undertaking any meaningful freeze of Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank, the Israeli government is making only provocations, rendering the resumption – let alone success – of peace talks [...]

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The Media Propagandists

By Phillip Marlowe | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz You know, when I sit down here and decide to pound out a blog posting, I always start thinking about what kind of image I’ll end up using to illustrate what I’m trying to say. I think it’s important since it gets people’s attention and makes them [...]

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Answers to The State of Palestine Quiz

By Tony Malone* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz THE GREAT ZIONIST MYTH: The Palestinians never existed before modern Israel was established. They came from other Arab lands to try to take what the Israelis had rightful claims to. “Palestinians” pretend to the world and to themselves that they have always been there, but they are [...]

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William A. Cook – Walled in by Myth and Deceit

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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Featured Articles, History, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine, Politics, United States, War Crimes, Zionism

William A. Cook – Where Is Frederick Douglass When You Need Him?

Or The Return of Reverend Jeremiah Wright By William A. Cook* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz “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.” (Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July,” 1852) [...]

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Arabs, History, Israel, Judaism, Middle East, Palestine, Religion, Zionism

At NYU, devilish Shlomo Sand predicts the Jewish past and pastes the Zionists

by Philip Weiss Of all the events I’ve covered surrounding Jewish identity and Israel in the last year, none has given me so much pleasure as the lecture last night by Shlomo Sand at NYU on the Invention of the Jewish People. Most events I go to are grinding, awful, heartrending, often with lamentations and [...]

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Action, History, Israel, Palestine, Politics, Zionism

We shall overcom

By Mazin Qumsiyeh* Netanyahu looked old, tired, and angry as he delivered his “speech” in front of the Knesset. He had nothing new to say so he regurgitated the old myths about protecting Israelis from being charged with war crimes, lectured his audience (who also looked tired and bored) that the Goldstone report was a [...]

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Does Israel Really Have a Right to Exist?

by Susan Abulhawa* Following Netanyahu’s much anticipated policy speech, politicians and journalists, like mindless automatons, have set about repeating Israel’s tired mantra that Palestinians should recognize Israel’s right to exist. Never mind the fact that the PLO and Palestine Authority have obliged this ludicrous call, not once, but four times. And never mind that Israel [...]

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Canada, Culture, History, Israel, Palestine

Israel Steals Palestinian Heritage, History

By Karin Friedemann Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayad has made a formal complaint to the Canadian government regarding the intention of Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum to collaborate with the Israel Antiquities Authority to host “Dead Sea Scrolls: Words that Changed the World” from June 27 to January 3, 2010. Palestinian Archaeological Department Director-General Hamdan [...]

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History, Israel, Palestine, Zionism

Falsified Map of Palestine

A couple of days ago, the Israeli Ministry of Tourism apologized for featuring a map of Israel that included all Palestinian Occupied Territories as well as Syria’s Golan Heights as integral part of Israel. Israel’s tourist ministry has admitted to a “mistake” over adverts on the London Underground after complaints that they “wipe Palestine off [...]

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