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  • 10 reasons to be happy about invading Iraq
    7 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    (In no order)
    1. We got to test drones, cluster bombing, white phosphor gas effects, new sniper tactics, one ton bomb dropping, new F-16 weaponry, and precision targeting of mosques and ambulances (sometimes we missed!)
    2. Anyone holding Halliburton, KBR, Custer Battles, Boeing, IBM, Exxon or Bechtel stock made out like a bandit!
    3. We had a wonderful chance to employ the embedding process for reporters and to renew old propaganda programs about democracy, freedom, and the joys of "The (…)

  • US/Israel Selecting Targets For Cruise Missile Attack
    7 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    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 join attack on Syria and/or Iran.
    The Persian Gulf war and the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq both began with cruise missile attacks by the U.S. from Naval ships. U.S. military satellites were used to guide the missiles to (…)

  • THE DESIRED PEACE
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    THE DESIRED PEACE
    Lecture, given by the Beinsa Douno, August 28, 1938, Sofia, Izgrev
    Nowadays, more than any other time, the contemporary world needs peace. Why? Peace has provided conditions for the greatest acquisitions of culture and the fifth human race is on its way to assure it.
    Nowadays, more than any other time, there are reasonable people who have come to the awareness that the first condition for the normal development of humanity is peace. That is why, today, all conscious (…)

  • US Officials speak truth about Israel
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    US Officials speak truth about Israel
    My fellow Americans
    I think you should watch this five minute video
    US Officials speak truth about Israel
    IF AMERICANS NEW
    In my opinion, I think is is time that Citizens of America begin using Israeli tactics against members of Congress, the Senate and the President. Perhaps if they experience them first hand, they may not be so inclined to continue supporting the use of such tactics by Israel, against Arabs.
    In fact, I think we may do far (…)

  • A World in Love with Death. One Country Bombed Two Countries
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By EDUARDO GALEANO
    One country bombed two countries. Such impunity might astound were it not business as usual. In response to the few timid protests from the international community, Israel said mistakes were made.
    How much longer will horrors be called mistakes?
    This slaughter of civilians began with the kidnapping of a soldier.
    How much longer will the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier be allowed to justify the kidnapping of Palestinian sovereignty?
    How much longer will the (…)

  • ’Single issue’ candidate knows what’s important
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    BY JESSE JACKSON
    To this day, Joe Lieberman still doesn’t get it. The 18-year incumbent Democratic senator from Connecticut is in the battle for his political life in the Democratic primary. He dismisses his challenger — Ned Lamont, a Connecticut businessman whose campaign is grounded on opposition to the war in Iraq, as a single-issue candidate.
    But Iraq is not a single issue, it is a central issue — both for the country and for the Democratic Party. It is a catastrophic foreign policy (…)

  • The most unsuccessful war
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Ze’ev Sternhell
    No situation can continue to exist for long without an ideological reason. That’s how when once it was clear that it was not achieving its aims, an unsuccessful military campaign was upgraded with the wave of a magic wand to the level of a war of survival. When everyone understood that a moral reason had to be found both for the dimensions of the destruction sowed in Lebanon and the killing of the civilian population there, and for the Israeli dead and wounded (nobody is (…)

  • Political Arena / Wanted: A winning image
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Aluf Benn
    Borrowing from the world of soccer beloved to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, the Israel Defense Forces operation in Lebanon went into overtime yesterday.
    Olmert wants to take another stab at a decisive conclusion before the UN Security Council blows the final whistle. That’s why he convened the cabinet yesterday to approve a wide-scale ground operation targeting villages used by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
    Olmert is fighting the battle over public opinion, both at home and (…)

  • Obligations under international humanitarian law of the parties to the conflict in Israel and Lebano
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ISRAEL/LEBANON: ISRAEL AND HIZBULLAH MUST SPARE CIVILIANS
    Obligations under international humanitarian law of the parties to the conflict in Israel and Lebanon
    Introduction
    The armed conflict between Israel and Hizbullah continues to be characterized by killing of civilians, mass forced displacement and attacks on civilian infrastructure. The evidence so far, including the pattern of attacks, the extent of civilian casualties and statements by the parties indicates that serious (…)

  • Robert Fisk: A Nato-led force would be in Israel’s interests, but not Lebanon’s
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Robert Fisk
    Every foreign army - including the Israelis - comes to grief in Lebanon.
    So, how come George Bush and Lord Blair of Kut al-Amara - after their inevitable disasters in Afghanistan and Iraq - believe that a Nato-led force is going to survive on the south Lebanese border? The Israelis would obviously enjoy watching its deployment - it will be time for the West to take the casualties - but Hizbollah is likely to view its arrival as a proxy Israeli army. It is, after all, (…)