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  • Meanwhile, in Gaza
    18 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Gideon Levy
    The Gaza Strip has been completely closed to Israeli journalists for the last two months or so, since soldier Gilad Shalit was abducted. Not that hordes of these journalists have been gathering en masse at the Erez border crossing. Israel has been engrossed in another war, and even during normal times, it averts its gaze from what goes on in Gaza. However, the Israel Defense Forces has been operating quite energetically there recently, with no Israeli eyes keeping track of (…)

  • Palestinian Self-defeating Unilateralism
    17 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nicola Nasser* With the Palestinian - Israeli peace process dormant, deadlocked and declared “dead” and at least two thirds of the Palestinians living in exile hosted and influenced by regional powers, the Palestinian leadership is facing an overdue review of its self-defeating unilateral approach to change course towards a multilateral, or better a collective, Arab approach to resolving the conflict with Israel. Adapting to an Israeli intransigent insistence on bilateral tracks of (…)

  • Olmert may not survive this disastrous war
    17 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Olmert may not survive this disastrous war
    By Gwynne Dyer The ceasefire in southern Lebanon will not hold. Israel will probably lose more soldiers killed in combat in the next month than in the past month (119). Ehud Olmert will probably no longer be prime minister of Israel by the end of this year. And it is all too likely that Binyamin Netanyahu will take his place.
    The UN-sponsored ceasefire will not hold because Hezbollah has not been defeated. Despite a month of pounding by (…)

  • In the face of Bush’s lies, it’s left to Assad to tell the truth
    17 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    In the face of Bush’s lies, it’s left to Assad to tell the truth
    Robert Fisk - The Independent August 16, 2006
    In the sparse Baathist drawing rooms of Damascus, reality often seems a long way away. But it was a sign of the times that President Bashar al-Assad was able to bring the great and the good of Damascus to their feet by the simple token of telling the truth - which no other Arab leader has chosen to do these past five weeks: that the Lebanese Hizbollah guerrilla army has, in (…)

  • Iraq War Vets’ Support for Lt. Watada Growing
    17 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Sarah Olson
    Clifton Hicks was looking for a body. Specifically, the Army tank driver was fumbling about in the dark, looking for and failing to find the remains of the Iraqis who, moments before, had been firing on his tank. When Hicks’s flashlight swept the ground around his feet, he realized he was standing in the remains of a man. Literally. His boots wedged between the rib cage and the pelvis, blood and human organs squishing out from beneath the soles of his shoes.
    It’s this (…)

  • HILLARY CLINTON: IS SHE THE NEXT PRO-WAR DEMOCRAT TO FALL?
    17 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Randolph T. Holhut
    DUMMERSTON, Vt. - Joe Lieberman’s sorry hide has been nailed to the wall, and there is rejoicing in the land (except from the lobbyists, pundits and political hacks who make up the permanent occupation force of Washington).
    And while I am pleased to see a discredited, humiliated Lieberman forced to cast his lot in with his friends in the Republican Party, I won’t be completely convinced that the revolution is here until Hillary Clinton’s hide is nailed to the wall (…)

  • Israeli Black Panthers support the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
    16 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Israeli Black Panthers support the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
    by Reuven Abarjel, introduction by Jeffrey Blankfort
    During the late ‘60s and into the ‘70s, the reputation of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, which had its start in Oakland in 1966, spread far and wide, not only throughout the United States, but around the world, where the party was considered the leading arm of the Black liberation struggle in AmeriKKKa.
    In Israel, the Black Panthers’ exploits (…)

  • 12000 US Dead in Iraq, 25000 Seriously Wounded
    16 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    12000 US Dead in Iraq, 25000 Seriously Wounded
    Brian Harring - TBR News.org August 15, 2006
    Note: There is excellent reason to believe that the Department of Defense is deliberately not reporting a significant number of the dead in Iraq. We have received copies of manifests from the MATS that show far more bodies shipped into Dover AFP than are reported officially. The actual death toll is in excess of 10,000. (See the official records linked at the end of this piece.) Given the (…)

  • The “European Left” calls on European powers to intervene in Lebanon
    16 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Lucas Adler and Peter Schwarz
    The Party of the European Left (EL) has appealed to the heads of the European Union (EU) and European governments to play a more active role in the present conflict in the Middle East.
    In a statement adopted August 1 by the EL executive committee, the organisation says it is bewildered by “the weak, irresponsible position of the EU and European governments with seats on the UN Security Council, faced with the necessity to exert maximum pressure on all (…)

  • Israel’s verdict: We lost the war
    16 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Israel’s verdict: We lost the war
    By Donald Macintyre in Metulla, Israel
    Published: 15 August 2006
    from The Independent & The Independent on Sunday
    16 August 2006 11:36 Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister, was obliged to admit "shortcomings" in the 34-day-old conflict in Lebanon yesterday as he launched what may prove a protracted fight for his own political survival.
    Mr Olmert’s admission in a stormy Knesset session came in the face of devastating poll figures showing (…)