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A Day to Remember: Resistance and Liberation Day 2010

by SR Editor May 27, 2010

By Brenda Heard* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Anniversaries measure time. In one respect, they are an artificial concept. We decide, for instance, that twenty-five years of marriage should be celebrated, but we ignore the subsequent days as merely marking the path to twenty-six years. And reaching twenty-six years, though obviously a greater length of [...]

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Palestinian nonviolence relies on global non-silence

by Yousef Munayyer May 22, 2010

By Yousef Munayyer* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz When will there be a Palestinian Gandhi? I’m often asked this question by people who sympathise with Palestinian suffering but are uncomfortable associating themselves with resistance movements that they see as violent or terrorist. The reality of course is that Palestinian nonviolent resisters are not only active [...]

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Desmond Tutu Letter to Bil’in

by Haitham Sabbah April 24, 2010

Message by Desmond Tutu on behalf of The Elders On the Occasion of the Fifth Annual Bil’in Conference on Popular Resistance. Dear Friends, On behalf of the Elders, I send warm greetings to all of you attending the Bil’in Fifth Annual Conference on Popular Resistance. We are sorry that we could not be with you [...]

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Picnicking on Mount Vesuvius?

by Franklin Lamb April 16, 2010

By Franklin Lamb* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Is the US Embassy in Lebanon squandering its diplomatic immunity? Tensions are rising in Lebanon between elected representatives in Parliament, ‘Unity’ Cabinet members and the American Embassy, as the 27th anniversary of the attack 1983 attack on the US Embassy approaches and the Embassy issues another warning [...]

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The Palestinians are Winning the Legitimacy War: Will it Matter?

by Richard Falk April 4, 2010

By Richard Falk* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Ever since the Balfour Declaration in 1917 gave the formal approval of the British government to the establishment of ‘a Jewish homeland’ profound issues of legitimacy were present in the conflict recently known as the Israel/Palestine Conflict. This original colonialist endorsement of the Zionist project has produced [...]

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Palestine’s “turbulent priest” delivers a blistering Easter message

by Stuart Littlewood April 1, 2010

By Stuart Littlewood* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Fr Manuel Musallam recently retired at the age of 71 after serving as the parish priest of the Holy Family Church in Gaza for 14 years. For most of that time the Israelis would not allow him to visit his family and friends in the West Bank. [...]

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Going it alone: a Third Intifada?

by SR Editor March 23, 2010

By Tariq Shadid* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz It may well be that the citizens of the world, tired of hearing newscasts about Israel and the Palestinians, are not in the mood to hear it. Still, pressure in Palestine is building up quickly due to Israel’s continuing defiance of calls from around the world to [...]

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Does Israel hope to spark a new wave of suicide bombing?

by Stuart Littlewood March 9, 2010

By Stuart Littlewood* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz “The suicide bomber wrote that he began to live the day he came to know he was to die. Where did he get this passion to kill?” – Mahesh Bhatt Here in the civilised West we hate suicide bombers with a passion. We’re taught that the proper [...]

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Paul J. Balles – A superpower and “the world’s sickest warrior state”

by Paul J. Balles March 8, 2010

By Paul J. Balles* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Living through five or six major wars has hardened me to what I thought were the extremes of inhuman cruelty and brutality. Two things made those extremes almost bearable: the brutality always revealed – at least according to the media coverage – the viciousness of the [...]

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I am the Resistance [Video]

by Haitham Sabbah January 23, 2010

Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8a-IBwaWlE

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Prof. Finkelstein: Livni ‘proud’ of Gaza ‘war crimes’

by Haitham Sabbah December 22, 2009

Prominent Jewish-American professor says Gaza rockets were ‘symbolic resistance’ to Israeli siege. LONDON – Prominent Jewish-American Professor Norman Finkelstein accused Israel of perpetrating “war crimes” in Gaza through its ongoing siege of the Strip and its war at the turn of the year. His accusation came within an international conference titled, “UNRWA and Future of [...]

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Christmas in the Holy Land – 2009 [Video]

by Haitham Sabbah December 16, 2009

When celebrating Christmas, it would be a good idea to think about the birthplace of Jesus. What is like in the Holy Land under the Israeli occupation, injustice and racism? How does Christmas feel when the Holy Land is under siege? Help bring joy to the Holy Land. Help break the siege. Support the Freedom [...]

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Living by the Gate From Hell

by SR Editor December 9, 2009

A Portrait of Nonviolent Resistance in One Palestinian Village By Ellen Cantarow* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz At no time since its 1967 West Bank occupation have Israel’s seizures of Palestinian land and water resources seemed as shocking as the ones attending its construction of “the wall,” begun in 2002. Vast, complex, and shifting in [...]

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Mary Rizzo – A Strategy Revolution: A Game Theory Approach to Palestinian Resistance

by Mary Rizzo December 3, 2009

By Mary Rizzo* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Anyone who has witnessed the events in Palestine/Israel has been able to notice a cycle that repeats itself continually between the two groups of people. It can be summed up in two words: action/reaction. Sometimes the action is carried out to elicit a reaction (which we can [...]

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Lebanonizing Hezbollah or the obverse?

by Franklin Lamb December 1, 2009

Updating Resistance projects By Franklin Lamb* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Dahiyeh, South Beirut – Like many liberation and resistant movement ‘Manifestos’ ‘Charters’ or ‘Declarations’ issued to the public early in its founding – the African National Congress, Palestine Liberation Organization , Hamas, Algerian FLN, and various “Sons of Liberty” groups during the American Revolution, [...]

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