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More “Birth Pangs” in Condi’s “New Middle East” Mike Whitney Nations are like people; ultimately they return to the habits with which they feel most comfortable. In Israel’s case, the infrequent periods of peace typically end with a return to the familiar pattern of war crimes and human rights abuse. Last night was no different. The attack on Qana killed 54 Lebanese civilians most of them women and children. The heart-wrenching photos of the bloody victims being pulled from the wreckage have already flooded the ! internet although they probably will be blocked from the mainstream news until Israel can mount its public relations offensive. "Perception management" always takes precedent over the normal expressions of grief. Israeli Prime Minister Olmert has already blamed Hezbollah for the attack; accusing them of using civilians as "human shields" to protect supplies of Katushya rockets. So far, all of the news reports have denied that there were any rockets at the site. Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25251 Israeli Prime Minister on Qana. The Angry Arab News Service "Olmert: Hezbollah used Qana as base to launch 100s of rockets", so we decided to kill all the women and children who are launching these rockets. I proudly announce to the Israeli nation that we have succeeded in killing a large number of the women and children of the enemy today, and will kill more tomorrow. This is the essence of Zionism. And we shall continue to kill their women and children; this has been the mission of our proud IDF. And if ! anybody protests, we can easily call those women and children terrorists--whether they are PLO, Hizbullah, Communists, it does not matter. As the only democracy in the Middle East, we have the moral duty to kill their woman and children. I ask the people of Israel to stand behind the Israeli army in its moment of glory as they continue to kill the women and children of Lebanon and Palestine... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25252 Dear Kofi, It’s Time remove the U.S. and Israel from the United Nations Mike Whitney Dear Secretary-General, I am writing to you with the hope that you will take swift action to address a grave and existential threat to the United Nations. The events in the Middle East are quickly spinning out of control as today’s attack on the UN offices in Beirut clearly indicates. The central problem is that the UN is no longer able to fulfill its mandate to "keep the peace" because of the obstructionism of the United States! . In the last few days, 15 foreign ministers met in Rome to determine the appropriate language for a statement calling for an immediate cease-fire to the violence in Lebanon. As you know, the countries unanimously supported the motion except for the United States which blocked the measure to give Israel more time to destroy Lebanon with its vicious air-campaign. I think you will agree that the UN cannot survive if it is hamstrung in its duties by the narrow policy-objectives of the individual states. In this case, both Washington and Tel Aviv want war, and so, war it is... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25254 Settler Rabbis: Jewish law permits Qana carnage David Bloom, World War 4 Report, ...From Israel's largest newspaper, Yediot Aharonot: Yesha Rabbinical Council: During time of war, enemy has no innocents The Yesha Rabbinical Council announced in response to an IDF attack in Kfar Qanna that "according to Jewish law, during a time of battle and war, there is no such term as 'innocents' of the enemy." All of the discussions on Christian morality are weakening the spirit of the army and the nation and are c! osting us in the blood of our soldiers and civilians," the statement said. (Efrat Weiss)... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25272 This is the Terrorist State of Israel - Qana Massacre, July 30, 2006 Sabbah's blog Zionist barbarism, brutality, crimanilism call it what ever you want, but it is a massacre and war crime against humanity… The United state is pronounced to be guilty for it before its ally, the Zionist entity, which gave it a free hand to continue with is massacres and war crimes, George W. Bush and his staff led by his secretary of state, Rice, who is on a tour in our land that those criminals want to call "The New Middle East" t! hat is a splinter of colonies to be under their control. It was officially declared by the Lebanese people and authority that her visit to Beirut is cancelled whether it is scheduled or not, she is persona non grata, during her present tour in what they call the Middle East and what is our Arab land... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25256 INDEX ON ILLEGAL US WEAPONS IN LEBANON Sarah Meyer, INDEX RESEARCH A peace offer was vetoed just prior to the US / Israeli war on Lebanon.1 Since the war started, there has been much discussion concerning the use of (US) cluster bombs, bunker-busting bombs and chemical weapons – all illegal - presently being used in Lebanon. Some have also said illegal bombs are also being used in Palestine. Those ruling the American Empire, supported by PM Blair2, have become mad with megalomania. The War of (sic) Terror is not ! the solution. Those responsible for the Iraq War, illegal kidnapping and detention without representation, and for the bombs used in Afghanistan, Iraq and now Lebanon need to be put on trial for War Crimes. Sanity, dignity, respect, integrity and peace urgently need to be reclaimed (...) I have put together an index of photographs, reports and articles which, at our peril, have been irresponsibly ignored by the corporate Mainstream Media... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25263 Israel as Future of the Globe? Satya Sagar, Mathaba For all those who think that Israel is run by the most despicable, racist and repressive regime in the world here is some very bad news indeed. Not only are the Israeli state and its ruthless methods here to stay they could also be, very frighteningly, a prototype of our collective global future. Watching the unbelievable destruction wrought by the Israelis in Gaza and Lebanon a simple question very high on many minds must be ' How in hell does this artificially! concocted child of European guilt and American ambition get away with all this again and again and again?’ The answer is that instead of being a strange historical aberration Israel may well be a model state that global elites want to establish to control the world in the days to come... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25273 U.S. military says four more marines killed in Iraq's Anbar province Xinhua Four U.S. marines were killed on Saturday in Iraq's western Anbar province, the U.S. military said on Sunday. The four marines being killed were from the Regimental Combat Team 7, the military said in a brief statement said, without giving further details. The deaths were announced following another four casualties on Thursday in the restive province. On Saturday, the military also said in a brief statement that four U.S. marines were kil! led in actions in the volatile Anbar province. Three soldiers assigned to the 1st Armored Division and the fourth from the Regional Combat Team 5 were killed on Thursday, said the statement, adding the names of the killed soldiers are being withheld pending notification of next of kin... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25270 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 29 July 2006 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice ...In a dispatch posted at 3:30pm Makkah time Saturday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that members of the 34,000 Palestinians in Iraq had issued an appeal to Hizballah in Lebanon to intercede with the Iranian Shi'ah in Iraq to stop the murder of Palestinians in that occupied country. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported Palestinians in the ho! using project for orphans of fighters in the First Palestinian Intifadah – a project built for them by the Iraqi government of President Saddam Husayn – as saying that Hizballah had to intervene with the Iranian Shi'ah of the Badr Brigades and Jaysh al-Mahdi to stop the slaughter of Palestinians in Iraq. Since the occupation of Iraq in 2003 and particularly in recent months Palestinians have been abducted and murdered and many have been thrown out of their homes by the Shi'i sectarian militias... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25269 Relentless Sectarian Violence in Baghdad Stalks Its Victims Even at the Morgues Kirk Semple, The New York Times Now, even the morgues have become a source of danger, at least for Sunni Arabs. In recent months, Shiite militias have been staking out Baghdad's central morgue in particular, and the authorities have received dozens of reports of kidnappings and killings of Sunni Arabs there. Many Sunnis now refuse to go there to look for missing family members and are forced to take extraordinary measures to recover a! relative's body, including sending Shiite friends in their stead (...) Mr. Jubouri and other Sunni leaders blame the Mahdi Army, a Shiite militia, for the reported attacks at the morgue. The militia professes loyalty to the cleric Moktada al-Sadr and is accused of aggravating the sectarian frenzy that has ravaged Iraq in recent months. The Ministry of Health is run by Mr. Sadr's allies... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25265 Zionist War Crimes Censorship Gideon Polya FREE SPEECH is something that has made America great. Americans are very lucky in having the First Amendment that guarantees freedom of speech. In the British Commonwealth World defamation laws have compromised free speech. The "sedition" sections of recent anti-terrorism laws in Australia provide for 7 years in prison for saying things the authorities don’t like - although anti-violence, peace-loving commentators such as myself have been personally assured that these l! aws are only going to be used against "terrorists" or "terrorist sympathizers". However it now appears that comment on Zionist war crimes are automatically being censored in the US and the UK by automatic, robotic rejection of anything containing a particular word (the Z-word) linking Zionist and Nazi war crimes (for the Z-word that I do NOT want to use now, see MWC News ). Let me amplify... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25258 Qana 1996, Qana 2006 and The Arab Dis-League Mohamed Khodr , ICH ...Not one Arab nation pulled its Ambassadors out of Israel or America, not one called for boycotts or massive protests, not one leader went to Lebanon for support, not one dares challenge America lest there be a "regime change". How much Muslim blood must be shed before Muslims awaken their souls and spirit to challenge the modern killers of Muslims? The twelve year old Palestinian girl in Gaza while watching her entire family murdered by an Americ! an made Israeli rocket fueled by Arab oil screamed on behalf of the entire Muslim Nation: "Father, Father, forgive me". Don't forgive us little girl, we don't deserve your courage. We fear America, not Allah (swt)... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25255 Qana Massacre... Riverbend, Bagdad burning ...I’m so frustrated I can’t think straight. I’m full of rage against Israel, the US, Britain, Iran and most of Europe. The world is going to go to hell for standing by and allowing the massacre of innocents. For God’s sake, 34 children??? The UN is beyond useless. They’ve gone from a union of nations working for the good of the world (if they ever were even that), to a bunch of gravediggers. They’re only good for digging mangled bodies out of the ruins of buildings and ! helping to identify and put them into mass graves. They won’t stop a massacre- they won’t even speak out against it- they’ll just come by and help clean up the mess. Are the lives of Arabs worth so little? If this had happened in the US or UK or France or China, somebody would already have dropped a nuclear bomb… How is this happening? Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25253 WAR NEWS UPDATE FOR SUNDAY, JULY 30, 2006 Today in Iraq Bring 'em on: Four Marines assigned to Regimental Combat Team 7 killed in action in Anbar province on Saturday. No further details announced at this time. Note: These are not the four Marines KIA cited in Matt's post, whose deaths Thursday were only announced yesterday. Total U.S. military deaths in Iraq now stand at 2,578, according to ICCC. Two killed, 36 injured by bomb targeting a bus in al-Hillah, south of Baghdad. Bomb targeting police vehicle in Baqou! ba kills one police officer, wounds one civilian. Civilian also killed by unknown gunman in nearby town of Maqdadiya. U.S. airstrike kills two people who the U.S. describes as terrorists. Four people arrested by ground forces in the same incident... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25249 Photos: The Massacre at Qana Qana Massacre II: Condoleezza Rice gets her "New Middle East." The Angry Arab News Service Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25246 The “Human Shield” LIE Exposed The Truth Will Set You Free On the heels of Israel's horrendous massacre of more than 60 civilians in Qana, among them OVER 40 CHILDREN, I will lay to rest once and for all, the colossal lie presented in unison by these mass murderers and their accomplices, in defense of the indefensible - the position that Hizbullah uses civilians as "human shields" against overwhelming Israeli aggression. Nothing could be more illogical or absurd. Let's examine it carefully. When someone uses anot! her human being as a "shield," under the plain meaning of the word, it is understood to be a method to deter aggression by adversaries. In order for that objective to be achieved, crucial premises must first exist. The party who employs the human shield MUST assume that their adversary will hesitate to fire against those shields for fear of harming them. But in order for that to happen, the adversary must first CARE about the welfare of the so-called "human shields." If the opposing party DOES NOT CARE about their welfare, then the alleged objective of deterring aggression falls apart.... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25247 "I came over here because I wanted to kill people." Andrew Tilghman, Washington Post Over a mess-tent dinner of turkey cutlets, the bony-faced 21-year-old private from West Texas looked right at me as he talked about killing Iraqis with casual indifference. It was February, and we were at his small patrol base about 20 miles south of Baghdad. "The truth is, it wasn't all I thought it was cracked up to be. I mean, I thought killing somebody would be this life-changing experience. And then I did it, and I was like,! 'All right, whatever.' " He shrugged. "I shot a guy who wouldn't stop when we were out at a traffic checkpoint and it was like nothing," he went on. "Over here, killing people is like squashing an ant. I mean, you kill somebody and it's like 'All right, let's go get some pizza.' "... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25264 UN building stormed amid Lebanon rage over Qana Salim Yassine and Ramzi Haidar. AFP Angry Lebanese protestors have stormed the building of the United Nations in Beirut, smashing glass doors and hacking at the furniture in rage at Israel's deadly bombing of homes in Qana. After the violent protest at UN headquarters, thousands of people -- some in tears and others shouting angry slogans -- converged from both Christian and Muslim areas of the capital on Riad Solh Square where the building is located. After hearing! news of the carnage in Qana which killed 51 people, including 25 children, a group of protestors attacked and briefly occupied the UN House in downtown Beirut where they smashed windows, burned curtains and destroyed furniture... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25243 Syria denounces call for international force in Lebanon AFP Syria yesterday slammed US-backed proposals for the deployment of a multinational force in southern Lebanon, saying it would be "an occupation force" that could deepen the conflict and spark a backlash against the troops. "The international force proposed by (US Secretary of State) Condoleezza Rice... will occupy southern Lebanon and it, instead of Israel, will be charged with eradicating the Lebanese national resistance," said an editorial in the offici! al Tishrin daily... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25216 DAILY WAR NEWS FOR SATURDAY, JULY 29, 2006 Today in Iraq In the village of Abu Sayda, near the northeastern city of Baqubah, Iraqi police battled unidentified gunmen throughout the day Saturday. Witnesses said the attackers first destroyed the village's Shiite mosque with several bombs, then fought off attempts by police to apprehend them. Four Marines were killed Thursday in unspecified "enemy action" in the western province of Anbar. The names of the four Marines — three assigned to the Army's 1st Brigade, 1st ! Armored Division, and one from Regimental Combat Team 5 — were being withheld pending notification of next of kin. Armed men in two cars sprayed gunfire at the Muhammad Rassulluallah mosque shattering windows and damaging walls. An hour later gunmen stormed the nearby Ashra al-Mubashara mosque, fleeing when police arrived... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25248 Israel on US State Department Watch List: Why Do We Support Israel? Genevieve Cora Fraser, Al-Jazeerah Israel holds over 10,000 Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners, including 400 abducted children and 100 women. Human Rights groups claim they are tortured and starved. Recently, US House-Senate resolutions upheld Israel’s Right to Defend Itself, while condemning the Lebanese and Palestinian resistance. Israel’s military force is disproportionate. They kill with guided missiles, depleted uranium, cluster bombs and w! hite phosphorous (incinerates people). They have obliterated Palestinian and Lebanese power plants, bridges, roads, water and fuel supplies needed to sustain life. According world press reports, the Israeli soldiers were killed after Israeli troops crossed the border into Lebanon to attack a Hizbullah stronghold. Most of the soldiers died when their jeep overturned... 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