Syrian Chronicals 1973-1990
August 26, 1973: As a prelude to igniting the war Syrian President Hafez Assad announces that Lebanon and Syria are one country and one people but with two governments.
September 10, 1975: El Saaka Syrian forces attacked the village of Deir Ashash, in Northern Lebanon, killing three priests and causing its residents to flee.
September 11, 1975: The Saaka forces and forces from the Syrian Baath Party attacked the village of Beit Mallat killing seven of its residents and kidnapping 10 others.
September 26, 1975: Egyptian newspaper El Ahram accused Syria of meddling in Lebanon and of attempting to impose the Syrian Baath Party on Lebanon by force.
October 9, 1975: Saaka forces traveling across the Syrian border attacked the village of Tal Abbas in Akkar killing 15 people and injuring many others. The local church was set on fire with the hope of igniting religious strife between the Lebanese.
November 2, 1975: A whole Syrian battalion of Syrian Special Forces entered Lebanon through the Bekaa Valley.
January 7, 1976: In a statement published by a Kuwaiti newspaper Syrian Vice President Abdel Halim Khaddam announced that Lebanon is part of Syria and that it will be returned to it adding that this concept should be very clear to everyone.
January 15, 1976: A battalion from the Palestine Liberation Army, the Yarmouck division, which is under Syrian command, entered the Bekaa and had confrontations with Lebanese Army in the area.
January 19, 1976: More forces from the Yarmouck division along with some other forces from the Saaka entered Northern Lebanon and proceeded to attack Lebanese police and internal security forces positions; they were helped by local armed Palestinian militias.
January 21, 1976: The Yarmouck and the Saaka forces, under the command of Syria, attacked the Christian town of Damour in the Shouf uprooting its residents, killing a large number of people and reducing the town to rubbles. Druze leader Kamal Jumblatt tried in vain to stop the attack and prevent the massacres but all his efforts were useless in the face of the Syrian plan to ignite religious strife among the Lebanese.
March 5, 1976: Saaka forces encircled the towns of Kobeyat and Anduct in Akkar in Northern Lebanon and proceeded to bombard the area with heavy artillery and mortar fire. Meanwhile falsified or imaginary statements were being distributed supposedly from the residents of the two towns asking for the Syrian forces to intervene and help them… April 4, 1976: Druze leader Kamal Jumblatt expressed his astonishment about the fact that Syrian forces were deploying in areas of Lebanon where there was absolutely no legal justification for their presence.
April 5, 1976: Bashir Gemayel, the leader of the Lebanese Forces announced that the different parties in Lebanon were on the verge of reaching an agreement when Syria intervened and disrupted all agreements.
May 31, 1976: Syrian tanks under the command of the Syrian army entered the Akkar area in Northern Lebanon for the first time ever.
June 1, 1976: The Syrian army advanced into the Bekaa Valley and started taking over all strategic and vital positions.
July 20, 1976: Syrian president Hafez Assad gave his famous speech on the stairs of the University of Damascus in which he stated that he did not ask anyone's permission to send his forces into Lebanon.
November 11, 1976: The Syrian Saaka Forces attempted to assassinate the leader of the National Bloc Party, Mr. Raymond Edde.
December 15, 1976: Forces from the Syrian army and from the Syrian intelligence services attacked the offices of the El Moharrar, Beirut and El Doustour newspapers, kicked out their editors and took over their offices and their printing facilities.
December 17, 1976: Syrian forces attacked the offices of the El Safir newspaper and occupied the premises.
December 19, 1976: Syrian Forces occupied the offices of the El Nahar and L'Orient-Le Jour newspapers.
December 20, 1976: Syrian defense minister General Nagi Jamil justified all these attacks against the press by saying that these newspapers are being used for Zionist propaganda.
March 16, 1977: The Syrian Secret services assassinated Druze leader Kamal Jumblatt in the Shouf region a few meters away from a Syrian checkpoint, then proceeded to commit revenge killings against the Christians of the Chouf which left 250 civilians dead.
November 5, 1977: The Saaka Syrian forces attacked the village of Aishiyeh killing 41 of its residents and displacing most of the others.
February 4, 1978: The Syrian army attempted to occupy the army headquarters at Fiyadiyyeh. Resistance from the Lebanese Army left 30 Syrian soldiers dead. Officer Abdallah Hadchity was killed during this operation.
June 14, 1978: The Syrian forces bombarded the village of Deir El Ahmar in the Bekaa with heavy artillery.
June 28, 1978: Armed gunmen affiliated with the Syrian intelligence services attacked the villages of Ka'a, Ras Baalbeck and Jdeidet El Fakaha, kidnapping a large number of people. Many of them were found dead while a good number of them remain missing.
