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Getting on board with peace in Israel

by SR Editor June 27, 2011

It is a different Jerusalem now. It is not their Jerusalem, for it has been taken from them. Every day the Palestinians of Jerusalem are further strangled by more incursions, by more “housing developments” to cut them off from other Palestinians. This is not my Jerusalem. The tens of thousands of jeering youths that swarmed through its streets on Jerusalem Day have taken the city from me as well.

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Munir’s Story: 28 years after the Massacre at Sabra-Shatila

by Franklin Lamb September 6, 2010

By Franklin Lamb* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The untreated psychic wounds are still open. Accountability, justice and basic civil rights for the survivors are still denied. Scores of horror testimonies have been shared over the past nearly three decades by survivors of the September 1982 Sabra- Shatila massacre. More come to light only through [...]

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Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 2009 Annual Report – by Stephen Lendman

by Stephen Lendman June 28, 2010

By Stephen Lendman* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Each year, PCHR publishes its annual report on Occupied Palestine, this year’s a detailed 250 page (PDF file) review of the past year, including the first days of Israel’s war on Gaza, Operation Cast Lead, “the major issue in the record of human rights and international humanitarian [...]

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Letter to Obama: You’ve Sold Your Soul for Kosher Dollars

by Mohamed Khodr May 12, 2010

By Mohamed Khodr* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz “I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” –Elie Wiesel, Nobel Prize Speech, 1986 Dear Mr. President Barack Obama: Again, congratulations [...]

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Desmond Tutu Letter to Bil’in

by Haitham Sabbah April 24, 2010

Message by Desmond Tutu on behalf of The Elders On the Occasion of the Fifth Annual Bil’in Conference on Popular Resistance. Dear Friends, On behalf of the Elders, I send warm greetings to all of you attending the Bil’in Fifth Annual Conference on Popular Resistance. We are sorry that we could not be with you [...]

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Deporting Gandhi from Palestine

by SR Editor April 19, 2010

By Jamal Dajani* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The Israeli government’s recent announcement of Army order No. 1,650 was just the latest act of provocation in a series of calculated measures to derail any possible resumption of peace negotiations. Under this new draconian measure, anyone who doesn’t have a “permit” to be in the West [...]

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20 Palestinian fatalities at demos against the apartheid wall

by Haitham Sabbah April 14, 2010

To date, twenty Palestinians, ten of them minors, were killed while protesting the Wall. 20. 5 June 2009: Yousef ‘Akil’ Tsadik Srour, 36 Shot in the chest with 0.22 calibre live ammunition during a demonstration against the Wall in Ni’lin. 19.  April 17, 2009: Basem Abu Rahme, age 29 Shot in the chest with a [...]

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The Palestinians are Winning the Legitimacy War: Will it Matter?

by Richard Falk April 4, 2010

By Richard Falk* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Ever since the Balfour Declaration in 1917 gave the formal approval of the British government to the establishment of ‘a Jewish homeland’ profound issues of legitimacy were present in the conflict recently known as the Israel/Palestine Conflict. This original colonialist endorsement of the Zionist project has produced [...]

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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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Roger Waters of Pink Floyd: Message of Goodwill to Gaza Freedom March

by Haitham Sabbah December 29, 2009

My name is Roger Waters. I am an English musician living in the USA. I am writing to express my great admiration for and solidarity with the 1360 men and women from 42 different countries around the World who are gathering in Egypt, preparing for The Gaza Freedom March. We all watched, aghast, the vicious [...]

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Photos: Rafah Iron Wall

by Haitham Sabbah December 23, 2009

Here are few new photos from “Rafah Iron Wall” project, which is being built by the Egyptian authorities on their side of Gaza borders. Egyptian government first denied such project and Americans said they have no part in it. More and more on-ground evidences are confirming that the project is in progress despite all calls [...]

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US Cutting Gaza Lifeline

by SR Editor December 11, 2009

Making an American ‘Impenetrable Underground Wall’ the Laughing Stock of the World-Leave It to the People of Gaza By Ann Wright* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz No doubt at the instigation of the Israeli government, the Obama administration has authorized the United States Army Corps of Engineers to design a vertical underground wall under the [...]

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Outdoing the Kafkaesque: Egypt’s new US designed underground Gaza wall

by Ann El Khoury December 11, 2009

UPDATE 1: Paul Woodward applies a healthy dose of skepticism to these early reports. I’ve added his observations with his kind permission (see below). UPDATE 2: Sherine Tadros reports from Rafah for Al Jazeera on the barrier — video clip added below (h/t AlethoNews) By Ann El Khoury* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Just when [...]

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Egypt accused of building Gaza wall [Video]

by Haitham Sabbah December 11, 2009

Israeli newspaper claims that Egypt is building an underground steel fence along its border with Gaza have been denied by the governor of Northern Sinai. Haaretz had claimed metal sheets were being installed underground to block tunnels used to bring essential goods and medicines into Gaza. But tunnel workers say Egypt has been enacting a [...]

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Living by the Gate From Hell

by SR Editor December 9, 2009

A Portrait of Nonviolent Resistance in One Palestinian Village By Ellen Cantarow* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz At no time since its 1967 West Bank occupation have Israel’s seizures of Palestinian land and water resources seemed as shocking as the ones attending its construction of “the wall,” begun in 2002. Vast, complex, and shifting in [...]

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