Reagan official spoke with Hezbollah....

leader this year!

NATIONAL EXCLUSIVE: Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah Talks With
Former US Diplomats on Israel, Prisoners and Hezbollah¹s Founding

The US government considers Hezbollah a terrorist organization, but several
former former US diplomats sat down with the group¹s leader, Hassan Nasrallah,
in Lebanon earlier this year.
In a US national exclusive, we play excerpts of the interview, and speak to former
US Ambassador and White House Terrorism Task Force Director on Terrorism in the Reagan Administration, Edward Peck, who took part in the meeting.

Excellent interview



Excerpt --

EDWARD PECK: Well, let me start with saying that people in the Middle East, for obvious reasons, find it sort of ironic that Israel is now insisting on the implementation of 1559, whereas, as Nasrallah said, they ignored an earlier Security Council resolution demanding that they remove themselves from South Lebanon for 20 years, that that’s called selective morality. Everybody practices that, but it kind of cuts the ground up from under your stance if you think that only certain Security Council resolutions should be enforced.

Anothers extension to Excerpt

[BOING! BOING!] --- Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982 and occupied them for
18 years - leaving the entire country and the Lebanese Army weak. And yet - Lebanon was expected to oust Hezbollah which provided protection FROM ISRAEL on the southern border - as well as maintaining schools, hospitals, social services, etc. The U.S. never offered to help strengthen the Lebanese Army - but does anyone think Israel wanted the Lebanese Army STRENGTHENED?? Israel and U.S. are griping and waging war over something they would have rejected!!
It was a Catch-22 for Lebanon and fit nicely into the Bush Neocons'
1996 documented agenda to invade Lebanon.

ACTIONS Today, 7-29-06, In Israel

Coalition Groups 'Around The World' Have Held Already Or In The Planning Stages!!

The reported polls say 82% in Israel back this carnage, well there are still some within that remaining 18% with common sense, understanding, especially as destructive actions cause retallatory destructive actions!

It matters not who is responsible, at any givin time, for it's a destructive circle that has been going on for far too long with way too many killed and maimed, and now we have Tens Of Thousands left homeless and as Refugees within their own country, innocents who had nothing to do with the 'You Did This, So I'm Going To This' Bullshit!!

Israel is effectively creating the next generations of the threats to their country, as are the other Radical Factions, for All Of Them follow the same Radical Actions!!

It's Long Overdue: 'This Shit Has Got To Stop'!!

!

A Women's March This Saturday Evening in Tel Aviv

A women's march this Saturday evening in Tel Aviv, in which we are all dressed in black as a sign of mourning for both sides, calling for an end to the war.

A women's demonstration (dressed in black)
Saturday 29.7.06 at 18:30

Stop the War !

Stop killing civilians!

Negotiations now!

Exchange prisoners!

***The march will start in Rabin square in Tel Aviv on Saturday 29.7.06 at 18:30 and will reach Maxim square in Ben Zion Ave.

For details call:
***Yana 050-8575729
***Abir 054-4743723
Information about transportation will be sent soon

Women against the War – Coalition of Women for Peace, Achoti, Aswat, Bat Shalom, Women in Black, Fora, Tandi, Women against violence, Altafula, New Profile, The fifth mother, WILPF, Neled, Beit Nashim Feministy, "Itihad El Nissa El Takdumi", Kian – Feminist organization.

To The POINT

Their Honor Roll

2006-07-26 22:36

In addition to the demonstrations in Israel, the following locations have been holding demonstrations in recent days to call for an end to the Israel-Lebanon war.