June 30, 1978: The Syrian army, using ground and air forces, attacked regions of Northern Lebanon, and invaded Bcharre and the heights of Batroun after fierce battles with the residents and the Lebanese Forces.
September 30, 1978: Fierce battles took place between the Syrian army and the residents of East Beirut when the Syrian forces tried to advance into the area. The Syrian forces retaliated with heavy artillery, which left hundreds of innocent civilians dead and many more injured.
February 2, 1980: The Syrian special forces attacked the village of Kanat. The villagers resisted for six days but, after heavy bombardment, with tanks and canons, the Syrian forces were able to take over the village.
February 23, 1980: Syrian agents killed Maya Gemayel, the little daughter of Bashir Gemayel.
February 24, 1980: Lebanese journalist Selim Lowzi was found dead in the forests of Aramoun, near a checkpoint for the Syrian Special Forces. He has been missing for nine days, having been kidnapped on his way to the International airport of Beirut. Lowzi was known for his articles opposing the Syrian regime.
March 13, 1980: Syrian agent Hussein Mostapha Tliss tries to assassinate previous president of the republic Kamil Chamoun.
July 22, 1980: The Syrian intelligence services killed Riad Taha, the head of the union of editors.
August 27, 1980: Syrian agents attempt to assassinate John Gunther Dean, the American Ambassador to Lebanon.
November 10, 1980: Syrian agents detonated two car bombs in Achrafieh in east Beirut killing tens of people and injuring many.
December 23, 1980: Syrian artillery bombarded the town of Zahle in the Bekaa on Christmas Eve, killing and injuring many.
February 20, 1981: In an attempt to reignite religious strife in the country, the Syrians attempt to assassinate the Greek Catholic Patriarch, Maximos the fifth Hakim in the town of Bhamdoun a few meters away from a Syrian checkpoint.
April 2, 1981: Syrian artillery stationed in Aramoun suddenly and furiously bombarded East Beirut at a time when students were leaving schools to head home. Casualties and injuries were in the Hundreds.
April 3, 1981: The Syrian army and its agents mounted a full-scale attack against the town of Zahle in the Bekaa in an attempt to control it. It was reported that thousands of Syrian soldiers participated in the attack and that they were met with resistance from the residents, which lasted about four months.
September 3, 1981: Syrian agents assassinated French Ambassador Louis DeLamare. December 15, 1981: Iraq accused the Syrian intelligence services of blowing up the Iraqi embassy building in Beirut, a crime which left 30 people dead and 120 injured.
April 27, 1982: Syrian agents killed Sheikh Ahmad Assaf for his patriotic stands.
May 1, 1982: Syrian agents, to create religious strife between the various factions in Lebanon, killed Father Phillipe Abou Sleiman, a priest in Aley.
May 24, 1982: An explosion in front of the French embassy in Beirut lead to 9 deaths and 26 injuries. The operation was the work of Syrian agent Hussein Tliss.
May 25, 1982: French newspaper "Le Matin" accused the Syrians of blowing up the French embassy and presented a report complete with names and motives.
July 11, 1982: Heavy Syrian artillery shelled the Eastern sections of Beirut leaving dozens of people dead and many more injured.
September 14, 1982: Syrian agents assassinated President-elect Bashir Gemayel. April 19, 1983: Syrian agents blew up the American embassy in Beirut killing and injuring many.
April 20, 1983: The media in Egypt, Jordan, Israel and the United States revealed that the Islamic Jihad organization, that claimed responsibility for the bombing of the American Embassy in Beirut, is nothing but a front for the Syrian intelligence services.
September 2, 1983: Various Palestinian organizations controlled by Syria attacked many positions of the Lebanese Army in Souk El Gharb with the intent of occupying the area and reaching the presidential palace in Baabda.
September 9, 1983: The Lebanese government, then headed by Chafic Wazzan, notified the United States and the governments of Europe that Syrian and Palestinian forces were the major forces participating in the onslaught on the Lebanese mountain with the intent of bringing down the legal government of Lebanon.
September 8, 1983: A spokesman for the Syrian regime stated that Syria is ready to enter the war in the mountains of Lebanon if its "allies" asked her to.
September 8, 1983: Alan Romberg, a spokesman for the US State department, announced that Syria bears the bulk of the responsibility for what is going on in Lebanon and that it is the main source of weapons used by the various militias that it controls, in addition to the role of its 40 thousand soldiers who are in Lebanon.
September 9, 1983: A French source noted that Damascus is working hard to take advantage of the talks between the various Lebanese factions, confirming that the French embassy in Beirut was bombarded from positions under Syrian control.
December 27, 1985: Syria tried to impose what was called the tripartite agreement on the Lebanese but was met with an armed rebellion in the Eastern section of Beirut which brought down the agreement-conspiracy which aimed to make the Syrian hegemony over Lebanon constitutional. This was later achieved with the Taief Accords.
