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Sham UN Resolution Guarantees No End To Israel's War of Illegal Aggression Stephen Lendman On August 11, the UN Security Council unanimously passed Resolution 1701 jointly proposed by the US and France and with all provisions in it signed off on by Israel before it was put to a vote. Neither Lebanon nor Hezbollah was afforded that same right. In a UN dominated by the world's only superpower and having to operate within the constraints it sets, only aggressors are allowed that privilege. It's victims never are. Re! solution 1701 was a revised version of the one the US and France first proposed on August 6 which the French then backed down on because of strong Lebanese government and Arab League opposition. The new resolution only guarantees one thing - no end to the conflict and no justice for its Lebanese victims. It doesn't even address the concurrent hostilities ongoing against the Palestinians arrogantly ignoring the fact that they're raging daily with no end in sight... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25726 Empire comes to Lebanon The U.S.-Israel axis goes all out to remove the last impediments to building a "New Middle East". AIJAZ AHMAD LET us begin with a supposedly "undisputed" fact: The official story, told first by the Israeli government and automatically accepted by governments and media outlets across the world, is that Hizbollah is a Muslim fundamentalist, terrorist organisation which periodically lobs shells and rockets into civilian population centres of northern Israel and that, in its latest ! outrage on July 12, it attacked a border military post inside Israeli territory, killing six Israeli soldiers and capturing two. Having waited several years for "the international community" and the Lebanese government to disarm this "terrorist" organisation, Israel is said to have been finally exasperated by this latest outrage and, acting in self-defence, it decided to retaliate so as to "break Hizbollah" for ever and ever, for the sake of the security of its citizens. This official version raises some basic questions regarding the character of Hizbollah itself, about the very incident that is supposed to have "provoked" Israel beyond endurance, and about the scope of Israel's "retaliation"... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25733 Terror Nation: Lies, Injustice, and the American Empire’s Way Jason Miller Remember, good patriots, we are at war with Islam, Socialism, Communism, drugs, crime, illegal immigration, Gays, labor unions, liberal university professors, peace activists, environmentalists, Anti-Semites, secular humanists, and all those who pose a threat to the United States. Each of these groups shares culpability for the terrorism which has killed several thousand of US, British, Spanish, and Israeli citizens since 2001. They are a ! cancer upon the American Way and must be excised. Freedom and liberty will prevail despite their onslaught of evil. Suspension of civil liberties, concentration of power into the hands of the Executive branch, slaughtering hundreds of thousands of innocents civilians, collective punishment of millions through wanton destruction of infrastructure, widespread dissemination of depleted uranium, reduction of wasteful spending on "useless eaters" via massive cuts in entitlement spending, ongoing ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the West Bank, torture, denial of justice to "enemy combatants", massive tax cuts to the wealthy, obscene increases in defense spending, propaganda blitzes to keep the public believing horrendous lies, preemptive war, reduced government restriction of corporate exploitation of humans and the environment, and continued neocolonial expansion are all essential to the United States fulfilling its Manifest Destiny and ending the terrorist threat. Remember, they ha! te our freedom... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25729 The "ceasefire" Eli Stephens, Left I on the News Reuters reports what has been obvious to any intelligent person since the terms of the so-called "ceasefire" were announced: Israel believes it will be entitled to use force to prevent Hizbollah from rearming and to clear guerrilla positions out of southern Lebanon after a U.N. truce takes effect, Israeli officials said on Sunday. Israeli officials said such operations are "defensive" in nature and therefore permissible under a U.N. Security Council resolution w! hich calls for Israel to halt "all offensive military operations". The Israeli operations could include air strikes against arms convoys travelling anywhere in Lebanese territory, a senior Israeli official said.... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25731 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 13 August 2006 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice In a dispatch posted at 5:27pm Makkah time Sunday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance forces had carried out their third rocket attack in the ar-Ramadi area within the previous 24 hours. The ar-Ramadi correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported a source in the Iraqi Resistance as saying that the Resistance fired four Katyusha rockets at! the American al-Warrar base on the Euphrates River west of ar-Ramadi. The rockets blasted into fuel storage tanks used for US occupation vehicles. The source said that the attack was successful, destroying nine big fuel tanks. Dense clouds of smoke covered the sky over the base and the surrounding areas after the attack. US helicopters and fighter planes prowled the skies over head... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25739 PLO: 'Ceasefire agreement' leaves room for Israel to continue military invasion IMEMC + PNN "There was never an agreement more favorable to Israel," said Israeli defense minister Amir Peretz about the United Nations (UN) 'ceasefire' agreement. Such words sound ominous to the ears of the Lebanese people, who suffered under eighteen years of military occupation by Israel due to a number of agreements 'favorable to Israel'. Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee Political Bureau member, Taysir! Khalid, is inclined to agree that the agreement favors Israel, saying it "gives Israel a green light to continue its aggression against the Lebanese people"... