On July 26, Ali Abunimah of electronicIntifada.net and electronicLebanon.net appeared on “Flashpoints” on Berkeley’s Pacifica affiliate, KPFA, interviewed by Flashpoints host Dennis Bernstein. Abunimah discussed the “pre-planned failure of diplomacy” in Lebanon, as reports of a “breakdown of diplomacy in Rome” are heard. Also featured on this episode of Flashpoints is Bilal El-Amine, the former editor of Left Turn magazine now on the ground in Southern Lebanon, providing frontline news and reports. “Flashpoints” is KPFA’s daily newsmagazine, regularly featuring voices of resistance, education and information from around the world. Read more about EI discusses "diplomacy" in Lebanon on Flashpoints
On July 23, EI’s Laurie King-Irani appeared on “Cross Country Checkup,” a weekly show on CBC. Focusing weekly on an issue of importance, the show aims to “take the pulse” of the Canadian public about that issue. The July 23 episode was hosted by guest host Nancy Wood, entitled: “What do you think of Canada’s response to the crisis in Lebanon?” Wood introduced the week’s show with an overview of the aftermath of the beginning of the Israeli attack on Lebanon: “This week many of us were glued to the drama developing in Lebanon. Thousands of Canadian citizens tried to flee hostilities that broke out the previous week..” Read more about EI's Laurie King-Irani on CBC discussing Canada and Lebanon
You too can be a wartime news editor. With the ubiquity of streaming video on the Internet and advances in search engines, RSS and self-publishing tools, anyone can bypass the editorial hierarchies of Western news organizations and assemble a personal newscast of the Israeli-Hezbollah war. You can pick and choose from multiple news sources as a way to confirm your own point of view. Or you can access the many other points of view regarding a complex and deadly conflict. The point is that watching the war on the Web can give you a very different — and potentially more complete — picture of the conflict and its causes than if you rely on any one news source or perspective. Read more about How to Watch the War on the Web
To the world, Israel left Gaza. To the Palestinians, Israel still occupies Gaza but from outside, turning Gaza into an open-air prison. Israel claims it is seeking peace. Yet, behind that PR image, Israel is engaged in Arab home demolitions, torture, imprisonment of Arabs without charge or trial, land grabbing and illegal Jewish-only settlements connected to Israel with Jewish-only bypass roads slicing Arab land into Bantustans. We hear Israel condemning terrorism, but Palestinians see them openly revere, celebrate and reward Israeli terrorists. To see beyond the false image that Israel portrays on the world stage, please read the eyewitness accounts and articles on www.electronicintifada.net. Read more about Fighting for survival, not hatred of Jews
The conflict between Israel and Hezbollah (and Hamas) targets mainly innocent civilians in Lebanon, Israel and the Palestinian territories. News about this conflict comes primarily from Israel or the West but on the web you can find alternative news sources. The English language news site The Electronic Intifada (EI) reports from a Palestinian perspective, albeit in an objective manner. Often EI is faster than established mainstream media. Last week, when no one knew, they reported that Westerners have been denied access to the Palestinian territories. The editors live in various places in the world and receive news from correspondents on the ground. Read more about Web preference: e-Intifada
Israel’s bombardment of Lebanon has entered its sixth day and the Lebanese death toll has now topped 150: almost all of them civilians. Meanwhile, Hezbollah is continuing to fire rockets at northern Israel. On Sunday, a missile hit Haifa, Israel’s third largest city. The Israeli death toll since now stands at around 24. We go to Lebanon to get a report. First we go to Northern Lebanon to speak with Rania Masri, assistant professor in the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Balamand in Lebanon, assistant director of the Institute for Environmental Studies at that university. Welcome to Democracy Now!, Rania Masri. Read more about Live from Lebanon: Rania Masri on Democracy Now!
“LIVE blogging” from the warzone emerged as the key weapon in the “electronic intifada” that erupted in Lebanon as Israel bombarded the country. In Beirut, residents were counting down the clock until today -the point at which Lebanese bloggers such as Hanady figured the last foreigners would have been evacuated. “By Saturday, there will only be those who have nowhere else to go,” he wrote. Beirut blogger Mazen Kerbaj created a more surreal piece of reportage: a music track using samples of Israeli attacks. “I recorded two hours of bombs + trumpet from my balcony yesterday night,” he wrote. Read more about "Live blogging" from the warzone
Even stories about the evacuation of Westerners from Lebanon have drawn partisan fire. Electronic Intifada, a Web site that “strives to bring the Palestinian narrative front and center,” says: “On Tuesday, when at least 35 Lebanese were killed … we had the BBC’s Ben Brown in Beirut giving a blow-by-blow account of every facet of the evacuation of foreign nationals in general and British nationals in particular. If anyone doubted the racism of our Western media, here it was proudly on display. Lebanese and Palestinian civilians die unnoticed by the Western media while we learn of onboard sleeping arrangements on the ship bound for Cyprus.” Read more about A War Between Neighbors, Seen From Their Back Yard
From an unscientific survey, the better blogs seem to include Beirut Spring and From Beirut to the Beltway. The Angry Arab News Service offers less polemical content than its name would suggest, though the especially disturbing pictures of children killed in recent bombings do inspire anger, among other emotions. The Electronic Intifada is a good portal for news, commentary, analysis, and reference materials about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a Palestinian perspective. Since Israel’s attack on Lebanon began, the site has posted 112 articles from the ground on the conflict while continuing to keep track of simultaneous Israeli aggression in Gaza. And check out Electronic Lebanon, a new section of the site devoted exclusively to the new (but old) Israeli invasion. Read more about Mideast News: Beyond the Mainstream
EI’s Ali Abunimah appeared on “Beneath the Surface with Jerry Quickley” on Wednesday, July 19th, to discuss the Israeli attacks on Lebanon. By the 19th of July, Israeli attacks had killed over 200 Lebanese and destroyed large amounts of Lebanese infrastructure, including the airport, the port, and bridges and roads throughout Lebanon. “Beneath the Surface with Jerry Quickley” airs Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 5 PM - 6 PM on KPFK, the Pacifica Radio outlet in Los Angeles. Jerry Quickley, the show’s host, is one of the most well known and well regarded performance poets in the United States. Read more about EI's Ali Abunimah appears on KPFK discussing Lebanon
