Failures

Satire: Harvard law school expels star student for ‘holocaust denial’

by Haitham Sabbah October 3, 2007

[Via: Wake Up From Your Slumber] Satire: Harvard law school expels star student for ‘holocaust denial’ CAMBRIDGE, Mass (AP) What began as a minor citation in a scholarly work ended up causing Noor Aljiem to be expelled from Harvard Law School. Aljiem, a third-year student majoring in criminal law, submitted a paper that examined Nazi [...]

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Palestine: A Policy of Deliberate Blindness

by Sophia September 2, 2007

By Régis Debray, Le Monde Diplomatique Foreword from the journal: Last year President Jacques Chirac asked Régis Debray to study the situation in the Middle East. On 15 January 2007 Debray sent the French authorities the following document on Palestine. It is an important key to understanding a long policy drift whose results are now [...]

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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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A Zionist Politician Looses Faith In The Future

by Sophia July 24, 2007

From the New Yorker’s David Remnick: The Apostate Excerpts: Short of being Prime Minister, Burg could not be higher in the Zionist establishment. His father was a Cabinet minister for nearly four decades, serving under Prime Ministers from David Ben-Gurion to Shimon Peres. In addition to a decade-long career in the Knesset, including four years [...]

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“Islamofasicm” – used by Bush…

by Haitham Sabbah June 29, 2007

…but Revolutionary Islam is not the Third Reich. Embracing the empire By Ian Buruma “But the term “Islamofascism” was not coined for nothing. It invites us to see a big part of the Islamic world as a natural extension of Nazism. Saddam Hussein, who was hardly an Islamist, and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is, [...]

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Collage Talk

by Haitham Sabbah May 30, 2007

First of all, please meet Handala: Handala (or Hanzala) is the most famous of the Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali’s cartoon characters. From approximately 1975 through 1987 Naji Al-Ali created cartoons that depict the complexities of the plight of Palestinian refugees. These cartoons are still relevant today and Handala, the refugee child who is present in [...]

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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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From Texas cell, Canadian, 9, pleads for help

by Haitham Sabbah March 7, 2007

The US is holding a nine year old Canadian citizen without charges in a ‘Detention Center’ in a legal limbo. Call it international limbo. Detained by U.S. Customs officials after their flight to Toronto made an unscheduled stop on American soil nearly four weeks ago, Kevin and his Iranian parents, Majid and Masomeh, feel they [...]

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Did you know?

by Haitham Sabbah February 9, 2007

Did you know that the Israeli farmer who shot Arab “intruder” 3 times in back, freed to “home arrest”? Did you know that Netanyahu uses the words that push US war buttons: “Iran and Holocaust.” Netanyahu knows which strategists and PR people to use to give him the right words (with a little help and [...]

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Human Rights Watch – Brainfart!

by Haitham Sabbah December 2, 2006

Sorry, but these guys seems to be living on a different planet. Less than a week ago, they spilled their poison on Jordan. Jordanian government spokesman Nasser Judeh replied: On Human Rights Watch (HRW) report, Judeh was surprised to hear the HRW asks Jordan to consider thousands of Iraqis as refugees, noting the Agency that [...]

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Traveling in or out of the holy/honey land is no fun!

by Haitham Sabbah November 24, 2006

Who said that traveling around is fun? Think again! So, you told me that you a living in the land of honey, freedom and democracy? Well, I don’t envy you if this is what your country endorse: Starting with the light story; six Muslim academics (Imams) were taken off a plane in the US and [...]

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Palestinian child visit dad in prison, family can’t!

by Haitham Sabbah October 30, 2006

Some of these children are as young as 4 years old, they take a number of buses, sometimes traveling up to 20 hours, with checkpoints, searches, etc. for a 45 minute visit with dad. [Hat tip: Editerette] Israel does not allow most wives or other relatives this privilege for the over 9,000 Palestinians in Israeli [...]

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Olbermann: Habeas corpus, RIP 1215-2006

by Haitham Sabbah October 12, 2006

Excellent reporting by Keith tonight on Habeas corpus, the Military Commissions and Tribunals Act of 2006 and how it will affect you in the future. US the free? [Hat tip: Kimmy]

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Two months before 9/11, an urgent warning to Rice, but no ears!

by Haitham Sabbah October 8, 2006

Tenet and Black felt they were not getting through to Rice. She was polite, but they felt the brush-off. President Bush had said he didn’t want to swat at flies. Officials now agree that on July 10, 2001, Mr. Tenet and his counter-terrorism deputy, J. Cofer Black, were so alarmed about an impending Al Qaeda [...]

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He who has U.S. support!

by Haitham Sabbah September 28, 2006

He who has U.S. support… Can say: Don’t touch our atomic arsenal… No to the agreement to limit W.M.D… No to stability… No to control on “Israel”…

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