Syria's continued occupation of Lebanon
Jamie Phife | 29.05.2003 13:06
Syria has engaged in an illegal military occupation, not for self-defense purposes but for aggressive purposes, since 1975
The Syrian occupation of Lebanon began in 1975, under the guise of a Syrian armed intervention to quell a PLO-instigated Lebanese civil war, but it extended and deepened long after the PLO was driven out of Lebanon by Israel and free Lebanese forces between 1982 and 1985. On October 13, 1990, the Syrian occupation of Lebanon was completed when Syrian soldiers took over the Lebanese presidential palace at Baabda. "Since that fateful day, Lebanon has been run as a fully owned subsidiary of the Syrian regime," explains Muhammad Mugraby, an international lawyer and human rights advocate from Beirut. It is widely recognized that every government decision, every military initiative, every diplomatic move and every economic plan made by the Lebanese government is subject to Syrian veto - when it is not at Syrian behest to begin with. To this day, report Lebanese exiles living in the West, Christian Lebanese suffer intimidation, imprisonment and widespread discrimination by the Syrian puppet regime.
Syria has completely taken over Lebanon. It uses Lebanese territory to maintain its terrorist proxy army, the Hizbullah; it uses Lebanon for drug trafficking; it drains the resources of Lebanon for its own sake; it has installed a government to do its bidding; and it uses police state tactics to crush opposition. Yet, for all this, there are but three United Nations resolutions that can be construed to call for an end to the Syrian occupation of Lebanon.
Why are there no Road Maps for ending the Syrian occupation of Lebanon?
Syria has completely taken over Lebanon. It uses Lebanese territory to maintain its terrorist proxy army, the Hizbullah; it uses Lebanon for drug trafficking; it drains the resources of Lebanon for its own sake; it has installed a government to do its bidding; and it uses police state tactics to crush opposition. Yet, for all this, there are but three United Nations resolutions that can be construed to call for an end to the Syrian occupation of Lebanon.
Why are there no Road Maps for ending the Syrian occupation of Lebanon?
Jamie Phife
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Oil
29.05.2003 13:56
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Because
29.05.2003 14:00
protect it with peace plans and billions of dollars in aid.
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When it suits
29.05.2003 15:08
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Western Sahara
29.05.2003 15:12
"Spain had promised the country independence, but pressure from Morocco and the U.S. forced the Spanish government, in the midst of its own delicate transition to democratic rule, to capitulate. The U.S. was concerned about the prospects of an independent Western Sahara under the Polisario Front, the left-leaning independence movement, and also wished to boost the political fortunes of Morocco’s pro-Western monarch, King Hassan II.
Moroccan forces invaded the territory, but initially suffered heavy losses to the Polisario. Mauritania was defeated outright and withdrew. By 1987, however, due in large part to large-scale American military support, Morocco succeeded in conquering virtually the entire territory, including the former Mauritanian sector. The U.S. blocked enforcement of the 1975 UN Security Council resolution demanding Morocco’s withdrawal and recognizing Western Sahara’s right to national self-determination. The country remains occupied today, with most of the indigenous population, known as Sahrawis, exiled in refugee camps in neighboring Algeria.
There has been a cease-fire in effect since 1991, but the promised UN-supervised referendum on the fate of the territory has yet to take place."
I'm not trying to excuse Syria's occupation of Lebanon with this, and the Syrians are not exactly nice people, but as I think you're trying to point out the hypocrisy in going on about Palestine/Israel but not Lebanon/Syria, I'm pointing out some extra hypocrisy on the other side. Israel also terrorised and invaded Lebanon for a long while remember.
a fellow
Why do not you wake up
29.05.2003 15:20
Labanon like Kuwait has been split from Syria after the Syrians has smelt rats after their alliance with the French/British during the first "world war". We in Iraq know who you are so we fought you all along and God willing we will liberate our country from you soon, we will not stop there this time, just wait and see. Mean while to reduce further suffering try to liberate yourselves from the Freemasions (like your PM who is dirtying iraq today) and the jews.
jaafer
free Lebanese forces
29.05.2003 15:40
Thought so - now I'll really take your post seriously.
Bri.
