Evidence of Israeli “Cowardly Blending” Comes to Light

War Crimes Airbrushed from History
By JONATHAN COOK
Counterpunch
January 4, 2008
 
It apparently never occurred to anyone in our leading human rights organisations or the Western media that the same moral and legal standards ought be applied to the behaviour of Israel and Hizbullah during the war on Lebanon 18 months [...]

Appeal for Lebanon refugee rights

Rights group Amnesty International has condemned Lebanon for what it describes as discrimination against generations of Palestinian refugees in the country. Some 300,000 refugees are denied access to work, education, adequate housing and health care, the report says.
It calls on the government to improve conditions in 12 overcrowded camps that have housed [...]

African maids abused in Lebanon

“Driven by poverty and conflict in their home countries, women from Africa travel to Lebanon only to find themselves hungry, abused, raped and subjected to conditions akin to slavery.”

African maids abused in Lebanon
BBC News: Burundian’s ordeal in Lebanon
BBC News: Ethiopian maids ‘abused in Middle East’

Hezbollah rejects war criticism

 It would appear that unless you have supposedly modern “smart” bombs your not entitled to retaliate to foreign aggression.  Its true that the rockets Hezbollah use are highly inaccurate and since the Israelis build military bases next to schools, hospitals and civilian areas there is always a risk of hitting civilians.  This of course is [...]

When the Israelis do this, we scream at the injustice, but when the Lebanese army does it we applaud them.

 ”In the first three days of the recent events involving the Lebanese army and Fateh el-Islam in the Nahr el-Bared camp, the Lebanese army committed what would amount to war crimes in a similar fashion to that of the Israeli army in Gaza and in Lebanon last summer, firing on a civilian population indiscriminately. When [...]

The Innocent Speak « The Fanonite

In the case of Lebanon, Robert Fisk’s friendship with the late Rafiq Hariri seems to have taken the best of his judgement lately however in today’s report, he eschews the coloured speculations for his real strength — strong descriptive reporting. As I had mentioned in my earlier post, the suffering of the innocent victims of [...]