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  • Hizballah: A Primer
    4 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    byLara Deeb
    (Lara Deeb, a cultural anthropologist, is assistant professor of women’s studies at the University of California-Irvine. She is author of An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi‘i Lebanon.)
    Hizballah, the Lebanese Shi‘i movement whose militia is fighting the Israeli army in south Lebanon, has been cast misleadingly in much media coverage of the ongoing war. Much more than a militia, the movement is also a political party that is a powerful actor in Lebanese (…)

  • US-Israeli state terrorism (USIST) - huge death toll predicted for devastated Lebanon and Palestine
    4 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    US state terrorism has exacted a horrendous death toll in Bush’s War on Terror. Unfortunately Mainstream Media scrupulously IGNORE the harsh reality that the vast bulk of avoidable deaths in the Bush Wars have been non-violent but nevertheless avoidable deaths due to economic and infrastructure destruction. Thus the post-invasion VIOLENT deaths in Iraq total about 44,000 (according to Iraq Body Count) but the total post-invasion deaths total 0.5 million (see: , ).
    The post-1967 (…)

  • De-Arabization of Arab League
    3 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nicola Nasser*
    The Israeli bombardment of Lebanon and Palestine as well as the ongoing U.S. process of abruptly and forcibly delivering to life a lifeless new U.S.-modeled Iraqi regime are crushing the Arab League “system” in a life-or-death test and again pushing it into a collision course with the people.
    Almost all the constitutions and basic laws of the Arab League’s twenty-two states, including the stateless Palestinian Authority, stipulate that their peoples and countries are an (…)

  • WHY MUST THE RIGHT WING SOUND SO BRUTALLY STUPID?
    3 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    July 31, 2006
    WHY MUST THE RIGHT WING SOUND SO BRUTALLY STUPID?
    John Chuckman
    Just when I thought he had shown a glimmer of statesmanship, Stephen Harper, Canada’s prime minister courtesy of just over one-third of the vote, reverted to character. Following Israel’s apparently-deliberate targeting of four UN observers in Lebanon, including one Canadian, Harper thought it appropriate to ask, not why Israel killed them, but why the observers were there?
    His inspired question reminded me (…)

  • Bush Making More Enemies in the Middle East
    3 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By failing to press for the impeachment of President Bush and his most bellicose advisors, the American people and their elected members of the House of Representatives expose our country to ever greater hatred and isolation. By permitting President Bush to pursue his policy of domination through threat and lawless force, we risk ever widening international violence.
    The new tragedy of Lebanon has brought death to hundreds of civilians, children, women and men. Hundreds of thousands, (…)

  • Chavez Claims : Israel Resembles Hitler
    3 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Chavez Claims : Israel Resembles Hitler By Anadolu News Agency (aa), Tehran Monday, July 31, 2006 zaman.com
    Veneuzela President Hugo Chavez condemned Israel’s attack on Lebanon and Palestine. During an official two-day visit to Iran’s capital Tehran, Chavez declared, “What Israel is doing is fascism and terrorism. We call on the world to stop Israel’s insanity,” during a ceremony at the University of Tehran in which he was awarded the Order of the Islamic Republic of Iran, First Grade. (…)

  • The most unsuccessful war
    3 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    found this article in Hareetz against the war... Can be an information but it is far from to be enough;-) The most unsuccessful war By Ze’ev Sternhell
    No situation can continue to exist for long without an ideological reason. That’s how when once it was clear that it was not achieving its aims, an unsuccessful military campaign was upgraded with the wave of a magic wand to the level of a war of survival. When everyone understood that a moral reason had to be found both for the dimensions (…)

  • The Qana Massacre And The Risks In Relying On Israeli Propaganda
    2 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    THE QANA MASSACRE AND THE RISKS IN RELYING ON ISRAELI PROPAGANDA
    On July 30, the Israeli Defense Force (“IDF”) released infrared aerial footage purporting to show a Hezbollah Katyusha battery situated in a residential area of Qana, firing rockets at Israel. The IDF claimed that Hezbollah hid the trucks, which are used as launch platforms for the Katyushas, in and around residential neighborhoods in Qana, in support of its claim that Hezbollah is using civilians as human shields. (The (…)

  • Sheik Up
    2 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Annia Ciezadlo – Beirut Despatch New Republic July/August 2006
    In the early hours of September 13, 1997, the Israeli army killed one 45-year-old woman, two Hezbollah fighters, and six Lebanese soldiers in the mountains of southern Lebanon. Later that day, Hezbollah officials viewed video footage of the bodies and confirmed that one of the slain was a precious kill indeed: 18-year-old Hadi Nasrallah, son of Hezbollah’s leader, Secretary-General Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah.
    That evening, (…)

  • Blair, Olmert and Bush are murderers
    2 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “Expanding and strengthening†the onslaught against the people of Lebanon. That was Israel’s response to the international outcry over the slaughter of 56 civilians, most of them children, in Qana.
    And with the world’s eyes turned to the increasingly savage offensive in southern Lebanon, Israel has tightened the noose of collective punishment around the Palestinians in Gaza.
    Accompanying all this are the barely concealed calls in Washington for an assault on Iran and Syria.
    No (…)