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  • Israelis accused of ’human shields’ tactic
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Lucy Williamson
    The Israeli army has been accused of using Palestinian civilians as human shields in an operation in northern Gaza.
    According to the Israeli human rights group, B’tselem, six civilians including two minors were subjected to the illegal tactic during an incursion into the town of Beit Hanoun last week.
    There are piles of rubble leading up to the hole in Hazem Ali’s house.
    It’s a week since Israel came into Beit Hanoun, but the gash in the side of his house is still (…)

  • Israel : News on a Platter
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Matthias Gebauer
    Propaganda is part of every war, just like bombs and soldiers. Still, it’s remarkable how professionally Israel deals with foreign journalists, catering conscientiously to all their needs. Lunch included.
    The phone rings at 9 a.m. — right on time. "Hello, this is the Government Press Office," pipes a woman’s voice. "What are you planning to do today? Do you need an idea?" And then the suggestions just keep coming — interview partners; a tour to the houses in Haifa (…)

  • Images of protest against Lebanon massacre
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Daniel Patrick Welch
    These are some signs made for a local Lebanese solidarity event. The original inspiration came from an interview I heard with Tina Naccache from Lebanon, who mentioned that they had made pictures of bombs with US and Israeli flags on them for a protest in Beirut.
    It seemed right to the point, and I came up with these - I really wanted to drive home the central point of US complicity for an American audience, which I hope I’ve done passing well.
    The links between (…)

  • Thousands of U.S. troops say they won’t fight
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Thousands of U.S. troops say they won’t fight
    By Ana Radelat Gannett News Service
    Swept up by a wave of patriotism after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Chris Magaoay joined the Marine Corps in November 2004.
    The newly married Magaoay thought a military career would allow him to continue his college education, help his country and set his life on the right path.
    Less than two years later, Magaoay became one of thousands of military deserters who have chosen a lifetime of exile or possible (…)

  • Chosen Murderers, Chosen Liars, Chosen Panderers, Chosen Victims
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Chosen Murderers, Chosen Liars, Chosen Panderers, Chosen Victims
    Written by Mohamed Khodr, Sunday, 06 August 2006
    Israel, American Media, Congress, Muslims and Christians
    "The media focuses its total attention and coverage on the suffering of Israelis and their uncontrollable ?anxiety? (ignoring the destruction and civilian deaths in Lebanon and Gaza) due to the worthless Hamas Qassam rockets and Hezbollah?s barrage of inaccurate rockets. BUT, more importantly, they accept and parrot (…)

  • SAUDI ARABIA: British Embassy requests less horrific images while Bahrain daily resists censorship
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    UK envoy’s plea over Lebanon urges press not to highlight suffering
    Riyadh --- Regional press has taken strong note of the British Charge d’Affaires to Bahrain, Stephen Harrison’s request to Bahraini newspapers to stop publishing pictures of destruction and suffering in Lebanon.
    Quoting the incident the Saudi daily Arab News on Thursday said the Bahraini press has interpreted the request to self-censorship.
    The English version of the letter provided by the embassy in Bahrain quoted (…)

  • MP Calls for Sanctions on Saudi Arabia
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- An Iranian Parliament member called on the world of Islam to impose political and economic sanctions on Saudi Arabia due to the stances adopted by Riyadh on recent Middle-East crisis. Speaking to FNA in the northwestern city of Zanjan on Saturday, Raf’at Bayat reminded that the war between Israel and Hezbollah is a clash between two opposing schools of thought.
    She further demanded that Hezbollah should not be left alone as it is defending the entire Muslim (…)

  • Demo brings ceasefire calls to UK
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Alexis Akwagyiram
    Thousands of demonstrators joined a march in London on Saturday calling for a ceasefire in Lebanon.
    On a bright afternoon many of central London’s streets were filled with thousands of people of all ages and races chanting in unison.
    "Ceasefire now! Ceasefire now!" was among the chants adopted by the placard holding throng, as was "Hands off Lebanon", and a number of others criticising Tony Blair and George Bush.
    Protesters from differing cultures and faiths were (…)

  • Bloodshed and hope
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    After years of terrorising an occupied people, the rogue regimes of Washington and Tel Aviv may finally have met their match.
    by John Pilger
    Remember Kosovo and the rest of the stricken Balkans? Remember the Kurds in northern Iraq? What moving dispatches those crises generated in the west, together with such damnation for their tormentors. According to my memory, they were each called "the most moral cause of our generation." There was no question, said the crusaders, of right and wrong; (…)

  • Lebanon: Transform the resistance into a broad struggle for national and social liberation
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Claudia Cinatti
    As the Israeli air force, armed by US imperialism, bombs the villages of southern Lebanon, destroys the infrastructure, and assassinates civilians, mostly children, the elderly, and disabled people, the Lebanese government of Fouad Siniora “regrets” that the “international community” won’t intervene to stop the offensive, hoping that the principal sponsor of Israel, the United States, would consider that enough bombs had been dropped by now for a cease-fire to be (…)