Albuquerque, NM, US
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ann Arbor, MI, US
Armidale, Australia
Asheville, NC, US
Auckland, New Zealand
Bainbridge Island, WA, US
Baltimore, MD, US
Barcelona, Spain
Bay Area, CA, US
Belgrade, Serbia
Bellevue, WA, US
Berlin, Germany
Berne, Switzerland
Bonn, Germany
Boston, MA, US
Brisbane, Australia
Burlington, VT, US
Caen, France
Calgary, Canada
Cambridge, UK
Canberra, Australia
Chicago, IL, US
Chile
Cologne, Germany
Concord, MA, US
Dakar, Senegal
Deadwood, SD, US
Dearborn, MI, US
Detroit (Royal Oak), MI, US
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Edmonds, WA, US
Farmington, MA, US
Geneva, Switzerland
Göteborg, Sweden
Greece
Halmsted, Sweden
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Hunsrück, Germany
Indiannapolis, IN, US
Iowa City, IO, US
Kitchener, Canada
Lancaster, PA, US
Liège, Belgium
Lille, France
London, UK
London, Ontario, Canada
Los Angeles, CA, US
Louisville, KY, US
Malmö, Sweden
Manchester, UK
Marseille, France
Melbourne, Australia
Minneapolis, MN, US
Montbrison, France
Montreal, Canada
Naples, Italy
New Orleans, LA, US
New Paltz, NY, US (near Woodstock)
New York, NY, US
Norway
Olympia, WA, US
Ottawa, Canada
Oxford, UK
Padova, Italy
Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Philadelphia, PA, US
Phoenix, AZ, US
Piteå, Sweden
Paris, France
Port Townsend, WA, US
Pune, Marashtra, India
Rome, Italy
Salt Lake City, UT, US
San Luis Obispo, CA, US
Santa Fe, NM, US
Seattle, WA, US
Seville, Spain
Sheffield, UK
South Dakota, US
Stockholm, Sweden
Strasbourg, France
Sydney, Australia (20,000!)
Syracuse, NY, US
Toronto, Canada
Tucson, AZ, US
Turin, Italy
Valencia, Spain
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Victoria, BC, Canada
Vienna, Austria
Washington, DC, US
Wellington, New Zeland
Woodstock, NY, US



A Call to our Sister Vigils Throughout the World

2006-07-20 20:05

In light of the ongoing crisis in the Middle East, Women in Black in Israel are issuing a call to our sister vigils throughout the world (and allied groups) to hold their own actions this weekend with the demands ...

Stop the War!
Stop the Bloodshed!
End the Israeli Occupation!
Begin Negotiations for Peace and Justice!
We call upon our sisters and brothers to join us in solidarity. Each group is autonomous to decide on its own messages, formats, and times.
Thank you.
Women in Black, Israel

Reframing Security
Is peace incompatible with security? The Coalition of Women for Peace has developed a campaign to ‘reframe’ security and introduce the notion of ‘human security’.

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Quick Report from the Israeli Peace Front, 23.7.06 / Gila Svirsky

2006-07-23 04:56

The peace movement in Israel has pulled out all stops to end this mad war. Lots of groups are active, and we had a big joint demonstration last night - at least 5,000 people (though the media reported 2,500). Marching through the streets of Tel Aviv with signs, "End the War", "End the Occupation" felt like a relief after the roar of pro-war-talk on all the media.
Women in Black held vigils last Friday throughout Israel. The reactions from the street were quite violent and the police were out in numbers keeping onlookers (and on-shouters) at bay. After our vigil, we read the list of 55 (!) locations [see list below] that held solidarity events this weekend. Some were Women in Black and others organized by allied groups. We felt greatly encouraged by this international solidarity.

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From Gush Shalom

While the eyes of the public
Are riveted to the
Daily bloodletting in Lebanon -
The wholesale killing
In the Gaza Strip
Is going on.

Women and children
Are also killed
Every day.

This bill, too,
Will be presented to us
In the future.

The Israeli army,
One of the strongest in the world,
Is already fighting for 16 days
Against an organization that has
Only a few thousand fighters.

It is impossible to win
Against a guerilla organization

There is no military solution.

Bat Shalom : women with a vision for a just peace
Bat Shalom Statement

The current crisis in Israel, Lebanon and the Occupied Palestinian Territories- Bat Shalom Statement

We, members of Bat Shalom, an Israeli women’s peace organization, dedicated to ending the occupation and achieving a just, sustainable peace based on a two-state solution, regard the continuously escalating use of violence and force in our region as a direct threat rather than a potential solution.

