Terrorism is a contested terrain, a political landscape on which the highest levels of international military power engage in a deadly war. In 2007 terrorism remains an ominous threat, a political ghost invoked in the foreign policy rhetoric of Canada’s Conservative government surrounding the ‘War on Terror’.

In 2002 Canada unveiled an official list of ‘terrorist’ organizations, strikingly similar to the US governmental list of an equivalent nature. Today the Lebanese political movement Hezbollah, both the military and political wings, is officially considered a ‘terrorist’ organization by the government of Canada, a policy only endorsed by two additional countries internationally, the US and Israel.

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Ecoutez l’édition spéciale Tadamon! de World Skip the Beat sur CKUT, pour entendre de la bonne musique et de la bonne politique.

La musique du monde entier porte en elle un message de lutte et Tadamon veut célébrer cette expression populaire, ces cris de douleurs, de combats et de victoires. Cette émission comprend de la musique d’Algérie, d’Ouganda, du Mali, du Sénégal, du Congo, de Côte d’Ivoire, du Mexique, du Brésil, de Jamaïque, du Liban et du Cap Vert.

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Une soirée de films palestiniens pour commémorer 60 ans d’occupation et célébrer la voix palestinienne.

Le 29 novembre 1947, l’assemblée générale de l’ONU vote la résolution 181 qui ‘’recommande’’ le partage de la Palestine en 2 Etats, l’un juif, l’autre arabe. Cette solution est en opposition avec le principe d’auto-détermination des peuples et Particulièrement inégale puisque refusée par le peuple arabe autochtone qui n’en négociera pas le tracé, très favorable à la partie juive. Le partage impliquait une injustice qui aboutira inévitablement à la guerre de 1948 et à la Naqba : l’expulsion d’environ 800 000 Palestiniens et l’occupation de leurs terres par le nouvel État colonial israélien.

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Photo: Lebanon Oil Spill 2006.

UNITED NATIONS: When the Israeli Air Force destroyed a slew of oil storage tanks and a key power station during its war against Lebanon in July 2006, the environmental damage was described as devastating. And now, more than 15 months later, the United Nations has released a report detailing the extent of the destruction caused by that oil spill to human health, biodiversity, fisheries and tourism.

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Lebanon’s feuding political leaders have a long history of digging their country into holes from which it can only emerge by climbing over piles of dead bodies. The current impasse is just the latest example of this tendency, but at least a few cooler heads are determined to avoid the errors of those who went before. It remains to be seen which “side” will prevail – not between the government and the opposition, but between the sane and insane factions in each camp. Not content with this level of uncertainty, however, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has stepped back into the fray in defense of past traditions and future bloodshed.

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BEIRUT: International donors have not sent any money for the Palestinian refugees and Lebanese affected by the conflict at the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, more than six weeks after Premier Fouad Siniora asked a donor conference for $55 million, a number of relief officials said. The hundreds of refugee families returning to the battle-scarred camp are facing desperate conditions, although their departure from public schools near the camp has at least begun to release the tensions between the displaced and the Lebanese locals, said Ambassador Khalil Makkawi, head of the Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee. Over three months of fighting between the Lebanese Army and Fatah al-Islam militants largely destroyed the camp and its environs, while the camp’s 31,000-plus residents fled soon after the hostilities began.

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Last weekend, thirteen bodies, most likely of Palestinian refugees from Iraq, were recovered on the coast of Italy after their boats, carrying at least 127 persons in search of safety, had broken apart. These tragedies highlight the failure of the international community to protect Palestinian refugees.

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The Shin Bet is refusing to allow a 21-year-old Rafiah man who is sick with cancer and in need of immediate medical care to come to Israel, even though he obtained permission from the Israeli Defense Forces’ Coordination and Liaison Administration.

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BEIRUT: The Lebanese Army opened fire on Israeli warplanes flying low over South Lebanon on Thursday, in the first incident of its kind since the summer 2006 war. “Israeli warplanes were flying lower than usual over Lebanon and so we fired at them,” a senior army source told The Daily Star, confirming that gunners fired on intruding aircraft twice.

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