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The Gaza Siege: A Fact Sheet

by Yousef Munayyer June 3, 2010

What exactly is the blockade of Gaza? By Yousef Munayyer* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz In recent days, coverage of the attack on the aid flotilla headed to the Gaza Strip has focused on the lack of availability of certain humanitarian goods. This fact sheet is a reference tool based on international aid agencies and [...]

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UPDATE! Video: Turkey’s PM Erdogan speech with subtitles

by Haitham Sabbah June 3, 2010

Update 1: Part two was added. Update 2: Part three was added. Following is part one (first 15 minutes) of full speech of Turkey’s PM Erdogan responding to Israel’s terrorist attack against humanitarian aid ships “Freedom Flotilla”. Part 1: Video link: http://loaditup.blip.tv/file/3707889/ Code to embed part 1 in your blog:

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Beyond The Gaza Flotilla Attack: What Needs To Be Done, And How

by Alan Sabrosky June 2, 2010

By Dr. Alan Sabrosky* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The opening moves in the reaction to the Israeli interception of the first wave of the Gaza flotilla have now been made. Israel visibly underestimated the international response to its attack and the casualties it inflicted. Widespread condemnation ensued almost everywhere, many Americans became aware for [...]

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Israeli raid on flotilla: an intentional message for Gaza and the rest of the world

by Yousef Munayyer June 2, 2010

By Yousef Munayyer* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz On Monday Israeli commandos boarded one of the civilian passenger ships that was part of the “freedom flotilla” sailing to break Israel’s siege on Gaza and opened fire, killing at least nine and injuring many others. My first reaction was, as respected New York Times columnist Nick [...]

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Richard Falk, Huwaida Arraf & Norman Finkelstein on the Freedom Flotilla

by Haitham Sabbah June 2, 2010

In the middle of the night Monday, Israeli commandos boarded ships in the “Freedom Flotilla” attempting to bring humanitarian aid to residents of still-blockaded Gaza. The aggressive response by Israel turned deadly, after with at least nine activists killed. The international community has reacted with shock and outrage; protests have erupted around the world outside [...]

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UPDATED: Full Text of Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Speech! (English, Turkish and subs Video)

by Mary Rizzo June 2, 2010

Translated and transcribed from Turkish by Güzin Bilgi for www.palestinethinktank.com and Gulagnik Translators (www.gulaknick.wordpress.com) English editing by Mary Rizzo. It may be reprinted with full credits to the translators and source. You can watch the speech video with English subs at the end of English script! English: Today I do not only want to speak [...]

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Open letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

by Dr. Christof Lehmann June 2, 2010

Dr. Christof Lehmann * | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz June 1st 2010 Open letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Your Excellence, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu I am a clinical psychologist, specialized in psycho-traumatology, and have been working for over twenty five years with victims of human caused trauma. When I say, that I have the [...]

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Israel’s International Piracy

by Dr. Elias Akleh June 1, 2010

By Dr. Elias Akleh* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz As expected by many, the serial terrorist Israeli army attacked this morning, May 31st 2010, the “Freedom Flotilla” ships with gas bombs and live fire, murdering at least 19 humanitarian international activists, 16 of them Turks including one MP, and injuring 29 others. The Israeli navy, [...]

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Alan Sabrosky: The Madness Of Arrogance: Israel’s Attack On The Gaza Aid Flotilla

by Alan Sabrosky May 31, 2010

By Dr. Alan Sabrosky* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Israel’s attack on the Gaza-bound aid flotilla on America’s Memorial Day was all too predictable, although the form it took surprised even me. And it confirms the old proverb that “Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad,” for the attack was the kind [...]

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RAW FOOTAGE: Israel navy massacres on one of Gaza Freedom Flotilla

by Haitham Sabbah May 31, 2010

Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB-Mk4bFz-U Spread the video:

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American Humanitarian Hypocrisy; Armenian Genocide

by Dr. Elias Akleh March 14, 2010

By Dr. Elias Akleh* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The hypocrisy of the American legislators has never stopped to amaze me. On Thursday March 4th The House Foreign Affairs Committee had approved, by 23 to 22 votes, a non-binding resolution to condemn WWI-era massacre of Armenians on the hands of the Ottoman troops that began [...]

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Big Brother Erdogan

by SR Editor February 15, 2010

By Sami Moubayed* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz After the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in Ankara, many in the West referred to a new Turkish foreign policy called “neo-Ottomanism”, suggesting a revival of the intellectual, political and social influence of the Ottoman Empire, which departed the scene 92 years ago. That [...]

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It’s Not a New Turkey, It’s The Right Time

by Ramzy Baroud January 31, 2010

By Ramzy Baroud* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Uri Avnery’s assessment of the recent Israeli-Turkish diplomatic and political row – that “the relationship between Turkey and Israel will probably return to normal, if not to its former degree of warmth” – seems sensible and daring. In my view, however, it is also inaccurate. Simply put, [...]

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Our Last Port Is Freedom

by SR Editor January 30, 2010

By Free Gaza Movement Team Sending a Flotilla in the Spring to Break the Siege of Gaza Contact: IHH, Ahmet Emin +90 530 341 19 34 Free Gaza Movement, Eliza Ernshire +44 754 011 22 94 [Istanbul, Turkey] Today the Free Gaza Movement and the Turkish Relief Foundation (IHH), announce a joint venture, sending 10 [...]

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