Lebanese Officials Say Jet Flew the Wrong Way Before Crash

Staff / Truthdig Jan 27, 2010 Despite being told to change course by air traffic controllers in Beirut, the pilot of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 that crashed Monday flew into the storm he was advised to avoid, Lebanese officials said Tuesday. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

90 Feared Dead in Lebanon Plane Crash

Staff / Truthdig Jan 25, 2010 An Ethiopian Airlines plane carrying 90 passengers and crew crashed off the coast of Lebanon on Monday. The aircraft, which took off in a severe storm, was seen on fire before it went down. The cause of the crash is officially unknown, but Lebanese officials discounted the possibility of sabotage. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

War Looms Between Israel and Hezbollah

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Jan 23, 2010 It looks like a hop, skip and a jump There's the first electrified fence, then the dirt strip to identify footprints, then the tarmac road, then one more electrified fence, and then acres and acres of trees Orchards rather than tanks Galilee spreads beyond, soft and moist and dark green in the winter afternoon -- a peaceful Israel, you might think. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Lebanese Rappers Make Their Case for Peace

Staff / Truthdig Dec 18, 2009 Young hip-hop artists in Lebanon are using their music to deal with their lives in the wake of years of violence, reaching across religious and sectarian divisions and promoting nonviolence, and they've joined forces with pro-peace organizations while they're at it. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

How the Anti-Semites of Hezbollah Have Sent Anne Frank Back Into Hiding

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Dec 5, 2009 "This young woman who upsets people " was the headline in Lebanon's L'Orient Littáraire yesterday The teenager was Anne Frank, who died of typhoid at Bergen-Belsen in 1945 after being betrayed to the Nazi authorities, along with her family, in her Amsterdam "safe house"The Jewish Holocaust is not a subject which Arabs have learned to live with. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

End of an Era for Lebanon’s Free Press

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Oct 24, 2009 For decades, Lebanese journalism has been applauded as the freest, most outspoken and most literate in the heavily censored Arab world Alas, no more The Lebanese media are being hit – like the rest of the world – by the Internet and falling advertising revenues But this is Lebanon, where politics is always involved Is something rotten in the state of the Lebanese press? For decades, Lebanese journalism has been applauded as the freest, most outspoken and most literate in the heavily censored Arab world . Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

‘Lebanon’s Madoff’ Goes Bankrupt After Bouncing Check to Hezbollah

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Sep 8, 2009 Everyone trusted Salah Ezzedine. A billionaire Shiite Muslim businessman and financier from southern Lebanon, he organized pilgrimages to Mecca, ran a major Beirut publishing house and a children's television station, held major investments in east European oil and iron conglomerates and -- much more to the point -- was a close personal friend of very senior leaders of Hezbollah. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Lessons in Justice in the Middle East

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Jul 27, 2009 Let us now praise famous men and their fathers that begat them. The famous man -- he should be much more famous -- is the Israeli historian Avi Shlaim whose wonderful "reappraisals, revisions and refutations" is coming out in September under the simple title: "Israel and Palestine."Writers like T.S. Eliot, Edward Said and Israeli historian Avi Shlaim know how to string words together, according to this author. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Human Rights Defenders Have It Tough in the Mideast

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Mar 22, 2009 Dr Salim el-Hoss is 80 now but remains a staunch defender of human rights and democracy, an opponent of the death penalty and an outspoken supporter of Palestinians. When I recommended to him a long article on American torture, he read it right through to the end and then put the paper down with a slap on his knee. "Terrible, terrible," he muttered. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

War Reporters Used to Prefer Morality Over Impartiality

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Feb 8, 2009 I wonder -- in an age when the BBC can refuse help to the suffering because of its "impartiality" -- whether we still report war with the same power and passion as the men and women of an earlier generation. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

‘Collateral Damage’ Not Much Different From Targeted Killing

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Oct 11, 2008 When U.S. troops massacre Iraqi civilians in Haditha because their buddy has been murdered, what is the difference between their revenge and that of Saddam? Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Did Hezbollah Win?

Staff / Truthdig Jul 20, 2008 Link TV's Mosaic Intelligence Report is back with an in-depth look at the recent prisoner swap between Lebanon and Israel, comparing and contrasting how the leaders and people of both nations viewed the exchange and investigating what it might mean for Hezbollah and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in particular. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )