Janine Bandcroft Goes to Under the Volcano
Aug. 8, 2010
http://previous.ncra.ca/exchange/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=101877
http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2010/08/20108975319492772.html
Sunday, August 08, 2010
How a Tree Can Start a War
Robert Fisk: UN: Israel was on its own side before border clash
Thursday, 5 August 2010
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-un-israel-was-on-its-own-side-before-border-clash-2043556.html
So was the tree inside Israel? The UN implies that the shrubbery that ultimately cost the lives of five men on Tuesday was on the Israeli side of the "Blue Line".
"Unifil established... that the trees being cut by the Israeli army are located south of the Blue Line on the Israeli side," said a Unifil military spokesman.
The tree was certainly north of Israel's own "technical fence". But the Lebanese have their doubts about some parts of the "Blue Line" – which is why Israel's attempt to cut down what appears to be a spruce tree started a gun battle on Tuesday on Lebanon's southern border which killed three Lebanese soldiers, a 55-year-old Lebanese journalist and an Israeli lieutenant-colonel. Along with the fact that Israel had apparently not co-ordinated its gardening expedition with the Lebanese via the UN.
Thursday, 5 August 2010
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-un-israel-was-on-its-own-side-before-border-clash-2043556.html
So was the tree inside Israel? The UN implies that the shrubbery that ultimately cost the lives of five men on Tuesday was on the Israeli side of the "Blue Line".
"Unifil established... that the trees being cut by the Israeli army are located south of the Blue Line on the Israeli side," said a Unifil military spokesman.
The tree was certainly north of Israel's own "technical fence". But the Lebanese have their doubts about some parts of the "Blue Line" – which is why Israel's attempt to cut down what appears to be a spruce tree started a gun battle on Tuesday on Lebanon's southern border which killed three Lebanese soldiers, a 55-year-old Lebanese journalist and an Israeli lieutenant-colonel. Along with the fact that Israel had apparently not co-ordinated its gardening expedition with the Lebanese via the UN.
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