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Obama Ad Condemns Israel Aid Opponents

by SR Editor December 16, 2011

What is so bizarre about the Obama campaign’s hostility toward those who oppose aid to Israel is that Israel doesn’t need U.S. assistance to begin with. Israel, the region’s only nuclear power, has by far the strongest military capability in the greater Middle East, and it possesses the only significant domestic arms industry in the region.

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Sinking Ship – By John J. Mearsheimer

by SR Editor June 30, 2010

The attack on the Gaza relief flotilla jeopardizes Israel itself. By John J. Mearsheimer* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Israel’s botched raid against the Gaza-bound humanitarian flotilla on May 31 is the latest sign that Israel is on a disastrous course that it seems incapable of reversing. The attack also highlights the extent to which [...]

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Thanks, Iran! But NO Thanks! (Even Hamas wonders about the political convenience of the IRG escorts for Aid to Gaza)

by Haitham Sabbah June 7, 2010

As you might have heard now, Iran has volunteered to send aid ships to Gaza. As stated in Tehran, “The Iranian Red Crescent has decided to send two aid ships to Gaza this week and has called for volunteers to act as relief workers and accompany the vessels, the state IRNA news agency reported.” On [...]

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ACTION ALERT: Stop US Military Aid to Israel

by Haitham Sabbah May 4, 2010

Contact your state congressmen or senators today. The U.S. Congress is considering a bill to vote for it’s annual $3 Billion assistance to Israel’s IOF. The US 2011 budget is now in the House Appropriations Committee, and Israel is to be given another $3 Billion in Military Aid! In past years, Israel has been given [...]

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The Crisis That Wasn’t

by Haitham Sabbah March 30, 2010

By Philip Giraldi | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz It might have seemed a no-brainer that the vital security interests of the United States would eventually trump the demands of a small client state that lately has not been much given to rational behavior.  But in the latest showdown between the friends of Israel and the [...]

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Israel and Aid

by Haitham Sabbah March 24, 2010

By Ralph Nader* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz On July 10, 1996, at a Joint Session of the United States Congress, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received a standing ovation for these words: “With America’s help, Israel has grown to be a powerful, modern state. …But I believe there can be no greater tribute to [...]

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How Much Military Aid to Israel…Do You Provide?

by Haitham Sabbah February 9, 2010

Between 2009-2018, the United States is scheduled to give Israel–the largest recipient of U.S. aid–$30 billion in military aid. Through its illegal 42-year military occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip, Israel misuses U.S. weapons in violation of U.S. law to kill and injure Palestinian civilians, destroy Palestinian civilian infrastructure, blockade [...]

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GAZA: what are promises of humanitarian aid worth?

by Stuart Littlewood January 16, 2010

By Stuart Littlewood* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz We keep hearing from the British government that they have spent £millions in humanitarian aid for Gaza. But nobody is saying exactly where the money has gone and who benefited. Of course, if they had done what they were supposed to and (with the rest of the [...]

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A Tale of Two Cities…in Palestine

by Yousef Munayyer January 5, 2010

By Yousef Munayyer* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz While most would point out the differences between Gaza City, the impoverished and destitute administrative center of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, and Ramallah, the burgeoning administrative center of the Fateh-run West Bank, there are important commonalities between what seem to be diametrically opposite poles. A common misconception, [...]

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Gaza robbed of the most basic human right: the right to health

by Stuart Littlewood January 3, 2010

By Stuart Littlewood* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Britain’s prime minister, Gordon Brown, marked the start of the New Year in a way that many campaigners for justice and liberty will find lamentable. The charity MAP (Medical Aid for Palestinians) had written an open letter to Brown asking him to “urgently use all available diplomatic [...]

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Aid Rots Outside Gaza

by Haitham Sabbah April 17, 2009

Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of aid intended for the Gaza Strip is piling up in cities across Egypt’s North Sinai region, despite recent calls from the United Nations to ease aid flow restrictions to the embattled territory in the wake of Operation Cast Lead. Food, medicine, blankets, infant food and other supplies for Gaza’s [...]

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$30 Billion For Israel’s Military

by Haitham Sabbah March 13, 2009

Same old story, new president: U.S. President Barack Obama will not cut the billions of dollars in military aid promised to Israel, a senior U.S. administration official said Wednesday. The $30 billion in aid promised to Israel over the next decade will not be harmed by the world financial crisis, the official told Israel Radio. [...]

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UN says Israel blocks most Gaza aid

by Haitham Sabbah February 13, 2009

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says Israel only allows a meager amount of humanitarian aid to enter the impoverished Gaza Strip. The United Nations strives to provide relief to one million people daily inside a coastal sliver that is home to 1.5 million people, Ban said during a news conference on Tuesday. Israel, however, is [...]

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Tony Benn tells BBC of their pro-israeli ways!!

by Haitham Sabbah January 27, 2009

Tony Benn accuses the BBC ON AIR of capitualating to the Israeli Government by refusing to air an appeal for the Gazan people by the Disaster Emergency Commitee (DEC) he then broadcasts the Address himself much to the consternation of the interviewer! and here is the aid call video the BBC and Sky won’t air: [...]

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It’s Time for a Declaration of Independence From Israel

by Haitham Sabbah May 24, 2008

The former New York Times Mideast bureau chief warns that America’s foreign policy, particularly under the Bush administration, has been subverted by an aggressive and dangerous Israeli agenda that could launch a nightmarish regional war. Israel, without the United States, would probably not exist. The country came perilously close to extinction during the October 1973 [...]

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