Date: May 9th 2008

Lebanon : Diaries: Live from Lebanon:

UNCERTAINTY IN BEIRUT
By Maureen Clare Murphy, Live from Lebanon, 9 May 2008

Beirut is exploding all around me. After Hizballah leader
Hassan Nasrallah made his speech this evening, during
which he accused the governing coalition of declaring war
on the resistance, opposition and March 14 supporters
started fighting each other and making their armed
presence felt all over West Beirut, including my
neighborhood of Hamra. EI editor Maureen Clare Murphy
writes from Beirut.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9526.shtml

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Lebanon : Human Rights/Development:

BATTLE FOR BEIRUT
Report, Electronic Lebanon, 9 May 2008

BEIRUT, 9 May (IRIN) - Everyone kept insisting it was not
a civil war, but jumping for cover as a rocket-propelled
grenade slammed into the apartment block beside us, and
masked gunmen fired deafening salvos across the road
dividing Sunni and Shia neighborhoods of Beirut, it
certainly felt like it. "It is impossible for Shia to
shoot on Sunnis," insisted a military commander of Shia
opposition group Amal, allied with Shia resistance group
Hizballah.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9525.shtml

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PALESTINE : HUMAN RIGHTS:

ISRAEL FORCES KILL GAZA MOTHER IN FRONT OF HER CHILDREN
Report, PCHR, 8 May 2008

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly
condemns the killing of a mother in front of her children
yesterday, during an Israeli incursion into New Abasan
town, east of Khan Younes. PCHR investigations indicate
that at approximately 14:30pm on Wednesday, 7 May, Israeli
Occupation Forces troops raided the house of Majdi Abd
al-Raziq al-Daghma during an incursion into New Abasan.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9523.shtml

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Palestine : Opinion/Editorial:

ISRAEL VS. SOUTH AFRICA: REFLECTING ON CULTURAL BOYCOTT
By Omar Barghouti, The Electronic Intifada, 8 May 2008

Israel at 60 is a more sophisticated, evolved and brutal
form of apartheid than its South African predecessor,
according to authoritative statements by South African
anti-apartheid leaders, like Archbishop Desmond Tutu and
the country's current government minister Ronnie Kasrils,
who is Jewish. It therefore deserves from all people of
conscience around the world, particularly those who
opposed South African apartheid. Omar Barghouti comments
for EI.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9515.shtml

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