Brian
Dear Mr Racist
29.05.2003 15:49
Anti Jaafer
nonsense on stilts
29.05.2003 16:56
As for 'they come over here stealing our benefits' yeah right and every asylum seeker gets a free Porsche too. You'd cross half the world for £37 a week, would you?
kurious
nobody is more racist than the jews
29.05.2003 16:59
The white here has participated in the biggest demonstaration against the war but still the war went on. If this is the begining of the awakening of the white people it is a welcomed move although it is a very late one. Where it is now? Do they accept the occupation of iraq or is it a matter we do nothing because it will change nothing or is it we have done our (useless) bit? Which one where is the rejection to what is going on? How many people are reading this website or other uncensored news? Why they are not acting about it? we do not want there,infact nobody ever wanted you in Iraq,Palestine or anywhere else? Which country wanted you murdering theives, which country wants you now?can you name one country you filth? On top of all of your immorality you stuff plastics in your private parts and you want us to regard you as humans.
Who is feeding who; our stolen oil and the rest of the world's raw materils and our intelluctuals and your inflated currencies and the slaves and the rest of imperilisms and the destruction of any movement and country which tries to put you in your place; the dustbin of humanity.look at GM food who will manafucture some thing "good" only to be bought from him/her? USA
As far as the jews save your corcodile tears,even the bbc have prodcasted that panoramea program about the neo conservatives,look at the website of that programme and look at the profiles of those criminals,the vast majority are jews. But the programme was late and why it did not mention the women working in the whitehouse as an "Israely" intelligent officer is because the bbc is the bbc.
Islam can not be a racist religion because it is based on ideology not race like your heavily edited religion.
As far as Iraq is concerned the situation is not better than it was because the country is occupied by the troops and the spies of the anglo/american/jewish filth,you can see that next to nobody and contrary to what the media was pumping of the iraqi will welcome your troops,next to nobody has welcomed them and you. So while the illegaly changed Iraqi government has committed crimes against some iraqi people,these crimes are nothing compared with the crimes of the west/russians/jews/serbs. Even just to keep it simple, in iraq the sanctions has killed more than one million iraqis and heavily damaged the iraqi economy and up to 2 million iraqis have fled this grave misjustice. So, even ignoring your criminal history and even reality why shall we be happy? Iraq was up and runing up to the invasion so fuck off out nobody needs you there you blood suckers.
jaafer
!!!!!
29.05.2003 17:17
IndyMedia is an anti-racist place so I really don't see why racists come here- you should go find a racist forum or something.
a person
Arabs think the whole world belong to them
29.05.2003 20:41
Iraq doesn't belong to the Arabs.There are 5 Million Assyrians in the world and they should establish an independent Assyrian state in North Iraq.
North Africa doesn't belong to the Arabs.It's the land of the various Berber peoples.
Sudan doesn't belong to the Arabs.It's the land of Black Christians and animists and various Cushitic tribes.
Egypt is certainly not an Arab land.The Copts are the descendants of the Ancient Egyptians and they should live freely in their land without Arabs ruling over them and harassing them.
Just take a look at a list of Afro-Asiatic and Semitic languages and see that there were many peoples living in the Middle East in the past,but the Arabs have occupied their lands,ethnically cleansed them and forced them to become Arabs and Muslims through Arabization.
The Jews are the only native people who have managed to survive the Arab onslaught, and that's why you are obsessed with them.
Anti-Jihad
jaafer is a wanker
30.05.2003 05:05
Jaafer, like all nutty people, probably doesn't even know that he's insane. That's the problem.
Hello
get a life zionazis
30.05.2003 08:06
mike
Selective memories
30.05.2003 09:08
Josh
e-mail: osh_josh_bgosh@nospam.hotmail.com
just a thought
30.05.2003 09:53
Could it be that BOTH anti-Arab AND anti-Jewish racism are wrong?
Could the Pope be Catholic?
kurious
well i think ur right
30.05.2003 11:19
Thomas J
Spain is occupying part of Morocco
30.05.2003 11:32
Sqoo
and..
30.05.2003 14:34
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jaafer is an insane freak
30.05.2003 23:37
Hello