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Death in Lebanon Sarah Meyer, INDEX RESEARCH ...The Guardian (10.08.06) casualty chart notes: Lebanon yesterday: Civilians killed: 8 (at least); To date: Civilians killed: 1,005; Israel yesterday: Civilians killed: 0; To date: Civilians killed: 35: The bodies of those still lying underneath the rubble are not included. Perhaps the Fox News Team should be sent to help dig them out, despite the Israeli restrictions on any form of movement. Let’s have a reality check, folks? I would like everyone to see the p! hotographs, with their captions, that have been sent to me by Lebanon’s As-Safir newspaper... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25681 UN Resolution fails to acknowledge that Israel has launched a War against Lebanon Transcript of Resolution 1701: "the word "War" is not mentioned. Michel Chossudovsky, GlobalResearch.ca UN Security Council Resolution 1701 was drafted by France and the US in close consultation with the Israeli government. a) The resolution is in blatant violation of the UN charter and international law. It fails to acknoweldge that Israel has launched an all out war on Lebanon in violation of international law. It desc! ribes the bombing and destruction of an entire country as as a "conflict between Hizbollah and Israel". The word "war" does not appear in the the text of the Resolution. b) Referring to the two abducted Israeli soldiers, the Resolution states that Hizbollah was responsible for launching "the attack on Israel on 12 July". It denies the fact, amply documented, that an all out war against Lebanon had been in the planning stages well before July 12. c) The historical causes of the war are denied. The abduction of the two Israeli soldiers on July 12, is presented as a just cause for Israeli retaliation... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25686 The UNSC 1701 Resolution: Why No Lebanese Should accept it The Angry Arab News Service The UNSC 1701 Resolution: Why No Lebanese Should accept it. So here is the text of the draft UNSC resolution. "Expressing its utmost concern at the continuing escalation of hostilities in Lebanon and in Israel since Hizbollah's attack on Israel on 12 July 2006, which has already caused hundreds of deaths and injuries on both sides, extensive damage to civilian infrastructure and hundreds of thousands of internally displaced per! sons." This paragraph clearly lays the blame on Hizbullah for the Israeli war of aggression. And notice that Hizbullah's capture of the Israeli soldiers is sneakily blamed for "the hundreds of deaths and injuries on both sides." Both sides is always brought up when Israeli record of murder and terrorism is being covered by an international agency under US pressures, in order to absolve Israel... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25683 What a Relief: Terrorist Babies Have Been Killed! Courtenay Francis Raymond Barnett Dear George, This is a personal appeal for you to decide. I know that you are "the decider" who will make sensible decisions once you read this letter. The topic is terrorism. The noun "terrorism" is on a lot of peoples’ minds. The Oxford English dictionary informs me that the word means, "use of violence and intimidation especially for political purposes." I recall Nelson Mandela resorting to violence when peaceful request! s failed to achieve his political ends of justice and representation for all South Africans. The Palestinians seem likewise to have been radicalised over time after their legitimate political grievances for justice, representation and statehood were ignored. Keeping occupied land, not respecting the dictates of UN Resolution 242 while not withdrawing to the 1967 borders, imprisonment of thousands of Palestinians, building Apartheid walls around the Palestinians, of course are the types of minor irritants that could never in the minds of fair and just people ever constitute any form of violence or intimidation for political purposes –never!... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25688 It’s that’s time again – for another ‘terror plot’ William Bowles , I'n'I "Sometimes we may have to modify some of our own freedoms in the short term in order to prevent their misuse and abuse by those who oppose our fundamental values and would destroy all of our freedoms in the modern world." – Home secretary, John Reid It’s amazing really that nobody sees the paradox of Reid calling for the abolition of what’s left of our civil rights in order to preserve them but then there’s nothing logical about the 'war on terror’, it is itself a contradiction of terms. As to Reid’s notion of his "fundamental values" well, one assumes these include the wholesale destruction of societies and their peoples and standing by whilst his allies do the same... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25687 Collective punishment against Lebanese civilians The Angry Arab News Service 36 collective massacres occurred against the Lebanese civilians since the onset of the Israeli assault (from July 12-August 11). Israel violated all conventions related to the prohibition of collective punishment whereas it perpetrated voluntarily crimes against civilians and their properties, namely Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention prohibiting collective punishment and Article 48 forbidding military actions against civi! lian populations and infrastructure. These collective massacres are as follows... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25700 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday, 11 August 2006 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice In a dispatch posted at 8:29pm Makkah time Friday night, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that fierce battles were going on at the time of writing between Resistance fighters and US Marines in the city of ar-Ramadi about 110km west of Baghdad. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that more than 70 Resistance men were attempting to storm the US headquarter! s in the Immigration building in the middle of the city, while other fighters battles Americans occupation troops in the area of the provincial government building... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25685 Lebanon 'peace deal'. Lenin's Tomb ...Since Israel hasn't been able to win, and given a potential domestic crisis for Olmert as a result, it has accepted a resolution that doesn't give it everything it wants, but is so vague that it cannot hinder the assault either. Israeli troops have been ordered to advance to the Litani. That being the case, there is no way they will evacuate quickly without being driven out: one does not try to advance 30 kilometres into another country only to beat a hasty retreat. What is m! ore, the Israelis continue to attack the civilian infrastructure, destroying the power facilities in the port city of Sidon. Among Israel's other attacks was a calculated attack on a convoy of thirty cars fleeing Marjayoun, which killed at least six people and wounded thirty... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25684 Terra! Terra! Terra! Sploid The alleged U.K. terror plot has been investigated for months by British intelligence, and the idea that the airliner attacks were planned for today seems to be nothing more than political fabrication and media hysteria. Tony Blair and George W. Bush even planned the terror freakout in a series of phone calls that began last Friday and continued through the weekend. Blair and Bush put the finishing touches on their diabolical operation in a phone call early Wednesday, the Associated Pr! ess revealed today... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25675 Fascist Christian Militia With History of War Crimes Consulting With Fascist Israeli Occupation Army Also Guilty Of War Crimes Palestinian Pundit Israel has called on the services of the Christian militia it once sponsored in Lebanon to help its current fight against Hizbollah, the militia's former leader has disclosed. Gen Anton Lahad assumed control of the South Lebanon Army (SLA) in 1984 - two years after it was implicated in the massacre of up to several thousand Palestinians in the refugee camps of Sabra and! Shatila. Now he says that Israel is tapping into his expertise in secret meetings... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25676 One Iraqi father gets a taste of freedom Truth About Iraqis Freedom. Liberty. Justice. Family of nations. War on terror. From Zappy's Where Date Palms Grow: Saturday, August 12, 2006 Dracul’s Barbecue It is told that Count Dracul had his enemies impaled on the outskirts of Transylvania to horrify the Turks from ever wanting to invade Transylvania that was back in the fifteenth century. Last week a neighbor found his son in front of his door, Impaled with a reinforcing steel rod, there were tomat! oes and onions on both sides of that Rod. I am going to stop blogging for a while. Zappy, who can blame you. But do our souls go silent as well? What can we possibly tell this father? How can we console him? And when we are done consoling him, how many countless others are there grieving, distraught and in disarray? What do Iraqis have to look forward to? Death? In Iraq these days, it is said those who die are blessed for they do not have to face what else is coming... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25689 The Anglo-American empire’s “next 9/11” will set up final war; “foiled” UK terror plot a propaganda dry run Larry Chin, Online Journal Associate Editor The August 10 report of a spectacular foiled UK-based super-terror plot, an alleged Operation Bojinka variation, has sparked an unprecedented round of 9/11-style fear and panic mongering throughout the world. This is a new attempt, at the highest levels of the Bush and Blair administrations, in concert with Pakistan’s ISI and Israel, to fabricate the justification! for an escalation in the "war on terrorism" across the Middle East. This escalation will include an attack on Iran and Syria as early as October, and with even greater geostrategic violence to follow. Proof that Bush administration planning the next 9/11. Dick Cheney recently declared: "The enemy that struck on 9/11 is fractured and weakened, yet still lethal, still determined to hit us again." That is a concise description of Cheney’s own administration, and its intentions. And he knows it... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25690 Demonstrate today! Stop the U.S./Israeli assault on Lebanon and Palestine! Eli Stephens, Left I on the News Event details: Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle. re-event coverage of the march in the Washington Post, entitled "Protest to Encircle White House." As far as the "peace deal" agreed to last night by the U.N. (not by the warring parties!), I believe this headline, describing actions taking place after that vote, pretty much says it all: "Israel nearly triples troops in Lebanon." Actually! what also says it all about this one-sided deal is the slogan you'll be chanting today if you go to one of the demonstrations: "No justice, no peace!"... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25693 War now, peace later: Israel’s doves line up behind war - Part one Jean Shaoul, WSWS One of the most significant features of Israel’s wars of aggression in Gaza and Lebanon is the unanimity between the so-called "hawks" and movements that in the past were considered "doves." Peace Now has remained largely silent over Israel’s massive assault on Hamas and the Palestinians in Gaza, ongoing since June. In the case of Lebanon, from the moment full-scale hostilities began in July following Hezbollah’s capture of two I! sraeli soldiers, Peace Now declared its support for the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) and the Olmert government. It issued a statement on its web site explaining that its members had gone to Kibbutz Gonen in northern Israel to proclaim that Israel had the right to respond to the capture of the Israeli soldiers and that Peace Now supported Israel’s right to defend its borders. Peace Now has echoed the government’s propaganda that Israel faces provocations by Hamas and Hezbollah, accepting the official Israeli and American definition of both organisations as terrorist groups... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25692 We are all Hezbollah! Sabbah's blog ... I wrote this poem a few days ago..my friend in Lebanon passed on Friday. He was helping women and children escape from Tyre. His legs were blown off and he was left in this position for many hours. He later died on the way to assistance when the Hezbollah soldiers found him. He was not a soldier. Just a boy studying photography, he likes flowers and had a small little bird, and loved peanut butter. sorry if i sound mad right now... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25691 Bomb Kills 2 U.S. Soldiers in Baghdad AP Two U.S soldiers were killed Saturday when their foot patrol was hit by a roadside bomb south of Baghdad, the military said. The deaths brought to 23 the number of Americans killed in Iraq this month. At least 2,600 members of the U.S. military have died since the Iraq war started in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The names of the soldiers were not released and no further details were given... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25694 LIQUID TERROR: Training People To Act Like Subservient Slaves Terrorists planned to mix liquids so why are they all being poured into airport bins? Steve Watson / Infowars.net A The latest terror plot facade is nothing more than an exercise to assess how subservient the general population has become and a primer to making permanent the panicked and ridiculous freedom crushing security measures we are seeing being rushed into implementation at the moment. Whilst the government is saying there is no goin! g back on these measures and that they will become permanent, the media is bleating about rushing in biometric retina scanners and Orwellian behaviour sensing technology. This is the only way they can do these things without backlash and protest, just have a major terror alert and rush them through. How is it that people can still deny that our governments are forwarding a big brother control agenda? ID cards, Biometric databases, retina scanners, face scanning cameras, behaviour sensing machines. The list goes on. It has been proven over and over that these measures will not help prevent terrorism, the government itself has even admitted this, so why do they relentlessly push them?... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25696 Miri Eisen, Mother For Peace, Justifies Killing Arab Kids And Arab Bloggers See the Light Umkahlil ...The Christian Science Monitor writes that the Arab and North American transplant Zionist bloggers aren't seeing eye-to-eye so much nowadays. Pity that they no longer will be used by Zionist propagandists to put a good face on Israel. Like Miri Eisen, a transplanted American, who is hailed as a "Mother For Peace," along with Vichy Palestinian Noni Darwish, who comes on CNN to put a nice face on Israel's slaughter ! of handicapped Lebanese kids. At least Rosemary Church of CNN International didn't let her get away with it (this is a great video)... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25699 The Wailing Wall Martyr Brigade: Jewnetic Engineering Gilad Atzmon, peacepalestine As the Israeli Army buries its dead in what seems to be a war that the Jewish State can never win, we happen to learn from a high official within the Pentagon that Israel is about to make use of what seems to be its ultimate devastating weapon. We also have discovered that the recent French-American diplomatic push for a UN Security Council Resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire is there to postpone the deployment of this n! ew weapon, preventing Israel from dragging the world into a new horrifying phase of warfare, with results whose outcome cannot be predicted... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25697 Bush Versus the Constitution David Swanson Last December, when Congressman John Conyers released a huge report documenting the evidence that Bush and Cheney had lied us into a war, he also introduced a bill (H. Res. 635) to start a preliminary investigation of the matter and make recommendations on impeachment. This showed far more courage, not to mention long hours of work, than any other member of Congress had mustered at that time or since. But it was disingenuous. Impeachment is itself an investigation; a pre! liminary investigation is redundant. And any investigation is unnecessary when the impeachable offenses are part of the public record. Last week, Conyers released an expanded report, including new superfluous evidence of proven crimes related to the war, plus a lengthy Section 2 focused on illegal spying programs. The evidence of blatant criminality and threat to the Constitution in this new section is devastating... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25682 The dog really does wag the tail! Simon Jones Just when it became patently obvious that the tail was in complete control of the dog (i.e., Izzy was directing US Middle East policy), the dog has decided to try to reassert control over its nether appendage. Since the days of Raygun, the Jewish lobby in Washington (and every nook and cranny in the US) has wielded more and more power, until with AIPAC, PNAC, 911 and Iraq, it took complete control over US foreign policy, getting Washington to wage open war agai! nst Israel's greatest enemy - Islam... 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