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Apartheid Israel Destroys; Hizbullah Rebuilds John Brown, Savage Justice "Apartheid Israel won this war." That's the fantasy BringItOn, Uncle Sam's unelected leader, tells us to believe in the opening quote. He uttered these words as a half-million Lebanese returned home to address the humanitarian and economic crisis in the aftermath of Apartheid Israel's intense, sustained, savage blitzkrieg. But as it always does, reality has proven him wrong. In the same way as Hizbullah took the lead in defending Lebanon du! ring the Zionist attack militarily, it quickly and efficiently assumed command in the nationwide effort to rebuild the country... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25933 I am Israel Window Into Palestine I am Israel — I came to a land without a people for a people without a land. Those people who happened to be here, had no right to be here, and my people showed them they had to leave or die, razing 480 Palestinian villages to the ground, erasing their history. I am Israel — some of my people committed massacres and later became Prime Ministers to represent me. In 1948, Menachem Begin was in charge of the unit that slaughtered the inhabitants of Deir Yassin, including 100 men, wo! men, and children. In 1953, Ariel Sharon led the slaughter of the inhabitants of Qibya, and in 1982 arranged for our allies to butcher around 2,000 in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatilla. I am Israel — carved in 1948 out of 78% of the land of Palestine, dispossessing its inhabitants and replacing them with Jews from Europe and other parts of the world. While the natives whose milies lived on this land for thousands of years are not allowed to return, Jews from all over the world are welcome to instant citizenship... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25947 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 20 August 2006. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. ...In a dispatch posted at 1:15am Monday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that pro-American Sunni politician 'Ala’ Makki, who is a member of the American installed puppet "parliament," denounced the "double standard" adopted by the Iraqi puppet "Ministries of Health and the Interior" in "talking only about the dead among the Shi'i pilgrims to the tomb of t! he Imam Musa al-Kazim but say nothing about the victims who fell as a result of attacks carried out by Safavi Shi'i militias on Sunni mosques." Makki, speaking on official Baghdad television, called on the two puppet "Ministries" to make public the toll of victims killed by Shi'i sectarians on Sunday, and not simply talk about the 20 Shi'ah reportedly shot to death during the day under various circumstances... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25951 Israeli Violation of International Law Saturday Morning in Ramallah will Add 25 More Years to Their Outstanding Criminal Records PalestineFreeVoice A gang of brutes and criminals, Israeli State terrorists broke and kicked open the doors (in what have become a wellknown Israeli pattern to the outside world)busted their way into the private residense of a Palestine Govermental minister,the PM deputy,dr Nasser Addin Ash-Sha'er and abducted him in front of his family this morning. That assault on a member of the Pale! stinian Parlament is a violation of International law - and beond all believes of what we could expect from a society that whish to call them self a civilisation. - The trespassing in to the residense of Addin Ash- Shaher and the abduction of him, will add 25 more years to an allready outstanding list in the Israelis criminal records. The list of crime is long and contain all crime categories - from murder to blackmail... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25944 Demonstrators urge end to Iranian meddling in Iraqi affairs in south Ali Allak, Azzaman Many Iraqis are wary of Tehran’s growing influence in southern Iraq and demonstrations are reported in several cities urging the authorities to take immediate measures to halt Iranian meddling.Since the U.S. 2003 invasion, Iran has established a firm foot in the region, bolstering its allies and their militias with money and arms. Iranian influence so conspicuous that in several cities such as Najaf, Kerbala and Basra Persian ! is steadily replacing Arabic as the official language. Major Shiite political factions and their powerful militias are pro-Iran... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25949 More good news from Iraq: US forces jail children Truth About Iraqis In the continuing series highlighting what democracy, freedom and liberty in Iraq as applied by the US military really means, a Washington Times report is proving to be a scathing testament to the inhumane and barbaric conduct of US troops. I am posting this report below - in its entirety - because it is a direct indictment of 1) the US military; 2) the Bush administration; 3) the pro-war crowd who crave endless genocide; and 4) those so-called ! Iraqis stuffing their pockets with Greenbacks to enslave their own people and cater to the lies they have been instructed to spread. This is one of thousands of stories of how the US has made a muck of things in Iraq, transformed it into a battlezone, and subjected its people to countless human rights abuses... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25925 Crying Wolf: Terror Alerts based on Fabricated Intelligence MICHEL CHOSSUDOVSKY, Global Research The British Home Office announced (August 10) that a "foiled terror plot" to simultaneously blow up as many as ten airplanes on transatlantic flights had been uncovered. So far Scotland Yard has not presented documentary evidence of this carefully coordinated suicide bombing operation. Confirmed by media reports, there is no evidence that the arrested suspects had actually purchased plane tickets which would have enab! led them to undertake this operation. Several of the suspects did not even possess a passport. (Craig Murray, 14 August 2006). Meanwhile, the feasibility of the plot ( at a technical-scientific level) has been questioned. No chemical labs were discovered, which might have confirmed that the suspects had the prior knowledge or skills to manufacture a triacetone triperoxide ( TATP) bomb, let alone their ability to appropriately mix the deadly liquid chemicals on board a transatlantic flight... