By Sam Bahour* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz We are told that President Obama has taken a leap of political faith in trying to bridge a final peace settlement between Palestinians and Israelis. The United States’ new weapon is “proximity talks”: if either side fails to meet American expectations, the US will squarely and publicly [...]
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Two humiliations – Can Obama live with a third?
By Alan Hart* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Amazing! While in Israel, an American vice president explicitly condemns an Israeli decision to build yet more homes, 1,600 apartments, in occupied Arab East Jerusalem. “I condemn the decision by the government of Israel to advance planning for new housing units in East Jerusalem,” Joe Biden said. [...]
The Perpetual Process for Impossible Peace
By Yousef Munayyer* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz In 1988, on a trip to Yugoslavia, Yasser Arafat the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was asked by a reporter if he believed there would be a Palestinian state in five years. His response “If God is willing, it will be within two years”. Twenty-two [...]
What future for ‘Greater Israel’? [Video]
The Middle East ‘peace process’ is seriously deadlocked. Israel is determined to press ahead with the expansion of settlements. Palestinians refuse to accept anything less than their total freeze, but they are divided on the best way forward – diplomacy or resistance. The diplomatic vacuum leads to more unilateral policies and radicalisation. So how can [...]
Steps to create an Israel-Palestine
A one-state solution in the area is not as farfetched as it might seem. By Jonathan Kuttab* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz For a while, it seemed that a two-state solution might actually be achievable and that a sovereign Palestinian state would be created in the West Bank and Gaza, allowing Jews and Palestinians at [...]
Obama: A Monument to Hip-ocrisy
By Mary Rizzo* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Barack Obama is a very handsome man. He has the charisma of a showman. He speaks very well, and what’s more, he can even dance. It’s not clear whether that is sufficient criteria to make one into a president, oops, not “a” president but “The President”, but [...]
The Dangers of Two States Solution
By Dr. Elias Akleh* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The Two States Solution (Israeli and Palestinian states) to the Zionist/Arab conflict has been, lately, revived as the only practical solution to the conflict. This solution, with all its embedded dangers, had been unjustly and illegally imposed by the UN in 1948 giving the Zionists a [...]
One Palestinian Prisoner Could Change the Balance
Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Occupied Jerusalem, Nov 30 – The fate of one prisoner locked in an Israeli jail could release the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process from its own jail – provided the timing is right. The political timing is definitely ripe. This week a major residual [...]
Alan Hart – Deception has always been the name of Zionism’s game
By Alan Hart* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu described his offer to temporarily restrict construction of all-new Jewish settlements on the West Bank excluding Arab East Jerusalem as a “far-reaching and painful step”, which was part of a policy he hoped would give a new impetus to peace talks. Netanyahu is [...]
Dr. Alan Sabrosky and Hesham Tillawi on the Two States Solution [Video]
Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Dr. Alan Sabrosky speaks to Hesham Tillawi of Current Issues TV regarding the Israeli- Palestinian problem. Video link: http://video.yahoo.com/watch/5190923/13719467
President Obama’s opportunity to speak truth to power, Part 2 – Rahm Emanuel does it for him
By Alan Hart* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz When I wrote and posted Part 1 of this article, I was, of course, aware that there wasn’t a snowball’s chance in hell of President Obama speaking truth to the power of Jewish America as it was represented at the General Assembly of The Jewish Federations of [...]
Bouthaina Shaaban – Clinton Dances With Netanyahu
By Bouthaina Shaaban* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Most Arab and world media expressed astonishment when the US secretary of state Hilary Clinton described the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu’s willingness to “restraint the policy of settlements” as “unprecedented”. Perhaps, many of the reporters did not have sufficient time to read the script of the [...]
Noam Chomsky: No Change In US ‘Mafia Principle’
Top American intellectual sees no significant change of US foreign policy under Obama. By Mamoon Alabbasi * – LONDON As civilised people across the world breathed a sigh of relief to see the back of former US president George W. Bush, top American intellectual Noam Chomsky warned against assuming or expecting significant changes in the [...]
Alan Hart – President Obama’s opportunity to speak truth to power: Part 1
By Alan Hart* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Informed and honest analysis suggests that no American president will ever be able to break the Zionist lobby’s stranglehold on Congress on matters to do with Israel/Palestine unless and until a majority of Jewish Americans, in order to protect their own best interests and those of all [...]
Anna Baltzer & Mustafa Barghouti on Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Anna Baltzer and Mustafa Barghouti advocate a non-violent approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in this complete, unedited interview. Part 1: Video link: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-october-28-2009/exclusive—anna-baltzer—mustafa-barghouti-extended-interview-pt–1
Obama Backs Netanyahu’s Position on ‘Peace Negotiations’
By Kim Bullimore * Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed victory in the wake of US President Barak Obama’s first speech to the United Nations General Assembly and the September 22 meeting in New York between Netanyahu, Obama and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. In his September 23 UN speech, Obama confirmed that Washington [...]
Israel threatens to quit peace talks over UN war crimes vote
As if “peace talks” are undergoing, and as if 18 years of “peace talks” lead us anywhere more than more stolen Palestinian lands, more innocent Palestinian massacres and more corrupted Palestinian Authority. Israel has threatened to pull out of Middle East peace talks if Britain and other European nations fail to back the country in [...]
Tel Aviv, Peace and the Obama Prize
By Jeff Gates* The Nobel Committee again piqued the interest of those who marvel at the impact of an annual ritual of global branding that in 1973 labeled Henry Kissinger a peace laureate! As with many aspects of unconventional warfare, what emerges in the foreground often obscures behavior that remains concealed in the background. Anyone [...]
