IDF commander: We fired more than a million cluster bombs in Lebanon

Meron Rappaport (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/761781.html)

“What we did was insane and monstrous, we covered entire towns in cluster bombs,” the head of an IDF rocket unit in Lebanon said regarding the use of cluster bombs and phosphorous shells during the war.

Quoting his battalion commander, the rocket unit head stated that the IDF fired around 1,800 cluster bombs, containing over 1.2 million cluster bomblets.

Cluster bomblets on the ground outside Nabatiyeh.

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“In this first address that I give in these days following Operation True Promise, I would like to say a few words — a word to the Lebanese people, a word to the resistance fighters, a word to the Zionists, and a word to the Arab rulers. I will not offer words to the international community because I have never for one day believed that there is any such thing as an international community, just as many in our nation feel.”The address of the General Secretary of Hizballah, His Excellency Sayyid Hasan Nasrallah, to the Nation, the Lebanese people, the resistance fighters, the Zionists, and the Arab leaders.

Tadamon! Montreal posts an address from the Secretary General of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, delivered on Friday, July 14th, during the first week of the Israeli assault on Lebanon. This address focuses on some important social, cultural & political motivations for the military actions of Hezbollah, and thus provides some important context to the war…. Tadamon! Montreal posts this address from Hassan Nasrallah in light of the misrepresentation of Hezbollah in the majority of major media outlets in North America.

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An inteview with Gilbert Achcar

August 10, 2006
Chris Spannos

This interview was produced for Redeye, Vancouver Co-op Radio, on August 5, 2006.

CS: Lebanon has been suffering Israeli military devastation since mid-July. Certainly Hezbollah had anticipated a response from Israel to the abduction of two Israeli soldiers. What do you think were Hezbollah’s political calculations and reasons for their actions?

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Official statement of the Bolivarian Society of Quebec [SBQ] for Lebanon, Iraq, Palestine and Afghanistan.

The Bolivarian Society of Quebec (SBQ) publicly manifests its support and its solidarity towards all the Lebanese people in this moment of hardship and strife.

The external aggression that Lebanon is suffering violates principles stated by article 2 of the United Nations Charter, particularly withregards to national sovereignty respect and non-intervention in State’s internal affairs.
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Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:14:13 EDT
CBC News

The Lebanese-based militant group Hezbollah should be removed from Canada’s list of banned terrorist organizations, two Canadian MPs say. (more…)

Globe and Mail Update (15 August 2006)

JEFF SALLOT

OTTAWA — Israel wants the Canadian navy to help patrol the Lebanese coast to stop arms shipments to Hezbollah. (more…)

Analysis of each paragraph of U.N. resolution 1701 can be found at http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forum/. Read the “UN Mideast Ceasfire Resolution Paragraph by Paragraph”.

Members of Tadamon! participated in a borough council meeting in Montreal, in which community members asked for a minute of silence for the Al Akhrass family, neighbours who were killed by an Israeli missile in Lebanon. The request was refused, and a number of errors and slurs were made against Tadamon! in media reports of the incident.  La Presse published a correction the following day based on the following letter from Tadamon! : 

Sent to La Presse, August 10th:

On Wednesday, 9 August, your newspaper printed an article “Pas d’hommage aux El-Akhras dans Côte-des-Neiges” which contained a number of factual errors and smears concerning our group, Tadamon! Montreal. These errors are a matter of great concern to us, and we would appreciate the publication of the following corrections at your earliest convenience:

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“Cancer” or social movement? Terrorists or resistance fighters?

Canadian leaders Peter MacKay and Stephen Harper justify their support for Israeli military aggression by asserting that Hezbollah and Hamas are “terrorist organizations”. MacKay even referred to Hezbollah as a “cancer” on Lebanese society. The use of this kind of language is reminiscent of racist hate speech, including the anti-semitic rhetoric of early twentieth century europe, used to de-humanise and to justify atrocities. Harper and MacKay’s comments have also revealed an embarassing ignorance of the most basic facts about what is happening in the Middle East.

What is Hezbollah? Before judgements are made, people should inform themselves. The excellent Middle East Report prepared a primer on the party which can be found at www.merip.org/mero/mero073106.html.