Alison Weir

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Alison Weir: Israel’s Flotilla “Investigation” – Accused Murderer Chooses Own Jury; Court Reporter is Family Member

by Alison Weir June 17, 2010

Another Compromised Reporter By Alison Weir* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The New York Times, whose regional bureau chief has a son in the Israeli military, reports that Israel has just appointed a panel charged with investigating its attack on an aid flotilla that killed nine aid volunteers, including a 19-year-old American. Isabel Kershner, who [...]

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Alison Weir: As Israel Kills and Maims, Outrage is Directed at Helen Thomas

by Alison Weir June 11, 2010

By Alison Weir* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage at her off-the-cuff 25-second statement [...]

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End Israel Lobbies Pervasive and Damaging Influence in US Politics

by Debbie Menon April 24, 2010

Support for Israel is not only tragic and immoral, it is also extremely damaging to Americans. By Debbie Menon* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Mark Perry in his recent article in Foreign Policy journal “Petraeus wasn’t the First,” describes succinctly, the opposition to U.S. support for Israel, the rationale for it, and the cover-up on [...]

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Alison Weir – US Media and Israeli Military All in the Family

by Alison Weir February 27, 2010

By Alison Weir* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Recent exposés revealing that Ethan Bronner, the New York Times Israel-Palestine bureau chief, has a son in the Israeli military have caused a storm of controversy that continues to swirl and generate further revelations. Many people find such a sign of family partisanship in an editor covering [...]

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NYT’s Israel Editor’s Sticky Situation

by Alison Weir February 6, 2010

Ethan Bronner’s Conflict With Impartiality Ethan Bronner is the New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief. As such, he is the editor responsible for all the news coming out of Iasrael-Palestine. Iact is his job to decide what gets reported and what doesn’t; what goes in a story and what gets cut. To a considerable degree, [...]

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Obama Administration Takes from American Farmers, Gives to Israel

by Alison Weir October 24, 2009

Policy change slips in under the radar At a time of financial crisis in the United States in which thousands of Americans have lost their jobs and homes, an Israeli news service reports that President Obama has just signed a presidential memo eliminating a tariff on Israel that protected American dairy farmers and that raised [...]

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When Will Americans Come to the Aid of Palestine?

by Jeff Gates July 22, 2009

By Jeff Gates * Unless President Barack Obama resolves to expunge “special” from the U.S.-Israeli “special relationship,” this entangled alliance will continue to ensure that the U.S. is portrayed as guilty by its association with Tel Aviv’s thuggish behavior in Palestine and elsewhere. And by the U.S. insistence that Israel not be held accountable under [...]

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Funding Our Decline

by Alison Weir April 5, 2008

April 1st I participated in a debate in San Francisco that raised the question of US aid to Israel. It was highly appropriate that this debate was held two weeks before tax day, since in Israel’s sixty years of existence, it has received more US tax money than any other nation on earth. During periods [...]

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ADL giving ‘The Free Gaza Movement’ free publicity!

by Haitham Sabbah August 1, 2007

Thanks to the Zionist ‘Anti-Defamation League’ (ADL), the ‘Free Gaza Movement’ is getting a free publicity by the coverage here. I already covered the story of Free Gaza few months ago, but the more, the better. Project Description This movement is an international nonviolent resistance project to challenge Israel’s siege of Gaza. Israel claims that [...]

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AP Erases Video of Israeli Soldier Shooting Palestinian Boy

by Alison Weir March 19, 2006

“The trend toward secrecy is the greatest threat to democracy.” – Associated Press CEO, in a speech about the importance of openness “The official response is we decline to respond.” – Associated Press Director of Media Relations, replying to questions about AP In the midst of journalism’s “Sunshine Week”–during which the Associated Press and other [...]

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The American (Zionist) Media and “Relative Calm”

by Haitham Sabbah February 27, 2005

The fact is, however, that the truce and this “calm” were shattered long before this. The last suicide bombing against Israeli civilians was Nov. 1, 2004. It took three Israeli lives. Since that time, while Israelis have basked in “relative calm,” 170 Palestinian men, women, and children have been killed.

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