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  • Appeal for resisting the Zionist occupier and defending our land, and people
    4 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Our Lebanese People:
    The army of the Zionist enemy is continuing its aggression against Lebanon for its third consecutive week.
    From its very beginning stage, this aggression has taken the form of a savage predatory war. Neither man nor stone is safe from its fiery hell, nor are human and civil institutions, the media, or the infrastructure. The Zionist killing machine has most recently targeted even international observers.
    This savage raging storm that took as its pretext the (…)

  • Israel’s Military Offensives in Lebanon, Gaza: Human Catastrophe, Immense Political Consequences
    4 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.palestine-pmc.com/details.asp?cat=4&id=3456
    By Max Elbaum
    LEBANON & GAZA: "NOTHING IS SAFE" Israel’s continuing military offensives in Lebanon and Gaza are producing a human catastrophe, and have immense political consequences.
    First, the human cost, as of July 30:
    *at least 561 dead in Lebanon, the vast majority civilians - with 60 killed (including 37 children) by Israeli air attacks on the village of Qana this morning. Over 1,000 wounded and 700,000-800,000 (…)

  • War’s first refusenik jailed for 28 days
    4 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Lily Galili
    Yesterday’s bombing in Qana sparked an immediate surge in opposition to the fighting in Lebanon. Spontaneous demonstrations and petitions were organized within hours, and drew more people than the organized demonstrations of the previous two weeks.
    Meanwhile, the first person to refuse to do army service during the current fighting was yesterday sentenced to 28 days in a military prison.
    According to the refusal organization Yesh Gvul, which issued a public statement (…)

  • Israel using Depleted Uranium in Lebanon - Melbourne Stop the War Hiroshima Day media statement
    4 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Melbourne Stop the War media statement
    Israel is using depleted uranium in its brutal war on Lebanon. The time to act against war and nuclear madness is NOW!*
    Thousands of people will be marching in Melbourne, on ’Hiroshima Day", Sunday August 6 against war and for a nuclear free future. *On August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on the historic Japanese city of Hiroshima and three days later on Nagasaki. While this was a military triumph for the United States, for humanity it (…)

  • Chavez withdraws Venezuelan envoy, citing Israeli ’genocide’
    4 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By The Associated Press
    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Thursday he has recalled his country’s ambassador to Israel to show his "indignation" over the military offensive in Lebanon.
    "We have ordered the withdrawal of our ambassador in Israel," Chavez said in a televised speech, calling Israeli attacks in Lebanon "genocide."
    "It really causes indignation to see how the state of Israel continues bombing, killing ... with all of the power they have, with the support of the United (…)

  • Bolivia Rips Israel’s Lebanon Blitz
    4 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    La Paz, Aug 2 (Prensa Latina) The Congress of Bolivia voiced concern over
    Israel attacks on Lebanon that has targeted civilians, and called the United
    Nations to stop the hostilities.
    A joint House and Senate resolution passed Tuesday considers this
    Israel-Lebanon conflict a threat to world peace and the Middle East.
    The resolution recalls that the civilian population has been the main
    victim and urges for effort from the world community, the UN namely, to end
    the attacks.

  • JEWS SPEAK OUT AGAINST ISRAELI AGGRESSION END THE KILLING IN GAZA, LEBANON AND ISRAEL!
    4 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Jewish Socialists’ Group leaflet distributed at the demonstration on 22nd July 2006
    JEWS SPEAK OUT AGAINST ISRAELI AGGRESSION END THE KILLING IN GAZA, LEBANON AND ISRAEL!
    The Jewish Socialists’ Group unreservedly condemns Israeli military aggression in Gaza and Lebanon, the appalling loss of civilian life on all sides in this conflict, and continued imprisonment without trial of thousands of Palestinians whose “crime” is to oppose Israel’s occupation.
    When Israel commits acts of (…)

  • ’No Hezbollah Rockets Fired from Qana’
    4 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dahr Jamail
    Red Cross workers and residents of Qana, where Israeli bombing killed at least 60 civilians, have told IPS that no Hezbollah rockets were launched from the city before the Israeli air strike.
    The Israeli military has said it bombed the building in which several people had taken shelter, more than half of them children, because the Army had faced rocket fire from Qana. The Israeli military has said that Hezbollah was therefore responsible for the deaths.
    "There were no (…)

  • US-Israeli state terrorism (USIST) - huge death toll predicted for devastated Lebanon and Palestine
    4 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    US state terrorism has exacted a horrendous death toll in Bush’s War on Terror. Unfortunately Mainstream Media scrupulously IGNORE the harsh reality that the vast bulk of avoidable deaths in the Bush Wars have been non-violent but nevertheless avoidable deaths due to economic and infrastructure destruction. Thus the post-invasion VIOLENT deaths in Iraq total about 44,000 (according to Iraq Body Count) but the total post-invasion deaths total 0.5 million (see: , ).
    The post-1967 (…)

  • WHY MUST THE RIGHT WING SOUND SO BRUTALLY STUPID?
    3 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    July 31, 2006
    WHY MUST THE RIGHT WING SOUND SO BRUTALLY STUPID?
    John Chuckman
    Just when I thought he had shown a glimmer of statesmanship, Stephen Harper, Canada’s prime minister courtesy of just over one-third of the vote, reverted to character. Following Israel’s apparently-deliberate targeting of four UN observers in Lebanon, including one Canadian, Harper thought it appropriate to ask, not why Israel killed them, but why the observers were there?
    His inspired question reminded me (…)