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Historic Victory for Palestine: Another Rejection of Occupation

Way too much did Israeli officials and their US lobby protest, thus drawing more international attention and curiosity as they kept dissing the “purely symbolic empty gesture and meaningless act.”

(BEIRUT) - 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.

How the Hamas Victory in Gaza Can Bring Civil Rights to Palestinians in Lebanon

... the Lebanese “favor the liberation of Palestine and Gaza, but they oppose even the most basic civil rights for Palestinians in Lebanon.” - Palestinian

(SHATILA REFUGEE CAMP, Lebanon) - 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.

Remembering the 1983 Bombing of the Marine Barrack in Beirut

Iran continues to wage war against the United States...

(SAN FRANCISCO) - 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).

Fatima Hajj: Every Palestinian Woman

Fatima hoped one day the Palestinians will return and together all people will live in peace in Palestine.

(SHATILA CAMP, Beirut Lebanon) - 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.

New Challenges Grip Lebanon`s Palestinian Camps

Shatila camp residents, on this 30th anniversary of one of their darkest hours, are planning to lead this call with a unified, strong, sustained Palestinian voice to help their sisters and brothers from Syria.

(SHATILA CAMP, Beirut Lebanon) - The Sabra-Shatila Massacre: it seems like a dozen weeks, not 30 years ago.

A Wake-up Call - Stuart Littlewood

This is not an academic book. It’s a wake-up call, a snapshot of the situation in Palestine through ordinary westerners’ eyes.

(LONDON) - 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?

The Never-Ending Horror Story - Sabra and Shatila 30 years Later

“I was carrying my one year-old baby sister and she was yelling “Mama! Mama!” then suddenly nothing. I looked at her and her brain had fallen out of her head and down my arm..."

(MELBOURNE, Aust) - 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.

The Pope and the Palestinians

One imagines that Yassir |Arafat would have relished meeting Pope Benedict XVI in Lebanon as he had met Pope John Paul nine times.

(BEIRUT ) - 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.

A Lesson on Hope on the 30th Anniversary of the Sabra-Shatila Massacre (Graphic Photos)

Is there hope for the Palestinians? They lost their country 64 years ago and found themselves in alien land which would not even grant them basic civil rights.

(ROME) - 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.

Implementing the Feltman Project...
Is the Syrian Crisis Being Leveraged to Weaken Hezbollah?

Increasing threats of violence in Lebanon and Syria, appear designed to peel away support from Hezbollah and to ignite more sectarian conflict in Lebanon.

(BEIRUT Counterpunch) - 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...