Its “Put up or Shut up” Time in Lebanon
Mike WhitneyThe Israeli High-Command loves the air-war phase of the conflict. After all, no one gets killed at 30,000 ft. The only victims of this lethal-strategy are the unlucky women and children who are left scampering for their lives while Israeli bombs flatten their homes and all their worldly possessions. For 10 days now Israel has casually showered Lebanon with laser-guided munitions, bunker-busters, Daisy Cutters and cluster-bombs. The cheerily-named ordinance reflects the profound affection that US/Israel feel for the deadly weaponry that assures their dominant place in the global order. But, let’s face it; the bombing campaign is the "coward’s war". It doesn’t take bravery to pelt civilians with high-explosives when the F-16s are unchallenged in the sky. Nor does it show any courage to ravage the countryside leveling bridges, milk factories and mosques. That’s just terrorism, isn’t it? But, now we’re entering the ground phase of the war and that does take courage. Israel is massing troops on Lebanon’s southern border and, apparently, has already taken a few small towns in the south. The Israeli-friendly media can be expected to craft a narrative that is sympathetic to the aggressor but, that’s okay. No one disputes the value of propaganda or the rights of the people who own the printing presses, but that will not diminish what is about to take place in southern Lebanon. We are about to see the most powerful army in the Middle East, armed with every homicidal device know to man, go up against a tough-minded, well-disciplined nationalist guerilla-force. Israel thinks that they’ll be out in a week or two. We’ll see...
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Secret 2001 Pentagon Plan to Attack Lebanon
Bush's Plan for "Serial War" revealed by General Wesley Clark
by A Concerned Citizen, GlobalResearch.caAccording to General Wesley Clark--the Pentagon, by late 2001, was Planning to Attack Lebanon "Winning Modern Wars" (page 130) General Clark states the following: "As I went back through the Pentagon in November 2001, one of the senior military staff officers had time for a chat. Yes, we were still on track for going against Iraq, he said. But there was more. This was being discussed as part of a five-year campaign plan, he said, and there were a total of seven countries, beginning with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan. ...He said it with reproach--with disbelief, almost--at the breadth of the vision. I moved the conversation away, for this was not something I wanted to hear. And it was not something I wanted to see moving forward, either. ...I left the Pentagon that afternoon deeply concerned." Of course, this wholly consistent with the US Neocons' master plan, "Rebuilding America's Defenses," published in August 2000 by the Project for the New American Century (PNAC)...
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U.S.: Soldiers Tell of Detainee Abuse in Iraq
Abusive Techniques Were Authorized, Soldiers’ Complaints Ignored
Human Rights WatchTorture and other abuses against detainees in U.S. custody in Iraq were authorized and routine, even after the 2004 Abu Ghraib scandal, according to new accounts from soldiers in a Human Rights Watch report released today. The new report, containing first-hand accounts by U.S. military personnel interviewed by Human Rights Watch, details detainee abuses at an off-limits facility at Baghdad airport and at other detention centers throughout Iraq. In the 53-page report, "No Blood, No Foul: Soldiers’ Accounts of Detainee Abuse in Iraq," soldiers describe how detainees were routinely subjected to severe beatings, painful stress positions, severe sleep deprivation, and exposure to extreme cold and hot temperatures...
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LEBANON VS. THE BBC
Sarah Meyer, INDEX RESEARCHOn 22 July, I joined two Iraqi friends for the peaceful London demonstration for "END ISRAEL'S BARBARISM NOW," organised by Stop the War. The BBC said: "Police estimated that 7,000 people took part in the London rally but organisers said more than 20,000 people had attended the march from Whitehall to Hyde Park." Both BBC-given estimates are wrong. The UK police consistently underestimate crowd size if a demonstration is against UK government policy. The BBC's quote of the organisers is wrong. Stop the War said 30,000 were present. Some said more. The demonstration story is, in any case, buried underneath the headlined story: Rally offers support to Israelis. "A rally is being held to show solidarity with people in areas of northern Israel caught up in the crisis in the Middle East." The BBC thus makes its support of UK (US / Israeli) Government policy, in which the bombing of Lebanon is accepted, abundantly clear...
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Annexation, ethnic cleansing continue amid Zen-like calm from Western media.
