One Giant Gaza Strip
Mike WhitneyThe last few days have provided a troubling view of the new world order. The Israeli assault on Lebanon’s infrastructure has battered bridges, roads, power-plants, grain depots, apartment buildings, mosques, community centers, civilian homes, gas stations, ports and many of the country’s critical life-support systems. Additionally, Israel has killed 155 civilians including 15 children who were instantly vaporized by a missile that destroyed their van while they were fleeing southern Lebanon. Israel has justified the carnage by pointing to the 2 soldiers who were captured by members of the Lebanese resistance organization, Hezbollah. But Israel’s defense is hopelessly flawed. What if relatives or friends of the many US detainees who’ve been illegally imprisoned at Guantanamo, decided to use F-16s and laser-guided missiles to attack the Golden Gate Bridge, the Sears Tower, New York City’s electrical grid, and vast swathes of the highway system? Would that be equally justifiable? Or, more to the point, what if Hezbollah decided to blow up major parts of Israel’s infrastructure in retaliation for the hundreds of Lebanese prisoners languishing in Israeli prisons without any legal recourse? Would that be okay? (...) The history of the present conflict did not begin with the capture of the 2 soldiers as the media would have us believe, nor is it simply aimed at dismantling Hezbollah. Israel is planning to occupy the territory between its northern border and the Litani River in Southern Lebanon. This will provide access to an important water source for Israel and create a buffer-zone between itself and Arab militants. The demonstration of overwhelming force is intended to send a message to Syria and Iran that they’d better "shape up" or expect similar treatment in the near future...
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In Memorium : Guantanamo's Lost Three.
Felicity ArbuthnotIn this pitiless age of 'blame the victim', when those who have given up hope in the Guantanamo Bay concentration camp attempt suicide, it is classified by the US military as 'manipulative self harm'. When many went on hunger strike for many months and some for a year, Donald Rumsfeld said they had : 'gone on a diet.' When three prisoners, kidnapped and flown thousands of miles (as always hooded, shackled, forced to wear nappies, being not allowed the dignity of a visit to the toilet) finally apparently killed themselves, Colleen Graffy, a senior State Department official said their actions were: 'a good PR move.' Admiral Harry Harris, commanding this obscene facility called their apparent final desparate act of hopelessness an act of 'asymmetrical warfare against the US military'...
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The coup attempt that started a war
Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, its causes and consequences
Dr. Abbas BakhtiarAs Israeli planes pound the Lebanese infrastructure to sunder, as the Palestinians spend their days and nights in inhumane conditions and under siege, as people in 20 Israeli towns sleep in bomb shelters, Israel threatened to widen the conflict by attacking Syria. According to Baztab.com, an Iranian online newspaper [1], the Israeli government has given Syria 72 hours to handover the two Israeli soldiers captured by Hezbollah or face the consequences. Iran already has declared that any attack on Syria will be considered an attack on the Muslim world (i.e. Iran and others). If Israel attacks Syria, Iran will enter the fray, which will bring in the US, which will involve Iraq and the Persian Gulf countries. In other words any attack on Syria may start a regional war that may engulf the whole region, sending the price of the crude oil to unimaginable levels. Is it possible that a small border skirmish turn into a regional war? The answer is yes...
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Reality in Lebanon
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State Terrorists V Freedom Fighters
Yamin Zakaria, I'n'I...However, since 1948, Israel has managed to portray itself as a victim of terrorism, instead of being the real perpetrator, while Israel’s victims have been systematically turned into terrorists. This reversal of the image was achieved primarily by the media-terrorists of the west, and this continues till today by their one-sided media coverage. Zionists of all colours to the government of Israel are given maximum air-time, while the Arab voices are given minimal time, if any at all. For example, the big news in the Western media is that Iran and Syria have aided Hizb-Ullah, but it is no news that the US and UK has been arming Israel to the teeth for the last 60 years! No one notices that the US and British made fighter-planes, helicopters and missiles are used daily to kill and maime Palestinians. If we examine the weapons dropped in Lebanon, one would think it was the US that launched the attack. Basically, coalition of greedy capitalist-vultures in attacking Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon is acceptable but not the coalition of Muslim countries defending itself...
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Afghans: Taliban Take Control of 2 Towns
AMIR SHAH, Associated Press WriterAfghan officials said Monday that Taliban forces have taken over two towns in the southern part of the country, while coalition troops said they were investigating whether the insurgents had indeed seized control. One coalition soldier was killed and 11 were wounded, meanwhile, in separate fighting Monday, the U.S. military said. Scores of Taliban fighters on Sunday entered the southern Helmand town of Garmser, bordering Pakistan, and surrounded a police compound, forcing a small security force to flee and then taking control of the area, a local government official said. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity due to policy, said Taliban forces were now ``moving freely'' around the town and the district of the same name...
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Who Benefits From Chaos?