September 18, 1986: French military Attaché Christian Gauthier was shot in front of the French embassy with a revolver equipped with a silencer by Hussein Mostapha Tliss who now resides in Syria.
October 7, 1986: Syrian agents murdered the head of the Islamic Shiite Higher Council, Sheikh Soubhi Saleh, who was shot in broad daylight.
November 22, 1986: The Syrian army kidnapped hundreds of civilians from the town of Tripoli in Northern Lebanon in retaliation for attacks against Syrian military and intelligence positions. The bodies of many who were kidnapped were found in the streets of Tripoli and its suburbs.
November 30, 1986: The Syrian Special forces liquidated 34 residents of Tripoli on charges of "opposition to the Syrians."
August 2, 1987: Syrian agents assassinated Dr. Mohammad Choucair, an advisor to President Amine Gemayel. He was killed inside his home in West Beirut.
March 14, 1989: Heavy Syrian artillery, specifically the 52nd brigade controlled by the Syrian special Forces, equipped with 240 and 160 millimeters canons, positioned in the hills of Aramoun, pounded both the East and the West side of Beirut, especially targeting the Unesco area. Tens of Lebanese were killed in the onslaught. Following these attacks, and in complete coordination with Israel, the Syrian forces using various heavy weapons surrounded the areas controlled by the constitutional regime.
May 9, 1989: The Syrian Intelligence Services assassinated the Sunni Mufti of the republic, Sheikh Hassan Khaled after he notified the Kuwaiti ambassador that the Syrian artillery is the one responsible for shelling both the Christian and the Moslem sides of the city, and that the Syrians, from their positions in Aramoun, are responsible for the massacres at Unesco.
November 22, 1989: The Syrians assassinated president-elect Rene Moawad due to disputes he had with the Syrian leaders and his refusal to obey their orders.
August 1, 1990: The Syrian forces surrounded the area controlled by the legitimate Lebanese government to bring down the transitional government.
November 12, 1990: Syrian agent Francois Halal makes an attempt to assassinate Prime Minister General Michel Aoun at the presidential palace. The head of the Syrian Baath party proclaimed that he was responsible for the failed attempt.
October 13, 1990: The Syrian Forces invaded the Eastern areas which support the Lebanese Army under heavy air strikes (the only instance where Syria was able to fly its airforce over Lebanese space without drawing the Israelis), artillery shelling and rocket launching. Both the people and the army attempted to resist this onslaught but the Syrians were able to take over the area committing massacres in Dahr El Wahsh, Souk El Gharb, Bsous, Hadeth and Beit Mery, massacres that left hundreds of people dead and many more injured. Large numbers of soldiers and officers from the Lebanese Army were executed with a shot in the back of the head, or were captured and taken to Syrian jails where they are still being held to this day. An estimated 700 people were killed by the Syrian invaders that day. For three days the Syrians proceeded to steal what they could find inside the defense ministry, such as archives, equipment, computers, maps, and strategic historic information, which they transported to Syria. The Syrian invasion was "legitimized" by the collaboration of one Emile Lahoud, a privileged and largely ineffectual Navy officer serving as the "legitimate" front for the Syrians. In his bid as a traitor and collaborator, General Lahoud became the Général Pétain of Lebanon who was rewarded by the Syrians with the "Presidency" of Lebanon. As the ultimate puppet, Lahoud will never challenge his puppeteers in Damascus, lest he loses his career if not his life.
August 26, 1973: As a prelude to igniting the war Syrian President Hafez Assad announces that Lebanon and Syria are one country and one people but with two governments.
September 10, 1975: El Saaka Syrian forces attacked the village of Deir Ashash, in Northern Lebanon, killing three priests and causing its residents to flee.
September 11, 1975: The Saaka forces and forces from the Syrian Baath Party attacked the village of Beit Mallat killing seven of its residents and kidnapping 10 others.
September 26, 1975: Egyptian newspaper El Ahram accused Syria of meddling in Lebanon and of attempting to impose the Syrian Baath Party on Lebanon by force.
October 9, 1975: Saaka forces traveling across the Syrian border attacked the village of Tal Abbas in Akkar killing 15 people and injuring many others. The local church was set on fire with the hope of igniting religious strife between the Lebanese.
November 2, 1975: A whole Syrian battalion of Syrian Special Forces entered Lebanon through the Bekaa Valley.
January 7, 1976: In a statement published by a Kuwaiti newspaper Syrian Vice President Abdel Halim Khaddam announced that Lebanon is part of Syria and that it will be returned to it adding that this concept should be very clear to everyone.
January 15, 1976: A battalion from the Palestine Liberation Army, the Yarmouck division, which is under Syrian command, entered the Bekaa and had confrontations with Lebanese Army in the area.
