Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by ABUNIMAH Ali
In a frightening but long expected move, Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert has brought the Yisrael Beitenu party into his coalition government. The party’s leader, Avigdor Lieberman, is to be vice prime minister and, as “Minister for Strategic Threats,” a key member of Israel’s “security (…)
, by WARSCHAWSKI Michael
From an ethical point of view, history never stands in the same place: if it doesn’t move towards less oppression and more justice, it moves towards less rights and more barbarism. Paraphrasing the German revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg, who predicted twenty years before the rise of (…)
, by SLY Liz
The vote in Iraq’s parliament earlier this month establishing ground rules for the creation of a Shiite region in southern Iraq attracted little attention outside the Middle East. But in a region already jittery about the likelihood of a full-blown Iraqi civil war and the newfound stature of (…)
, by ASSIR Mulham
The loss inflicted by the Israeli war on Lebanon is measured in the 1,400 people killed, the thousands maimed (with more continuing to be killed and maimed by the hundreds of thousands of cluster bombs left behind), the hundreds of thousands displaced or left homeless, and the wholesale (…)
, by BARGHOUTI Marwan
Marwan Barghouthi is a member of the Revolutionary Council of Fateh. He is currently serving a life sentence in an Israeli jail, but is viewed by all observers, including Israelis, as a potential future Palestinian leader. His imprisonment is seen as a political act and his release will (…)
, by LEVY Gideon
Peace-seekers should support the move to bring Avigdor Lieberman into the government. It is impossible to understand the opposition of several Labor party ministers to having Yisrael Beitenu join the government after all, just what precisely are they afraid will happen? That Israel will embark (…)
, by ABU NIMAH Hasan, ABUNIMAH Ali
There are ominous signs that the long-contemplated plan to overthrow the democratically-elected Hamas-led Palestinian Authority cabinet is about to enter its most dangerous phase: a political coup, supported by local militias, with foreign and regional backing. This could ignite serious (…)
, by ALEXANDER Anne
July 26, 1956. A crowd, tens of thousands strong, gathered in Manshiyya Square in Alexandria, to hear a speech by Egypt’s president, Gamal Abd-al-Nasser. The atmosphere was tense—only days before Nasser had received a humiliating rebuff from the US Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, to his (…)
, by al-JADDA Souheila, ICFWRE
Fight for the rights of Iraqi women
Souheila al-Jadda
From Tikkun Magazine
“The new Constitution threatens to restore”Islamic Law“and with it a dismantling of the rights of Iraqi women.”
The future of Iraq now lies in the hands of the Iraqi National Assembly after the writing committee (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
Beirut international meeting is gathering representatives from political parties, trade unions, movements and associations and also political, intellectual and cultural personalities from the whole world, in order to salute the Lebanese people’s resistance vis-à-vis the Israeli aggression; to (…)
, by CALLINICOS Alex, MEHRDAD Ardeshir
Ardeshir Mehrdad interviewing Alex Callinicos: The present interview with Alex Callinicos was performed over several weeks by email spanning late July to mid September. The early questions took place at the start of the Israeli attack on Lebanon. The last five questions were answered in one go (…)
, by COOK Jonathan
The message delivered to Condoleezza Rice this week by Israeli officials is that the humanitarian and economic disaster befalling Gaza has a single, reversible cause: the capture by Palestinian fighters of an Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, in late June from a perimeter artillery position that (…)
, by Jerusalem Media and Communication Center ( JMCC)
Six months after the formation of the current government, the majority supports the formation of a national unity government as a way out of the current crisis; popularity of Fatah and Hamas are almost the same as the public loses confidence in the political leaders
A public opinion poll (…)
, by JOHNSEN Gregory D.
It was supposed to be the election that changed everything. The “90 percent presidency,” wherein the incumbent of 28 years won successive terms in office by laughably large margins, would be relegated to the past. Instead, a more credible accounting of the popular will would prove to Western (…)
, by ALMASMARI Hakim
While Yemen struggles to prove it is fertile ground for freedom and democracy, its efforts are often thwarted by ingrained traditions at odds with those concepts. (Yemen Observer)
One of the more horrific cultural practices — and one proving difficult to eradicate — is the murder of women by (…)
, by HARMAN Chris
For the first time, the Israel Defence Forces were unable to prevail in an all-out war—Olivier Roy, Financial Times
What is new—and dramatically so—about this campaign is its outcome. Arabs soon dubbed this the sixth Arab-Israeli war, and for some of them—and indeed for some Israelis—it (…)
, by Lewitschnik Liv, Mahdi Kamil
Daily the media tells us about clashes between “insurgents” and Western troops in Iraq. We hear less about the unarmed resistance which is fighting the occupation with strikes and workplace walkouts. The General Union of Oil Employees in Basra (GUOE), or Basra Oil Union as it is commonly (…)
, by JOURNAL OF PALESTINE STUDIES, NORTON Augustus Richard
JPS: Before going into recent events, we thought it would be useful to take a look at Hizballah on the eve of the July war and especially what has happened in the years after the Israeli withdrawal in 2000. Let’s begin with Hizballah’s popularity in the south compared to what it was in 2000. (…)
, by COURT Mireille, NASSIF-DEBS Marie, QUALANDER Nicolas
Question: The Lebanese Communist Party is a secular party, engaged in the national resistance. What have been its relations with the Hezbollah?
Marie Nassif-Debs: There have been big changes in this relation over the last 20 years. Twenty years ago the Hezbollah began by waging a merciless war (…)
, by DABASHI Hamid
The key question in drawing any enduring lesson from Lebanon in the aftermath of July 2006 Israeli savagery is how do we read the phenomenon called Hizbullah
Lebanon has always been the postcard picture of what is fundamentally wrong and what is potentially hopeful about the Arab and the (…)
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