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  • Smoke Signals from the Battle of Bint Jbeil By Robert FISK
    28 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Smoke Signals from the Battle of Bint Jbeil By ROBERT FISK
    Qlaya, Southern Lebanon
    Is it possible - is it conceivable - that Israel is losing its war in Lebanon?
    From this hill village in the south of the country, I am watching the clouds of brown and black smoke rising from its latest disaster in the Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil: up to 13 Israeli soldiers dead, and others surrounded, after a devastating ambush by Hizbollah guerrillas in what was supposed to be a successful Israeli (…)

  • US Blocks UN From Condemning Israel
    28 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    US Blocks UN From Condemning Israel By ASSOCIATED PRESS Jul. 27, 2006 3:52 | Updated Jul. 27, 2006 9:43 The United States blocked the UN Security Council on Wednesday from issuing a statement that would have condemned Israel’s bombing of a UN post on the Lebanon border that killed four military observers overnight Tuesday.
    US diplomats refused to comment, and US Ambassador John Bolton was in Washington preparing for a new confirmation hearing before the Senate; however, several diplomats (…)

  • Fighting Them There, As We Create Them Everywhere Else
    28 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Fighting Them There, As We Create Them Everywhere Else By Ron Fullwood July 26, 2006 "We’re fighting them there so, we don’t have to fight them here." That’s still the mantra of the right wing regarding Iraq.
    But, if it is our presence in Iraq that is a magnet for combatants, then it’s immoral to expect Iraqis to continue to bear the brunt of those violent expressions of resentment that are directed at the U.S.. Especially since the Bush regime seems intent on provoking even more (…)

  • The Godless Troublemakers!
    27 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Why don’t they help us?, try to help us?...before this great and granite planet falls apart?"....Gene Pitney’s "A Town Without Pity" *********************************
    Just who is it then, who is making matters worse on this sadly violent little planet? Surely it’s the Godless heathens and Socialists, right?
    Surely it’s the American enemies: Countries like France, Cuba, Russia, China, Venezuela, Bolivia, Spain. Socialist regimes and dictatorships who are, so the State Department (…)

  • THE CRIME OF LEBANON AND PALESTINE - ARE IRAN AND SYRIA NEXT? - PART II
    27 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Crime of Lebanon and Palestine - Are Iran and Syria Next?: Part II - by Stephen Lendman
    On July 26, Aljazeerah reported a story headlined - "Israeli invasion of Lebanon planned by neocons in June (2006)." It was done at a June 17 and 18 meeting at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) conference in Beaver Creek, Colorado at which former Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Likud Knesset member Natan Sharansky met with US Vice President Dick Cheney. The purpose was to (…)

  • We Come in Peace: Not!
    27 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    At one time, not so many decades ago, we had men and women of peaceful disposition and effect upon this planet. People like Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King, Mahatma Ghandi,Dag Hammerskold... Even Jesse Jackson had much influence in the Middle East. Where are the peacemakers now? Where are the men and women of good will who have profound influence on the leaders of difficult countries..of ANY countries?
    When is the last time you heard a peep from a Republican party operatchik about (…)

  • Wayne Madsen on Israeli UN Attack
    26 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    July 26, 2006 — Our intelligence sources report that the Israeli Defense Force attack on Lebanon is being carried out as a joint Israeli-U.S. military operation. Moreover, there are joint Israeli and U.S. war rooms coordinating the U.S.-supported Israeli attacks on Lebanon. The ultimate aim of Washington and Jerusalem is not only to eliminate Hezbollah as a political force in Lebanon but also to remake Lebanon as an American and Israeli client state. Israeli forces are pounding parts of (…)

  • A Much Greater Prize
    26 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The face of a Zionist Jewish girl, ably captured by a passing Reuters cameraman, radiates wondrous joy as she writes her name, "with love", on a missile of death. Moments later, the object of her erotic fascination smashes and shatters the bodies of two Lebanese toddlers near a playschool, whose only crime was not belonging to the Synagogue of Satan. The missiles were made in "Christian" America and were delivered by "Christian" American hardware.
    The outlaw state of Israel, rapaciously (…)

  • The spirit of resistance
    26 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The spirit of resistance
    By Pepe Escobar
    07/25/06 "Asia Times" — — As southern Lebanon is turned into a wasteland mirroring the Gaza gulag, Washington neo-cons may stridently celebrate the contours of a final solution for the Hamas-Hezbollah "problem". Or should they?
    Israel’s feverish military machine at least conveys the impression it knows exactly what it’s doing - with its made-in-the-USA bombs destroying not just military but civilian targets. But this does not mean Israel is (…)

  • Why Is Israel Destroying Lebanon?
    26 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Why Is Israel Destroying Lebanon?
    By Patrick Seale
    07/25/06 "Al-Hayat" 07/21/07 --- - Israel is waging a war of extermination in Lebanon. Without regard to the civilian population, it is seeking to destroy Hizballah, much as it has attempted over the past six months to destroy Hamas in the occupied Palestinian territories. It wants to root out these movements altogether. Its strategy in Lebanon seems to be to empty the south of its population, driving the Shi’ites out of their (…)