Israel Vs Lebanon

[Sea Toby]

Some comments from different US newspapers editorials:

Hezbollah threatens to exterminate Israel and to defeat America. Hamas accuses the Israelis of "stealing" the Palestinians' land. The Hamas Covenant, Article Three, describes the duty of all Muslims:[To] fear Allah and raise the banner of Jihad in the face of the oppressors." Article Eleven clarifies their belief "that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf [property that generates revenue for mosques and religious schools] consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgment Day." Article Thirteen flatly states, "There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad."

The Holy Land was as a vast wasteland in the 19th century. Beginning in the mid-1800s, Jews were the majority, often an overwhelming majority, especially around Jerusalem. When Jews began to return to their "promised land" early in the 20th century, the desert literally began to bloom under their industry. Arabs followed, coming in large numbers for the jobs and prosperity. In 1948, when the United Nations partitioned the land into separate Arab and Jewish states, the surrounding Arab states immediately declared war. The Jews urged the Arabs to stay and live peacefully. Many Arabs chose to leave, to be rejected, used and virtually imprisoned by Arab power brokers.

Israel withdrew its troops from southern Lebanon in 2000, and pulled completely out of Gaza in August 2005. Following the withdrawal from Gaza, Israel weathered some 700 rocket attacks launched from the former occupied territory. So much for the notion that this crisis turns on the withdrawal from "occupied" territory.

Islamofascism seeks our destruction, not accommodation, not conciliation, but complete and total destruction. Islamofascism does not end with the "recapture" of "historic Palestine." Our very existence: democracy, freedom, religious tolerance and gender equality are threaten by Islamofascism. Nothing short of civilization is at stake.

 

[webmaster]

Some comments from different US newspapers editorials:

Exactly, WHICH US newspapers would that be? :nono

 

[sharjeel]

Isreali adventure thus far has been rather brutal, they have totally destroyed infastructure in both gaza strip and lebanon, the UK foriegn minister indirectly said he does not see israels motives are to destroy hezbollah, and has criticised the destruction of the lebanese infastructure and pointed out the countles children who have been kileld by israel thus far,


israely war on lebanon is anything but a attack on hezbullah. hezbollah and hamas are no where near capable of harming israel. never the less, given the economic growth of lebanon and the increasing hezbollah involvment in the government will bring a strong military power to the north of israel. israel faces a similer threat in palestine with the Hamas party wining the election. thus their plan seems to be to send back these two parties back to stone age economically. as the UK FM said he does no understand the type of tactic israel is using. surely hints this is not just about hezbullah and now. but is about a stronger midle east and higher risk to israeli manouverings in the future.

a council of rabbis have issued orders to the government recently to kill all palestinians and lebanese. although the government of israel has rejected these claims by the rabbis, the ground realities show exactly this.

the united states as some one above mentioned DOES have strategic importance the destruction of lebanese infastructure. they have learned by now via iraq and they know that hezbollah can not be destroyed, as hezbollah is not only a armed militia, but a mentality of strugle against the agresions of israel. and thus they als favour sabotage of their infastructure as it will prevent any strong anti american/israeli nation emerging in the midle east. some one above did point out how these people are involved in a vicius cycle of terrorism, never the less he/she failed to state the dates at which this started. this cycle only started a in the last century after the british invasion of arabia. the british tried even chemical agents against the iraqis but at the end of the day had to evacuate from iraq in the 20s.

prior to this century, baghdad and damasc where the centres of knowledge all accross the world, and if you go by the books, the foundations of the renaisence and the scientific method of questioning was invented in baghdad. many europeons where worshiping the bones of saints for cure while these very same arabs where performing cataract operations and inventing the methadology of isolating those who are ill from the rest (hospital), so the problem is surely not in the native culture but in the culture which has arisen in light of the constant invasion by western powers in the last century and thus far in this one.

the most important asset to the americans (Oil) might be at risk if a strong state arises in the midle east, if there is a state which is able to defend against america or israel, after placing embargoes on US...will be a state to be feared. and thus US is interested in not allowing such a state to arise, this is a common military tactic, used for milenia so do not be surprised, how ever do be surprised at the nation of revolution against tyrany of the british to be forcing other nations into remaining in the stone age.

what the propuler media has not showcased are the ground realities in israel, although their offences on the lebanese children have been shamefull at the least, the ground reality in israel has not yet been shown.

and following pictures showcase the ground reality.

Monday, July 17, 2006: Kiryat shmona
Israeli girls write messages on a shell at a heavy artillery position firing into civilians inside Lebanon
(AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner) WHO IS TEACHING HATE and RACISM?

Monday, July 17, 2006:
South Lebanon: A Lebanese Child Receiving the message from the Israeli girls!


in the light of all that is happening in the midle east, we almost forget the israeli extremists (wasnt sharon criticised for being too soft?), who want to establish all the prior terrories which where once in ancient jewish land, to be israel. this is done by setlments....if we remember in the pull out of settlements from the gaza strip and the riots which followed and one lady saying "you are telling us to leave and let these pigs live in the territory which belongs to us? never"

 

[sharjeel]

"islamofascim" ? What do people who BRED and FED facist dicators through out the history and still continue to do so in middle east know about facism? The right wing extremist author of the above "editorial" from jewish world review seems to be very paranoid and out of touch with reality.

He seems to be beating the same "lets kill all muslims or else they will kill you" drum!

now on the topic,

Isreali adventure thus far has been rather brutal, they have totally destroyed infastructure in both gaza strip and lebanon, the UK foriegn minister indirectly said he does not see israels motives are to destroy hezbollah, and has criticised the destruction of the lebanese infastructure and pointed out the countles children who have been kileld by israel thus far,


israely war on lebanon is anything but a attack on hezbullah. hezbollah and hamas are no where near capable of harming israel. never the less, given the economic growth of lebanon and the increasing hezbollah involvment in the government will bring a strong military power to the north of israel. israel faces a similer threat in palestine with the Hamas party wining the election. thus their plan seems to be to send back these two parties back to stone age economically. as the UK FM said he does no understand the type of tactic israel is using. surely hints this is not just about hezbullah and now. but is about a stronger midle east and higher risk to israeli manouverings in the future.

a council of rabbis have issued orders to the government recently to kill all palestinians and lebanese. although the government of israel has rejected these claims by the rabbis, the ground realities show exactly this.

the united states as some one above mentioned DOES have strategic importance the destruction of lebanese infastructure. they have learned by now via iraq and they know that hezbollah can not be destroyed, as hezbollah is not only a armed militia, but a mentality of strugle against the agresions of israel. and thus they als favour sabotage of their infastructure as it will prevent any strong anti american/israeli nation emerging in the midle east. some one above did point out how these people are involved in a vicius cycle of terrorism, never the less he/she failed to state the dates at which this started. this cycle only started a in the last century after the british invasion of arabia. the british tried even chemical agents against the iraqis but at the end of the day had to evacuate from iraq in the 20s.

