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  • Israel’s Lost Moment
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Charles Krauthammer
    Israel’s war with Hezbollah is a war to secure its northern border, to defeat a terrorist militia bent on Israel’s destruction, to restore Israeli deterrence in the age of the missile. But even more is at stake. Israel’s leaders do not seem to understand how ruinous a military failure in Lebanon would be to its relationship with America, Israel’s most vital lifeline.
    For decades there has been a debate in the United States over Israel’s strategic value. At critical (…)

  • Newsview: U.S. Interests on Line in Iraq
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By ROBERT H. REID
    BAGHDAD, Iraq — American generals have laid bare the facts: Baghdad is on the brink of chaos, and the specter of all-out civil war looms.
    Instead of standing down, as had been hoped this year, the U.S. military is preparing for a major operation to try to take back Baghdad’s streets from Shiite and Sunni extremists. The goal is to stem sectarian violence that Iraqi security forces could not control.
    The stakes could not be higher: The fate of the U.S. mission in Iraq (…)

  • Israeli-US War in Lebanon and Palestine: a crime against humanity
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    An umbrella organization of various progressive groups today condemned the Israeli Government and its military leadership for the criminal air strikes, sea and land bombardments of Lebanon.
    "We especially abhor the killing of innocent civilians, such as the bombardment of Qana village and the murder of mainly women, children and the old. This is a crime against humanity", said Wilson Fortaleza, spokesperson for Laban ng Masa.
    Also, the war already has claimed the lives of two of our (…)

  • The Knife in the Back
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Uri Avnery
    "In order to embark on a new course, the only one that will solve the problem: negotiations and peace with the Palestinians, the Lebanese, the Syrians. And: with Hamas and Hizbullah."
    The day after the war will be the Day of the Long Knives.
    Everybody will blame everybody else. The politicians will blame each other. The generals will blame each other. The politicians will blame the generals. And, most of all, the generals will blame the politicians.
    Always, in every (…)

  • UPDATE FROM A LEBANON UNDER UNJUSTIFIED ISRAELI WAR RAGE
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Thursday August 3rd, 2006- 23rd day of attack
    August 12th, 2006- INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST AND SOLIDARITY
    Reporting after 23 days of consistent Israeli attacks on Lebanon:
    More than 900 Lebanese people have been killed in three weeks of fighting with Israel, More than 3,200 have been wounded 1 million or a quarter of the total population had been displaced Third of the casualties had been children under 12. Numbers are still not very accurate many bodies still under rubble and (…)

  • Moroccan Jews ask court to try Amir Peretz for war crimes
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By The Associated Press
    Three Jewish Moroccans have submitted Rabat’s high court with a petition against Defense Minister Amir Peretz, accusing the Moroccan-born Israeli of war crimes.
    Leftist activist Abraham Tsarfati, author Amran al-Malich and human rights group official Zion Asidon claim Peretz may be tried in their country due to his Moroccan citizenship.
    "The criminal terrorist, Zionist Amir Peretz, has retained his Moroccan citizenship and is still registered in Morocco’s (…)

  • VENEZUELA RETIRES ITS AMBASSADOR IN ISRAEL
    5 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Saturday 5 August 2006 (21h45): Por.Faustino Rodríguez Bauza From the beginning of the genocida invasion of Israel, with the support of the North American government, to Palestine and Lebanon, in Venezuela a movement of solidarity of a great amplitude has taken place and throughout all the country. President Chávez by ricochet gave a declaration to the invasion, from the first day that this one began. At the same time in all Venezuela concentrations were made and simultaneous marches in all (…)

  • How America Nukes Its Own Troops - Death By Slow Burn
    5 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    How America Nukes Its Own Troops - Death By Slow Burn
    AMY WORTHINGTON / The Idaho Observer (Spirit Lake) What ’Support Our Troops’ Really Means
    On March 30, an AP photo featured an American pro-war activist holding a sign: "Nuke the evil scum, it worked in 1945!" That’s exactly what George Bush has done. America’s mega-billion dollar war in Iraq has been indeed a NUCLEAR WAR.
    Bush-Cheney have delivered upon 17 million Iraqis tons of depleted uranium (DU) weapons, a "liberation" gift (…)

  • Robert Fisk Thinks there will be another 9/11
    5 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    And all across the Muslim world, "we" - the West, America, Israel - are fighting not nationalists but Islamists. And watching the martyrdom of Lebanon this week - its slaughtered children in Qana packed into plastic bags until the bags ran out and their corpses had to be wrapped in carpets - a terrible and daunting thought occurs to me, day by day. That there will be another 9/11.
    http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article1214522.ece
    The same things occured to me when Israel (…)

  • ’The US is the kiss of death’ in the Arab world
    5 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - After almost four weeks of fighting between Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia and Israel, the US administration’s ambitions to transform the Arab Middle East into a pro-Western, more democratic region are fading fast.
    Not only is Washington’s thus far staunch support for Israel losing Arab "hearts and minds" at an astonishing pace, but the "moderate" governments and non-governmental forces the administration had hoped would act as catalysts for reform are increasingly isolated (…)