It is our belief that the current escalation is a direct result of lack of political process to end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian Territories, including Gaza. Furthermore, the Israeli policy to de-legitimize a democratically elected Palestinian government, and thus unilaterally managing the conflict, led to the siege of Gaza and the violation of the basic human rights of an entire civilian population.

This political vacuum was misused both by Hammas and Hezbollah for their own political aims and the counter attacks on Israeli innocent civilians.

Therefore, as Israeli citizens, we call upon our government to enter into negotiations with the elected Palestinian government. An immediate step should be stopping the further destruction of Lebanon, a total cease-fire, and negotiations to bring about a prisoners exchange.

We call upon the international community, both individual states and through collective bodies, to bring the parties to the political track and to address the need for ending the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories, which will lead to the two states solution.

Only political negotiations and a just and sustainable peace will guarantee security for all the civilians in the region.


E-mail: info@batshalom.org

July 20th, 2006

Participating:
Bat Shalom

Everyone needs to Stop, Step Back, Look Clearly, Think Clearly, and Understand That ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IS BEING GAINED BY THESE CONFLICTS!!

And the Middle East is the Pure Example that there are No Winners, All Losers, in this Continuing 'Guerilla War', of which Guerilla Wars NEVER Have Winners, just Continuation!!!

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Dead Man Walking

Maliki: Dead Man Walking
Robert Dreyfuss
July 26, 2006

Robert Dreyfuss is the author of Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam (Henry Holt/Metropolitan Books, 2005). Dreyfuss is a freelance writer based in Alexandria, Va., who specializes in politics and national security issues. He is a contributing editor at The Nation, a contributing writer at Mother Jones, a senior correspondent for The American Prospect, and a frequent contributor to Rolling Stone. He can be reached through his website: Robert Dreyfuss.

The address by Iraq’s puppet prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday was a surreal and other-worldly exercise in the make-believe.

As civil war rages in Iraq, swamping even its capital in an orgy of violence, Maliki strolled into the House chamber, led by an “escort committee” of House and Senate members that resembled pall-bearers more than an honor guard. As they waited for Maliki to enter the room, the assembled dignitaries seemed shrouded in a funereal silence. House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert clumsily mispronounced his name, introducing Maliki as “Malocky.” But when he finally started to speak, it was malarkey.

For members in the hall, the elephant in the room was Iraq’s civil war and the fact that 127,000 U.S. troops are caught in the middle of it. In fact, that civil war threatens to unleash a political civil war at home, as Americans increasingly fail to see a light at the end of the dark Iraqi tunnel. More and more, Democrats (with crucial exceptions) are starting to speak out, demanding answers from the Bush administration. So far, there are none forthcoming.

Maliki’s message was a simple one, and he delivered it while standing in front of his puppet master, the scowling Dick Cheney. Did Maliki headline the sectarian bloodletting and ethnic cleansing in Iraq, the death squads and militias? No. Did Maliki present a plan for securing Iraq’s capital? No. Instead, he stuck to the Republican Party’s 2006 electoral talking points: that Iraq is the central front in the so-called Global War on Terrorism. He cited 9/11, a crime perpetrated by what he called “impostors of Islam,” and he portrayed the violence in Iraq as the direct continuation of America’s effort against al-Qaida:

"Iraq is the front line of this struggle. … Iraq is your ally in the War on Terror. … The greatest threat Iraq faces is terror created by extremists. Iraq is free and the terrorists cannot stand this. … This terrorist front is a threat to every civilized country. Iraq is the battle that will determine the war. … I will not allow Iraq to become a launching pad for al-Qaida. .. Iraq will be the graveyard for terrorism and terrorists.”

Of course, all of this is nonsense. The war in Iraq is a full-fledged civil war, pitting the Sunni community against the Shiites, with the Kurds busily plotting their breakaway state in the north and the seizure of Kirkuk and Iraq’s northern oil fields. Al-Qaida, if it is involved at all, is a peripheral force. But by emphasizing Iraq as the center of the GWOT, Maliki was parroting the Republican Party line and daring Democrats to say otherwise.

