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Posted: June 27th, 2008, 10:32am MDT by Haitham Sabbah
It’s time of the year to take some rest, so I’ll be away from my blog for a month or so. If I get a chance in between I’ll try ... -
Posted: June 24th, 2008, 11:03pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
2 Israeli teens assault elderly men playing chess because “they don’t like Russians” The indictment reveals that the two had arrived at the park where they approached the immigrants. ... -
Posted: June 24th, 2008, 10:57pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
This is a true, amazing and shocking firsthand story that details the ‘welcoming package’ waiting for you at Israeli borders. (Try to imagine how Palestinians are treated at checkpoints!!!) ... -
Posted: June 24th, 2008, 10:18pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
No new posts here for some time now because been busy in preparing for my annual vacation with my family on one side and on the other side dumped the ... -
Posted: June 20th, 2008, 9:27pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
Some good news: Adalah-NY - UNICEF Rejects Support From Israeli Billionaire Known for Constructing Settlements on Palestinian Lands Diamond Mogul, Lev Leviev, Facing Increasing Pressure for Human Rights Violations ... -
Posted: June 19th, 2008, 8:53pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
Religious and cultural rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem is a new UN 19 pages report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. It provids shocking -but ... -
Posted: June 19th, 2008, 12:46pm MDT by Sami Jamil Jadallah
Unlike the Rolling Thunder, the Veteran group that descends on Washington, DC every Memorial Day to remind us and the nation, certainly the Congress of the brave men and women ... -
Posted: June 19th, 2008, 12:25pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
The Detroit News Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign apologized Wednesday after volunteers asked two Muslim women not to stand or sit behind the candidate at a rally in Detroit this ... -
Posted: June 18th, 2008, 7:47pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
George Bisharat Tuesday, June 17, 2008 On his first day as the presumptive Democratic candidate for president earlier this month, Barack Obama committed a serious foreign policy blunder. Reciting ... -
Posted: June 18th, 2008, 10:48am MDT by Haitham Sabbah
On April 11 Mousa Abu Maria, a dedicated peace with justice activist and co-founder of the Palestine Solidarity Project, an organization committed to challenging the Occupation using non-violent direct action ... -
Posted: June 17th, 2008, 10:35pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
Pay no mind to the Mossad agent on the line. by Philip Giraldi After Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard was sentenced to life in prison in 1986, the U.S. ... -
Posted: June 17th, 2008, 10:05pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
Here are two stories from two very bright young ladies from Gaza, Occupied Palestine. The first one is a moving clip taken from an Arabic TV show where she tells ... -
Posted: June 17th, 2008, 10:02am MDT by Haitham Sabbah
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Posted: June 17th, 2008, 9:50am MDT by Haitham Sabbah
Two eight year old girls have been killed by the IOF in the Gaza Strip in less than a week. Aya Hamdan Al-Najjar (right) was killed by a rocket fired ... -
Posted: June 16th, 2008, 3:18pm MDT by Khalid Amayreh
“We committed Nazi acts.” Aharon Zisling, Israel’s first Agriculture Minister “There is no doubt that many sexual atrocities were committed by the attacking Jews. Many young (Arab) girls were ... -
Posted: June 16th, 2008, 3:16pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
US adds a new scandal to its endless record of human rights abuse: US accused of holding terror suspects on prison ships The United States is operating “floating ... -
Posted: June 15th, 2008, 11:34pm MDT by Khalid Amayreh
Last week, the Israeli human rights organization BโTselem released video clips showing masked Jewish settlers ganging up on and severely beating elderly Palestinian peasants near the town of Yatta, southwest ... -
Posted: June 15th, 2008, 10:35pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
On the 16th June, the European Union will be discussing the possible upgrading of relations with Israel. Palestinian Prime Minister, Salam Fayad, already raised Palestinians concern about this issue in ... -
Posted: June 14th, 2008, 11:31am MDT by Haitham Sabbah
Warning: Parental Guidance Suggested! June 13 2008 - A young man from Bilin was shot with live rounds during the weekly Bilin Protest. Ibrahim Burnat who was shot in his ... -
Posted: June 13th, 2008, 10:23pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
Guess who? According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the United States of America is The Worlds Worst Prison State: “In 2004, nearly 7 million people were ... -
Posted: June 13th, 2008, 7:22pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
The European Union is considering upgrading its relationship with Israel, including in the political and economic spheres, and the European Council will take a decision on these matter in its ... -
Posted: June 13th, 2008, 6:25pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
UPDATED (See end of post for new version of the same incident) Warning: Parental Guidance Suggested! Spread the video. Get the code from here: [blip.tv] [www.youtube.com] ... -
Posted: June 12th, 2008, 11:26pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
Here is a time-waster news of the day: This undated photo made available by Danish public broadcaster DR1 shows 18-year-old Iraqi-born, Huda Falah who DR1 says it has chosen ... -
