Hasan Abu Nimah and Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 11 October 2006

There are ominous signs that the long-contemplated plan to overthrow the democratically-elected Hamas-led Palestinian Authority cabinet is about to enter its most dangerous phase: a political coup, supported by local militias, with foreign and regional backing. This could ignite serious intra-Palestinian violence. With Iraq providing a dreadful warning of how foreign occupation can foster civil bloodshed, everything must be done to expose and thwart this dangerous conspiracy.
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Journée d’action pancanadienne POUR LE RETRAIT DES TROUPES CANADIENNES D’AFGHANISTAN
 
Samedi, 28 octobre 2006
 
MANIFESTATION À MONTRÉAL
Square Dorchester (coin Peel et René-Lévesque)
Départ :  13h00. Rassemblement :  12h30
 
Troupes canadiennes, hors d’Afghanistan !
NON au partenariat militaire Canada–États-Unis !

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ILS OCCUPENT … NOUS RÉSISTONS!
CANADA: CRISSE TON CAMP DE L’AFGHANISTAN!

Joignez-vous au contingent anti-impérialiste BLOQUEZ L’EMPIRE dans la manifestation du 28 octobre, dans le cadre d’une journée internationale d’action contre l’occupation de l’Afghanistan.

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SAMEDI LE 28 OCTOBRE À MIDI
Parc Norman Bethune
rassemblement au coin des rues Guy et de Maisonneuve (métro Guy-Concordia)
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Les enfants sont les bienvenus au contingent anti-impérialiste BLOQUEZ L’EMPIRE. Nous nous joindrons ensuite à la marche organisée par Échec à la guerre.

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STRATÉGIES DE SOLIDARITÉ AVEC LE LIBAN À MONTRÉAL

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MERCREDI, le 27 septembre à 20 heures
Auditorium Frank Dawson Adams
3450, rue Université, 2ème étage
[au coin des rues Milton et Université; métro McGill]
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Conférenciers et conférencières * Repas Iftar communautaire * Poésie * Films * Halte-Garderie gratuite

Tract pour anoncer l’événement ici.    Affiche ici.    Annonce pour la radio ici.

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Jonathan Cook, Electronic Lebanon, 7 September 2006

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article5698.shtml

NAZARETH – The measure of a human rights organisation is to be found not just in the strides it takes to seek justice for the oppressed and victimised but also in the compromises it makes to keep itself out of trouble. Because of the business that human rights defenders are in, they must be held to a standard higher than we demand of others.

Unfortunately, one of the best — Human Rights Watch — has failed that test during the war in Lebanon this summer. (Lire la suite…)

by Rami El-Amine

Originally published by Zmag.

Racism against Arabs and Muslims long preceded the 9-11 terrorist attacks and has much of its roots in Western imperialism in the Middle East, especially Israel’s colonization of Palestine.  Yet, the escalation that we witness today can be traced to the war on terror launched after 9-11 by Bush and his neoconservative ideologues with the backing of the Democrats. Anti-Arab/anti-Muslim racism has helped sell the detentions, wars, gulags, and occupations of US imperialism’s latest and boldest venture into the Middle East and South Asia.  In turn, this imperial venture has further inflamed racist views of Arabs and Muslims.   What makes this growing racism so frightening is its wide acceptance in US society, particularly by the left.  With the latter, it is not as much conscious racism as not doing enough to fight it.  Part of this may be due to ambivalence, but it also stems from a lack of a dynamic understanding of Islamism.  Broad support gives anti-Arab/anti-Muslim racism a sense of legitimacy and respectability that makes building a mass movement that can end the war and occupation of Iraq difficult, if not impossible, since so much of the support for the war is fueled by fear and racism.

We thrash, curse for air
As our strangler declares, look
How violent the Arab
              – Haiku for the Head Locked by Zein El-Amine

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Reporting from South Lebanon

August 27th, 2006
Hicham Takache

In the afternoon, I took my family and made a tour to the neighboring villages and towns to survey the war damage. Yohmor in particular was badly hit. This small village overlooking the Litani River was bombed mercilessly by all types of ammunition; from artillery shells, to cluster bombs, to smart bombs shot from Apache helicopters and F16 fighter jets. The damage is extensive and incredible.

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View a photo essay of Haret Hreik from independent media activist & organizer with the Samidoun coalition, Mohammad Shublaq taken on Tuesday, 15 August 2006. Haret Hreik is a neighborhood in the southern suburb of Beirut that was most heavily targeted by Israeli air-strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs or Dahye in Arabic.
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Deliberate destruction or ‘collateral damage’?

Excerpt from Amnesty International report, “Israel/Lebanon: Deliberate destruction or “collateral damage”? Israeli attacks on civilian infrastructure.” Full report: www.amnesty.org.

During more than four weeks of ground and aerial bombardment of Lebanon by the Israeli armed forces, the country’s infrastructure suffered destruction on a catastrophic scale. Israeli forces pounded buildings into the ground, reducing entire neighbourhoods to rubble and turning villages and towns into ghost towns, as their inhabitants fled the bombardments. Main roads, bridges and petrol stations were blown to bits. Entire families were killed in air strikes on their homes or in their vehicles while fleeing the aerial assaults on their villages. (Lire la suite…)

The UN’s humanitarian chief has accused Israel of “completely immoral” use of cluster bombs in Lebanon.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5299938.stm

UN clearance experts had so far found 100,000 unexploded cluster bomblets at 359 separate sites, Jan Egeland said.

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