prior to this century, baghdad and damasc where the centres of knowledge all accross the world, and if you go by the books, the foundations of the renaisence and the scientific method of questioning was invented in baghdad. many europeons where worshiping the bones of saints for cure while these very same arabs where performing cataract operations and inventing the methadology of isolating those who are ill from the rest (hospital), so the problem is surely not in the native culture but in the culture which has arisen in light of the constant invasion by western powers in the last century and thus far in this one.

the most important asset to the americans (Oil) might be at risk if a strong state arises in the midle east, if there is a state which is able to defend against america or israel, after placing embargoes on US...will be a state to be feared. and thus US is interested in not allowing such a state to arise, this is a common military tactic, used for milenia so do not be surprised, how ever do be surprised at the nation of revolution against tyrany of the british to be forcing other nations into remaining in the stone age.

what the propuler media has not showcased are the ground realities in israel, although their offences on the lebanese children have been shamefull at the least, the ground reality in israel has not yet been shown.

and following pictures showcase the ground reality.

Monday, July 17, 2006: Kiryat shmona
Israeli girls write messages on a shell at a heavy artillery position firing into civilians inside Lebanon
(AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Monday, July 17, 2006:
South Lebanon: A Lebanese Child Receiving the message from the Israeli girls!


in the light of all that is happening in the midle east, we almost forget the israeli extremists (wasnt sharon criticised for being too soft?), who want to establish all the prior terrories which where once in ancient jewish land, to be israel. this is done by setlments....if we remember in the pull out of settlements from the gaza strip and the riots which followed and one lady saying "you are telling us to leave and let these pigs live in the territory which belongs to us? never"

 

[sharjeel]

Israel sows seeds of hatred
Jul. 21, 2006. 05:11 AM
RANA E-KHATIB
SPECIAL TO THE STAR

U.S. President George Bush has repeatedly claimed that Israel has a "right" to defend itself. And Israel has repeatedly claimed that Iran is an accomplice in this war against it. Both claims, from those of us living the Israeli "defence" in Lebanon, are left to wonder where the moral compass of the world has gone and whether justice will ever prevail.What is the definition of defence and what are its acceptable limits?Hezbollah seized two Israeli soldiers along the border with Lebanon to force an exchange for Lebanese prisoners that Israel has held without due process. One of them, Samir Quntar, has been held for 27 years. Hezbollah's attack may not have been justified, but it has learned through past experience that Israel pays no heed to United Nations resolutions and international law and only responds to force. For this, Israel is pounding all of Lebanon to a pulp.Its U.S.-made F-16s and bombs crash down on the fragile cities below, demolishing homes, lives, a country that has tried to get back onto its unstable feet after an uncivil civil war that had turned a little paradise into a little forgotten hell. Israel claims that Iranian hands are all over the bombs and training of Hezbollah and its arms. The hypocrisy is not lost on any Arab, because we all know, especially those of us at the receiving end, that U.S. hands are all over Israeli bombs and ammunitions and war machines. The argument is the same. The only difference appears to be who makes the accusations and which accusations "count" in this lopsided war.Israel cannot win over an entire population of people by pulverizing them. America needs to also understand that what goes around comes around. There is a point where even the meek will fight back. America's blind support of Israel even as it tramples international law, brazenly inflicting war crimes on innocent people promises less-than-pleasant consequences.The ripple effects of resentment can no longer be contained. America and Israel thoughtlessly dish out accusations at Iran, Syria, Hamas and Hezbollah in an area where the people have been suffering the consequences of a world asleep at the wheel of justice. Israel uses Lebanon as a testing ground for its weapons and a place to flex its massive technological muscles at the expense of more Arab lives and humiliation. This promises nothing but a tornado that will span the globe, sucking us all in.Israel has bombed every single bridge in and out of South Lebanon. It has bombed bridges in and around Beirut's Shiite neighbourhoods. It has shelled all the ports up and down Lebanon's coastline, by gunship and airplanes, incapacitating them all and rocking the city of Beirut in the process. It has taken out all the main arteries in and out of Lebanon. Beirut's lighthouse was also hit. Its primary wheat silo was bombed. Wherever there have been fuel reservoirs of significance, they, too, have been shelled. And every time one of those is hit, it invariably explodes with a vengeance — the fuel and the blast creating a black, thick, burning plume of smoke that engulfs large swathes of land. With little people power or enough water to put out the infernos, they keep going, roaring for hours on end.Israel has bombed the key runways of Beirut's newly built International Airport — on several occasions. It has wiped certain Shiite villages almost clear off the map. It has targeted innocent civilians fleeing the villages they were told to flee by the Israeli army. More than 200 people have died in a span of a few days and countless others are wounded and dying in hospital beds throughout the south and southern suburbs of Beirut.What is Israel accomplishing by crippling Lebanon; all of it and everyone? Does Israel really hope to free its soldiers by doing this? If Israel had sown the seeds of resentment in the past with its oppression of Palestinians, it has now not only watered them but fertilized the soils of detestation toward it. It is an unwise place to be, no matter how "strong" Israel is. Arabs are no longer willing to serve as the game board of the world to play out their subjugation games on our soil. And when everything here is lost, what is to stop the anger from reaching the "disseminators" of the devastation who sit, mindlessly manipulating the world from behind stately desks?Rana El-Khatib is a Palestinian writer and author born in Haifa and living in Beirut.

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Co...229&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795

 

[sharjeel]