Posted: June 12th, 2008, 9:10am MDT by Haitham Sabbah
Above: A map showing the area of Silwan threatened with demolition and settlement expansion, including an indicator of the area in which settlements already exist. As highlighted ... -
Posted: June 11th, 2008, 12:23pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
While it allows the security screeners — looking at the images in a separate room — to clearly see the passenger’s sexual organs as well as other details of their ... -
Posted: June 11th, 2008, 9:17am MDT by Haitham Sabbah
I didn’t think America was a place where bookstores barred people for their viewpoints, until it happened to me, right here in Washington, D.C., the city of my birth. I ... -
Posted: June 10th, 2008, 9:28pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
Syrian cartoonist Ali Farzat Written by George Bisharat A new buzzword is arising from the network of Israeli think tanks and security-oriented academic departments bent on instigating a ... -
Posted: June 7th, 2008, 8:06pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
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Posted: June 7th, 2008, 7:55pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
PRESS RELEASE BY LUISA MORGANTINI Vice President of the European Parliament (GUE/NGL) ITALIAN JUDGE INJURED BY ISRAELI ARMY IN PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION AGAINST THE WALL, IN BIL’IN (WEST BANK) Bil’in, (West ... -
Posted: June 7th, 2008, 7:39pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
I’m proud to announce that my home town village, Qaffin, Tulkarem, started this year’s camping, ‘Summer Against Apartheid. Following reports was issued by ISM: Protest camp built in ... -
Posted: June 7th, 2008, 7:12pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
Hadeel Abu Kwaik is one of 7 students whose Fulbright scholarships were recently withdrawn, then swiftly reinstated by the US State Dept. But almost 700 other students ... -
Posted: June 6th, 2008, 11:01am MDT by Haitham Sabbah
By BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Each American claim to moral authority becomes a foul excretion in light of U.S. complicity in Israel’s barbaric and illegal treatment ... -
Posted: June 6th, 2008, 10:20am MDT by Haitham Sabbah
US Soldiers Discuss Using ‘Drop Weapons’ To Kill Innocent Iraqi. Several soldiers who have returned from combat zones talk with the American News Project about what they say is the ... -
Posted: June 5th, 2008, 11:02pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
The Knesset on Wednesday approved in a preliminary reading an amendment to the Basic Law whereby Jerusalem would be considered not just the capital of Israel, but the capital of ... -
Posted: June 3rd, 2008, 9:28am MDT by Khalid Amayreh
In order to obtain a certificate of good conduct from Israel and her guardian-ally, the United States, the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority (PA) is betraying the very people it claims to ... -
Posted: June 3rd, 2008, 9:22am MDT by Haitham Sabbah
“Our land is not Arab land”: An advertisement on the front page of Haaretz.com leads to a website advocating genocide and terrorism. Haaretz.com, the website of ... -
Posted: June 2nd, 2008, 11:18pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
As an Arab, an uprooted Palestinian, the AIPAC annual conference is interesting for me to follow, not because I expect anything good from it, but because this is the annual ... -
Posted: May 31st, 2008, 3:03am MDT by Haitham Sabbah
Note: Checkpoints are under 100% Israeli surveillance. After you read the story ask yourself: Why aren’t the surveillance camera tapes being shown to the public? I guess it’s obvious. May ... -
Posted: May 31st, 2008, 10:39pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
I kicked the Arab, I stepped on his head By Uri Blau Dozens of teenage boys from Jerusalem received the same ICQ message: “We’re putting an end to ... -
Posted: May 31st, 2008, 3:00pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
The news that the US State Department has decided to cancel all previously approved Fulbright grants to Palestinian students in Gaza is deeply shocking. In yet another clear ... -
Posted: May 31st, 2008, 1:41pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
Dear friends, Remind me again why anyone in their right mind would believe that the U.S. can bring a lasting peace to the region when they can’t ... -
Posted: May 30th, 2008, 12:21pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
Welcome to Carter’s ‘Palestine Peace Not Apartheid’ the Book. Here you can find ‘Palestine Peace Not Apartheid’ on the right hand side is the table of contents. Be ... -
Posted: May 30th, 2008, 12:07pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
Aijaz Ahmad: Why is corporate media marginalizing a former President? Former US President Jimmy Carter has again come under fire in the US mainstream media, since publicly saying that Israel ... -
Posted: May 30th, 2008, 11:37am MDT by Haitham Sabbah
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 ... -
Posted: May 29th, 2008, 3:00pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
Racism? Islamophobic? God forbid! Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats on Wednesday said they would like to see Germany take on thousands of refugees from Iraq. The hitch? They only want ... -
Posted: May 29th, 2008, 2:46pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
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 ... -
Posted: May 28th, 2008, 8:04pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
SIGN THE PETITION To: Israeli and Palestinian Authorities -Palestinian journalist Khalid Amayreh, who lives in the West Bank, has been invited to attend a media conference in Germany. As ... -
Posted: May 28th, 2008, 7:11pm MDT by Zahir Ebrahim
