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So what do we call THIS?

by Haitham Sabbah June 9, 2007

Jewish worshippers desecrate Muslim cemetery in West Bank A Muslim graveyard in a village near the West Bank settlement of Ariel was desecrated by a group of Jewish worshippers visiting the area on Friday morning. A group of some 1,300 Jews visited the tomb of Joshua Ben Nun on Thursday night, in full coordination with [...]

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Video: Israeli forces invade Balata refugee camp

by Haitham Sabbah May 30, 2007

On 24 May 2007 the Israeli Army invaded the Balata refugee camp outside the West Bank city of Nablus. First entering the camp disguised as Palestinian civilians, and later with a number of armored vehicles, the army arrested camp residents and placed the entire population under curfew. This video produced by the Research Journalism Initiative [...]

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Racists press DePaul University to deny tenure to Dr. Finkelstein

by Haitham Sabbah April 10, 2007

Dershowitz and other racists embarked on a program to press DePaul University to deny tenure to our friend Dr. Norman Finkelstein. If you are not familiar with Finkelstein’s excellent work, take a look around his website. Anybody who read Beyond Chutzpah knows how meticulous is the research of Prof. Finkelstein. Dershowitz’s plagiarizing and garbage would [...]

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Israel Goes on the Virtual Offensive

by Haitham Sabbah April 2, 2007

By Gregory Levey The Israeli government is deploying new tactics to deepen ties with American youth and evangelicals. For the moment at least, the state of Israel has 553 friends. One of them is Leonardo DiCaprio. The 20-something Israeli official who is showing me Israel’s new MySpace page, however, says she isn’t sure if the [...]

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Who’s your online enemy?

by Haitham Sabbah April 2, 2007

Web-savvy criminals have turned Israel into the world’s highest ranking source of malicious Internet activity per user, security experts have told The Jerusalem Post. From July through December 2006, 9 percent of all such activity could be traced back to Israel. Taiwan came next with 8%, while Poland and the US tied at 6%, according [...]

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Comments are open!

by Haitham Sabbah March 29, 2007

Comments on last few post were closed while I was moving the blog to it’s final destination (new server). They are now OPEN. Sorry for the inconveniences, comments are welcome :-)

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Jenin child tells the story of how soldiers killed his father in 2002

by Haitham Sabbah March 29, 2007

“My father was not a fighter. He was not armed. The [Israeli] soldiers took him from our house and tortured him without any mercy, they killed him and gave us his body, my brothers and I are orphans now. Where is the international conscience, where is the United Nations that puts the victim and the [...]

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Australian soldiers who served in Iraq ‘contaminated with radiation’

by Haitham Sabbah March 29, 2007

Sip the sour: TWO Australian soldiers who served in the first Iraq war have tested positive to depleted uranium (DU) contamination despite assurances from the Federal Government they had not been exposed, an anti-nuclear group said. Any such admission from the Government would leave it open to millions of dollars in compensation. [Hat tip: David [...]

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The Mayor, the Martyr, and the Pomegranate Trees

by Haitham Sabbah March 27, 2007

How the Lebanese town of Aita al Shaab won the war and lost almost everything? An excellent story of the Lebanese and Palestinian refugees in Lebanon who you do not hear about in America.

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A Stanford Jewish student opines: Occupation defies social justice

by Haitham Sabbah March 27, 2007

As a young person, I eagerly absorbed Jewish culture and values, harnessing the lessons of tikkun olum, the Judaic principle which translates to “repair the world.” As I came of age, I became increasingly committed to this principle in my daily life as an activist for social change…. As a trusting and uninformed child, I [...]

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Hard to understand how Israel again coerced world to dance to its tune

by Haitham Sabbah March 27, 2007

The rules of decorum are binding: Welcome – to the U.S. Secretary of State and United Nations secretary-general, who have come here (Israel), and to the German chancellor, who is due next week. But the rules of logic are no less binding, and we must ask: So, why have you come? All three have declared [...]

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As US’s puppet, Ban Ki-moon was, of course, not listening

by Haitham Sabbah March 27, 2007

Joint Letter of Palestinian Human Rights Organisations Submitted to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on the Occasion of his Visit to the Occupied Palestine. 24 March 2007 Dear Secretary-General Ban, As Palestinian organisations dedicated to the protection and promotion of human rights, we welcome your decision to visit the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) at [...]

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Let’s see: Israel thought Iran kidnapped its soldiers, so it attacked Lebanon…???

by Haitham Sabbah March 27, 2007

Olmert says it’s not about facts, but about image….and is Tsipi Livni going to survive and become Prime Minister?? [Hat tip: David Cohen]

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Marine admits to killing 18 unarmed Iraqis, says he would do it again

by Haitham Sabbah March 21, 2007

This is for John (the US Marine who would die for me!) and Angelique (who thinks that her husband hasn’t killed anyone in Iraq, but terrorists) and all the supporters of war in Iraq (and everywhere else). Although he was charged with other three marines with murder and the killings of two dozen Iraqi men, [...]

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Maya to “cleanse” sacred site after Bush visit

by Haitham Sabbah March 18, 2007

I missed this when it came up a week ago, but it’s too good to ignore. Mayan leaders will spiritually “cleanse” ancient ruins in Guatemala after a visit by U.S. President George W. Bush. The leaders said they would hold a spiritual ceremony to restore “peace and harmony” at the Mayan ruins of Iximche after [...]

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