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Sunday, 7 September, 2008 http://yalibnan.com/site/archives/2008/09/un_chief_to_dem.php Beirut- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will demand that Israel pay Lebanon $1 billion in compensation for damages caused during Israel’s 2006 war against Hezbollah , according to reports by 2 Israeli newspapers (Israel national news and Haaretz ) that quoted Lebanese media reports. environmental and material damages...
Jerusalem - Itzhak Rachmo had one word to describe a threatened Lebanese lawsuit against Israeli hummus sellers. “Bull”. As a long queue of hungry clients formed at the counter for their staple Friday lunch, he clutched his forearm and declared: “There is hummus flowing through these veins.” This week the Association of Lebanese Industrialists said it [...]
LEBANON The latest conflict cooking between Lebanon and Israel is all about food: Lebanese businessmen are accusing Israel of stealing traditionally Middle Eastern dishes s
LEBANON The latest conflict cooking between Lebanon and Israel is all about food: Lebanese businessmen are accusing Israel of stealing traditionally Middle Eastern dishes s
The lowly chickpea a staple of Middle Eastern cooks has become the subject of a heated battle between Lebanese foodies who claim hummus and falafel as their own and Israeli companies marketing the dishes with great success in European shops.
Lebanon: The government says it will complain to the UN about Israeli threats to destroy Lebanese villages if they are used to fire missiles on Israel.
JERUSALEM, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- A Lebanese business group plans to sue Israel in an international court, claiming its neighbor has stolen foods that are not its own, like hummus and felafel. The Association of Lebanese Industrialists say that Israel, by marketing its own brands of the traditional dishes, is costing its members millions of dollars a year, The Independent reported. The action does have...
A survey of 1,025 children across Lebanon has found that over 15 percent of those polled experienced some form of sexual abuse before or after the 2006 summer war with Israel. Most of these abuses, according to the study, occurred in the child's own home.
Wow, I'm getting ripped off by the big guys now! An October 7th article in The Guardian is eerily similar to my October 5th posting about Lebanon wanting to sue Israel over hummus and other foods. In general, I wouldn't think so - Israeli media picked up on the story on Monday - but the reporter, Jenny Percival , not only copies my research on the history of those dishes, but she even links to the...
In a sign of immense progress towards the peaceful resolution of differences in the Middle East, the Industrialists Association of Lebanon is contemplating filing an international lawsuit against Israel for violating a food copyright: The Lebanese claim is that Israel markets original Lebanese food like tabouleh, kubbeh, hummus, falafel and fattoush which the Lebanese considered their trademarks prior...
Fadi Abboud of the Lebanese Industrialists Association says the popular chickpea dip as well as dishes such as falafel, baba ghannouj and tabbouleh belong to Lebanon, not Israel. So his organization is planning to sue the Israelis for food copyright infringement , modeling their case after Greece’s successful branding of feta cheese . Will it work? Everyone makes hummus in the Middle East (and even...
The Muslims in and around Israel showed the famous Muslim respect for other religions, in only the way they can. First, Syria has moved thousands of soldiers to its border with Lebanon. So it’s no surprise that the IDF scrambled jets as an unidentified aircraft approached Israel’s northern border. Inside Israel, we had Arab “youths” racing their [...]
If you care, here is a list of articles written by Kyle-Anne Shiver of Atlanta regarding her thoughts on Obama - Go here for the complete list of articles with links: http://www.kyleanneshiver.com/2008/10/09/obama-review-copy-paste-these-links-forward/ . N Korea agrees to de-nuke for being taken off "Evil" list? Are they playing us like a fiddle again? I wrote they were once before. (See 1 below.)...
Foreign Policy blog : Lebanon plans to charge Israel with violating a food copyright by marketing provisions such as hummus and falafel as Israeli, Fadi Abboud, the president of the Lebanese Industrialists Association announced Monday. Abboud contends that these foods are historically Lebanese, and that Israel's appropriation of them has cost the Levantine country profits "estimated at tens of millions...
