Lebanon

Lebanese Journalists Defy Israeli Threats To Expose The Truth

November 1, 2024 William Van Wagenen, The Cradle. Resist! Israel, Journalists, Lebanon, Lebanon Solidarity, Palestine

While reporting from south Lebanon for the past year, Mortada has received many threats, including directly from the Israeli army’s Arabic language spokesperson, Avichay Adraee. “He put a tweet on his X account saying I’m not a journalist. I am a spy working for Hezbollah on the border,” says Mortada, the Al Mayadeen field correspondent in south Lebanon, where Hezbollah fighters are fiercely resisting Israel’s ongoing ground invasion and mass bombing campaign. The Israelis started to make online polls, asking people whether they should kill me today, or tomorrow. It was hard because we know they are not joking. There is a big probability they will do something.

How Israel Is Trying To Beat The ‘Axis Of Resistance’

October 30, 2024 Ahmed Alqarout, Mondoweiss. Educate! Axis of Resistance, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Supply Chain, Wars and Militarism

In a recent public address on October 4, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei highlighted for the first time what he described as U.S. and Israeli plans to control the region’s natural resources. He stated that Israel’s current war campaign aims to position Israel as a hub for exporting energy to Europe and importing technology to ensure its survival. Khamenei called for resistance against the so-called India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC), a proposed land bridge connecting India, Saudi, the UAE, Jordan, Israel, and Europe.

US Ambassador To Lebanon Promotes ‘Internal Uprising’ To Assist Israel

October 30, 2024 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! Hezbollah, Israel, Lebanon, Report, US Aid To Israel, US Diplomacy, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

A high-ranking Lebanese security source revealed to Al-Akhbar newspaper that the US Ambassador to Lebanon, Lisa Johnson, is continuing her agenda to prepare Lebanon for a “post-Hezbollah era” by mobilizing “internal” forces against the Islamic resistance movement while it fights the Israeli Army. In discussions with Lebanese politicians, Johnson reportedly said, “Israel cannot achieve everything through war; it’s time for you to do your part and launch an internal uprising under the banner of ‘Enough.’” The ambassador added, “The Lebanese people must show their desire to rise up and get rid of Hezbollah and return to the context that emerged after the assassination of Rafik Hariri, especially since the regional, international, and field circumstances are in your favor.”

Israel And Its Neighborhood, An Interview With Ambassador Chas Freeman

October 28, 2024 Patrick Lawrence, Scheer Post. Educate! Brazil, BRICS, China, India, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Russia, South Africa

A German newspaper recently published an interview with the Egyptian foreign minister, Sameh Shoukry, who expressed his profound frustration with the Americans as Israel continues its assault in Gaza—and now the West Bank and Lebanon. You can’t work with the Americans, he complained in so many words. They say one thing, they rarely mean it, and typically do something else altogether. It prompts my first question in the context of the enlarging crisis in West Asia, please comment on the diplomatic positions of America’s allies in the region. What, generally, is going through their minds? Why haven’t they reacted more vigorously to the Israeli assault? Are they simply “bought,” in one or another way? Or is there more to it?

University Of Minnesota SDS Statement Of Halimy Hall Occupation

October 27, 2024 Fight Back! News. Resist! Campus Movement, Israel, Lebanon, Lebanon Solidarity, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Occupation, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Yemen, Yemen Solidarity

Shortly after President Cunningham started working at our university, she and the Board of Regents held an emergency meeting, a week before students returned to campus, where they passed a policy of neutrality for the UMN endowment. Regent Jamie Meyron introduced the institutional neutrality policy declaring the University’s endowment funds “politically neutral”, effectively making it impossible for students to campaign for the University to divest from certain companies. In this same meeting, they resurrected restrictive protest policies, including banning unpermitted protests of more than 100 people and the use of more than one sound amplification device, and put size limits on signs and banners.

US Tries To Entice Israel Into Minimizing Its Attack On Iran

October 26, 2024 Mitchell Plitnick, Mondoweiss. Educate! Biden administration, Gaza, Iran, Israel, Joe Biden, Lebanon, Middle East, US Aid To Israel, Wars and Militarism

On October 15, two American officials told the Associated Press that they “believed” the White House had gotten assurances from Israel that it would not strike Iran’s oil or nuclear facilities when it launched its eventual retaliation for the October 1 missile barrage that Iran had fired at Israel. The officials’ cautious tone reflected their lack of confidence in Israel’s verbal agreements. Nothing was in writing, and Israel had made no public declaration about limiting its options regarding Iranian targets. Given Israel’s long history of defying and deceiving its credulous benefactor, it’s remarkable that it’s taken this long for Washington to display this kind of caution with Israel’s promises.

Black Muslim Leaders Shun Harris For US President

October 23, 2024 Umar A. Farooq, Middle East Eye. Resist! Biden administration, Genocide, Israel, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Lebanon, Lebanon Solidarity, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Protests, US Aid To Israel

A group of approximately 50 Black Muslim leaders have signed a statement urging Black and Muslim American voters to shun Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris in her bid for the White House and instead back candidates who support a ceasefire in Gaza and an arms embargo on Israel. The new statement, first reported by Middle East Eye, is the latest effort from Muslim community leaders - from imams to scholars, to activists to politicians - telling voters not to choose Vice President Harris in the upcoming November election over her unwillingness to commit to policy changes that would hold Israel accountable for its ongoing war on Gaza and now Lebanon, which has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and Lebanese people.

