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America’s growing isolation because of President Obama’s grovelling for Jewish campaign funding and votes

by Alan Hart December 23, 2011

Alan Hart views the growing international isolation of the United States due to its unconditional support of Israel, as manifested in the recent condemnation by “all the regional and political groupings on the UN Security Council” of Israeli settlement activities and settler violence.

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Newt Gingrich: ignoramus, cheat, cynic or all three?

by Uri Avnery December 17, 2011

Uri Avnery views Newt Gingrich’s parroting of the old Zionist propaganda line that there is no such a thing as a Palestinian people – a line now discarded by most Zionists – and argues that the US Republican presidential aspirant is not only being provocative, but is also doing immense damage to US national interests.

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Counting the cost of a Palestinian state

by Yousef Munayyer July 13, 2011

The size of the territory allotted for Palestine state continued to shrink with every new Israeli settlement. Do the Palestinians want this state? No, clearly not.

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Fateh Leadership Betrays the Memory of Abu Ammar and Abu Jihad

by SR Editor February 11, 2011

While the people all over the Arab world are rising up against their U.S.-Israeli puppet regimes, the current Fateh leadership represented by the so-called Palestinian Authority (PA) is sending messages of support to these dictatorial regimes. The PA is also trying to prevent and suppress the Palestinian popular expression with the Tunisian and Egyptian uprising against these brutal dictatorships.

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Palestine is the key to Arab democracy

by Sam Bahour February 7, 2011

Egyptians would be well advised to learn from the Palestinians that the window of opportunity for real change comes all too infrequently. They should therefore be very clear on what they desire from this historic episode. I’d guess that the US state department already has more than a few scenarios in place and dealing with these is what the Egyptian people will really be up against in the coming weeks.

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Somebody please hand Abbas the revolver on the silver tray

by Stuart Littlewood February 2, 2011

In all our joy and excitement for Egypt let us not lose sight of the grey and sinister blob that is Mahmoud Abbas. He must be asking himself – fearfully – why he has so far escaped the purge while his bosom-buddies Hosni and Zine are sent packing in disgrace.

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Time for New Palestinian Political Strategy

by Dr. Elias Akleh October 12, 2010

There is a dire need for an immediate new more assertive Palestinian political strategy. There is an urgent need for a new more effective Palestinian election, involving not only Palestinians under Israeli occupation, but also Palestinians in all Palestinian refugee camps and in exile, to choose a more representing political body, who would sincerely and assertively fight for the Palestinian rights on the international arena. The 17 years old Palestinian negotiating team with its futile negotiate-only mindset needs to be dismantled and be replaced with another team who is ready to negotiate only after Israel withdraws back to 1967 borders. The effectiveness of this new Palestinian body depends on the Arab League re-instating the Palestinian issue as the major Arab cause in totality and to support Palestinians in every form of resistance.

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Israel’s other “peace” plan: arm-twisting Obama

by Jonathan Cook October 12, 2010

The Palestinians and Israelis concentrated on the blame game, thereby highlighting the fact that both think the talks are doomed. The Camp David talks lasted two weeks before collapsing; these negotiations have been on life support since they began more than a month ago. The Israeli government was given the choice between peace and settlements, and it has chosen settlements. Rather than investing wasted energy in doomed talks, the two sides appear to be adopting the same alternative strategy: cutting a deal directly with Washington that circumvents the other party.

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Construction Fever

by Khalid Amayreh October 2, 2010

By Khalid Amayreh* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz With the Arab world and Palestinian Authority seemingly caught in a spiral of weakness and vacillation, and the Obama administration unwilling or unable to pressure Israel, the Israeli government has allowed anti-peace Jewish settlers to embark on all-out drive to build as many settler units as possible. [...]

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Does the Palestinian Diaspora Care Enough To Become Engaged?

by Alan Hart September 14, 2010

By Alan Hart* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Will future historians conclude that the Palestinian diaspora betrayed its occupied and oppressed brothers and sisters? The real history of the making and sustaining of the conflict in and over Palestine that became Israel invites the conclusion that the Arab regimes – more by default than design [...]

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“A framework agreement” between Israel and Palestinians: precursor to talks without end

by Uri Avnery September 11, 2010

By Uri Avnery* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz There is a story about the man who dictated his will. He divided his property generously, provided for all the members of his family, rewarded his friends and did not forget his servants. He finished off with a short paragraph: “In the event of my death, this [...]

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Hamas must rebrand and take the wind out of Israel’s and America’s sails – by Stuart Littlewood

by Stuart Littlewood August 19, 2010

By Stuart Littlewood* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz In the five years since I became interested in the Palestinians, only two things of positive note have happened in the occupied territories. The Palestinians held full and fair elections in 2006 to establish themselves as a democracy – and much good it did them. And in [...]

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Please, Mr. President, Stop Talking Nonsense

by Alan Hart February 7, 2010

By Alan Hart* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz At a town hall meeting in Tampa, Florida on 28 January, President Obama explained what in his view had to happen if there is to be a two-state solution which would see Israel and the Palestinians living side by side in peace and security. He said, “Both [...]

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Matt Beynon Rees – A Palestinian Mandela

by SR Editor February 6, 2010

By Matt Beynon Rees | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The most important man in Palestinian politics is neither president nor prime minister. He doesn’t shuttle between meetings at the US ambassador’s residence and the Israeli foreign ministry. In fact, he doesn’t go anywhere. He’s in an Israeli jail. Marwan Barghouti, 50, is serving five life [...]

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The Perpetual Process for Impossible Peace

by Yousef Munayyer January 16, 2010

By Yousef Munayyer* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz In 1988, on a trip to Yugoslavia, Yasser Arafat the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was asked by a reporter if he believed there would be a Palestinian state in five years. His response “If God is willing, it will be within two years”. Twenty-two [...]

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