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Collapsing America

by SR Editor September 14, 2010

By Linh Dinh* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz All governments lie, kill and misuse public funds, but these calculated habits are amplified manifold during wars. We’re in two now, aiming for a third. Japan, whose land we’re still occupying 65 years after Hiroshima, has just announced sanctions against Iran beyond what the U.N. mandated. South [...]

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Does International Law Have a Future? – An Analysis

by Lawrence Davidson September 12, 2010

By Lawrence Davidson* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz I. The Usual Suspects Back on August 23, 2010 Israel’s most prestigious human rights organization, B’Tselem released a short report on the condition of water supplies in the Gaza Strip. Referencing the United Nations Environment Program as well as the Palestine Water Authority, B’Tselem reported that the [...]

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Researchers Erin Galbraith and Curtis Harrison: US Arms Used for War Crimes in Gaza

by SR Editor January 1, 2010

Researchers: Erin Galbraith and Curtis Harrison Faculty Evaluators: Andy Merrifield, PhD, Cynthia Boaz, PhD, and David McCuan, PhD Sonoma State University Israel’s repeated firing of US-made white phosphorus shells over densely populated areas of Gaza during its recent military campaign was indiscriminate and is evidence of war crimes, Human Rights Watch said in a report [...]

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Researchers: Israel Poisons Palestinian Soil, Newborns

by SR Editor December 26, 2009

By Fareed Mahdy* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz “The 2006 and 2009 Israeli bombings on Gaza left a high concentration of toxic metals in soil, which can cause tumours, fertility problems, and serious effects on newborns, like deformities and genetic pathologies.” These are some of the key findings of a recent study by New Weapons [...]

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Who’s the chief obstacle to ban cluster bombs?

by Haitham Sabbah May 19, 2008

Britain obstructs global ban on use of cluster bombs The British Government is accused of being the chief obstacle to the signing of a treaty to ban cluster bombs, which have maimed and killed thousands of civilians worldwide. Countries that have suffered the impact of the bombs, humanitarian groups and former commanders of British forces [...]

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To be a Zionist more than Zionists themselves

by Haitham Sabbah January 31, 2008

The long awaited final Winograd’s report came out with unsurprising (or surprising? doesn’t make a difference here) conclusions that saved Olmert’s ass and his sick cabinet, however, that’s not what I’m interested in at all. The real interesting part is the relation between Hillary Clinton and Winograd report. How? Winograd report states that the Israeli [...]

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Israel finds dropping 4 million cluster bombs legal

by Haitham Sabbah December 28, 2007

Whew… Israel – and its army – saved again from that nasty anti Semitic PR by parents of dead children ( I remember those pictures, doesn’t anyone else? More massacre albums here, here, here, here and here ) by its its own extremely fair and just politicians… The Israel Defense Forces will not take legal [...]

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Briton killed while clearing IOF cluster bombs in Lebanon

by Haitham Sabbah October 11, 2007

This is spacial news for Hillary who voted for more cluster bombs: A British man was killed on Thursday while clearing cluster bombs dropped on southern Lebanon by Israel during its war with Hezbollah guerrillas last year, a United Nations spokeswoman said. He was the 13th person to be killed during work to clear unexploded [...]

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Maybe Hillary should write a condolence letter?

by Haitham Sabbah July 26, 2007

UN: Peacekeeper killed in south Lebanon cluster bomb explosion And Hillary Clinton voted to continue selling Israel these bombs… maybe she should write a condolence letter?

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Israel “opposes” any role for countries who aid PA

by Haitham Sabbah July 25, 2007

that’s Abbas… yes, indeed… When is the world going to stop taking this crap and tell Israel and its atom and cluster bombs, its racism and apartheid laws, its occupation and oppression of the Palestinian people and its corrupt politicians and its “demands” – to go to hell?? (The EU doesn’t matter anyway, it is [...]

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US Defense Sec. Gates to pay his respects to Israel & AIPAC

by Haitham Sabbah April 14, 2007

Such news really makes one feel sick. Who they are fooling? From Haaretz: “The visit, which comes about a month after Peretz visited Washington, will also deal with bilateral defense ties between the U.S. and Israel… The Gates visit is critical to helping heal the rift in the relations between the U.S. and Israel defense [...]

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This land is MINE! Israel “Misused” Cluster Bombs U.S. Delivered Last August

by Haitham Sabbah February 8, 2007

Update: Steve suggested changing the title of this post and passed this photo (Thanks Steve): It is funny to hear and use the word, “misused.” What do you expect these bombs to be used for? I mean, what is the “good use” of cluster bombs? Hunting dinosaur , elephants, whales? Why are they manufactured for? [...]

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Cluster bombing of Lebanon ‘immoral’ UN official tells Israel

by Haitham Sabbah August 31, 2006

Jan Egeland said civilians were facing “massive problems” returning home because of as many as 100,000 unexploded cluster bombs, most of which were dropped in the last days of the war. He accused Israel of “shocking” and “completely immoral” behavior for dropping large numbers of cluster bombs on Lebanon when a cease-fire in its war [...]

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