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25930 Back to Roots of the Palestinian Problem Salman Abu Sitta ...I became a refugee at the age of 10, when strange European Zionist settlers invaded my country, destroyed my home and made me a refugee. I spent all my adult life wondering why this enemy destroyed my life. I tried to put a face to this invisible enemy—for I have never seen one before. Like millions of Palestinians, I started, then in 1948, on the long trek to return home. The trajectory of expulsion propelled us to the four corners of the earth, but ou! r compass was always directed toward our home. In unison and with unbelievable resilience, we vowed: "We shall never rest until we return home." ... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25929 Gunmen Target Shiite Muslims, Kill 22, Injure Hundreds Patrick J. McDonnell, LATimes Staff Writer Gunmen took aim at multitudes of Shiite Muslim worshipers marching through this besieged capital Sunday, killing at least 22 and leaving hundreds injured in a vivid illustration of the sectarian violence driving Iraq toward open civil war. Panicked pilgrims, including women in full-length black robes, scattered in terror as opportunistic gunmen fired from positions on rooftops, inside buildings and on the streets. Se! curity officers and Shiite militiamen returned fire during rolling gun battles along the routes to the worshipers' destination, a major Shiite shrine... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25946 An American Turning Point Peter Dyer If and when President Bush is impeached and removed from office, the next step should be to arrest him and the other architects of the unprovoked invasion and occupation of Iraq. If Americans ever find the will to do this, as we once did to German aggressors, history will remember it as a turning point in international relations (...) Aggression (initiating an unprovoked war) was formally outlawed in 1945 by the Nuremberg Charter (Article VI(a)), a treaty signed and largely wr! itten by the United States. And although the Nuremberg Charter was formed for the specific purpose of trying Nazi war criminals, the words of the judgment make clear the intent of the court that the Nuremberg principles must apply to all nations and for all time... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25945 Open Note to Kofi Annan: UN Urgent Need to Deploy International Security Force To Secure Palestine Territoral Borders Hayam Noir / PalestineFreeVoice European nations are needed urgently - to participate in a vanguard force of troops on the ground- to ensure that the Palestinian people can start to rebuild their destroyed infrastructure and continue the interupted building - of a State of their own. The Palestinain Secury and the Palestinian police force need to extend their authority in the occupied Palestinian ! territories - even with force make sure,that the Israeli occupant in defenite leave the Gaza Strip and the Westbank and withdraw its state supported terrorist units . If the United Nations can not implement its juristiction and work lawfully within the frames of International law and International Constitutes - it is a sick and corrupt body - in need to be cleaned out and replaced - the worldcommunity has to find other methods and tools to protect the Palestinian people and its government from Israel and its criminal activities on the Palestine territories... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25943 Amateur Warlords Bush, Cheney, Blair - and now Olmert - have demonstrated they have no grasp of military affairs Eric Margolis For a leader who styles himself "the war president," U.S. Commander-in-Chief George W. Bush's military record now stands at 0 for 4. Even Italy's born-again "imperial Roman conqueror," Benito Mussolini, fared better. - Fiasco I: Five years after Bush ordered Afghanistan invaded and proclaimed "total victory," U.S. and allied forces are fighting a losing war against Afgha! n resistance groups. Afghan heroin exports are up 90%. The U.S. just quietly deployed thousands more troops to Afghanistan to hunt Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri in a desperate attempt to save Republicans from getting clobbered in November midterm elections. - Fiasco II: "Mission accomplished" in Iraq. Bush's war in Iraq is clearly lost, but few dare admit it. The U.S. has spent $300 billion on Afghanistan and Iraq, with nothing to show but bloody chaos, deficits, body bags, and growing hatred of America. The Bush/Dick Cheney "liberation" of Iraq has now cost more than the Vietnam War... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25938 Does Lebanon Have The Rigth To Defend Itself ? Farzana Hassan-Shahid A much-awaited ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah has finally come into effect and appears to be holding despite the fragile peace brokered by the United Nations. After the month-long fighting in Lebanon it is difficult to determine who the victors and the vanquished really are in a war that has been described as asymmetrical. Certainly there were many asymmetries in the war. The damage done to Lebanon's infrastructure has far outweighed the! destruction caused to Israel by Hezbollah's Katyusha's. Other asymmetries appeared in the rhetoric of the war itself, blatant among which was the constant reference to Israel's right to defend itself. And while everyone agreed that Israel had the right to defend itself form "unprovoked" aggression by the Hezbollah, what was absent in the incessant discussion on the war was the question on whether Lebanon had the right to defend its borders from Israeli aggression?... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25926 After Lebanon, Israel is looking for more wars Jonathan Cook, GlobalResearch.ca Late last month, a fortnight into Israel’s war against Lebanon, the Hebrew media published a story that passed observers by. Scientists in Haifa, according to the report, have developed a "missile-trapping" steel net that can shield buildings from rocket attacks. The Israeli government, it noted, would be able to use the net to protect vital infrastructure -- oil refineries, hospitals, military installations, and public offices -- whi! le private citizens could buy a net to protect their own homes. The fact that the government and scientists are seriously investing their hopes in such schemes tells us more about Israel’s vision of the "new Middle East" than acres of analysis... