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In Motion: The Plot To Destroy The United States

by Gordon Duff November 13, 2010

Plans are in motion for a “false flag” attack on America. Iran will be blamed, everyone knows that and Iran will be totally innocent. This is the last thing Iran would ever want. The most likely scenario is a nuclear attack. Two bombs are missing, bombs built by Israel in South Africa and lost long ago. These were supposedly Saddam’s bombs. Now we are told Iran has them. Israel has had them all along and the fear, they may be inside the United States already.

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Michael Gillespie – Dubai Investigation Exposes Israeli Ops in USA

by SR Editor March 13, 2010

By Michael Gillespie* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz An ongoing investigation by the Dubai Police force into the assassination of a high-level Hamas official in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in January has drawn back the curtains of secrecy and deception to reveal yet again the contours of Israel’s massive and ever-expanding espionage operations in [...]

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Cut the ambiguity, Ambassador, or pack your bags

by Stuart Littlewood February 26, 2010

By Stuart Littlewood* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Hey, Mr Foreign Secretary Miliband… Let me tell you something. If I were the British foreign secretary there would be no more “friendly chats”. The Israeli ambassador would have 24 hours to find a cure for his “ambiguity” or pack his bags. How dare that lawless, racist [...]

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Getting Away With Murder

by Aijaz Zaka Syed February 26, 2010

By Aijaz Zaka Syed* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Check this out. Here’s a story of two countries from the Middle East. One is an ancient civilization with a rich history that goes back five thousand years. It’s a functioning democracy with free elections held at regular intervals. It’s a huge country of 70 million [...]

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Dubai: Vertical City, 2.4 km (1.5 miles) Tall

by Haitham Sabbah September 15, 2008

If you think you have seen it all, think again and watch this. The following article was published on Khaleej Times, 10th Sept. Dubai – Stretching its six intertwining building components into a tower 2.4 kilometres high, Dubai City Tower is expected to be the latest architectural vision to capture the attention of citizens. The [...]

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Adalah rally outside UAE UN office in New York

by Haitham Sabbah May 30, 2008

A Jewish-Palestinian advocacy group held a thank-you rally outside the UAE’s representative office in New York on Tuesday over the country’s stand on not allowing a controversial Israeli businessman from opening a store in Dubai. The Coalition for Justice in the Middle East (Adalah) gathered on Tuesday outside the UAE representative office in New York [...]

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UAE Mission to the UN affirm boycotting Israeli settlement-builder Lev Leviev

by Haitham Sabbah May 29, 2008

Officials at the United Arab Emirates Mission to the UN affirmed their government’s commitment to boycotting the businesses of Israeli settlement-builder Lev Leviev in a meeting Tuesday afternoon with representatives from Adalah-NY and Jews Against the Occupation (JATO). Leviev is attempting to open jewelry stores in the Emirate of Dubai and to sell his diamonds [...]

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Is Dubai helping ethnic cleansing in Palestine?

by Khalid Amayreh April 21, 2008

The government of Dubai recently allowed a major bankroller of Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank to open at least two Jewelry stores in the Gulf emirate. According to reliable sources in the United Arab Emirates, of which Dubai is a key member-state, Israeli billionaire and diamond magnate Lev Leviev is preparing to open [...]

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Call on Dubai to boycott Leviev’s stores over Israel settlements

by Haitham Sabbah April 19, 2008

New York human rights activists, and representatives of the West Bank Palestinian villages of Bil’in and Jayyous called on the government and the people of the United Arab Emirates to boycott the jewelry stores of Israeli billionaire and diamond magnate Lev Leviev over his companies’ construction of Israeli settlements. According to a flurry of recent [...]

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Ferrari theme park in Abu Dhabi

by Haitham Sabbah November 10, 2007

Sport cars are not enough. Ferrari-branded goodies are expanding. After the sunglasses, perfumes, laptops, etc… Now it’s taking on Disneyland with its own theme park. The doors will open in 2009 in Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates. A large slice of desert on the island of Yas will be reclaimed [...]

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Dubai Floating Bridge

by Haitham Sabbah October 16, 2007

One of the biggest criticisms of Dubai has always been the traffic congestion, ask me about it as I lived there for six years. In an effort to reduce the traffic, Dubai, opened a floating bridge which connect the two sides of the creek – Deira and Bur Dubai. (Click thumbnail to enlarge) The Floating [...]

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Greenpeace seeks help in Kuwait, Qatar and UAE

by Haitham Sabbah February 5, 2007

I don’t know how many of my friends around the Gulf received this alert from Greenpeace, however, here it is for the use of everyone: From: Hussein Fakih [hfakih@diala.greenpeace.org] Date: Feb 4, 2007 10:20 PM Subject: Greenpeace: opinion poll To: [haitham.sabbah@gmail.com] Dear Mr Haitham Sabbah, I am an activist in Greenpeace (the international environmental independent [...]

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Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2006

by Haitham Sabbah November 2, 2006

In the fifth annual Reporters Without Borders Worldwide Press Freedom Index, in between 168 indexed countries, our beloved Arab countries makes sure to be among the worst. Here is the list in order from “best” to “worst”: Kuwait – 73 United Arab Emirates – 77 Mauritania – 77 Qatar – 80 Morocco – 97 Lebanon [...]

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Arabisc: Cultural and Art Week

by Haitham Sabbah March 4, 2006

This is a cross-posting. It was initially published at Global Voices in my (semi)-weekly translation post. The following is an abbreviated translation from some of the Arabic-language blogsphere. This week, johacom was happy to find some cartoons by Arab cartoonist that depict some Official Arab Leaders. He says: ????? ???? ?? ?????? ????????????? ???? ?????? [...]

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Hillary Clinton says: Arab are Terrorist!

by Haitham Sabbah February 21, 2006

First, here is a racist cartoon: Decpite that the United Arab Emirates said it was a close ally of the US in its war on terrorism, the US senators, Hillary Clinton and Robert Menendez opposed a UAE firm’s takeover of a company that operates several American ports over security concerns. The two US Democratic senators [...]

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