When Terror Is Just Fine: Israel's savage behavior in Lebanon
By John Chuckman
Al-Jazeerah, July 22, 2006
Following the assassination of Reinhard Heidrich by Czech partisans in 1942, Hitler’s government executed all the men in the village of Lidici, sent its women and children to concentration camps, and razed the village to the ground. A few weeks later, the barbarism was repeated on the village of Lezaky.
Lidici was far from being the worst atrocity of the war, but it rightly came to symbolize heartless oppression by occupiers, what we sometimes today call state terror.
I cannot think of another historical example which better parallels Israel’s savage behavior in Lebanon. Two of its soldiers are kidnapped, and Israel quickly destroys much of the infrastructure of Lebanon, cuts the country off from the world, and kills, at this writing, two hundred civilians.
Already forgotten in the press is Israel’s behavior leading up to events in Lebanon. Israel had blown up an entire family on a Gaza beach and carried out a number of other killings and assassinations. It killed about twenty innocent people in a week or so. The pitiful efforts of people in Gaza to respond to the outrages were met by more killing and a partial invasion. Most of the cabinet of Palestine was kidnapped, and the elected Prime Minister was openly threatened with assassination.
We might try a thought experiment to bring a contemporary perspective to Israel’s behavior. Suppose we take the view of Hezbollah as a vicious, well-armed street gang in a city like Chicago, rather than a guerrilla movement in a country previously invaded by Israel. This is in fact something close to Israel’s view of Hezbollah.
Now, suppose the Chicago gang kidnapped a couple of policemen and tried to ransom some of its members out of prison. This would cause a huge response, but would that response include the Illinois National Guard bombing the city’s black ghetto areas, indiscriminately killing hundreds, destroying homes and businesses, and imprisoning tens of thousands by not allowing normal contact with the city? Would the government say it is up to the people of the ghetto to get rid of the gang?
To ask the question is to have the answer. Such ruthlessness would bring immediate, overwhelming, world-wide condemnation.
Then, we must ask why Israel isn’t condemned in the same fashion? Actually, it is condemned by much of the world, but it is praised and supported by Bush and most of the powerful, war-loving American press.
No, instead of condemnation, we get Orwellian stuff about Israel’s "measured" or "appropriate" response, as though anything short of carpet-bombing or nuclear weapons qualifies as "measured," and about a second front opening up, as though Israel were bravely fighting a war, but there is no war, only Israel’s savage retribution against two states with groups it hates.
Somehow Israel expects a weak state like Lebanon to take on Hezbollah and eliminate it. Yet Israel is too fearful itself of casualties to take on this gang directly. It would rather bomb and threaten others into attempting it, something that if even attempted would tip Lebanon into civil war once again.
Of course, Israel’s view of civil wars in other countries is rather different than the view of those who must suffer through them. Violence weakens and effectively neutralizes them, just as the American-induced anarchy in Iraq effectively sweeps an old foe away for years to come.

the link

 

[sharjeel]

Are you Human? It Depends


I've been hearing it for a while now, but I didn't want to believe it - the idea is so twisted. Of course, what they've been doing in Palestine for decades, and in Lebanon more recently, amply demonstrates the proposition that one Jewish fingernail is worth more than a million Arab lives.

Oh, it's been denied and decried as antisemitic rumor and vitriole. And I didn't believe it myself. But, then I came across this statement on the current genocide in Lebanon, published yesterday in the San Fransisco Chronicle, by "Eran Lerman, a former colonel in Israeli military intelligence who is now director of the Jerusalem office of the American Jewish Committee."

"Like all plans, the one now unfolding also has been shaped by changing circumstances[.]"

"There are two radical views of how to deal with this challenge, a serious professional debate within the military community over which way to go," said Lerman.

"One is the air power school of thought, the other is the land-borne option. They create different dynamics and different timetables.

The crucial factor is that the air force concept is very methodical and almost by definition is slower to get results.

A ground invasion that sweeps Hezbollah in front of you is quicker, but at -->a much higher cost in HUMAN life<-- and requiring the creation of a presence on the ground."​

When he says "Human life" it's crystal clear that he's referring to Israeli lives, since only their casualties would necessarily increase with a ground invasion. But, why oh why would he refer to Israelis as "human" and not "Israeli" unless he were distinguishing them from others who he sees as "Sub-Human?"

Am I reading too much into it? I don't think so.

Zionists choose their words carefully. Everything turns on words. This is why they do anything and everything to control the media, dominating discourse and infusing it with their own definitions - distorting our culture and hijacking our minds.

'Terrorism' is terroristic only if they're the victims.

A 'militant' bears arms against them - a 'soldier', on their behalf.

'Democracy' is only in their favor.

'Freedom' - to obey their command.

'Proportionality' is only subjective.

'Fair return on investment' - whatever they demand.

In their new bold world, nothing is as it seems.

Now, even 'civilians' are not beyond their interpretation.We need a new vocabulary to reflect the realities of modern warfare. A new phrase should be introduced into the reporting and analysis of current events in the Middle East: "the continuum of civilianality." Though cumbersome, this concept aptly captures the reality and nuance of warfare today and provides a more fair way to describe those who are killed, wounded and punished.

--Alan Dershowitz, "Civilian Casualty? It Depends"
Los Angeles Times, July 22, 2006

http://wakeupfromyourslumber.blogspot.com/2006/07/are-you-human-it-depends.html

 

[sharjeel]