Lenin's TombYou remember how quickly the driving out of the Lebanese population from the area south of the Litani and the annexation of the land became 'buffer zone'? Mark how rapidly the 'buffer zone' has become 'civil administration'. See the Jerusalem Post: OC Northern Command Maj.-Gen. Udi Adam acknowledged in a briefing at Northern Command headquarters in Safed on Sunday afternoon that the commander of the IDF's civil administration unit had already begun preparations toward the possibility of instituting a military administration in areas captured by the IDF over the last week. According to Adam, "certain units who will give us breathing space have been called up, including the commander of that unit." The unit's activation, however, would only take place following comprehensive consultations, he said. Yes, "comprehensive consultations" - now, which of the hundreds of thousands of people they've driven out of their homes in the latest episode of Zionist barbarism do you suppose they'll put the questionnaire to? Is it too late for a referendum on this?...
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COMPARISONS
Malcom LagaucheToday, the word "Vietnam" is being used not only by left-wing writers, but by the U.S. general public and members of Congress of both parties. Recently, Amy Goodman of the show Democracy Now that is broadcast on New York radio station WBAI-FM, discussed the 84th birthday of George McGovern, the Democratic presidential candidate in 1972. McGovern was given the largest trouncing of any presidential candidate in history. He was ostracized by his colleagues. Only his anti-war supporters thought of him in good terms. No one should knock McGovern if he has a smirk on his face today. His what appeared to be an idiotic stance on the Vietnam War now is accepted as reality. Let’s go back and see what some people had to say about Vietnam during McGovern’s time and compare the quotes to what is happening in Iraq today. The similarities are eerie...
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Defending Saddam: For many, deposed leader has become symbol of Arab unity
MEGAN K. STACK, Los Angeles Times..."Hey, excuse me," his voice rang out. "Aren’t you Saddam’s lawyer?" Soon they were all around her, five young men with U.S. military-issued badges clipped to their sports shirts. Their eyes were wide; they smiled. "Tell him you met young people here, youth that are sending their greetings to the president," one of the young men said. "We believe he is suffering injustice," said another. They spoke quickly and eagerly and pressed Khalil for her autograph. Iraqis who had been cleared to work in the drab nerve center of Iraq’s U.S.-backed government, in the heavily fortified Green Zone, might appear to be unlikely fans of the ousted president. But perhaps no supporter is more improbable than Khalil, a Shiite Muslim lawyer who has traveled from Lebanon to defend him (...) Khalil’s story illustrates an inherent irony in Saddam’s war crimes trial, which is grinding through its first phase: The Americans pushed to get him into court, but it’s America that has ended up standing trial in the eyes of the Arab public...
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Saddam Hussein on a feeding tube
Eli Stephens, Left I on the NewsSaddam Hussein is on the 17th day of a hunger strike and has just been taken to a hospital and put on a feeding tube. I remember when people were making fun of him because it was reported that his hunger strike had lasted for exactly one meal. But the reason I'm posting this isn't that, and isn't to report news which most of you will have heard or will hear. It's to point out the negative - that you (or I) haven't heard a word about this for the last two weeks...
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Interview: Tina Hannouneh, American beaten by Israeli guards at border crossing
IMEMC Audio Team, transcribed by Tania Tabar - Monday, 24 July 2006...Well, you know what, it was really terrible because as soon as we got in they jumped my son and they wanted to take his ipod and they didn’t even ask, 'Can you give me this?’ He said to him in Arabic 'give me this.’ My son, he doesn’t understand any Arabic. And he said 'no’ and as soon as he said 'no,’ they started hitting him. He hit him, dropped him on the floor and started punching him. I started to interfere, I told him 'you know, he doesn’t speak Arabic.’ Can you speak to him in English?’ I told my son to give him what he wants. He hit my face, hit my nose, and broke my nose. I fell down, I hit my nose and head, and have stitches, like deep ones on my left eye. I started bleeding...
