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  • Uri Avnery: the Skin of the Bear
    25 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Uri Avnery
    The strategy of Sharon and his generals is simple and brutal: to destroy the Palestinian Authority, turn life in the occupied territories into hell, disintegrate Palestinian society and drive the survivors from the country, not in one dramatic sweep (as in 1948) but in a slow, continuous, creeping process."
    I am writing this with an aching heart. I have postponed writing it as long as I could.
    In Jewish tradition, there is a searing phrase: "The Temple was not destroyed (…)

  • Sharon’s double triumph
    24 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Robert Thompson Mr Sharon has now got just what he wanted. His double triumph is horrendous. He is reported to have expressed sadness - what are commonly called "crocodile tears" no doubt!!! First of all, he got apparently unconditional support from Mr George W. Bush for his plan to annex still more Palestinian land, while giving up the least important of the illegally occupied lands in the Gaza Strip. He also offered to give up a few outposts in the West Bank, while annexing (…)

  • Dear Senator Kerry
    23 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Ward Reilly
    Greetings from a common American citiizen, and a fellow veteran. I am writing this letter to you because our nation is in dire distress, due to the wreckless lack of leadership from the White House concerning our nation’s foreign policy, and because of the depression here at home. Our country is "out-sourcing" itself, to borrow a modern phrase.
    I have been pondering for weeks now on what words of mine might have a chance of making an impact upon you. I wrote a similar (…)

  • The Hoax of Paris Marie and the Ghosts
    21 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By URI AVNERY
    Sometimes a trivial episode throws a revealing light on a grave public disease.
    A classic example: the Captain of Koepenick. On the face of it, it was a minor criminal incident: in 1906, a shoemaker named Wilhelm Voigt was released from prison, after serving a sentence for forgery. To get work he needed a passport, which, as a former convict, he could not get.
    So he went to a junk shop and bought the uniform of an army captain, commandeered some soldiers in the street, (…)

  • Samarra toll mounts in continuing clashes
    21 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The toll from fighting in Samarra has risen to five dead and eight wounded, according to Iraqi police sources.
    An AFP correspondent in the city said powerful explosions rocked Samarra’s northern edge near al-Qadisiya neighbourhood starting at about 7pm (1700 GMT) on Tuesday, and mosques later urged residents to donate blood .../...
    – http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exe...

  • Torturing Children
    21 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Rivers Pitt
    The biggest story of the Iraq war is not about missing weapons of mass destruction, or about deep-cover CIA officers getting their covers blown by vengeful White House agents, or even about 896 dead American soldiers. These have been covered to one degree or another, and then summarily dismissed, by the American mainstream news media. The biggest story of the Iraq war has not enjoyed any coverage in America, though it has been exploding across the international news (…)

  • The Crisis of Information in Baghdad, four Missiles, 14 Deaths
    20 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Robert Fisk
    This is how they like it. An American helicopter fires four missiles at a house in Fallujah. Fourteen people are killed, including women and children. Or so say the hospital authorities.
    But no Western journalist dares to go to Fallujah. Video footage taken by local civilians shows only a hole in the ground, body parts under a grey blanket and an unnamed man shouting that young children were killed.
    The US authorities say they know nothing about the air strike; indeed, (…)

  • Red Cross urged to investigate Allawi claims
    19 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Tom Allard
    The former British foreign secretary, Robin Cook, has urged the International Committee for the Red Cross to investigate witness claims that the new Iraqi prime minister, Iyad Allawi, shot dead six insurgents last month.
    Revelations of the accounts of the killings by chief Herald correspondent Paul McGeough at the weekend and the refusal of US authorities to deny them outright sparked concerns around the world.
    The Herald reported that two independent witnesses alleged Dr (…)

  • Iraq’s new leader faces triple challenge
    19 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by David Hirst
    With the "resignation" of President Hassan al-Bakr of Iraq, Mr Siddam (sic) Hussein Takriti, long the "strongman" of the Ba’athist regime, has finally emerged as its uncontested master. But the Government as a whole is almost certainly the weaker for it.
    Whether or not the 67-year-old President resigned for health reasons, his removal will have important, and potentially disruptive repercussions within the ruling hierarchy. Both Mr Bakr and his Vice-President, the 42 year (…)

  • Family of American beheaded in Iraq say U.S. government ignoring them
    18 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Family members of slain U.S. businessman Nicholas Berg are being stonewalled by their government as they try to find out exactly what happened in the weeks before he was kidnapped and beheaded in Iraq in May, Berg’s father said.
    Among other details, the Bergs want to know whether Berg, who had been in Iraq seeking work for his fledgling telecommunications company, was being held by allied or Iraqi forces before his kidnapping, The Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper reported.
    "If it weren’t (…)