Born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, Youssef Kanaan has been “an unwelcome guest” all his life – surviving, with no permanent home, at the mercy of others.

Like many of the 4 million Palestinians who lost their ancestral homes in Arab-Israel conflicts in 1948 and 1967, Kanaan is stateless, a peculiar situation that deprives him of basic rights in the land of his birth, Lebanon, and dooms him to a strange limbo in Canada.

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First Quebec Social Forum, from August 23rd to 26th, 2007 in Montreal…

Tadamon! Montreal a Workshop
Saturday, August 25th, 11am.
Why challenge the existence of the Canadian list
of “terrorist” organizations? The example of Lebanon.

The UK’s reputation was damaged when the government hesitated in calling for an immediate end to the Lebanon war last year, MPs have said.

At the time, then-PM Tony Blair was criticised for waiting a few weeks before eventually calling for a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon.

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WINDSOR – A billboard that appears to promote Hezbollah — an organization the Canadian government has ruled to be terrorist — has raised the hackles of a number of Windsor community groups. However, one of the people responsible for the sign said it was put up to honour their freedom-fighter families in Lebanon — and it’s their Canadian right to do so.

“In Canada, we want peace,” said Hussein Dabaja, a Lebanese-born Hezbollah supporter. “We’re not trying to offend anybody. We have freedom of speech. It’s a free country. Every Lebanese in Canada has somebody that died in Lebanon. Who is Hezbollah? Our brothers, our family, our parents, our friends. We came to Canada and they stayed there to fight.”

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Photo: Joe Hastings, Cluster bomb shells dropped on Vietnam by the U.S. military.

BEIRUT: A US expert on cluster bombs said Tuesday that out of the four million cluster bomblets dropped in Lebanon by Israel during last year’s war, 1.2 million bomblets are still unexploded. Franklin Lamb of the Americans Concerned for Middle East Peace Association said Tuesday during a ceremony held to support the Lebanese victims of cluster bombs, that of the four million cluster bombs dropped in southern Lebanon, Beirut’s Southern Suburbs and the Bekaa Valley, 1.2 million still constitute a serious threat to civilians.

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Photo: Montrealers gather to mark the anniversary of the Israeli attack on Lebanon.

MONTREAL: To mark the 1 year anniversary of the Israeli attack on Lebanon hundreds of people gathered in Montreal for an evening of testimonials, poetry and presentations on the impacts of the 2006 Israeli attack on Lebanon. One year ago, Israel launched a military assault on Lebanon, commencing a 34 day war that left more than 1300 Lebanese civilians dead, large parts of the national infrastructure destroyed and southern Lebanon littered with over one million unexploded cluster bomblets.

This Montreal community commemoration was organized by Al-Hidaya Association, Association des jeunes libanais musulmans (AJLM) and Tadamon! Montreal…

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Listen to a special edition of Radio Tadamon! focused on commemorating the July 2006 Israeli military assault on Lebanon, a 34 day war that left over 1300 Lebanese civilians dead, large parts of the national infrastructure destroyed and southern Lebanon littered in over 1 million unexploded cluster bombs.

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New report documents past quarter century of Israeli attacks on Lebanese civilians…

‘The Price We Pay’ seeks to counterbalance influence of Jewish lobbies
on US policy in Middle East, questions morality of American aid to Jewish state

BEIRUT: Israel was once reprimanded by the United States for its use of cluster bombs in civilian areas. In 1984, The New York Times credited Franklin P. Lamb’s first book with gathering the evidence that spurred former President Ronald Reagan’s administration into cutting off Israel’s supplies of US cluster bombs. A quarter-century on, Lamb returned to update “Israel’s War in Lebanon” (South End Press, 1984) in the wake of last summer’s war. The result is the substantial report “The Price We Pay: A Quarter-Century of Israel’s Use of American Weapons Against Civilians in Lebanon (1978-2006).”

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