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  • U.S. & Israel Selecting Targets for Cruise Missile First-Strike Attack
    8 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    U.S. & Israel Selecting Targets for Cruise Missile First-Strike Attack
    Bruce K. Gagnon - Global Network August 8, 2006
    Multiple military sources have told the Global Network that Pentagon personnel responsible for selecting targets for cruise missile first strike attacks have been sent to Israel.
    This indicates that U.S. and Israeli military strategists are now likely meeting to plan a joint attack on Syria and/or Iran.
    The Persian Gulf war and the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq (…)

  • ANALYSIS: Pleased with the UN draft, but keeping quiet
    8 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Aluf Benn, Haaretz Correspondent
    Israel refrained from issuing an official response Saturday to the draft resolution presented by the United States and France to the United Nations Security Council, which called for a full cessation of violence between Israel and Hezbollah. The silence is not accidental.
    The final version of the resolution has not yet been approved, and it could change. Demonstrated Israeli enthusiasm for the draft could influence support among Security Council (…)

  • Ignoring Military Incursions
    8 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Palestine Monitor
    Four Palestinians killed and seventy injured during Israeli military incursion into Ramallah Four Palestinians were killed after being fired upon with live bullets in the central square in Ramallah on Wednesday during an Israeli military incursion. One Palestinian died after being hit in the head by an exploding bullet, another after being struck in the chest by a high velocity bullet. Another seventy Palestinians were injured, fifteen severely, and five arrested.
    The (…)

  • The Case for Boycotting Israel. Boycott Now!
    8 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By VIRGINIA TILLEY Johannesburg, South Africa.
    It is finally time. After years of internal arguments, confusion, and dithering, the time has come for a full-fledged international boycott of Israel. Good cause for a boycott has, of course, been in place for decades, as a raft of initiatives already attests. But Israel’s war crimes are now so shocking, its extremism so clear, the suffering so great, the UN so helpless, and the international community’s need to contain Israel’s behavior so (…)

  • Civilian Killings Went Unpunished
    8 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Nick Turse and Deborah Nelson, Special to The Times
    The men of B Company were in a dangerous state of mind. They had lost five men in a firefight the day before. The morning of Feb. 8, 1968, brought unwelcome orders to resume their sweep of the countryside, a green patchwork of rice paddies along Vietnam’s central coast.
    They met no resistance as they entered a nondescript settlement in Quang Nam province. So Jamie Henry, a 20-year-old medic, set his rifle down in a hut, unfastened (…)

  • De-Arabization of Arab League
    8 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 (…)

  • Out to Lunch
    8 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Remi Kanazi
    The US media’s biased coverage of the crisis in Lebanon should come as no surprise. While the White House and Congress claim a “special relationship” with Israel, our news outlets are not supposed to have a “special relationship” with anyone. Their job is to fairly reports on matters; anything less is a disservice to those watching their news programs and reading their newspapers.
    Shockingly, Larry King Live has been “fair” in its coverage of the conflict consuming Lebanon (…)

  • IFI drops Israeli embassy as sponsor of film
    8 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Michael Dwyer, Film Correspondent
    The Irish Film Institute has cancelled its sponsorship arrangement with the Israeli embassy in Irelandfor the screening of an Israeli film at the IFI cinemas in Dublinthis weekend.
    The screening of the film, Walk On Water, will go ahead as scheduled tomorrow evening.
    IFI director Mark Mulqueen informed the embassy of the decision on Monday in a statement which reads: "The decision is taken in light of the current activities of the Israeli (…)

  • Must See Video How British MP Galloway Blasts Zionist Media Live on SKY News
    7 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Must See Video How British MP Galloway Blasts Zionist Media Live on SKY News
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=249JaIaubVw

  • Boycott Now!
    7 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Johannesburg, South Africa. It is finally time. After years of internal arguments, confusion, and dithering, the time has come for a full-fledged international boycott of Israel. Good cause for a boycott has, of course, been in place for decades, as a raft of initiatives already attests. But Israel’s war crimes are now so shocking, its extremism so clear, the suffering so great, the UN so helpless, and the international community’s need to contain Israel’s behavior so urgent and compelling, (…)