United Nations

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Ban Ki-moon: A Record of Failure and Betrayal

by Stephen Lendman September 20, 2011

In derogation of his sworn mandate, he solely represents dominant interests. Notably they’re those of Washington, Israel, and their imperial partners, ravaging targeted countries to carve up their corpses for profit.

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Israel Does Not Want a Palestinian State. Period.

by SR Editor September 16, 2011

What will we tell the world next week, at the UN? What could we say? Whether in the General Assembly or the Security Council, we will be exposed in all our nakedness: Israel does not want a Palestinian state. Period. And it doesn’t have a single persuasive argument against the establishment and the international recognition of such a state.

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A thousand-and-one reasons why Palestine must get independence

by Stuart Littlewood September 8, 2011

New report from Bethlehem University shows that academic staff had been attacked again by Israeli squatters. Palestinian universities suffer the severest restrictions in delivering knowledge.

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Turkey Does the Right Thing

by Lawrence Davidson September 4, 2011

Turkey decided to downgrade its diplomatic relations with Israel and suspend military ties with the Zionist state after Tel Aviv’s refusal to do the decent thing and apologize for murdering unarmed civilians on the high seas.

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The Audacity to Recognize a Palestinian State is Now

by Mohamed Khodr June 11, 2011

Sign this Statehood Petition and urge President Obama to support United Nations recognition of a Palestinian State. It is urgent and time sensitive because the Palestinians plan to submit their U.N. application for a Palestinian State next month, July, to the U.N. General Assembly for a vote on such recognition this September.

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Palestine and the Fate of the UN

by Lawrence Davidson November 12, 2010

We cannot look to any of the great powers for justice, fairness, equity or the like. Born of mass communications and the ethical potential of individual consciences, knows no national boundaries and thus has enormous potential. It is presently focused on the condemnable behavior of Israel toward the Palestinians. If, in the next quarter century, the power of mobilized civil society can bring justice to the Palestinians it will create the possibility for a more humane world in practice and not just in theory. It is an intoxicating prospect. And it is one that has a chance of realization.

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Life in Palestinian Refugee Camps

by Stephen Lendman October 24, 2010

Daily camp life: “slum areas” or under-developed urban sprawls, some “open spaces,” others “closed.” Job discrimination, poverty, lack proper sanitary installations for safe drinking water. Population density is a major issue. Palestinians have lived in forced exile for decades throughout the world, most within 100 km of their original homes. Overall, Palestinians see camps as “symbols of illegitimacy.”

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UN Peacekeepers Complicit in Sex Trade

by Stephen Lendman October 23, 2010

Unfortunately sexual abuse, rape, and sex trafficking are more commonplace than occasional, wherever Blue Helmets are deployed. Blue Helmet abuses, including trading food for sex with girls as young as eight in Liberia, said also to go on in Burundi, Ivory Coast, East Timor, DR Congo, Cambodia, and Bosnia. Various other reports were similar, abuses including sex with young girls, rape and trafficking.

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Palestinian Authority Recommends Whitewashing Gaza War Crimes

by Stephen Lendman October 1, 2010

By Stephen Lendman* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Who do they serve anyway? It’s clear from the sham peace talks and a new development. The Mahmoud Abbas-controlled Palestinian Authority (PA) wants Israel absolved of accountability for Cast Lead crimes of war and against humanity. No matter that conclusive evidence exposed them, the result of the [...]

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UN Fact-Finding Mission Says Israelis “Executed” US Citizen Furkan Dogan

by SR Editor September 28, 2010

By Gareth Porter* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The report of the fact-finding mission of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the Israeli attack on the Gaza flotilla released last week shows conclusively, for the first time, that US citizen Furkan Dogan and five Turkish citizens were murdered [...]

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Guilty As Charged: UN Report on Gaza Flotilla Massacre

by Stephen Lendman September 25, 2010

By Stephen Lendman* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz On September 22, Reuters headlined the news, saying: “UN Experts Condemn Israel Attack on Gaza Flotilla” It explained that the UN Human Rights Council’s (HRC) “panel of international experts” concluded what was obvious on day one – that Israel’s international water attack “was unlawful and resulted in [...]

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Obama speaks at the UN… Goodbye to peace

by Alan Hart September 24, 2010

By Alan Hart* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz On marks out of ten for his speech to the UN on the subject of ending the conflict in and over Palestine that became Israel, I’d give President Obama minus five. Earlier this month (on 4 September) I wrote a piece with the headline Obama has signalled [...]

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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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Preparing For The End Game: United Nations Membership For Palestine

by SR Editor September 4, 2010

By Amjad Atallah and Bassma Kodmani* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Even as the direct negotiations between the PLO and Israeli government are about to resume, thought needs to be given to the possibility that talks will fail and that an agreement will not be reached within the announced 12‐month timeframe. This paper considers the [...]

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America’s Faltering Search for Peace in the Middle East: Openings for Others? [Must read]

by SR Editor September 3, 2010

Remarks to staff of the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and, separately, to members of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs Ambassador Charles W. (“Chas”) Freeman, Jr. (USFS, Ret.)* 1 September 2010, Oslo, Norway You have asked me to speak to current American policies in the Middle East, with an emphasis on the prospects [...]

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