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Posts Tagged ‘Friends of Lebanon’

Palfest closed by armed Israeli policemen

By Guest Post • May 26th, 2009 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Grassroots Activism, Israel, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Zionism

 
British author Michael Palin at the Second Annual Palestine Festival of Literature
 
WRITTEN BY BRENDA HEARD: When Right Succumbs to Might
 
“The only democracy in the Middle East.”  It has become a cliché amongst supporters of Israel, a phrase as common with parliamentarians as it is with propagandists.  These supporters excuse themselves from turning a blind eye [...]


Lieberman: Wishing for World War III?

By Guest Post • Apr 24th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Israel, Maps, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, War, Zionism

WRITTEN BY BRENDA HEARD  We have already become accustomed to the brazen statements of Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. And it is certainly no surprise that Israel considers the US to be firmly in its political pocket.  So it is but a mild irritation to read Haaretz reporting that Lieberman, confident that “the Obama administration [...]


ISRAEL IS NOT EUROPEAN! Contact your MEPs

By Guest Post • Dec 1st, 2008 • Category: Action Alert, Israel, Newswire, Zionism

(in the map of Europe… there's no Israel- Pro Forma letter follows) WRITTEN BY FRIENDS OF LEBANON: Here is your chance to send another critical message.  Israel is not European by any definition.  Yet it yearns for European protection.  Bit by bit, Israel has been building a European façade.  Defies logic, doesn’t it?  Sad, but [...]


Friends of Lebanon – One Week On, a letter to Barack Obama

By Mary Rizzo • Nov 12th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

Dear Mr Obama: 
Tell me we haven’t been bamboozled.  We need the change you promise, but something just doesn’t seem right.  After eight years under a Bush administration that engendered misery at home and around the world, the United States had found itself distrusted, scorned and despised.  And so it seems—correct me if I’m wrong here, [...]