Many Democrats, happily, were having none of it. “President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and Secretary Rumsfeld continue to deny that Iraq is in a civil war,” said Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass. Added Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., commenting on Maliki’s flailing plan to deploy more U.S. and Iraqi troops to Baghdad: “This is a stunning sign that the administration still isn’t being candid about Iraq’s escalating civil war.” Even Harry Reid, the Senate minority leader, says: “There is a civil war in Iraq.” Following Maliki’s remarks, Sen. Richard J. Durbin of Illinois asked the right question: “We want to know [when] American troops will come home,” adding that what’s happening in Iraq “if not a civil war, is very close to it.”

Partially obscured by Israel’s rampage in Lebanon, which has grabbed the headlines, the war in Iraq grinds on. Durbin highlighted the fact that since the start of the Lebanon war, Israel has lost 22 soldiers, while over the same period the United States has lost 24 killed in Iraq. It’s too early to say to what extent the Democrats intend to draw a bright line between themselves and the Republicans over the war, but according to a well-connected Democrat, the party is coalescing around the need to embrace some hybrid of the get-out-now position—supported by Kerry, Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, and others—and the let’s-start-thinking-about-getting-out view put forward by Reid and Carl Levin of Michigan. Standing in the way is Joe Lieberman, who may become an also-ran as of August 8, and, of course, Hillary Clinton. It’s fair to say that if America remains in Iraq through January 2009, it will be the fault of Hillary and Bill (“Re-Elect Joe”) Clinton.

The fact is, getting out of Iraq is a winning position, despite efforts by the GOP and Maliki to link the war to the struggle against al-Qaida. Even Republicans, especially those in swing districts in the Northeast and the Midwest, are getting the message. Last week, Rep. Gil Gutknecht, a six-term Republican congressman from Minnesota, put it bluntly: “What the White House is saying is, ‘Stay the course, stay the course.’ I don’t think that course is politically sustainable.”

One highly placed political insider told me: “There are people in the [Republican] party, on the Hill and in the White House, who see a political train wreck coming.” If the Democrats win back one or both houses of Congress in November, he said, that would unleash a series of investigative hearings on Iraq, the war on terrorism, and civil liberties that could fatally weaken the administration and remove the last props of political support for the war. And that prospect has moved many moderate GOPers, such as Rep. Chris Shays of Connecticut, Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, and Jim Gerlach and Charles Dent of Pennsylvania to question the Bush administration’s stay-the-course idiocy.

During Maliki’s dead-man-walking performance on the Hill, the applause was lackluster. Members seemed distracted and unenthusiastic, and Cheney looked downright glum. Some Democrats, such as Reid, Sen. Charles Schumer of New York, and House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, tried to make a big deal of Maliki’s refusal to condemn Hezbollah, going so far as to suggest that Maliki’s invitation to speak to Congress be repudiated. (In the end, Reid and Pelosi relented, dutifully joining the pall-bearers who carried Maliki into the House chamber.) But in fact, these Democrats have a point: Maliki’s regime, despite being installed by the Pentagon’s puppeteers, maintains close ties to Iran, further complicating the ability of the United States to halt the civil war and disarm Iranian-backed Shiite death squads.

Meanwhile, no one seriously believes that the latest plan to secure Baghdad will work. The New York Times devilishly pointed out that while Maliki calls it “Phase II” of the plan announced six weeks ago, in fact there was never meant to be a Phase II; instead, it is Plan B. But even this is more wish than plan.

“God willing,” said Maliki, “there will be no civil war in Iraq.” Unfortunately, God has other plans for Iraq.

The Ambulances Hit By Israeli Forces

ITV, U.K. video interview of victims includes amateur on the scene footage.

Did you know?

What in hell does the Bush Regime want out of the Middle east?

