Lebanese babies killed by Israel
The Angry Arab News ServiceI have just received these pictures from Hanady Salman, an editor at As-Safir, with this message: "Dear friends and colleagues , You will all have to excuse me for sending this. It's pictures of the bodies of babies killed by the israelis in South lebanon. They are all burnt. I need your help. I am almost certain these pictures won't be published in the West, although they are associated press pictures. I need your help exposing them if you can. The problem is these are people who were asked to leave their village , Ter Hafra , this morning , within two hours , or else. ... So those who were able to flee went to the closer UN base where they were asked to leave. I think that after the Qana massacres in 1996 when civilians were bombed after they took chelter in UN headquarters , the UN does not want to be responssible for the lives of civilians"....
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BAL-LA AL MOUSS
Malcom Lagauche...Just the other night, while talking to a friend about the resistance, he said, "Now I know what Saddam meant by 'the Mother of all Battles.’" In other words, the statement that Saddam Hussein made on January 17, 1991 did not apply solely to the battle that had just begun. The current phase of the Mother of all Battles is more than a population attempting to kick out unwanted invaders. It is a definitive battle in the history of the world against imperialism, ethnocentrism, and deceit. Look around and you will see there is support for the resistance all over the world. In Brazil, Iraqi resistance clubs have sprung up. There is even an Iraqi resistance comic book series. Go to google and input "Iraqi resistance" in the image portion of the search engine and you will see U.S. citizens in Detroit, or in Pittsburgh, or in New York, holding pro-Iraqi resistance signs. This battle has worldwide implications. But, the U.S. keeps saying that things are going well. Dick (appropriately-named) Cheney stated that it was in its death throes. Since then, the numbers of casualties have escalated. What’s going on?...
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Israeli Immunity for Genocide
Andrea Howard, Axis of LogicHaving no concept of the Rule of Law and no sense of humanity or morality, Israel continues its Genocidal adventure in Palestine. Violating every crime of war and human rights known to man – with the tacit approval and complicity of the International Community – the military might of Israel collectively targets a civilian population and the infrastructure of a nation. This is an Army, complete with warplanes and missiles, tanks and munitions, armored vehicles, landmines, RPGs, and a multitude of automatic weapons, targeting a civilian population. Israel has collectively targeted, and is collectively punishing, 1.4 million Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip. The most densely populated place on the planet, the Gaza Strip has 1.4 million people crowded into a mere 146 sq miles – that is 9,712 people per square mile. The unemployment rate is approximately 50% with 81% of the population in poverty...
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Eyewitness account from Gaza , A humanitarian disaster is taking plac
Cherifa Sirry, Axis of LogicFriends, Its nearly 4 a.m. here and I decided to go back to my computer to communicate to my friends around the world what every single mainstream media channel..., whether American, European or Arab, is FAILING to communicate in regards to what is happening right NOW in Gaza, Palestine. I have been in front of television for the past few hours monitoring the news and I was shocked to see NOTHING on Gaza except for on 2 local Arab channels and one Arab satellite channel which I shall not name for their own good..., lest the United States with its Israel lobby decide to shut them down. Even Al Jazeera channel, to my utter shock, didn't so much as mention Gaza in its last 2 news broadcasts! Let me tell you my friends what I have been watching for the past few hours and what I am still listening to on my head-phones: Southern Gaza is in TOTAL DARKNESS. Three quarters of the television frame is PITCH BLACK while northern Gaza has a few lights. About an hour ago, Israel bombed with F-16's the only power station left in Khan Younes plunging it in TOTAL DARKNESS too...
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Iraq Sunnis Fleeing Home After Massacre
IslamOnline.netSunni families have fled their homes in Baghdad's predominantly Sunni Jihad neighborhood after Shiite militiamen killed at least 50 fellow ones in the latest gruesome sectarian attack in the US occupied country. "What have I done wrong? What crime have my children committed?" cried a terrified mother. "As you can see, I only grabbed a bag with some clothes for my children," she told Agence France-Presse (AFP) Saturday, July 15. "I couldn't take beds or more bags since we were fleeing on foot." At least 50 Sunnis were killed by masked Shiite gunmen who stormed the Sunni neighborhood on July 9, set up checkpoints, entered people's houses and killed those whose identity cards marked them as Sunnis.
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Israel Prepares to Invade Syria
Kurt NimmoAs to be expected, the story about a Hezbollah drone hitting an Israeli warship was tweaked this morning to fit the emerging agenda. "Senior Israeli army officers said Saturday that the rocket which hit an Israeli missile boat off the Lebanese coast Friday night was an Iranian-built radar-guided C-802," reports the Bangkok Post. How Israel mistook an "aircraft rigged with explosives" for a missile, as the Associated Press reports, is not explained. However, blaming Iran certainly fits the picture, as both Israel and the United States are trying to drag Iran and Syria into Israel’s invasion of Lebanon and thus widen the conflict, as planned. In a Market Watch article provocatively entitled "Bush points finger at Hezbollah, Syria," we learn that our ruler, attending a globalist confab in St. Petersburg, Russia, has blamed Syria for Israel’s invasion...
