A free Palestine has so much to offer. Agricultural industry, tourism industry, cultural and arts and very rich natural resources, but none of these can be economically developed as long as Israel maintains a 10-meter-high separation wall and hundreds of military checkpoints within Palestinian lands, and as long as Israel continues to control the borders, effectively blocking the entire Muslim world from visiting and frequently turning away Christians – and even Jews – from its borders.
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Economics, Palestine Economics, United States
USA: Dissolving the Union
USA (4.5% of the world’s population) spent 41% of the world’s expenses in military, China (19.2% of the world’s population) spent just 8%. Most Americans can not understand the real picture anymore.
Ireland to advance EU-wide ban of Israeli settlement products
Ireland is planning to utilize its upcoming term as President of the Council of the European Union, which begins on January 1 2013, to advance efforts to achieve a joint decision between all 27 member states to ban products from West Bank Settlements.
World Bank report obscures nature of Palestinian economic crisis
Why does Prime Minister Fayyad wish to ‘improve’ the Paris Protocols, despite the severe limitations that it imposes on the PA’s ability to choose their own economic regime and adopt trade policies?
Even Netanyahu admits PA is an Israeli interest
The official added that Israel wants to see the PA perpetually busy and occupied with its internal political and economic problems which would give Israel a sort of carte blanche to pursue its settlement scheme. Israel is interested in weakening the PA regime, but never in destroying it.
Hypocrisy Not Democracy in America
US elections are farcical. Obama and Romney represent two sides of the same coin. Neither offers choice. Democracy never existed and doesn’t now. Rhetoric substitutes for reality. Republicans and Democrats offer the worst of all possible worlds. Ordinary people are entirely shut out.
Palestinians revolt against PA
Protesters, who are not affiliated with a single political faction, are vowing to keep up the pressure until their demands are met. Their demands include the sacking of the Fayyad government and the annulment of the 1994 Paris Economic Protocol, which critics say put the entire Palestinian economy at Israel’s mercy.
Why is aid not effective in the Palestinian case and how this can be changed?
Despite for many years receiving one of the highest per capita aid worldwide, the economies of the West Bank and Gaza Strip have failed to achieve any lasting developmental outcomes and suffer from major weaknesses which undermine their very survival. This book argues that the dominant, mainstream approach to the study of aid and aid effectiveness is theoretically and empirically inadequate for a comprehensive understanding and analysis of the workings of aid in developing countries. Alaa Tartir finds that this book adds an important, distinctive and timely contribution to the scholarly work on Palestine.
American Wipeout: Revolution From Above
Apparently, Americans are the first people in history who are so idealistic, or so thoroughly brainwashed, that they prefer to pay for wars and bail out banks than to make their mortgage payments and help their children with student loan debt.
Protest in Ramallah – an ominous sign for the Israeli occupation
Uri Avnery argues that foreign aid and Israeli handouts from stolen Palestinian tax revenue provide only temporary relief from Israel’s economic strangulation of the Palestinians, and that a “Palestinian Spring” targeted at the occupation may come sooner rather than later.
A Doomsday View of 2012
All indications point to 2012 being a turning point year of unrelenting economic crises spreading outward from Europe and the US to Asia and its dependencies in Africa and Latin America. The crises will be truly global.
Secret trade report obtained by AIPAC and Israel compromised sensitive US industry secrets
A declassified FBI investigation uncovered AIPAC’s receipt of the report from Israel’s Economics Minister, who refused to divulge how he obtained it. IRmep’s Center for Policy and Law Enforcement filed a petition demanding $6.64 billion in compensation for exporters that suffered confidential business information loss to AIPAC and Israel. The report’s public release now provides crucial evidence for civil damage claims to be filed in court against AIPAC.
Overdose: The Next Global Financial Crisis [Video]
This is the story of the greatest financial crisis we will ever see… The one that is on the way. An ABC documentary about the coming economic crisis, featuring Gerald Celente and Peter Schiff. Original air date: 23rd August, 2010. Part 1/3: Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr5F22j9A_E
Economic emptiness in Palestine and Israel – by Sam Bahour
By Sam Bahour* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Israelis and Palestinians have agreed to enter direct negotiations (yet again) in Washington on September 2. The Obama administration is sure to hail this as a significant breakthrough. Jerusalem, refugees, settlements, and borders will all be on the table. But substantive Palestinian economic growth must also be [...]
How Close is America’s Demise? – By Paul Craig Roberts
By Paul Craig Roberts * | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The Ecstasy of Empire The United States is running out of time to get its budget and trade deficits under control. Despite the urgency of the situation, 2010 has been wasted in hype about a non-existent recovery. As recently as August 2 Treasury Secretary Timothy [...]
To end the occupation, cripple Israeli banks – by Terry Crawford-Browne
By Terry Crawford-Browne* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The international banking sanctions campaign in New York against apartheid South Africa during the 1980s is regarded as the most effective strategy in bringing about a nonviolent end to the country’s apartheid system. The campaign culminated in President FW de Klerk’s announcement in February 1990, releasing Nelson [...]
Lebanon wins economically if Palestinians are granted the right to work – by Franklin Lamb
By Franklin Lamb* (Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp, Beirut) | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz “These are humanitarian, social and ethical duties, and the Lebanese state must assume the responsibility of providing them to our Palestinian brothers and sisters. Lebanon will not dodge these duties, which must be crystal-clear, and not be subject to any misinterpretation. The [...]
