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Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 2009 Annual Report – by Stephen Lendman

by Stephen Lendman June 28, 2010

By Stephen Lendman* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Each year, PCHR publishes its annual report on Occupied Palestine, this year’s a detailed 250 page (PDF file) review of the past year, including the first days of Israel’s war on Gaza, Operation Cast Lead, “the major issue in the record of human rights and international humanitarian [...]

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Whither After the Goldstone Report?

by SR Editor November 3, 2009

By Karin Friedemann * The debate over the Goldstone Report is a huge distraction from the real problem: the Report’s inadequacy and the futility of bringing the case to the International Criminal Court. The Report itself, written by a Zionist Jew, is extremely flawed and biased in favor of Israel. Richard Goldstone’s daughter Nicole told [...]

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Goldstone Report Copy

by Haitham Sabbah October 30, 2009

Human Rights Council’s Goldstone Commission findings on Cast Lead, Israel’s war of aggression against Gaza Here are links to the official copy of Richard Goldstone report in different languages: Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (PDF) Executive summary: English – French – Russian – Spanish – Arabic – Chinese [...]

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Ronnie Kasrils – Who’s Afraid Of Richard Goldstone?

by SR Editor October 25, 2009

Address by Ronnie Kasrils* to NADEL (National Association of Democratic Lawyers of South Africa): Topic “Goldstone Report & The Struggle of the Palestinian People” Cape Town 24.10.09 Justice Richard Goldstone is an internationally respected judge of integrity and credibility. Sober, reserved, most prim and proper, his reputation has been built on impeccable credentials. This has [...]

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Deal or No Deal in Palestine

by SR Editor October 24, 2009

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 [...]

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Richard Falk: Goldstone is historic blow in the war Israel is losing- the ‘Legitimacy War’

by SR Editor October 22, 2009

By Philip Weiss Two listservs to which I have access have been circulating a commentary by Richard Falk, the Princeton law professor and UN rapporteur on Gaza, on the Goldstone report to the UN Human Rights Council. People I trust say that Falk, who by the way is Jewish (as is Goldstone), wrote this, and [...]

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Azmi Bishara: Scandal in the raw

by SR Editor October 19, 2009

By Dr. Azmi Bishara * The decision to behave in Geneva like the made-in- Oslo Palestinian Authority (PA) was but an extension of the Israeli occupation was the final nail in the coffin of international solidarity with the Palestinian cause in its customary sense. Those who took this decision knew this. International solidarity was confounded [...]

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Abbas and the Goldstone Report: Our Shame is Complete

by Ramzy Baroud October 15, 2009

By Ramzy Baroud* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz As Israeli bombs fell on the Gaza Strip during its one-sided war between December 27, 2008 and January 18, 2009, millions around the world took to the streets in complete and uncompromising outrage. The level of barbarity in that war, especially as it was conducted against a [...]

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The enemy from within: Palestinians ‘drop Gaza report’

by Haitham Sabbah October 2, 2009

Now it is official: The Palestinian Authority has withdrawn its support from a UN resolution endorsing a UN report into the Gaza conflict, reports say. The reports, quoting diplomats, say the Palestinian decision was made under strong pressure from the United States. [...] Source: BBC Vote on Gaza report deferred The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) [...]

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Obama should back Goldstone report

by George Bisharat October 1, 2009

By George Bisharat* President Obama has placed restoration of the stature of the United States among his primary foreign policy goals. He has already achieved substantial progress in Europe, where polls indicate that he is widely admired. The president’s June Cairo University speech also won praise in the Arab and Muslim worlds. Yet many across [...]

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Goldstone’s Report; A Different Look

by Dr. Elias Akleh September 26, 2009

By Dr. Elias Akleh Goldstone’s report, incriminating Israel for war crimes, has been optimistically received by many as a sign of dismantling Israel’s impunity from legal actions for her war crimes and violations of international laws. Yet, at the same time, it is full of political booby-traps that Israel could use to indemnify herself and [...]

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Richard Falk – Why The Goldstone Report Matters

by Richard Falk September 22, 2009

By Richard Falk* “So why did the Israeli government boycott the commission? The real answer is quite simple: they knew full well that the commission, any commission, would have to reach the conclusions it did reach.”Uri Avnery (Israeli peace activist, and former Knesset member), “On the Goldstone Report” 19 Sept 2009 Richard Goldstone, former judge [...]

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Jeff Gates – Will Israel Fall in Five Years?

by Jeff Gates September 22, 2009

By Jeff Gates Online reports of a study by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency cast doubt over the survival of Israel beyond the next two decades. Regardless of the validity of the report, with what is now known about the costs in blood and treasure that the U.S.-Israeli relationship has imposed on the U.S., its [...]

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Palestine: A Policy of Deliberate Blindness

by Sophia September 2, 2007

By Régis Debray, Le Monde Diplomatique Foreword from the journal: Last year President Jacques Chirac asked Régis Debray to study the situation in the Middle East. On 15 January 2007 Debray sent the French authorities the following document on Palestine. It is an important key to understanding a long policy drift whose results are now [...]

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Palestinians on the United Nations

by Haitham Sabbah August 25, 2007

The international community-spurred by renewed US interest-is gearing up for another major push for peace in the Middle East: President Bush recently dispatched Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to garner support for an international conference on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Tony Blair is leading the latest attempt of the Quartet-which includes the UN, the US, [...]

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