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A Story from Maghazi Refugee Camp, Central Gaza
Rami Almeghari...I am writing this by pencil, on used paper, I can no longer type on my computer. The electricity is fully gone, the backup systems have all been hit. I have to dictate my writing by cell phone to a friend in the West Bank who can type it up - but soon, most likely, my cell phone reception will be gone as well. Now I have heard that two of my relatives were killed in the ongoing attack.....I'll have to attend their funerals this afternoon. Will Israeli forces attack the funeral? Lately every time there is a funeral, their warplanes buzz overhead, dropping bombs on the attendees and making more funerals necessary. I just hope the next one will not be my own, or that of my dear, dear children...
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Feldman and Dershowitz: Mass Murder Apologists
Kurt NimmoAs a "liberal," even "treasonous" newspaper, the New York Times has the curious ability to suck up to the racist sociopaths in Israel and here in America and make profuse if not nauseating excuses for mass murder.
Consider Noah Feldman, not only a law professor at New York University but a "senior fellow" at the Council on Foreign Relations, who writes for the "newspaper of record," or maybe it should be characterized as the newspaper of pro-Israel propaganda and scandalous apologia for crimes against humanity: For its part, Israel is gambling that the right strategy is to make the people who elected Hamas and a government that includes Hezbollah reckon the costs of their representatives’ recklessness. That is why Israel has targeted not only Hezbollah leaders and strongholds but has also bombed infrastructure that sustains daily life for everybody in Lebanon. From Israel’s standpoint, this is no longer a fight with nonstate terrorists who are holding their fellow citizens hostage to their tactics. It is, rather, war between Israel and countries that are pursuing (or tolerating) violent policies endorsed (or at least accepted) by their electorates. How utterly and criminally disgusting...
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It is Time to Replace ALL of the Leaders of the World
Jesse, TvNewsLIES.orgI am saying this on the record, as an American born person, with both Jewish and Christian heritage: I could not imagine being more ashamed and disgusted by my government (American), the government of Israel and my ignorant fellow Americans. I am stunned at my friends and family members who support Israel regardless of what they do. These people do not even realize that every "news item" that comes from Israel must be approved by Israeli military censors (bull shit democracy). I am sickened and infuriated at the members of the corporate entity known as the U.S. Congress and the U.S. media. I am sickened by the portion of the American public that remains embarrassingly ignorant to the history of lies and atrocities perpetrated and/or supported by the United States. But I am most angry at the press for making people like me have to stop their lives to alert the American public about real world that remains hidden from them by the media...
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Burning the Cradle of Civilization
B. J. Sabri, Globalresearch.ca...In the current analysis of the American bombardment of Iraq in 1991, I am not going to debate, refute, or uphold that Nazi violence has inherent qualities that makes it less abhorrent than the one employed by the United States in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and elsewhere. What I intend to demonstrate, instead, is that American violence in Iraq has qualities that belies and contradicts American claims of civilized conduct and the possession of superior moral standards over other civilizations, and irrevocably puts the American brand of violence in a category by itself. Once this demonstration is in place, the resulting picture would be uncompromising: by all standards of impartial comparison and considering the time we live in, the American model of supremacist violence supersedes by its magnitude, cruelty, fascism, cynicism, motives, myths, rationales, execution, details, and ideology, any other form of violence throughout history...
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All Are Equal, Middle East Included
Sonia Nettnin, GlobalResearch.caThe fundamental problem behind the crises in the Middle East is that not all the people who live there are viewed as equal. The US-Israel political, military and financial alliance protects the human rights and dignity of Israeli-Jews, but qualifies and selects the human rights and dignity of the Middle East’s indigenous and multifarious ethnic, religious and sectarian peoples. The root-causes of violence in the Middle East are the devaluation of human life, oppression and occupation...
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DAILY WAR NEWS FOR SUNDAY, JULY 23, 2006
Today in IraqCpl. Matthew P. Wallace, 22, of Lexington Park, Md., died on July 21, in Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, of injuries sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Bradley Fighting Vehicle during combat operations in Baghdad, Iraq, on July 16. Wallace was assigned to the Army's 10th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Hood, Texas. U.S. soldier killed by small arms fire in Baghdad Saturday night. I believe this came too late for yesterday's post. Car bomb at Jameelah market in Sadr City kills 34, wounds 73, according to Iraqi Army statement...
