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According To Jewish Law... The Truth Will Set You Free A recent article from Ynet News reads: 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 costing us in the blood of our soldiers a! nd civilians," the statement said. (Efrat Weiss) Well, that's news to me. I must have missed the switch from the hundreds of years of defining and refining human rights, civil rights, and international law to this regressive, Neanderthal interpretation of the Torah. Do we discard international law and human rights to soothe the world's oldest persecution complex?... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25342 UK asks Bahrain Media not to Publish Israeli Crimes Photos Sabbah's blog Not only they don’t want to help in putting an end to the barbaric terrorist Israeli war on Lebanese… not only they provide a passage for the smart (doubtful) bombs to reach the Israel Terrorist State… but they want us to keep our mouth shut and not to show the world the atrocities committed by their barbaric partners on Lebanon and Palestine. A letter from the British Embassy in Bahrain to Al Watan newspaper was published today. The text re! ads: Please, don’t publish our crimes photos! We all wish that you stop publishing the photos of the destruction on your front page, and we hope you stop mixing between the hazy position of the U.S.A. and not actively trying to do anything... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25339 “Peacekeepers” to the Rescue Tom Mysiewicz – Shamireaders The calculated madness of the Israeli incursion into Lebanon, the attacks on ambulances, columns of civilians, bridges, power plants, Shiites, Sunnis, Druze, Christians and just about everything that moves—and now the horrendous "bunker buster" attack on a building in Qana filled mostly with child refugees--may simply be a gambit to create a humanitarian crisis of such a degree in Lebanon that the world will rush to allow a strong UN, NATO or other "peacek! eeping" force to enter the country. Such an eventuality, while in the interest of Israeli planners and of great benefit in a future war against Iran and Syria, would be a serious error for the participants as well as the victims. For a "peacekeeping" force is no substitute for strict international sanctions on Israel (including an embargo on WMDs and weapons capable of being used on civilian populations)... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25338 They're taking it all. Lenin's Tomb Israeli forces thrust into Lebanon on Tuesday in an escalation of the war and landed troops by helicopter in Hizbollah heartland near Baalbek. The Israeli army said three Israeli soldiers were killed in fighting in the south. Hizbollah said it launched multiple rockets at Matzuva in northern Israel, and the Israeli army said five of its soldiers were wounded in cross-border fire. They are even 'warning' people to the north-east of the Litani to leave their homes - how f! amiliar, and how ominous, is this? .. Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25337 The Truth of Israel’s War Anwaar Hussain, Fountainhead ...The truth is that despite the fact that Zionist controlled media reports just 13% of Palestinian children’s’ massacre and 88% of Israeli children’s deaths, the numbers tell a horrifying tale; for 121 Israeli children reportedly killed by Palestinians, close to 800 Palestinian children have been killed by Israelis. The truth is that while zero Israeli homes have been demolished by Palestinians, 25000 Palestinian homes have been demolished by Israel and whi! le two Israelis are being held prisoners by the Palestinians, 9,599 Palestinians are currently imprisoned by Israel. The truth is that the great benefactor of Israel, the United States of America, gives more than $15 million per day to the Israeli government and military while the Palestinian NGOs get a miserly $232,290 per day to care for the victims of Israeli aggression... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25333 Following Qana massacre Israel escalates Lebanon offensive with US backing Mike Head, WSWS Given yet another green light by the Bush administration in the wake of the Qana massacre, Israel has intensified its bombardment of Lebanon and launched a wider ground offensive in a bid to occupy a swathe of territory across the south. In the face of an international outcry over the murder of 60 innocent people, mainly children and women, in Qana, the Israeli government has declared there will be no ceasefire u! ntil it has accomplished its mission of wiping out Hezbollah. This means the terrorisation and expulsion of the population of south Lebanon... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25332 'No Hezbollah Rockets Fired from Qana' Dahr Jamail Red Cross workers and residents of Qana, where Israeli bombing killed at least 60 civilians, have told IPS that no Hezbollah rockets were launched from the city before the Israeli air strike. The Israeli military has said it bombed the building in which several people had taken shelter, more than half of them children, because the Army had faced rocket fire from Qana. The Israeli military has said that Hezbollah was therefore responsible for the deaths. "There we! re no Hezbollah rockets fired from here," 32-year-old Ali Abdel told IPS. "Anyone in this village will tell you this, because it is the truth." Abdel had taken shelter in a nearby house when the shelter was bombed at 1 am. When the bombings finally let up in the morning, he went back to the bombed shelter to search for relatives... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25331 Four-year-old Qana survivor's night between the dead Hanady Salman writing from Beirut, Live from Lebanon Three of my colleagues went to Tyre today. I will spare you the details of what they saw and wrote. There's only one thing that I need to share with you. Saada went to Jabal Amel hospital where she found a four year old boy, Hassan Chalhoub, who had spent the previous night in the morgue between the dead. He had been sleeping next to his sister, six-year-old Zeinab, in the shelter in Qana. There with him were! his mom and his dad, who's confined to a wheelchair. Many of the people of Qana are survivors of the 1996 massacre, when 110 people were killed and more than 100 were injured when by Israeli raids on civilians who had sought shelter in a nearby UN base. Thus, many of the people of Qana have special needs... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25330 Lebanese Red Cross Repeatedly Targeted Dahr Jamail Israeli warplanes are attacking the Lebanese Red Cross repeatedly, members of the medical aid group say. "The night of July 23 we were called to rescue a family whose home was bombed," Kassem Shaulan, a 28-year-old medic with the Lebanese Red Cross in Tyre told IPS. "Just as I finished loading the three injured people in my ambulance, it was struck by a rocket and all of us were injured." The ambulance, now parked outside of the Red Cross headquarters in this coa! stal city, had a hole through the centre of the red cross painted on its roof. The inside was heavily damaged and pieces of the metal frame of the van hung limply, riddled with shrapnel holes... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25329 Why must the right wing sound so brutally stupid? John Chuckman, Online Journal Contributing Writer Just when I thought he had shown a glimmer of statesmanship, Stephen Harper, Canada's prime minister courtesy of just over one-third of the vote, reverted to character. Following Israel's apparently deliberate targeting of four UN observers in Lebanon, including one Canadian, Harper thought it appropriate to ask, not why Israel killed them, but why the observers were there? His inspired question reminded me of noth! ing so much as a rape-case lawyer attacking the victim with questions along the lines of why was she in such a place? at such a time? wearing such a dress? Condoleezza Rice, Bush's official idiot-savant, gave us a memorable quote last week concerning Israeli barbarism in Lebanon: "We are witnessing the birth pangs of a new Middle East." I wonder what would have been press reaction in America to some high official saying, as the World Trade Center toppled in flames, "We are witnessing the birth pangs of a new America"?... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25327 A war of self-defense against mothers and children Luciana Bohne, Online Journal Contributing Writer ...Israel's all-out attack on a sovereign country, which had nothing to do with Hizballah's action nor had any power to control it, sets a record -- topping the already egregious example of Iraq -- for unprovoked imperial aggression and ratchets up the threshold of terror to which defenseless and blameless victims can be subjected by nations protected by the imperial umbrella of US power. Too, the Lebanese people ! should draw conclusions in the interest of their future self-preservation from the consequences of US false democracy-building projects like the expulsion of Syria and the installation of a US-friendly regime in Lebanon, which left them unprotected against the latest attack. They should weigh the gifting of any alleged US democracy export against the relentless reality of the US onslaught for hegemony in the region.... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25328 The Case for Israel, by Israel Gabriel Ash, www.dissidentvoice.org ... The clamor did not rise because Israel killed civilians. Israel kills civilians every day, if not in Lebanon than in Nablus, and if not in Nablus, in Gaza. But to kill so many people at once, with such frightening efficiency, that deserves at least five points and the driver’s license revoked for three months. It was the bathos of Egyptian PM Mubarak that hit on the most telling description of the offense when he called Israel’s behavior "irre! sponsible." In the metaphoric highways of the global order, killing the poor and brown residents of places like Qana is not in itself extraordinary... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25325 And They Threw It All Away Making America Safe ... for Dictatorship DAVE LINDORFF ...George Orwell long ago imagined a world deliberately kept in a perpetual state of war, where the citizenry would accept totalitarian rule in the name of patriotism and security. We are now entering such a state. The yellow "support the troops" ribbons mindlessly pasted on the trunks and rear doors of half the cars, vans and SUVs in America are testimony to a sheep-like acceptance of the official administration line tha! t war is good and in America's interest. I saw one such ribbon today that was particularly credulous. It read: "Remember 9-11. Support our Troops." This despite the fact that our troops are not fighting anyone who remotely had anything to do with 9-11. We are not far from that Orwellian condition... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25324 Israel's Man at the UN Tom Barry, Axis of Logic John Bolton has proved to be the right man for the job. As UN ambassador, Bolton has clearly and consistently projected the White House's Middle East policies, especially the administration's unwavering support for Israel. As international criticism of Israel mounts, President Bush has asked Congress to approve his renomination of Bolton—a longtime State Department diplomat who has over three decades sought to debilitate the United Nations and who has earned a reput! ation as a defender of an aggressive Israel. The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) calls Bolton "one of Israel's truest friends in the world." Last summer the Senate rejected the nomination of Bolton, a right-wing ideologue fiercely opposed to all international laws and institutions that constrain U.S. power. Overriding congressional concerns that Bolton would be an ineffective UN ambassador because of his long history of criticizing the United Nations, Bush appointed Bolton to the post during the August 2005 congressional recess... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25323 Lebanon: "We have lost faith in the international community" Moving Testimony of a Lebanese Christian living in Beirut. Mayssoun Sukarieh, GlobalResearch.ca ...Just how many blood-curdling shrieks from the dying, and horrified outcries from the grief-stricken, do you need to hear before you will finally act out of a commitment to humanity -- a humanity that hopefully still links you to me, and to so many more, above and beyond this sick voyeuristic consumption of pornographic images from wars? To tell ! you the truth, my friend, we who are here have lost faith in the idea that "public opinion" is capable of changing anything. We have lost faith in the idea of an "international community" that can help us by stopping these massacres. The U.N. is now just another cold and unfeeling puppet face of the U.S. government puppeteers. Or it is simply an organization that is as helpless and powerless as we are here. U.N. representatives have also been dying under the bombs alongside us, AND YET NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO CONDEMN ISRAEL... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25322 Four British soldiers killed David Fickling & Ben Hammersley, Three UK soldiers were killed in Afghanistan today and one in southern Iraq in one of the deadliest single days for British troops since the "war on terror" began. Militants armed with rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns killed three UK soldiers and seriously wounded a fourth in a major offensive operation in Afghanistan's volatile Helmand province. In Iraq, a British soldier was also killed in the port city of Basra after a militant mort! ar attack on the coalition force base in the city at around 3am local time (midnight BST)... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25321 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 31 July 2006. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. ...The Baghdad-based independent Iraqi Organization for Follow-up and Observation ("Mi'mar") reported on Monday that it had obtained documents an other information confirming that a total of 719 Iraqis have been executed without trial in the prisons run by the American occupation since US troops entered Iraq in the spring of 2003. "Mi'mar" reported that documen! ts and testimony in the organization’s possession indicated that a number of those prisoners died when medicine they required was denied them. Others died under torture. The number of prisoners held by the Americans who were shot to death after being tortured exceeded 400... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25320 DAILY WAR NEWS FOR TUESDAY, August 1, 2006 Today in Iraq A service member assigned to the 16th Corps Support Group was killed in action by an improvised explosive device while conducting a convoy south of Baghdad, Iraq July 31. A second service member from the unit was wounded in the same attack. (CENTCOM). A British soldier has been killed in a mortar attack on a base in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. A bus carrying many Iraqi soldiers was struck in Beiji, killing everyone on board. Police earlier said that 2! 0 Iraqi soldiers were killed on the bus. Al-Askari confirmed that many of the passengers were soldiers, but said he did not know how many. He said the bus was not being escorted by U.S. troops, as earlier believed... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25319 Lebanon: the full invasion is on Eli Stephens, Left I on the News The latest news reports from AP make clear that Israel has decided (had decided from the beginning?) on a full-scale invasion of Lebanon. Air strikes are continuing, making a complete joke of the supposed 48-hour pause, and the ground invasion has escalated dramatically, including Israeli commandos (now reportedly trapped in a hospital and fighting for their lives) landing by helicopter in Baalbeck, 80 miles north of Israel and, in fact, north of B! eirut. Israel is now dropping leaflets on villages north of the Litani, demanding that villagers flee, and openly admitting their intention to occupy Lebanon up to the Litani (which, considering all their previous claims about their intentions have proven false, isn't worth much)... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25318 Israel's "wider offensive" on behalf of Empire. Lenin's Tomb So, since Israeli generals are pissed off at Olmert for being such a sissy, the Israeli cabinet has authorised a wider offensive. What sort of 'wider offensive'? They're still bombing inside Lebanon, destroying the infrastructure as before, but the big push is going to come on the ground in what Israel advertises as a two-week offensive involving thousands more troops. At the same time, they are reported to have been bombing heavily on the Lebanese-Syri! an border, and the Syrian army has been instructed to "raise readiness", while it has been suggested that they are gathering forces in preparation for a potential invasion by Israel. Israel claims that a Syrian bomb was detonated next to an Israeli army post in the occupied Golan Heights. Bush has been threatening Iran and Syria again. The Israeli News Agency is agitating for war with both countries... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25317 GI Special 4H1: "Delaying Defeat" - August 1, 2006 Thomas F. Barton Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq - the title alone of Thomas E. Ricks's book is enough to make it shoot to number one on Amazon.com. Ricks has twice been a member of a reporting team that won the Pulitzer; he has been covering the military for over 20 years. His recent book is a brutal look at the bundle of failures in conception, operation and execution that are the American involvement in Iraq. On Friday, he was at the New America Foundation along with Colonel Larry Wilkerson (retired), former chief of staff at the State Department, at a gathering hosted by Steve Clemons, the director of the American Strategy Program at NAF. His conclusion is that Iraq is in a "civil war," and that the occupation has reached a point where it is "delaying defeat." Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25316 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.

