1. Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1983
   Fredy Perlman tells how encounters with racism in Central Europe, Bolivia and the U.S. heightened his perception and prepared him to denounce "American cheerleaders of Israel." He is astounded that potential victims of Nazi extermination camps can accept, even support, Israeli massacres of Palestinian refugees.
2. Binge and Hangover
   Against The Current vol. 124
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2006
   The lords of empire set out to show that the United States, not Iran or any other potential rival, will rule the "new" Middle East. Unable to attack Iran directly, however, they instead employed the willing regional branch office of the U.S. military-industrial complex, the Israeli Defense Force, to destroy Lebanon. A war that began as a triumphal imperial binge has ended, at least as of August 14 if the fragile ceasefire holds, with uncertainty and a hangover. (The ceasefire's fate, following the failed Israeli commando raid in the Bekaa Valley, is uncertain as we go to press.)
3. Buda's Wagon
   A Brief History of the Car Bomb
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2007
   Mike Davis traces the car bomb's worldwide use and development. In his analysis, he also exposes the role of state intelligence agencies - particularly those of the United States, Israel, India, and Pakistan - in globalizing urban terrorist techniques
4. Countering Zionist propaganda about Hizbullah and Lebanon 
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2006
   Nothing will change until the people of Palestine, Arabs and Jews, rise up to change the rules of the game, and rebuild the country on a new basis that respects democracy and human rights and good-neighbourly relations.
5. The Danger in Lebanon
   Against The Current vol. 120
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2006
   The assasination [of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri] resulted in the intensification of the campaign by the USA and France against the Syrian presence and influence in Lebanon. This pressure was able to base itself on the mass mobilization inside Lebanon, which forced the withdrawal of Syrian troops.
6. Embassy Row Online
   Resource Type: Website
   Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
7. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2007
   Israelo historian Ilan Pappe recounts the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Israel during the war of 1948.
8. Hegemony or Survival 
   America's Quest for Global Dominance
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2003   Published: 2004
   Chomsky documents how, for more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of dominating the globe.
9. Hezbollah, Hamas and Israel: Everything You Need To Know 
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2006
   We are supposed to think that the current crisis in the Middle East has no historical roots.
10. Hizballah Through the Fog of War
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    An interview with Middle East specialist Augustus Richard Norton on the nature of the Lebanese-based Hezbollah group, in which he attempts to dispel some of the shibboleths that hamper Western understanding of its aims and design.
11. Inside Lebanon
    Journey to a Shattered Land with Noam and Carol Chomsky
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Documents Noam and Carol Chomsky's journey and situates it within the tragically altered context of Lebanon and Palestine before and after the war of 2006.
12. Israel, Lebanon and Torture
    Against The Current vol. 125
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    An interview with Marty Rosenbluth. Marty Rosenbluth is Amnesty International’s country specialist for Israel, the Occupied Territories and the Palestinian Authority.
13. Israel/Lebanon: Deliberate destruction or "collateral damage"?
    Israeli attacks on civilian infrastructure
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Amnesty International calls for the immediate establishment of a comprehensive, independent and impartial inquiry into violations of international humanitarian law by both Hizbullah and Israel in the conflict. The inquiry should examine in particular the impact of this conflict on the civilian population. It should propose effective measures to hold accountable those responsible for crimes under international law, and to ensure that the victims receive full reparation.
14. Israel, Lebanon, and the "Peace Process"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    Chomsky illustrates the position of Lebanon amidst the conflicts and interventions belonging to the Israel-Arab contention.
15. Israeli Army Admits Tweeted Hezbollah Map Actually Fake
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    The Israeli media has been forced to admit a map purported to contain information on Hezbollah positions, distributed to foreign diplomats and on twitter, is a fabrication.
16. The Israeli War Crime That Goes Unmentioned
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Here set out in black and white in the Israeli media is a moral conundrum that western politicians, diplomats and international human rights organisations are resolutely failing to address -- and one I have been highlighting since 2006.
17. Israel's attack on the UN post in Lebanon
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Israel's leaders could care less about world outrage. Israel's superpower patron, the United States, supports everything Israel does and keeps supplying money and arms, while the U.S. and Canadian media provide uncritical support.
18. Leader and Vassal
    Bringing Death and Destruction to Muslims
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Americans do not think of themselves or of Israel as terrorist states, but the evidence is complete and overwhelming. Thanks to the power of the Israel Lobby, Americans only know the Israeli side of the story, which is that evil anti-semite Palestinians will not let blameless Israelis live in peace and persist in their unjustified terror attacks on an innocent Israeli state.
    
