Civil Rights

Israel Is Going to the Dogs

by SR Editor June 15, 2011

Israel has followed in the footsteps of the United States, using dogs to terrify Palestinian workers trying to get into Israel to find jobs. Victims of the dog attacks are not security suspects, but rather day laborers. Are occupation soldiers using Palestinian workers as guinea pigs, trying out the dogs in preparation for use on the upcoming flotilla to Gaza?

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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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Are US-Israel intelligence agencies blocking Palestinian civil rights to weaken Hezbollah? – by Franklin Lamb

by Franklin Lamb August 15, 2010

By Franklin Lamb* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (NIR) is part of the U.S. Intelligence Community’s panoply of 16 agencies, which comprise the US Intelligence Community (IC). According to Congressional sources consulted below, NIR and Israel have been working longer hours than most members of Lebanon’s Parliament, [...]

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America’s “Dog in the Fight” – by Franklin Lamb

by Franklin Lamb August 2, 2010

Will Hezbollah leash ‘NABI’ ? By Franklin Lamb* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz For months as Lebanon’s historic debate over basic civil rights for Palestinian refugees has unfolded, the Obama administration has watched idly along the sidelines. As hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees cough and slow-bake while inhaling rancid camp air in Lebanon’s sweltering [...]

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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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Nahr Al-Bared Refugees Camp: Checkpoints and more [Video]

by Haitham Sabbah April 21, 2010

Nahr al-bared refugee camp has still not recovered from the devastating war in 2007 during which it was destroyed. The Lebanese army has been keeping a tight grip on the camp and the 20.000 displaced Palestinians that have returned so far. The army’s siege seriously hampers the camp’s economic recovery, as access is restricted and [...]

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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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Can Lebanon come in from the Cold?

by Franklin Lamb April 9, 2010

By Franklin Lamb* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz More than six decades after their expulsion from Palestine, Lebanon’s unwanted refugees justmight be granted some basic civil rights… Part I: Hiba’s Story Granting even the most elementary and normally taken for granted civil rights to Palestinians in Lebanon won’t be easy and it may not be [...]

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Why We Petition For Palestinian Civil Rights in Lebanon

by Franklin Lamb February 1, 2010

By Franklin Lamb* (Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp, Beirut) | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz “We don’t have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change or resistance. Small acts, when multiplied by many people, can transform the world” “If we remember those times and places–and there are so many–where people have [...]

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