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End Game in Egypt

by Stephen Lendman February 5, 2011

Independent new leaders face enormous challenges, including destructive reprisals for defying Western diktats. As a result, most accede, accepting neoliberal harshness over public needs, no matter their popular mandate or desire.

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After Mubarak: What’s Next?

by Stephen Lendman February 4, 2011

Across the region, people want it ended, pitting revolutionary populism against imperial harshness offering pretense, not change. As a result, expect new faces continuing old policies, yielding nothing unless sustained mass outrage persists. That’s today’s reality, resolution still in doubt, but odds always favor the strong.

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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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Is Julian Assange Europe’s Nelson Mandela?

by Christopher King December 8, 2010

Sweden’s false charges against Mr Assange are not the first time that country has collaborated with aggressors. When the Nazis wanted to seize Norway’s heavy water production plant for their nuclear research, Sweden announced that it was neutral and allowed the Germans to roll straight through the country to Norway. Just ask the Norwegians at the present time about their opinion of Sweden. Those were the days when Britain fought armed aggression rather than supported it.

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Desmond Tutu: We Must Boycott and Isolate Israeli Universities

by SR Editor September 26, 2010

The University of Johannesburg’s Senate will next week meet to decide whether to end its relationship with an Israeli institution, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, on the grounds of that university’s active support for and involvement in the Israeli military. Archbishop Desmond Tutu supports the move. He explains why. By Archbishop Desmond Tutu | Sabbah [...]

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An Open Letter to Margaret Atwood from Gaza: Don’t Stand on the Wrong Side of History

by Haitham Sabbah April 6, 2010

Besieged Gaza, Palestine April.4.2010 Dear Ms. Atwood, We are students from Gaza representing more than 10 academic institutions therein. Our grandparents are refugees who were expelled from their homes in the 1948 Nakba. They still have their keys locked up in their closets and will pass them on to their children, our parents. Many of [...]

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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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