Jimmy Carter

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The Elders: We need peace in the Middle East, not just process

by Haitham Sabbah December 16, 2010

Israelis and Palestinians must ultimately agree to a solution, but they cannot do it alone.
Without a strategy that can deliver a peace agreement based on a two-state solution, Palestinians will continue to live under Israeli occupation, millions of Palestinian refugees will continue to live without hope and Israel’s survival and security remain under threat. If there is no real progress, more violence is the likely outcome.

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The Hidden War

by Dr. Elias Akleh December 6, 2010

The world has been lately busy with what could be considered major wars and other low level conflicts. The major wars can be seen in places such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and Palestine, while low level conflicts can be seen in places like Haiti, Somalia, India, and Sudan. Potential future wars are planned to break out in places like Korea, Yemen, and the Persian Gulf region (Iran). Yet all these wars are just distracting symptoms of a hidden war that is still being waged since the beginning of humanity.

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Best option: dignified failure

by Sam Bahour September 24, 2010

By Sam Bahour* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The entire U.S. administration’s Middle East A-team–President Obama, Secretary of State Clinton, and Special Envoy Mitchell–is defying the mass majority of political analysts by dismissing the status quo in the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza Strip, and insisting that the latest round of Palestinian-Israeli direct talks has [...]

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9/11 ANALYSIS: From Ronald Reagan and the Soviet-Afghan War to George W Bush and September 11, 2001

by Michel Chossudovsky September 10, 2010

By Michel Chossudovsky* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz This article summarizes earlier writings by the author on 9/11 and the role of Al Qaeda in US foreign policy. For further details see Michel Chossudovsky, America’s “War on Terrorism”, Global Research, 2005 “The United States spent millions of dollars to supply Afghan schoolchildren with textbooks filled [...]

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Reversing faux legitimacy

by Paul J. Balles April 5, 2010

By Paul J. Balles* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz We all know what Illegitimate children have been called, Illegitimate countries have not; especially if the foetus grew out of a media that ignores the illegitimate conception. There are illegitimate governments. A few years ago, a blogger who didn’t use his own name asked the question: [...]

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Jimmy Carter – Gaza must be rebuilt now

by SR Editor December 20, 2009

We can wait no longer to restart the peace process. The human suffering demands urgent relief By Jimmy Carter* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz It is generally recognised that the Middle East peace process is in the doldrums, almost moribund. Israeli settlement expansion within Palestine continues, and PLO leaders refuse to join in renewed peace [...]

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Sam Bahour – The Elders’ next move

by Sam Bahour September 15, 2009

By Sam Bahour* RAMALLAH, West Bank — At long last, a spotlight is shining on Palestinian nonviolent efforts to throw off the Israeli occupation. A visit by a group of high profile “Elders” last month to the Palestinian village of Bil’in in the West Bank, and the barrier running through it, bathed our landscape in [...]

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Jimmy Carter – The Elders View Of the Middle East

by SR Editor September 6, 2009

By Jimmy Carter During the past 16 months I have visited the Middle East four times and met with leaders in Israel, Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, the West Bank and Gaza. I was in Damascus when President Obama made his historic speech in Cairo, which raised high hopes among the more-optimistic Israelis and [...]

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Freedom Rider: Slow Death in Gaza

by Haitham Sabbah June 6, 2008

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 [...]

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What d’ya mean you got nothin t’ read?

by Haitham Sabbah May 30, 2008

Welcome to Carter’s ‘Palestine Peace Not Apartheid’ the Book. Here you can find ‘Palestine Peace Not Apartheid’ on the right hand side is the table of contents. Be sure to click on the images so you can clearly see. The blog is for review reference purposes only: http://peacenotapartheidbook.blogspot.com/

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Gaza blockade is ‘human rights crime’: Carter

by Haitham Sabbah May 26, 2008

In a speech at a literary festival in Hay-on-Wye, in Wales, the 83-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner said: “There is no reason to treat these people this way,” referring to the blockade, in place since the Islamist Hamas movement seized Gaza in June 2007. While president from 1977 to 1981, Carter was the architect of [...]

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Why No American President Will Stand Up to Israel: The Lobby

by Haitham Sabbah November 15, 2007

Carter was demonized by the Israel Lobby for his use of this word, but some experts consider Carter’s choice of words to be an euphemism for the continuation of what I. Pappe and N. G. Finkelstein call “the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. “Forty years ago the Lobby was sufficiently powerful to force President Lyndon Johnson [...]

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The High Cost of Subservience to Israel

by Haitham Sabbah June 21, 2007

By Paul Findley All U.S. citizens must accept a measure of responsibility for Israel’s grip on America. Those of us who knew what was happening did not protest with sufficient force and clarity. In the greatest service of his long public life, former President Jimmy Carter warns of the grave consequences of America’s phenomenal subservience [...]

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Hurricane Carter

by Haitham Sabbah January 6, 2007

Little bit lengthy, but worth the time. And it is good read for people like, Dawn to learn something about the history of the conflict and the real obstacles for peace! Hurricane Carter by HENRY SIEGMAN – The Nation [from the January 22, 2007 issue] Former President Jimmy Carter’s new book, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, [...]

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Action Alert: Thank you Jimmy Carter!

by Haitham Sabbah December 18, 2006

Lets say “Thank you President Carter.” You can sign the petition at: http://tinyurl.com/ycegyc This petition was initiated by the Israel-Palestine Working Group of Progressive Democrats of America. They support a US policy that supports the peace, security and welfare of Israelis and Palestinians. Also, write to Congress to support President Carter. It is important that [...]

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