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 way to blow [...]
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 enemy. It [...]
Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8a-IBwaWlE
Also tagged Israel, occupation, Palestine, palestinian, videoProminent 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 Palestinian Refugees", [...]
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 March to Gaza, [...]
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 form, the [...]
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 define [...]
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, [...]
Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
Occupied Jerusalem, Nov 30 – The fate of one prisoner locked in an Israeli jail could release the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process from its own jail – provided the timing is right.
The political timing is definitely ripe.
This week a major residual source of tension [...]
By Mary Rizzo *
In many parts of the West, certain political parties or movements are treated as if they come from the Moon or are alien to any body politic. Their existence among the people is always scrutinised as negative, transitory and something created in a boardroom or a backroom, imposed upon an unsophisticated public [...]
WRITTEN BY MARY RIZZO*
While preparing the insertion of the article by Nahida Izzat About anti-Semitism, as do all of her thoughtful and intense contributions, many segments caused me to reflect. Her analysis and especially her questions are so important and meaningful, that it would only be logical to address them bit by bit, and I [...]
From theatre in a Bethlehem refugee camp to the Venice biennale, Palestinians are making art out of adversity – and doing it with grace, finds Ahdaf Soueif, organiser of the Palestine festival of literature
Leaning against padded walls in a darkened room we eavesdrop on an argument: "the elite think they can get independence without resistance [...]
On Friday I went to the anti-separation wall demo in Ni'lin in the West Bank, the same village where International Solidarity Movement activist Tristan Anderson was critically wounded last week. Several hundred villagers were accompanied by Jewish Israeli activists (most with Anarchists Against the Wall ) and ISMers, plus a few journalists like me. The [...]
Also tagged Apartheid-Wall, Israel, nilin, nonviolance, occupation, Palestine, Wall"What thou hast done to thyself none else did,
Thou has caused pain to the spirit of the Prophet
Ignorant of the witchery of the Frank (the west),
Behold the mischief hidden in his sleeve!
By his diplomacy all nations prostrate,
Unity of the Arabs crushed to pieces,
As long as they are caught in his vicious trap,
Palestinian residents of the Al-Mazraa ash Sharqiya village dismantle roadblock as symbol of resistance:
Also tagged Al-Mazraa, ash Sharqiya, dismantle, Palestine, palestinian, roadblock, Village