An equitable distribution of Collateral Language! Why this fanatical preference for waging the ‘war on terror’ against only ‘Islamofascism’ today? [An earlier version of this essay appeared here.] Personally, ... -
Posted: May 28th, 2008, 1:32pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
Palestinian youths, men, women, elders and foreigner supporters against the coward Israeli Terrorist Forces, protesting building part of the Apartheid Wall on Na’alin โ near Ramallah, Occupied Palestine. Update: ... -
Posted: May 27th, 2008, 11:48pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
Nasser Jaber spent eighteen years building up his chicken farm in the southern Gaza Strip. Two weeks ago the IOF bulldozed his farm, killing 40,000 of his chickens, ... -
Posted: May 26th, 2008, 9:15pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
In a speech at a literary festival in Hay-on-Wye, in Wales, the 83-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner said: “There is no reason to treat these people this way,” referring to ... -
Posted: May 26th, 2008, 9:06pm MDT by Zahir Ebrahim
The following is an update to Project Humanbeingsfirst’s public service announcement of May 15, 2008 made on the occasion of Celebrating Israel’s 60th Birthday bash, when the ... -
Posted: May 24th, 2008, 7:41pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
The former New York Times Mideast bureau chief warns that America’s foreign policy, particularly under the Bush administration, has been subverted by an aggressive and dangerous Israeli agenda that could ... -
Posted: May 24th, 2008, 11:11am MDT by Haitham Sabbah
(Image by Ben Heine) ACT NOW: Flood the Israeli Ministry of Interior with faxes, emails, calls. DEMAND THAT DR. FINKELSTEIN BE PERMITTED TO ENTER ISRAEL IN ORDER ... -
Posted: May 23rd, 2008, 8:05pm MDT by Khalid Amayreh
Bush at the Knesset revealed what most Arabs and Palestinians already knew: he is not an impartial broker, reports Khaled Amayreh from Ramallah In his speech before the Israeli Knesset ... -
Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 9:22pm MDT by Sami Jamil Jadallah
By Sami Jamil Jadallah Before there was the Israel Defense Forces “IDF” there were the Jewish terrorist groups in Mandated Palestine. Before there was state terrorism committed by ... -
Posted: May 21st, 2008, 9:48pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
“While Israel holds the Palestinian people under military occupation and Americans under political occupation it seems they also have also seized occupation of the legal system in neighbouring Egypt. ... -
Posted: May 19th, 2008, 6:58am MDT by Haitham Sabbah
How did the cartoonists in the Arab media Commemorate the 60th anniversary of Nakba? I’ve been monitoring most of the Arab media, especially newspapers, during the last 5 days to ... -
Posted: May 19th, 2008, 12:33am MDT by Haitham Sabbah
The Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children runs a school for 275 non-hearing children, but the classrooms have been empty for almost 6 weeks, because there isnโt enough fuel ... -
Posted: May 19th, 2008, 11:37pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
This is from the Israeli licensed march of Palestinian families at the old destroyed arab village of Safurye. About half way through the clip CNN’s own Ben Welderman gets harassed ... -
Posted: May 19th, 2008, 10:52pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
Wikinews has learned that a United States Department of Justice (DOJ) IP Address has been blocked on Wikipedia after making edits to an article which were considered “vandalism”. In two ... -
Posted: May 19th, 2008, 1:15pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
Balfour to Blair is a special 30 minute film that investigates the role of British policy in the Middle East from the beginning of the 20th century to today. (Source: ... -
Posted: May 19th, 2008, 12:56pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
Britain obstructs global ban on use of cluster bombs The British Government is accused of being the chief obstacle to the signing of a treaty to ban cluster bombs, ... -
Posted: May 19th, 2008, 12:45pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
History repeating itself! By Uri Blau and Tal Haran (Trans.) From an interview with Israeli soldiers (who are identified by pseudonyms) conducted by Israeli journalist Uri Blau and printed in ... -
Posted: May 19th, 2008, 11:17am MDT by Haitham Sabbah
In a report this week, 39 soldiers give eyewitness accounts from their patrols in and around the West Bank city of Hebron. by Ilene R. Prusher TEL AVIV, ISRAEL ... -
Posted: May 18th, 2008, 11:51pm MDT by Khalid Amayreh
“This morning we saw pictures of the Warsaw ghetto at Yad Vashem and this evening we are going to the Ramallah ghetto.” German Bishop Gregor Maria Franz Hanke during a ... -
Posted: May 18th, 2008, 11:44pm MDT by Sami Jamil Jadallah
George Bush statement in the Israeli Knesset in celebrating 60 years of independence, shames us all. His failure to recognize that Israel was not founded in “Heaven” but in long ... -
Posted: May 18th, 2008, 11:03pm MDT by Haitham Sabbah
After the US President, George W. Bush, gave a speech at the Israeli Knesset on Thursday, several right wing members of Knesset said that “Bush seems to be more Zionist ... -
Posted: May 18th, 2008, 10:51pm MDT by Zahir Ebrahim
On the festive and felicitous occasion of the 60th anniversary of Israel’s existence which is being celebrated with much fanfare from Tel Aviv to Washington D.C., President George W. Bush ... -
Posted: May 15th, 2008, 12:34am MDT by Khalid Amayreh
Palestinians are increasingly rejecting the crumbs of a two-state solution in favour of justice for all in a single state, Palestine, writes Khaled Amayreh in Ramallah As Israel ostentatiously celebrates ... -