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Israel, Iran and the US: Who Will be Blamed for Nuclear War?
By Prof. Jorge Hirsch July 24, 2006
www.globalresearch.ca/PrintArticle.php?articleId=2807
The war on Lebanon may well escalate to the point where the US will use nuclear weapons against Iran, in what would be the first use of nuclear weapons in war since Nagasaki. And the world may well blame the Jewish State [1], [2]. Israel’s bombing campaign which is causing immense suffering, is in blatant violation of the Geneva (…)

Human Rights Watch: Israel Dropping Cluster Bombs on Lebanese Civilians Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/25/1442232
Human Rights Watch says Israel is firing cluster munitions at Lebanese residential neighborhoods in possible violation of international law. We speak with HRW’s Peter Bouckaert in Beirut. [includes rush transcript] The United Nations has launched an emergency appeal for the international community to help the people of Lebanon. (…)

Lebanese President Accuses Israel of Using White Phosphorus Bombs in Lebanon Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/25/1442242
Independent journalist Dahr Jamail, who exposed how the U.S. used white phosphorus bombs in Iraq, says Israel is using the same tactic in Lebanon. We speak to him in Beirut. While Human Rights Watch is accusing Israel of using cluster bombs, the Lebanese president Emile Lahoud says Israel is also using white phosphorus. Lebanese (…)

U.S. Broadcast Exclusive: Star Wars in Iraq: Is the U.S. Using New Experimental Tactical High Energy Laser Weapons in Iraq? Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/25/1442252
In November, a documentary from Italy’s RAI Television accusing the United States of illegally white phosphorus during its attack on Fallujah. A new documentary says the United States is now using experimental laser weapons against Iraqi civilians. We play an excerpt. [includes rush (…)

http://www.halturnershow.com/IsraeliAtrocities.html
By: Hal Turner
North Bergen, NJ USA — For years, we in America have supported Israel both financially and militarily because we perceived they were the innocent victims of hostile and violent neighbors. The US media has, for years, provided extensive coverage of every incident involving Arab-against-Israeli violence. From shootings, to car bombs to suicide bombers, we in America have seen it all. Or have we?
Why would rational (…)

As well concerning the actual circumstances in Lebanon as well concerning the anniversary of the death of Fredy Perlman on July 26 in 1985, here is his integral text to remind, opportunate quotation sent by cassquarter from Detroit to the Fr list nettime-fr-raw.newmorning: " Anti-Semitism & the Beirut progrom " a famous critical article published at the moment Israel entered Lebanon in 1982, one year before he published his no less famous book " Against His-Story, Against Leviathan" in (…)

by John Podhoretz
July 25, 2006 — WHAT if liberal democracies have now evolved to a point where they can no longer wage war effectively because they have achieved a level of humanitarian concern for others that dwarfs any really cold-eyed pursuit of their own national interests?
What if the universalist idea of liberal democracy - the idea that all people are created equal - has sunk in so deeply that we no longer assign special value to the lives and interests of our own people as (…)

HIGH FLIGHT OH! WE HAVE SLIPPED THE SMOGGY BONDS OF EARTH AND COVERED SKIES WITH CONTRAILS FROM JET WINGS... THROUGH THE OZONE HOLE WE’VE CLIMBED AND QUESTIONED SCIENCE WORTH... AND DONE A HUNDRED THINGS WE ARE NOT PROUD OF. WHEELED AND FIRED,SWUNG,SHOT MISSILES AT THE FOE.... HOV’RING THERE WE’VE CHASED THE BLISTERED WIND ALONG, AND FLUNG OUR ROCKETS THROUGH THE FLACK-FILLED DUSTY AIR... UP,UP!,WAVING RED,WHITE,BLUE, WE’VE BLASTED INNOCENTS WITH EASE AND NO DISGRACE... WHEN NO YOUNG (…)

Is the UN general secretary, powerless or careless?
The Israeli army has been brutally bombing every thing in Lebanon including civilians, bridges, airports, electric power stations, motorways and trucks. The intensity of bombing may lead to the killing of their two abducted soldiers. The Lebanese people and government are been targeted and thus it is obvious that the aim of this aggression is not to free the abducted soldiers but to punish the people and government of Lebanon for an act (…)

A guy has his car breaks fixed by a drunken mechanic. He goes for a drive and crashes into a tree.
He returns to the mechanic and accuses him of doing a terrible job. The mechanic says "No problem!..I can fix it". He does, and the owner goes for another drive,has another wreck......
This is just like the Bush foreign policy (which the White House just announced "is working"). Bush initially claims he can do a bangup job. The world falls into chaos, then conservatives turn to Bush again, (…)