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Strange new weapons?
Joseph Cannon, CannonfireThe current conflict in Gaza and Lebanon has given rise to a flurry of reports involving a strange new toxic weapon used by the Israeli Defense Forces. Israeli authorities officially deny these reports, which they have labeled an "incitement." Of course, that's what people said after the first reports came out that American soldiers had used "Whiskey Pete" indiscriminately in Fallujah (...) MOH [the Palestinian Ministry of Health] called on the international community and human rights group s to send a medical team in order to examine the injured and ascertain the presence of toxic material left by Israeli shells. If these reports are just an "incitement," as the Israelis claim, then why are the Palestinians pleading for outsiders to confirm? This is hardly the first time we have heard reports of Israel making pioneering use of toxic weaponry. In 2004, they stood accused of using nerve agents on protestors. Why does the rest of the world refuse to investigate these claims?...
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'Attention deficit Americans are being misled to war'
Paul Craig Roberts...Israel's American agents, the neoconservatives, have made it clear for years that their goal is to eliminate every Middle Eastern government that is not ruled by an American puppet friendly to Israel. The people who hold the important positions in Bush's government have frankly stated this position over and over. For example, a decade ago in 1996 a group of American neoconservatives who have comprised much of the sub-cabinet in the Bush administration wrote that Israel could gain American sympathy by blaming aggression on Hizbollah, Syria, and Iran and then seizing the strategic initiative by "engaging Hizbollah, Syria, and Iran as the principal agents of aggression in Lebanon." First, however, Iraq would have to be taken out. The first focus, said the neocons, should be "on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq - an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right." Gentle reader, does it not strike you as strange that US citizens, most of whom have held presidential appointments in the Bush administration, are so concerned to plan how Israel can draw upon US blood and treasure to achieve Israel's objectives in the Middle East?...
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Putin Jabs Bush: ‘We Certainly Would Not Want…The Same Kind of Democracy As They Have in Iraq’
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Israeli Bombings could lead to Escalation of Middle East War
Michel Chossudovsky, GlobalResearch.caFollowing the bombings of Beirut by Israel, there is a danger that the US sponsored Middle East war, which is at present characterized by three distinct war theaters (Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq) will escalate and extend to the entire Middle East - Central Asian region. The bombings of Lebanon are part of a carefully planned military agenda. They are not spontaneous acts of reprisal by Israel. They are acts of provocation. The attacks could indeed be used as a pretext to trigger a much broader military operation, which is already in the active planning stage. In all likelihood, the bombings were conducted with Washington's approval...
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The U(seless) N(ations)
Eli Stephens, Left I on the NewsThursday: "The United States used its veto to stop a Qatar-sponsored resolution that condemned the Israeli military operation, calling it a disproportionate use of force. The resolution received 10 votes in favor; Denmark, Peru, Slovakia, and the United Kingdom abstained. Saturday: "The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Saturday to impose limited sanctions on North Korea for its recent missile tests, and demanded that the reclusive communist nation suspend its ballistic missile program." Test some missiles that land harmlessly in the ocean? Unanimous condemnation. Fire some missiles at targets on land, kill more than a hundred people, and destroy hundreds of civilian targets including power plants, airports, roads, bridges, TV stations, etc., all in violation of the Geneva Convention? Hey, no problem...
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GI Special 4G14: Olive Drab Rebels - July 14, 2006
Thomas F. Barton"The History Of These Olive-Drab Rebels Is Largely Hidden From Us"
"By Rulers Who Would Rather Its Lessons Were Forgotten"
But the military was quite willing to deal with the small number of GIs who might put their heads on the chopping block; to really affect the military machine would require a more general rebellion.
There is a common misconception that it was draftees who were the most disaffected elements in the military. In fact, it was often enlistees who were most likely to engage in open rebellion.
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Israeli attack on Lebanon threatens to engulf entire Middle East in war
World Socialist Web Site
Statement of the Editorial Board...The mushrooming crisis in the Middle East is a predictable consequence of the massive military intervention by the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the increasingly aggressive and reckless policy of American imperialism throughout the region. This includes the carte blanche given by the Bush administration to Israel to use its US-financed and US-built war machine against its neighbors and against the persecuted and oppressed Palestinian people. The policy of United States and Israel is based on a never-ending cycle of war. The Bush administration rests its entire foreign policy on the belief that American military power and high-tech weaponry can solve every problem...
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday, 14 July 2006
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.orgIn a dispatch posted at 7:35pm Makkah time Friday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance fighters armed with RPG7 rocket-propelled grenades attacked a US column in the al-Bu Farraj area of ar-Ramadi on Friday morning. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported reported a source in the Iraqi puppet army as saying that Resistance fighters attacked a US column on the road to al-Bu Farraj in ar-Ramadi at 10am local time Friday morning...
