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The Thin Green Line: It’s Not Just the Settlements (or the Occupation), Stupid!

by Nima Shirazi September 14, 2010

By Nima Shirazi* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz “Before their eyes we turn into our homestead the land and villages in which they and their forefathers have lived…We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.” – [...]

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Does International Law Have a Future? – An Analysis

by Lawrence Davidson September 12, 2010

By Lawrence Davidson* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz I. The Usual Suspects Back on August 23, 2010 Israel’s most prestigious human rights organization, B’Tselem released a short report on the condition of water supplies in the Gaza Strip. Referencing the United Nations Environment Program as well as the Palestine Water Authority, B’Tselem reported that the [...]

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Global BDS Against Israel Is Working

by Stephen Lendman September 9, 2010

By Stephen Lendman* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz In July 2005, a coalition of 171 Palestinian Civil Society organizations created the Global BDS movement for “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel Until it Complies with International Law and Universal Principles of Human Rights” for Occupied Palestinians, Israeli Arabs, and Palestinian diaspora refugees. The Tel Aviv-based [...]

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Another insult to Christianity. Meet the Methodist Friends of Israel – by Stuart Littlewood

by Stuart Littlewood August 15, 2010

By Stuart Littlewood* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz A few weeks ago the Methodist Church’s annual conference did a very courageous and praiseworthy thing. It voted to boycott products from Israeli settlements in Occupied Palestine, regarded as illegal under international law, and to encourage Methodists across Britain to do the same. “The decision is a [...]

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UC Berkeley Vote: A travesty of the “Democratic” process

by Debbie Menon May 2, 2010

By Debbie Menon* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Disappointing, but this shows the immense power that “the Organization” has to overturn popular demand against amazing majority numbers in the face of all reason and “democratic” principle. And, it also illustrates the cupidity, weakness, and failures of moral principles of elected representatives worldwide to stand up [...]

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ACTION ALERT: Write against issuing Canada-Israel stamp

by Haitham Sabbah April 15, 2010

On April 14th, Canada will be issuing a “Canada-Israel Diplomatic Relations” commemorative stamp to celebrate 60 years of relations. In light of on-going occupation, policies of racial segregation and war-crimes against the Palestinian people, we ask what is there to celebrate? Please take a minute to send the following message to John Baird (baird.j@parl.gc.ca), the [...]

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An Open Letter to Margaret Atwood from Gaza: Don’t Stand on the Wrong Side of History

by Haitham Sabbah April 6, 2010

Besieged Gaza, Palestine April.4.2010 Dear Ms. Atwood, We are students from Gaza representing more than 10 academic institutions therein. Our grandparents are refugees who were expelled from their homes in the 1948 Nakba. They still have their keys locked up in their closets and will pass them on to their children, our parents. Many of [...]

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Petition in support of UN General Assembly President to boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel

by Haitham Sabbah December 4, 2008

Petition in support of call by United Nations General Assembly President Miguel D’escoto Brockmann for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/IJAN_Brockmann_BDS/?e During the 57th Plenary Meeting on the Question of Palestine, President of the General Assembly Miguel D’escoto Brockmann broke a diplomatic taboo by describing Israeli policies in the Occupied Palestinian Territories as similar [...]

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Ordinary Palestinians pay the price of Israeli sanctions

by Haitham Sabbah December 18, 2007

First from Gaza. It’s the ordinary Palestinians that are being harmed by Israel’s decision to cut back fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip: Gaza has been virtually cut off from the outside world since Hamas seized control of the strip in June. Its economy has been crippled by Israeli sanctions and checkpoints. Israel insists the [...]

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Unlike the sicko’s in the Congress…

by Haitham Sabbah June 6, 2007

Yesterday, the ilks in the congress congratulated the Zionists for their occupation crimes; today EU Parliament members calls to end the sanctions and the boycott imposed on Palestinians and their elected government. This is the difference between warmongers and peace advocates. A growing number of European Parliament members are demanding the European Union recognize the [...]

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Still Strangling Palestine

by Haitham Sabbah April 22, 2007

“It is easy enough to predict the likely consequences of imposing a year’s comprehensive financial blockade on one of the poorest places on Earth. And yet the findings of last Friday’s Oxfam report on the effects of the West’s enforced economic isolation of the Occupied Palestinian Territories – imposed in response to the victory of [...]

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US Defense Sec. Gates to pay his respects to Israel & AIPAC

by Haitham Sabbah April 14, 2007

Such news really makes one feel sick. Who they are fooling? From Haaretz: “The visit, which comes about a month after Peretz visited Washington, will also deal with bilateral defense ties between the U.S. and Israel… The Gates visit is critical to helping heal the rift in the relations between the U.S. and Israel defense [...]

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