Intifada

We’re All Egyptians Now!

by Stephen Lendman February 6, 2011

Uprisings are testing America’s Middle East iron grip. Matching homeland ones are now crucial, demanding real, not fake democracy, freedom, jobs, education, health care, and overall economic justice, the kind Franklin Roosevelt suggested in his last State of the Union address.

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Israeli Police Given Protection for Killing Palestinians

by SR Editor October 8, 2010

Once again Israel’s police officers and border police shoot and kill an Arab in cold blood. This time it was a father to many children who was trying to enter Jerusalem to find work for his livelihood. Again the automatic false claim was made that a Palestinian tried to take a border policeman’s weapon. Will the police force, once again, rally behind this murdering officer? Will he, too, gain the status of a hero that killed another Arab? Israeli rights group Yesh Din reported earlier in the year that only “six percent of investigations yielded indictments against Israeli soldiers who harmed Palestinians.

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A new political option for confronting Israel

by SR Editor April 13, 2010

By Hasan Abu Nimah* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz As more people recognize that the “peace process” has come to an unbridgeable impasse, there is debate. Some, especially those who prospered from the path of failed negotiations, argue that there is no alternative to continuing with the US-brokered “peace process.” Others intimate that a third [...]

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The Palestinians are Winning the Legitimacy War: Will it Matter?

by Richard Falk April 4, 2010

By Richard Falk* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Ever since the Balfour Declaration in 1917 gave the formal approval of the British government to the establishment of ‘a Jewish homeland’ profound issues of legitimacy were present in the conflict recently known as the Israel/Palestine Conflict. This original colonialist endorsement of the Zionist project has produced [...]

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The Centrality of Jerusalem

by Yousef Munayyer April 3, 2010

By Yousef Munayyer* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz If international law matters to any American president, it ought to be President Obama who has taught constitutional law. Israel’s supporters are wrong to downplay the significance of illegal settlement activity as innocuous building in “Jewish neighborhoods” of Jerusalem. Contrary to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s claim that “building [...]

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Going it alone: a Third Intifada?

by SR Editor March 23, 2010

By Tariq Shadid* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz It may well be that the citizens of the world, tired of hearing newscasts about Israel and the Palestinians, are not in the mood to hear it. Still, pressure in Palestine is building up quickly due to Israel’s continuing defiance of calls from around the world to [...]

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Jeff Gates – Time for an American Intifada?

by Jeff Gates February 7, 2010

By Jeff Gates* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz During the 1960 Christmas season, Americans flocked to the theaters to see Exodus, a 3-1/2 hour epic film featuring handsome freedom fighters and a riveting romance amidst the heroic triumph of Jewish Destiny over Arab Evil Doers. Set against a Yuletide backdrop of Biblical prophecy, moviegoers marveled [...]

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Matt Beynon Rees – A Palestinian Mandela

by SR Editor February 6, 2010

By Matt Beynon Rees | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The most important man in Palestinian politics is neither president nor prime minister. He doesn’t shuttle between meetings at the US ambassador’s residence and the Israeli foreign ministry. In fact, he doesn’t go anywhere. He’s in an Israeli jail. Marwan Barghouti, 50, is serving five life [...]

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One Palestinian Prisoner Could Change the Balance

by SR Editor December 1, 2009

Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Occupied Jerusalem, Nov 30 – The fate of one prisoner locked in an Israeli jail could release the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process from its own jail – provided the timing is right. The political timing is definitely ripe. This week a major residual [...]

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Third Intifada Or Final Solution?

by SR Editor October 26, 2009

By Steve Amsel * The timing seems too coincidental for the ‘riots’ around the AlAqsa Mosque to be the fault of the Palestinians. The ‘Second Intifada’ started nine years ago, almost to the day, when Palestinians were provoked by a visit by Ariel Sharon to the same area. Again, the Palestinians have been pushed too [...]

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Syria’s Golan Heights: Can International law forestall a Golanian intifada?

by Franklin Lamb October 23, 2009

Pressure increasing on Syria’s government to retake the Heights by force By Franklin Lamb * Nationals from nearly one-third of the 192 member states of the United Nations met in Damascus last week to discuss the Return/Liberation of the Golan Heights. An estimated 5000 researchers, Lawyers, politicians, activists, victims of Israel’s 42 years of occupation, [...]

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Video: Aftershock

by Haitham Sabbah November 14, 2008

IOF soldiers reveal how to brutally repress Palestinian civilians “Whilst I was there, I lost all my faith in the Israeli army. They put it right in your face: ‘Go be the oppressors for your people. Force yourselves upon them’. They told us…’take these bats wrapped up in plastic and…calm things down’…We had skulls on [...]

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A War of Religions? God Forbid!

by Haitham Sabbah February 22, 2006

With all the religiophobia going around, specially when it comes to Palestinian issue, Islam, Judaism and Christianity, following article by Uri Avnery is a must read. A War of Religions? God Forbid! Uri Avnery, 19.2.06 ONE OF our former Chiefs-of-Staff, the late Rafael (“Raful”) Eytan, who was not the brightest, once asked a foreign guest: [...]

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