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All The Killings With All Those Weapons Given By Americans

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All The Killings With All Those Weapons Given By Americans
Essa bin Mohammed Al-Zedjali, Arab News
Monday, 31, July, 2006

The US administration continues to provide Israel, its closest ally, with the most advanced weapons including the sophisticated Smart and Cluster bombs to be used in its continued war against Lebanon in much the same way they are being used against innocent civilians in the daily bombardment of Palestine.

According to a report in the New York Times last Monday, the US administration has rushed laser-guided precision bombs to Israel after an urgent request from Tel Aviv. The purpose is obviously to target key Hezbollah sites. Ironically, the bombs consignment has been sent to Israel through British airports, which has largely angered the British media who regard this transfer through their land as a tacit approval of Israeli massacres in Lebanon. The international community is well aware of the fact that such weapons, currently being unleashed on Lebanon, are banned by the international law. However, showing scant regard for the such laws, Israel continues to use them with absolute arrogance.

Already possessing an enormous arsenal of advanced weapons, Israel continues to enjoy swift supplies of latest artillery as well as unlimited military support from the US administration to strengthen its armed forces. As a clear proof of Israeli influence in America, its requests are never rejected. Such requests in fact often carry the hint of an order that should be promptly obeyed.

The internationally banned weapons easily find their way to Israel with no respect for international rules and resolutions. Israel never hesitates to use them as has been demonstrated in its war against Lebanon, confirmed by the world media and human rights organizations. The irony of ironies is that despite such confirmations, provided by the independent Western media, the international community, including the US, has hardly raised an eyebrow, let alone a full-throttled condemnation of such barbaric practices.

We all know how the US administration had once brought all the world powers together against Iraq under the pretext that it possessed weapons of mass destruction that were internationally banned.

For this assumption no evidence could be provided by the US administration despite intensive inspection of every inch of the Iraqi land by UN inspectors.

Israel will continue to oppose cease-fire as long as it is backed by the US administration and will continue to bombard Lebanon. During her recent visit to the Middle East, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made it clear that the US government was against an immediate cease-fire. Unfortunately, this will only result in the creation of another Iraq in the Middle East.

Everyone knows how the US stand led to the failure of the Rome conference as Rice outrightly rejected calls for an immediate cease-fire. Israel regards this US stand as a clear consent, a green light or a US blessing, to continue its war against Lebanon.

History tells us that the US administration has always opposed any support, financial or military, to regimes that pose any threat to the international peace and order. This, in Washington’s view, would lead to crimes, bloodletting and waste of innocent lives. In clear violation of this stated stance, the US administration has been generously providing Israel with all types of advanced weapons to continue killing innocent Palestinian and Lebanese people. Israel enjoys a criminal record. A clear evidence of this is the atrocities in Palestine and Lebanon.

In the backdrop of a fast-changing scenario, the US administration comes up with a new slogan every year. In 2005 it was the Great Middle East. Now it is the New Middle East. One wonders what it will be in 2007. The fact is that the world is fed up with the unfair US stance and blind support for Israel despite the fact that the US is the main sponsor of the Middle East peace process. It is now the need of the hour that some other neutral state is tasked with managing the peace process to ensure the end of hostilities and bloodshed in the region. The US administration is fully aware of the irony of Israeli existence as a malignant tumor in the body of Arab nation. However, as long as Israel’s objectives and ambition remain unlimited and unbridled and it continues to enjoy the blind backing of the US administration, the death and destruction in Palestine and Lebanon will continue. It might, in fact, extend to another country or countries.

– Essa bin Mohammed Al-Zedjali is editor in chief of The Times of Oman.

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  • Yes! We all remember the killings with weapons paid for by Americans.

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    The IRA has never been defeated, and came close to completely toppling the British economy with its successful British campaign in the 1980s and 1990s. They managed to cause several major disruptions to commuter trains, subways, key highways, and one of Britain’s premier horseracing events (in which 60,000 people had to be evacuated just minutes before the Grand National steeplechase at Aintree, northwest England). This particular call was a hoax, some were not — it kept the enemy in a state of suspense.

    Some of IRA’s more infamous hits included real and hoax bombs at the famed Harrods department store; the Baltic Exchange bombing, and the Brighton Bombing that nearly succeeded in assassinating British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and would have if it had gone off at the expected time of detonation; a series of financial/economic bombings in London, including the Hong Kong Bank in London, the Shanghai Bank and the landmark NatWest Tower; and, other shopping centres including shopping complexes such as the one at Brent Cross. All of which caused great financial stress because hundreds of extra police and mobile bomb squads were put on duty in London, many holiday shoppers stayed home, and several employees in London’s Stock Exchange, which lies in the heart of the financial district, left their jobs.

    In the 1990s, the IRA also moved into the suburbs and caused disruptions at important events such as the explosion outside a concert in the historic cathedral town of St. Albans, as well as several small bombings at suburban shopping areas, such as Blackpool. In October of 1992, the IRA practically had the city of London under siege with bombings as well as bomb threats occurring weekly. The week of October 10, 1992, for example, included seven bombings; these included explosions near a bridge, a museum, Paddington Green police station and a pub.

    In 1993, the IRA successfully threw air services over London into chaos with repeated mortar attacks and bomb threats. Heathrow and Gatwick airports were frequently closed after coded telephoned bomb threats were received.

    In 1996, at least 120 people were injured when a truck bomb exploded in central Manchester. This bombCanary Wharf Tower successfully closed down the commercial district of Manchester for three days.

    The IRA’s most memorable bombing, however, was Canary Wharf. On 9 February 1996, the IRA bombed London’s Canary Wharf office block. Only two people died in that blast, in which a bomb had been left in an underground garage near the 52-story Canary Wharf Tower, but the explosion severely damaged an entire block in London’s financial district.

    The UK government may support the Yanks, but we the people know who paid for all those weapons. Fuck the Yanks, and long live the cause! The guerrilla warrior knows that capitalists have never allowed their power to be voted away regardless of any idealistic negotiated settlements with revolutionary forces; and Britain, for example, has never left any of its so-called colonies without an armed struggle.

    The fight must go on until the objectives are achieved.