January 19, 1976: More forces from the Yarmouck division along with some other forces from the Saaka entered Northern Lebanon and proceeded to attack Lebanese police and internal security forces positions; they were helped by local armed Palestinian militias.
January 21, 1976: The Yarmouck and the Saaka forces, under the command of Syria, attacked the Christian town of Damour in the Shouf uprooting its residents, killing a large number of people and reducing the town to rubbles. Druze leader Kamal Jumblatt tried in vain to stop the attack and prevent the massacres but all his efforts were useless in the face of the Syrian plan to ignite religious strife among the Lebanese.
March 5, 1976: Saaka forces encircled the towns of Kobeyat and Anduct in Akkar in Northern Lebanon and proceeded to bombard the area with heavy artillery and mortar fire. Meanwhile falsified or imaginary statements were being distributed supposedly from the residents of the two towns asking for the Syrian forces to intervene and help them… April 4, 1976: Druze leader Kamal Jumblatt expressed his astonishment about the fact that Syrian forces were deploying in areas of Lebanon where there was absolutely no legal justification for their presence.
April 5, 1976: Bashir Gemayel, the leader of the Lebanese Forces announced that the different parties in Lebanon were on the verge of reaching an agreement when Syria intervened and disrupted all agreements.
May 31, 1976: Syrian tanks under the command of the Syrian army entered the Akkar area in Northern Lebanon for the first time ever.
June 1, 1976: The Syrian army advanced into the Bekaa Valley and started taking over all strategic and vital positions.
July 20, 1976: Syrian president Hafez Assad gave his famous speech on the stairs of the University of Damascus in which he stated that he did not ask anyone's permission to send his forces into Lebanon.
November 11, 1976: The Syrian Saaka Forces attempted to assassinate the leader of the National Bloc Party, Mr. Raymond Edde.
December 15, 1976: Forces from the Syrian army and from the Syrian intelligence services attacked the offices of the El Moharrar, Beirut and El Doustour newspapers, kicked out their editors and took over their offices and their printing facilities.
December 17, 1976: Syrian forces attacked the offices of the El Safir newspaper and occupied the premises.
December 19, 1976: Syrian Forces occupied the offices of the El Nahar and L'Orient-Le Jour newspapers.
December 20, 1976: Syrian defense minister General Nagi Jamil justified all these attacks against the press by saying that these newspapers are being used for Zionist propaganda.
March 16, 1977: The Syrian Secret services assassinated Druze leader Kamal Jumblatt in the Shouf region a few meters away from a Syrian checkpoint, then proceeded to commit revenge killings against the Christians of the Chouf which left 250 civilians dead.
November 5, 1977: The Saaka Syrian forces attacked the village of Aishiyeh killing 41 of its residents and displacing most of the others.
February 4, 1978: The Syrian army attempted to occupy the army headquarters at Fiyadiyyeh. Resistance from the Lebanese Army left 30 Syrian soldiers dead. Officer Abdallah Hadchity was killed during this operation.
June 14, 1978: The Syrian forces bombarded the village of Deir El Ahmar in the Bekaa with heavy artillery.
June 28, 1978: Armed gunmen affiliated with the Syrian intelligence services attacked the villages of Ka'a, Ras Baalbeck and Jdeidet El Fakaha, kidnapping a large number of people. Many of them were found dead while a good number of them remain missing.
June 30, 1978: The Syrian army, using ground and air forces, attacked regions of Northern Lebanon, and invaded Bcharre and the heights of Batroun after fierce battles with the residents and the Lebanese Forces.
September 30, 1978: Fierce battles took place between the Syrian army and the residents of East Beirut when the Syrian forces tried to advance into the area. The Syrian forces retaliated with heavy artillery, which left hundreds of innocent civilians dead and many more injured.
February 2, 1980: The Syrian special forces attacked the village of Kanat. The villagers resisted for six days but, after heavy bombardment, with tanks and canons, the Syrian forces were able to take over the village.
February 23, 1980: Syrian agents killed Maya Gemayel, the little daughter of Bashir Gemayel.
February 24, 1980: Lebanese journalist Selim Lowzi was found dead in the forests of Aramoun, near a checkpoint for the Syrian Special Forces. He has been missing for nine days, having been kidnapped on his way to the International airport of Beirut. Lowzi was known for his articles opposing the Syrian regime.
March 13, 1980: Syrian agent Hussein Mostapha Tliss tries to assassinate previous president of the republic Kamil Chamoun.
July 22, 1980: The Syrian intelligence services killed Riad Taha, the head of the union of editors.
August 27, 1980: Syrian agents attempt to assassinate John Gunther Dean, the American Ambassador to Lebanon.
