Lebanon
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Resources on CIA / Mossad involvement in the assassination of Rafiq Hariri
Came across this extremely comprehensive list of links to stories on the assassination of Rafik Hariri, that I think is worth distributing more widely. Continue reading
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Videos: On the Special Tribunal for Lebanon By Hassan Nasrallah
Videos: To the Lebanese people, I say to them the following: don’t worry about civil strife. Those who talk about civil strife in Lebanon actually want that to come about. There will be no Sunni-Shiite strife and no civil war in Lebanon. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 13 June, 2011: Israel’s Threats: Will Gaza Flotilla Be Safe?
13 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center After Running Out Of Anesthesia, All Surgeries In Gaza Put On Hold IMEMC – Tuesday June 14, 2011 – 03:06, Dr. Atef Al Kahloot, head of the Medical Services in the Gaza Strip, reported Monday that all surgeries in hospitals across the coastal region Continue reading
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Events in Syria -taking sides against imperialist intervention by International Action Center
The progressive political movement must avoid being just an echo and a justification of Pentagon war policy, especially whenever any developing country is in the cross hairs of a U.S. attack. Continue reading
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Israeli bullets killed protesters, yet Syria is reponsible say Israel, US
The Government of Israel, which has occupied the Syrian Golan Heights since 1967, has stated its intention to complain to the United Nations over the march from Syria on the occupied Golan Heights yesterday. At least twenty persons are reported to have been killed by Israeli fire during a protest marking Naksa Day or the… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 3 June, 2011: FRANKLIN LAMB: Israelis Rush for Second Passports
3 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center June 5th March Postponed In Lebanon IMEMC – Friday June 03, 2011 – 16:12, A high ranking Palestinian leader has told Lebanon Daily Star newspaper that the June 5th march by Palestinian refugees will be postponed due to pressure from the Lebanese government. Continue reading
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Syria – What’s behind the protests? By Joyce Chediac
Protests against Western client regimes, such as those in Egypt and Tunisia that have so severely squeezed the workers, have the potential to liberate the people from crushing poverty and repression. However, the situations in Libya and Syria are somewhat different. Continue reading
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On an old anniversary, a new sense that change is possible By Jonathan Cook
Waving Palestinian flags, the marchers braved a minefield, then tore down a series of fences, allowing more than 100 to run into Israeli-controlled territory. As they embraced Druze villagers on the other side, voices could be heard saying: ‘This is what liberation looks like.’ Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 18 May, 2011: One Lawman With the Guts to Go After Wall Street
18 May, 2011 — Information Clearing House Israel and Palestine Here comes your non-violent resistance By The Economist What will it take to make Americans recognise that the real Martin Luther King-style non-violent Palestinian protestors have arrived, and that Israeli soldiers are shooting them with real bullets? www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28120.htm Continue reading
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Lebanon: Has Hezbollah Outmaneuvered Saad Hariri?
I must say I was also taken by surprise at the pace of events and the relative success THUS FAR of the opposition. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 19 January, 2011: Racism In Jewish Schools; “A Dead Arab Is A Good Arab”
19 January, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Army Eyes At Demolishing Palestinian Village To Expand Settlement IMEMC – Thursday January 20, 2011 – 01:50, Israeli soldiers invaded on Wednesday “Khirbit At Taweel”, a small village near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and handed the residents military orders to demolish Continue reading
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The Lesson of the Tunisian Revolution By Hassan Nasrallah
I’d like to take this occasion to congratulate the Tunisian people for their historic revolution as well as praise their bravery. But we must draw a lesson from that revolution. The lesson, above all, is this: the Ben Ali regime and its entourage have always served the interests of France, the United States, and the… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 17 January, 2011: Rabbis Call for Extermination Camps
17 January, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Nof Zion to Remain in Jewish Hands IMEMC – Monday January 17, 2011 – 16:47, Israeli supermarket magnate Rami Levy has made made a successful bid to take over development of the Nof Zion settlement project being built near the Palestinan neighbourhood of Jabal Continue reading
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STOP THE WAR COALITION Newsletter No.11834 7th January 2011
7 January, 2011 — STOP THE WAR COALITION IN THIS NEWSLETTER: 1) AFGHANISTAN AND THE WAR ON TERROR 2) UPCOMING EVENTS Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Daily News Roundup 3 January, 2011
3 January, 2011 — creative-i.info Unfair treatment of alleged leaker Concord Monitor By For the Monitor For more than seven months, PFC Bradley Manning has been held in solitary confinement for his alleged role in leaking classified … www.concordmonitor.com/article/232001/unfair-treatment-of-alleged-leaker Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 17 December, 2010: Palestinian Women Suffer Harsh Violations in Israeli Jails
17 December, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Heading To Gaza, Asia Convoy Arrives In Turkey IMEMC – 17 Dec 2010 – Saturday December 18, 2010 – 04:36, The Asia solidarity convoy heading to the Gaza Strip to deliver humanitarian supplies arrived in in Turkey on Friday after it left Iran on Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 2 December, 2010: US Unable to Stop Jerusalem Settlements; Peace Talks to “Collapse”
2 December, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel Arrests Man Believed To Be Collaborating With Hamas IMEMC – 2 Dec 2010 – Thursday December 02, 2010 – 11:28, Israeli sources reported that the Israeli Security Forces have recently detained an Arab man from al-Fredees Arab village, north of the country, who Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 6 August, 2010: Will the Israel-Lebanon border blow up?
6 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Protest in Artas against the Israel wall IMEMC – 7 Aug 2010 – Friday August 06, 2010 – 20:27, The people of the village of Artas west of Bethlehem organized on Friday their weekly march against the construction of the wall on their land. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 4 August, 2010: Israeli group spotlights sham of Israeli construction freeze
4 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Customs Department Officers Close Nablus TV Channel and Attack Staff Members IMEMC – 4 Aug 2010 – Wednesday August 04, 2010 – 22:44, The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns the recent raid on a Nablus TV channel, which included the beating of Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 1 August, 2010: Report: Israeli warships fire toward Lebanon
1 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center ‘Boycott Israel’ protest held Friday in Bil’in village; two injured IMEMC – 1 Aug 2010 – Sunday August 01, 2010 – 12:46, Around 200 Palestinians, Israelis, and internationals — including a group of hip-hop musicians from the US and Britain — joined a protest Continue reading
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