Save the Lebanese Civilians Petition
To The Concerned Citizen of The World: "Killing innocent civilians is NOT an act of self-defense. Destroying a sovereign nation is NOT a measured response." Lebanese civilians have been under the constant attack of the state of Israel for several days. The State of Israel, in disregard to international law and the Geneva Convention, is launching a maritime and air siege targeting the entire population of the country. Innocent civilians are being collectively punished in Lebanon by the state of Israel in deliberate acts of terrorism as described in Article 33 of the Geneva Convention. The Lebanese people feel left out by the world that is turning a blind eye on the savagery of the Israeli state. Israel does not seem to be capable of approaching any problem outside the realm of the military power bestowed on it by the government of the United States of America and other western governments. We are writing you this letter in the hope that this massacre is immediately stopped...
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They're hitting everywhere, killing everywhere.
The Angry Arab News ServiceHanady Salman, a friend and editor at As-Safir in Beirut, sent a batch of pictures and this message: "Dear friends and colleagues, The list is longer toady .The pictures are from everywhere . The scope of shelling was terrible today. They're hitting everywhere, killing everywhere. Apologies if it turns out to be inconveniant and many thanks to all of you who responded and offered to help.
Hanady Salman"...
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Lebanese Information Minister: Israel is using internationally prohibited weapons against civilians
The Ireland PostLebanon’s Cabinet today issued a statement saying the country faced "real annihilation" by Israel. It also accused the Jewish state of using banned weapons against Lebanese civilians. "We are facing a real annihilation carried out by Israel," Information Minister Ghazi Aridi said after an emergency cabinet meeting. "Israel is using internationally prohibited weapons against civilians," he said. He did not elaborate, but Lebanese media reports, which could not be confirmed, claimed Israel had used phosphorus incendiary bombs and vacuum bombs, which suck up the air and collapse buildings...
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Lebanon is betrayed by three “Axis of Evil” Arab countries
Roads to IraqTotal disappointment in Lebanon after the US Blocked Call for Cease-Fire, and they thought they allies with America, "enjoying" it’s protection. Jihad El Zein asks: Lebanese Wonder, 'Can We Count on America?’ Is this "lack of American protection" temporary, or is it for the long term? The answer is unclear, since President Bush revealed a clear "sensitivity" on the subject of protection, Simple answer: NO, you can’t count or even trust America, actually American has a long history of betraying its allies, from Noriega’s Panama to Soharto’s Indonesia, so let alone this time it’s Israel’s interests, and this is not a surprise. The surprise is; the formation of a front of three Arab countries to block even an Arab initiative to solve the problem: Attacks expose divisions in Arab governments U.S.-allied nations such as Egypt, Jordan, Iraq and the Persian Gulf states, meanwhile, consider the group responsible for much of the violence [And I will not say four because Iraq is an American colony] But what these three sates have in common [assuming that Gulf States is only Saudi Arabia]?...
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Israel – just testing the waters?
William Bowles, i'n'IWe can be sure that the decision to attack Lebanon didn’t come out of the blue, nor was it simply some kind of 'gut’ reaction to the alleged Hizbollah attacks on the IDF. There would seem to be two possible explanations: 1. The attack on Lebanon is a prelude to a wider war, possibly with Syria being the next target 2. The attack on Lebanon is a horrendous diversion from the failure of the Gaza bloodbath to achieve its stated objective, the complete destruction of what was left of the Palestinian administration, enabling it to complete its total annexation of the West Bank. Obviously there is a great deal of overlap between the two and there is no doubt that the 'Greater Israel’ objective, the total incorporation of the Occupied Territories, that includes parts of Jordan, Syria and Lebanon into Israel, is still the major concern of the Zionist state...
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44 Lebanese killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon
IMEMC & AgenciesThe Israeli army resumed its shelling to Al Dahia area, in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, and killed 16 residents, including three children, at least 56 residents were injured in the attack. The latest attack rises the number of Lebanese killed on Sunday to 44, including seven Lebanese soldiers. A Lebanese police source reported on Sunday that 16 civilians were killed and 36 were injured after the Israeli air force shelled a civilian populated area in southern Lebanon. Five bodies were also found under the rubble of shelled houses in Al Nabatiyya village, 70 kilometers south-east of Beirut...
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VIDEO: Rice Calls Idea That Iraq War Contributed To Regional Instability ‘Grotesque’
Think ProgressToday on ABC’s This Week, George Stephanopoulos pointed out that the Bush administration repeatedly promised that war in Iraq would bring peace and stability to the Middle East. But as the recent violence in the Middle East has shown, the region has actually fallen deeper into instability and unrest since the war began. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Stephanopoulos it was "grotesque" to suggest that the Iraq war contributed to that instability. Watch it...