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Krauthammer falsely claimed estate tax "penalizes a lot of small businesses" In Taxes On the July 28 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer falsely claimed that the estate tax "penalizes a lot of small businesses" and could leave the "heirs" of a "small-business owner" with "nothing." In fact, the estate tax affects very few small-business owners, and the highest marginal estate-tax rate is 46 percent. Krauthammer also claimed that an increase in the minimum wage "will always destroy jobs." However, as Media Matters for America has noted, research has shown that increasing the minimum wage does not result in job loss or negatively affect employment. Krauthammer misstated the impact of the estate tax and a minimum-wage increase in order to justify what he described as a "reasonable compromise" reached by House Republicans, who paired a minimum-wage increase and estate-tax cut in a single bill. According to Krauthammer, linking the two measures "says to a small-business owner, 'Yes, you're going to be hurt if the minimum wage is raised, but we're going to try to help you on the back end when you die, so your heirs are at least going to have something to inherit and not nothing.' " However, several studies have shown that the estate tax affects a very low number of small-business owners. As Media Matters has noted, a March 2005 report by the Brookings Institution's Tax Policy Center found that of all the estates affected by the tax in 2004, only 440 (roughly 2 percent) were "primarily made up of farm and business assets," whether large or small. The Tax Policy Center report also noted that revenue from these 440 farms and businesses constituted only 5.6 percent of total estate-tax revenue collected in 2004. "Small" farms and businesses -- "defined as those valued at less than $5 million" -- constituted less than 1 percent of total estate-tax liability in 2004. Moreover, as noted by the nonpartisan Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), a July 2005 Congressional Budget Office report found that based on an analysis of 1999 and 2000 estate-tax returns, only 135 family-owned businesses would have owed any estate tax at the current exemption level of $2 million. By contrast, about 4.5 million active businesses with assets under $5 million filed income-tax returns in 2002, according to the IRS. Furthermore, contrary to Krauthammer's suggestion that the estate tax might leave an heir with "nothing," the marginal estate-tax rate in 2006 is 46 percent, and according to CBPP, the effective estate-tax rate under 2006 law -- the percentage estates owe after deductions and exemptions -- is 19 percent for the average estate that actually owes any estate tax. Several studies also contradict Krauthammer's claim that a minimum-wage increase "will always destroy jobs." As Media Matters has noted, a 1998 Economic Policy Institute (EPI) study of the impact of the two most recent increases in the federal minimum wage found that the effect on employment was "economically small and statistically insignificant ... [and] almost as likely to be positive as negative." Additionally, as the weblog Think Progress noted in a July 24 entry, a 1995 study by Princeton University economists David Card and Alan B. Krueger found that increases in state and federal minimum wages led "to increases in pay, but no loss in jobs." Think Progress also noted that a report from the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development found that the state's 2005 minimum-wage increase "produced $175 million in additional payroll and a $3 million boost in state tax revenue." From the July 28 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume, with Roll Call executive editor Morton M. Kondracke, Weekly Standard executive editor Fred Barnes, and guest host Brian Wilson: KONDRACKE: Look, we've got full employment, right? And it's not as though workers are going to get fired if they're paid more. BARNES: Yes, they are. KONDRACKE: Oh no, they're not. Fred -- all right, better go out and look for illegal aliens, then, and pay them under the table. Look, this minimum wage has not been raised for almost 10 years. CEO pay at the biggest hundred corporations goes up 25 percent a year. And you know, it is -- and they -- what the Republicans are trying to do is cover themselves, here. They're trying to -- the House Republicans want to go home and say, "We voted for the minimum wage," knowing full well that it's tied to this estate tax, which is an obscenity unto itself, elimination. That's for the very highest, richest, fattest cats in the world, and they know that that won't pass the Senate, so it's a fraud. It's a political fraud. And the Republicans ought to be ashamed of themselves. KRAUTHAMMER: I was going to take the reasoned position between -- WILSON: Which is? KRAUTHAMMER: -- the two extremes, but after hearing Mort, I guess I'm just going to have to attack him on this. Look, the minimum wage -- estate tax first of all, penalizes a lot of small businesses, and the reason that Republicans are trying to match a minimum-wage hike with estate-tax relief is that it says to a small-business owner, "Yes, you're going to be hurt if the minimum wage is raised, but we're going to try to help you on the back end when you die, so your heirs are at least going to have something to inherit and not nothing." So I think it's a reasonable combination of those two. You want to raise the minimum wage, but if it's not economically determined, if it's not as a result of increased productivity, it will be -- it's going to harm business, and it also is going to also eliminate some people from the wage market, from the labor market. KONDRACKE: Productivity -- productivity is surging -- productivity is surging, and workers are not sharing in those productivity gains. [crosstalk] KONDRACKE: They're not. They are simply not. Wages have been flat. KRAUTHAMMER: The way to answer what you're saying -- so why not raise it $10 an hour. And the reason is, if you raise it $10 an hour, it will destroy jobs. KONDRACKE: It has not been raised for 10 years. KRAUTHAMMER: It will always destroy jobs, it's always a question -- it's only a question of how high do you want to go.

