Bleeding Edge

UC Berkeley Speaks Out Against Divestment Bill Veto [Video]

by Haitham Sabbah April 17, 2010

Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFv7h_gfAfU April 16, 2010 – Almost one month after the UC Berkeley Student Senate voted 16-4 to divest from General Electric and United technologies because of their complicity in Israeli war crimes the Student Senate meets again to attempt to override a veto by President Will Smelko. The Meeting ended with the senate [...]

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The Sorrows of Occupation

by Haitham Sabbah September 3, 2007

A Dr. & nurse who spent summer working in West Bank talk about their experience.

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Amnesty International Urgent Action: Palestinian House demolition/forced eviction

by Haitham Sabbah August 2, 2007

Via: Amnesty International Palestinian villagers’ homes under threat Since the Israeli army’s threat to demolish their homes, most of the people living in the village of Hadidiya have moved their tents and shacks a few hundred metres to the hamlet of Humsa. However, on 29 May Israeli forces delivered a written warning to the villagers [...]

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USA to Increase Selling DEATH!

by Haitham Sabbah July 30, 2007

Finally, Olmert confirmed what I have mentioned over a months ago about the increase of military AID to racist Israel. But the smell of death does not stop there. US also announced that it will increase military SALES to some Arab regimes. One ironic part in both the stories… It’s an AID to Israel, but [...]

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Israel grant Abbas $1 billion only if Fatah kills Hamas

by Haitham Sabbah June 23, 2007

Maan News report that Israel will provide Abbas with up to $1 billion so Fatah can kill Hamas. This is nothing but the first drop from the “aid flood” from Israel, U.S. and international community. But for what? For Palestinians to kill Palestinians: Bethlehem – Ma’an – The Israeli authorities have announced that Israel intends [...]

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Abbas, Hamas, Dahlan, and the PA should go to hell

by Haitham Sabbah June 15, 2007

The bloody fight has spread from street to street and from one house to another. Rockets are falling from everywhere on innocent civilians, destroying their houses over their heads. During the last few weeks over 200 Palestinians were killed, and over 400 were injured, many are in critical conditions. Dozens of Hamas and Fatah members [...]

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Hebron ethnic cleansing: What they don’t show you on CNN

by Haitham Sabbah June 11, 2007

The silent ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Hebron never stopped since the Israeli occupation landed. Following are few examples of the endless crimes conducted by Hebron colonizers (a.k.a. settlers) and their terrorist army (IOF), against land and Palestinian families, documented and published by B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied [...]

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Ethnic cleansing of Bedouin in Israel

by Haitham Sabbah June 7, 2007

The Bedouin community in Israel are an ignored part of Israeli society that are facing the same systematic ethnic cleansing that we all faced in 1948, 1967, 2000, and through today. Please support the attached “Call for a letter-writing campaign” issued by: Recognition Forum Association Forty, Association for Support and Defense of Bedouin in Israel, [...]

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Mass Graves and Lebanese Racism Against Palestinians

by Haitham Sabbah June 6, 2007

Sari Chreih and Razan Al-Ghazzawi – Interview with a Physician on Nahr el-Bared Tragedy Q: What is your name and profession? A: My name is Saleh Bhar and I am a pediatrician at American University Hospital (AUH, Beirut, Lebanon). Q: We learned that you lost a member of your family during the bombings, which day [...]

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Susanne Scheidt – The Lebanese Tragedy: a bit of suspicion

by Mary Rizzo June 1, 2007

Yesterday I forwarded this insightful observation made by Susanne Scheidt, the coordinator of Al-Awda Italia, and person who is exquisitely informed on events in the Middle East. Since then, we have seen the tragedy deepen and unfold with the entrance of Lebanese Armed Forces into the refugee camps. Susanne has added some background information to [...]

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Updated (2): Fath al-Islam Reality & Palestinian Refugees Misery

by Haitham Sabbah May 28, 2007

I’ve been watching the latest Palestinian refugees crises for a week now. Thousands of Palestinian refugees fled from Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon as one week of clashes by the Lebanese army and a militant group known as Fath al-Islam has left dozens of soldiers and fighters (better described as terrorists) and an [...]

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Shut off the water

by Haitham Sabbah May 18, 2007

No water for Palestinian childrenLet Palestinians die of thirst. This is what Mr. Netanyahu learned from the Holocaust: “evacuate whomever necessary, enact a closure on the Gaza Strip, stop providing services like electricity and water…

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Update – Daily Kos: Quote IOF, you are peace maker; Quote Palestinian, you are a terrorist

by Haitham Sabbah May 16, 2007

False! Well, not everywhere, but at Daily Kos it sure is. It has been nearly a month since I decided to start cross-posting most of what I write in my blog to my diary at Daily Kos. The diaries at Daily Kos are more or less make for a personal blog, where members can publish [...]

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Palestinian handicapped children forcefully homeless by Israel

by Haitham Sabbah May 10, 2007

Where on earth would you expect to see a military forces going out at 5:30 AM to throw out ‘handicapped children’ to the cold streets after snatching the kids out of their beds? ISRAEL, no where else! Believe it or not, the Israeli forces went out to demolish a centre for disabled children in east [...]

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Interrogation and Denial: How Israel Keeps Palestinians Down and Out

by Haitham Sabbah May 4, 2007

The following shocking testimony is a sample of what an uprooted Palestinian face if s/he wish to return home, Palestine. Nadia Hasan is a Palestinian woman with a Chilean passport. She is a human rights activist and translator. She visited Palestine once before, but since then, her only “sin” is wishing to set foot in [...]

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