Leaked Report Finds Israel Targeting United Nations Troops In Lebanon

October 23, 2024 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! Chemical Weapons, Israel, Lebanon, Report, UNIFIL, United Nations, Wars and Militarism, White Phosphorous

Israel’s military has attacked UNIFIL troops deployed on the Lebanon–Israel border a dozen times, including possibly with white phosphorus, the Financial Times (FT) reported on 22 October. According to a confidential report prepared by a country contributing troops to the UN mission, Israeli forces forcibly entered a clearly marked UN base and are suspected of using the incendiary chemical white phosphorus, injuring 15 UN soldiers. Israeli forces began targeting UN troops shortly after launching ground operations across the border into Lebanon on 1 October. UNIFIL has called the attacks “deliberate” and a “flagrant violation of international law.”

Widening The War: The US Sends Troops To Israel

October 22, 2024 Binoy Kampmark, Counter Punch. Educate! Israel, Lebanon, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

The dangers should be plastered on every wall in every office occupied by a military and political advisor. Israel’s attempt to reshape the Middle East, far from giving it enduring security, will merely serve to make it more vulnerable and unstable than ever. In that mix and mess will be its greatest sponsor and guardian, the United States, a giant of almost blind antiquity in all matters concerning the Jewish state. In a measure that should have garnered bold headlines, the Biden administration has announced the deployment of some 100 US soldiers to Israel who will be responsible for operating the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system.

‘Goodbye Lebanon – High Israeli Official; Biden Says OK, So Far

October 20, 2024 Ralph Nader, Scheer Post. Educate! Israel, Joe Biden, Lebanon, US Aid To Israel, Wars and Militarism

Biden’s bombs and missiles, dropped daily on Lebanon, a U.S. ally, by his puppet master Netanyahu, is wreaking havoc in this small defenseless country. The Israeli genocidal machine is waging an incinerating assault on fleeing civilians and critical facilities. The scorched-earth Israeli strategy is the same as what we have seen in Gaza. Attack in Lebanon anyone who moves or anything that stands – whether a hospital, a dense residential area, a café, a municipal building, a market, a school, or a Mosque – and allege there was a Hezbollah commander or a Hezbollah site here or there.

Israel’s Genocide Day 374: Israeli Airstrike Burns Patients Alive

October 15, 2024 Qassam Muaddi, Mondoweiss. Educate! Crimes against humanity, Genocide, Hezbollah, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Wars and Militarism

Israel killed at least 62 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours according to the Gaza branch of the Palestinian Health Ministry. Israeli airstrikes and artillery shelling targeted houses and shelter centers across the strip, including three direct attacks on displaced Palestinians in the north and the center of the Gaza Strip. In Deir al-Balah, Israeli drones opened fire at tents of displaced families in the perimeter of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, provoking a fire that spread across tents, killing at least four Palestinians and burning several patients alive in their hospital beds. Harrowing images appeared on social media depicting the victims engulfed by flames and visibly moving while lying down in hospital beds as they burned alive

UN Troops To ‘Stay In All Positions’ Inside Lebanon Despite Israeli Threats

October 15, 2024 News Desk, The Cradle. Resist! France, Hezbollah, Israel, Lebanon, UNIFIL, United Nations (UN), UNSC, Wars and Militarism

The UN Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, confirmed on 14 October that the UN Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) would “stay in all its positions” inside Lebanon after Israeli attacks injured at least five blue helmets. “The decision was made that UNIFIL would currently stay in all its positions in spite of the calls that were made by the Israel Defense Forces to vacate the positions that are in the vicinity of the Blue Line,” Lacroix told reporters on Monday. “I want to emphasize that this decision still remains,” he stressed, adding that the plan was confirmed earlier in the day by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

United Nations Troops In Lebanon Can Shoot Back At Israel

October 14, 2024 Joe Lauria, Consortium News. Educate! Israel, Lebanon, Peacekeepers, United Nations (UN), Wars and Militarism

After IDF troops threatened Irish U.N. peacekeepers last week Irish President Michael D. Higgins stood up to Israel and the Israelis backed down. However there were more incidents later in the week, with the Israelis injuring U.N. soldiers from Indonesia and Sri Lanka. Neither UNIFIL nor U.N. Headquarters in New York have publicly reiterated that the peacekeepers can shoot back at the Israelis if they are attacked. At the daily noon briefing in New York on Friday, a U.N. spokesman was only asked if the U.N. was considering withdrawing peacekeepers given the danger Israel is putting them in.

Arab States Are Coming Together To Prevent A Regional War

October 12, 2024 Mitchell Plitnick, Mondoweiss. Resist! Axis of Resistance, Biden administration, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Palestine, Wars and Militarism

In a welcome, but under-reported, development last week, Arab states from the Gulf Cooperation Council reportedly “sought to reassure Iran of their neutrality” in the brewing conflict between Iran and Israel. The stance was expressed by Arab ministers to their Iranian counterparts at a meeting last week in Doha. It was not a formal, public declaration, but rather a commitment expressed in the meetings directly. Initially, reports—particularly the main one from Reuters on which much of the other reporting was based—also said that the Gulf states had explicitly stated that they would forbid the United States from using their airbases to attack Iran, although more recent and updated reports have mysteriously omitted this point.

Demonizing Hezbollah To Legitimize US/Israel Onslaught On Lebanon

October 12, 2024 Gregory Shupak, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Educate! Hezbollah, Israel, Lebanon, Media, Propaganda, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

Corporate media’s handling of the US-supported Israeli assault on Lebanon has, like all war propaganda, entailed a campaign to demonize the purported bad guys—Hezbollah, in this case. The coverage of the US/Israeli assault on Lebanon has also evinced a casual disregard for Lebanese lives, and often an outright zest for killing the country’s people. Denouncing Hezbollah as a terrorist outfit is pervasive in corporate punditry. A Wall Street Journal editorial (9/25/24) called the group “terrorists” three times, as in, “One lesson of October 7 is that Israel can’t let terrorists build up armies.”

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