November 10, 1980: Syrian agents detonated two car bombs in Achrafieh in east Beirut killing tens of people and injuring many.
December 23, 1980: Syrian artillery bombarded the town of Zahle in the Bekaa on Christmas Eve, killing and injuring many.
February 20, 1981: In an attempt to reignite religious strife in the country, the Syrians attempt to assassinate the Greek Catholic Patriarch, Maximos the fifth Hakim in the town of Bhamdoun a few meters away from a Syrian checkpoint.
April 2, 1981: Syrian artillery stationed in Aramoun suddenly and furiously bombarded East Beirut at a time when students were leaving schools to head home. Casualties and injuries were in the Hundreds.
April 3, 1981: The Syrian army and its agents mounted a full-scale attack against the town of Zahle in the Bekaa in an attempt to control it. It was reported that thousands of Syrian soldiers participated in the attack and that they were met with resistance from the residents, which lasted about four months.
September 3, 1981: Syrian agents assassinated French Ambassador Louis DeLamare. December 15, 1981: Iraq accused the Syrian intelligence services of blowing up the Iraqi embassy building in Beirut, a crime which left 30 people dead and 120 injured.
April 27, 1982: Syrian agents killed Sheikh Ahmad Assaf for his patriotic stands.
May 1, 1982: Syrian agents, to create religious strife between the various factions in Lebanon, killed Father Phillipe Abou Sleiman, a priest in Aley.
May 24, 1982: An explosion in front of the French embassy in Beirut lead to 9 deaths and 26 injuries. The operation was the work of Syrian agent Hussein Tliss.
May 25, 1982: French newspaper "Le Matin" accused the Syrians of blowing up the French embassy and presented a report complete with names and motives.
July 11, 1982: Heavy Syrian artillery shelled the Eastern sections of Beirut leaving dozens of people dead and many more injured.
September 14, 1982: Syrian agents assassinated President-elect Bashir Gemayel. April 19, 1983: Syrian agents blew up the American embassy in Beirut killing and injuring many.
April 20, 1983: The media in Egypt, Jordan, Israel and the United States revealed that the Islamic Jihad organization, that claimed responsibility for the bombing of the American Embassy in Beirut, is nothing but a front for the Syrian intelligence services.
September 2, 1983: Various Palestinian organizations controlled by Syria attacked many positions of the Lebanese Army in Souk El Gharb with the intent of occupying the area and reaching the presidential palace in Baabda.
September 9, 1983: The Lebanese government, then headed by Chafic Wazzan, notified the United States and the governments of Europe that Syrian and Palestinian forces were the major forces participating in the onslaught on the Lebanese mountain with the intent of bringing down the legal government of Lebanon.
September 8, 1983: A spokesman for the Syrian regime stated that Syria is ready to enter the war in the mountains of Lebanon if its "allies" asked her to.
September 8, 1983: Alan Romberg, a spokesman for the US State department, announced that Syria bears the bulk of the responsibility for what is going on in Lebanon and that it is the main source of weapons used by the various militias that it controls, in addition to the role of its 40 thousand soldiers who are in Lebanon.
September 9, 1983: A French source noted that Damascus is working hard to take advantage of the talks between the various Lebanese factions, confirming that the French embassy in Beirut was bombarded from positions under Syrian control.
December 27, 1985: Syria tried to impose what was called the tripartite agreement on the Lebanese but was met with an armed rebellion in the Eastern section of Beirut which brought down the agreement-conspiracy which aimed to make the Syrian hegemony over Lebanon constitutional. This was later achieved with the Taief Accords.
September 18, 1986: French military Attaché Christian Gauthier was shot in front of the French embassy with a revolver equipped with a silencer by Hussein Mostapha Tliss who now resides in Syria.
October 7, 1986: Syrian agents murdered the head of the Islamic Shiite Higher Council, Sheikh Soubhi Saleh, who was shot in broad daylight.
November 22, 1986: The Syrian army kidnapped hundreds of civilians from the town of Tripoli in Northern Lebanon in retaliation for attacks against Syrian military and intelligence positions. The bodies of many who were kidnapped were found in the streets of Tripoli and its suburbs.
November 30, 1986: The Syrian Special forces liquidated 34 residents of Tripoli on charges of "opposition to the Syrians."
August 2, 1987: Syrian agents assassinated Dr. Mohammad Choucair, an advisor to President Amine Gemayel. He was killed inside his home in West Beirut.
March 14, 1989: Heavy Syrian artillery, specifically the 52nd brigade controlled by the Syrian special Forces, equipped with 240 and 160 millimeters canons, positioned in the hills of Aramoun, pounded both the East and the West side of Beirut, especially targeting the Unesco area. Tens of Lebanese were killed in the onslaught. Following these attacks, and in complete coordination with Israel, the Syrian forces using various heavy weapons surrounded the areas controlled by the constitutional regime.
