Palestine Think Tank

“Event”? An assassination, an international scandal steeped in fraud and political greed, is laughed off as an “event” suitable for parody. Clever salesmen ridicule the justice system to joe-public, who parades the untouchable crime and criminal on his t-shirt. A cold-blooded con-man who ordered executions like room service is remembered for his cunning and polished accent.

The Israeli military may be much less effective in winning wars than it was in the past, thanks to the stiffness of Arab resistance. But its military strategists are as shrewd and unpredictable as ever. The recent rhetoric that has escalated from Israel suggests that a future war in Lebanon will most likely target Syria [...]

“We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change or resistance. Small acts, when multiplied by many people, can transform the world”
“If we remember those times and places–and there are so many–where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the [...]

Please sign and circulate this petition! It involves an innovative twinning intiative. Each signer will be twinned with a person living in a Palestinian refugee camp located in Lebanon. The number of signers required to secure a personal twinning with each refugee is 433,000. Express your views to those who govern Lebanon and to the [...]

UPDATE: UNHCR has accepted to take Yousra to her own shelters after she refused, according to her lawyer, to go back to Caritas shelters, pending a permanent solution. Caritas is held a conference on Tuesday and issued a press release to voice its view point. The main question on the ‘legal status’ of Yousra, when [...]

The Lebanese General Security Office (GSO), the official state body in charge of entry, stay and exit of foreigners, is coming under heavy fire following its decision to maintain the arbitrary detention of Iraqi refugee Yousra El-Amiri.
On 11 December 2009, a Lebanese judge in Zahle, Cynthia Kasarji, order the immediate release of Yousra who has [...]

PEOPLE WITH MEDIA CONTACTS THERE, PLEASE ENCOURAGE THEM TO AIR THIS FILM!
Marco Pasquini’s Gaza Hospital 
If every building has a story to tell, then Gaza Hospital, a medical center-turned-refugee-shelter in the Sabra and Shatila camp, can recount a saga.
It is this saga that director Marco Pasquini sets out to capture using archival footage and testimonies [...]

 WRITTEN BY BRENDA HEARD  On 14 December 2009 Lebanese President Michel Suleiman met with US President Barack Obama in Washington.  The photo above gives an idea of the underlying tension.  You can read the full transcript of their public meeting here and watch it on video here. 

Obama gets the conversation rolling with the enigmatic statement [...]

Hezbollah’s 7th Party Conference drafted a more contemporary 32 page Manifesto reflecting 28 years of political maturity. Not to recant its 25 year old “Open Letter” but rather to define issues not addressed in the party’s first manifesto and to set its future political path for “homeland of our fathers, ancestors, grandchildren, and the coming generations."

If those in Lebanon watching the news on 11/12/09 blinked they might have missed an interesting news item.  It appeared at approximately 4:20 pm on Narharnet.com, the pro-US/Saudi news website. 
The news item read “4:16 pm, American Ambassador Michele Sison (sp) departed Lebanon for her country.”  Ten minutes later the item disappeared and, as it turned [...]