Category Archives: Lebanon

In Lebanon, IDF plans a ‘ferocious land grab’

Posted on 11 August, 2010 by

Ambitions for Eretz Israel are apparently still being expressed as a matter of military planning and policy. Check out this revealing quote from the IDF’s deputy chief of staff from the new preface to Norman Finkelstein’s book, This Time We … Continue reading →

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Was the tree really on Israeli territory? Not quite.

Posted on 7 August, 2010 by

Also posted at PULSE. In the aftermath of the bloody border skirmish between Lebanon and Israel, much of the Anglophone press seems to have dutifully accepted the UN’s assertion that the hapless tree at the centre of it all was … Continue reading →

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Nasrallah: Israel assassinated Hariri and we will provide evidence

Posted on 3 August, 2010 by

Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has just delivered a significant short speech in Lebanon in the aftermath of the border clash and the STL (Special Tribunal for Lebanon). We provide a live-delivered translation courtesy of tweeter Roqayah below. The most … Continue reading →

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Challenging the Dahiyeh Doctrine: the Samouni Family and the Goldstone Report

Posted on 18 October, 2009 by

The Samouni family of Palestine lost 29 members of its extended family in Israel’s December massacre against the defenceless population in Gaza. Brenda Heard, founder of Friends of Lebanon, reveals how the goodwill of the Samouni family and assumption of … Continue reading →

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