By Alan Hart* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
Amazing! While in Israel, an American vice president explicitly condemns an Israeli decision to build yet more homes, 1,600 apartments, in occupied Arab East Jerusalem. "I condemn the decision by the government of Israel to advance planning for new housing units in East Jerusalem," [...]
By Dr. Alan Sabrosky* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu once remarked to a Likud gathering that "Israel is not like other countries." Oddly enough for him, that time he was telling the truth, and nowhere is that more evident than with Jewish nationalism, whether or not one pins the "Zionist" label [...]
By Dr. Elias Akleh* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
Netanyahu's late decision to include the Islamic Ibrahimi Mosque in Al-Khalil (Hebron) and Bilal Mosque in Bethlehem to the so-called "Israeli list of national heritage sites" seems to re-ignite the spark of religious war between Jewish Israelis on one side and the Moslem Palestinians and the Islamic [...]
By Maidhc Ó Cathail* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
Chutzpah, a Yiddish word meaning "shameless audacity," has been famously defined as "that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan." Considering Israel's increasingly outrageous behaviour, perhaps it's time [...]
By Alan Hart* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
"Mr. President, will you take a call from Prime Minister Netanyahu in five minutes? He says it's urgent, very urgent."
"Rahm, I can tell from the tone of your voice that you're not asking me a question. You're giving me an order."
Rahm Emanuel smiled.
President Obama did his best to [...]
By Uri Avnery* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
Thomas Friedman, the New York Times columnist, has an idea. That happens to him quite often. One might almost say – too often.
It goes like this: The US will turn its back on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The entire world will follow. Everybody is fed up with this conflict. [...]
By Alan Hart* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu described his offer to temporarily restrict construction of all-new Jewish settlements on the West Bank excluding Arab East Jerusalem as a "far-reaching and painful step", which was part of a policy he hoped would give a new impetus to peace talks.
Netanyahu is not [...]
By Alan Hart* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
It's not often that stories about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict make me laugh but one by Jeremy Bowen, the BBC's Middle East editor, did. Because he is the corporation's correspondent supporters of Israel right or wrong most love to hate – from time to time they pressure the BBC [...]
Also tagged Clinton, Israel, Obama, PalestineIsrael in midst of freefall on global front, yet we're preoccupied with nonsense
By Sever Plocker | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
I've been invited to deliver a lecture about Israel's economy and society at Oxford University. As it is a short lecture, and a respectable forum, I gladly accepted the offer. The invitation was extended about six [...]
By Bouthaina Shaaban* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
Most Arab and world media expressed astonishment when the US secretary of state Hilary Clinton described the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu's willingness to "restraint the policy of settlements" as "unprecedented". Perhaps, many of the reporters did not have sufficient time to read the script of the [...]
By Yousef Munayyer *
There was a time, not so long ago in fact, when opposing armies would line up across from each other with nothing but green fields between them and take turns exchanging fire. While these tactics were very efficient at killing soldiers on both sides, civilians were rarely ever hurt.
Somewhere along the line [...]
By James Gundun *
Washington D.C. The Middle East has a new game to play. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, plagued by internal and external pressure, issued a peace call for the ages during his opening address at Israel's Presidential Conference, titled 'Facing Tomorrow.' Netanyahu voiced a sound suggestion to rekindle the peace process.
'I ask of [...]
Will the real Barack Obama please stand up to Israel?
By Yousef Munayyer *
Barack Obama is a rookie. At least, this is what the Israeli prime minister seems to think. So far, Benjamin Netanyahu has been able to maximize his gains at the expense of the U.S. president and the Palestinians while solidifying his own position [...]
By Dr. Alan Sabrosky*
There is always something compelling about a "David and Goliath" confrontation. Most of us prefer winners to losers, and almost everyone feels a thrill when the underdog takes a stand and prevails.
This is the surprising situation now unfolding in the rising drama of the Goldstone Report on Gaza. Goliath — in [...]
By Alan Hart *
On Monday 12 October, Prime Minister Netanyahu opened the Knesset's winter session by blasting the Goldstone Report that accuses Israel of committing war crimes and vowing that he would never allow Israelis be tried for them. But that was not his main message. It was an appeal, delivered I thought with a [...]