19. Lebanon
    Dynamics of Conflict
    Resource Type: Book
    In this clear delineation of the major forces at work in Lebanon, the author unravels the causes of the 1975-76 Civil War and relates them to subsequent events, including the Israeli invasion and its aftermath. Rejecting simplistic notions like 'Muslim vs. Christian,' he examines the complex contending forces, and the economic and political underpinnings which have given rise to them.
20. The Lessons of Lebanon
    Against The Current vol. 124
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    So what has happened to the Israeli army? This question is now being raised not only around the world, but also in Israel itself. Clearly, there is a huge gap between the army's boastful arrogance, on which generations of Israelis have grown up, and the picture presented by this war.
21. Letter to Palestinian and Lebanese filmmakers from Israeli filmmakers
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    We unequivocally oppose the brutality and cruelty of Israeli policy.
22. Letters from Lexington
    Reflections on Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    
23. Manufacturing Consent 
    The Political Economy of the Mass Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
24. The Massacre
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1982
    All other news, all other concerns, fade into insignificance beside the enormous horror of the massacre in Beirut. All humanity is outraged at the wanton slaughter of hundreds of men (mainly elderly), women, and children in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila. The days of the massacre -- September 16 to 18 -- shall truly live in infamy.
25. The Middle East in Flames
    Against The Current vol. 124
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Andrew Kennedy and Suzi Weismann Interview Gilbert Achcar. Gilbert Achcar is the author of Eastern Cauldron and The Clash of Barbarisms, both published by Monthly Review Press.
26. My War Diary
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    In this passionate and humane diary, Dov Yermiya, a lieutenant colonel in the Israeli Defense Forces, provides eyewitness accounts of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
27. Necessary Illusions 
    Thought Control in Democratic Societies
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1991
    An inquiry into the nature of the media and the role of intellectuals in "a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force, and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control."
28. On the US-Israeli Invasion of Lebanon
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    The supposed justifications for the invasion are a cynical fraud.
29. Palestine Peace Not Apartheid
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    Former U.S. President Carter calls Israel's treatment of Palestinians 'apartheid' and identifies continuing Israeli control of the occupied territories as the primary obstacle to peace.
30. Press for Conversion #51
    May 2003
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2003
    Why is the U.S. government reviled by so many people in the Middle East and North Africa? This issue looks at the past 50 years of wars and regime changes in the region and unveils a consistent pattern of U.S. involvement.
31. Pro-Israel stance reeks of double standards and historical amnesia
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Israel bombs, terrorizes and kills as it pleases, on a daily basis, and the media praise it for its restraint.
32. The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    a collection of short commentaries by Noam Chomsky on global issues, drawn from interviews in the early 1990s. Topics include global economics, racism, NAFTA, and hot topics of the day.
33. Quo Vadis, Lebanon?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Some Lebanese call what is happening on the streets of Beirut, Tripoli and other cities, an "October Revolution", but in reality, this uprising has very little to do with the iconic Russian Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.
34. Radical Digressions 3
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2001   Published: 2006
    
35. A Range of Abuses
    The Invisible Deaths of Lebanon's Migrant Domestic Workers
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Migrant domestic workers generally get very little protection from the Lebanese government and remain under-reported in the media, while the deaths of these workers are rarely discussed in the news. Despite the high incidence, domestic workers’ deaths are not investigated or documented by the Lebanese authorities.
36. The real aim of Israel's attacks on Lebanon
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    The real aim is to change the regime in Lebanon and to install a puppet government.
37. Shame on you, Mr. Harper
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Open letter initiated by members of Shalom-Salaam, a Jewish-Arab Montreal dialogue group.
38. Shatila: Remembering the Massacre
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Shatila is probably the most well-known of all the Palestinian refugee camps. In September of 1982, a local Christian militia, known as the Phalange, aided by its Israeli allies, entered Shatila and bordering Sabra, engaging in an orgy of torturing and killing that lasted several days.
39. Six Questions for Augustus Richard Norton on Lebanon
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Questions concerning the 2006 abduction of Israelis to trade for Lebanese prisoners being held in Israeli prisons.
40. Stop That Shit
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Whoever longs for a solution must know: there is no solution without settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
41. Technocracy now: The US is working to turn Lebanons anti-corruption protests against Hezbollah
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    The movement was spurred by the levying of regressive taxes and the persistence of a corrupt neoliberal order that has mismanaged the economy and hollowed out the public sector while enriching a handful of elites amid a looming economic collapse. Though the protests remain focused on class issues and corruption, the US is increasingly determined to co-opt the movement for its own goals.
42. Towards a New Cold War
    Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    A sobering assessment of American foreign policy from the end of the Vietnam era to Ronald Reagan.
43. Waltz with Bashir
    A Lebanon War Story
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    A graphic novel depicting an Israeli soldier's experience during Israel's war in Lebanon. See also the film with the same name.
44. War Against the People
    Israel, The Palestinians and Global Pacification
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    Governments today are waging a 'war against the people' -- whether 'securitization' against asylum seekers in Fortress Europe, 'counterinsurgency' in Afghanisation, or the subliminal war of policy and surveillance arising everywhere. Israel's contribution to this is key: exporting the high-tech weaponry, security systrems and methods of pacification perfected on the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories.
45. War Crimes Airbrushed from History
    Evidence of Israeli "Cowardly Blending" Comes to Light
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    A report written by a respected Israeli human rights organisation, one representing the country's Arab minority not its Jewish majority, has unearthed evidence showing that during the 2006 Lenanon war Israel committed war crimes not only against Lebanese civilians -- as was already known -- but also against its own Arab citizens.
    
46. Why Do Jihadis Seem So Evil?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The day before the Paris carnage, two suicide bombers killed at least 40 people in a Shia district of Beirut. The week after, two suicide bombings of street markets in Nigeria killed 49 people. Faced with such atrocities, we can often do little but reach for adjectives such as 'barbarous', 'depraved', or even 'evil'. But what is it that makes people act in such depraved, evil ways?

Experts on Liban in the Sources Directory

1. La Francophonie
2. International Crisis Group
3. League of Arab States
4. United Nations