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Israel deploys cyber team to spread positive spin

by Jonathan Cook July 22, 2009

By Jonathan Cook * | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The passionate support for Israel expressed on talkback sections of websites, internet chat forums, blogs, Twitters and Facebook may not be all that it seems. Israel’s foreign ministry is reported to be establishing a special undercover team of paid workers whose job it will be to [...]

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Featured on Arab News

by Haitham Sabbah January 7, 2009

Citizen journalists report on Gaza From Bahrain, Haitham Sabbah, an “uprooted” Palestinian activist and blogger, is working to organize and coordinate information on the Gaza situation. Sabbah was as born in exile in Kuwait and has not been allowed to visit Occupied Palestine since 1986. “Pro-Palestine Bloggers are facing a challenge to educate their readers [...]

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Caught One Million Spam and Counting

by Haitham Sabbah December 7, 2008

One of the reasons I closed comments on this blog was the huge amount of Spam I had to deal with everyday. Since then, the Spam reduced dramatically. Now I don’t have to deal with Spam comments, but Trackback and Pingback Spam only. Of course I can close Trackback/Pingback too, but so far they come [...]

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Nominated for Best Mideast Blog – Vote for Sabbah!

by Haitham Sabbah November 30, 2008

I just came to know that once again this year, this blog – Sabbah’s Blog – was nominated for the Fifth Annual Brass Crescent Awards 2008. Polls close Friday, December 19! Last year, our sister Laila El-Haddad (of Raising Yousuf, Unplugged) won the first position and my blog was given a “Honerable mention”. So what [...]

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The power of blogging

by Haitham Sabbah October 18, 2008

I can’t tell you how much happy I am after reading the following email, which I got from a dear American friend. It reassures me that I’m doing the right thing: My Dearest Haitham, I remember almost three years ago when I first emailed you, I asked you what your opinion on the Palestinian issue [...]

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Words I use on “Sabbah”

by Haitham Sabbah September 28, 2008

[Click image to enlarge] Here’s a heat/size map of this blog, courtesy of Wordle. My favourites: Palestinian and Peace, not Israel. Looking forward to “Peace”. Meanwhile, for “Occupation” to end with the end of “Israel”, figuratively speaking. Or actually, not figuratively speaking!

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Blogger Officially Observe Middle East

by Haitham Sabbah January 28, 2008

Finally, Google announced that there Blogger is officially supporting the three main languages in the Middle East, Arabic, Farsi and Hebrew: Millions of people around the world already use Blogger to participate in the wider Internet community. Blogging is a powerful way for people to publish online, reach a large and varied audience, and communicate [...]

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Bloggies 2008 drop Middle Eastern Bloggers

by Haitham Sabbah January 26, 2008

It is very strange to see that Bloggies 2008 has dropped ‘Middle East’ nominations for this year. Here is the statement: Most categories will remain as they’ve always been. But because of revision or removal, it’s time to bid farewell to: * Best British or Irish Weblog * Best African or Middle Eastern Weblog * [...]

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Join ‘Readers of Sabbah’s Blog’ Group on Facebook

by Haitham Sabbah December 27, 2007

More than 100,000 individual people read Sabbah’s Blog each month. Why have I set up this Facebook Group? Well, I’ve always wanted my own fan club . . . JOKE! Seriously, from time to time there will be events on the blog which I would like to notify my readers of. You won’t be bombarded [...]

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Want to Become a Famous Blogger?

by Haitham Sabbah October 15, 2007

Cartoon Blogger Dave Walker has the answer on how to do it: Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.

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Good news for NeoCons, AIPAC, Cheney

by Haitham Sabbah August 17, 2007

Netanyahu’s recycled!!! War with Iran looms… Every corrupt Israeli politician gets a least one more chance, and so, Bibi is back… Finally Bush, the US Congress, all those Likud supporting “anti war” bloggers, would have an Israeli to lead into the war with Iran! A mandate for change First, our top priority must be to [...]

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Google Bow to Zionists & Hijacked “Freedom of Speech”, Again!

by Haitham Sabbah June 26, 2007

(By Latuff) The following letter is self explanatory. Please read and act: Dear Reader, We @ thepeoplesvoice.org need your help! Anti-democratic forces have succeeded in making Google take us off its news list. It is important for web sites like ours to be listed there, so that more people will have access to alternative points [...]

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Sabbah Awarded for Promoting Peace

by Haitham Sabbah June 6, 2007

I was honored to know that my blog referred enough new members to join “One Million Blogs for Peace” project, and awarded a gift certificate, which means a lot more than it’s humble value. It means that readers if this blog are mostly “Peace Advocates”. So thank you all! I promoted the project couple of [...]

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One Million Blogs for Peace

by Haitham Sabbah April 5, 2007

By the time of writing this, there are over 308 blogs joined together on the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War, standing in opposition. By the sixth anniversary, their hope is to have 1,000,000 blogs united in the same purpose. read more | digg story

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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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