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Sabbah's Blog

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Demonizing Iranian Democracy

For the last three weeks the Western media had bombarded us with what they called the Iranian stolen election. They allege that the election was fraudulent and that the masses went into the streets of Tehran protesting the results and demanding new election. The Iranian government is described as fascist and oppressive and is [...]

Israeli ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children - a report

DCI-Palestine* released a report which documents the widespread ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children at the hands of the Israeli army and police force - Palestinian Child Prisoners: The systematic and institutionalized ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children by Israeli authorities. The release of the report came just days after an article was published in The [...]

Video: Two years under siege

Two years after the outbreak of the war in Nahr Al-Bared, the camp's fate remains unclear. the reconstruction of the official camp might start soon, but the army keeps its tight grip on the camp. Several checkpoints, barbed wire and military posts cut Nahr Al-Bared off from its surroundings. Nahr Al-Bared camp used to be a [...]

The necessity of cultural boycott

By Ilan Pappe * If there is anything new in the never-ending sad story of Palestine it is the clear shift in public opinion in the UK. I remember coming to these isles in 1980 when supporting the Palestinian cause was confined to the left and in it to a very particular section and ideological stream. [...]

Video: Palestinian homes on sale to 'private buyers'

Ever ask what happen to the homes of those that become refugees in 1948? This 3 minute clip from Al Jazeera English sums up the latest Israeli actions to make sure the "right of return" becomes just as unfeasible as they have made a true 2-state solution.

Bikini-clad activists crash 'Tel Aviv Beach' party at Central Park

On the sands of the Israeli Ministry of Tourism's Tel Aviv Beach in Central Park last Sunday, bikini-clad activists from the women's group CODEPINK covered themselves in mud to expose the truth behind the event: as a tool to clean up Israel's reputation in light of its dirty policies toward Palestine, including West Bank settlements, [...]

Loyalty to racism

Israel's attempt to legislate loyalty to the Jewish state is proof of the failure of the Zionist/colonial project of Israelification. by Azmi Bishara What is behind the latest wave of legislative proposals flooding the Knesset agenda? I refer specifically to those intended to curb manifestations of Palestinian patriotism and to restrict the political activity of Arab Israelis. [...]

The language that absolves Israel

A special political vocabulary prevents us from being able to recognize what's going on in the Middle East. By Saree Makdisi On Sunday night, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech that — by categorically ruling out the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state — ought to have been seen as a mortal blow to the [...]

Video: Lift the closure - give life a chance

To mark two years of the closure Israel has imposed on the Gaza Strip, a new online film was released last Thursday by eight human rights organizations in Israel.

Gaza Bonanza

[Sabbah's Blog note: For simplicity, read COGAT = OCCUPATION ADMINISTRATORS. For your info, these are administrators in military uniform.] By Yotam Feldman and Uri Blau Every week, about 10 officers from the Israel Defense Force's Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) unit convene in the white Templer building in the Kirya, the Defense [...]

Ensemble Ambitions in a World Divided

By DANIEL J. WAKIN WISPS of mournful tunes from a cane flute mingled with the plucking, jangling arabesques of the zitherlike qanun, the oud and gentle drums. The sounds arose from a quartet of Arab musicians who call themselves the Oriental Music Ensemble as they shared a precious moment of togetherness in the Miller Theater at [...]

Video: Israel Torturing Palestinian Civilian

Haaretz - Border Policemen have filmed themselves abusing and humiliating Palestinians in videos they have posted on YouTube over the past year. In one clip uploaded to the video sharing website an Arab youth is shown in arid terrain, slapping himself, while a voice is heard instructing him to say "I love you, Border Police," and [...]

Nahr al-Bared's forgotten Prime Areas

The three-month-long war between the Lebanese army and Fatah al-Islam militants in the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared in northern Lebanon ended on 2 September 2007. While the Lebanese army has allowed displaced residents to return to some parts of the camp, the fate of other parts of the camp still under the army's [...]

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Netanyahu Speaks with Twisted Tongue

By Dr. Elias Akleh* In his foreign policy speech, Sunday 6/14 at the religiously extremist Bar Ilan University, the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu did not only put the cart of peace in front of the horse, but he also loaded that cart with tons of heavy rocks. The Palestinian senior negotiator, Saeb Erekat, explained "The peace [...]

Video: Nahr al-Bared Camp - A Sip of Coffee

In may 2007, the battle between Fatah Al-Islam and the Lebanese army broke out in Nahr Al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon. Amidst heavy fighting, the Lebanese army had systematically destroyed the entire camp by september 2007. Two years later, nearly all the rubble has been cleared from the "old camp", the core of Nahr [...]

Does Israel Really Have a Right to Exist?

by Susan Abulhawa* Following Netanyahu's much anticipated policy speech, politicians and journalists, like mindless automatons, have set about repeating Israel's tired mantra that Palestinians should recognize Israel's right to exist. Never mind the fact that the PLO and Palestine Authority have obliged this ludicrous call, not once, but four times. And never mind that Israel has [...]

To make an Israeli omelet is it necessary to break so many eggs?

By ROGER PULVERS "Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg. . . . Bombers and tanks and rockets and white phosphorus shells are that high, solid wall. The eggs are the unarmed civilians who are crushed and burned and shot by [...]

Netanyahu Speech: Palestinian Reaction

Ahmad Tibi, a Palestinian citizen of Israel and member of the Israeli Knesset representing the United Arab List-Ta'al party, which was nearly barred from running in Israel's last election: Netanyahu's speech is a deceptive attempt to bypass Obama's call for a complete settlement freeze. He said nothing new, but instead reiterated the racist demand that [...]

Reflect and resist

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 [...]

Garry Trudeau comic is 'anti-Semitic' bemoans ADL, 'How To Cook A Gentile' is OK

As widely reported, the Anti Defamation League (ADL) has sent a letter to cartoonist Garry Trudeau about his Doonesbury cartoon that ran May 31. They then released the content of that letter to media sources. The ADL is demanding Garry Trudeau to apologize because he "maligned Judaism" and is guilty of promoting "anti-Jewish stereotypes and biblical [...]

Military Justice in Israel

Adapted from the Amnesty International Report: http://bit.ly/13b6o4 Hundreds of Palestinians, including scores of children, were detained by Israeli forces in the OPT and many were held incommunicado for prolonged periods. Most were later released without charge, but hundreds were charged with security-related offences and tried before military courts, whose procedures often failed to meet international [...]

Gaza: Collaborate or Die

No Right to Life: With the lack of medical services in Gaza, critically ill patients must travel into Israel for treatment. Many are asked to collaborate with Israeli intelligence services before they receive aid. It has been alleged that if they refuse to become informers they are refused medical treatment. Inigo Gilmore reports

ONLY A DREAM: OBAMA HITS THE WAILING WALL

By Alan Sabrosky * The hopes Obama raised in Cairo didn't last a week before US Middle East envoy George Mitchell buried them five days later in Israel. It was understood that what Obama proposed would be difficult to translate into concrete deeds. I believe Obama was sincere, and it wouldn't have been the first time [...]

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