June 11, 2008 Electronic Intifada
	Karim Makdisi discusses the Doha Agreement and Lebanon's economic crisis -- In May of this year, tension between the US-backed March 14 governing coalition and the Hizballah-led March 8 opposition culminated in armed clashes in Beirut and elsewhere around Lebanon. Soon after, the feuding sides were invited to Doha, Qatar where a deal was struck that began the process of forming a new government and selecting a new president for the country.
August 22, 2007 Inter Press Service News Agency
	Preparing for War, Talking Peace -- So why is there growing tension between Jerusalem and Damascus, and why are Israeli leaders so concerned about the possibility of war with their northern neighbour? What's got them worried is an extensive Syrian rearmament programme, Syrian military preparations on the border with Israel, and the concern that even if both sides don't have an appetite for war, a miscalculation could lead to one.
August 22, 2007 Inter Press Service News Agency
	Israel Strengthens its Enemy -- In every village and town in the south of the country -- the area most heavily bombed by Israel -- Lebanese tell similar tales of deceased loved ones and destroyed homes. Many who never took up arms before are now pledging to join Hezbollah and fight Israel.
July 23, 2007 Electronic Intifada
	Lebanon's bloody summer -- This is the state of Lebanon today: deep sectarian anger that could boil over at any moment. In mixed Beirut neighborhoods, tensions rise between Sunnis and Shiites after each bombing. Tempers flare, small fights get out of hand, people start calling their friends and relatives to come in from other areas to help them and eventually the police have to step in. (A Shiite friend who lives in a mainly Sunni neighborhood told me that for several days after Eido's killing, he found a broken egg each morning on his car.) And there's no shortage of bombings to stoke tensions.
July 20, 2007 ReliefWeb
	No swift return for Palestinians to battered camp -- Many of the 32,000 Palestinian refugees who have fled fighting between the Lebanese army and Islamist militants will need temporary homes while their devastated camp is rebuilt, a U.N. official said on Friday. At least 235 people have been killed at the Nahr al-Bared camp in north Lebanon, where troops have been trying for two months to crush Fatah al-Islam, a group of Palestinian, Lebanese and foreign Arab fighters driven by al Qaeda's ideology.
July 19, 2007 Relief Web
	Lebanon: Refugees again -- In Lebanon, it's not enough that Abu Hisham was made a refugee in the 1940s when he had to leave his native Nazareth. In 2007, he's been forced to flee again with the outbreak of fighting in a refugee camp in northern Lebanon. "How long must the Palestinian people endure tragedy? How many times do we have to be displaced?" The speaker is Abu Hisham, sitting in Beddawi camp surrounded by his children and grandchildren.
July 11, 2007 IRIN News
	People flee Nahr al-Bared camp ahead of expected final assault -- Up to 150 people from the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon fled on 11 July, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Witnesses said the army was preparing a final assault on the Fatah al-Islam militants holed up inside.
July 10, 2007 Reuters AlertNet
	Support for Hezbollah still high in south Lebanon -- The story of Shadi Saad, a 19-year-old killed in last year's 34-day war against Israel. Shadi was among about 270 Hezbollah "martyrs" killed during the conflict that erupted after the Shi'ite guerrillas captured two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid near Aita al-Shaab -- and spirited them away through the village on July 12. He was not even a full-time fighter. Hezbollah relied heavily on part-timers like Shadi, who defended their towns and villages tenaciously when Israeli troops pushed into Lebanon.
July 10, 2007 Alternative Information Center
	EDITORIAL - A War This Summer? -- Once again, the newspapers headlines are warning that a war may occur this summer. A war, however, never “occurs,” a war is initiated by one or several sides. Who may take the initiative?
July 10, 2007 IRIN
	Refugees get Saudi funding, demand shelters next to camp -- Over 200 people have been killed, hundreds wounded and around 35,000 displaced in a seven-week battle that has seen much of Nahr al-Bared destroyed as the Lebanese army bombards positions held by the Al-Qaeda-inspired Fatah al-Islam militants. Nearly 10,000 Palestinian families affected by the conflict in Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in north Lebanon have received cheques for US$1,330 to help them pay rent and buy food supplies.
July 09, 2007 Yahoo News
	Lebanon war shredded US clout in Mideast -- Washington's unconditional and unflinching support for Israel during its 34-day bombing of Lebanon last year dealt a key blow to US influence in the Middle East, already eroded by the Iraq war.
July 09, 2007 Reuters
	Cluster bombs leave legacy of pain for Lebanese -- About 200 people have been maimed by cluster bombs dropped by Israel, mostly in the final three days of the war before a U.N. ceasefire took effect. Cluster bombs burst, spreading bomblets over the ground and vegetation. They are air- or ground-launched canisters holding up to 650 munitions which often fail to explode on impact. They have killed 30 people since the war, when hundreds of thousands Lebanese poured back to the south immediately after the August 14 ceasefire.
July 04, 2007 Electronic Intifada
	Deminers urge patience as Palestinians grow restless for return -- The demining agency tasked with neutralizing unexploded ordnance (UXO) from the six-week conflict between militants and the Lebanese army in the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp has said the removal of immediate UXO threats will take at least a month. This raises the specter of further unrest among displaced refugees increasingly desperate to return home.
June 13, 2007 Human Rights Watch
	Lebanon: End Abuse of Palestinians Fleeing Refugee Camp -- The Lebanese army and internal security forces have arbitrarily detained and physically abused some Palestinian men fleeing the fighting in Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, Human Rights Watch said today. Since Sunday, more than 340 civilians have fled the camp in northern Lebanon, where fighting between the Lebanese army and the armed group Fatah al-Islam has entered its fourth week. The Lebanese army is interrogating many of the men as they leave the camp, and detaining those suspected of supporting or having information about Fatah al-Islam.
