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URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/lebanon-articles/attachments/20080901/0e741b33/attachment.htm From loai at MIT.EDU Sun Sep 7 22:49:42 2008 From: loai at MIT.EDU (Loai Naamani) Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 22:49:42 -0400 Subject: [LCM Articles] UN to demand Israel pay Lebanon $1 billion Message-ID: <017801c9115d$8c5018e0$a4f04aa0$@edu> http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506 ,L-3592764,00.html Report: UN to demand Israel pay Lebanon $1 billion Lebanese media say Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to instruct Israel to take responsibility for environmental damages caused by 2006 war, including oil spill following bombing of Beirut power plant Roee Nahmias UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will demand that Israel pay Lebanon $1 billion in compensation over damages caused during the Jewish state's 2006 war against Hizbullah, Lebanese media reported Saturday. According to the report, the sum, based on World Bank appraisals, is aimed at covering the environmental and material damages caused by the Second Lebanon War, to neighboring countries as well. The fundamental part of the compensation demanded is for the damage caused to the Lebanese coast due to an oil spill following an Israeli bombing of a southern Beirut power plant, which the Lebanese said had caused "an ecological disaster." According to the report, Ban plans to submit a report to the United Nations General Assembly at the end of the month, stating that damage Israel caused to the oil reservoir polluted Lebanon's coast, and that the pollution spread to neighboring countries, especially Syria. Ban further notes that the UN rehabilitation plan managed to clean some of the oil spill in several areas in northern Lebanon seashores. The oil spill, which was defined the greatest natural disaster in Lebanon's history, took place after Israel Air Force planes hit a power plant and caused some 110,000 oil barrels to leak into the Mediterranean Sea. The report said that the UN wants Israel to compensate the countries harmed by the oil spill and restore the environmental situation along the Lebanon coast. The Jewish state has yet to respond to the demand, despite messages conveyed in August 2007. About half a year ago, new agencies reported that the German government granted Lebanon 4.5 million euros (about $6.4 million) to help finance environmental projects and damage restoration activities following the war. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/lebanon-articles/attachments/20080907/c687fd72/attachment.htm From nunu_net at yahoo.com Wed Sep 10 14:42:57 2008 From: nunu_net at yahoo.com (Noreen Hafez) Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:42:57 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [LCM Articles] Al-Kindi Ensemble & the Whirling Derviches Concert Tickets! Message-ID: <532605.64148.qm@web54602.mail.re2.yahoo.com> To anyone interested...see attached. http://www.cacboston.org/ ? ? New Special Priced Tickets!!** This?is an event you absolutely cannot miss!! ? Seats are Limited, Purchase Tickets online at www.cacboston.org ? **Please note that tickets will not be sold at the door** **Part of ticket sale proceeds will go to ?The Center of Arabic Culture's fundraising efforts ? ? Learn more about Al-Kindi Music ? Al-Kindi troupe brings tradition back to Baalbeck The Daily Star - Lebanon - August 21, 2000 ? Masters of oriental music bring a close to this year's festival An evening of religious and secular music by the Ensemble Al-Kind? entranced and invigorated audience members to mark the last performance of this year's Baalbeck Festival. ? Sitting amongst a lavishly decorated stage, draped in oriental rugs, the ensemble played two sets for a total of two and a half hour. Watching the rigid, technical expertise of French-born Julien Weiss on the qanoun contributed to the trance-like atmosphere even more so than the chanting of the vocalists... ?Weiss demonstrated he is the ensemble's leader not only in name as his performance on the qanoun established the pace and direction of most songs... ?Sarmini demonstrated why he's considered by many to be one of the most talented singers in Syria. Timothy Homan ? ? More Al-Kindi Press Quotes.. