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  • ISRAEL:73 % say government failed on home front
    11 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ISRAEL:73 % say government failed on home front
    Dafah poll for Yedioth Ahronoth finds that only quarter of the public believes government is properly looking after northern residents Ynet
    The Israeli public backs the war in Lebanon, but is not satisfied with the treatment of the home front: According to a Dahaf Institute poll released Friday in Yedioth Ahronoth, the majority of the general public feels that the leadership has failed in its treatment of the home front, especially (…)

  • Pentagon stopped Bush, Cheney nuking Iran
    11 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Pentagon stopped Bush, Cheney nuking Iran Sherwood Ross Middle East Times August 10, 2006
    WASHINGTON — US President George W. Bush and his vice president abandoned a plan to include "the possible use of a nuclear device" to destroy Iran’s uranium-enrichment plant at Natanz over Pentagon opposition, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh has said.
    "Bush and [Vice President Dick] Cheney were dead serious about the nuclear planning," a former senior intelligence official told Hersh. But Joint (…)

  • Ramzy Baroud: Logic of Israel’s War on Civilians
    11 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Israel has committed yet another colossal strategic error, comparable in magnitude and consequence to the American debacle in Iraq.
    By Ramzy Baroud PalestineChronicle.com
    A Sky News newscaster, interviewing British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett on Sunday, July 30 demanded an answer to this paraphrased question: if indeed Israel had precise intelligence that a Hezbollah operative was present in the village of Qana, in South Lebanon, how could it possibly fail to realize that the area (…)

  • Petition for U.S. Jewish Solidarity with Muslim and Arab Peoples of the Middle East
    11 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This statement was drafted by U.S. Jews committed to stopping and holding accountable Israel for its destructive policies and practices—most immediately for a halt to the current attacks on Lebanon and Gaza.
    We are gathering signatures from Jews committed to this. Our goal is to then publish this statement in the New York Times and other publications.
    Please add your name below as an American Jew of conscience - only if you agree with all 5 points.
    August 8, 2006 Petition for U.S. (…)

  • Olmert cannot remain in the prime minister’s office
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    By Ari Shavit
    Ehud Olmert may decide to accept the French proposal for a cease-fire and unconditional surrender to Hezbollah. That is his privilege. Olmert is a prime minister whom journalists invented, journalists protected, and whose rule journalists preserved. Now the journalists are saying run away. That’s legitimate. Unwise, but legitimate.
    However, one thing should be clear: If Olmert runs away now from the war he initiated, he will not be able to remain prime minister for even one (…)

  • Haniyeh questions viability of PA, raises option of dissolving it
    11 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By News Agencies
    RAMALLAH - Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas questioned yesterday whether the Palestinian Authority can continue to function with key lawmakers and ministers in Israeli jails.
    This is the first time Haniyeh has raised the possibility of dissolving the PA since a Hamas-led government took power in March.
    "All political elites, the presidency, the factions and the government are invited to discuss the future of the Palestinian Authority following this (…)

  • Mabruk, Israel
    11 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Imad Shakur
    Israel had been a temporary state until 1967. After the decisive victory in that war, it stopped being one, but - and I say this in sorrow - it has failed to internalize that fact.
    The main difference between a regular state and a temporary one is that the latter does not believe it can survive a military defeat.
    And here we are, a month after Israel declared war on Lebanon, and regardless of the circumstances and conditions of the declaration, a military defeat is (…)

  • Appeal to all Heads of States and Governments of the European Union Member countries and other European States
    11 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Taking into the most serious consideration the ongoing war in Lebanon as well as the military oppression of the Palestinian people, particularly in the Gaza strip,
    Considering the shocking news on the growing humanitarian catastrophe the ongoing battles in South Lebanon and the air rides on civilian targets in almost all parts of Lebanon create for the people of that country,
    Realizing the results of the political talks a delegation of the Party of the European Left had with politicians (…)

  • On August 12, tens of thousands are marching: Stop the War on Lebanon and Palestine!
    11 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Even at this last moment, organizers around the country are scrambling to find more buses to bring the thousands of people who are coming to Washington on August 12. The people of Lebanon must see that the people of the United States are standing with them against the brutal and barbaric assault on their country and their families.
    The Israeli government has approved a massive ground invasion. Thousands more are likely to die as Bush and the Israeli government pursue the fantasy that they (…)

  • Israel Must Be Held Accountable For Its International Law Violations
    11 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Israel Must Be Held Accountable For Its International Law Violations
    On June 25, the Palestinians responded to continued, unrelenting and unjustifiable Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) attacks against them by striking at an Israeli military post near Kerem Shalom crossing, southeast of Rafah, killing two IDF soldiers, injuring several others, and capturing (not "kidnapping) a third. It set off a swift and deadly IDF response of daily killings and mass destruction in the Occupied Palestinian (…)