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[SIZE=+2][FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]A perilous excursion into the distant past, starting seven whole weeks ago[/FONT][/SIZE]
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif][SIZE=+3]Hezbollah, Hamas and Israel: Everything You Need To Know[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif][SIZE=+2]By ALEXANDER COCKBURN[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]As the tv networks give unlimited airtime to Israel’s apologists, the message rolls out that no nation, least of all Israel, can permit bombardment or armed incursion across its borders without retaliation. [/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]The guiding rule in this tsunami of drivel is that the viewers should be denied the slightest access to any historical context, or indeed to anything that happened prior to June 28, which was when the capture of an Israeli soldier and the killing of two others by Hamas hit the headlines, followed soon thereafter by an attack by a unit of Hezbollah’s fighters.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]Memory is supposed to stop in its tracks at June 28, 2006.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]Let’s go on a brief excursion into pre-history. I’m talking about June 20, 2006, when Israeli aircraft fired at least one missile at a car in an attempted extrajudicial assassination attempt on a road between Jabalya and Gaza City. The missile missed the car. Instead it killed three Palestinian children and wounded 15. [/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]Back we go again to June 13, 2006. Israeli aircraft fired missiles at a van in another attempted extrajudicial assassination. The successive barrages killed nine innocent Palestinians. [/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]Now we’re really in the dark ages, reaching far, far back to June 9, 2006, when Israel shelled a beach in Beit Lahiya killing 8 civilians and injuring 32. [/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]That’s just a brief trip down Memory Lane, and we trip over the bodies of twenty dead and forty-seven wounded, all of them Palestinians, most of them women and children.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]Israel regrets… But no! Israel doesn’t regret in the least. Most of the time it doesn’t even bother to pretend to regret. It says, “We reserve the right to slaughter Palestinians whenever we want. We reserve the right to assassinate their leaders, crush their homes, steal their water, tear out their olive groves, and when they try to resist we call them terrorists intent on wrecking the ‘peace process’”.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]Now Israel says it wants to wipe out Hezbollah. It wishes no harm to the people of Lebanon, just so long as they’re not supporters of Hezbollah, or standing anywhere in the neighborhood of a person or a house or a car or a truck or a road or a bus or a field, or a power station or a port that might, in the mind of an Israeli commander or pilot, have something to do with Hezbollah. In any of those eventualities all bets are off. You or your wife or your mother or your baby get fried.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]Israel regrets… But no! As noted above, it doesn’t regret in the least. Neither does George Bush, nor Condoleezza Rice nor John Bolton who is the moral savage who brings shame on his country each day that he sits as America’s ambassador (unconfirmed) at the UN and who has just told the world that a dead Israel civilian is worth a whole more in terms of moral outrage than a Lebanese one. [/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]None of them regrets. They say Hezbollah is a cancer in the body of Lebanon. Sometimes, to kill the cancer, you end up killing the body. Or bodies. Bodies of babies. Lots of them. Go to the website fromisraeltolebanon.info and take a look. Then sign the petition on the site calling on the governments of the world to stop this barbarity.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]You can say that Israel brought Hezbollah into the world. You can prove it too, though this too involves another frightening excursion into history. [/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]This time we have to go far, almost unimaginably far, back into history. Back to 1982, before the dinosaurs, before CNN, before Fox TV, before O’Reilly and Limbaugh. But not before the neo-cons who at that time had already crawled from the primal slime and were doing exactly what they are doing now: advising an American president to give Israel the green light to “solve its security problems” by destroying Lebanon.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]In 1982 Israel had a problem. Yasir Arafat, headquartered in Beirut, was making ready to announce that the PLO was prepared to sit down with Israel and embark on peaceful, good faith negotiations towards a two-state solution.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]Israel didn’t want a two-state solution, which meant -- if UN resolutions were to be taken seriously -- a Palestinian state right next door, with water, and contiguous territory. So Israel decided chase the PLO right out of Lebanon. It announced that the Palestinian fighters had broken the year-long cease-fire by lobbing some shells into northern Israel.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]Palestinians had done nothing of the sort. I remember this very well, because Brian Urquhart, at that time assistant secretary general of the United Nations, in charge of UN observers on Israel’s northern border, invited me to his office on the 38th floor of the UN hq in mid-Manhattan and showed me all the current reports from the zone. For over a year there’d been no shelling from north of the border. Israel was lying.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]With or without a pretext Israel wanted to invade Lebanon. So it did, and rolled up to Beirut. It shelled Lebanese towns and villages and bombed them from the air. Sharon’s forces killed maybe 20,000 people, and let Lebanese Christians slaughter hundreds of Palestinian refugees in the camps of Sabra and Chatilla.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]The killing got so bad that even Ronald Reagan awoke from his slumbers and called Tel Aviv to tell Israel to stop. Sharon gave the White House the finger by bombing Beirut at the precise times -- 2.42 and 3.38 -- of two UN resolutions calling for a peaceful settlement on the matter of Palestine.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]When the dust settled over the rubble, Israel bunkered down several miles inside Lebanese sovereign territory, which it illegally occupied, in defiance of all UN resolutions, for years, supervising a brutal local militia and running its own version of Abu Graibh, the torture center at the prison of Al-Khiam. [/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]Occupy a country, torture its citizens and in the end you face resistance. In Israel’s case it was Hezbollah, and in the end Hezbollah ran Israel out of Lebanon, which is why a lot of Lebanese regard Hezbollah not as terrorists but as courageous liberators. [/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]The years roll by and Israel does its successful best to destroy all possibility of a viable two-state solution. It builds illegal settlements. It chops up Palestine with Jews-only roads. It collars all the water. It cordons off Jerusalem. It steals even more land by bisecting Palestinian territory with its “fence”. Anyone trying to organize resistance gets jailed, tortured, or blown up.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]Sick of their terrible trials, Palestinians elect Hamas, whose leaders make it perfectly clear that they are ready to deal on the basis of the old two-state solution, which of course is the one thing Israel cannot endure. Israel doesn’t want any “peaceful solution” that gives the Palestinians anything more than a few trashed out acres surrounded with barbed wire and tanks, between the Israeli settlements whose goons can murder them pretty much at will.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]So here we are, 24 years after Sharon did his best to destroy Lebanon in 1982, and his heirs are doing it all over again. Since they can’t endure the idea of any just settlement for Palestinians, it’s the only thing they know how to do. Call Lebanon a terror-haven and bomb it back to the stone age. Call Gaza a terror-haven and bomb its power plant, first stop on the journey back to the stone age. Bomb Damascus. Bomb Teheran. [/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]Of course they won’t destroy Hezbollah. Every time they kill another Lebanese family, they multiply hatred of Israel and support for Hezbollah. They’ve even unified the parliament in Baghdad, which just voted unanimously -- Sunnis and Shi’ites and Kurds alike -- to deplore Israel’s conduct and to call for a ceasefire. [/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]I hope you’ve enjoyed these little excursions into history, even though history is dangerous, which is why the US press gives it a wide birth. But even without the benefit of historical instruction, a majority of Americans in CNN’s instant poll –- about 55 per cent out of 800,000 as of midday, July 19 -- don’t like what Israel is up to. [/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]Dislike is one thing, but at least in the short term it doesn’t help much. Israel’s 1982 attack on Lebanon grew unpopular in the US, after the first few days. But forcing the US to pressure Israel to settle the basic problem takes political courage, and virtually no US politician is prepared to buck the Israel lobby, however many families in Lebanon and Gaza may be sacrificed on the altar of such cowardice. [/SIZE][/FONT]

http://www.counterpunch.org/Cockburn07212006.html

 

[sharjeel]

CAN ISRAEL WIN?