Tariq Shadid...In other words, when violence spirals out of control, it opens the way for more violence, and those who are aiming for full-scale war are the ones most likely to benefit from it. Usually, they will also be the driving force behind it. The main beneficiary of this escalation of war activity in the Middle East, is Israel, because it aims to have a situation of chaos, in order to be able to justify massive military action against civilians, aiming to dismantle or destroy the resistance. For the United States, this is also the case, since general chaos diminishes the public focus on its war crimes in Iraq....
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Bush, Cheney and Rice: "MLAs"
Walter C. UhlerI request your indulgence, at the outset, for my usage of indiscreet Bush/Cheney-talk. But, when President Bush recommended Iraq's "democracy" to President Putin last Saturday, I was reminded of Bush's remark to Dick Cheney about New York Times writer, Adam Clymer. Bush said, "There's Adam Clymer - major league asshole - from the New York Times." Cheney responded, "Yeah, big time." [Jake Tapper, Salon.com, Sept. 04, 2000] Thanks to their indiscretion, the whole world knows that Bush and Cheney are not above labeling people as "MLAs." Unfortunately, after five years of gross misrule by the Bush administration, we now know that - from the neocons and the former head of FEMA to our very top "leaders" - this administration has been overpopulated with MLAs. Events during this past weekend only reinforced the evidence...
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The oppressed Israelis
Eli Stephens, Left I on the NewsCBS News evidently wants us to think that the Israeli people are practically enslaved by the Pharoah: Headline: "Israeli Demand: Let Our People Go" Amazingly enough, news media (like the one above) are reporting as a serious "cease-fire offer" this "offer" of the Israelis: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says Israel will continue to its strikes against Lebanon until its soldiers captured by Hezbollah are returned, rocket attacks on Israeli cities stop, and Lebanese soldiers are deployed along border. What a generous, generic "cease-fire" offer - "Surrender and we'll stop firing"...
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DAILY WAR NEWS FOR MONDAY, July 17, 2006
Today in IraqA Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldier died from wounds today at approximately 12:55 p.m. after being hit by small-arms fire in western Baghdad earlier in the day. (MNF-Iraq) A Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldier was killed at approximately 4:30 p.m. today when his vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb in southern Baghdad. (MNF-Iraq) A Soldier assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division died due to enemy action while operating in Al Anbar Province today. (MNF-Iraq) The US military on Monday announced the death of two soldiers raising the military's death toll in Iraq since the invasion to 2,547, according to an AFP count based on Pentagon figures. It was the fourth U.S. military fatality in the Baghdad area since Saturday...
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Iraq market attack kills 55
Aljazeera.netUp to 55 people have been killed and 58 wounded in an attack on a market outside Baghdad. There are conflicting reports of how the deaths in al-Mahmudiya occurred, with ministry sources saying a car bomb had exploded in the town, 30km south of the Iraqi capital. But police sources say they were hit by a series of explosions followed by an attack by gunmen through the market - an unusual tactic in Iraq against civilians. Al-Mahmudiya has been a flashpoint of Sunni-Shia tension and has suffered frequent bombings and shootings. The town centre has a mostly Shia population, with Sunnis living in outlying areas and surrounding villages...
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When civilians become targets: The Israeli destruction of Lebanon and Gaza
Remi KanaziIn the last two weeks, Israel has sent a chilling message to the Palestinian and Lebanese people: civilians and infrastructure are legitimate targets in their war of aggression. The Geneva Conventions have been fragrantly violated and humanitarian law has been thrown into the garbage can. The Israeli government would have us believe that the killing of civilians is the "necessary consequence" of holding one Israeli prisoner in Gaza and two Israeli prisoners in Lebanon...
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Corruption Cited in Iraq's Oil Industry
Walter Pincus, Washington Post Staff WriterU.S. Comptroller General David M. Walker told Congress last week that "massive corruption" and "a lot of theft going on" in Iraq's government-controlled oil industry is hampering the country's ability to govern itself. "It took me about, you know, a second and a half to realize that, obviously, there was massive corruption going on, because the numbers just didn't add up," Walker said, referring to a trip he took to Iraq this year in which he was shown figures on oil production and revenue...
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Israeli War Crimes Continue in the Gaza Strip
4 Palestinians killed, including a woman, and 10 injured in Beit Hanoun and Rafah
Palestinian Centre for Human RightsToday, 16, July 2006, IOF carried out a pre-dawn raid on the town of Beit Hanoun in the north of the Gaza Strip. The raid comes after IOF had conducted an incursion into the northern Gaza Strip, and then redeployed its forces outside the targeted areas. During last week's incursion, IOF committed war crimes in contravention of International Law and customs. Today's raid has thus far resulted in the death of 3 Palestinian resistance activists by aerial bombardment. In addition, 10 civilians were injured. The raid on Beit Hanoun is part of a campaign against Palestinians that was announced by IOF two weeks ago...
