Peace

Welcome to Israel, Joe!

by Yousef Munayyer March 12, 2010

By Yousef Munayyer* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz When he visited the Middle East, then Senator Barack Obama had a rude awakening. He was on the ritual visit for American presidential candidates to Israel, which usually consist of touring sites of significance to Jews and declaring support for the state of Israel. This is important [...]

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America To The Rescue, (Not) Again

by Sam Bahour March 12, 2010

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 March 11, 2010

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. [...]

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The Perpetual Process for Impossible Peace

by Yousef Munayyer January 16, 2010

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 [...]

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What future for ‘Greater Israel’? [Video]

by Haitham Sabbah December 26, 2009

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 [...]

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Steps to create an Israel-Palestine

by SR Editor December 23, 2009

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 [...]

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Obama: A Monument to Hip-ocrisy

by Mary Rizzo December 15, 2009

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 [...]

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The Dangers of Two States Solution

by Dr. Elias Akleh December 15, 2009

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 [...]

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One Palestinian Prisoner Could Change the Balance

by SR Editor December 1, 2009

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 [...]

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Alan Hart – Deception has always been the name of Zionism’s game

by Alan Hart November 27, 2009

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 [...]

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Dr. Alan Sabrosky and Hesham Tillawi on the Two States Solution [Video]

by Haitham Sabbah November 14, 2009

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

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President Obama’s opportunity to speak truth to power, Part 2 – Rahm Emanuel does it for him

by Alan Hart November 14, 2009

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 [...]

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Bouthaina Shaaban – Clinton Dances With Netanyahu

by SR Editor November 10, 2009

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 [...]

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Noam Chomsky: No Change In US ‘Mafia Principle’

by SR Editor November 5, 2009

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 [...]

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Alan Hart – President Obama’s opportunity to speak truth to power: Part 1

by Alan Hart November 1, 2009

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 [...]

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