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  • Lebanon pays for Hezbollah’s sins
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A report from Lebanon’s south, ravaged by retaliatory Israeli strikes.
    By Mitchell Prothero
    Beirutis expected the worst when word came Wednesday that Hezbollah, the militant group based in south Lebanon, had killed eight Israeli soldiers near the border and seized two more. The region was already on edge, with the Israeli siege of Gaza in its 18th day following the Palestinian kidnapping of an Israel Defense Forces soldier. Everyone knew that Israeli retaliation would be severe. The only (…)

  • Killing civilians and destructing basic structure have been a policy of the Israeli’s government
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Killing civilians and destructing basic structure have been a policy of the Israeli’s government
    The escalation of violence in the middle east has been the result of the policy of the Israeli governments. These government have imprisoned more than ten thousands of Palestinians including some democratically elected members of the Palestinians parliament. While that government refuses to free any of them, it denies the action of some Palestinian groups who have kidnapped an Israeli soldier (…)

  • THE HUMAN CATASTROPHE IN LEBANON
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    All health care professionals should be made aware of the humanitarian disaster occurring right now in the country of Lebanon.
    As always civilians are paying the most serious consequences of decisions taken by politicians. This is cruel and injust.
    The situation in Lebanon is dramatic:
    the entire civilian infrastructure is destroyed, numerous innocent civilians are killed. The ordinary people of Lebanon are completely besieged from the air and the sea. No one can leave or enter the (…)

  • The Mess: What’s next?..and does anyone really care?
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Let’s try to back away from hate for a bit, and look at the current situation realistically.
    Israel has rights, Palestine has rights, and Lebanon is a sovereign country. But all factions have gone over the edge now, and the whole world is staring into the proverbial abyss together. There doesn’t seem to be an exit strategy for any party. It’s what we call in the U.S. a "Mexican Standoff". No winners possible.
    My concern is with the poor guys in the middle of this conflict; shop owners, (…)

  • The war against Palestine and Iraq
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Ibrahim Ebeid
    As the racist war on Iraq and Palestine rages on, the killing of Iraqis and Palestinians continue to proliferate with no end in sight. One might wonder if these coordinated attacks projected by the United States and the Zionist entity were no other than a war of terror and genocide against the Arab Nation?
    As a person who was born in Palestine, before the creation of the Zionist state, I was observing the racist acts of the West unfolding against my own country, (…)

  • The Dreamslayers & the Internet
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jim Kirwan
    Unregulated Capitalism is a continuing crime that has enabled most of what passes for commerce today.
    The latest and perhaps most serious attempt to regulate those of us who challenge these behemoths of commerce and industry; is the pending legislation that seeks total control over who can use the world-wide web. If these people have their way, the internet will become a toll-road with diamond lanes for them and the backroads of lengthy delays for the rest of America. If (…)

  • Why must every country be forced into the United States’ way of thinking?
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Mary MacElveen
    A reader responding to my article concerning North Korea wrote me this response: "Your article makes clear that North Korea is the bigger threat if Chavez is even any kind of threat at all. But I’m curious, you made no mention of the Chavez visit to North Korea planned for later this month. Do you think it wise for Chavez to belly up to the beast as it were? You could make the moral equivalence of the US allies that are just as bad as Kim Jung Il, but I’d rather hear of (…)

  • Lieberman’s Real Problem
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Harold Meyerson
    I am about to become a traitor to my class. Among my estimable colleagues in the Washington commentariat, the idea that Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman is facing a serious challenge from a fellow Democrat over Lieberman’s support for the Iraq war seems to evoke incredulity and exasperation. On the op-ed pages of leading newspapers, we read that Lieberman is "the most kind-hearted and well-intentioned of men" (that’s from the New York Times’ David Brooks), a judgment that (…)

  • When Civilians Become Targets: The Israeli Destruction of Lebanon and Gaza
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Remi Kanazi
    In the last two weeks, Israel has sent a chilling message to the Palestinian and Lebanese people: civilians and infrastructure are legitimate targets in their war of aggression. The Geneva Conventions have been fragrantly violated and humanitarian law has been thrown into the garbage can. The Israeli government would have us believe that the killing of civilians is the “necessary consequence” of holding one Israeli prisoner in Gaza and two Israeli prisoners in Lebanon.
    On (…)

  • US Policy In Lebanon
    14 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    US Policy In Lebanon By Ray Close || a former CIA analyst in the Near East division || Member, Steering Group, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (sent via Larry Johnson, and posted by SusanUnPC) Thursday, July 13, 2006 Dear Friends:
    Not surprisingly, some (not all) of my Israeli and American Jewish friends have objected strenuously to my characterization of Israel’s response to recent Hamas and Hizballah actions as disproportionate and counterproductive.
    Let me make it (…)