Global Voices Online » Lebanon: Lebanese Bloggers React to Israe. Lebanese bloggers have offered a mixed reception to another Israeli film about the Jewish state's 1982 invasion of its northern neighbour. Conspicuously titled “Lebanon“, the autobiographical film is set entirely in a tank as it recounts the Israeli military's involvement in the conflict. “Lebanon” is the second Israeli autobiographical film depicting Israeli Defence Force (IDF) soldiers in action in the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990), only a year after the Israeli animation Waltz with Bashir was released.
Both films have attempted to highlight Рin the most gory and confronting fashion Рthe brutality and devastation of modern war. Due to the political sensitivity in Lebanon surrounding events of the civil war, the latest film was always going to arouse controversy and interest among the Lebanese. The film has received international acclaim after winning the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, but what do Lebanese think about it and its world fame? Guerre de Gaza : l'auteur du rapport de l'ONU d̩ment les critiq.
World | Middle East | Israel condemns UN's Gaza repor. Israel has strongly criticised a UN human rights report into alleged war crimes during the Gaza conflict. The report said both the Israeli army and Palestinian militants committed war crimes and possible crimes against humanity during fighting in January. The report "was flawed from A-to-Z", the UN panel was "biased" and some of its findings "ludicrous", said Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev. The report called for fresh war crimes inquiries under international scrutiny. It said Israel's "Operation Cast Lead", launched in response to militant rocket fire, used disproportionate firepower against the densely populated Gaza Strip and disregarded the likelihood of civilian deaths.
The militant group Hamas criticised parts of the report alleging it fired rockets at Israel without distinguishing between military targets and the civilian population. Intimidation Resistance Hamas officials welcomed the Goldstone report's unusually harsh condemnation of Israel, but rejected criticism of itself. Israel rejects war crimes findings of UN Gaza inquiry | World ne. Israel refused to accept the findings of a highly critical UN inquiry into the Gaza war and said today it would launch a diplomatic offensive to prevent any risk of prosecutions. No independent inquiry into the military's conduct during the war last January would be held, a clear rejection of one primary recommendation from the UN report. The inquiry, headed by a former South African judge, Richard Goldstone, delivered a detailed and damning criticism of the war, accusing both Israel and armed Palestinian groups, notably Hamas, of war crimes and possible crimes against humanity.
It was by far the most serious international inquiry into the three-week war, which left 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis dead and which triggered a wave of criticism across the world. "This report was conceived in sin and is the product of a union between propaganda and bias," said Mark Regev, spokesman for the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu. For its part, Hamas also rejected the criticism. Flash actu : ONU/Gaza: le Hamas veut un procès. Le mouvement islamiste Hamas a appelé la communauté internationale à traduire en justice les dirigeants israéliens pour crimes de guerre après la publication d'un rapport accablant d'une commission d'enquête de l'ONU sur l'offensive israélienne de l'hiver dernier à Gaza.
"Le rapport de l'ONU constitue une preuve irréfutable que l'occupant sioniste a commis des crimes contre l'humanité", a déclaré le porte-parole du Hamas, Fawzi Barhoum, dans un communiqué. "Après ce rapport explicite, la communauté internationale doit faire traduire les dirigeants de l'ennemi sioniste comme criminels de guerre devant la Cour pénale internationale", a-t-il ajouté. Le rapport, présenté mardi à New York par Richard Goldstone, le président de la mission du Conseil des droits de l'Homme de l'ONU chargée de l'enquête, accuse Israël, mais aussi des groupes armés palestiniens, d'avoir commis des crimes de guerre et peut-être de crimes contre l'humanité pendant la guerre.
Franco-British Boundary Agreement (1920) - Wikipedia, the free e. Borders in the region of the Sea of Galilee and Golan Heights, showing the Ottoman boundaries, the 1920 agreement and the 1923 agreement The Paulet-Newcombe Agreement or Paulet-Newcombe Line, also known as the Franco-British Boundary Agreements, were a sequence of agreements signed between 1920-23 between the British and French governments regarding the position and nature of the boundary between the Mandates of Palestine and Mesopotamia, attributed to Great Britain, and the Mandate of Syria and the Lebanon, attributed to France. The agreements fixed the line of the Syrian-Palestinian border (now the Syrian-Israeli border) between the Mediterranean Sea and the town of Al-Hamma.[1] The agreement takes its name from French Lieutenant Colonel N. Paulet and British Lieutenant Colonel S.
F. Newcombe, who were appointed to lead the Boundary Commission.[2] The commission submitted its final report on 3 February 1922, which included a number of amendments. Notes[edit] Bibliography[edit] "I have held barbecues at the Sea of Galilee …" Some of you have asked me to clarify this business of "10 metres of land separating Israelis and Syrians from peace" to which I alluded in my previous post . So here we go: In peace negotiations between Israel and Syria in Blair House, Washington ( December 1999 ) and in Shepherdstown, West Virginia ( January 2000 ), Israeli and Syrian negotiations were quite successful in resolving – I would say - more than 95 percent of their differences.
However, they have consistently failed to sort out one sticking point namely, the route of their future border. While the Israelis want it based on the 1923 internationally-recognised border , decided upon by the British (who ruled Palestine) and the French (who ruled Syria), the Syrians want it to be what they call the "4th June 1967 line" . As I said in my previous post, the distance between these two lines is neglible. So here we are – stuck because of a few, though critical, metres of land.