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Posts Tagged ‘Massacre’

William A. Cook – A Christmas Remembrance

By Haitham Sabbah • Dec 21st, 2009 • Category: Features, Haitham's Choice, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, War, Zionism

By William A. Cook*
"The white civilized man (is) the most ferocious animal on the face of the earth."
(Herman Melville, 1840s)
In 1841, Melville sailed aboard the Acushnet, a whaling vessel, on a three year trip to the South Seas. By July of 1842, Melville and a shipmate, Toby Greene, jumped ship revolting against the tyrannical powers [...]

William A. Cook – Walled in by Myth and Deceit

By Haitham Sabbah • Dec 7th, 2009 • Category: Features, Haitham's Choice, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, Zionism

By William A. Cook*
Ben Gurion "…realized that the holy book could be made into a secular national text, serve as a central repository of ancient collective imagery, help forge the hundreds of thousands of new immigrants into a unified people, and tie the younger generation to the land." (Shlomo Sand, The Invention of the Jewish [...]

Ángeles Diez – The limits of the Spanish “Left” on its defence of the Palestinian people

By Mary Rizzo • Feb 5th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Israel, Mary's Choice, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Resistance, War, Zionism

Translated into English by Manuel Talens and revised by Mary Rizzo

During the current Israeli aggression to Gaza both the Spanish Left and Right have built linguistic fences to position themselves around the problem. The case of the Spanish institutional Left is without any doubt paradigmatic: on one side there a party now in office – [...]

Haitham Sabbah – Photos of the day

By Haitham Sabbah • Dec 27th, 2008 • Category: Features, Haitham's Choice, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Photos, War, Zionism

Update 1: 282 killed and counting.
I selected the following photos to sum up all that can be said to describe the Israeli massacre in Gaza today and what we expect to see very soon.
(Click image(s) to enlarge)
First, peace! What peace?

The Israeli terrorist war machines used 60 jet fighters to attack Gaza and drop 100 ton [...]

Sami Jamil Jadallah – Sabra and Shatilla, Time to Bring the Guilty to Trial

By Sami Jamil Jadallah • Nov 16th, 2008 • Category: Middle East Issues, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, War

Perhaps it it time to bring criminal and civil charges against the PLO, USA, Syria and Lebanese Forces for the massacres in Lebanon.
By Sami Jamil Jadallah
As was expected, the Palestinian leadership sitting in Ramallah and around the world did not make a mention of or remembers the massacre of some 5,000 Palestinians civilians massacred in [...]

Oct. 29th in history: Massacres in Palestine

By Haitham Sabbah • Oct 29th, 2008 • Category: Features, Haitham's Choice, Israel, Newswire, Palestine

Today in history is another black day in the Palestinian history.

1. On October 29, 1948, when Israeli brigades captured the village of Safsaf. The known details of the massacre come to us via several contemporary second-hand Zionist reports and via Arab oral history. Yosef Nachmani, a senior officer in the Haganah (and later the director [...]