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Nahr al-Bared reconstruction delay throws civil rights into spotlight

by SR Editor December 4, 2010

The Nahr al-Bared refugee camp highlights every aspect of the problematic relationship between Lebanon and the Palestinian refugees within its borders. However, the Lebanese government would be better served by viewing the camp as a chance to radically change the traditionally conflict-ridden relationship in which Palestinians are only viewed as a “security issue.” This could be achieved by respecting Palestinians’ civil rights and seriously engaging in the reconstruction of the camp.

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Munir’s Story: 28 years after the Massacre at Sabra-Shatila

by Franklin Lamb September 6, 2010

By Franklin Lamb* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The untreated psychic wounds are still open. Accountability, justice and basic civil rights for the survivors are still denied. Scores of horror testimonies have been shared over the past nearly three decades by survivors of the September 1982 Sabra- Shatila massacre. More come to light only through [...]

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Israel Threatens War with Lebanon

by Stephen Lendman August 31, 2010

If Israel attempts to siphon oil & natural gas from Lebanese waters, conflict could result By Stephen Lendman* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Palestine is belligerently occupied. Threats continue against Iran and Syria as well as Lebanon, specifically Hezbollah, elected partner in the nation’s unity government, bogusly designated a US State Department Foreign Terrorist Organization [...]

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Israel: Second-Class Citizens

by George Bisharat August 20, 2010

By George Bisharat And Nimer Sultany* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Should Israel be encouraged to enact legislation guaranteeing equal rights for all of its citizens as part of any peace agreement with the Palestinians? Israel’s systematic discrimination against Arabs was highlighted recently when Donna Shalala, University of Miami president and former Health and Human [...]

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Lebanon scatters a little chicken feed and labels it ‘manna from heaven’ – by Franklin Lamb

by Franklin Lamb August 19, 2010

By Franklin Lamb* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz “Palestinian guests in Lebanon are working with total freedom. First of all we do not refer to them as “refugees”. They are our brothers who are suffering and in a very difficult situation that they did not cause and they have lost their country. They sought our [...]

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All is not quiet on the Lebanese front – by Lawrence Davidson

by Lawrence Davidson August 15, 2010

By Lawrence Davidson* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz On Tuesday 3 August 2010 violence erupted along Lebanon’s southern frontier. Almost simultaneously verbal violence against Lebanon erupted from the US House of Representatives. Soon thereafter Lebanon lost, at least temporarily, 100 million dollars in US military aid. What is this all about? On the Lebanese frontier [...]

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Haifa Wehbe denies role in Gaza-bound voyage

by Haitham Sabbah June 22, 2010

By Habib Toumi, Bahrain Bureau Chief Lebanese superstar Haifa Wehbe and Hezbollah have denied media reports that the religious formation had banned the singer from boarding Mariam, the Gaza-bound ship carrying humanitarian aid. Haifa said that she did not sign up to be among the activists planning to board the ship to break the Gaza [...]

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Lebanon’s Merry Month of May

by Franklin Lamb May 4, 2010

In Lebanon this month, like spring flowers, proposals to give Palestinians the right to work are bursting out all over Part III of a six part series on securing Palestinian Civil Rights in Lebanon By Franklin Lamb* (Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp, Beirut) | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz This year, the Merry Month of May in [...]

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Nahr Al-Bared Refugees Camp: Checkpoints and more [Video]

by Haitham Sabbah April 21, 2010

Nahr al-bared refugee camp has still not recovered from the devastating war in 2007 during which it was destroyed. The Lebanese army has been keeping a tight grip on the camp and the 20.000 displaced Palestinians that have returned so far. The army’s siege seriously hampers the camp’s economic recovery, as access is restricted and [...]

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The Case for Palestinian Rights in Lebanon

by Franklin Lamb April 21, 2010

What are the Odds? By Franklin Lamb* (Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp, Beirut) | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz As of mid-April 2010 there are no fewer than six draft laws, half of them ‘embargoed for now’ being circulated and debated in Lebanon, any one of which if adopted by Parliament, would grant Lebanon’s Palestinians, for the [...]

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Picnicking on Mount Vesuvius?

by Franklin Lamb April 16, 2010

By Franklin Lamb* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Is the US Embassy in Lebanon squandering its diplomatic immunity? Tensions are rising in Lebanon between elected representatives in Parliament, ‘Unity’ Cabinet members and the American Embassy, as the 27th anniversary of the attack 1983 attack on the US Embassy approaches and the Embassy issues another warning [...]

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Can Lebanon come in from the Cold?

by Franklin Lamb April 9, 2010

By Franklin Lamb* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz More than six decades after their expulsion from Palestine,  Lebanon’s unwanted refugees justmight be granted some basic civil rights… Part I: Hiba’s Story Granting even the most elementary and normally taken for granted civil rights to Palestinians in Lebanon won’t be easy and it may not be [...]

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Lebanon’s Ebenezer Scrooge

by Franklin Lamb December 18, 2009

By Franklin Lamb* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Surely we should all have known better. It was just too good to last. It seemed to some Americans in Lebanon that nearly all the Lebanese and their political leaders were ready to try to more or less work together for the good of the country. Many [...]

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Video: Two years under siege

by Haitham Sabbah June 24, 2009

Two years after the outbreak of the war in Nahr Al-Bared, the camp’s fate remains unclear. the reconstruction of the official camp might start soon, but the army keeps its tight grip on the camp. Several checkpoints, barbed wire and military posts cut Nahr Al-Bared off from its surroundings. Nahr Al-Bared camp used to be [...]

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Video: Nahr al-Bared Camp – A Sip of Coffee

by Haitham Sabbah June 17, 2009

In may 2007, the battle between Fatah Al-Islam and the Lebanese army broke out in Nahr Al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon. Amidst heavy fighting, the Lebanese army had systematically destroyed the entire camp by september 2007. Two years later, nearly all the rubble has been cleared from the “old camp”, the core of Nahr [...]

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