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E-1: The Untold MAJOR Ethnic Cleansing Project in Jerusalem (Al Quds) Saracen A friend of mine and I were talking over this topic the other day. It concerns a major and almost untold project involving the silent annexation of Eastern Jerusalem by the Zionist state. The project has been titled "E1", named after the urban land bridge that would connect East Jerusalem with the settlement of Ma'ale Adumim, and concerns the major West Bank settlement of Ma'ale Adumim. This is a settlement that Israel has repeatedly re! fused to dismantle. During the farce that was the Gaza "pullout", the Israelis got enough of the media diversion they needed in order to underhandedly speed up this project of settlement expansion and outrightly illegal land acquisition... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25830 Why do the Israelis Continue its Crimes of Destruction Murder and Robbery Hayam Noir /PalestineFreeVoice During the past five weeks the world have been able to watch the full scale of Israeli capabilties of criminal terrorism - their havok of Lebanons fragile infrastructure - Television teams from every corner of the world have exposed from the frontlines every minute of the day. On the contrary the Palestinians on Palestine territories have suffered under decades, from Israeli terror under exactely the same cond! itions and even so much worse - with a few exeptions no TV teams have been reporting what the the Zionists are capable of to the outside world... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25833 Video To Lebanon with love Israeli Watch Or how Israel’s paper trail of mass destruction, annihilation, chaos and leaving civillians with no basic infrastructure in Beirut, since everything decent has actually gone up in smoke…. Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25832 Vaseline, Letters from al-Qaeda, and a Pack of Matches Kurt Nimmo Never mind that the suspects in the British "terror plot" were not in possession of bombs, or airline tickets, and some of them didn’t even have passports. "I have a feeling that all the Muslims detained in connection with the recent police operation to foil and alleged plot are innocent and will soon be proven so," writes Azzam Tamimi, director of the Institute of Islamic Political Thought in London. "I also suspect that the entire episode has bee! n deemed, despite its enormous cost, to be of utility to a government that is increasingly out of touch with reality and seriously short of public support and sympathy. I wonder whether this was also intended to smear the image of Islam and the Muslims at the time when the entire world can see that they are the victims of a most unjust world order dominated by the USA and the UK who both support and sponsor Israeli terrorism against Muslims in Palestine and Lebanon and who both oppress the Muslim peoples of Afghanistan and Iraq through direct occupation…." Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25850 With the Israeli army's invincibility myth shattered, it's time to address the other Zionist myths Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD, Online Journal Contributing Writer On Saturday, the son of Israeli peace activist and famous novelist David Grossman was killed in action in South Lebanon. I grieved for this man and his son (who was my son’s age -- 20), and I reflected on the futility of wars. How does one assess the latest Israeli adventure taking the lives of 1,000 Lebanese civilians and 53 Israeli civilians (and 104 soldiers! ) and devastating Lebanon? Is there anything positive that could come out of this debacle? Or will Israeli forces simply continue the "routine" rampage, killings, and home demolitions (which have been ongoing in Gaza and the West Bank)?... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25829 Why don't those Palestinians just protest peacefully? Eli Stephens, Left I on the News People trying to be "even-handed," and criticize Palestinians and Israelis alike, often distance themselves from the Palestinians (and Hizbollah) by asking why they don't just protest non-violently, you know, like Gandhi? Well, aside from the fact that there is no equivalence between the violence of the oppressed and the violence of the oppressor, there are very practical reasons why Palestinians eschew the "non-violent" road -! because it's frequently met with Israeli violence. Rachel Corrie and Tom Hurndall are just two names well-known to those of us in the West because they were Westerners; they weren't the first and they won't be the last to be killed while protesting non-violently against Israeli actions. Now you can add the names of Rina Klauman and Lymor Goldstein to the list (fortunately not yet to the list of those who have died)... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25822 The A B C of politics for the Dummies Imad Khadduri, Free Iraq "President Bush made clear in a private meeting this week that he was concerned about the lack of progress in Iraq and frustrated that the new Iraqi government — and the Iraqi people — had not shown greater public support for the American mission, participants in the meeting said Tuesday. Those who attended a Monday lunch at the Pentagon that included the president’s war cabinet and several outside experts said Mr. Bush carefully avoided expressing a ! clear personal view of the new prime minister of Iraq, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25821 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 16 August 2006 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice ...In a dispatch posted at 1pm Makkah time Wednesday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that fierce fighting broke out in several neighborhoods of al-Mawsil in northern Iraq between Iraqi Resistance fighters and Iraqi puppet police. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses in the city as saying that the combat erupted in the al-Yarmuk! neighborhood of southwestern al-Mawsil when Resistance fighters attacked the puppet police station in the neighborhood in an attempt to seize control of it. Fighting then spread to the al-Mawsil al-Jadidah district and the Suq al-Ma'ash area in the east of the city. Witnesses said that the sheep market, al-Muthanna district, the al-'Amil neighborhood and most neighborhoods of western al-Mawsil also were the scenes of fighting, as Resistance men armed with light and medium weapons engaged the puppet police... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25820 Cops Arrest AFP Journalist Christopher Bollyn Kurt Nimmo "I was harassed, beaten, and shocked with a Tazer-like gun in my front yard before my wife and children, and then abused for 6 hours by the ADL-trained local police," explains American Free Press journalist and Republic Broadcast Network talk show host Christopher Bollyn on the RBN website. "I have every reason to believe it is because of my journalistic investigation into 9/11. I have been threatened before in my career as a journalist, but this is the fir! st time I have been intentionally beaten and abused—by the cops…. I intend to seek asylum in Norway or Switzerland. I can read the writing on the wall." Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25819 "Look What You've Done!" AIPAC Congratulates Itself on the Slaughter in Lebanon JOHN WALSH "My fellow American," Howard Friedman, President of AIPAC, begins his letter of July 30 to friends and supporters of AIPAC, "Look what you've done"! After warning that "Israel is fighting a pivotal war for its life," by which he means Israel's wanton slaughter and all-out destruction in Lebanon, Freiedman condemns "the expected chorus of international condemnation of Israel's actions" and Europe's call for "a cea! se-fire immediately." Then he exults: "only ONE nation in the world came out and flatly declared: Let Israel finish the job. . That nation is the United States of America--and the reason it had such a clear, unambiguous view of the situation is YOU and the rest of America Jewry." (All emphases in the original here and below.) Here I must take issue with President Friedman since I bet that most Jewish Americans, in contrast to the AIPAC crowd, were horrified by the slaughter in Lebanon. In fact if anyone other than President Friedman wrote this, he would be accused of fabricating a Jewish plot and labeled a nutty conspiracy theorist and scurrilous anti-semite.)... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25818 APPENDIX II: INDEX ON WEAPONS IN LEBANON: WAR CRIMES in LEBANON and PALESTINE Sarah Meyer, INDEX RESEARCH ..."Thirty-six-year-old Khuder Gazali, an ambulance driver whose arm was blown off by an Israeli rocket, told IPS that his ambulance was hit (NB: War Crime) while trying to rescue civilians whose home had just been bombed. … On way to the hospital an Israeli Apache helicopter hit his ambulance with a rocket, severely injuring him and the four people in the back of the vehicle, he said. "So then another ambula! nce tried to reach us to rescue us, but it too was bombed by an Apache, killing everyone inside it," he said. … A 43-year-old man from Durish Zhair village south of Tyre lay at the Labib Medical Centre with multiple shrapnel wounds and half his body blackened by fire. "Please tell them to stop using white phosphorous," he said"... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25817 Israel's freeze of familiy unification in the Occupied Territories splits tens of thousands of Palestinian families Report, B'Tselem/HaMoked Today, B'Tselem and HaMoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual, are publishing Perpetual Limbo, a report on Israel 's policy freezing family unification for Palestinians in the Occupied Territories . Although the policy affects almost every Palestinian family living in the Occupied Territories , it is unknown to the Israeli public. For almost six years, since the begi! nning of the second intifada, in September 2000, Israel has forbidden Palestinians of the Occupied Territories from living with their spouses who are foreign residents. Israel also prohibits the foreign family members from visiting the Occupied Territories. Israel refuses to process the more than 120,000 requests for family unification that have been submitted during this period... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25815 APPENDIX TO ILLEGAL WEAPONS IN LEBANON Sarah Meyer, INDEX RESEARCH The following is an update of source material for Index on Illegal US Weapons in Lebanon. (30.07.06.) (...) "Bush is now rushing depleted uranium (DU) bombs to Israel. … Laser guided GBU-28 bunker penetration bombs and much of the tank ammunition, such as M829 A1 shells, have DU penetrators built into them. What is even more galling is the likelihood that Rakon NZ probably manufactured the software to guide these obscene weapons… The silence of mo! st of the media is deafening over this increasing menace to our global atmosphere."... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25814 Speech of President Bashar al-Assad at Journalists Union 4th Conference ...We meet today when the Middle East they aspire to and which is based on submission, humiliation and on depriving peoples of their identities and their rights, has become an illusion. It has actually turned into a popular uprising throughout the Arab world, an uprising which is pan-Arab by nature, characterized by dignity and the rejection of all pretexts and excuses for keeping us submissive so that we are killed in silence in the same w! ay that sacrifices used to be offered in the past to avoid the wrath of the gods. But offering sacrifices in the past was considered a form of wisdom. So, are we supposed to adhere to that wisdom today? And does wisdom have a meaning if it was separated from courage?... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25813 GI Special 4H16: Payback Come Soon - August 16, 2006 Thomas F. Barton [O]n May 20 US group Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) issued a statement that explained: "The massacre at Haditha is not an exception to the situation in Iraq, it is a punctuation mark in a longer atrocity, the war itself." The statement said that foreign troops "cannot simultaneously be empathetic to population and be obliged to control that same population by pointing guns at them, breaking into their homes, turning them into collateral damage, and taking vengeance on them out of the inevitable frustration of fighting an urban counter-insurgency". Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25812 Lebanese deaths, and Israeli war crimes, kept off the balance sheet Jonathan Cook During Israel’s war against the people of Lebanon, our media, politicians and diplomats have colluded with the aggressors by distracting us with irrelevancies, by concocting controversies, and by framing the language of diplomacy. In the fragile truce that is currently holding while Lebanon waits for Israel to withdraw, we are simply getting more of the same. One example of the many distractions during the war that neatly reveals th! eir true purpose is the "faked Reuters photograph" affair. The supposed scandal of a Lebanese photographer tampering with a picture to add and darken smoke from an Israeli missile attack -- to little or no effect, it should be noted -- has not only been decried by activists on Zionist websites but amplified by mainstream commentators into a debate about whether we can trust the images of this war... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25811 Israel threatens to resume Lebanon operation Independent Online Israel will resume operations in Lebanon if a United Nations force being assembled to deploy in the south of that country does not disarm Hezbollah fighters, the Jerusalem Post daily reported Wednesday, quoting "an official in the prime minister's office." The Israeli warning comes in reaction to reports in the Israeli media that Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Sinora reached a deal with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah allowing the militant group to ! retain its weapons but to refrain from exhibiting them in public... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25810 Israeli forces demolish home with family still inside, father and son killed Ma'an News Khan Younis-Ma'an-A Palestinian father, 65 and his son, 45, were killed and another 2 seriously injured in an Israeli air strike on a home in Sheikh Nasser, east of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, an activist affiliated to the Al Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, was killed and another one arrested during an armed clash in Al Farahin, east of Khan Younis. Medical sources at the! Nasser hospital said that Hasan Sha'ath, 65, and his son Ibrahim, 45, who were killed in the air strike, were totally dismembered when they were brought to the hospital. They said that the two injured people wwere in a critical condition... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25809 Humanitarian Disaster in Gaza: "People are crying, hungry, thirsty, and desperate" Urgent Appeal from Churches in Gaza Father Manuel Musallam, GlobalResearch.ca The current situation in the Gaza Strip is descending precipitously into a serious humanitarian disaster. Caritas Jerusalem operates a medical centre in the Gaza Strip as well as a mobile medical clinic. Our medical centre also engages in numerous local and regional health campaigns to help build the health capacity of families and children in ! Gaza through project activities conducted in schools and community based organizations. We also undertake social and educational assistance programs as well as programs and direct assistance for catastrophic medical care cases in Gaza... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25808 Israeli Chief of Staff involved in Insider Trading prior to ordering War on Lebanon Globalresearch.ca This Report from Israel suggests that there was Insider Trading prior to the aerial bomb attacks on Lebanon. Chief of Staff Dan Halutz, however, was not the only person who had prior knowledge of the war on Lebanon. The war on Lebanon was part of a broader US sponsored military agenda. Further investigation into this matter is required... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25807 We will combat your bloodthirsty god! Al Nasser Bi Ismillah, Al Moharer - Iraq patrol ...You sold our Iraq to the Evil You the puppets The stooges of your western masters! Thousands scores we have to set together! And by God almighty we will prevail! Triumphant we are! This is Baghdad, you who sold Baghdad! Baghdad will return! Baghdad will come back more delicious than a dream, proud like a date palm!... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25831 www.uruknet.info: a site gathering daily information concerning occupied Iraq: news, analysis, documents and texts of iraqi resistance available in Italian and English.   You receive this newsletter because you subscribed it. If you think it was an abuse, or simply if you don't want to receive it any more, click here to unsubscribe from the newsletter.