May 9, 1989: The Syrian Intelligence Services assassinated the Sunni Mufti of the republic, Sheikh Hassan Khaled after he notified the Kuwaiti ambassador that the Syrian artillery is the one responsible for shelling both the Christian and the Moslem sides of the city, and that the Syrians, from their positions in Aramoun, are responsible for the massacres at Unesco.
November 22, 1989: The Syrians assassinated president-elect Rene Moawad due to disputes he had with the Syrian leaders and his refusal to obey their orders.
August 1, 1990: The Syrian forces surrounded the area controlled by the legitimate Lebanese government to bring down the transitional government.
November 12, 1990: Syrian agent Francois Halal makes an attempt to assassinate Prime Minister General Michel Aoun at the presidential palace. The head of the Syrian Baath party proclaimed that he was responsible for the failed attempt.
October 13, 1990: The Syrian Forces invaded the Eastern areas which support the Lebanese Army under heavy air strikes (the only instance where Syria was able to fly its airforce over Lebanese space without drawing the Israelis), artillery shelling and rocket launching. Both the people and the army attempted to resist this onslaught but the Syrians were able to take over the area committing massacres in Dahr El Wahsh, Souk El Gharb, Bsous, Hadeth and Beit Mery, massacres that left hundreds of people dead and many more injured. Large numbers of soldiers and officers from the Lebanese Army were executed with a shot in the back of the head, or were captured and taken to Syrian jails where they are still being held to this day. An estimated 700 people were killed by the Syrian invaders that day. For three days the Syrians proceeded to steal what they could find inside the defense ministry, such as archives, equipment, computers, maps, and strategic historic information, which they transported to Syria. The Syrian invasion was "legitimized" by the collaboration of one Emile Lahoud, a privileged and largely ineffectual Navy officer serving as the "legitimate" front for the Syrians. In his bid as a traitor and collaborator, General Lahoud became the Général Pétain of Lebanon who was rewarded by the Syrians with the "Presidency" of Lebanon. As the ultimate puppet, Lahoud will never challenge his puppeteers in Damascus, lest he loses his career if not his life.
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Israeli and Zionist terrorism
26.10.2003 12:20
This is not a matter of jews against non-jews as the Israeli-Zionist and US propaganda wants us to believe. But rather a matter of all people, no matter their religion or background, against the agressive and colonial policies of the US economical and political elite and their Zionist friends in charge of the Israeli 'apartheid'-state. You can't mix up the jewish people and political supporters of Zionism as you couldn't mix up, in the past, the broad masses of the german people and the criminals of the Nazi-party. So that why I found it interesting to post an article about one of the most important factors responsible of actual cycle of violence and destabilisation in the Middle -East:the erection of the racist and colonial Israeli state on the basis of Zionist terrorism against non-jews and jews...
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THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF ISRAELI AND ZIONIST TERRORISM
by
Nader Khaireddine Abuljebai (
For the past 100 years, since the early Zionist colonization of Palestine in
the 19th Century, the Palestinians and other Arabs have been, and still are
subjected to the worst forms of terrorism. The terrorism has been committed
by the Zionist colonizers (settlers), and the para-military organizations,
and later on by the Zionist State with its military forces, and its
intelligence agents.
In the first Fifty years, the Zionist colonizers (settlers) and the
par-military organizations in Palestine used terrorism against the
Palestinian civilian population; by committing ethnic cleansing massacres,
bombing cars, demolishing houses, assassinating personalities and exploding
community centers.
Soon after the end of world II, there were three basic para-military Zionist
organizations in Palestine, terrorizing the Palestinians, with specific
purpose of driving them out of their cities, towns, and villages, and
expropriating their properties, and finally trying to wipe Palestine's name
from world history.
These para-military organizations were the called the Haganah, which was
formed before the British Mandate, when the Jewish colonizers (settlers) had
formed a group of mounted armed watchmen called "Hashomar", and with the
advent of the British Mandate, it became the Haganah (Defense). With a
membership of 60,000 Zionist Jews, the Haganah had a field army of 16,000
trained men and a unit called Palmach, which was full-time force, numbering
about 6,000. The Irgun Zvai Leumi grew out of the Haganah and its Palmach
branch in 1933, since it was not ready to obey the Jewish Agency, which
sought to dilute the terror of the Haganah in order not to lose its
respectability. The Irgun included between 3,000 and 5,000 armed terrorists,
and. In 1939, one of Irgun's commanding officers, Abraham Stern, left the
parent organization and formed the Stern Gang, numbering some 200 to 300
dangerous fanatics.
