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Israel using Depleted Uranium in Lebanon - Melbourne Stop the War Hiroshima Day media statement

by Open-Publishing - Friday 4 August 2006

Nuclear Wars and conflicts International

Melbourne Stop the War media statement

Israel is using depleted uranium in its brutal war on Lebanon. The time
to act against war and nuclear madness is NOW!*

Thousands of people will be marching in Melbourne, on ’Hiroshima Day",
Sunday August 6 against war and for a nuclear free future. *On August 6,
1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on the historic Japanese city of
Hiroshima and three days later on Nagasaki. While this was a military
triumph for the United States, for humanity it is a lasting tragedy.*

"Unfortunately the threat of nuclear war has returned with a vengeance
and is coupled with a real push by the Howard government and the
opposition leader Kim Beazley for an increase of uranium mining here in
Australia and the possibility of using nuclear power in the near
future", says Hillel Freedman , spokesperson for the Hiroshima Day
rally. " Nuclear power is being promoted by the nuclear industry and the
Howard government as safe, green and inexpensive - this is a blatant
lie. The opposite is true; it is dirty, dangerous and prohibitively
expensive as an energy source and used in war it has the capacity to
wipe out humanity. Howard and big business are not interested in the
preservation of the planet - only their profits ".

Margarita Windisch, spokesperson for the Hiroshima Day rally adds that
evidence has emerged that Israel is using United States produced GBU 28
bunker busters bombs which contain depleted uranium warheads in its
horrific assault upon the Lebanese people, despite these weapons being
classified by the United Nations as illegal weapons of mass destruction.
"Depleted Uranium a byproduct of the United States’ nuclear fuel cycle,
which sources much of its uranium from Australia".

She continues, "In its illegal invasion and continuing occupation of
Iraq the US is not only responsible for a massive loss of life,
destruction of infrastructure and theft of resources, it has also fired
500 tons of depleted ammunition into Iraq. - These are war crimes!"

The Hiroshima Day organising committee is very concerned with the
developments in the Middle East. "Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine are
occupied; Lebanon is being bombarded back into the Dark Ages - who will
be next, Iran? The US and its allies Britain, Australia and Israel have
to be stopped in their fanatical and murderous war drive, says Windisch,
"We are calling on our government to condemn Israel’s war and break all
economic, military and diplomatic ties with Israel. Hiroshima Day is a
day for Peace and that’s what we will be rallying for on Sunday"

Rally and March: Sunday August 6, 1pm State Library, CityMelbourne

Stop Israel’s War on Lebanon and Palestine, Troops out of Iraq and
Afghanistan, Don’t attack Iran; No Uranium mining, No Nuclear Power!

For more information and interviews contact

Hillel Friedman on 0417506150 or Margarita Windisch on 9639 8622 or
0438 869 790