By Michael Gillespie* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
An ongoing investigation by the Dubai Police force into the assassination of a high-level Hamas official in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in January has drawn back the curtains of secrecy and deception to reveal yet again the contours of Israel's massive and ever-expanding [...]
Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association – 8 March 2010
Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association marks International Women's Day 2010 by honoring, commemorating and saluting Palestinian women political prisoners and detainees in their steadfast resistance against Israeli colonial occupation and struggle towards securing the right of Palestinians to self-determination.
An estimated 10,000 Palestinian women [...]
By Frank Barat* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
Today, the first session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RTP) will be held in Barcelona. The RTP is a peoples' tribunal focusing not on Israel's obligations under international humanitarian law (IHL) such as the Fourth Geneva Convention, but on the obligations of the international community of signatory [...]
By Tariq Shadid* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
Although people in our modern times have been educated to believe that having the 'right' ideas, methods or ideologies is what causes revolutions, history teaches us that drastic changes usually happen when the majority of the people rally behind a certain leader, more than behind an ideology. While [...]
By James Petras* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
The principle propaganda mouthpiece of the Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (PMAJO), the Daily Alert (DA), has come out in full support for Israel's practice of extra-judicial, extra-territorial assassination.
In the face of world-wide governmental condemnation (except from the Zionist-occupied White House and US [...]
By Amira Hass* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
Something about 12-year-old Bassam caused two Israelis to smile. Two Palestinians noticed, but did not remember their smiles as being disparaging or arrogant. On the contrary. The Palestinians regarded the smiles as a rare moment in which two Israelis – and not just any Israelis, but military judges [...]
By Stuart Littlewood* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
"O wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!"
A few weeks ago, on the annual Robert Burns Night, these immortal lines from 1786 were being recited all over the world, but probably not in Palestine. The leadership there aren't blessed with the gift [...]
Between 2009-2018, the United States is scheduled to give Israel–the largest recipient of U.S. aid–$30 billion in military aid. Through its illegal 42-year military occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip, Israel misuses U.S. weapons in violation of U.S. law to kill and injure Palestinian civilians, destroy Palestinian civilian infrastructure, blockade [...]
Also tagged Aid, American, Budget, Children, Earlyreading, Education, Health, Household, Housing, Israel, Jobs, map, Military, Palestine, US, USA, WarLavish, unrealistic plans for Palestinian development are a dangerous alternative to the struggle for independence
By Yousef Munayyer* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
Recently I received a very impressive full-colour booklet printed on expensive paper advertising a development project. The ambitious plan is to build a new Palestinian city, "Rawabi", in the West Bank.
The glossy images inside [...]
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 sentences handed [...]
By Franklin Lamb* (Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp, Beirut) | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
"We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change or resistance. Small acts, when multiplied by many people, can transform the world"
"If we remember those times and places–and there are so many–where people have behaved [...]
Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8a-IBwaWlE
Also tagged Israel, occupation, Palestine, Resistance, videoBy Stuart Littlewood* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
We keep hearing from the British government that they have spent £millions in humanitarian aid for Gaza. But nobody is saying exactly where the money has gone and who benefited.
Of course, if they had done what they were supposed to and (with the rest of the international community) [...]
While many have looked into the effect of U.S. foreign policy on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict in general, the role of U.S. policy in internal Palestinian politics and the current divide between the two largest parties in the Palestinian political spectrum has been under discussed. What role has U.S. policy played in the inter-Palestinian divide? Does [...]
Also tagged America, fatah, Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Obama, occupation, PA, Palestine, Policy, US, videoBy Yousef Munayyer* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
While most would point out the differences between Gaza City, the impoverished and destitute administrative center of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, and Ramallah, the burgeoning administrative center of the Fateh-run West Bank, there are important commonalities between what seem to be diametrically opposite poles.
A common misconception, which has [...]
