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Les larmes d’un collègue - May 9, 2008 - 4:25:05 PM

Les Libanais ont certes déjà vu couler les larmes d’un ancien chef d’État, d’un Premier ministre. Ils n’ont surtout pas raté, depuis plus de trois ans, les larmes abondantes des familles éplorées, provoquées du fait de la perte de l’un des leurs au cours des assassinats politiques, suite aux bombes israéliennes, ou dans les miniguerres fratricides comme celle dont on est témoin depuis hier.
Fait inédit, mais non moins poignant, le spectacle des sanglots d’un grand journaliste libanais que la caméra a capté sur une chaîne de télévision locale, alors qu’il commentait les événements douloureux qui ont ébranlé mercredi matin la capitale et le reste des régions libanaises.

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Al-Qaeda’s Terrorist Threat to UNIFIL - May 7, 2008 - 10:19:38 AM

Bilal Y. Saab – The Saban Center for Middle East Policy at The Brookings Institution
Magnus Ranstorp – The Center for Asymmetric Threat Studies (CATS) at the Swedish National Defence College

On August 11, 2006, in response to the 34-day summer war between Israel and Hizb’allah, the United Nations Security Council passed resolution 1701, which called for a more robust international military presence along the United Nations-drawn Blue Line dividing Israel and southern Lebanon. But the strengthened United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) is likely to face a range of security threats that could undermine its peacekeeping duties and endanger its personnel. Among the more serious threats, underscored by intelligence reports over the past few years that indicate a growing al-Qaeda presence in Lebanon, is a catastrophic terrorist attack against UNIFIL by local salafist jihadist entities.

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LEBANON: Wobbling In Uncertainty - May 6, 2008 - 5:28:13 PM

BEIRUT, May 6 (IPS) - As clashes between supporters of Lebanon's feuding factions become increasingly frequent, Lebanon seems to be walking a fine line between stability and violence.
Internally, the country's parliament has been closed for three sessions, leading to an ongoing crisis and a still vacant presidency. Externally, fears abound regarding volatile relations with Israel, especially since Israeli officials began voicing criticism of the performance of UN troops deployed in the south.

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رد على مقال السيد وسيم القاضي

- Apr 30, 2008 - 6:04:29 PM

إلى السيد وسيم القاضي،

إلى كل من يعنيهم الأمر، أو يفترض فيهم ذلك،

إلى كل صاحب ذاكرة حية، وضمير حي، وجرح حي،

إلى كل من لم ينس،

إلى كل من لم يبع ذاته وتاريخه كرمى لعيون صاحب المال السياسي وموزع المقاعد النيابية غير المجانية،

لقد قرأت، مع الأسف، ما كتبته عبر ما يسمى بـ"الموقع الرسمي" للقوات اللبنانية، بالنسبة للحزب التقدمي الإشتراكي، وتحديداً قولك: "إن تاريخ الحزب التقدمي الإشتراكي هو مشرف بالنضال والتضحيات والمقاومة". وللحق، فقد أصابني الذهول، ليس إنكاراً مني لحقك في التفكير والتعبير، بل للسببين التاليين:

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Hezbollah rearms - Apr 25, 2008 - 12:55:00 AM

While world attention is focused on the fighting between Israel and the Hamas regime in Gaza, Hezbollah has quietly been rebuilding its military arsenal in Lebanon, much of which was destroyed in the terror group's 2006 war with Israel. Last month U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon issued a report noting without rebuttal Israeli government claims that Hezbollah continues to rearm and has an arsenal containing 10,000 long-range rockets and 20,000 short-range rockets in Southern Lebanon.