Lebanon

NOVANEWS President Suleiman praises Lebanese Armed Forces for resisting Israeli ‘attacks and provocations’ after Monday’s clash between Lebanese, IDF soldiers. Lebanese President Michel Suleiman blamed Israel on Monday for “renewing its aggression” on the border with Lebanon after Israel Defense Forces troops traded fire with Lebanon’s army in the Mount Dov region on the border between the two countries. Suleiman, who was speaking at a ceremony commemorating the 66th anniversary of the Lebanese Armed Forces, praised the army the army for standing guard against Israeli “attacks and provocations”, as well as its resistance during the 2006 Lebanon war between Israel and Hezbollah. Lebanon’s President Michel Suleiman inspects the area where clashes between Israeli forces and the Lebanese a...

NOVANEWS Karl Sharro Republished with permission from Karlremarks. Follow him also on twitter @Karlremarks. Message from Zeid Hamdan in prison: 'Dear friends, I am now in the prison of the police station of the palace of justice in Beirut because of my song "General Soleiman". They are prosecuting me for defammation of President Soleiman. I dont know, until when I am staying in prison. Please mobilize!' The Lebanese musician Zeid Hamdan, recently back from participating in the Shubbak Festival in London, sent this message from his detention cell in Beirut earlier today. Shubbak was intended as a 'window on contemporary Arab culture', the bitter irony is that this incident has now given an all too realistic view of the contemporary culture of repression and arbitrary use of powe...

NOVANEWS    Charbel Gereige It is such an exciting time to watch the news in the Arab world. When the news of the toppling of Ben Ali and his regime in Tunisia came through, my first reaction was: Bringing down a bad politician is the easy part, replacing him with a good politician is the hard part. Initially, the news failed to excite me. I couldn’t feel the wind of freedom and was too sceptical it could spread. I only started getting excited when the Egyptian people rose to topple their president, and with the signs that movements in Libya, Bahrain, Syria, Yemen were following their example. Yet my excitement was still tinged with a slight sense of envy. I wished something could be done in my own country, Lebanon. Around that time, a shy movement appeared in Lebanon...

NOVANEWS Hezbollah has taken a swipe at a recent UN briefing on the outdated Resolution 1559, describing the move as part of a hostile effort against the Lebanese resistance movement. The reaction came after the UN’s Special Representative for the Implementation of Resolution 1559, Terje Roed-Larsen, delivered a report on the document before the Security Council in a closed door session on Friday, a Press TV correspondent reported.  Resolution 1559 was adopted by the Security Council in 2004, months before the assassination of former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri. It was co-sponsored by the US and France under Presidents George W. Bush and Jack Chirac during a period of intense animosity between the West and Syria. In addition to demanding the disarmament of Hezbollah, the resol...

NOVANEWS August 05, 2010 Gideon Levy has an informative piece in Ha'aretz today about the sheer hypocrisy of Israel's dealings with the natives and neighbours of Palestine: And now that we've recited ad nauseum the explanations of Israel Defense Forces propaganda for what happened Tuesday at the northern border, the facts should also be looked at. On Tuesday morning, Israel requested "coordination" with UNIFIL to carry out another "exposing" operation on the border fence. UNIFIL asked the IDF to postpone the operation, because its commander is abroad. The IDF didn't care. UNIFIL won't stop us. At noon the tree-cutters set out. The Lebanese and UNIFIL soldiers shouted at them to stop. In Lebanon they say their soldiers also fired warning shots in the air. If they did, it didn't stop the IDF...

NOVANEWS Lebanon, Israel clash near border; at least 4 dead August 3rd, 2010 | Author: Patriot                                      Just received the following from friend General (Ret) Jim David who is mentioned on the cover of the third edition of Paul Findley’s ‘They Dare to Speak Out’ book (perhaps the the Israelis are trying to start the war with Iran by going back into Lebanon and thus drawing in Syria and then Iran in accordance with the rest of the ‘A Clean Break’ agenda: http://tinyurl.com/acleanbreak): From: General (Ret) James David Subject: Israelis kill 4 Lebanese Date: Tuesday, August 3, 2010, 10:30 AM  Just like they do all the time, Israel tries to provoke Lebanon into another war by cutting a tree in Lebanon territory.  The Israelis are famous for their provocation becau...

NOVANEWS Lebanon's Hezbollah resistance movement says it is fully prepared for any future Zio=Nazi attack, warning Zionist regime of 'Israel' of disastrous consequences of another conflict. The movement's Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem said on Wednesday that Hezbollah stands ready for a confrontation with Zionism and knows which locations to target if Tel Aviv wages another war on the country. "We now hold a large and precise bank of Zionist targets, and the Zionist will have to pay the price for any step it takes," Qassem told the Arabic-language Al Nahardaily. "Hezbollah has worked to develop its readiness to rise to the challenge should it arise, and we can safely say that in the past four years we have prepared ourselves far more than Zionist has,". The Hezbollah official,...