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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Premier Forum social québécois, du 23 au 26 août 2007 à Montréal.

Tadamon! Montréal animera un atelier
le 25 août à 11h
Pourquoi contester l’existence de la liste Canadienne
des organisations «terroristes» ? L’exemple du Liban.

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Photo: Apartheid Roads outside of Qalqilyah, Palestine.

JERUSALEM: Israel is constructing a road through the West Bank, east of Jerusalem, that will allow both Israelis and Palestinians to travel along it – separately.

There are two pairs of lanes, one for each tribe, separated by a tall wall of concrete patterned to look like Jerusalem stone, an effort at beautification, indicating that the road is meant to be permanent. The Israeli side has various exits. The Palestinian side has few.

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Map: The Palestinian Bantustan Matrix, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions.

Is it right to declare a state before the state build its economy, its productive bases?

Is it possible for a huge bureaucratic apparatus to last while there is no local productive base to meet its enormous salaries and needs?

Is it possible to achieve freedom without sovereignty?

Is it possible to sustain democracy without independence?

These are the main reservations against Oslo Accords (OA), and against the recent elections of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) in the West Bank and Gaza Strip (WBG) for the Palestinian Self- Rule (SR), in spite of its technical success.

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Download the report from Ghassan Bannoura of IMEMC from the A-Infos Radio Project.

Listen to a report produced by Ghassan Bannoura of the International Middle East Media Center (IMEMC) on the visit of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to the occupied Palestinian West Bank on Thursday, August 2nd for the first time since Hamas took control of Gaza. It’s the latest in a series of strides Washington has taken to show its support for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, and to push for Middle East peace talks. On the day of Rice’s visit to the occupied Palestinian territories the Israeli Army carried out several invasions in the West Bank, kidnapping twelve Palestinians.

Le portrait que je dépeins, bien qu’il semble sombre et menaçant, ne concerne pas tous les camps de réfugiés au Liban. Toutefois, il est temps de tirer sérieusement la sonnette d’alarme sur ce qui se passe dans cet espace spécifique des camps de réfugiés, comme exemple de l’état d’exception et des politiques du vide.

La bataille armée entre l’armée libanaise et Fatah al-Islam à l’intérieur du camp de réfugiés de Nahr El-Bared, au nord de Tripoli, dure depuis quarante jours, entraînant la destruction de plus de la moitié des immeubles du camp et la fuite d’environ 30.000 personnes vers d’autres camps.

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Beyrouth, le 13 juin 2007: L’armée libanaise et les forces de sécurité intérieure ont arbitrairement arrêté et maltraité physiquement des Palestiniens qui fuyaient les combats dans le camp de réfugiés de Nahr al-Bared, a déclaré Human Rights Watch aujourd’hui.

Depuis dimanche, plus de 340 civils ont fui le camp dans le nord du Liban, où les combats entre l’armée libanaise et le groupe armé Fatah al-Islam sont entrés dans leur quatrième semaine. L’armée libanaise interroge de nombreux hommes alors qu’ils quittent le camp, et arrêtent ceux suspectés de soutenir le Fatah al-Islam ou d’avoir des informations à propos de ce groupe.

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Tadamon! Montréal appelle à soutenir DEUX ACTIONS
cette semaine à Montréal, en solidarité avec les peuples autochtones…

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This year’s US State Department annual report on human rights practices in Israel identifies discrimination against Palestinian citizens in most spheres of their lives.

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Beit Arabiya is the name of the home of Salim and Arabiya Shawamreh, a family of nine whose home has been demolished four times.

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