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Israel decries Arab democracy

by Khalid Amayreh December 18, 2011

Israel’s worst fears regarding its relationship with the Arab world — and with Egypt in particular — are coming true before our eyes. The rise of the Islamists in Egypt means the end of the peace treaty with Egypt and the rise of a government committed to the ideological Islamist goal of the destruction of Israel.

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President Obama: Israel, Please Tell Me What To Do About Egypt

by Mohamed Khodr February 10, 2011

What will you tell the Egyptian mothers of the slain? That their sons and daughters were killed for the higher cause of Israel’s security and the stability of Arab tyrants? Did you not win the Noble Prize for Peace?

Yet you support the real terrorists in Israel and the Arab Muslim world.

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Did Bibi Win the U.S. Midterms?

by SR Editor November 15, 2010

As a general rule, American politicians do not rally to the side of foreign leaders when those leaders directly confront the president of the United States. The American people, and thus their political leaders, will instinctively line up behind the president in the face of a direct challenge from abroad. Unless the country in question is Israel.

Netanyahu appears to have been thinking, “I can tell Obama where to stick it, because now he’s not only unpopular in Israel, but also weakened at home.” “I think the Obama folks have underestimated the problem,” says Daniel Levy, a Middle East expert and a founder of the liberal Jewish organization J Street. “You almost have to count Bibi among Obama’s domestic adversaries.”

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Pigs, Piper and Palestine [Satire]

by Mantiq al-Tayr November 14, 2010

While the now lame duck Israeli Vice President for American Affairs (IVPFAA) Barrack Obama was away all the rats in the US decided to play. Israeli Prime Minister and US Congressional Whip Bibi Netanyahu came to the US and has almost literally occupied it since then the way Israel occupies East Jerusalem. One would think that when Netanyahu speaks of a “united Jerusalem” he doesn’t just mean stealing the rest of East Jerusalem but also including in his version of tikkun olem the uniting of Washington and Jerusalem for eternity. He has made considerable progress in this regard this past week. He has managed now to turn much of the United States’ government against its president in his meetings with the likes of Cantor, Clinton, Biden and Shumer.

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Undermining bipartisanship on Israel

by SR Editor November 12, 2010

Netanyahu’s ideological sympathies are legitimate. The problem is that by doing so he – and like-minded U.S. conservatives – are flirting with disaster: undermining the paradigm of bipartisan support for Israel. Netanyahu’s actions are a distinct break from the past 40 years, when Israel’s strengthening ties with Washington were all a product of bipartisan support – regardless of who was in the White House or who controlled Congress.

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Jeff Gates: Our Commander-in-Chief Needs Our Support

by Jeff Gates April 26, 2010

By Jeff Gates* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Forget your opinion of Barack Obama. Love him or loathe him, the reality remains unchanged: we have but one president at a time. And but one commander-in-chief. U.S. national security is endangered-perhaps now more than at any time in history. Both the president and our military leaders [...]

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The US-Israel Standoff over Settlements

by SR Editor April 13, 2010

Victor Kattan* of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, says that morally, legally, and politically the Obama administration is on solid ground in its confrontation with the Israeli government over its refusal to stop constructing settlements in East Jerusalem…. US-Israel relations are reputedly at their [...]

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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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Talk about US/Israel Crisis

by Dr. Elias Akleh March 28, 2010

By Dr. Elias Akleh* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz During the last two weeks people were faced with a propaganda campaign trying to convince them that there developed a crisis in the American Israeli relationships due to Israel’s announcement of approving the building of 1600 Jewish only housing units in occupied east Jerusalem Palestinian suburb [...]

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US concern about Israel’s illegal settlements is 42 years too late

by Alan Hart March 26, 2010

By Alan Hart* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz That U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had the courage to tell AIPAC’s conference that Israel’s continued construction of Jewish housing on occupied territory is undermining both the prospect for peace and America’s credibility and own best interests was good news. The bad news is that this [...]

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American Perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

by Haitham Sabbah March 26, 2010

A New Zogby Poll Highlights Changing Domestic Attitudes Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwAPty8CON8 Just one week after General David Petraeus reemphasized the centrality of resolving the Israeli-Arab conflict to US national security interests and in the aftermath of a marked cooling of relations between the two erstwhile allies since Joe Biden’s visit to Israel two weeks ago, [...]

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Against ‘Pro-Israel’

by SR Editor March 25, 2010

By Robert Wright* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Are you anti-Israel? If you fear that, deep down, you might be, I have important news. The recent tension between Israel and the United States led various commentators to identify hallmarks of anti-Israelism, and these may be of diagnostic value. As you’ll see, my own view is [...]

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Its Either Me or the Settlements: A Marriage on the Rocks?

by SR Editor March 25, 2010

By Noura Erakat* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Recurring Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu met with President Obama in Washington this week and, without flinching, attributed the stalled peace process to the U.S. Administration’s concern with illegal settlements and not to Israel’s violation of the peace process’s terms, which unequivocally mandate the cessation of settlement [...]

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Bibi Netanyahu’s Babe: Kneepad Diplomacy Lives!

by Alan Sabrosky March 24, 2010

By Dr. Alan Sabrosky* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz There has been something verging on the surreal in the US-Israel interplay over the past year or so, culminating in the kick in – er, the face delivered to Vice President Biden two weeks ago with Israel’s surprise announcement of yet more new settlement construction, and [...]

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Zionism’s dark forces don’t want the lights on

by Alan Hart March 22, 2010

By Alan Hart* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz At the opening of AIPAC’s annual foreign policy conference its new president, Lee Rosenberg, was not a happy man. As he put it, “In recent days we have witnessed something (the Obama administration’s initial public anger with Netanyahu and his government) very unfortunate.” The Biden “incident”, Rosenberg [...]

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