NOT THE WAY IT'S FIGHTING


July 22, 2006 -- ISRAEL is losing this war. For a lifelong Israel supporter, that's a painful thing to write. But it's true. And the situation's worsening each day. A U.S. government official put it to me this way: "Israel's got the clock, but Hezbollah's got the time." The sands of the hourglass favor the terrorists - every day they hold out and drop more rockets on Israel, Hezbollah scores a propaganda win.
All Hezbollah has to do to achieve victory is not to lose completely. But for Israel to emerge the acknowledged winner, it has to shatter Hezbollah. Yet Israeli miscalculations have left Hezbollah alive and kicking.
Israel has to pull itself together now, to send in ground troops in sufficient numbers, with fierce resolve to do what must be done: Root out Hezbollah fighters and kill them. This means Israel will suffer painful casualties - more today than if the Israeli Defense Force had gone in full blast at this fight's beginning.
The situation is grave. A perceived Hezbollah win will be a massive victory for terror, as well as a triumph for Iran and Syria. And everybody loves a winner - especially in the Middle East, where Arabs and Persians have been losing so long.
Israel can't afford a Hezbollah win. America can't afford it. Civilization can't afford it. Yet it just might happen.
Israel tried to make war halfway, and only made a mess. Let's review where the situation stands:
* By trying to spare Israeli lives through the use of airpower and long-range artillery fire instead of ground troops, the IDF played into Hezbollah's hands. The terrorists could claim that Israel feared them. Meanwhile, Israeli targeting proved shockingly sloppy, failing to ravage Hezbollah, while hitting civilians - to the international media's delight.
* The IDF is readying a reinforced brigade of armor and 3,000 to 5,000 troops for a "limited incursion" into southern Lebanon. Won't work. Not enough troops. And Hezbollah's had time to get locked and loaded. This is going to be messy - any half-hearted Israeli effort will fall short.
* Famed for its penetration, Israeli intelligence failed this time. It didn't detect the new weapons Iran and Syria had provided to Hezbollah, from anti-ship missiles to longer-range rockets. And, after years of spying, it couldn't find Hezbollah.
This should set off global alarm bells: If Hezbollah can hide rockets, Iran can hide nukes.
* The media sided heavily with Hezbollah (surprise, surprise). Rocket attacks on Israel were reported clinically, but IDF strikes on Lebanon have been milked for every last drop of emotion. We hear about broken glass in Haifa - and bleeding babies in Beirut.
* Washington rejoiced when several Arab governments criticized Hezbollah for its actions. But the Arab street, Shia and Sunni, has coalesced behind Hezbollah. Saudi and Egyptian government statements are worth about as much as a greeting card from Marie Antoinette on New Year's Day, 1789.
* Syria and Iran are getting a free ride. Hezbollah fights and dies, Damascus and Tehran collect the dividends.
* Israel looks irresolute and incapable - encouraging its enemies.
* The "world community" wants a cease-fire - which would only benefit the terrorists. Hezbollah would claim (accurately) that it had withstood Israel's assault. Couldn't get a better terrorist recruiting advertisement.
* A cease-fire would be under U.N. auspices. Gee, thanks. No U.N. force would protect Israel's interests, but plenty of U.N. contingents would cooperate with or turn a blind eye to the terrorists. Think Russia's an honest broker? Ask its Jews who fled to Israel. Would French troops protect Israeli interests? Ask the Jews Vichy bureaucrats packed off to the death camps. (The French are more anti-Semitic than the Germans - just less efficient.)
* One bright spot: The Bush administration continues to resist international attempts to bully Israel into a premature cease-fire. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is flying off to the big falafel stand as a token gesture, not to interfere with Israel's self-defense.
But the clock's ticking. Washington can only buy Israel so much time.
* Every rocket that lands in Israel is a propaganda victory for Hezbollah. After 1,000-plus Israeli air-strikes, the rockets keep falling, and Israel looks impotent. The price of sparing Israeli infantrymen has been the elevation of Hezbollah to heroic status through the Muslim world.
* The Olmert government tried to wage war on the cheap. Such efforts always raise the cost in the end. Olmert resembles President Bill Clinton - willing to lob bombs from a distance, but unwilling to accept that war means friendly casualties.
* Israel needs to grasp the power of the global media. Long proud of going its own way in the face of genocidal anti-Semitism, Israel now has to recognize that the media can overturn the verdict of the battlefield. Even if Israel pulls off a last-minute win on the ground, the anti-Israel propaganda machine has been given so big a head-start that Hezbollah still may be portrayed as the victor.
The situation is grim. Israel looks more desperate every day, while Hezbollah appears more defiant.
This is ultimately about far more than a buffer zone in southern Lebanon. In the long run, it's about Israel's survival. And about preventing the rise of a nuclear Iran and the strengthening of the rogue regime in Syria. It's also about the future of Lebanon - everybody's victim.
The mess Israel has made of its opportunity to smack down Hezbollah should be a wake-up call to the country's leadership. The IDF looks like a pathetic shadow of the bold military that Ariel Sharon led into Egypt three decades ago. The IDF's intelligence, targeting and planning were all deficient. Technology failed to vanquish flesh and blood. The myth of the IDF's invincibility just shattered.
If Israel can't turn this situation around quickly, the failure will be a turning point in its history. And not for the better.
Ralph Peters' new book is "Never Quit the Fight."

http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/can_israel_win__opedcolumnists_ralph_peters.htm

 

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Disaster in the Making

by Charley Reese You can observe three important things simultaneously in the Middle East: One, Israel's total disregard for the lives and property of the Arab people; two, the effectiveness of the Israeli propaganda machine; and three, the utterly craven support for Israel by the U.S. government.
A fourth thing, if you can stand to watch television news, is how casually the talking faces dispense falsehoods because of their ignorance, which is understandable. Middle East history is too complex for a fly-in TV star to avoid the trap of failing to separate fact from propaganda.
Hezbollah, for example, raided an Israeli military outpost on what Hezbollah considers the Lebanese side of the border. Hezbollah kidnapped two soldiers. It did not fire any rockets at Israel as several television people have said – mimicking, of course, Israeli propaganda.
Instead of sending a special-forces team or setting up negotiations for a prisoner exchange, Israel launched an all-out attack, knocking out bridges, roads, airports and fuel facilities, and doing enormous damage to civilians. Only then did Hezbollah respond with rockets, as it certainly had a right to do. Israeli journalists have pointed out that Israel has been planning for years to destroy Hezbollah and is using the raid as an excuse.
The Israelis did the same thing in Gaza. When a handful of militants kidnapped one soldier, what did the Israelis do? They destroyed the power plant, bridges and all the government facilities in Gaza. Once again, they are using the kidnapping as an excuse to do what they had planned to do anyway – destroy Hamas and the ability of the Palestinian people to govern themselves. It takes an enormous amount of chutzpah to destroy the Palestinian government and then demand that it control the militants. "With what?" American reporters ought to be asking the Israelis.
By the way, the Israelis never ended their occupation of Gaza. They forced settlers to withdraw because it was too much trouble to guard them. But they retained control of Gaza. Nobody can go in or out without Israeli permission. The airport is closed. They cut off the tax money that is paid by Palestinians and rightfully should have gone to the Palestinian Authority. In other words, they turned Gaza, already one of the most densely populated areas in the world, into a Middle East version of the Warsaw Ghetto. And they regularly bombed it or sprayed it with artillery.
Yet, so effective is Israeli propaganda and so ineffective is American news coverage, Israel is once again playing the poor victim. Gee, the Israelis tell the American media, we hate to destroy Lebanon – even as their planes and artillery continue to do just that – but we can't stand living under a rain of terrorist rockets.
Well, obviously, they have not been. Hezbollah only fires its Katyusha rockets (a short-range, unguided missile with a 50-pound conventional warhead) in response to Israel's violation of Lebanon's borders, which it routinely does with its fighter planes. Even now, what Hezbollah is firing can hardly be called a "rain." It's more like a scattered shower. As for the "thousands" of rockets Hezbollah allegedly has, that number comes from the Israeli government. It may or may not be accurate.
Like President Bush, the Israelis offer no evidence. Bush, who revealed himself inadvertently in St. Petersburg, Russia, as the arrogant, foul-mouthed slob he is, blames Syria and Iran for Hezbollah but offers no evidence whatsoever. If Hezbollah had thousands of rockets, you'd think it wouldn't be so sparing in the use of them.
One reason Lebanon never disarmed Hezbollah is because its members are considered heroes by the Lebanese Shi'ites. They were the ones who made Israel's occupation of Lebanon so costly that the Israeli people demanded that it be ended. They also provide a wide range of welfare services to the Lebanese people, and they are not terrorists. The largest terrorist organization in the Middle East is the state of Israel, which kills civilians by the hundreds.
What you are witnessing is a disaster in the making – not only for Lebanon, which will require 50 years to recover, but for the United States, which stands exposed once again as a prejudiced hypocrite and an accessory to Israel's war crimes.

