General Assembly

Israel’s Operation Summer Seeds

by Stephen Lendman September 1, 2011

Ahead of the General Assembly’s likely granting Palestine statehood recognition and full de jure UN membership in September or early October, Israel is preparing its army and arming settlers for disruptive protests.

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A Palestinian State Redeems the U.N.’s Historic Nakba (Catastrophe)

by Mohamed Khodr July 10, 2011

Please consider writing the U.N. Security Council as soon as possible urging them to live up to the founding principles of the U.N. and their convictions as governments and peoples that all mankind deserves to live free from subjugation and occupation in an independent nation they call home.

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The Audacity to Recognize a Palestinian State is Now

by Mohamed Khodr June 11, 2011

Sign this Statehood Petition and urge President Obama to support United Nations recognition of a Palestinian State. It is urgent and time sensitive because the Palestinians plan to submit their U.N. application for a Palestinian State next month, July, to the U.N. General Assembly for a vote on such recognition this September.

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Somebody please hand Abbas the revolver on the silver tray

by Stuart Littlewood February 2, 2011

In all our joy and excitement for Egypt let us not lose sight of the grey and sinister blob that is Mahmoud Abbas. He must be asking himself – fearfully – why he has so far escaped the purge while his bosom-buddies Hosni and Zine are sent packing in disgrace.

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Palestine and the Fate of the UN

by Lawrence Davidson November 12, 2010

We cannot look to any of the great powers for justice, fairness, equity or the like. Born of mass communications and the ethical potential of individual consciences, knows no national boundaries and thus has enormous potential. It is presently focused on the condemnable behavior of Israel toward the Palestinians. If, in the next quarter century, the power of mobilized civil society can bring justice to the Palestinians it will create the possibility for a more humane world in practice and not just in theory. It is an intoxicating prospect. And it is one that has a chance of realization.

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The Endless Game of Peace

by SR Editor October 12, 2010

Perhaps Erekat is right, and Bibi really is just playing games. Setting aside the composition of Israel’s demand of recognition as a Jewish state (which is ridiculous in and of itself), the mere act of setting preconditions for compliance with international law attests to Netanyahu’s apparently limitless arrogance. He honestly thinks he can shift the blame for the disintegration of peace talks by throwing bones to the PA, which already affirmed Israel’s right to exist.

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Empty Promises: Obama takes his Middle East peace plan to the UN

by SR Editor September 24, 2010

“International law is not an empty promise” – except for Palestinians By Phyllis Bennis* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz President Obama’s General Assembly speech called on the international community to mobilize behind the U.S.-led “peace process.” He called on the Palestinians to “reconcile with a secure Israel” and waxed eloquent on the illegality of killing [...]

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Iran’s President (Tries to) Speak Out

by Lawrence Davidson September 24, 2010

By Lawrence Davidson* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Iran’s president Ahmadinejad was at the United Nations on September 21, 2010 to address the Millennium Development Goals Summit. What he had to say was, as usual, a mixed bag of worthwhile insights and questionable assertions. We will get to some of them in a moment. But [...]

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Preparing For The End Game: United Nations Membership For Palestine

by SR Editor September 4, 2010

By Amjad Atallah and Bassma Kodmani* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Even as the direct negotiations between the PLO and Israeli government are about to resume, thought needs to be given to the possibility that talks will fail and that an agreement will not be reached within the announced 12‐month timeframe. This paper considers the [...]

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A Nation Born in Deception

by William A. Cook April 27, 2010

By William A. Cook* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz As Israel attempts today to gloss over the reality of its birth 62 years ago with a sweeping public relations campaign extolling the miraculous “resurrection” of ancient Zion in contemporary times, a new nation seeking only peace with its neighbors, it might be enlightening and valuable [...]

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Israel and the “de-legitimization” oxymoron

by Alan Hart April 4, 2010

By Alan Hart* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz For readers who may not be intimately familiar with English terminology, an oxymoron is a figure of speech by which contradictory terms are combined to form an expressive phrase or epithet such as cruel kindness and falsely true. (It’s derived from the Greek word oxymoros meaning pointedly [...]

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Petition in support of UN General Assembly President to boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel

by Haitham Sabbah December 4, 2008

Petition in support of call by United Nations General Assembly President Miguel D’escoto Brockmann for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/IJAN_Brockmann_BDS/?e During the 57th Plenary Meeting on the Question of Palestine, President of the General Assembly Miguel D’escoto Brockmann broke a diplomatic taboo by describing Israeli policies in the Occupied Palestinian Territories as similar [...]

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