Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with lebanon www.salem-news.com 2013 The short answer is Iran and Hezbollah according to Congressional sources. “The Syrian army’s victory at al-Qusayr was more than the administration could accept given that town’s strategic position in the region. Its capture by the Assad forces has essentially added Syria to Iran’s list of victories starting with Afghanistan, Lebanon, Iraq, as well as its growing influence in the Gulf.” Other sources are asserting that Obama actually did not want to invoke direct military aid to the rebels... http://salem-news.com/articles/june142013/end-syria-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june142013/end-syria-fl.php Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:40:00 PDT Although al-Qusayr may not be the decisive battle for Syria, it is irrefutably an important turning point in the crisis which has given the regime much sought military momentum. Plenty of adjectives and some clichés are being bandied about from Washington to Beirut to describe the al-Qusayr battle results and significance. http://salem-news.com/articles/june082013/hezbollah-victory-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june082013/hezbollah-victory-fl.php Sat, 08 Jun 2013 18:17:00 PDT Earlier this month an MP got up in the House of Commons and proposed that the UK government outlaw, or "proscribe", the whole Hezbollah organisation, not just its military wing. "I accept that a full ban on Hezbollah may be difficult to achieve," he said, "but even an EU ban on the military wing of Hezbollah would send a powerful message that we do not tolerate Hezbollah’s and Iran’s terrorism...." http://salem-news.com/articles/may242013/hez-london-sl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may242013/hez-london-sl.php Fri, 24 May 2013 16:28:00 PDT The United Nations Special Rapporteur for Palestine, Professor Richard Falk, came to Lebanon last week on an unofficial visit to survey opinion while fact finding the condition in Palestinian refugee’s camps. It was the Professors first visit to Lebanon since the fateful summer of 1982. http://salem-news.com/articles/may102013/falk-lebanon-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may102013/falk-lebanon-fl.php Fri, 10 May 2013 20:18:00 PDT “This is one damn fine idea, what took us so long to see a simple solution that was right in front of our eyes for Christ’s sake”, said Senator John McCain He reportedly demanded an answer from Dennis Ross during a recent Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) brain storming session in Washington DC. http://salem-news.com/articles/april272013/hez-syria-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april272013/hez-syria-fl.php Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:30:00 PDT F-16 shoots down vessel over Mediterranean; not clear whether drone was armed; Netanyahu: Israel views breach gravely. The Israeli Air Force shot down a Hezbollah drone over the Mediterranean Sea on Thursday off the coast of Haifa. http://salem-news.com/articles/april252013/lebanese-drone.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april252013/lebanese-drone.php Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:44:00 PDT History is nothing if not interesting. And that it most definitely is. Today, Palestinian refugees are being severely punished in Lebanon and deprived of their most elementary civil right to work or to even own a home. http://salem-news.com/articles/april092013/yarmouk-camp-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april092013/yarmouk-camp-fl.php Tue, 09 Apr 2013 11:07:00 PDT Frankly, it never was much of a “League” of Arab states. And arguably it never really achieved a whole lot but two dozen lavish ‘summits’ offering inflated rhetoric, often calculated to assuage the Arab people about their central cause, Palestine. http://salem-news.com/articles/april012013/war-syria-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april012013/war-syria-fl.php Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:53:00 PDT It is well known in this region that powerful foreign and domestic forces are in nearly every country. Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, are increasingly acting, for purely political purposes, to ignite a bloody internecine conflict within Islam. http://salem-news.com/articles/march192013/sayyeda-shrine-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march192013/sayyeda-shrine-fl.php Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:42:00 PDT This observer lost count more than a year ago of the sheer number of predictions by analysts and lobbyists that the “tipping point” signaling the Assad government’s collapse was a sure thing and would happen any time now. “It’s just a matter of days, not weeks” President Obama declared back in 2011. http://salem-news.com/articles/march022013/syria-tipping-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march022013/syria-tipping-fl.php Sat, 02 Mar 2013 21:54:00 PST The Syrian General Command of the Army and Armed Forces said in his 30/01/2013 statement that: - Israeli warplanes violated Syrian airspace on Wednesday dawn and bombarded directly a scientific research center... http://salem-news.com/articles/january312013/syria-west.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january312013/syria-west.php Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:20:00 PST Gilad Atzmon says in regard to his recent appearance on Al-Mayadeen TV, http://salem-news.com/articles/january192013/gilad-30-yrs.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january192013/gilad-30-yrs.php Sat, 19 Jan 2013 14:44:00 PST Syria and Lebanon's longstanding agreement allowing citizens to cross the border without a visa, is not extended to Palestinians. It poses big problems for Palestinian refugees living in both countries. http://salem-news.com/articles/january052013/yarmouk-clash-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january052013/yarmouk-clash-fl.php Sat, 05 Jan 2013 02:28:00 PST A distraught looking woman sitting alone, tightly holding two babies,sat at one corner of the vast parking lot of the central Damascus bus station known as Al-Soumariyeh. It is from here where inexpensive transportation can be had for those traveling west, east, north and south. http://salem-news.com/articles/december192012/yarmouk-camp-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december192012/yarmouk-camp-fl.php Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:35:00 PST The United Nations General Assembly vote is the latest of more than 400 UN resolutions on the question of Palestine. It is a rare major victory for Palestinians after 65 years of resisting occupation. http://salem-news.com/articles/december012012/birth-certificate-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december012012/birth-certificate-fl.php Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:52:00 PST The current festive celebrations in Lebanon’s 12 Palestinian refugee camps reflect the intense euphoria being witnessed throughout Gaza and occupied Palestine. It is shared in Arab and Muslim countries, as well as relief among people of goodwill globally. http://salem-news.com/articles/november272012/gaza-lebanon-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november272012/gaza-lebanon-fl.php Tue, 27 Nov 2012 12:59:00 PST October 23 is the 29th anniversary of the 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, by Lebanese terrorists directed and controlled by Iran. The attack killed 241 American servicemen (220 Marines, 16 Navy personnel, and 3 Army soldiers). http://salem-news.com/articles/october202012/marines-beirut-rs.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october202012/marines-beirut-rs.php Sat, 20 Oct 2012 11:41:00 PDT Last May I attended the Nakba Day at Kass-Kass Park, just outside of Shatila Palestinian refugee Camp in Beirut. I made a promise to a young Palestinian resident of the Shatila Camp who I interviewed earlier in the week—that I would attend the festival to see her perform her dance recital. http://salem-news.com/articles/october022012/fatima-hajj-nl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october022012/fatima-hajj-nl.php Tue, 02 Oct 2012 10:21:00 PDT The Sabra-Shatila Massacre: it seems like a dozen weeks, not 30 years ago. http://salem-news.com/articles/september222012/shabra-shatila-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september222012/shabra-shatila-fl.php Sat, 22 Sep 2012 09:57:00 PDT Irrepressible Palestinian children… But smiles of happiness may turn to tears of frustration when they grow up to find their dreams dashed in a country ravaged by decades of military occupation… where lands and resources have been stolen, education curtailed, freedom cancelled and travel made almost impossible. How will they build a career or raise a thriving family? http://salem-news.com/articles/september172012/waking-call-sl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september172012/waking-call-sl.php Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:43:00 PDT It happened thirty years ago – 16 September 1982. A massacre so awful that people who know about it cannot forget it. The photos are gruesome reminders – charred, decapitated, indecently violated corpses, the smell of rotting flesh, still as foul to those who remember it as when they were recoiling from it all those years