Ethnic cleansing & annexation in Lebanon.
Lenin's Tomb...A few words about Israeli expansionism: Although Ben-Gurion accepted partition, he did not view the borders of the Peel commission plan as permanent. He saw no contradiction between accepting the Jewish state in part of Palestine and hoping to expand the borders of this state to the whole Land of Israel. The difference between him and the Revisionists was not that he was a territorial minimalist while they were territorial maximalists but rather that he pursued a gradualist strategy while they adhered to an all-or-nothing approach. The nature and extent of Ben-Gurion's territorial expansionism were revealed with startling frankness in a letter he sent to his son Amos from London on 5 October 1937. There Ben-Gurion professed himself to be an enthusiastic advocate of a Jewish state, even if it involved the partitioning of Palestine, because he worked on the assumption that this state would be not the end but only the beginning
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Craven Image: The Senate Bows to Imperial Power
Chris FloydWell, that didn't take long. Two weeks ago we wrote here that the "lockstep, lickspittle" U.S. Congress would scurry to give their approval to the dictatorial powers asserted by President George W. Bush after the Supreme Court struck down those claims in the Hamdan case earlier this month. And lo and behold, last week Republican Senator Arlen Specter introduced a bill that would not only confirm Bush's unrestrained, unconstitutional one-man rule – it would augment it, exalting the Dear Leader to even greater authoritarian heights. A more slavish piece of work – and a more abject surrender of Congressional authority – can scarcely be imagined. And the implications are profound. Besides providing what amount to ex post facto cover for Bush's clearly criminal domestic surveillance programs, the measure is a stinging confirmation that there is no crime the Bushists can commit that the craven rubberstamps in Congress will not countenance...
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Bush Does Iraq: Anatomy of a Failed Operation
Edward Jayne, www.dissidentvoice.org...Iraq has become a monumental blunder no matter what kind of an outcome takes place. Even if our troops finally win in Iraq, we have already lost the war relevant to the far more important objective of securing what might be described as the "fealty" of Iraq’s government and people as well as promoting our friendly and cooperative hegemonic dominance in the world’s economy. For we have become demonstrably the single most dangerous "rogue nation" in the entire world -- so dangerous, in fact, that nobody in power elsewhere (except Hugo Chavez of Venezuela) is quite willing to admit it publicly. Nevertheless, the whole global community can finally see for themselves that the emperor walks naked -- no less bare than the groveling prisoner whom Lynndie England held at the end of a leash while smoking a cigarette in one of her infamous torture photographs...
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‘Al-Qaeda is a U.S.-sponsored Intelligence Asset used to Justify War in the Middle East: Interview with Michel Chossudovsky The Use of 9/11 as a Pretext to Wage War
Bulatlat.com (Philippines) - Global Research...In my own research, i have not centered on what happened on that particular day from the point of view of the WTC and Pentagon buildings. That aspect has been the object of several investigations. What I have focused on is the role which the 9/11 events have played in justifying the invasion of Afghanistan almost a few weeks later after 9/11, and of course the invasion of Iraq, not to mention the police State legislation adopted in a number of Western countries. I’ve focussed on 9/11 from a broad geopolitical perspective, because essentially 9/11 is still the core event which justifies the so-called "war on terrorism"...
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Israel Attacks its Christian “Friends” in Lebanon
Kurt NimmoIt should be obvious by now that the Israelis not only have it out for Nasrallah and Hezbollah but all Lebanese, including their "friends," the Christian Maronite Lebanese. "Israeli warplanes targeted for the first time a Christian area [the Ashrafiyah neighborhood] of eastern Beirut on Wednesday morning," reports Adnkronos International. "During the night the Israeli air and naval forces also targeted another prevalently Christian area, the southern suburb of Hadeth. The junction that takes to the closed Semaan tunnel was struck and a fire broke out in a shrine with a votive cross on top. The areas of Shweifat and Choueifat were targeted in the south-eastern suburbs," adds Spero News...
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This is Not 1982 and Nasrallah Isn’t Arafat
Why Hezbollah is Winning... So Far
WILLIAM S. LINDThe stakes in the Israel-Hezbollah-Hamas war are significantly higher than most observers understand. If Hezbollah and Hamas win—and winning just means surviving, given that Israel’s objective is to destroy both entities—a powerful state will have suffered a new kind of defeat, again, a defeat across at least one international boundary and maybe two, depending on how one defines Gaza’s border. The balance between states and "fourth generation warfare" forces will be altered world-wide, and not to a trivial degree. So far, Hezbollah is winning...
