Feb. 13, Imad Moughniyeh, a senior commander of Hezbollah, was assassinated in Damascus. “The world is a better place without this man in it,” State Department spokesperson Sean McCormack said: “one way or the other he was brought to justice.” Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell added that Moughniyeh has been “responsible for more deaths of Americans and Israelis than any other terrorist with the exception of Osama bin Laden.”
Joy was unconstrained in Israel too, as “one of the U.S. and Israel’s most wanted men” was brought to justice, the London Financial Times reported. Under the heading, “A militant wanted the world over,” an accompanying story reported that he was “superseded on the most-wanted list by Osama bin Laden” after 9/11 and so ranked only second among “the most wanted militants in the world.”
In the heart of Montreal Denis Kosseim, of the Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine (CJPP) waves a Palestinian flag during a solidarity demonstration with Gaza on Saturday, February 9th.
As part of the international Israeli Apartheid Week that occurred in cities across Canada and around the world, a series of events occurred in Montreal to mark Israeli Apartheid Week in February 2008. Israeli Apartheid Week is now in its fourth consecutive year and in 2008, Israeli Apartheid Week occurs during the 60th year of the Palestinian Nakba (”catastrophe”)– 60 years of dispossession, ethnic cleansing and exile for Palestinians resulting from the creation of the state of Israel.
Par cette lettre je souhaite me retirer officiellement du jury du Prix annuel 2008 de la Fondation Alex et Ruth Dworkin pour la promotion de la tolérance à travers le cinéma, décerné par les Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois.
Ce prix est accompagné d’une bourse de 5000$ «remise au producteur pour le travail de l’équipe ayant démontré l’intention de transmettre, à travers l’oeuvre gagnante, un message de compréhension et de tolérance.»
Seven people have been killed in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, after a demonstration against power cuts descended into violence.
Shots were fired as the army intervened when protesters tried to block a road.
An activist from the opposition Shia Amal movement was killed, triggering violent protests in which six more people were killed, reports say.
ZAWTAR WEST, 22 January: Deminers clearing Israeli-dropped cluster bombs in south Lebanon are turning up an average of 10 new sites per month, while Israel continues to ignore requests for data that would assist clearing the estimated one million unexploded bomblets, which continue to kill and maim civilians and decimate rural livelihoods. A single cluster bomb can disperse hundreds of bomblets.
Plusieurs villes à travers le Canada et dans le monde participent à une semaine entière d’actions contre l’apartheid israélien du 3 au 10 février. Cette semaine d’actions a été initiée au niveau local en Palestine et en est à sa quatrième année d’existence. En 2008, la semaine contre l’apartheid israélien a lieu au moment de la commémoration des 60 ans de Nakba palestinienne (‘catastrophe’) -60 ans de dépossession, de nettoyage ethnique et d’exil pour les Palestiniens, résultant de la création de l’État d’Israël. Tadamon ! Montréal vous invite à participer à une série d’événements afin de marquer cette semaine contre l’apartheid à Montréal…
Nahr el-Bared, camp de réfugiés palestiniens situé au bord de la Méditerranée, au Liban près de Tripoli, a été le théâtre d’un violent conflit entre l’armée libanaise et la faction armée Fatah al-Islam, du 20 mai au 4 septembre 2007, obligeant ses 40,000 résidents à évacuer contre leur gré. Aujourd’hui, il ne reste que des ruines, la plupart inhabitables.