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The P-Word
Stan GoffIs Palestine. And the discussion of Zionism for what it is — exactly as we are witnessing right now — a secular, racist political movement, characterized by expansionism and militarism , is going to have to happen online, because neither the mainstream press nor mainstream politicians will touch it with a ten-foot pole… even when it is piling up more bodies as it leads the world into a regional disaster. Let’s just get something out of the way right up front, before I go any further. Zionism is not Judaism; being Jewish does not make anyone Zionist; and anti-Zionism is not equivalent to anti-Semitism. It is now well past time for the United States to withdraw all rogue state, Israel; though that is unlikely to happen without a movement to make it happen, because the US is now effectively the biggest and most dangerous rogue state on the planet...
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Me, Hugo and George
Cindy Sheehan...When Ms. O' Donnell called President Chavez a dictator, I bet she didn't even know that our CIA orchestrated a coup attempt against President Chavez in 2002 and in the last electoral referendum that Chavez agreed to submit to in 2004, he was re-confirmed as President with 60 percent of the vote which was certified by an international election commission headed by "left-wing, nutcase," Jimmy Carter. George Bush attained his office by two heavily tainted elections that should more rightly be called coups. To steal two elections and say and act like you have a mandate to destroy the world; to circumvent Congress at every turn with "signing statements" and just not telling them things; to wiretapping Americans without proper warrants; to reading our emails and looking at bank records without warrants; to illegally detaining people and torturing them; to insisting on staying a course in Iraq that is killing nearly more innocent people per month than were killed in our country on 9/11; to authorizing the leak of covert agents' names; to selling our democracy to the highest bidders such as the likes of Jack Abramoff; to appointing avowed U.N. hater John Bolton to the U.N. in a recess appointment because he knew that a normal confirmation process would fail; to allowing the neocons to take over our foreign policy to the detriment of our nation; to etc, etc---I ask Norah O' Donnell and MSNBC who is the dictator here? George or Hugo?...
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Palestinian Christians Protests Zionist Atrocities throughout the Region
Savage JusticeDozens of Christian figures of all sects held a sit-in strike in the yard of the Holy Sepulchre in the city of Jerusalem with bishop Atallah Hanneh in the front Thursday evening. The sit-in was a joint protest by all the Christian churches in Palestine against the Israeli aggression on Lebanon and Palestine. Bishop Hanneh spoke on behalf of the protesters (...) Much like Apartheid Israel's Church of the Nativity siege several years ago, this action undertaken by Palestinian Christians exposes the shameless propaganda about a war between Jews and Muslims ignorantly mouthed by those who support the Zionist campaign of ethnic cleansing in Palestine to be pure, unadulterated nonsense...
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Submit or Die: The Politics of Israel’s Attack on Gaza
Revolution...Israel’s attack on Gaza has a political purpose: to impose a "peace" on the Palestinians that suits Zionist interests, to bend or break Palestinian organizations and above all to humiliate the people so that they will accept whatever Israel offers them—on Israel’s terms and no other. The greatest danger to the Zionist project would come from revolutionary forces who recognize and base their strategy on the link between the interests of the Palestinians and those of the people of the world and world revolution. Once again Israel is proving that no matter how difficult it may be for the Palestinians to continue struggling for their rights as a people, which means the eventual replacement of Israel with a multi-national, secular state, any other road is definitely an illusion...
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8 Israelis<-->8 Canadians - Why doesn't Canada bomb Israel?
wakeupfromyourslumber.blogspot.comIsrael supposedly started this whole murderous fiasco because 8 of its soldiers were killed and 2 kidnapped. It all started on July 12 when Israel troops were ambushed on LEBANON'S SIDE OF THE BORDER with Israel. Hezbollah, which commands the Lebanese south, immediately seized on their crossing. They arrested two Israeli soldiers, killed eight Israelis and wounded over 20 in attacks inside Israeli territory. Now that 8 Canadians have been killed by Israeli fire, why isn't Canada bombing Israel?...
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Death tolls Iraq, Lebanon
Truth About IraqisA total of 42 Iraqis (that I have been able to compile from int'l and local sources) were killed in Iraq. As the security efforts seem to focus in vain on Baghdad, violence has soared in Kirkuk, Miqdadiya, and Mosul. DOD reported two US servicemen killed. One British soldier was killed in Basra, six others wounded. Thirteen Iraqi civilians wounded in same incident. Lebanon death toll has now reached about 130, with 600 wounded. Of the 130 only three were not civilians. Of the 130, eight Canadian citizens. No comment from Ottawa. Six other Canadians wounded...