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Under Cover of its Carnage in Lebanon, Israel Pummels Gaza, Nablus
Um KhalilNow, under cover of the carnage it's exacting in Lebanon, Israel is free to operate with virtually no one the wiser in Gaza and the West Bank. Of course, it helps when the reporters are shot; Israel has attacked seven reporters in ten days with gas and shots, and ransacked the Palestine News Agency. The IOF has also denied entry to the occupied territories to all people with foreign passports, thus fully free to unleash its reign of terror, replaying Kristalnacht over and over through its use of drones, bulldozers, apache attack heliocopters, F-16s, and tanks against a largely defenseless occupied population...
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Israelis Adopt Poison Gas “Fashion”
Kurt Nimmo...If Wayne Madsen’s sources are correct, the Israelis are now using poison gas against the "uncivilized tribes" of Lebanon. "According to a former U.S. weapons expert who served in Iraq, the artillery shell in a photo taken in Lebanon (see photo here) is a chemical weapon delivery device. It is being handled by an Israeli Defense Force soldier and Hebrew lettering can be clearly seen on the armored vehicle. Another chemical weapons shell of the same type can be seen lying on the ground to the right. It is not known what type of chemical is in the chemical canister, however, gas dropped by the Israelis in villages in southern Lebanon has resulted in severe vomiting among the civilian population...
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The "killing zone"
Lenin's TombSouth Lebanon : PARKED outside the small general hospital in Tyre is a badly refrigerated lorry container in which are stacked the bodies of 91 Lebanese civilians, 55 of them children. The bodies have been placed inside black plastic rubbish bags and labelled in anticipation of the time, days or weeks from now, when their surviving relatives - if any - can come to collect them... Judging by the list of actual targets hit so far, what Israeli security experts term "the target bank" includes, in practice, civilian homes, minibuses and cars, as terrified families try to run away...
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The irony President Bush Misses: Every American who pays taxes is culpable for the violence in Gaza and Lebanon
Eileen FlemingThe irony President Bush misses is that every American who pays taxes is culpable for the violence in Gaza and Lebanon due to the fact that since 1948, over 100 billion USA tax dollars have gone to support the Israeli government. If you are American, you are culpable in the violence in the Middle East. Made in USA weapons were used to target Palestinian & Lebanese civilians and civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon in violation of the US Arms Export Control Act and the Geneva Conventions...
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Iraq Sunnis protest plans to rebuild shrine
AFPHundreds of Sunni Arabs have demonstrated in the central Iraqi city of Samarra against plans to rebuild a massive Shiite shrine which was destroyed earlier this year, triggering an unforeseen wave of sectarian violence. "The people of Samarra reject any outside interference, whether by the government or Moqtada because it will bring sectarian war," said protestor Saad Mahdi, in response to plans by radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to send a "million" people to rebuild the shrine. "The people of Samarra are all armed and it will lead to a massacre," said Mahdi, while around him people carried banners which said: "The sons of Samarra reject any interference in the city's affairs"...
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DAILY WAR NEWS FOR THURSDAY, July 20, 2006
Today in IraqA British soldier was killed and five others were injured on Wednesday during armed confrontations with insurgents in Basra, said the spokesman for British forces. In a press release, he added that British structures and military bases in Basra were bombarded with missiles and rockets on Tuesday and Wednesday. A Marine assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division died due to enemy action while operating in Al Anbar Province today. The bodies of four men were found in two areas in eastern Baghdad. Iraqi police recovered the 38 bodies showing signs of torture in the capital city during a 24-hour period ending Thursday morning...
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Lebanon left for dead
Pepe EscobarLebanon is mired in a terrifying labyrinth of death and destruction. Beirut's airport is bombed. Israel has imposed a sea blockade. Other than privileged Westerners who are being evacuated by air or sea, people have overnight become refugees. They are plunged into an exodus of hundreds of thousands crammed on rickety rural trucks, overcrowded buses, Red Crescent convoys and even Mercedes with Saudi license plates on a mad dash through Lebanese back roads to Syria. Israel's lethal bombing is ubiquitous - raining hell over family homes in the Bekaa Valley, over the Liban Lait milk factory on the road to Baalbek, over a Greek Orthodox church, over civilian trucks carrying rice and sugar near the Christian village of Zaleh, over a civil-defense building in Tyre, over a paper mill, over a packaging firm, over a pharmaceutical plant, over the Lake Qaraoun dam, over bridges, water reservoirs, electric plants, gas stations, ambulances, even over Beirut's main Christian neighborhood...
