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Jews are 8 times over-represented in UK parliament

by Stuart Littlewood May 22, 2010

By Stuart Littlewood* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz At that rate Muslims would have 200 seats ‘Proportional Representation’ is a big buzz-word in the UK these days. It implies fairer voting and fairer government. It is claimed to give minorities a better chance of being heard and therefore, they say, it should be incorporated into [...]

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Netanyahu will be pleased. Now we’re an upper-class coalition “fagging” for Israel

by Stuart Littlewood May 14, 2010

By Stuart Littlewood* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Conservative leader David “I’m-a-Zionist” Cameron didn’t win the election but has managed to seize power by slipping between the sheets with Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg. This distasteful union should give them enough votes to survive in Parliament for the five years they have set themselves. The [...]

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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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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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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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“Cabbing” for Israel?

by Stuart Littlewood March 27, 2010

By Stuart Littlewood* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz A question every voter should ask candidates in the coming UK general election There can be few sights more pathetic than ex-ministers and chums of Tony Blair offering to use their government contacts to help influence policy on behalf of business clients. “I’m like a cab for [...]

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25% of Palestinians Parliamentarians Imprisoned by the Israeli Occupation Government

by Haitham Sabbah August 30, 2006

8/29/06-CFL ALERT: 25% of Palestinians Parliamentarians Imprisoned by the Israeli Occupation Government * In the last two months alone Israel has arrested almost one quarter of the members of the Palestinian parliament as part of its campaign to free an Israeli soldier captured near Gaza in June. Those arrested by the Israelis include 49 senior [...]

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