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  • MP Calls for Sanctions on Saudi Arabia
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- An Iranian Parliament member called on the world of Islam to impose political and economic sanctions on Saudi Arabia due to the stances adopted by Riyadh on recent Middle-East crisis. Speaking to FNA in the northwestern city of Zanjan on Saturday, Raf’at Bayat reminded that the war between Israel and Hezbollah is a clash between two opposing schools of thought.
    She further demanded that Hezbollah should not be left alone as it is defending the entire Muslim (…)

  • Demo brings ceasefire calls to UK
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Alexis Akwagyiram
    Thousands of demonstrators joined a march in London on Saturday calling for a ceasefire in Lebanon.
    On a bright afternoon many of central London’s streets were filled with thousands of people of all ages and races chanting in unison.
    "Ceasefire now! Ceasefire now!" was among the chants adopted by the placard holding throng, as was "Hands off Lebanon", and a number of others criticising Tony Blair and George Bush.
    Protesters from differing cultures and faiths were (…)

  • Bloodshed and hope
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    After years of terrorising an occupied people, the rogue regimes of Washington and Tel Aviv may finally have met their match.
    by John Pilger
    Remember Kosovo and the rest of the stricken Balkans? Remember the Kurds in northern Iraq? What moving dispatches those crises generated in the west, together with such damnation for their tormentors. According to my memory, they were each called "the most moral cause of our generation." There was no question, said the crusaders, of right and wrong; (…)

  • Lebanon: Transform the resistance into a broad struggle for national and social liberation
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Claudia Cinatti
    As the Israeli air force, armed by US imperialism, bombs the villages of southern Lebanon, destroys the infrastructure, and assassinates civilians, mostly children, the elderly, and disabled people, the Lebanese government of Fouad Siniora “regrets” that the “international community” won’t intervene to stop the offensive, hoping that the principal sponsor of Israel, the United States, would consider that enough bombs had been dropped by now for a cease-fire to be (…)

  • Israel’s Lost Moment
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Charles Krauthammer
    Israel’s war with Hezbollah is a war to secure its northern border, to defeat a terrorist militia bent on Israel’s destruction, to restore Israeli deterrence in the age of the missile. But even more is at stake. Israel’s leaders do not seem to understand how ruinous a military failure in Lebanon would be to its relationship with America, Israel’s most vital lifeline.
    For decades there has been a debate in the United States over Israel’s strategic value. At critical (…)

  • Newsview: U.S. Interests on Line in Iraq
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By ROBERT H. REID
    BAGHDAD, Iraq — American generals have laid bare the facts: Baghdad is on the brink of chaos, and the specter of all-out civil war looms.
    Instead of standing down, as had been hoped this year, the U.S. military is preparing for a major operation to try to take back Baghdad’s streets from Shiite and Sunni extremists. The goal is to stem sectarian violence that Iraqi security forces could not control.
    The stakes could not be higher: The fate of the U.S. mission in Iraq (…)

  • Israeli-US War in Lebanon and Palestine: a crime against humanity
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    An umbrella organization of various progressive groups today condemned the Israeli Government and its military leadership for the criminal air strikes, sea and land bombardments of Lebanon.
    "We especially abhor the killing of innocent civilians, such as the bombardment of Qana village and the murder of mainly women, children and the old. This is a crime against humanity", said Wilson Fortaleza, spokesperson for Laban ng Masa.
    Also, the war already has claimed the lives of two of our (…)

  • The Knife in the Back
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Uri Avnery
    "In order to embark on a new course, the only one that will solve the problem: negotiations and peace with the Palestinians, the Lebanese, the Syrians. And: with Hamas and Hizbullah."
    The day after the war will be the Day of the Long Knives.
    Everybody will blame everybody else. The politicians will blame each other. The generals will blame each other. The politicians will blame the generals. And, most of all, the generals will blame the politicians.
    Always, in every (…)

  • UPDATE FROM A LEBANON UNDER UNJUSTIFIED ISRAELI WAR RAGE
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Thursday August 3rd, 2006- 23rd day of attack
    August 12th, 2006- INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST AND SOLIDARITY
    Reporting after 23 days of consistent Israeli attacks on Lebanon:
    More than 900 Lebanese people have been killed in three weeks of fighting with Israel, More than 3,200 have been wounded 1 million or a quarter of the total population had been displaced Third of the casualties had been children under 12. Numbers are still not very accurate many bodies still under rubble and (…)

  • Moroccan Jews ask court to try Amir Peretz for war crimes
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By The Associated Press
    Three Jewish Moroccans have submitted Rabat’s high court with a petition against Defense Minister Amir Peretz, accusing the Moroccan-born Israeli of war crimes.
    Leftist activist Abraham Tsarfati, author Amran al-Malich and human rights group official Zion Asidon claim Peretz may be tried in their country due to his Moroccan citizenship.
    "The criminal terrorist, Zionist Amir Peretz, has retained his Moroccan citizenship and is still registered in Morocco’s (…)