Those terrorist organizations committed systematic massacres against the
Palestinians, after the U.N partition plan of 1947 and till the end of the
British Mandate on May 14, 1948, starting with a massacre in the village of
Sheikh Breik in 1947 then:
CITY/ TOWN/ VILLAGE DISTRICT DATE (1948)
Mansurat al Khayt Safad 18 Jan.
Qisarya Haifa 15 Feb.
Wadi 'Ara Jenin/Haifa 27 Feb.
Abu Kbeir Jaffa 31 Mar. Dayr Yassin *
Jerusalem 09Apr.
Nasir ad Din, Khirbet Tiberias 12 Apr.
Hawsha Haifa 15 Apr.
Wa'ra al-Sawada, Khirbet Tiberias 18 Apr.
Husayniyya Safad 21 Apr.
Haifa Haifa 21 Apr.
Balad ash Sheikh Haifa (01 Jan.) 25 Apr.
Ayn az Zaytun Safad 02 May
al 'Abbasiyya Jaffa 04 May
Bayt Daras Gaza 11 May
Burayr Gaza 12 May
Khubbayza Haifa 12 May
Abu Shusha Al-Ramla 14 May
al Tantoura Haifa 21 May
al Kabri Acre 21 May
al Khisas Safad 25 May
Qazaza Al-Ramla 09 Jul.
Lydda Al-Ramla 10 Jul.
al Tira Haifa 16 Jul.
Ijzim Haifa 24 Jul.
Beer Sheba Beer Sheba 21 Oct.
Safsaf Safad 29 Oct.
al Dawayima Hebron 29 Oct.
Eilaboun Acre 29 Oct.
Jish Acre 29 Oct.
Majd al Kurum Acre 29 Oct.
Arab al Samniyya Acre 30 Oct.
Saliha Safad (15 Feb.) 30 Oct.
Sa'sa' Safad 30 Oct.
The Dayr Yassin massacre and the terror that seized the Palestinian people in
its wake marked the beginning of the depopulation of over 500 villages and
the uprooting of approximately 750,000 Palestinians, nearly half of the
Palestinian population, which marked the onset of the plight of the
Palestinian refugees.
Since Al-Nakba, the Palestinian People have endured immeasurable loss and
suffering in their continuing plight for the realization of their inalienable
human rights. Such tragedies are an indelible part of the Palestinians'
national identity and history.
The Israeli forces started by slaughtering people, dispossessing population,
burning farms and houses, destroying infrastructures, and poisoning wells
with Typhus and Cholera, as they did in Lydda and Ramleh. They kept on
committing massacres against the Palestinians in the 1948 and the 1967 areas,
such as Qibya (53), Kufr Qasem (56), Qalqelia (56), Khan Younis (56,67), Gaza
(56,87), Al Sammu' (66), The Galilee (76), Al Khalil Univ. (85), Ayoun Qara
(89), Nahalin (89), Al Haram Al Sharif in Jerusalem (90), Al Haram Al
Ibrahimi in Hebron (94), and Sabra and Shatilla Palestinian refugee camps in
September 82 in Lebanon, and many others. While at the same time the Israeli
forces are still closing Palestinian areas, imposing curfews, breaking
children's bones, poisoning and sterilizing school girls in the Palestinian
cities, injecting the Palestinian babies with AIDS virus, and many other
inhuman holocaust types of methods.
THE ISRAELI'S TERROR AGAINST OTHER ARAB COUNTRIES AND PEOPLE
Since 1948, and after the establishment of the Zionist State, the Israeli
military forces have occupied more Arab territories. Israel used terrorism
and massive bombing of the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, Jordan, and
Syria to destroy the Palestinian people and eradicate their political
leadership in exile. Also the Israelis have extended their bombings and air
raids to reach other Arab civilians, cities, towns and installations. In
addition the Israeli secret forces (Mossad) committed viscous crimes, by
bombing synagogues in Iraq to cause fear among the Jewish Arabs in the late
Forties and early Fifties to force their immigration to the newly formed
Zionist state. It also planted several explosives at public places, and at
the British and American Cultural offices in Cairo and Alexandria, in the
1954, to aggravate the British and the Americans against the newly formed
Egyptian revolutionary republic.
In June 1948, the Zionists started by gathering the Syrian and Egyptian
farmers of Jaffa, and shot them all in cold blood. And since then, the
Israelis kept committing deliberate criminal and terrorist acts against other
Arabs whether by killing the Egyptian prisoners of the 1956, 1967 and the
1973 wars - in violation of the Geneva Conventions -, or by terrorizing the
Arab civilians. Such as the shelling of Al Salt in Jordan (67). Launching
bombing air raids at Al Ghouta area in the suburbs of Damascus, Syria (68).
