Lebanon

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21096288

from #WashingtonPost [gift article]
[Bias alert - WaPo usually favors Israel]

By Souad Mekhennet and Joby Warrick October 5, 2024 at 5:50 p.m. EDT

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21082716

https://xcancel.com/political_aya__/status/1842314286728671637#m

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21081688

cross-posted from: https://hcommons.social/users/adachika192/statuses/113243204954942092

Middle East: "Raging fires are fast becoming an inferno" - UN Chief's Briefing | United Nations
(YouTube, 2024-10-02)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pIHOXNrU4w

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@israel
#un #StopGenocide

cross-posted from: https://hcommons.social/users/adachika192/statuses/113242164014997691

Family: Dearborn man trying to help others is killed in Israeli strike in Lebanon
（Detroit News, 2024-10-02）

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/2024/10/02/family-dearborn-man-helping-others-is-killed-in-israeli-strike-in-lebanon/75489098007/

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"Hajj Kamel Ahmad Jawad died in his hometown of Nabatieh, Lebanon, while trying to save and comfort others, according to an Instagram post from Jawad's daughter, Nadine Jawad."

https://aje.io/l9o832?update=3218560 (Al Jazeera Live Update)

"When asked about reports of an American killed in Lebanon, a State Department spokesperson said: 'It’s our understanding that it was a legal permanent resident, not an American citizen [who was killed in Lebanon] but we obviously offer our sincerest condolences to the family.'”

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#StopGenocide #Lebanon #Michigan

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/30176253

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned Hezbollah leader Syyed Hassan Nasrallah to flee Lebanon days before he was killed in an Israeli strike and is now deeply worried about Israeli infiltration of senior government ranks in Tehran, three Iranian sources said.

In the immediate aftermath of the attack on Hezbollah's booby-trapped pagers on Sept. 17, Khamenei sent a message with an envoy to beseech the Hezbollah secretary general to leave for Iran, citing intelligence reports that suggested Israel had operatives within Hezbollah and was planning to kill him, one of the sources, a senior Iranian official, told Reuters.

The messenger, the official said, was a senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander, Brigadier General Abbas Nilforoushan, who was with Nasrallah in his bunker when it was hit by Israeli bombs and was also killed.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20906421

Juan Cole 09/29/2024
[contains a lot of information on recent history of Lebanon]

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20905509

Trita Parsi
Sep 29, 2024

Trita Parsi is the Executive VP of the Quincy Institute and an award-winning author. Washingtonian Magazine has named him one of the 25 most influential voices on foreign policy. Noam Chomsky calls him "one of the most distinguished scholars on Iran"

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20833486

By MEE staff
Published date: 28 September 2024 13:15 BST

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20797683

By Nader Durgham in Beirut and Umar A Farooq in Washington
Published date: 28 September 2024 09:35 BST

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20788726

By MEE staff
Published date: 27 September 2024 17:45 BST

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20788199

Jessica Corbett
Sep 27, 2024

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20725066

Jake Johnson
Sep 25, 2024

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20524151

Naji Bakhti
Fri 20 Sep 2024 06.57 EDT

[Israel's "sophisticated" savagery -PL]

On this day (December 28) in 1968, Israel bombed 14 of Lebanese planes in Beirut International Airport for no reason at all, causing losses of $370 million. This event even caused France to place an arms embargo on the terrorist zionist state.