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Arazi, a leader of Lebanon's tiny Jewish community, sees the incident as a lesson in the Arab country's tradition of tolerance. Now he is trying to make use of that tradition, along with the global diaspora of Lebanese Jews, in a drive to rebuild Beirut's only synagogue, damaged during the war. ``Those who don't have a past don't have a future,'' Arazi said to explain his push to rebuild the synagogue. Beirut's Maghen Abraham Synagogue opened in 1926 in Wadi Abou Jmil, the city's Jewish quarter, located on the edge of west Beirut near the Grand Serai palace, where the government meets, and within walking distance of parliament. Lebanon then was something of a haven for Jews, some of whom were the descendants of those who had fled the Spanish inquisition; it later served a similar role for refugees from Nazi Germany. With ``no history of anti-Jewish tensions,'' it was the only Arab country whose Jewish population rose after Israel's creation in 1948, according to Kirsten Schulze, a lecturer at the London School of Economics and author of ``The Jews of Lebanon.'' By the mid-1960s, there were as many as 22,000 Lebanese Jews, said Arazi, 65. In addition to heading the Jewish Community Council he owns a food-machinery business with 1,000 customers. All Together ``Christians, Muslims and Jews were all living together when I was growing up,'' said Liza Srour, 57. ``Whenever there was a war with Israel, or tension, the government used to provide protection for us.'' That changed with the nation's 1975-1990 civil war, as Jews fled the violence triggered by rivalries among the nation's Christian, Muslim and Druze factions and emigrated to Europe, North and South America. Now, Arazi said, only 100 Jews live permanently in the country, while another 1,900 go back and forth or have intermarried into other religions. Srour is the only Jew still residing in Wadi Abou Jmil. In 1982, according to an Associated Press report at the time, Israeli shells tore through roof of Maghen Abraham as the Jewish state invaded southern Lebanon in an effort to crush Palestinian guerrillas. The synagogue has been closed ever since, its brittle entrance gate chained and padlocked. Plaster and rubble are scattered on the floor. Political Calm Arazi figures it will cost about $1 million to restore the synagogue. Making the effort possible is the end of an 18-month crisis between Lebanon's political factions, the blessing of the Lebanese government, financial support from a downtown reconstruction project and acquiescence from the Shiite Hezbollah movement that fought a month-long war against Israel in 2006. He so far has raised about $40,000 for the project, but has promises of more. Ten percent of the estimated cost will come from Solidere SAL, a company founded in 1994 by then-Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri -- later assassinated in a bombing supporters blame on Syria -- to rebuild the capital's downtown. The company has given $150,000 to each of 14 religious organizations that are restoring places of worship in Lebanon -- about $2.1 million in all. ``We help all the communities,'' said Solidere chairman Nasser Chammaa. The Safra family, whose Safra Group includes Brazil's Banco Safra SA and Safra National Bank of New York and which was based in Lebanon in the 1940s as part of the Jewish community, has agreed to help fund the project once work begins, Arazi said. Financial Help Joseph R. Safra, nephew of Republic National Bank of New York founder Edmond Safra, said: ``We do not comment on private matters.'' Joseph Safra heads Arview Holdings, Inc., a New York financial-consulting and advisory firm. Two banks in Switzerland whose founders have Lebanese- Jewish roots also agreed to provide financing, Arazi said. One of the banks has pledged $100,000 toward the synagogue's restoration. Arazi declined to name the banks. Even the warring factions in Lebanon's government have blessed the project. ``This is a religious place of worship and its restoration is welcome,'' Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, 65, said in an interview. Hussain Rahal, a spokesman for Hezbollah, said his group -- which refuses to recognize Israel's right to exist, and which the West considers a terrorist organization -- also supports the restoration of Maghen Abraham. ``We respect the Jewish religion just like we do Christianity,'' he said. ``The Jews have always lived among us. We have an issue with Israel's occupation of land.'' Arazi said work on the restoration is to begin next month. Meanwhile, his council is already working on plans for its next project: restoring Beirut's Jewish cemetery, where about 4,500 people are buried. Walking among the weeds overgrowing the cemetery's tombstones, Arazi said: ``I remember my father when I come here.'' From jch at gulfairgroup.com Mon Sep 29 17:07:08 2008 From: jch at gulfairgroup.com (Johnny) Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:07:08 -0700 Subject: [LCM Articles] johnny chalita Message-ID: <0DE34131A2474650B74CAEBA1CB68A86@Johnny> TO:LEBANON-ARTICLES MY NEW E MAIL IS johnnychalita at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/lebanon-articles/attachments/20080929/6411bbad/attachment.htm