David R. Henderson – War Makes Us Poor
Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OT5uw1Fb_0 By David R. Henderson* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Many people who aren’t comfortable with the U.S. invading other countries reassure themselves with the belief that at least war creates jobs for Americans. But is military conflict really good for the economy of the country that engages in it? Basic economics answers [...]
Gordon Duff: America, Apartheid Or Apocalypse?
By Gordon Duff* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz To millions of Americans, the “end times” seem to be on us. The BP disaster in the Gulf may leave 25% of America virtually uninhabitable, eco-systems destroyed for sure but maybe much more, a destroyed sea floor, toxic gas clouds moving inland and warnings of something worse, [...]
B’tselem: Gaza, 95% of factories are closed, 93% of water is polluted
Most of Gaza’s factories have closed and its water is polluted as a result of Israel’s siege policy, according to a new report being released today by the Israeli Human Rights group – B’tselem. The siege policy has “led to economic collapse in Gaza,” B’tselem noted in a 44-page report (PDF) that looked at Gaza, [...]
Ireland must oppose Israel’s membership of the OECD
By Dr David Morrison* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz In a written answer to Sinn Fein Deputy, Aengus Ó Snodaigh, Foreign Minister, Micheál Martin, told the Dáil on 21 April 2010 that “it is expected that Ireland will join with the other 29 members of the OECD to formally invite Israel to become a member” [...]
Israel and Aid
By Ralph Nader* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz On July 10, 1996, at a Joint Session of the United States Congress, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received a standing ovation for these words: “With America’s help, Israel has grown to be a powerful, modern state. …But I believe there can be no greater tribute to [...]
Gaza’s youth not ‘superfluous’
By Yousef Munayyer* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz ‘TO CUT down on gang-related crimes, policies could be put in place to curb the African-American population growth in places like Harlem and Compton. The government could consider cutting off welfare benefits for families in these urban areas to discourage births of blacks and cut down the [...]
A Tale of Two Cities…in Palestine
By Yousef Munayyer* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz While most would point out the differences between Gaza City, the impoverished and destitute administrative center of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, and Ramallah, the burgeoning administrative center of the Fateh-run West Bank, there are important commonalities between what seem to be diametrically opposite poles. A common misconception, [...]
The US and China: One Side is Losing, the Other is Winning
By James Petras | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Introduction: Asian capitalism, notably China and South Korea are competing with the US for global power. Asian global power is driven by dynamic economic growth, while the US pursues a strategy of military-driven empire building. One Day’s Read of the Financial Times Even a cursory read of [...]
Addicted to Nonsense
By Chris Hedges | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The chatter that passes for news, the gossip that is peddled by the windbags on the airwaves, the noise that drowns out rational discourse, and the timidity and cowardice of what is left of the newspaper industry reflect our flight into collective insanity. We stand on the [...]
Pulse of Jordan [Video]
A quick survey in Amman reveals some exciting but (not)surprising strong opinions on subjects such as Palestine, Israel, Iraq, Water, Oil, Economy, Nuclear Energy, Tourism, Honour Killing, Women and Tribal System. Part 1/2: Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvWEvCl2iVA
Israeli blockade strangling Gaza agriculture
By Mya Guarnieri * Recently, Israel announced that it would import palm fronds from the Gaza Strip for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. The move came at the behest of Minister of Religious Services, Yakov Margi, who feared that a shortage of palm fronds and a local monopoly on the item would send prices skyrocketing [...]
New speech by President Obama for real change
By Mazin Qumsiyeh* Speech by President Obama delivered in Congress 2010 My fellow Americans. Millions of you and not special interest groups elected us to office on a platform of change and it is time for us all to deliver. I am laying out a program to do so but first we have to face [...]
Think Again: Palestine
President Obama got the leaders of Israel and Palestine to shake hands this week. But a meeting in Midtown does not a Palestinian deal make. Here’s why. By Zahi Khouri “Economic Peace Is Possible.” No. Neither sustainable economic development nor peace is possible without political freedom. The idea of “economic peace” suggests an economic conflict, [...]
Sami Jamil Jadallah – America; a Country That Lost its Moral and Ethical Compass!
Mr. Barack Obama, may God/Allah (oops, did I say Allah, sorry) and all deities help you and guide you. You need all of the help you can get, as you assume the leadership of the US on January 20th, 2009. Not only you are taking the helm of a country on the edge of financial [...]
Death of the American Empire
America is self-destructing & bringing the rest of the world down with it by Tanya Cariina Hsu I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. (Thomas Jefferson, US President; 1743 – 1826) America is dying. It is self-destructing and bringing the rest of the world down with it. Often [...]
Zeitgeist: Addendum
Recommended by one of my blog readers, if you have couple of free hours today, it is a must see video. Otherwise bookmark it for you weekend. Learn how money is made. Find out if the world is heading to economical disaster. This video will try to answer so many questions, many of us asked [...]
Israel is destroying America financially
When Will America wake up from her slumber? When future Historians look into the factors that ultimately brought down the American empire, one of the main factors they will feature prominently is the “Israeli factor.” It is well known that Israel, through the numerous Zionist lobbies and pressure groups, more or less controls America’s politics, [...]
Ordinary Palestinians pay the price of Israeli sanctions
First from Gaza. It’s the ordinary Palestinians that are being harmed by Israel’s decision to cut back fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip: Gaza has been virtually cut off from the outside world since Hamas seized control of the strip in June. Its economy has been crippled by Israeli sanctions and checkpoints. Israel insists the [...]
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