Beirut

Refuge and return

by SR Editor February 22, 2011

“Palestine is not an identity, land, home or some ‘right’ in international law! It’s this memory we chase of a time that has long gone by, and knowing so we live in the shadows, chasing what used to be.”

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As Tahrir Square goes so goes the Middle East?

by Franklin Lamb February 5, 2011

If there were to be an Arab League meeting this week attended by all the Arab Heads to State, an honest participant might suggest to the assembled potentates to look to their right and then look to their left and realize that in perhaps 24 months close one third may not be attending subsequent Arab League summits.

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Civil rights for Palestinian refugees

by Franklin Lamb December 15, 2010

As the Palestine Civil Rights Movement launches ‘Round Two’ of the struggle to secure civil rights for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, international community involvement is essential, beginning with education among the European Union countries of the squalid conditions in Lebanon’s camps and EU solidarity with encouraging Lebanon’s parliament to fulfill its obligations and avoid a growing demand for international sanctions against Lebanon. Among actions being organized is the pending lawsuit in Washington DC to cut off all US aid to Lebanon as required under the 1961 US Foreign Assistance Act to countries, such as Lebanon, who engage in a pattern of denying civil rights to refugees.

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Return to Shatila

by William A. Cook September 16, 2010

“O, that it were possible, We might but hold some two days’ conference With the dead!” (John Webster, IV.ii.18.) “The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.” (Tennyson, “In the Valley of Cauteretz”) By William A. Cook* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Twenty eight years ago, a scene of unspeakable horror rocked [...]

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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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The Ground Zero Synagogue – Lebanon Becoming More American than America

by SR Editor August 30, 2010

By Gus Bridi – www.zeropartypolitics.com “There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia. The time for double standards that allow Islamists to behave aggressively toward us while they demand our weakness and submission is over.”- Newt Gingrich Has Lebanon officially [...]

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Lebanon scatters a little chicken feed and labels it ‘manna from heaven’ – by Franklin Lamb

by Franklin Lamb August 19, 2010

By Franklin Lamb* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz “Palestinian guests in Lebanon are working with total freedom. First of all we do not refer to them as “refugees”. They are our brothers who are suffering and in a very difficult situation that they did not cause and they have lost their country. They sought our [...]

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Lebanon’s Merry Month of May

by Franklin Lamb May 4, 2010

In Lebanon this month, like spring flowers, proposals to give Palestinians the right to work are bursting out all over Part III of a six part series on securing Palestinian Civil Rights in Lebanon By Franklin Lamb* (Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp, Beirut) | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz This year, the Merry Month of May in [...]

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The Case for Palestinian Rights in Lebanon

by Franklin Lamb April 21, 2010

What are the Odds? By Franklin Lamb* (Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp, Beirut) | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz As of mid-April 2010 there are no fewer than six draft laws, half of them ‘embargoed for now’ being circulated and debated in Lebanon, any one of which if adopted by Parliament, would grant Lebanon’s Palestinians, for the [...]

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Picnicking on Mount Vesuvius?

by Franklin Lamb April 16, 2010

By Franklin Lamb* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Is the US Embassy in Lebanon squandering its diplomatic immunity? Tensions are rising in Lebanon between elected representatives in Parliament, ‘Unity’ Cabinet members and the American Embassy, as the 27th anniversary of the attack 1983 attack on the US Embassy approaches and the Embassy issues another warning [...]

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Beirut Before and After

by Haitham Sabbah August 18, 2006

Source: MSNBC

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Israeli Massacre in Chiyah, Ghaziyeh and Ansar, Lebanon. August 7 & 8, 2006

by Haitham Sabbah August 10, 2006

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Did you know?

by Haitham Sabbah August 9, 2006

Did you know that India have banned Arab TV channels under pressure from Israel. In a country widely referred to as the world’s largest democracy, the Indian government has succumbed to mounting Israeli pressure and ordered a nationwide ban on the broadcast of Arab television channels?! Update: India denies ban on Arabic TV channels Now [...]

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The new Nazis of Israel and USA

by Haitham Sabbah August 8, 2006

The pictures speak for themselves. A Lebanese boy watches his mother dying between his hands… Too painful to add anymore words! It is time to stop these blood rivers in Lebanon and Palestine… It is time to put an end to the barbarian behavior & unjustified attacks of the Nazi like Israelis against children, women [...]

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Cease Fire Now!

by Haitham Sabbah August 7, 2006

You will not see this on CNN or BBC. This video is dedicated to the children who have lost their lives because the US, UK and Israel have willingly stopped a ceasefire resulting in the massacre of the Lebaneses people. Where is the worlds conscience? Help these people by sharing this video with anyone you [...]

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