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25937 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 19 August 2006 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice ...The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US occupation forces and their Iraqi puppet army allies prevented Sunni Iraqis in Baghad from going to work in their shops or from doing any sort of social activity, threatening them if any should be caught outside in violation of the sectarian curfew. One pregnant Sunni woman died in the western Baghda! d district of al-'Amiriyah after she was prevented from getting to a hospital at dawn Saturday due to the curfew on the Sunni population. The correspondent reported that predominantly Shi'i parts of Baghdad – such as al-Karadah, ash-Shu'lah, and Madinat Saddam (which was nicknamed "Madinat as-Sadr" after the American occupation) were experiencing life as usual Saturday since the Shi'i sectarian regime, imposed on the country by the US occupation, ordered curfew only for Sunni parts of the occupied capital... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25936 Li-Beirut Solidarity Campaign 20 - 28 August, 2006 Li-Beirut The joint efforts of Contemporary Image Collective (CIC), the Townhouse Gallery and Ebdaa Gallery, are being carried on in earnest to launch the fund raising drive "Li-Beirut", which they host this Sunday August 20th. "Most of the preparations have already been made, thanks to the volunteers who spared neither time nor effort to help this campaign come about," said Aleya Hamza, CIC cultural coordinator and one of the campaign organizers. Aleya said tha! t as soon as the word was spread, many artists, academics, and others who are involved in the cultural field, plus members of the Youth Solidarity Project in Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon (Cairo to Camps) expressed their full support of the campaign... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25942 Resolution N° 1701 Robert Thompson, -Axis of Logic exclusive After giving the Zionist aggressors a month in which to kill as many Lebanese civilians as they wished, the United Nations Security Council has finally unanimously approved Resolution N° 1701, despite the serious reservations of the sole Arab member, Qatar. This Resolution calls for an immediate "total cessation of hostilities", but the reaction of the aggressors has merely been to step up their attacks, and at the same time intensified their bombardmen! ts and their land invasion of southern Lebanon... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25935 The new Arab world Hana Abdul Ilah Al Bayaty The project for a new Middle East was stillborn and is now buried. There is a democratic renaissance sweeping the Arab world that calls for independence, an Arab Palestine, unity, justice and democracy. It cannot be stopped. The political map of the region is being redrawn, but not by the Americans, nor the Israelis. The success of this renaissance is a gift for us all, pointing as it does towards a renewal of the international order along the lines of justice and the ! defence of human values. The page has been turned on 50 years of US-Israeli foreign policy. It is a new era. The tide has turned. Only how much destruction the bloodthirsty US-Israeli war machine will be able to inflict before it admits defeat remains to be seen and depends on our ability to resist globally. Arab victory is certain... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25924 Eli Stephens, Left I on the News Last night the local news I was watching carried a story which went something like this (quoted from memory): "Israel doesn't just face trouble on its northern border. Today, on another front, another person was killed as a Palestinian gunman opened fire and killed an Israeli soldier. The gunman was then shot dead." Yes, I'm pretty sure that the language she used referred to only a single "person" being killed, assigning the Palestinian to a state of non-existence. But even if I ! misheard that point, and this particular Palestinian was actually acknowledged as a person, there is the case of the Palestinians who were killed today. And yesterday. And the day before that. And the day before that. And the nearly 200 Palestinians who have been killed in Gaza in the last two months, many of them civilians. Virtually none of whose deaths have been reported on this same news channel, nor by most American media... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25932 Sen. Hagel: “Iran Probably Has More Influence In Iraq Than We Do”... ReBelle Nation Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) went on Fox News Sunday this morning to discuss the Middle East. The Senator, a vocal critic of the war in Iraq as of late, had harsh words about the situation in the Middle East. SEN. HAGEL: "We've got a very unstable Middle East, I think the most unstable Middle East we've seen since 1948, and you can measure that any way you want. The fact is the future of Iraq will be determined by the Iraqi people, ! just like it was in Vietnam. The answer, in my opinion, is not to just keep feeding more American troops into it"... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25931 Israel is 'preparing for more fighting' Tim Butcher Any chance of long-term peace between Lebanon and Israel all but vanished last night after Amir Peretz, the Israeli defence minister, said his country was preparing for another round of fighting. Mr Peretz spoke only hours after Israeli commandos mounted a raid deep inside Lebanon. Kofi Annan, the United Nations secretary general, said it was a violation of the week-old UN ceasefire. Amir Peretz, the Israeli defence minister has said his country was preparing fo! r another round of fighting... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25948 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. 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