[Imc-beirut] solidarity letter on lebanon

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Fawwaz Traboulsi <ftrablsi at lau.edu.lb>    Subject: solidarity letter on lebanon  Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 22:53:38 +0300
The US-backed Israeli assault on Lebanon has left the country numb,  
smoldering and angry. The massacre in Qana and the loss of life is  
not simply ?disproportionate.? It is, according to existing  
international laws, a war crime.

The deliberate and systematic destruction of Lebanon's social  
infrastructure by the Israeli air force was also a war crime,  
designed to reduce that country to the status of an Israeli-US  
protectorate.

The attempt has backfired, as people all over the world watch aghast.  
In Lebanon itself, 87 percent of the population now support  
Hezbollah's resistance, including 80 percent of Christian and Druze  
and 89 percent of Sunni Muslims, while 8 percent believe the US  
supports Lebanon.

But these actions will not be tried by any court set up by the  
?international community? since the United States and its allies that  
commit or are complicit in these appalling crimes will not permit it.

It has now become clear that the assault on Lebanon to wipe out  
Hezbollah had been prepared long before. Israel's crimes had been  
given a green light by the United States and its ever-loyal British  
ally, despite the overwhelming opposition to Blair in his own country.

The short peace that Lebanon enjoyed has come to an end, and a  
paralyzed country is forced to remember a past it had hoped to  
forget. The state terror inflicted on Lebanon is being repeated in  
the Gaza ghetto, while the ?international community? stands by and  
watches in silence. Meanwhile the rest of Palestine is annexed and  
dismantled with the direct participation of the United States and the  
tacit approval of its allies.

We offer our solidarity and support to the victims of this brutality  
and to those who mount a resistance against it. For our part, we will  
use all the means at our disposal to expose the complicity of our  
governments in these crimes. There will be no peace in the Middle  
East while the occupations of Palestine and Iraq and the temporarily  
?paused? bombings of Lebanon continue.

Tariq Ali
Noam Chomsky
Eduardo Galeano
Howard Zinn
Ken Loach
John Berger
Arundhati Roy

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