Received by email from Indymedia Beirut: URGENT APPEAL FOR SOLIDARITY WITH LEBANESE CIVIL SOCIETY The Israeli offensive against Lebanon is an act of aggression against the whole Lebanese people. The IDF claims to be attacking an “infrastructure of terror,” but… Read moreLebanese civil society appeals for solidarity
More sacrifices for the American way of life. From Newsday, July 14: Crash van driver had suspended license The ambulette driver who crashed into a tree on Broad Channel in Queens killing five passengers from an adult home had sped… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
It is heartening that in this paranoid age even the Coptic Christians of Egypt see US-backed conspiracies in the challenges which are emerging to their own orthodoxy. As we recently noted, neocon groups like the Henry Jackson Society have been… Read moreUS behind Coptic church schism?
OK, here’s the big-ticket question. Is Lebanon a mere pawn in an Iran-Israel proxy war? Sound off, readers. Ori Nir writes for The Forward, July 14: Israel Seeks To Eliminate Iran’s Hezbollah Option WASHINGTON — In addition to securing the… Read moreHezbollah: Iran’s proxy?
From AP, July 15: PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Thousands of demonstrators demanding the return of ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide marched to Haiti’s National Palace on Saturday, pushing past riot police in a dramatic show of support for the exiled former leader…. Read moreHaiti: thousands march for Aristide
Its hard to imagine where this will end… From the Reuters, July 15: BEIRUT – Israel killed 35 civilians on Saturday, including 15 children, in air strikes meant to punish Lebanon for letting Hizbollah guerillas menace the Jewish state’s northern… Read moreLebanon: death toll mounts
Note the highlighted section and sound off, readers. From the CBC, July 14: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Friday that Pakistan is still harbouring “terrorist elements,” jeopardizing the peace process between the two countries as tensions remain high in… Read morePakistan’s ISI behind Mumbai terror?
Note the highlighted section and sound off, readers. From the New York Times, July 15: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 14 — A suicide bomber struck in the southern port city of Karachi on Friday, killing a prominent Shiite leader, his 10-year-old… Read moreCIA behind Pakistan sectarian strife?
IOL (SA), July 15: South Africa open to debate on cutting ties with Israel While the government is not currently entertaining thoughts of cutting diplomatic ties with Israel, it is open to debate on the issue, says Minister in the… Read moreSouth Africa considers Israel sanctions
Ha’aretz, July 7: Chavez: U.S. support for Israel will end in a ‘Holocaust’ Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Friday that U.S. backing of Israel is responsible for flaming tensions in the Middle East and putting the world on course toward… Read moreChavez: US support of Israel leading towards “Holocaust”
Text of report by Dubai-based news channel Al-Arabiya TV on 14 July, as translated by BBC Monitoring: At a time when the Jordanian monarch, King Abdallah II, left for Cairo to meet Egyptian President Husni Mubarak in an effort to… Read moreJordanians protest Israeli aggression —but where were the Islamists?
Tom Regan of the Christian Science Monitor provides this July 14 round-up of the fast-escalating Israel-Lebanon crisis and international reactions. We especially love Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon’s invocation (yet again) of US atrocities in Afghanistan, and Russia’s in Chechnya—as… Read moreLebanon carnage escalates; media silence on Israeli protests
