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Stop the War in Gaza too!

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

The guns have fallen silent in south Lebanon. A truce based on the 2006 agreement that ended the last war began this week following over a year of fighting between the Israeli aggressors and Hezbollah, the Lebanese resistance movement drawn from the Shia Muslim community in southern Lebanon. The truce, brokered by the Americans with French assistance, calls for the withdrawal of all Israeli troops and resistance fighters from southern Lebanon. Some 5,000 more regular Lebanese army troops will bolster the existing UN peace-keeping force, and the Americans will join the cease-fire monitoring process. And as thousands of Lebanese civilians pack the roads south to return to what’s left of their homes shattered by the fighting Hezbollah says it’s their victory not Israel’s. The Israelis have failed to crush the Lebanese resistance or set up a new Zionist “buffer-zone” in southern Lebanon.

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Palestinians need your support

by Theo Russell

Thousands of workers and students across the country in their workplaces, colleges, and communities, were demanding an immediate ceasefire and an end to Britain’s complicity in Israel’s crimes this week. And the week of action in solidarity with Palestine ended on Friday with an international day of solidarity that was endorsed by the TUC and Unison.

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Editorial

When the shooting stops…

Hezbollah has forced Israel to cease-fire – but not on Zionist terms. The Lebanese resistance movement has achieved a strategic success by thwarting the Zionist plans to drive the resistance and the UN peace-keeping force out of southern Lebanon and replace it with an Israeli-occupied “buffer zone” to pave the way for annexation.

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