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Zionist state of "Israel" seems to be in moral, political, and psychiatric free fall PalestineFreeVoice "Israel's" goals in Palestine and Lebanon are inherently irrational. They, argues Issa Khalaf*, represent a distorted rationalisation of power and create the conditions for consequences that "Israel" cannot control. As we witness the unfolding spectacle of ferocious, indiscriminate violence, destruction, and brutality in Gaza and Lebanon, it's difficult to resist the conclusion that there is something terribly ! wrong with the "Israeli" state and society. It's as though all moral and psychological constraints and boundaries have been breached, deviancy normalised... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=26145 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 26 August 2006. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice ...In a dispatch posted at 11:15pm Makkah time Saturday night, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the pro-American chief of the so-called Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), 'Abd al-'Aziz al-Hakim had renewed his calls for the establishment of what he called a "federation" in which southern and central Iraq would be largely independent o! f the rest of the country. Inn a statement issued by his office, al-Hakim urged members of his party to "raise consciousness about what he called the "advantages of federation." The statement said that federation was the "greatest guarantee for our people" – presumably a reference to Iraqi Shi'ah – and stressed the importance of getting people to vote for the "formation of a central and southern Iraqi region so that oppression may not return" as he put it, al-Jazeera satellite TV, as monitored by Mafkarat al-Islam, reported. Calls for a so-called "federation" that would largely split Iraq along religious and ethnic lines are consitent with plans hatched by US and Zionist politicians and reflected recently by Leslie Gelb (President Emeritus of the US Council on Foreign Relations) in "The Three-State Solution published in The New York Times on 25 November 2003, in the article by Gelb and US Democratic Senator Joseph Biden in "Unity through Autonomy in Iraq," in The New York! Times on 1 May 2006... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=26156 Pipelines to 9/11 Rudo de Ruijter, POAC This article is about backgrounds of the US war against Afghanistan. It is about oil, gas and pipelines around the Caspian Sea. To transport oil and gas from the east side of the Caspian Sea, pipelines had been planned through Afghanistan. Because a US company, UNOCAL, failed to control the Afghan route, the war was prepared. When the military was ready to strike, the terrorists of 9/11 gave Bush the pretext to start this war and obtain support from Congress, the U.S. pop! ulation and the rest of the world... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=26152 UFPJ: The Absence of Moral Character Free Palestine Alliance As we join people around the world in mobilizing against the unspeakable atrocities being committed by the Israeli military in Lebanon and Palestine, we are forced to turn our attention to attempts by forces within the US justice movement who have made a habit of condemning the popular resistance of the Arab people. We feel that this is important due to the continued and unabated attempts to marginalize the voice of those at the receiving end of war. A ! comprehensive position paper on this matter will be issued shortly addressing language manipulations, political construct, and historical distortions. On July 18, 2006, during peak wholesale murders at the hands of the Israeli military, United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) issued a statement that condemned the popular resistance movement in Lebanon as it equated it with Israeli actions. This was followed by a call on July 19, in which UFPJ not only completely eliminated Palestine (once again) from the political scene, but also escalated its condemnation of the resistance and declared that it was in violation of International Law. UFPJ went further to echo the US administration's own political constructs, that the Israeli forces should not use a "disproportionate response" - as if a proportionate one exists, and as if the violence of colonists is just a mere "response"... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=26151 Weary Iraqis Face New Foe: Rising Prices DAMIEN CAVE, NYTimes For Mehdi Dawood, Iraq’s failures have leached into the cucumbers, a staple of every meal that now devours a fifth of his monthly pension. And it is not just the vegetables. Fuel and electricity prices are up more than 270 percent from last year’s, according to Iraqi government figures. Tea in some markets has quadrupled, egg prices have doubled, and all over the country the daily routine now includes a new question: What can be done without? "Meat, I ! just don’t buy it anymore," said Mr. Dawood, 66, holding half-filled bags at a market in Baghdad. "It’s too expensive." "We are all suffering," he said. "It’s the government’s fault. There is no security. There is no stability." (...) Three months into the administration of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, the inflation rate has reached 70 percent a year, up from 32 percent last year... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=26150 Nato pilots accused of killing Afghan children Tom Coghlan, The Independent Nato pilots have been accused of killing 13 Afghan civilians, including nine children, during an attack close to the British base at Musa Kala in Helmand province. Witnesses and relatives of the dead, who were interviewed by The Independent at the town of Lashkargar, claim that on 31 July a family of 13 was attempting to flee the fighting in a rented pickup truck with three other men when an aircraft appeared overhead. "We stopped the car! ," said Abdul Habib, 40. "Then the plane dropped a bomb ahead of us and went away. After a while we started driving again, but the aircraft came back. I told my wives to stand up so that the pilot would see they were women, but at that moment it opened fire."... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=26149 "THE JERUSALEM DECLARATION ON CHRISTIAN ZIONISM" - Statement by the Patriarch and Local Heads of Churches In Jerusalem Christian Zionism is a modern theological and political movement that embraces the most extreme ideological positions of Zionism, thereby becoming detrimental to a just peace within Palestine and Israel. The Christian Zionist programme provides a worldview where the Gospel is identified with the ideology of empire, colonialism and militarism. In its extreme form, it laces an emphasis on apocalyp! tic events leading to the end of history rather than living Christ's love and justice today. We categorically reject Christian Zionist doctrines as false teaching that corrupts the biblical message of love, justice and reconciliation. Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=26148 Cleanup of Lebanon's Massive Oil Spill Could Take Years IMEMC News Cleanup of a massive oil slick along Lebanon's coast has barely begun more than one month after Israel's bombing of a power plant unleashed the pollution. At a bend in the boardwalk along the edge of Beirut, thick and nauseating black water laps against about 20 flat-bottomed fishing boats sheltered in a cove toward the south of the city. The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) estimates that between 10,000 and 15,000 tons (11,000-16,500 ton! s) of fuel oil leaked from the Jiyeh electric power plant in mid-July after two Israeli air raids. The seaside plant, 30 kilometers south of Beirut, burned for 12 days... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=26154 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.