ago. http://salem-news.com/articles/september162012/shabra-shatila-sk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september162012/shabra-shatila-sk.php Sun, 16 Sep 2012 19:17:00 PDT The only time this observer recalls Yassir Arafat ever becoming frustrated with the late American journalist Janet Stevens, whom he adored as a daughter, was during a visit in August of 1982 when the PLO leader, mentioned in conversation, as he often did to others, that Jesus Christ was a Palestinian. Arafat, a devout Muslim, was proud of that fact. http://salem-news.com/articles/september112012/pope-palestine-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september112012/pope-palestine-fl.php Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:31:00 PDT This year, while Palestinian refugees in Lebanon prepare to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Sabra-Shatila massacre, the country is receiving thousands of refugees fleeing from Syria. We pray that, with international resolve, the conflict will end soon and the Syrian refugees will be able to return home. http://salem-news.com/articles/september092012/sabra-shatila-asc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september092012/sabra-shatila-asc.php Sun, 09 Sep 2012 22:39:00 PDT One would be correct in imagining that life’s no bowl of cherries for Hezbollah these days. Being sucked into the maelstrom of Lebanese and regional politics can’t bring much pleasure to Lebanon’s National Resistance... http://salem-news.com/articles/september032012/hez-beirut-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september032012/hez-beirut-fl.php Mon, 03 Sep 2012 14:38:00 PDT This Ramadan holiday season in Lebanon designees from both the Shia Higher Islamic Shiites Council and the Sunni Dar el Fatwa, figuratively speaking, pointed their binoculars deep into the eastern sky. In almost unheard of unison, it was proclaimed that Eid al Fitr this year was to be August 19th. http://salem-news.com/articles/august222012/hiba-lebanon-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august222012/hiba-lebanon-fl.php Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:05:00 PDT The resistance hero, Samir Kuntar, who was imprisoned in Israel for 30 years on false charges, narrowly escaped being lynched by a group of 500 Salafi thugs. They were armed with swords, batons, knives and other weapons, on his recent visit to Tunisia. http://salem-news.com/articles/august182012/samir-kuntar.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august182012/samir-kuntar.php Sat, 18 Aug 2012 12:00:00 PDT The sudden resignation of UN peace envoy Kofi Annan from the peace efforts circle in Syria which evidently materialized under duress from the US government has caused extreme joy in Washington. Officials see this as a sign that the international community is prone to accept that Syrian President Bashar Assad had to go and that the peace efforts would eventually reach a cul-de-sac. http://salem-news.com/articles/august042012/syria-invasion-is.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august042012/syria-invasion-is.php Sat, 04 Aug 2012 13:35:00 PDT The streets are most dangerous that is, unless it’s a Friday, when a few Syrian Christians dare to step outside of their homes amidst the persecution of Syria’s Christians by the Islamic rebels of the ‘Free Syrian Army. The Christians in Syria (10% of its population) could be facing a bloodbath. The signs are there right now, and only Russian and Chinese resistance to ‘the West’ is keeping the Syrian church from complete extermination. http://salem-news.com/articles/august022012/syrian-christians-pk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august022012/syrian-christians-pk.php Thu, 02 Aug 2012 10:54:00 PDT In Lebanon there is only one cosmic like event that is nearly as predicable from Ramlet al Baida beach in Beirut, near Shatila Palestinian refugee camp, than the sun coming up like thunder out of Syria every morning. And that might be the regularity of Washington, Riyadh, Doha, and Tel Aviv's drone: “Hezbollah must give up their weapons!” http://salem-news.com/articles/july292012/hezbollah-arms-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july292012/hezbollah-arms-fl.php Sun, 29 Jul 2012 20:54:00 PDT Things might appear a bit tough for Hezbollah these days, but I'll spare the dear reader the tedium of a laundry list of what the Party has experienced over the past 20 months. There have been domestic and foreign attacks, condemnations, calumny, obliquey, sundry plots, and legislative and political wounds... http://salem-news.com/articles/july212012/hez-futurefl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july212012/hez-futurefl.php Sat, 21 Jul 2012 21:30:00 PDT