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The secrets in Israel’s archives: Evidence of ethnic cleansing kept under lock and key – by Jonathan Cook

by Jonathan Cook August 20, 2010

By Jonathan Cook * | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz History may be written by the victors, as Winston Churchill is said to have observed, but the opening up of archives can threaten a nation every bit as much as the unearthing of mass graves. That danger explains a decision quietly taken last month by Binyamin [...]

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A Nation Born in Deception

by William A. Cook April 27, 2010

By William A. Cook* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz As Israel attempts today to gloss over the reality of its birth 62 years ago with a sweeping public relations campaign extolling the miraculous “resurrection” of ancient Zion in contemporary times, a new nation seeking only peace with its neighbors, it might be enlightening and valuable [...]

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Why Iran won’t attack Israel

by Yousef Munayyer April 21, 2010

By Yousef Munayyer* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz This brief appeared today in the Los Angeles Times and is a response to a column written by Benny Morris that was published in the Los Angeles Times on 16 April 2010. Palestinians are in Israel today because they managed to survive the depopulation of 1948, the [...]

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Palestine/Israel History since 1878

by Haitham Sabbah April 10, 2010

Pass this short video to your friends to answer the basic questions about the history of Palestine/Israel conflict and 1948 Nakba: Video link: http://blip.tv/file/3467330

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Nakba, the Forgotten Child of the Holocaust

by SR Editor April 10, 2010

By Steve Amsel* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Sunday evening at sundown, sirens will sound throughout Israel to commemorate the start of Holocaust Remembrance Day. On Monday, ceremonies will be held in various cities, the main one being at Yad Vashem, the memorial park in Jerusalem. Friday was the anniversary of the massacre at Deir [...]

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Total Boycott Against Total Occupation

by Antoine Raffoul April 4, 2010

By Antoine Raffoul* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz In an Opinion submitted to the Electronic Intifada on 4 March 2010 entitled: Moment of Truth, Rifat Kassis rightly asks: what does ‘boycott’ mean, how far does it go, and what does it call for? We, at 1948: Lest We Forget, wish to respond to any call [...]

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Katya Adler – Israeli Arabs struggle for land

by SR Editor July 24, 2009

By Katya Adler After Israel’s housing minister called on Jews to move to the north of the country to stop what he described as “the spread of Arabs” there, the BBC’s Katya Adler reports on the struggle for land in the area. Sami Salameh has taken me to what used to be his home before [...]

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Pogrom Acre-style

by Khalid Amayreh October 19, 2008

The word takes on a new meaning as Jews celebrate the Day of Atonement, reports Khaled Amayreh from Acre Racism raised its ugly head in the northern coastal town of Acre this week, exposing Israelis’ shocking bigotry and intolerance towards its non-Jewish citizens, especially the sizeable Palestinian minority which constitutes nearly one fourth of Israel’s [...]

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Cartoons Commemorating Nakba @ 60

by Haitham Sabbah May 20, 2008

How did the cartoonists in the Arab media Commemorate the 60th anniversary of Nakba? I’ve been monitoring most of the Arab media, especially newspapers, during the last 5 days to read what they have to say on this event. To tell you the truth, you haven’t missed much. On the air, Aljazeera made a big [...]

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Israel’s twilight years

by Khalid Amayreh May 16, 2008

Palestinians are increasingly rejecting the crumbs of a two-state solution in favour of justice for all in a single state, Palestine, writes Khaled Amayreh in Ramallah As Israel ostentatiously celebrates the passage of 60 years since its creation in Palestine in 1948, more than nine million Palestinians at home and in exile are commemorating the [...]

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Deir Yassin: The Palestinians’ Wounded Knee

by Haitham Sabbah April 9, 2008

A recent poll found that 76 percent of Jewish Israelis support “transferring” the Palestinian citizens of Israel – more than 1.4 million people – out of the country. Today, April 9, marks the 60th anniversary of the Deir Yassin massacre – the most traumatic incident in the campaign to expel Palestinians from their homeland. Deir [...]

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Nakba: For Palestinians, memory matters

by Haitham Sabbah May 14, 2007

Despite gains made to make ‘occupation’ the frame of reference in understanding what is going on in the Occupied Palestine, to a large extent the occupation continues to remain “invisible”. The occupation’s invisibility is mainly credited to propaganda-influenced media reports. Repeated studies of the media’s coverage of Palestine/Israel have highlighted the prevalent pro-Israeli bias. A [...]

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Uniting For The Return of Palestinians

by Haitham Sabbah May 12, 2007

The Palestinian refugee problem was created as the result of two wars (Al-Naqba of 1948 and Al-Naksa of 1967), massacres, and other aggressions perpetrated by Jewish underground and terror groups such as Haganah, Irgun, and Stern. After the War of 1948, the UN Conciliation Commission estimated that 726,000 Palestinians (75% of the Arab population of [...]

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‘May Day’ is a ‘Mourn Day’ for Ein al Zeitun Massacre

by Haitham Sabbah May 1, 2007

May Day is May 1, International Workers’ Day. It is recognized internationally for the celebration of the social and economic achievements of the international labor movement. Put for Palestinians, this day has more than celebration. It is a mourn day. It was not enough that Palestinians should have their homes and farmland stolen; they faced [...]

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Zionist propaganda and “Nakbah Denial”

by Haitham Sabbah March 16, 2007

From time to time, I receive some hate emails and comments from sick Zionist with the very infamous subject line: “Palestinian people do not exist.” Just a while ago, one of these history denial comments were attempted to be posted here by someone calling himself Doron Zielinski. The spam comment was long enough and full [...]

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