http://www.antiwar.com/reese/?articleid=9385

 

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The U.S. is now a legitimate military target

by elishastephens

Sat Jul 22, 2006 at 06:14:53 AM PDT

A few days ago I likened the U.S. role in blocking international efforts to achieve a cease-fire in Lebanon to the role of a cyclist in the Tour de France, blocking the pack from chasing while their teammate was up the road on a breakaway. But now we've had the U.S. rushing $210 million worth of aviation fuel to Israel, and today we learn of this obscenity:

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The Bush administration is rushing a delivery of precision-guided bombs to Israel, which requested the expedited shipment last week after beginning its air campaign against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, American officials said Friday. The decision to quickly ship the weapons to Israel was made with relatively little debate within the Bush administration, the officials said. Its disclosure threatens to anger Arab governments and others because of the appearance that the United States is actively aiding the Israeli bombing campaign in a way that could be compared to Iran's efforts to arm and resupply Hezbollah.
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So now we've got the U.S. as the team manager, riding up next to the leader in the breakway and passing food and fuel out the window. Unfortunately that's not Power Bars and Gatorade it's handing out, it's instruments of death.

I included the second paragraph in that excerpt because of the almost comical use of the word "appearance" by the New York Times. Evidently to the Times, that famous picture of a Vietnamese policeman blowing out the brains of a captured Vietcong just gives the "appearance" of murder. And the picture at right, showing the mass grave of 72 of the victims of the massacre of Tyre, just gives the "appearance" of a massacre. More victims, by the way, likely remain in the rubble, but there isn't enough safety or enough people or equipment to find out. And yes, that word "massacre" is my addition; a special Left I award to anyone who can find it in the American corporate media. Don't waste too much time. But make no mistake about it -- a "massacre" it was (and is).

If the U.S. were just out blocking the passage of toothless U.N. ceasefire resolutions, you could ask the question "why do 'they' hate us?" But with the U.S. actively sending fuel and missiles to Israel in the midst of a shooting war, a war producing hundreds of victims like the ones in the picture at right, we've moved way beyond that. The United States is now a legitimate military target in that war. That includes factories making the missiles or any parts or materials that go into them, refineries making aviation fuel, and trucks and railroads and ports and ships and planes being used to transport any of those things, not to mention any of the people involved in those activities. The U.S. hasn't actually "declared war" for 50 years, but make no mistake about it -- it has now declared war against the people of Lebanon every bit as much as it did against the people of Iraq, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Vietnam, Palestine, and anyplace else they've been "personally" involved in bombing the population into submission.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/7/22/91453/0933

 

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July 21st, 2006

I left the office early last night ; at midnight.

There was only one devastating picture yesterday : that of two people who were killed in air strikes on Akkar,(the poorer area) in the north, late Wednesday night.

Both corps were black, both were dismembered , both were "weird". I don't think it matters anymore to try to prove that Israel is using unconventional , forbidden weapons .. that would only prove that it should have used "allowed" weapons. Who cares, people are dying anyway. And whatever weapons are being used , the pollution they're creating will kill the survivors from cancer later.

The rest of the pictures were less devastating, conventional : demolished houses, wiped out villages and towns, more refugees , some of them starving, lovely babes on board of US marines ships and colored people from poor countries lining up in front of embassies hoping they will get them out of this hell.

The really devastating pictures will came later , much later, some day when all this will stop maybe we'll be able to visit the ruins of whole villages. But even then it might be too late : how long does it take corps buried under rubbles to disintegrate and vanish ?

Anyway , so I left the office early and went home with my friend who's staying with us because his house is in the southern suburb of Beirut. I was a bit worried because my brother in law , Khalil's brother, was there too and I was wondering if I'd be able to manage space for everybody to sleep comfortably.

Raed, my brother in law, and his eight-month pregnant wife , had left Jebshit in the south yesterday morning. They reached Beirut by 5:00 pm.

They had crossed a bridge in Habbouche who'd been targeted only once . It was destroyed but cars were still able to find a way through. Half an hour after Raed had crossed the bridge, it was bombed again and completely demolished this time (sounds like an Indian movie, right?). Of course Raed knew nothing about that , he trying to make out to Saida, then up to Baakline in the Shouf then way down back to Beirut.

When I got home , I asked if they had dinner. I was a bit ashamed because my fridge is empty. I hadn't had time lately to buy grocery and I'm "heavily" relying on milk to feed Kinda, my daughter. "Dinner ?" Raed asked , "we had 9 shawarma sandwiches, Rana (his wife) and I. Today was the first time we eat in 3 days".

He tells stories about Jebshit. Sad ones. No electricity , no water, no roads, no food, no newspapers. Some villages even run out of batteries, so they can't even listen to the news on the radio. Funny, isn't it, that in Beirut we know more about what's going on than the people concerned. Raed only knew they blew the Habbouche bridge when he listened to the news after he reached Beirut.

I have to admit to all of you that I have very mixed, weird, sick feelings about all this.

The first three or four days were very strange. I was in Beirut , sitting in an air conditioned office, watching the devastation of the South and the southern suburb. It felt like when you watch news and pictures from Palestine and Iraq. You feel frustrated and concerned, but you know there's not much you can do for them, for mere geographical reasons, at least that's the excuse one uses to comfort one's self. But "this" was happening a few kilometers away and I'd still be sitting here watching.
The other weird feeling was related to the first one: I felt that I was paying my dues. The guilt feeling I've always had toward Palestine, and later towards Iraq, has diminished a little bit. I felt like hugging Palestine and Iraq and screaming to them "We're with you, like you: left alone, suffering and part of your cause, a great one."