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The fear is growing in Beirut
The Angry Arab News Service"The fear is growing in Beirut. Beirut is sad, scared, wounded and … left alone. By yesterday morning, the UN said 150 000 people (foreigners and Lebanese holders of 2nd nationalities ) had already left Lebanon .Evacuations aresupposed to be completed by Friday . Today has been an exceptionally calm day : the US marines are evacuating Us citizens. By tomorrow , the country will be left to its own people and Israeli shelling. In Beirut , by Saturday , there will only be those who have nowhere else to go and the very few who deliberately decided to stay. There were also be those who managed to flee the south and the southern suburb of the capital. What will happen to us on Saturday ?...
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The advantages
Xymphora..The colonialist logic of Zionism means that the Lebanon/Gaza example is the ongoing model for Israeli adventurism. Oh sure, they’ll back off for a while, regroup, take the plaudits of the international media and politicians on how reasonable and balanced their response has been, and then set out again with a new set of outrages. The plan has always been the ratchet: they never fall back, but keep pushing the boundaries of what is politically acceptable, with each step along the path more and more violent. Who would have thought that they would ever be able to get away with another attack on civilians in Lebanon, Lebanon being the model of rebuilding after years of sectarian violence, much of it caused by Israel? The worst the world can say about it is that it is 'disproportionate’, as if Israel has miscalculated how many civilians it is allowed to murder, as if collective punishment is OK as long as we don’t notice it too much. The Nazis had exactly the same problem: killing all the residents of a village is 'disproportionate’. They should have killed half, and we could call them humanitarians...
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Kidnapped by Israel
The British Media and The Invasion Of Gaza
Jonathan Cook, Media LensFew readers of a British newspaper would have noticed the story. In the Observer of 25 June, it merited a mere paragraph hidden in the "World in brief" section, revealing that the previous day a team of Israeli commandos had entered the Gaza Strip to "detain" two Palestinians Israel claims are members of Hamas. The significance of the mission was alluded to in a final phrase describing this as "the first arrest raid in the territory since Israel pulled out of the area a year ago". More precisely, it was the first time the Israeli army had re-entered the Gaza Strip, directly violating Palestinian control of the territory, since it supposedly left in August last year...
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President Bush Uncut: Why Israel Gets Away with Murder
Joshua Frank, WRHIt was a candid moment. President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair were chatting over lunch at the Group of Eight summit in St. Petersburg on Monday when a Russian microphone sitting in front of Bush was unknowingly live. After almost three minutes of Bush/Blair uncut (we saw Bush eating with his mouth open and found out he prefers Diet Coke), the focal point of their conversation took a turn toward the Israel/Lebanon conflict. Bush confided in Blair that getting Syria to intervene would end the conflict immediately. "See, the irony is that what they need to do is get Syria to get Hizbullah to stop doing this shit and it's over." And how’s he going to do that? By threatening Syria I’m sure...
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 19 July 2006.
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice....The patriotic Iraqi website at www.albasrah.net published an English translation of a handwritten letter from imprisoned Iraqi President Saddam Husayn on Wednesday. In his letter, dated 7 July, the Iraqi President tells Americans that their president, George Bush, repeatedly lied to them and recounts specific instances in detail. Saddam Husayn writes that the US is heading for a more costly defeat in Iraq than that suffered by America in Viet Nam. Saddam Husayn noted that the days when big organized armies could win wars by scattering the formations of the opposing army were gone. The Iraqi people are waging a new kind of warfare that is turning even technical superiority and high-tech gagetry into a burden. America therefore needs to withdraw from Iraq before it loses more than the war, Saddam Husayn explained. "So will America trust the voice of rationality and logic that calls for the preservation of what still remains," the Iraqi President asked, "or will Satan the deceiver and the hate-filled supporters of Zionism keep pushing the Americans until the waves swallow them and they sink to the depths of the raging sea?"...
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GI Special 4G21: A Large Percentage Hate This War - July 21, 2006
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GI Special 4G20: En Contra De La Guerra - July 20, 2006
Thomas F. Barton |
The Unfolding Horror Show
Will Americans Join Iraqis, Lebanese and Palestinians as Neocon Victims?
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTSWhat explains the indifference of the Bush administration to the slaughter of civilians in Iraq, Lebanon, and Gaza? As of the morning of July 19, Israeli bombardments of Lebanese civilian residential districts and public infrastructure have murdered 300 Lebanese, wounded 1,000, and displaced 500,000. The Lebanese prime minister said that Israel’s attack has caused "unimaginable losses" and that his government will seek compensation from Israel. In Gaza Israel has murdered scores of Palestinian civilians in the past few days. In Iraq the civilian daily death toll has risen above 100...
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