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Iran’s President (Tries to) Speak Out

by Lawrence Davidson September 24, 2010

By Lawrence Davidson* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Iran’s president Ahmadinejad was at the United Nations on September 21, 2010 to address the Millennium Development Goals Summit. What he had to say was, as usual, a mixed bag of worthwhile insights and questionable assertions. We will get to some of them in a moment. But [...]

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The Hate Mongers Among Us

by Jeff Gates September 17, 2010

By Jeff Gates* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Hate is a harsh word. As the counterpoint to love, hate reigns supreme among those emotions that the faith traditions seek to expunge from the human heart. Hate we’re told is the face of evil seen in plumes of smoke and ash on 911. Yet hate also [...]

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Collapsing America

by SR Editor September 14, 2010

By Linh Dinh* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz All governments lie, kill and misuse public funds, but these calculated habits are amplified manifold during wars. We’re in two now, aiming for a third. Japan, whose land we’re still occupying 65 years after Hiroshima, has just announced sanctions against Iran beyond what the U.N. mandated. South [...]

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Preparing For The End Game: United Nations Membership For Palestine

by SR Editor September 4, 2010

By Amjad Atallah and Bassma Kodmani* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Even as the direct negotiations between the PLO and Israeli government are about to resume, thought needs to be given to the possibility that talks will fail and that an agreement will not be reached within the announced 12‐month timeframe. This paper considers the [...]

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Hamas must rebrand and take the wind out of Israel’s and America’s sails – by Stuart Littlewood

by Stuart Littlewood August 19, 2010

By Stuart Littlewood* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz In the five years since I became interested in the Palestinians, only two things of positive note have happened in the occupied territories. The Palestinians held full and fair elections in 2006 to establish themselves as a democracy – and much good it did them. And in [...]

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Middle East history buff Hague whitewashes Israel’s villainy on the high seas – by Stuart Littlewood

by Stuart Littlewood August 1, 2010

“We have to be steeped in the Middle East, way back to historical matters. Because you can’t understand it without the history.” By Stuart Littlewood* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz My MP, a Foreign Office minister in the shiny new coalition government, has written to me saying he believes the Foreign Secretary was “extremely fair, [...]

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John Pilger: There Is a War on Journalism

by Haitham Sabbah June 30, 2010

Decmocracy Now! Interview With John Pilger: John Pilger, award-winning investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker. He began his career in journalism nearly half a century ago and has written close to a dozen books and made over fifty documentaries. He lives in London but is in the United States working on a forthcoming documentary about what [...]

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Gordon Duff: America, Apartheid Or Apocalypse?

by Gordon Duff June 22, 2010

By Gordon Duff* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz To millions of Americans, the “end times” seem to be on us. The BP disaster in the Gulf may leave 25% of America virtually uninhabitable, eco-systems destroyed for sure but maybe much more, a destroyed sea floor, toxic gas clouds moving inland and warnings of something worse, [...]

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Yamin Zakaria – Palestine: Two-State Solution of Hamas or wait for the Caliphate

by SR Editor June 17, 2010

By Yamin Zakaria* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Hamas, the elected government of Palestine recently stated that it is prepared to accept the two-state solution(1), according to the UN resolution, which demands total withdrawal of Israeli troops to the 1967 borders, and the implementation of resolution 194, meaning repatriation of the Palestinian refugees. East Jerusalem [...]

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Stephen M. Walt: The Critic of My Friend is My Enemy

by SR Editor June 16, 2010

Turkey and the Neocons By Stephen M. Walt* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz It couldn’t be more predictable. Back when Israel and Turkey were strategic allies with extensive military-to-military ties, prominent neoconservatives were vocal defenders of the Turkish government and groups like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and AIPAC encouraged Congress not to pass resolutions that [...]

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AIPAC: The Voice of America

by Anthony Lawson June 1, 2010

By Anthony Lawson* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz There can be no doubt, at least as far as Middle East Policy is concerned, that AIPAC is the Voice of America. Although I have heard AIPAC pronounced in two distinct ways, one of which is A-PAC, I have chosen to pronounce the acronym with the same [...]

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Jews are 8 times over-represented in UK parliament

by Stuart Littlewood May 22, 2010

By Stuart Littlewood* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz At that rate Muslims would have 200 seats ‘Proportional Representation’ is a big buzz-word in the UK these days. It implies fairer voting and fairer government. It is claimed to give minorities a better chance of being heard and therefore, they say, it should be incorporated into [...]

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America Held Hostage: Year 62

by SR Editor May 15, 2010

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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Will Hezbollah support the right to work for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon?

by Franklin Lamb May 14, 2010

Local political pressures are mounting on the Party of God Part IV of a series concerning the international campaign to legislate civil rights for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon By Franklin Lamb* (Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp, Beirut) | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The current relationship between the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and Hezbollah is not as [...]

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Is the “Times Square Terrorist” more Field-based Warfare

by Jeff Gates May 13, 2010

By Jeff Gates* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz In March 2001, Indonesian Intelligence Chief Arie Kumaat asked American James M. (“Mel”) Rockefeller to assess the Taliban’s destruction of the two ancient Buddhas of Bamyan carved into a sandstone cliff in central Afghanistan 140 miles northwest of Kabul. Familiar with psychological operations (psy-ops) that involve lengthy [...]

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