Sometimes I just flip and cry. Cry because I'm so helpless and angry. And most of the time I turn on my "automatic engine on". I wake up at six , come to the office, report hideous stories , feel nothing about them , do my job : double check , choose "fantastic" headlines , pick up the "best" pictures, try to be as professional as one can be. I do that for 12 to 14 hours. I'd then go home, pick up my daughter from my mother's house , and go to bed at one. The Israelis love to start their raids at ten past one, sometimes at five past one. That's when I'm in bed. Every night, when they start, I rush out to the balcony to see where the smoke comes from. I live on the twelfth floor. Every night , when I go out , I see the moon , my lovely moon , shyly hiding behind the clouds caused by the fires that are surrounding my Beirut.

This morning , I stayed home till 12:00. I played with Kinda. My poor little baby. She doesn't understand what's going on. She keeps asking about her cousins. She looks at their pictures and keeps repeating their names; as if it was an exercise not to forget them. I tell her they're in the mountains, and that we can't go there. When they call us, she refuses to talk to them. She thinks they abounded her.

The first time she heard the bombing, she rushed to my arms asking me if this was fireworks . I said " no , this is boum boum , ha ha ha " and started laughing. So now, every time she hears the bombing she starts singing "boum boum " and she laughs.

I left her at noon. She was sleepy, and wouldn't go to bed. It took a few minutes to realize the reason : she wanted to fall asleep in my arms. Before July the 12th, I would not move at her bed time. I'd put her on my lap , sing to her until she sleeps. For 10 days now, she's been sleeping in the stroller at my mother's house: only to guaranty that I will come pick her up when I finish working.

Two last notes: I feel ashamed talking about my daughter while other people's kids were either killed or lack of food and shelter. But I feel so guilty towards her.

Second : to all the Israelis who have been sending their comments on what I write , I say this : I agree with you , we are savages , blood lovers, we don't have feelings, and we actually enjoy looking at the pictures of victims. Actually , each time we see one , we party and dance. And in my writings, I'm only pretending to have feelings , and being pathetically sentimental only to bluff. Here, I'm admitting it. And to all my friends in the west : don't believe anything I say , cause I'm only viciously using you and trying to turn you into sympathizers of fundamental terrorism.

Hanady


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Beirut
July 19, 2006

The attached pictures are hideously gruesome, but you have to look at them . Help me find out what kind of weapons cause this kind of dismemberment and mutation.

What kind of weapons cause this kind of damage? Do you know? Could you find out?

None of this is confirmed, or could be here and now. However, there are growing doubts that Israel might be using internationally forbidden weapons in its current aggression against Lebanon. News from "Southern Medical Center", a hospital in Saida( in South Lebanon) are not good. Dr. Bashir Sham, member of "French Association of Cardiovascular Surgeons", explains that the way the corps look when they reach the hospital, especially those of the air strikes in Doueir and Rmayleih, is very abnormal." One might think they were burnt , but their colour is dark , they're inflated, and they have a terrible smell" All this , and the hair is not burnt nor do the bodies bleed.

Eight of the victims of an air strike on Rmayleih bridge, near Saida, on the 15th of July, were transferred to Sham's hospital.

Sham says that only chemical poisonous substances "lead to instant death without bleeding".
And what indicates the power of these substances, is the high and unusual of number of dead victimes, compared to the number of injuries.

Sham thinks that whatever "abnormal " substance causing these features might penetrate through the skin, or another explanation would be that the missiles contained toxic gas that stopped the proper functioning of the nervous system, and led to blood clotting.

These toxic materials cause immediate death, within two to thirty minutes, according to Sham, who admits that these doubts can't be proven, not even by an autopsy.

The director of the same medical center, Ali Mansour, says that due to the strong smell of the corps, he couldn't breath properly for at least 12 hours after the corps were handled.

He explains that the center received eight bodies from Rmeileh last Monday, and none of them was bleeding.

Mansour tells us the hospital wrote to both the commissioner of the European Union for Foreign Affaires Javier Solana, and the United Nations Secretary general Kofi Anan. He said that dr Sham will communicate his doubts to the Doctors Order in Lebanon.

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A body killed by a burning object lies in a Beirut suburb July 17- Reuters

A Lebanese firefighter extinguishes the charred body of a Lebanese truck driver who was killed when Israeli planes attacked the port in Beirut July 17 - AP

A member of the Lebanese Red Cross walks past a badly burnt body in Beirut's port, which was targeted by Israeli warplanes, July 17 - Reuters

A member of the Lebanese Red Cross walks past a badly burnt body in Beirut's port, which was targeted by Israeli warplanes

A member of the Lebanese Red Cross walks past a badly burnt body in Beirut's port, which was targeted by Israeli warplanes-2.

Lebanese firefighters try to extinguish the fire while the dismembered and burnt corpses of two Lebanese civilians killed in an Israeli air raid lie on the ground at the port in Beirut

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Lebanese Red Cross members remove the dismembered and burnt corpses of two Lebanese civilians killed in an Israeli air raid at the port in Beirut 17 July

Lebanese Red Cross members remove the dismembered and burnt corpses of two Lebanese civilians killed in an Israeli air raid at the port in Beirut.

look at his right eye - Lebanese citizens gather around a man who was killed by shrapnel from an explosion in Kfarshima, near Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, July 17 -AP

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An 18-month-old Lebanese child lies dead 17 July on a hospital bed in Saida eight hours after being injured yesterday in an Israeli air attack in Tyre - AFP

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KILLED ON THE SAME ROAD IN THE SOUTH JULY 15 - REUTERS

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MARWA Marwa Abdallah, who survived Saturday's attack on a van in Tyre where twenty people where killed IN HOSPITAL JULY 16 - REUTERS.

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Lebanon's 9/11 or Why Do They Hate Us? Picture Album​

What exactly do our politicians mean when the say we support Israel in its action against Lebanon? What is it that they support? Surely not this carnage?​

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S[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]ydn[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]ey rally and march, Saturday 22 July 2006[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Stop the Israeli attack on Lebanon & Gaza!
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]A Possum News Network Exclusive
Words and pictures by Gavin Gatenby[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]I knew this was going to be a big demonstration when I boarded a city-bound train at Turrella station, 10 kilometres from the city. Sydney trains hold well over 2000 travellers and they aren't normally full on Saturday mornings. This one was packed with people heading for the demonstration. It was all I could do to squeeze into the foyer. The crowd was singing Lebanese and Arab resistance songs and at one stage, the Palestinian anthem. It took ages for everybody to detrain at Town Hall station.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The organisers, the Australian Arabic Committee for Solidarity with Palestinian & Lebanese People, represent more than 50 community organisations. The march ended by packing Martin Plaza outside the US Consulate.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] I'd estimate there were well over 20,000 demonstrators. Here they spread across George Street in front of the Town Hall and down into Town Hall Square. In the final Moratorium March during the Vietnam War a crowd then estimated by the media at 20,000 occupied the road here. Town Hall Square, on the right of this photo, didn't exist then.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]In this shot, the crowd spreads well back into it.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The march spread across all four lanes of George Street and took 25 minutes to pass.[/FONT]