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Cairo, Sunday 23 July 2006
EMERGENCY ACTION: LEBANON
CALL FOR A GENERAL STRIKE
Hana Abdul Ilah Al-Bayaty, BRussells Tribunal Executive Committee & Ian Douglas, BRussells Tribunal Advisory CommitteePublic demonstrations are essential, but even more is demanded of us. The system has to be disrupted completely if there is to be any chance of minimizing the casualties of Israel's coming ground invasion and re-occupation of South Lebanon. We call on all workers, all management, all professions, all unions and syndicates, and all Arabs to begin immediately a general strike. We appeal especially to dockers, oil workers and airport workers. Anyone who has a position in the supply chain for Israel should act on their conscience. This action is needed now. We believe the invasion will begin this week.
General strike, now!
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INTERVIEW-Saddam lawyers say boycott upheld until demands met
Suleiman al-KhalidiiSaddam Hussein's lawyers will boycott the trial of the toppled leader until their demands for a fair trial are met, the chief defence lawyer said on Sunday. Khalil Dulaimi told Reuters in a interview in Amman a three-hour meeting with Saddam on Saturday had only reinforced their decision to uphold a boycott begun on July 10 after a third defence lawyer was killed in Baghdad last month. "We conferred with the president and we decided to continue the full suspension of our attendance of the trial sessions," Dulaimi said."We will return back to the court only after our demands are met. All our demands that represent the minimum for a fair trial have so been refused ... leaving us no option," the lawyer said (...) Saddam was taken to hospital and given food on Sunday after 16 days on a hunger strike and will not attend court on Monday, the chief prosecutor in the former Iraqi leader's trial said. Dulaimi expressed surprise at the sudden hospitalisation of Saddam, saying he appeared in good health on Saturday when he saw him despite a weight loss of several kilograms. He accused U.S. military authorities of force feeding the toppled president to make him end his 16-day hunger strike but said it would not break Saddam's will or force his legal team to reconsider their boycott decision...
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Lawyers call for investigation into Saddam 'hospitalization'
Deutsche Presse-AgenturLawyers for Saddam Hussein on Sunday urged world humanitarian bodies to intervene 'immediately' to investigate the former Iraqi president's deterioration in health after he was reportedly admitted to hospital. 'We hereby urge the world's humanitarian organizations, including the United Nations, to intervene immediately and conduct an investigation into the reasons behind the deterioration in the president's health,' member of the legal team Ziyad Najdawi told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. 'We hold the US troops completely responsible for any developments in this respect,' he said (...) 'The defence team looks with suspicion to Moussawi's statement, because three defence lawyers met with the president on Saturday and found him in good health and high morale,' Najdawi said...
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Hunger-striking Saddam in hospital
Salam FarajIraq's ousted president Saddam Hussein has been admitted to hospital suffering from the effects of his hunger strike and will not appear at the next hearing of his trial on crimes against humanity, the chief prosecutor said. The detained leader, who stopped eating 16 days ago, is too ill to attend the next session scheduled for Monday, prosecutor Jaafar al-Musawi told AFP. "Saddam Hussein has just been admitted to hospital because of his hunger strike. A medical report has established that he cannot appear tomorrow, because his condition needs medical attention," he said Sunday...
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The New Totalitarianism
Rule Through Barbaric Annihilation
Norman Liverpool, GlobalResearch.caThe depraved international cabal that has a stranglehold on American political and financial power constitutes a new type of totalitarianism, pillaging the world through barbaric annihilation and creating a World Police State. American and world citizens have not fully awakened to the monstrous, diabolical nature of this totalitarian regime; they assume it must have some modicum of concern for its people, its nation, and human decency. Wrong! Unless we arouse ourselves from this deadly self-imposed stupor of ignorance, these homicidal maniacs will destroy us and the world...
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GI Special 4G23: Dying In Vain - July 23, 2006
Thomas F. BartonActing "in vain" means carrying out some activity that has not the slightest hope or possibility of success.
Thanks to the report below, we now have irrefutable proof that every U.S. troop killed in Iraq is dying in vain.
It’s reported below that 7,200 U.S. troops are participating in the action supposed to hold down Baghdad, a city of 5 million, about equally divided between the millions in Sadr City, who hate the occupation, and the population of the Sunni areas, who hate the occupation.
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