New speech by President Obama for real change
By Mazin Qumsiyeh* Speech by President Obama delivered in Congress 2010 My fellow Americans. Millions of you and not special interest groups elected us to office on a platform of change and it is time for us all to deliver. I am laying out a program to do so but first we have to face [...]
The Day of The Awards of the Absurd, The Nobel Peace Prize Becomes Toilet Paper
By Robin Two of them, yes two are in the news today. Two awards announced that are so far into the realm of the absurd, the stuff science fiction is made of, that one must shudder at the realization, Orwell’s “1984″ has truly arrived, war has become peace. The first news has circled the globe [...]
U.S. Interests vs. The Jewish State
By Jeff Gates* Barack Obama’s recent conduct at the U.N. removed all remaining doubt as to Israeli influence inside this latest U.S. presidency. When he uttered the phrase “the Jewish state of Israel,” he provided precisely the provocation required to ensure that peace in the Middle East will continue to be deferred. When, in May [...]
Think Again: Palestine
President Obama got the leaders of Israel and Palestine to shake hands this week. But a meeting in Midtown does not a Palestinian deal make. Here’s why. By Zahi Khouri “Economic Peace Is Possible.” No. Neither sustainable economic development nor peace is possible without political freedom. The idea of “economic peace” suggests an economic conflict, [...]
Jeff Gates – Will Israel Fall in Five Years?
By Jeff Gates Online reports of a study by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency cast doubt over the survival of Israel beyond the next two decades. Regardless of the validity of the report, with what is now known about the costs in blood and treasure that the U.S.-Israeli relationship has imposed on the U.S., its [...]
Sam Bahour – The Elders’ next move
By Sam Bahour* RAMALLAH, West Bank — At long last, a spotlight is shining on Palestinian nonviolent efforts to throw off the Israeli occupation. A visit by a group of high profile “Elders” last month to the Palestinian village of Bil’in in the West Bank, and the barrier running through it, bathed our landscape in [...]
Turki al-Faisal – Land First, Then Peace
By Prince Turki al-Faisal* The United States and other Western powers have for some time been pushing Saudi Arabia to make more gestures toward Israel. More recently, the crown prince of Bahrain urged greater communication with Israel and joint steps from Arab states to revive the peace process. Saudi Arabia is the birthplace of Islam, [...]
Jimmy Carter – The Elders View Of the Middle East
By Jimmy Carter During the past 16 months I have visited the Middle East four times and met with leaders in Israel, Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, the West Bank and Gaza. I was in Damascus when President Obama made his historic speech in Cairo, which raised high hopes among the more-optimistic Israelis and [...]
Haitham Sabbah – Obama Peace Plan
By Haitham Sabbah A draft of the Obama peace plan, which is expected to be released at the UN Assembly meeting in New York, or at the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh, has surfaced. The International Middle East Media Center’s website leaked the alleged draft of Obama’s peace plan given to them by Palestinian Legislator Hasan [...]
Boycott Israel
By Neve Gordon Israeli newspapers this summer are filled with angry articles about the push for an international boycott of Israel. Films have been withdrawn from Israeli film festivals, Leonard Cohen is under fire around the world for his decision to perform in Tel Aviv, and Oxfam has severed ties with a celebrity spokesperson, a [...]
Netanyahu Speaks with Twisted Tongue
By Dr. Elias Akleh* In his foreign policy speech, Sunday 6/14 at the religiously extremist Bar Ilan University, the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu did not only put the cart of peace in front of the horse, but he also loaded that cart with tons of heavy rocks. The Palestinian senior negotiator, Saeb Erekat, explained “The [...]
Netanyahu Speech: Palestinian Reaction
Ahmad Tibi, a Palestinian citizen of Israel and member of the Israeli Knesset representing the United Arab List-Ta’al party, which was nearly barred from running in Israel’s last election: Netanyahu’s speech is a deceptive attempt to bypass Obama’s call for a complete settlement freeze. He said nothing new, but instead reiterated the racist demand that [...]
ONLY A DREAM: OBAMA HITS THE WAILING WALL
By Alan Sabrosky * The hopes Obama raised in Cairo didn’t last a week before US Middle East envoy George Mitchell buried them five days later in Israel. It was understood that what Obama proposed would be difficult to translate into concrete deeds. I believe Obama was sincere, and it wouldn’t have been the first [...]
Israel rank bottom in Global Peace Index
In a recently published report, Global Peace Index placed Israel only three steps from the less peaceful countries in the world. In its third year study, an Australian nonprofit organization ranked 144 countries for how peaceful they are. On top of the list, New Zealand followed by Denmark and Norway were ranked as the most [...]
HATTLER – Assalamu Alaikum
“Assalamu Alaikum”; a nice song from a live performance by Hellmut Hattler that goes around Israel / Palestine conflict and presents “The Wall” as a sample of this conflict. Peace! http://bit.ly/17daok Lyrics:
Alan Sabrosky – The Two-State Delusion
The world is once again being treated to yet another round in the Israeli-Palestinian “peace process” charade. The “usual suspects” are posturing, pronouncements are being made, speeches are being given, and hints and rumors about a supposed “toughening” in the US Government’s approach to Israel are filtering out from the press. We are supposed to [...]
Stuart Littlewood – Law and justice first, Mr Mitchell. Peace comes later
Stuart Littlewood* argues that, before talking about peace, President Obama’s envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, must first get Israel to end its violations of Palestinian human rights, abide by international law and stop its nuclear blackmail of the world. So they sent you to the Holy Land, Mr Mitchell, for talks. So many [...]
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