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2009 06 19 Haitham Sabbah Gaza
Israel
Palestine
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Terrorism
War Crimes
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Does Israel Really Have a Right to Exist?

by Susan Abulhawa*
Following Netanyahu's much anticipated policy speech, politicians and journalists, like mindless automatons, have set about repeating Israel's tired mantra that Palestinians should recognize Israel's right to exist. Never mind the fact that the PLO and Palestine Authority have obliged this ludicrous call, not once, but four times. And never mind that Israel has [...]

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2009 06 17 Guest Post Featured Articles
History
Human Rights
Israel
Palestine
War Crimes
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Gaza siege also hits disabled people

By Luisa Morgantini*
They worked for years for Israeli companies. For years, they paid their taxes and social insurance contributions in Israel in compliance with Israeli labour and fiscal law. But they also had accidents at work suffering serious and invalidating injuries in Israel's factories, building sites or fields.
Until the period following the Oslo agreements, [...]

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2009 05 28 Haitham Sabbah Gaza
Human Rights
Israel
Palestine Comments (0)

Administrative Detention

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The tyrannical nature of administrative detention and its complete violation of human rights are based on confidential materials kept from the detainee and the lawyer. The confidential materials determine the period of detention and its extension thereafter. The administrative detainee is allowed an appeal before a court martial but the confidentiality of the [...]

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2009 05 27 Haitham Sabbah Human Rights
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Palestine
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Int'l study: Israeli control in occupied territories 'is a breach of the prohibition of apartheid'

The following international report concluding that Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories "has become a colonial enterprise which implements a system of apartheid" was sent out by journalist Ben White. Another stinging statement from the report: "The Wall and its infrastructure of gates and permanent checkpoints suggest a policy permanently to divide the West Bank into [...]

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2009 05 17 Haitham Sabbah Featured Articles
Human Rights
Israel
Palestine
Racism
The Wall
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Stuart Littlewood - Law and justice first, Mr Mitchell. Peace comes later

Stuart Littlewood* argues that, before talking about peace, President Obama's envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, must first get Israel to end its violations of Palestinian human rights, abide by international law and stop its nuclear blackmail of the world.
So they sent you to the Holy Land, Mr Mitchell, for talks. So many before [...]

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2009 04 19 Guest Post Failures
Human Rights
Israel
Palestine
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Amira Howeidy - Israel's right not to be criticised

How serious can the international community's commitment to eliminating racism be taken when it succumbs to Israeli pressure to boycott the Durban II conference, asks Amira Howeidy
Fresh from its bloody war on Gaza, Israel is actively pressuring the international community to boycott the Durban Review Conference due to convene in Geneva, Switzerland between 20 and [...]

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2009 03 21 Guest Post Asides
Boycott
EU
Gaza
Human Rights
Israel
Palestine
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NY Human Rights Activist Threatened By Jewish Extremist Group

Town Hall Meeting Under Intimidation of Violence
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 13, New York, NY - Adam Shapiro, a human rights activist and documentary filmmaker, who is scheduled to speak tonight at a public Town Hall Meeting hosted by Revolution Books, has had death threats issued against him by the Jewish Defense Organization. In the threats, [...]

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2009 01 14 Haitham Sabbah Asides
Human Rights
Racism
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Video: Israeli Policeman Head-butts Palestinian Woman

Israeli human rights group B'Tselem films violence at demonstrations as Israeli police move in to destroy Palestinian homes.

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2008 11 29 Haitham Sabbah Human Rights
Israel
Palestine
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"NOT ONLY" in Arabia!

Woman beat, threatened by 'modesty squad'
Jerusalem woman who left ultra-Orthodox life after her divorce gagged, beaten by group of self-proclaimed 'chastity guards'
Aviad Glickman
A 31-year-old Jerusalem woman was cruelly beaten and threatened with death by members of the 'modesty squad' who took it upon themselves to interrogate her about her relationships with men, an indictment filed [...]

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2008 08 16 Haitham Sabbah Asides
Human Rights
Israel
Judaism
Religion
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US operating floating prisons

US adds a new scandal to its endless record of human rights abuse:

US accused of holding terror suspects on prison ships
The United States is operating "floating prisons" to house those arrested in its war on terror, according to human rights lawyers, who claim there has been an attempt to conceal the numbers and whereabouts of [...]

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2008 06 16 Haitham Sabbah Asides
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Freedom Rider: Slow Death in Gaza

By BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Each American claim to moral authority becomes a foul excretion in light of U.S. complicity in Israel's barbaric and illegal treatment of the Palestinians. Washington deploys its superpower apparatus to smother dissent against its Middle East policy in Europe and elsewhere, leaving former president Jimmy Carter and Nobel [...]

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2008 06 06 Haitham Sabbah Gaza
Israel
Palestine
USA
War Crimes
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Israeli democracy

Israel will not allow UN human rights envoy to enter… because he said Israel practiced apartheid…
Israel to deny UN official entry for comparing Israel to Nazis
By The Associated Press
The Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that it will not allow the United Nations official appointed to investigate Israeli-Palestinian human rights to enter the country, after he stood [...]

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2008 04 09 Haitham Sabbah Democracy
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Child abduction by IOF

This letter is a new example of Israel terrorism:
From: Fareed T [fareedt99 @yahoo.com]
Date: Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 2:00 PM
Subject: child abduction by IOF
Dear Friends,
My cousin Asef Jameel Awwad is 15 years old boy kidnapped 2 days ago by the Occupation Army and released after more than 30 hours of abduction.
The story started on monday [...]

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2008 04 07 Haitham Sabbah Action
Human Rights
Israel
Palestine
Terrorism Comments (1)

Saudi woman killed for chatting on Facebook

The latest crime "in the name of social customs and religious rules."
A young Saudi Arabian woman was murdered by her father for chatting on the social network site Facebook, it has emerged.
The unnamed woman from Riyadh was beaten and shot after she was discovered in the middle of an online conversation with a man, the [...]

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2008 04 01 Haitham Sabbah (Mis) Use of Technology
Breaking News
Human Rights
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