June 12, 2007 ZNet
	The United States' new strategy in Lebanon: the secret war against Hizbollah -- In less than a year we have witnessed two predictable events whose occurrence nonetheless took many people unawares. The first was the war last summer and now it is happening again with confrontations between the Lebanese army and an apparently Palestinian organization linked to the most orthodox Islam. In an article published on June 13th last year at the very start of the war, I wrote, "In Lebanon there is not an Iraqi-style sectarian confrontation, but Sunni radicalism is on the increase in places like Tripoli and Akkar where it seems Al Qaeda is growing strong." Like it or not, Al Qaeda's progress in the Middle East is very fast and the terrain is made fertile by the war in Iraq.
February 20, 2007 The Electronic Intifada
	"No politics please -- we're Lebanese," say traders -- "Please, no discussion of politics," reads a sign that has appeared in shop windows in the Mazraa district of western Beirut. On a work-day afternoon, it is the only hint that the area's bustling main streets -- lined with snack-bars and grocers, clothes shops and jewellery markets -- has witnessed a sharp rise in Sunni-Shia Muslim tensions over the past few months. "People would strike up conversations in here about politics and they'd turn into arguments. Now I can just point at the sign and say 'come on, that's enough'," said the owner of a cubby-hole bookshop, who preferred not to give his name.
January 25, 2007 The First Post
	France ‘was seconds’ from downing Israeli jet -- France and Israel are on a collision course in south Lebanon following incidents involving Israeli warplanes over- flying the positions of the French military contingent serving with the UN peacekeeping force there.
January 16, 2007 Haaretz
	Israeli, Syrian representatives reach secret understandings -- In a series of secret meetings in Europe between September 2004 and July 2006, Syrians and Israelis formulated understandings for a peace agreement between Israel and Syria.
November 23, 2006 Al-Ahram
	A selective memory -- The problem in Iraq, today, is that the country's tribal and sectarian structure is being forced on Iraqis as a mold for political affiliation. People aren't born as a nation; nations are built. And in order to build a nation you don't go delving into history, when there was no state or nation and when all that existed were tribes and sects, as some Orientalists do.
November 14, 2006 Haaretz
	Israel opted for cheaper, unsafe cluster bombs in Lebanon war -- During the second Lebanon war, Israel made use of American-made cluster bombs that left behind thousands of unexploded bomblets, even though Israel Military Industries produces cluster bombs that leave nearly no unexploded munitions.
October 31, 2006 Haaretz
	EU to Israel: Mock raids could encourage cease-fire violations -- United Nations peacekeepers and Lebanon say IAF overflights of Lebanon violate Security Council Resolution 1701 that ended a month-long war between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas in August.
October 18, 2006 Inter Press Service News Agency
	Israel/Lebanon Conflict Leaves Deadly Legacy -- At least three to four people are getting killed or maimed every day as a result of cluster bombs used by the Israeli Air Force during the war.
October 18, 2006 Reuters
	Cluster bombs still killing Lebanese -report -- While more than 45,000 unexploded cluster bomblets have been cleared and destroyed, hundreds of thousands more still litter the countryside and it will take another year or two to get the situation under control.
September 26, 2006 The Washington Post
	In Lebanon, a War's Lethal Harvest -- As many as 1 million cluster bomblets are unexploded wounding or killing three people a day. The threat of stumbling across a bomblet has paralyzed life in parts of the south that depend on the harvest of tobacco and now-abandoned groves of bananas, olives and citrus.
September 25, 2006 Haaretz
	Poll: Europeans view extremism as cause of Middle East tension -- The Washington-based organization The Israel Project conducted a survey that found the tendency to view Islamic extremists as responsible for instability in the region is especially high in Germany. The elites in France and Britain tend to divide the responsibility between Israeli policy and Islamic extremism, while the general public in France is more open to blaming radical Islam for the problems in the Middle East.
September 04, 2006 Global Research
	The Next Phase of the Middle East War -- Lebanon constitutes a strategic corridor between Israel and North-western Syria. The underlying objective of this war was the militarization of Lebanon, including the stationing of foreign troops, as a precondition for carrying out the next phase of a broader military agenda.
September 04, 2006 Haaretz
	Europe nixes landing rights for El Al planes with IDF cargo -- A number of European states are refusing to allow El Al cargo planes carrying Israel Defense Forces equipment from stopover landings in their airports.
August 21, 2006 The New Yorker
	Watching Lebanon -- President Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney were convinced, current and former intelligence and diplomatic officials told me, that a successful Israeli Air Force bombing campaign against Hezbollah’s heavily fortified underground-missile and command-and-control complexes in Lebanon could ease Israel’s security concerns and also serve as a prelude to a potential American preëmptive attack to destroy Iran’s nuclear installations, some of which are also buried deep underground.
August 19, 2006 Haaretz
	Morality is not on our side -- There is a propaganda aspect to this war, and it involves a competition as to who is more miserable. Each side tries to persuade the world that it is more miserable. As in every propaganda campaign, the use of information is selective, distorted and self-righteous.
August 16, 2006 Reuters
	South Lebanon littered with war's lethal leftovers -- More than 100 deadly black cylinders, not much bigger than large household batteries, litter the main road of this shattered village. They are unexploded cluster bombs fired by Israel in the last days of its war with Hizbollah guerrillas.