Gaza

Ship Of Fools – False Flags On The High Seas

by SR Editor November 12, 2010

Did you hear about the ‘kidnapping’ of passengers on a Flotilla to Gaza? Did you hear about ‘ransom demands’ by the ‘captain’ of the ship?

NO???

Just what I thought…. you know why? It’s all BS!

Nothing but a cheap and slimy way to get the attention of the press… but it does not seem to be working.

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Killed by Israel Policy: Delayed Exit of a Toddler from Gaza Results in Death

by SR Editor October 21, 2010

She was not killed by a missile, or a suicide bomber, or any of the other dramatic ways children die in the Middle East. She was killed by an Israeli policy, that the people of Gaza are to be imprisoned as punishment for who the adults voted for. While many children have been killed by this policy, this case sounds particularly horrific.

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UN Fact-Finding Mission Says Israelis “Executed” US Citizen Furkan Dogan

by SR Editor September 28, 2010

By Gareth Porter* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The report of the fact-finding mission of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the Israeli attack on the Gaza flotilla released last week shows conclusively, for the first time, that US citizen Furkan Dogan and five Turkish citizens were murdered [...]

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Committee of Independent Experts on Gaza War

by Stephen Lendman September 25, 2010

By Stephen Lendman* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz On September 21, the UN Human Rights Council’s independent fact finding Committee issued its report titled, “No Safe Place,” (Read report here) assessing “investigat(ions) and report(s) on violations of human rights law and international humanitarian law during” Operation Cast Lead. Its members included: Professor John Dugard, Chairman, [...]

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Guilty As Charged: UN Report on Gaza Flotilla Massacre

by Stephen Lendman September 25, 2010

By Stephen Lendman* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz On September 22, Reuters headlined the news, saying: “UN Experts Condemn Israel Attack on Gaza Flotilla” It explained that the UN Human Rights Council’s (HRC) “panel of international experts” concluded what was obvious on day one – that Israel’s international water attack “was unlawful and resulted in [...]

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In whose name do they talk?

by Laila El-Haddad September 20, 2010

Gazans share their views on the talks taking place between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. By Laila El-Haddad* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz A second round of direct talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority are taking place under the auspices of Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, in Egypt’s Red Sea resort of [...]

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Israel Denies Gazans Access to Their Own Land and Waters

by Stephen Lendman September 19, 2010

By Stephen Lendman* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Throughout 43 years of occupation, Israel has waged war on Palestinians’ human rights and civil liberties, a new UN report providing more evidence that keeps mounting exponentially, adding clarity about an out-of-control rogue state operating lawlessly. On August 10, Haaretz writer Akiva Eldar cited it in an [...]

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In Gaza, Dreaming of Fish and Flowers

by Mohammed Omer September 18, 2010

By Mohammed Omer* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Gaza City – As the many colors of the fish and flowers slowly disappear from the Gaza landscape, the already grim prospects of the besieged residents begins to look even bleaker. Fishing was a profession that used to keep thousands of fishermen and their families fed, but [...]

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Jerusalem or Gaza – where is it worse to be Palestinian?

by Amira Hass September 13, 2010

Is it the isolation and insulation that Israel has imposed on Gaza, or the cynicism with which the decision makers continue to turn the population of East Jerusalem into welfare clients and slum dwellers, and then pride themselves of the national insurance payments they grant them? By Amira Hass* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Graduates [...]

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Fatah: Collaborationist Israeli Ally

by Stephen Lendman September 12, 2010

By Stephen Lendman* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz At least since the Oslo Accords, Fatah has served Israel more than its own people. On August 25, Haaretz highlighted the latest example, headling “PA arrests dozens of Hamas, Islamic Jihad militants in West Bank,” saying, a PA source confirmed dozens made, including “high ranking officials in [...]

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BBC bias: the Gaza Freedom Flotilla [video]

by Anthony Lawson September 12, 2010

By Anthony Lawson* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Whatever happened on the Mavi Marmara on the morning of 31 May 2010, the BBC’s Panorama team failed to give a balanced view of it in its so-called documentary, ‘Death in the Med’. Even the title sounds more like that of a paperback mystery, rather than a [...]

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The lights are going out on Gaza

by Mohammed Omer September 9, 2010

By Mohammed Omer* in Gaza City | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The Muslim festival Eid approaches, but not the end to power cuts that have darkened the month-long Ramadan fasting leading up to the festival. Or to the agony of Gazans, made worse by the reminder that it’s approaching festive time. The prolonged electricity cuts, [...]

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Hamas re-positioning themselves?

by Stuart Littlewood September 9, 2010

By Stuart Littlewood* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Hamas have been criticised recently for dragging their feet over the need to re-think their image. They now seem to have at least made a start on this important task judging by a remarkable interview with Hamas chief Khaled Mesh’al by the Jordanian Arabic-language Al-Sabeel newspaper in [...]

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Israeli and US Zionists mount ferocious attack on liberal academics in Israel

by SR Editor August 31, 2010

By Neve Gordon* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz On 31 May, I joined some 50 students and faculty members who gathered outside Ben-Gurion University of the Negev to demonstrate against the Israeli military assault on the flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza. In response, the next day a few hundred students marched towards the social [...]

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Donors Sending Expired Medicine to Gaza

by SR Editor August 24, 2010

By Nicole Johnston As you approach Gaza’s main dump by road you see a massive wall of trash looming over the plain. It’s crawling with around one hundred scavenger dogs and dozens of poor children, combing through the trash for anything they can sell. In this cesspit of disease is 20 percent of all the [...]

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