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 16 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 8:10pm Makkah time Sunday evening, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that eyewitnesses in the al-Muhammadi area near the city of Hit, about 170km northwest of Baghdad, reported seeing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad pasted on US military vehicles driving around their area on Sunday morning. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported people in the al-Muhammadi area as saying that witnesses say a Humvee in a US column with a caricature posted on the armor-plated door of the vehicle. The picture was one of those published by a Danish newspaper several months ago, arousing indignation among Muslims throughout the world...
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GI Special 4G17: Allies - July 17, 2006
Thomas F. BartonMany of the soldiers we spoke to were pleased and eager to receive the latest issue of the Traveling Soldier newsletter. It’s clear that we have established a solid base of readers of the newsletter inside the Armory.
Another highlight of the day was a conversation with one soldier, a Lieutenant, who told us "You have more allies in there than you realize."
And as we were leaving a worker from the armory told us "come back next month" while a group of soldiers next to him nodded in agreement; a clear sign of how far we have come with our work and the success we’ve had in building a good relationship with the soldiers.
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Inconvenient truths: Chaldea, Phoenicia . . . will Syria and Persia be next?
Ben Tanosborn, Online Journal Contributing Writer...For now, the discussion centers as to who is to blame for the latest flare-up. And, as one would expect, it’s an easy call for Bush. From the Summer Palace of the czars in St. Petersburg . . . he’s telling us who is at fault: " . . . it’s Hezbollah, Syria and the Iran 'connection.’" Much in the fashion he has always simplified things for a citizenry he treats as dumb, ignorant and inordinately susceptible to fear. Just like "the WMD and that guy Saddam" almost four years ago . . . now it’s Sayyid Hasan Nasrallah and those terrorists from Hezbollah. Just like the terrorists in Gaza . . . you know "them fellows" from Hamas. Imposition of geo-political dominance in the Middle-East, that’s what we’re witnessing. It all started with the invasion of Iraq by the American colossus in its reach for hegemony in the region, now being followed by a softened eastern flank courtesy of Israel. Which brings up the obvious question . . . will Syria be next? Is bombing Damascus a logical next step?...
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Report: US will exit Iraq by 2016
Raw StoryThe conservative Washington Times is reporting that American military leaders don't see a US exit from Iraq until 2016. An excerpt from the registration-restricted Times story follows: U.S. war commanders think some level of American forces will be needed in Iraq until 2016 and those forces will receive continued support from the vast majority of Iraqis. At the tactical level, the U.S. is getting better at detecting deadly improvised explosive devices (IEDs), especially using unmanned spy planes. But the enemy is growing more sophisticated. A raid on an IED factory earlier this year netted two bomb-makers who hold master's degrees in chemistry and physics -- from U.S. colleges...
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Tomgram: Bush's Faith and the Middle East Aflame
Tom EngelhardtSo, as the world spins on a dime, where exactly are we? As a man who is no fan of fundamentalists of any sort, let me offer a proposition that might make some modest sense of our reeling planet. Consider the possibility that the most fundamental belief, perhaps in all of history, but specifically in these last catastrophic years, seems to be in the efficacy of force -- and the more of it the merrier. That deep belief in force above all else is perhaps the monotheism of monotheisms, a faith remarkably accepting of adherents of any other imaginable faith – or of no other faith at all. Like many fundamentalist faiths, it is also resistant to drawing any reasonable lessons from actual experience on this planet. The Bush administration came to power as a fundamentalist regime; and here I'm not referring to the Christian fundamentalist faith of our President....
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The American Left and the Middle East: The Case of the Nation Magazine, II
The Angry Arab News ServiceThis was bound to happen. I was just waiting for this. Wake up the children, and free the pigs from the barn. The Nation magazine has spoken. Oh, ya. The Nation magazine is mouthing off on the Middle East. Let us see. First, they talk about "the spreading of violence in Lebanon and Gaza." Spreading? Is this a disease or a flue? No, o Nation magazine. Israel is bombing and occupying in both cases. Violence is not naturally and blamelessly spreading, ok? And then it talks about Israel's doctrine of "absolute security." Security? As soon as you invoke security in Western discourse on the Middle East, you know that the person is standing solidly behind Israeli bombings, the Nation is no exception. Notice that the word security is only exclusively reserved for the Jews, and not for the Arabs, which only underlines the fundamentally racist premise of the Western leftist attitude toward the Arab-Israeli conflict, not to mention the rest in the West...
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Conscious bid to provoke a general war in the Middle East: Israeli False Flag War Provocations in Lebanon
Webster G. Tarpley, Globalresearch.caThe escalating Israeli assault on Lebanon clearly represents a conscious bid to provoke a general war in the Middle East. The captured Israeli soldiers are only the pretext for the present massive military operations. Israeli spokesmen are making constant allegations that Hezbollah missiles being fired at Israel have been manufactured or delivered by Iran. At the same time, the Israelis accuse Hezbollah of wanting to transfer the two captured Israeli soldiers to Syria or Iran. These statements are an attempt to build a case for an Israeli sneak attack on Syria and/or Iran. US spokesmen, including the Nietzschean fascist Bolton, constantly repeat the litany that Syria and Iran are the supporters of Hezbollah...
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