Eyewitness Lebanon

2006-09-28T07:58:00.000-07:00

Final Report, the Eleventh from Lebanon: Interview with Hajje Rima FackySeptember 27, 2006Samia A. HalabyOn Monday September 25, 2006, our delegation had the opportunity to interview Hajje Rima Fackry, member of the Political Council of Hisbullah. The following report is based on my notes which do not represent direct, accurate quotations of Hajjer Rima.I asked her if she saw a contradiction

2006-09-27T07:58:00.000-07:00

2006-09-24T07:46:00.000-07:00

Report Number Ten from Lebanon: Nearing the end of our tripSeptember 24, 2006It is now near the end of our trip. One delegation left and the second will leave soon. Some work will be left on behalf of Al Jissere Group in obtaining attention to the destroyed studios and libraries of the many artists of the south of Lebanon and the south of Beirut.Our delegation’s trip to Lebanon was inspired by

2006-09-24T07:44:00.000-07:00

[Report Number Six to come]Report Number Seven from LebanonSeptember 24, 2006Samia A. HalabyOn Thursday September 21, 2006, I returned to Bint Jbeil guiding members of the Netherlandish delegation from D4. We walked again through the streets and I searched for our friend of the scarves store. It was 3:30 and I remember her saying that she goes home at 3:00. I was sad to miss her. But I was glad

2006-09-22T07:45:00.000-07:00

Report Number Eight from Lebanon: The Divine Victory Sept. 22, 2006 On the way back from the south of Lebanon on Sept. 21, we watched groups of people walking north to attend the great victory celebration planned for the following day. By noon the next day, large crowds of people were already gathered at the site of the big celebration. By three, it was a sea

2006-09-22T07:43:00.000-07:00

Report Number Five from Lebanon September 22, 2006 Samia A. Halaby Today we decided to use the public taxi called service to get to the southern village in the surrounds of Nabatiyye where we were schuled to meet with the Nuclear Physicist, Dr. Muhamman Ali Qubeisi who claims that he found high radiation in some of the pits created by Israeli bombing

2006-09-18T07:42:00.000-07:00

Report Number Four from Lebanon: The Mountain of Radam and Jihad al-Bina’ Samia A. Halaby Sept. 18, 2006 On Sept. 15 as we were returning from our trip to the south, we saw the insignia of an organization of Hisbullah called Jihad al-Bina’. Western press, for obvious reasons of greed and conquest, deliberately misinterprets the term jihad--the name ascribed to Muslim

2006-09-18T07:41:00.000-07:00

Report Number Three from Lebanon: Occupied Palestine 48Sept. 18, 2006As we approached the southern border and were only yards away from the many Israeli posts where invisible Zionist soldiers could and did spy us, some members of the delegation and southern Lebanese referred to it as Israel. I immediately reminded them that that was Palestine, occupied and learning the lessons of the Hisbullah’s

2006-09-17T07:41:00.000-07:00

Report Number 2 from Lebanon: ATTACK AND DEFENSE or WARSept. 17, 2006Samia A. HalabyWe visited the hospital at Bint Jbeil and were easily given an immediate opportunity to talk with the director of the hospital, who told us about the injuries and death of people in the village and showed us where the hospital was hit. The Israelis hit the hospital in three locations, damaging the central electric

2006-09-17T07:40:00.000-07:00

Report Number One from Lebanon: Flowers in Bint JbeilSept. 17, 2006Samia A. HalabyIn the south of Lebanon, a popular revolution is taking place, and its chosen leadership is Hisbullah. In speaking with people, their commitment to the collective of the community, their disregard of individualism, their complete moral and emotional assurance of what is good and right, their total disrespect of

2006-09-11T05:14:00.000-07:00

Report from Lebanon: Day 1 LeiLani DowellWe arrived in Beirut, Lebanon today after flying into Amman, Jordan yesterday--where the first signs as we walked into the terminal in Amman were those of greeters waiting to receive people off our flight from DynCorp and Black Water--the same mercenary corporations that the rich hired in New

2006-09-10T05:44:00.000-07:00

Video excerpts from the initial session of the Campaign for Accountability are now available online at YouTube:

2006-09-05T05:32:00.000-07:00

New York meeting scores U.S.-Israeli war crimesBy Deirdre GriswoldNew YorkSep 5, 2006 11:24 PMIt isn’t easy to construct a protest meeting about the recent U.S.-Israeli assault on Lebanon that provides details on the enormity of the aggression against that small Arab country and at the same time fills in the historical context so anyone can under stand what happened and why.Such a meeting could

2006-08-16T05:59:00.000-07:00

Will U.S.-Israel honor cease-fire? Lebanese unity behind victory By Sara Flounders Published Aug 16, 2006 10:24 PM In every conflict, morale is a material factor. Often it is the decisive factor. Now that a cease-fire has gone into

2006-08-14T05:55:00.000-07:00

‘We are all Hezbollah now’ New Mideast unity backs Lebanon’s fighters By Joyce Chediac Published Aug 14, 2006 9:32 PM The U.S.-Israeli slaughter of Lebanese people and destruction of the Lebanese infrastructure has badly backfired for imperialism and all its agents in the Middle East.

2006-08-10T05:54:00.000-07:00

Lebanese fight on amid hail of bombs World opinion turns against U.S.-Israeli aggression By Sara Flounders Published Aug 10, 2006 3:03 AM Aug. 9—Israel’s war cabinet overwhelmingly decided today to send its troops deeper into Lebanon. This decision is a major expansion of the ground war. It is an attempt