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DAILY WAR NEWS FOR SATURDAY, July 15, 2006
Today in IraqFourteen people killed and five wounded in the bombing of a Sunni mosque in northern Baghdad Friday. (Note: This is probably one of the mosque attacks reported yesterday, with revised casualty figures.) The coach of Iraq's national wrestling team was killed in an attack in Baghdad Friday. He was seized with one of his wrestlers and shot to death while trying to escape; the other wrestler got away. Gunmen attacked an Iraqi army checkpoint on a highway near Kirkuk Friday, killing 11 soldiers and wounding three. A body dressed in traditional Arab clothing, shot in the chest and showing signs of torture, was found in Aziziyah, 35 miles southeast of Baghdad. In Mosul Friday a suicide car bomber struck a police patrol, killing two civilians and wounding two others...
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The suicide parade
XymphoraIt’s funny how assassinations tend to occur in clusters. We have recently seen the obvious assassination of Philip Merrill, likely related to what he knew about billions of dollars stolen in Iraq. Now we have the odd 'suicide’ – by shotgun, again, along with killing the twelve-year-old autistic son to whom he was devoted - of William H. Lash III. Lash had the same type of information as Merrill: "Lash took a leave from the law school in 2001, when President Bush appointed him assistant secretary of commerce for market access and compliance. Among his duties at the Commerce Department, Lash headed a task force on the reconstruction of Iraq, in which he dealt with businesses seeking contracts." The Lash story has been set up specifically to make it clear that it had to be a murder-suicide, like a 'locked room’ murder mystery...
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Israeli Colonial Conquest
The National Council of Arab Americans...The coming period is critical. Attempts to destabilize Iran and Syria are likely to escalate, along with an even larger attack on the resistance in South Lebanon and Palestine. The confluence of these policies with US designs in Iraq constitutes the overall defining strategy for the US-controlled "New Middle East". In this "New Middle East", the US hopes that natural resources, land and sea access, and political servitude would be at will. The Arab American community and allies in the peace and justice movement can't afford to turn a blind eye to any of the elements of these colonial policies. It is vital that the support for boycott and divestment campaigns expand. We must jointly call for an end to the war on Iraq and an end to US funding of Israeli atrocities. Naiveté in the understanding of geopolitics is a hindrance to peace and justice - Iraq is inseparable from Palestine and Lebanon...
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International Action Center statement:
STOP THE U.S.--ISRAELI WAR AGAINST LEBANON AND PALESTINE!
International Action CenterThe blood in Gaza and Lebanon is on George Bush's hands. The bombs, shells and missiles now pounding Lebanese and Palestinian cities and villages, wiping out entire families and leaving hundreds of thousands without power or water, are made in the U.S. So are the planes and cannons that launch them. The Israeli attack on Gaza and the sovereign state of Lebanon is part of Bush's war against Iraq--part of a decades-long war against the Arab people and the people of the Middle East. The Bush regime pays the bills for the Israeli war machine and has given it a green light to go to war. And it is using the Israeli-created crisis as a pretext for attacks on Syria and Iran...
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Reality vs. Kabuki
Two Sign Posts in Iraq
WILLIAM S. LIND...It is difficult to find anything in Iraq that points to a successful restoration of an Iraqi state. The Iraqi Government's ongoing attempt at "national reconciliation" seems to hold little promise because that government is a creature of a foreign occupier and remains under its control. Nothing illustrated that fact better than the immediate American veto of the Iraqi Government's desire to offer amnesty to resistance fighters who have killed American troops. Obviously, such amnesty would have to be part of any deal with the resistance. That would be true even if the resistance were losing; it is all the more so when the resistance is winning. Winners seldom surrender and allow themselves to be put on trial. In the end, the Iraqi resistance, in all its many dimensions, represents reality, "flip-flops on the ground." Iraq's government and state security forces, in contrast, are kabuki. And no kabuki performance goes on forever...
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How to win a fight (part II)
Mickey Z.Learning how to fight is not the same as promoting belligerent, anti-social behavior. We live in an exceedingly violent society. Our films, books, TV shows, and video games glorify mayhem and carnage. Our leaders (sic) solve most of their problems through aggression...or the threat thereof. While talk of non-violence is understandable and the struggle for peace has never been more essential, let's face it: The odds are that sooner or later you're going to end up in a confrontation that may escalate into physical violence. So, why not be prepared?..
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At least 31 seized at Iraq Olympic meeting
BASSEM MROUE, Associated PressGunmen kidnapped the chairman of Iraq's Olympic committee and at least 30 others Saturday in a brazen daylight raid on a sports conference in the heart of Baghdad. Armed clashes erupted elsewhere across the capital. Parliament extended the national state of emergency as at least 27 people - including two American soldiers - were killed in sectarian or insurgency-related violence. At about 1:30 p.m., gunmen in about dozen vehicles pulled up outside the meeting of the Iraqi National Olympic Committee, police and witnesses said. They entered the conference center, blindfolded and handcuffed participants and bodyguards, hustled them into the vehicles, and sped away (...) Two U.S. soldiers were killed in separate bombings in Baghdad, in the Shiite district of Sadr City and in the southern part of the capital, the military said...
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