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  • The "Moral Highground?"
    22 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "....I’m just trying to show you how little religion some people now have!"....Calvera, the bandit, from "The Magnificent Seven"
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    So here we are. The entire planet is focused on this insane little war in Lebanon which shows promise to escalate into something unmanagable and much more frightening.
    The amazing thing is that ALL the factions; Hezbollah, Israel and the U.S. claim innocence and the so-called "Moral Highground". The bottom line is religion. (…)

  • The Shame of Being An American CRAIG ROBERTS (COUNTERPUNCH°
    22 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    July 22-23, 2006
    The Shame of Being An American
    By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
    Do you know that Israel is engaged in ethnic cleansing in southern Lebanon? Israel has ordered all the villagers to clear out. Israel then destroys their homes and murders the fleeing villagers. That way there is no one to come back and nothing to which to return, making it easier for Israel to grab the territory, just as Israel has been stealing Palestine from the Palestinians.
    Do you know that one-third of (…)

  • LEBANON Do People Know How Much We Hurt?
    22 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    July 22-23, 2006
    Do People Know How Much We Hurt?
    By NAJLA SAID
    How do I even start this? How do I write about my Beirut? My heartbreak, my home, my safety, my loss. again.
    I suppose I just start.
    I have experienced true terror a handful of times. The first was in 1983. The first time I evacuated Beirut. We had gone to visit my jiddo Emile, my teta Hilda, as we did every summer. Just after we arrived,the airport was shut down, Israeli soldiers were everywhere, the mountains were (…)

  • US Hawks Smell Blood Neocons favor escalation of Middle East War
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    US Hawks Smell Blood Neocons favor escalation of Middle East War
    By Jim Lobe July 20, 2006 Inter Press Service - 2006-07-19
    19 July 2006, IPS WASHINGTON -Seeing a major opportunity to regain influence lost as a result of setbacks in Iraq, prominent neo-conservatives are calling for unconditional US support for Israel’s military offensives in Gaza and Lebanon and "regime change" in Syria and Iran, as well as possible US attacks on Tehran’s nuclear facilities in retaliation for its (…)

  • Israel prepares to launch ground war in Lebanon
    22 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    WSWS : News & Analysis : Middle East
    Israel prepares to launch ground war in Lebanon By Mike Head 22 July 2006 Back to screen version | Send this link by email | Email the author
    With Washington’s backing, Israel is preparing to launch a ground invasion of Lebanon, having called up thousands of army reservists and massed tanks and armoured personnel carriers on the border.
    In ten days of bombings, Israel has already killed more than 350 civilians, driven half a million people from (…)

  • The Lebanon Massacre
    22 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=HAS20060721&articleId=2785
    If Hizbullah is the target, why is Israel deliberately killing civilians & destroying the country’s infrastructucture? by Ghali Hassan July 21, 2006
    In one week of a deliberately calculated act of aggression and savagery against Lebanon and the Lebanese people, the Israeli army have entirely destroyed the nation’s civilian infrastructure and massacred more than 400 innocent civilians (…)

  • Poisonous Gas dropped on villages by Israeli military in southern Lebanon
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    Poisonous Gas dropped on villages by Israeli military in southern Lebanon
    July 21, 2006 Wayne Madsen Report.com
    WMR reported that the Israeli military was using poison gas on villages in south Lebanon. According to a former U.S. weapons expert who served in Iraq, the artillery shell in a photo taken in Lebanon (below) is a chemical weapon delivery device. It is being handled by an Israeli Defense Force soldier and Hebrew lettering can be clearly seen on the armored vehicle. Another (…)

  • Uncensored News Reports From Across The Middle East
    22 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Uncensored News Reports From Across The Middle East :
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    – http://informationclearinghouse.inf...
    Warning This video contains images depicting the reality and horror of war and should only be viewed by a mature audience

  • LEBANON : THE DEAD HAS TO WAIT
    22 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://informationclearinghouse.info/article14108.htm
    In Lebanon, the dead have to wait
    By Hassan M. Fattah
    07/21/06 "New York Times" — - - TYRE, Lebanon Carpenters are running out of wood for coffins.
    Bodies are stacked three or four high in a truck at the hospital morgue. The stench is spreading in the rubble.
    The morbid reality of Israel’s bombing campaign of the south is reaching almost every corner of this city. Just a few kilometers from the Rest House hotel, where the United (…)

  • Hundreds Of Civilians Killed in Lebanon
    22 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://informationclearinghouse.info/article14107.htm
    By Christian Henderson in Beirut
    07/21/06 "Aljazeera" — — Doctors and NGOs are reporting heavy civilian casualties in south Lebanon after Israel’s offensive in the area.
    Although as many as 500,000 people have left the border area, which has received the worst of the Israeli bombing, thousands remain.
    In the village of Sreefa near Naqoura at least 21 people were confirmed killed and 60 missing after Israeli rockets hit 13 homes (…)