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  • Students Call NZ To Speak Out On Israel Aggression
    17 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Students Call NZ To Speak Out On Israel Aggression
    The University of Auckland’s Students for Justice in Palestine call on the New Zealand government to pressure Israel to end the callous bombing raids in occupied Gaza and nearby Lebanon that has resulted in the death of civilians on both sides. The international community has failed yet again to address the core issues of the Middle East conflict by only calling for ’restraint’ alone, thereby paving the way for another regional conflict. (…)

  • Lebanese Information Minister: Israel is using internationally prohibited weapons against civilians
    16 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Lebanon’s Cabinet today issued a statement saying the country faced “real annihilation” by Israel.
    It also accused the Jewish state of using banned weapons against Lebanese civilians.
    “We are facing a real annihilation carried out by Israel,” Information Minister Ghazi Aridi said after an emergency cabinet meeting.
    “Israel is using internationally prohibited weapons against civilians,” he said.
    He did not elaborate, but Lebanese media reports, which could not be confirmed, claimed (…)

  • Israeli Bombings could lead to Escalation of Middle East War
    16 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Michel Chossudovsky, GlobalResearch.ca
    Following the bombings of Beirut by Israel, there is a danger that the US sponsored Middle East war, which is at present characterized by three distinct war theaters (Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq) will escalate and extend to the entire Middle East - Central Asian region.
    The bombings of Lebanon are part of a carefully planned military agenda. They are not spontaneous acts of reprisal by Israel. They are acts of provocation.
    The attacks (…)

  • Israel prepares to drag Syria & Iran into war
    16 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    How Israel mistook an "aircraft rigged with explosives" for a missile, as the Associated Press reports, is not explained. However, blaming Iran certainly fits the picture, as both Israel and the United States are trying to drag Iran and Syria into Israel’s invasion of Lebanon and thus widen the conflict, as planned.
    Israel Prepares to Invade Syria
    by Kurt Nimmo
    July 15, 2006
    As to be expected, the story about a Hezbollah drone hitting an Israeli warship was tweaked this morning (…)

  • Attacks Are Part of US/Israel Strategy
    16 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Israel, with U.S. support, intends to resist calls for a cease-fire and continue a longer-term strategy of punishing Hezbollah, which is likely to include several weeks of precision bombing in Lebanon, according to senior Israeli and U.S. officials.
    For the United States, the broader goal is to strangle the axis of Hezbollah, Hamas, Syria and Iran, which the Bush administration believes is pooling resources to change the strategic playing field in the Middle East, U.S. officials say. (…)

  • From my home, I saw what the ’war on terror’ meant
    16 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Robert Fisk
    All night I heard the jets, whispering high above the Mediterranean. It lasted for hours, little fireflies nthat were watching Beirut, waiting for dawn perhaps, because it was then that they descended.
    They came first to the little village of Dweir near Nabatiya in southern Lebanon where an Israeli plane dropped a bomb on to the home of a Shia Muslim cleric.
    He was killed. So was his wife. So were eight of his children. One was decapitated. All they could find of a baby (…)

  • Israel’s response to its soldiers’ capture is part of a hamfisted attempt to redraw the region’s map
    16 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The framing of Hizbullah
    by Amal Saad-Ghorayeb in Beirut
    The capture of three Israeli soldiers by the Lebanese resistance movement, Hizbullah, to bargain for prisoner exchange should come as no surprise - least of all to Israel, which must bear its own responsibility for the abductions and is using this conflict to pursue its wider strategic aims.
    The prisoners Hizbullah wants released are hostages who were taken on Lebanese soil. In the successful prisoner exchange in 2004, Israel (…)

  • Means, opportunity & motive (MOM) - Israel, US or South Asian involvement in Mumbai 7/11 atrocity?
    16 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Mumbai bombing atrocity - 200 dead, 700 wounded - has shocked the world. Was this an Indigenous South Asian crime or were the Americans or Israelis involved? Nobody has claimed responsibility as yet. However analysis of Means, Opportunity and Motive (MOM) indicate Indigenous candidates (Kashmiri separatists, Muslim-origin terrorists, Al Qaeda, pro-Israel Hindu supremacists or Indian Intelligence) or Non-indigenous candidates, specifically Israel and the US who are closely linked to (…)

  • JPost.com » International » Article Jul. 16, 2006 0:04 Putin: Israel has goals other than troops
    16 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Russian President Vladimir Putin said early Sunday he believed Israel was pursuing wider goals in its military campaign than the return of abducted soldiers.
    "However complicated the questions are, maximum efforts must be applied to resolve the situation in a peaceful way and I think all efforts have not been exhausted," Putin said.
    "However, it is our impression that aside from seeking to return the abducted soldiers, Israel is pursuing wider goals," the Russian president told a (…)

  • Tel Aviv-Kiryat Shmona flights are still for Jewish passengers only
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Zohar Blumenkrantz, Haaretz Correspondent
    Despite promises made by the Transportation Ministry to install temporary X-ray scanning machines in the Kiryat Shmona airport a month ago, Israeli Arabs and Arab tourists are still barred from flights between Tel Aviv and the northern city.
    The Transportation Ministry, acting on instruction from the Shin Bet security service, had decided that Arabs would not be allowed on domestic flights between the north and Tel Aviv, following a financial (…)