The Hezbollah and the Israeli attack
on southern Lebanon

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The history in general of Israeli aggression after 1967

The Qana Massacre

Deliberate Israeli bombing of civilian neighborhoods in Lebanon constitutes a war crime

Press release from Workers World publishers, 17 April 1996. The United States sends $7 million each day to Israel so that it can carry out the Pentagon's proxy wars against the oppressed people of the Middle East. Use the money for jobs at home, not Israeli aggression against Arab people.

Israel Out Of Lebanon! Stop The Bombing Now! Socialist Workers call for protests

Statement was issued by Socialist Workers Party candidates James Harris, for U.S. president, and Laura Garza, for vice president, 17 April 1996, in The Militant, 29 April 1996. The Socialist Workers campaign places the blame for the destruction and slaughter in Lebanon on those who systematically unleashed the terror, the Zionist masters of the colonial-settler state of Israel and its backers in Washington and other imperialist capitals.

Tel Aviv Launches Terror Campaign

By Brian Taylor, The Militant, 29 April 1996. Israel's Operation Grapes of Wrath is the latest act of aggression (including the massacre at Qana and massive civilian dislocation) and has been the most serious escalation by Israeli forces since 1993 and the first assault on the Lebanese capital, Beirut, since 1982.

Letter to the Editor of the The New York Times,

By Ronald Bleier, [7 May 1996] Israel—backed by the U.S. veto at the Security Council— will determine when to stop its barbarous shelling of Qana and cease forcing half a million people to leave their homes. The latest Israeli-U.S. proposals, calling on Hezbollah to stop its attacks in the Israeli held security zone ignore widespread Arab resistance to Israel's illegal occupation of 440 square miles of Southern Lebanon.

JCOME Press Release

By the Jewish Committee on the Middle East, 9 May 1996. The evidence is now overwhelming that Israel's unprecedented attack on the U.N. base at Qana in southern Lebanon last month was a deliberate act as the U.N. itself has recently concluded, and that the highest officials in Israel have purposefully tried to deceive the U.N. and lied to the world about what happened at Qana and why.

Massacre in Lebanon: Israelis knew, and U.S. knew they knew

By Hillel Cohen, Workers World, 16 May 1996. An Israeli artillery barrage on April 18 killed 102 Lebanese civilians in the UN peacekeeping encampment at Qana. The UN confirms that the attack was a deliberate move by the Israeli army. The UN General Assembly had already condemned Israel for the 16-day offensive in Lebanon, but that received little notice in the U.S. media.

Israel's Blitzkreig (excerpt)

By Alexander Cockburn, The Nation, 20 May 1996. Israeli onslaught on Lebanon ignored in US controlled press. The Hezbollah was represented as an Iran-backed, Syrian-manipulated terror gang. But in fact merely resisted an illegal Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon (the security zone). You would not know from the coverage that Hezbollah is a political party that has elected representatives in the Lebanese Parliament.

Qana massacre coverup successful

Mid-East Realities, 2 July 1996. The premeditated Qana massacre and the U.S./Israeli coverup. The political fall out for Peres. Attached is an article by Robert Fisk, The Independent, 1 June 1996 An Israeli army operation to plant booby-trap bombs inside the United Nations zone in southern Lebanon led to the Qana massacre last month in which well over 100 Lebanese civilians were killed by Israeli shells while sheltering in a UN base.

Documents subsequent to Qana

Smart missile scares Lebanon

By Robert Fisk, The Independent, 7 July 1998. Israel has introduced a new Spike guided anti-personnel rocket in occupied Lebanon. The Spike is believed to be made by the Israeli Raphael missile company, which has close technical and financial links with the US Lockheed company in Florida. It was previously used to assassinate political leaders.

The Landscape of Opposition

By Edward Said, [source unknown], [7 March 2001]. Israel's defeat in south Lebanon, its hasty withdrawal, and the still turbulent situation there requires sober analysis free of the distortions of the US media. Lebanon was never really about the defence of Israel's northern border, but originally to defeat the PLO and then to change Lebanon's political structure to Israel's advantage, and finally to pressure Syria into accepting its diktats.