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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... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25250 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.

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Faith, Truth, and 9/11 By reprehensor David Ray Griffin's new book synthesizes his role as a Theologian and spokesman for alternative views of the events of 9/11. This will be soon be followed by a volume co-edited by Kevin Barrett, including contributions by well-known Christians like John Cobb and Griffin, Muslims like Yasmin Mogahed and Faiz Khan, as well as longtime Jewish activists and writers like Roger Gottlieb and Rabbi Michael Lerner. The following essay by William E. Douglas, Jr., (Christian), is an appeal to members of all 3 faiths to look very closely at the events of 9/11. In the essay, Mr. Douglas suggests that these 3 faiths are being cynically set against each other via False Flag attacks and COINTEL operations that exploit racism and xenophobia to amplify division and distract from the pursuit of the truth; Why the Jewish Community Should Demand 9/11 Truth

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Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land: Media & the Israel-Palestine Conflict

Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle East, zeroing in on how structural distortions in U.S. coverage have reinforced false perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This pivotal documentary exposes how the foreign policy interests of American political elites--oil, and a need to have a secure military base in the region, among others--work in combination with Israeli public relations strategies to exercise a powerful influence over how news from the region is reported.

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Bloglines - LA Times Columnist Slams Intelligent Design as a 'Ruse' and a 'Ploy'

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LA Times Columnist Slams Intelligent Design as a 'Ruse' and a 'Ploy' In Religion Under the corrupt cloak of a "book review," this Sunday's Los Angeles Times (July 30, 2006) continues its underhanded and one-sided assault on the theory of intelligent design (ID). "The language of life," by Robert Lee Hotz*, is a review of three new works that attack intelligent design. The review was promoted on the top of the front page of the "Sunday preview" edition under the heading, "Less than 'intelligent design': Darwin's believers debunk the theory." And rather than providing its readers an honest critique, the Times' "review" is nothing less than a full-on Darwin propaganda piece. Hotz begins his article as follows (emphasis/link mine),

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Ex-Taliban Details Guantanamo ‘Humiliation’

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