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From Lebanon
Rania Masri, WhatReallyHappened.comDear friends, Thank you all for your letters of concern. Yes, I am in Lebanon, and, yes, I am safe, as safe as one can be when one's country is under attack. I appeal to you all: we need your voices of outrage to be heard. Since Wednesday, we have been under vicious, unjustified attack, and the attacks have been intensifying. Vicious. Perhaps you have not heard the news because the western news has not been reporting it. Perhaps you have seen the pictures because the western news is not printing the pictures (the media has access to the pictures, but is choosing not to print them)...
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Nabih Berri blames UN
Truth About IraqisThe UN shortchanged Iraq and allowed 1.7 million Iraqis die. Then it shortchanged it again and allowed the invasion and occupation. Now it is doing the same thing in Lebanon even after Lebanese leaders appealed to the UN to bring about a ceasefire. Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri blamed the UN presence in Southern Lebanon for refusing to admit women and children refugees who were told by Israeli pamphlets to flee their southern villages. The UN was likely wary of the Qana Massacre in 1996 in which a UN refugee camp was shelled intensely by Israeli war craft and artillery...
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GI Special 4G16: "I Blame The President" - July 16, 2006 .
Thomas F. BartonIn fact, the grandmother, who remembers Mason playing with G.I. Joes and plastic soldiers in the hall outside her doorway from the age of 10, issued a challenge: "I'd like to box President George W. Bush in a match. I used to be a boxer in high school, and I think I could take him. If I win, he stops this stupid war."
"I blame the President for everything because he's letting young kids go over there for nothing. There were no weapons of mass destruction. If I could talk to him, I would say to him, 'Why?' "
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Eight Canadians killed in Israeli attacks in Lebanon
AFPEight Canadians were killed in Lebanon, Canada's foreign affairs minister said. "Pending further information and contact with their families all we can say is that there are eight confirmed casualties," Peter MacKay told television broadcaster CTV. He added that six others have been critically injured. "We're actively pursuing as much information as quickly as possible," MacKay said. Five of the dead were from the same family, killed in an Israeli air attack which hit their home in Aitaroun near the Israel-Lebanon border, MacKay said...
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 15 July 2006
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice....In a dispatch posted at 3:15pm Makkah time Saturday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance fighters mounted two separate attacks on US occupation troops and their puppet army allies in the city of al-Fallujah, about 60km west of Baghdad in the previous 24 hours. The al-Fallujah correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported local eyewitnesses as saying that a bomb exploded by a US military column on the main road near the eastern entrance to the city opposite the al-'Askari neighborhood. The blast completely destroyed one Humvee, killing or wounding the members of its five-man crew...
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The P-Word
Stan GoffIs Palestine. And the discussion of Zionism for what it is — exactly as we are witnessing right now — a secular, racist political movement, characterized by expansionism and militarism , is going to have to happen online, because neither the mainstream press nor mainstream politicians will touch it with a ten-foot pole… even when it is piling up more bodies as it leads the world into a regional disaster. Let’s just get something out of the way right up front, before I go any further. Zionism is not Judaism; being Jewish does not make anyone Zionist; and anti-Zionism is not equivalent to anti-Semitism. It is now well past time for the United States to withdraw all rogue state, Israel; though that is unlikely to happen without a movement to make it happen, because the US is now effectively the biggest and most dangerous rogue state on the planet...
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DAILY WAR NEWS FOR SUNDAY, JULY 16, 2006
Today in IraqA Multinational Corps – Iraq service member died at approximately 11:25 a.m. today when the vehicle he was riding in struck a roadside bomb near Sadr City, an area in northeast Baghdad. A Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldier died at approximately 3:55 p.m. today when he was hit by an improvised-explosive device in southern Baghdad. A 49th Military Police Brigade service member died at approximately 11:25 a.m. today when the vehicle he was riding in struck a roadside bomb near Sadr City, an area in northeast Baghdad. British soldier killed, one wounded in operation in Basra. Also, DoD identifies Sailor killed July 12 in Anbar as Petty Officer 1st Class Jerry A. Tharp, 44, of Muscatine, Iowa. He was assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 25, Rock Island, Ill...
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Abductees
Eli Stephens, Left I on the NewsHardly a news story from the Middle East goes by without the reader or viewer being reminded that three Israeli soldiers have been captured, excuse me, "kidnapped." But since the day it happened, I don't think I've heard once about the 64 Palestinian Cabinet ministers, legislators, and other officials who were kidnapped, excuse me, "arrested," by the Israeli government on June 25. Just out of curiousity I decided to try to find out what's been happening to them, and it turns out, to my surprise, they have actually been in court...
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