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  • UN slams Israel’s use of cluster bombs in Lebanon
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    UN slams Israel’s use of cluster bombs in Lebanon
    8/30/2006 8:00:00 PM GMT
    The United Nations’ humanitarian chief, Jan Egeland, slammed Israel for its “completely immoral” use of cluster bombs in Lebanon, the BBC reported.
    UN efforts to clear cluster bombs in Lebanon have been under way since the Israeli offensive ended two weeks ago.
    According to Egeland, the UN Mine Action Co-ordination Centrehad had found "nearly 85 percent of bombed areas in south Lebanon" and identified "359 (…)

  • Behind the plan to bomb Iran
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    Behind the plan to bomb Iran By Ismael Hossein-zadeh
    Speaking Freely is an Asia Times Online feature that allows guest writers to have their say.
    It is no longer a secret that the administration of US President George W Bush has been methodically paving the way toward a bombing strike against Iran. The administration’s plans of an aerial military attack against that country have recently been exposed by a number of reliable sources. [1]
    There is strong evidence that the US (…)

  • Gathering nuclear storm
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    Gathering nuclear storm By Arnaud de Borchgrave August 29, 2006
    Just days before the United Nations Security Council deadline for Iran to cease and desist enriching uranium, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave the West the Iranian bird. By inaugurating a "heavy-water" reactor, Iran instantly doubled its chances of acquiring nuclear weapons. Adding insult to injury, the military mullahs test-fired a new long-range missile — the Thaqeb, or Saturn, a submarine-to-surface weapon.
    The new (…)

  • Italian Islamic groups forced to sign a Statement of Values
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Shaping opinions by constriction
    By Mary Rizzo
    In a functional democracy, one of the basic principals is that there should be the recognition of the right of individuals to hold their own opinion. This is often extended to groups, as is natural, since groups are nothing more than individuals who share things in common. The right to hold an opinion also entails the right to express that opinion, even if it is in dissent from the dominant or majority one. There are many ways to express an (…)

  • Towards the Truth Regarding War Crimes Committed in Lebanon
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Lebanon has been victim of what the French government has called a ‘disproportionate’ act of war committed by Israel. This war has violated international law which stipulates that all attacks should be in keeping with proportionality and a limited use of violence against only military objectives. In addition, Israeli military operations contravened the First Additional Protocol of the Geneva Conventions, which stipulates that collective punishments and actions against the civilian (…)

  • Iran may pull out of NPT; U.S. weighing sanctions without UN
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Yossi Melman and Shlomo Shamir, Haaretz Correspondents and Agencies
    Iran may develop nuclear weapons and pull out from the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) if international pressure against its nuclear program continues, a senior Iranian official warned yesterday.
    The statements made by Iranian Parliament Vice Speaker Mohammad Reza Bahonar mark the first time a senior Iranian official specifically mentioned the development of nuclear weapons as part of the country’s nuclear program, (…)

  • A Father’s Ode to His Lost Son
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Haim Watzman
    David Grossman, a leading Israeli novelist and peace activist, lost his soldier-son, Uri, earlier this month. Uri was serving on the front lines in Lebanon and was killed two days before the U.N.-brokered cease-fire. He died two weeks before his 21st birthday. His father delivered these remarks at his funeral on Aug. 16.
    My Dearest Uri,
    For the last three days, almost every thought has had a "won’t" in it. He won’t come home, we won’t talk, we won’t laugh. That boy with (…)

  • Selective Prosecution of War Crimes
    30 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Ivan Eland
    In Saddam Hussein’s war crimes trial for the 1988 Iraqi “Anfal” campaign that gassed Kurdish villages, his defense lawyers have argued that Iraqi forces were really attempting to strike Iranian forces and the Iraqi Kurdish pesh merga militias that were in and supported by the hamlets. In other words, the lawyers are asserting that the innocent Kurds who were killed were collateral damage in an effort by the Iraqi government to rid its territory of Iranian fighters and their (…)

  • For Israel’s Security?: Zainab Fawqi-Sleem and the Question of Lebanon
    30 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By RAMZY KYSIA
    Houla, Lebanon.
    Yesterday, I shed my first tears for Lebanon.
    Yesterday, I visited Houla, a stone’s throw from the Israeli border.
    Yesterday, I was discovered by Zainab Fawqi-Sleem - a young, Lebanese woman who was killed in Houla, alongside her sister-in-law, Selma, on July 15th. Zainab is but one of over 1,300 innocents killed in this war, but she is the one who found me.
    On October 31st, 1948, in one of the few massacres of the Nakba to occur inside Lebanon, (…)

  • Slowly Sidling To Iraq’s Exit
    30 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Many GOP Candidates Part Company With Bush
    By E. J. Dionne Jr.
    By Election Day, how many Republican candidates will have come out against the Iraq war or distanced themselves from the administration’s policies?
    August 2006 will be remembered as a watershed in the politics of Iraq. It is the month in which a majority of Americans told pollsters that the struggle for Iraq was not connected to the larger war on terrorism. They thus renounced a proposition the administration has pushed (…)