NEWS & REPORTS
Hizbullah is terrorist and 100%
under
Syrian control, Aoun once said
Kesrouan MP Michel Aoun has always accused
his political opponents of corruption turning coat while
praising himself for his non-changing views and
principles. Some days ago, Aoun held his first meeting
with Hizbullah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah and the
two parties produced what they called a joint declaration
of understanding.
Gebran Tueni killed, Lebanon
cries foul
The Syrian terrorism on Lebanon reached a
new peak with the killing of Beirut MP and prominent
journalist Gebran Tueni in December. The attack came after
weeks of prevailing optimism in the country.
Syrian Regime Doomed
The Syrian Baathist regime is bound to fall down in the
coming six months, political sources in Beirut told
Alternative.
Syrian opposition leader
says imperialism should not be pretext
Lebanese and Syrian intellectuals and
leftists should not succumb to the blackmail of Arab
regimes and take their side under the pretext of facing
the American or imperial attack on them, according to a
Syrian old time activist.
March 14 groups in
Washington protest the killing of Gebran Tueni
A number of Lebanese held a demonstration
in front of the Syrian Embassy in Washington to protest
the practices of the Baathist regime in Lebanon.
DLM accuses Hizbullah of cronyism
The
Democratic Left Movement DLM has launched one of the major
March 14 bloc offensives against Hizbullah accusing it of
favoring interests of the Syrian regime over national
interests.
Mokhtara turned into big fortress
The
personal security of Chouf MP Walid
Jumblatt has become a grave concern for him and many
Lebanese.
LCP supports Maronites, despite
neutrality
Despite its announced neutrality, the
Lebanese Communist Party (LCP) has rarely expressed
stances that fall in line with its policy.
Amr Moussa strives to rescue the
second Baathist regime
While Lebanese figures were falling one
after another, the Secretary-General of the Arab League
came forward with an initiative that he described should
rectify the situation: Control the freedom of the Lebanese
press and its criticism of the Syrian regime.
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EDITORIALS
We are not terrorists!
The publishing of cartoons depicting Mohammed
the Prophet of Islam in a Danish newspaper provoked uproar in
the Arab world.
Who’s left?
The headline of this editorial does not refer to those who
were able to escape the Syrian regime’s killing machine in
Lebanon. It rather talks about the never-ending tendency among
the leftists to label each other. Since the very first days of
the emergence of leftist thought, leftists have perfected one
thing: Discrediting their fellow comrades and describing them
as non-leftists.
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Op-Ed
Beirut Is the Spring of Arabs
by Samir Kassir
There is a banner on the Salim Slam Street that
reads: “Beirut is too big to be contained.” The slogan is
undoubtedly beautiful, on the condition that we don’t forget
the concerns of its author. These concerns become clearer as
you read slogans on other banners in the same street. The
slogans revive [Arab] national utterances that even [Syrian
Information Minister] Mahdi Dakhlallah, former editor-in-chief
of the Baath newspaper and the current custodian of the
publicity of what is left of the two Baaths, find hard to buy.
Even if the signature under the slogan was by one of the
fossilized dinosaurs of what was known one day as “the Beirut
Street,” something like Abou El-Abed with the least of
innocence and a lot of hidden intelligence [agencies] effort
behind it. The one who signed it was right even if
unintentionally.
On the statement of Syrian
intellectuals: Why the silence on some points?
by Bashir Hilal (PARIS)
Tens of Syrian intellectuals have recently
signed a statement that denounced the assassination of
Lebanese MP and journalist Gebran Tueni which “came as
part of a series of assassinations and brutal killings
that a number of Lebanese politicians and journalists
faced recently: Rafik Hariri, Samir Kassir, George Hawi
and others.”
A call to fellow Arabs: Stop
supporting the killing of the Lebanese people!
by Rola Abdul Latif (WASHINGTON)
A much
contested poll on Al Jazeera website in December posed the
followign question: “Do you think Syria is involved in the
killings in Lebanon?” The results came out quite
surprising: 73 percent voted No [Syria is not involved in
the Lebanon killings] and the rest voted Yes.
Despite improvement, DLM still has a
long way
by Dalia Ateek (OSLO)
The treatise by Tarek Fawwaz on the
Democratic Left Movement (DLM) in the last issue of
Alternative was intriguing. It was a source of both hope
and despair at the same time.
With Syria’s grip loosening,
leftists should reconsider
by Abbas Hashem (BEIRUT)
By the late 1980s, the Syrian regime embarked on an
assassination spree that resulted in purging known leftist
intellectuals such as Hussein Mroue and Mahdi Amel among
others. The Syrian purge was coupled with the downfall of
the number one supporter of leftists in Lebanon, the
Soviet Union. It also marked the beginning of the Syrian
occupation of Lebanon that lasted until April 26, 2005.
Capitalism from Marxist eyes
by Tarek Hashem (BEIRUT)
Someone suggested to me lately that the
real contradiction that currently governs Lebanese
politics is between two opposing politico-economical
projects. That person explained that the contradiction
lies between supporters of the American project for the
Middle East and supporters of backwardness and forced
subordination of Lebanon to its Arab surrounding.
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FEATURES
After winning AUB elections, PYO’s
Rabah dedicates victory to 2005 independence martyrs
The American University of Beirut's elections for the year
2005/06 witnessed the victory of the alliance of the
Progressive Youth Organization (PYO), the Future Youth
Organization, the Lebanese Forces and the No Frontiers leftist
group over another under-the-table alliance formed of the Free
Patriotic Movement, Hizbullah, Amal, and the Syrian Social
Nationalist Party.
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HISTORY & CULTURE
How would it have been without
Jumblatt?
Lebanon
lived a 2005 full of turbulence. The assassination of
former Premier Rafik Hariri was no doubt the biggest
problem the Lebanese had to face. This event initiated a
series of retaliations and resulted, according to many
experts, in the March 14 protest – the biggest in the
history of the nation so far – which in turn resulted in
the withdrawal of the Syrian troops in April after 29
years of occupation.
Full text of the Statement
by the Democratic Left Movement
The Democratic Left Movement (DLM) views
with concern the surge in aggression against the Lebanese
state and its people.
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Youth News
No Frontiers celebrates
eighth anniversary
No Frontiers celebrated its eighth
anniversary at the American University of Beirut by
issuing The No Frontiers Gazette and launching its website
on a private domain
www.bilahoudoud.org and
www.bilahoudoud.com
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LIGHT NEWS
Docudays' Inside Stories
The Arab's world premier and only festival
dedicated totally to documentary films is back for it's 7th
edition in Beirut Al-Madina theatre between November 6 and 12
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