Killing the students at Bahr Al Baqar school (68), and the laborers at Abu
Za'bal factory (69) in Egypt. Raiding and bombing the Iraqi civilian nuclear
installation near Baghdad (85). Landing and shelling of the Hammam Al Shat
suburb in Tunisia (87,89). Bombing the Libyan civilian airline (73) when 105
passengers were killed. Staging a raid of blasting the planes standing at the
Beirut International Airport (68), and the continuous shelling of the
Lebanese main cities of Beirut, Tripoli, Sidon, and Sour (Tyre), and the
weekly bombing of the towns and villages of the South and the Bikaa valley
and the UN camps such as in Qana (96). Bombing Lebanese power plants and Infra-Structure (96,99,2000)
Other forms of the Israeli terrorism in the past years are:
THE ISRAEL'S POLITICAL ASSASSINATIONS
Israel has a very dark record of full engagement in the practice of political
assassination. Even at the establishment of the state, Zionist terrorist
groups assassinated the United Nations Mediator for Palestine, Count Folk
Bernadotte, at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. In fact, it has been the
established policy of successive Israeli governments to plot and carry out
the assassinations of Israel's purported enemies. The Israeli agents involved
in such physical elimination of enemies operate practically allover the
world. The Palestinian side has always maintained that Israel is directly
responsible for the murders of many Palestinian leaders belonging to the
Palestine Liberation Organization.
Despite the fact that the Israeli Political assassination has been common
knowledge, Israel has maintained a policy of silence without claiming
responsibility for such abhorrent behavior. The current situation has
reflected change in this regard, with some Israeli leaders boasting about
this policy and practice. In 1998 for example, Ariel Sharon, the Minister of
Infrastructure in the Israeli government, explicitly stated that Israel would
eventually assassinate Khaled Meshal. Another example is that of former
Mossad Chief Isser Harel, who has admitted that on several occasions, Cabinet
ministers and other intelligence agents, encouraged him to have Israeli
traitors and spies killed.
Furthermore, a recent article, written by Yossi Melman, an Israeli journalist
covering intelligence issues for the newspaper Ha'aretz. , and published in
the op-ed section of The New York Times on 25 March 1998, detailed many of
the assassinations, attributed to Israel and its Mossad agents, including
those of German scientists who were employed by Arab countries to manufacture
weapons. The article also mentioned many plotted and failed assassination
attempts by Israel, particularly against Arafat.
A LIST OF THE ISRAELI'S POLITICAL ASSASSINATIONS
NAME DATE PLACE
Ghassan Kanafani 1972 Beirut
Wail Zuaiter 1972 Rome
Mahmoud Al Hamshari 1972 Paris
Hussein AbulKhair 1973 Nicosia
Basel Kubaissy (Iraqi) 1973 Paris
Mohammad Yousef AlNajjar* 1973 Beirut
Kamal Adwan* 1973 Beirut
Kamal Naser* 1973 Beirut
Nada Yashruti 1973 Beirut
Mohammad BouDaiah(Algerian1973 Paris
Ahmed BouChiki (Tunisian) 1973 Oslo
Abdel Rahman Saleh 1973 Copenhagen
Hamdi Rahmeh 1975 Beirut
Mahmoud Saleh 1977 Paris
Ali Naser Yassin 1978 Kuwait
Ali Salameh 1979 Beirut
Zuhair Muhsen 1979 Cannes
Samir Touqan 1979 Paris
Yousef Mubarak 1980 Nicosia
Naim Khader 1980 Brussels
Majed Abu Sharar 1981 Rome
Abdul Wahab AlKayyli 1981 Beirut
Hussein Kamal 1982 Rome
Mohammad Qadoumi 1982 Paris
Sa'ad Sayel 1982 Beirut
Suhail Abul Kul 1982 Nicosia
Tawfik AlSafadi 1983 Nicosia
Mamoun Mreish 1983 Amman
Ismail Darwish 1984 Paris
Hanna Muqbil 1984 Nicosia
Fahed AlQuasmeh 1984 Amman
Alex Odeh 1985 California
Khaled Nazzal 1986 Athens
Munther Abu Ghazaleh 1986 Athens
Thafer Al Masri 1986 Nablus
Naji AlAli 1987 London
Marwan Kayyali 1988 Nicosia
Mohammad Hassan AlBuhaisy 1988 Nicosia
Mohammed Basem Sultan 1988 Nicosia
Khalil AlWazir 1988 Tunis
Atef Bseisso 1989 Paris
Abbas Musawi (Lebanese)* 1992 S.Lebanon
Imad Aqel 1993 Gaza
AbdulMuniem Abu Hamid 1994 Al Ram
Hani Abed 1994 W.Bank
Mahmud el Khawaja 1995 Gaza
Yahia Ayash 1996 Gaza
Fathi AlShiqaqi 1996 Malta
Muhieddin AlSharief 1998 Gaza
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