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25738 Cease-Fire Charade Editorial, Arab News By the time the Israeli Cabinet meets today to consider Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s recommendation that the UN cease-fire resolution be accepted, Israel’s major new thrust toward the Litani River in southern Lebanon will probably have expanded the conflict with Hezbollah. The slightest hint of a Hezbollah counterattack, under the one-sided terms of Friday’s Resolution 1701, will permit the Israeli military to mount "defensive" operations and thus keep the conflict going. W! e can confidently expect that Olmert’s Cabinet will willingly agree to the cease-fire — just as soon as Hezbollah stops its attacks. Israel is a past master at kicking its boot into the hive and then protesting that it must take action against the resulting swarm. Will the Security Council allow itself to be manipulated into remaining silent about Israel’s massive new push into Lebanese territory?... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25727 GI Special 4H13: " Well, What Are We Doing Here?" - August 13, 2006 Thomas F. Barton ..."Three months into Iraq, my friend, a man that I drank beer with, a man that I had even gone to college with for awhile, shot an innocent civilian who was raking rocks along the side of the road. I remember having to go back to Forward Operating Base Marez, and reporting to my commanding officer what I just seen. I remember writing a mission statement. I remember requesting an investigation be done and I remember it being r! efused. "’I can’t take this anymore!’ That’s what I thought to myself. This is not what I signed up for and it’s not what’s being shown to the American public. So, why the hell should I fight?... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25737 UN says 'peace tomorrow' despite Israeli attack Conal Urquhart in Matulla, Mitchell Prothero in Beirut and Peter Beaumont in London, The Observer Israel dramatically defied a unanimous United Nations Security Council ceasefire resolution by escalating its ground war yesterday in southern Lebanon, asserting that it needed more time to 'clean up' Hizbollah. Last night Kofi Annan, the secretary general of the UN, insisted that hostilities would end at 5am tomorrow, saying that both Israeli and Lebanese prime ministe! rs had agreed to a ceasefire. But yesterday there was little sign of peace as Israel sent more armour and helicopters into Lebanon. Dozens of helicopters ferried infantry deep into Lebanon in a race to grab territory. By the day's end, 30,000 Israeli soldiers had crossed the border. Despite reports that some troops had reached the Litani, it was also their bloodiest day of fighting, with at least 11 killed and 70 wounded... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25736 Israeli Leaders Fault Bush on War Robert Parry Amid the political and diplomatic fallout from Israel’s faltering invasion of Lebanon, some Israeli officials are privately blaming President George W. Bush for egging Prime Minister Ehud Olmert into the ill-conceived military adventure against the Hezbollah militia in south Lebanon. Bush conveyed his strong personal support for the military offensive during a White House meeting with Olmert on May 23, according to sources familiar with the thinking of senior Israeli! leaders. Olmert, who like Bush lacks direct wartime experience, agreed that a dose of military force against Hezbollah might damage the guerrilla group’s influence in Lebanon and intimidate its allies, Iran and Syria, countries that Bush has identified as the chief obstacles to U.S. interests in the Middle East... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25735 What The Hell Has Happened To The Army? Uri Avnery SO WHAT has happened to the Israeli army? This question is now being raised not only around the world, but also in Israel itself. Clearly, there is a huge gap between the army's boastful arrogance, on which generations of Israelis have grown up, and the picture presented by this war. Before the choir of generals utters their expected cries of being stabbed in the back - "The government has shackled our hands! The politicians did not allow the army to win! The pol! itical leadership is to blame for everything!" - it is worthwhile to examine this war from a professional military point of view... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25734 DAILY WAR NEWS FOR SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 2006 Today in Iraq ...Deputy head of provincial council of Diyala escapes assassination attempt, as does Governor of Nineveh Province, but bodyguard is injured in the latter attack. Police find 12 bodies trapped in a grate in the Tigris. All had been bound, blindfolded, and shot. AP also reports "Police also found 15 other bullet-riddled bodies of men who had been handcuffed and blindfolded in six neighborhoods throughout the Baghdad area, police Lt. Mohammed Khayoun said. An! other 21 people were killed yesterday, mostly in Baghdad but also in Hillah, Mosul and Basra."... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25730 24 Israeli soldiers killed in expanded offensive in Lebanon Agence France-Presse The Israeli army confirmed early Sunday that 24 of its soldiers had been killed the previous day in a series of clashes with the Hezbollah militia as it expanded its ground operations in south Lebanon. The updated toll includes the five members of the flight crew of a helicopter that was shot down, and 85 other soldiers were wounded in fighting, an army spokesman said... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25725 GI Special 4H12: " Why Am I Here?" - August 12, 2006 Thomas F. Barton ...SGT. RICKY CLOUSING: I chose to leave after experiencing the brutalities of war in this war in Iraq, and it was a process that I considered long and hard upon my return to Fort Bragg. Those two-and-a-half months of my integration back into the military and back into society really questioned and really forced me to reevaluate my beliefs and my own personal feelings and convictions, politically and spiritually, about my involvement in the w! ar in Iraq and also the organization of the military in general... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25724 UN ‘Israeli War Crimes’ Vote Reveals the West is Isolated Steve Masterson, GlobalResearch.ca The Western media focussed on the irrelevant and 'unanimous’ UN Security Council 'ceasefire’ vote, which only guarantees the fighting and slaughter will escalate. Another UN vote within hours of the 'ceasfire’ vote – of immense significance and hardly touched-upon in the Western media – exposed the real world-wide divisions and alliances embroiled in this global Lebanon war. In a crucial 27-11 vote, the UN Human Rights Co! uncil (UNHCR) condemned Israeli war crimes and agreed 'immediately despatch a high-level Inquiry Commission to Lebanon’... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25720 www.uruknet.info: a site gathering daily information concerning occupied Iraq: news, analysis, documents and texts of iraqi resistance available in Italian and English.