If you want to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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 [...]
Also tagged Army, Camp, Nahr al-Bared, Palestine, palestinian, Refugee, Refugees, WarIn 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 [...]
Also tagged Camp, Fatah Al-Islam, Fateh al-Islam, lebanese, Palestine, palestinian, Refugee, Refugees, WarBy Franklin Lamb, Beirut
Time for transparency at Der Spiegel?
"We don't know where the Der Spiegel magazine did get their information from and we don't know where they brought this story from. No one in the prosecutor's office has spoken to the German magazine about anything. We have a clear policy of not leaking any information [...]
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 [...]
More than a year after their homes were destroyed during the battle between the Lebanese army and the militant Islamist group Fatah al-Islam, the majority of the refugees from Nahr al-Bared in north Lebanon find themselves in a difficult situation. Not able to return to their homes, stuck in pre-fabricated housing units and often unemployed, [...]
Also tagged Nahr al-Bared, Nahr-el-Bared, palestinian, Refugee, RefugeesOne year has passed since the first Palestinians were allowed to return to the outskirts of the destroyed Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, to the so-called "new camp". Meanwhile, up to 15.000 people have resettled there, many of them waiting to access their destroyed homes in the "old camp", the core of what used to be [...]
Also tagged Nahr al-Bared, palestinian, palestinian-refugees, Refugee, Refugees, videoEarly in the morning, between 5 and 6am, a wave of footsteps and whispering voices can be heard in the narrow alleys of Bourj ash-Shamali Refugee Camp [Sabbah: Palestinian Refugee Camp] in South Lebanon. It is in the darkness of the early morning hours that hundreds of Palestinian day laborers leave their homes, gather in [...]
Also tagged Camp, camps, harvest, orange, palestinian, palestinian-refugees, Refugee, RefugeesThis album is powered by BubbleShare - Add to my blog
From my two years old post:
There's another significant anniversary this week, but not one that’s attracted the sort of attention the 11 September commemorations have.
On the morning of Saturday, September 18th, 1982, reporters entering the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila near Beirut, Lebanon, [...]
By Raja Chemayel
My phone ran up ,I picked it up ,
it was my brother phoning me from Beirut.
"Guess what !! we have won !!"…..he said.
I answered him ,
Why ?? did the US Embassy close down and left ??
or did Samir Geagea hang himself ???
"No !! we are winning………..
can't you understand ??? he shouted.
Tell [...]
Norman Finkelstein, a Jewish American political scientist and author, specializing in Jewish-related issues and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in particular talks about the Lebanese militia Hezbollah and openly supports and praises their resistance: "They (Hezbollah) show courage, they show discipline, I respect that"
On Israeli defeat and consequential withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000, Finkelstein says:"But the reality [...]
The long awaited final Winograd's report came out with unsurprising (or surprising? doesn't make a difference here) conclusions that saved Olmert's ass and his sick cabinet, however, that's not what I'm interested in at all. The real interesting part is the relation between Hillary Clinton and Winograd report.
How?
Winograd report states that the Israeli occupation forces [...]
Whew… Israel - and its army - saved again from that nasty anti Semitic PR by parents of dead children ( I remember those pictures, doesn't anyone else? More massacre albums here, here, here, here and here ) by its its own extremely fair and just politicians…
The Israel Defense Forces will not take legal action [...]
Wanted: Angelina Jolie's luscious lips or Lebanese sex bomb Haifa Wehbe's nose or breasts.
Men and women from oil-rich Arab Gulf states have been coming in droves to fix their noses, lift buttocks and enlarge their breasts in Lebanon, attracted by the reputation of the country's surgeons, its low prices, good weather and buzzing night-life.
"Sixty percent [...]
If you think that the "War on Terror" has come about because Islamic extremists "hate your freedoms," you are wrong. It is because of the unbalanced and deeply flawed foreign policy chosen my US politicians in the Middle East, which generated much of the anti-American sentiment found in the Arab world. If you ask, Why? [...]
Also tagged Book, chinski, conservative, Democracy, Iraq, Israel, israel-lobby, Mearsheimer, Media, Military, oil, Politics, Terrorism, Walt, War, ZionismThis is spacial news for Hillary who voted for more cluster bombs:
A British man was killed on Thursday while clearing cluster bombs dropped on southern Lebanon by Israel during its war with Hezbollah guerrillas last year, a United Nations spokeswoman said.
He was the 13th person to be killed during work to clear unexploded ordinance from [...]