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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]This one attacks the routinely pro-Zionist coverage by Australia's commercial TV ...[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]At first glance it's difficult to understand why Israeli army spin doctors went to a lot of trouble to get pictures like this out to the world's media. I can only imagine they hoped to appeal to the loony Christian fundamentalists in the US ... the nutters who are, in reality, the natural reservoirs of anti-semitism but who nowadays hope Zionist aggression will bring on the hoped-for End of Days. By their friends shall ye know them, I guess ...[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The march passes the Queen Victoria Building. They were densely packed across the road and the footpaths (in spite of the best efforts of the march marshalls and the police to keep everybody on the road).[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Nice point, but the dawg probably wouldn't listen even if young George hollered at it. Over the years, the Bush fambly have spoiled that gawd-damned dawg. It practically runs the fambly these days. [/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]There were more Australian flags on this march than all the dumb anti-Arab-and-Muslim rednecks have flapping outside their houses across Sutherland Shire. The spectacle would have given far-right idealogues like radio "shock jock" Alan Jones and the Sydney Morning Herald's celebrity journalist Paul Sheehan terminal nightmares.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Judging by the outward signs of personal ideology I saw on this march the Zionists have managed to unite all Lebanese-Australians: secular and devout, Shia and Sunni, Druze and Christian.

Harsh but true. Right from the beginning, Zionist fanatics were comfortable with European anti-semitism and even collaborated with Nazis and other anti-semites to drive reluctant jewish populations towards "The Promised Land".

Indeed. The game isn't worth the candle. The concept of a theocratic, ethnically-pure "jewish" state ordained by God is a nonsense as dangerous to Jews as to everybody else.[/FONT]
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This last says it all really.
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]PLEASE feel free to use these images, but if you do so, please credit Possum News Network and link to this page. High-resolution versions of these and other images of the event available on request.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]this is reality, people HATE usa!
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[sharjeel]

on contrast: Haifa

Wedding amid Lebanon-Israel conflict
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Suzhou China http://www.suzhou.gov.cn (7/20/2006)​

Imad Musa and his bride Anita Mishel walk on the empty street of the northern Israeli city of Haifa on their wedding day, July 18, 2006 moments after explosions of Hizbollah rockets echoed across the city. Israeli warplanes battered Lebanon on Tuesday, killing 31 people, and more Hizbollah rockets hit northern Israel, killing one, with no sign that diplomacy would halt the week-old conflict any time soon. [Reuters]

Imad Musa and his bride Anita Mishel walk on the empty street of the northern Israeli city of Haifa on their wedding day, July 18, 2006, moments after explosions of Hizbollah rockets echoed across the city. Israeli warplanes battered Lebanon on Tuesday, killing 31 people, and more Hizbollah rockets hit northern Israel, killing one, with no sign that diplomacy would halt the week-old conflict any time soon. [Reuters]

Imad Musa and his bride Anita Mishel walk on the empty street of the northern Israeli city of Haifa on their wedding day, July 18, moments after explosions of Hizbollah rockets echoed across the city. Israeli warplanes battered Lebanon on Tuesday, killing 31 people, and more Hizbollah rockets hit northern Israel, killing one, with no sign that diplomacy would halt the week-old conflict any time soon. [Reuters]

Israeli warplanes battered Lebanon on Tuesday, killing 30 people, and more Hizbollah rockets hit northern Israel, killing one, with no sign that diplomacy would halt the week-old conflict any time soon. [Reuters]

http://www.suzhou.gov.cn/news/2006/7/20/eng/eng-14-40-50-1653.shtml


to a lot of vergins, this must have been a very awfull experience thus far, and i apologise for this, never the less, the rality of war and of untaimed aggression MUST be realised by the peoples of USA, the peoples of USA i am certain DO give a damn considering the history of the USAs inception. this is the music of war you see, for all those who thaught the brave from vietnam are all crazy, i would recomend you to slap your self now, for this is the reality of war, the reality of greed, and envy. the reality of power, the reality of fighter bombers and apache helicopters, this is the reality of war.

and be assured! the actions of your government are insuring another 10 generations of "Terrorists" to spawn, it is but a story of the jackal who cried wolf, by the actions which we have seen documented above, it is clear the intention of israel and USA is not to eradicate terrorism from world, on the contrary these actions question the false information which was illegally provided and is being provided to the peoples of the brave northern america against the will of the US law. these actions say blatently as ever, that this war on terror is creaing MORE terror and bringing MUCH instability on the 3rd world. in countrys such as india and pakistan in indonesia in many countries who are suffering at the hands of terrorists who have multiplied in number due to this neglect by the "crusaders against terrorism". war must be faught with force, there is no doubt about that, but as tsun szu said 2500 years ago, war must be faught with mercy with passion. war is not only faught with swords and spears, it is faught by kindles and generousity. this we have not yet seen in this war of terror. indeed the wars on iraq and afganistan where faught with mercy and kindnes but they where faught by the US itself, to unleash a jackal upon a peoples and to expect it to show remourse, is plain stupid. the war on terror in these past weeks, has taken a U turn, it was before tamed, people where seeing the trueth of terrorism, they where seeing the trueth of the devils minion (osama), they where realising, how ever the actions which have taken place in these past weeks are changing the mindset of the people again, in the other direction. there can only be 1 devil and surely the al qaida network are going to exploit this fact and recruite more inocence to kill further inocence and be the fuel to this vicues fire of hate for one another. west against east, muslim vs christian and jew, black against white.

these acts of terror by the jackal of the midle east MUST be condemned ans stoped. just as the nations of the world such as france, germany, great britain, russia have seen and condemned these actions. the US must do so aswell, never the less the motives of the US government remain speculative. why do they want to fuel the terrorists? it beats the hell out of me and it beats also the hell of the british foriegn minister.

may ALLAH (The Greatest) allow peace, love and compasion among the human beings to prevail

 

[marxist_command]

Man, you're right about that statement. Thanks for the photos now I know who is fugitive afterall .

Go Lebanese & Palestine

 

[webmaster]

As Israeli bombs bring an end to many many "terrorists / militants / insurgents or whatever the hell you call them" in Lebanon as seen in the pictures above so should this thread must come to an end too.

For those who love Israel, enjoy the pictures. For those who don't, weep and wish your kid is not a terrorist otherwise Uncle Sam and Uncle Israel will get'cha!

Locked until further notice!