Ted Bohne

The New Iraqi Prime Minister says Iraq will not descend into Civil war. This, of course, begs the question, where in hell he is, the Bahamas? Iraq is in the very midst of a civil war. The three factions in Iraq are hard at war with the US and other Iraqis. Car bombs, suicide bombs and such are killing of Iraqis faster than bullets. Then you have American field grade officers telling their men to kill any Iraqi male of military age. That woul! d be about fifteen. Iraq and Afghanistan are no longer discernable as nations. Only a huge areas of carnage. The American's have failed entirely, and really should leave. Reason and logic dictate an American departure, and now since they are nothing more than an acute exacerbation of a Bush Catastrophe...


Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: HERE

I accuse you !

Tsilli Goldenberg,
Israeli citizen, Axis of Logic

I, Tsilli Goldenberg, Israeli citizen, Accuse you - Ehud Olmert, Prime Minister of Israel, Amir Peretz, Minister of Defense, Dan Halutz Head of Staff Chief Commander of the Israeli Army, of committing this bestial barbaric slaughter in Lebanon. I accuse you of committing Crimes against Humanity towards the Palestinian People. I accuse you of deserting our soldiers, when their lives could be saved by negotiations, and I accuse you of starting an unju! stified war in my name...


Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: HERE

Did you know?

Gabriele Zamparini

Did you know that "Dana Olmert, the daughter of Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert... [was one of] the demonstrators [who] chanted slogans such as 'Tzahala residents, there's a murderer in your neighborhood,' and raised signs calling on the government to 'put a stop to the murder of civilians' and stating, 'Halutz is a killer, the intifada shall prevail.' Activists also shouted, 'neighbors, ask Halutz why he's killing children and how many'"? Why not? Did you know that "45! % of those killed in Lebanon are children and of the 500,000 people who have fled to safety, some 200,000 are children"? Why not? Did you know that Israel bombed "the nation's biggest private network, the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation"? Why not? Did you know that a "big milk factory in the Bekaa region called 'Liban Lait’ was completely burned and destroyed by direct attacks from the Israeli Air Force."? And that a "food storehouse called 'TransMed’ in Choueifate, in Beirut’s southern suburbs, was totally destroyed"? Why not? Did you know that "Lebanon's president accused Israel on Monday of using phosphorous bombs in its 13-day offensive and urged the United Nations to demand an immediate ceasefire"?...


Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: HERE

"Patriots"

Condoleezza Pregnant

Condoleezza Pregnant: Giving Birth to Monster
Laura Knight-Jadczyk , Signs of the Times
July 24, 2006

Rice sees bombs as "birth pangs"

Condoleezza Rice has described the plight of Lebanon as a part of the "birth pangs of a new Middle East" and said that Israel should ignore calls for a ceasefire. "This is a different Middle East. It's a new Middle East. It's hard, We're going through a very violent time," the US secretary of state said. "A ceasefire would be a false promise if it simply returns us to the status quo. "Such a step would allow terrorists to ! launch attacks at the time and terms of their choosing and to threaten innocent people, Arab and Israeli, throughout the region." I have to say that, as the mother of five children, these remarks stopped me cold in my tracks. Aside from the obvious question "what can Condoleezza Rice - a woman who has never given birth - know about "birth pangs"? - there is another more compelling question: what kind of human being can be so callous as to say such a thing when tens of thousands of mothers in the Middle East have suffered the unimaginable grief of seeing their beautiful babies crushed under the jackboots of rapacious Imperialism and religious fanaticism?...

Die with Love, version 2.0!

Sabbah's blog

We all condemn the parents of the kids signing the Israeli bombs "with love" falling on Lebanese civilians and innocents, but we didn’t see the parents while doing the same. Worse, here are matured Jewish men signing bombs, again...

How Can One, or Many, Strongly Justify The Following While Condemning Others, Calling Them 'Terrorists'?????

Dear Arab/Muslims/Christians/Lebanese/Palestinians…
Die with Love. We are dancing on your dead bodies!
Yours,
Ultra-Orthodox Jews

A Few More Photo's and a Commentary can be found:HERE

~~~~~
As to condi, I'm getting the Impression she's Really Enjoying being the 'Bride Of The War pResident'!!!

"Solidarity" {Updated}

A women's march this Saturday evening in Tel Aviv

A women's march this Saturday evening in Tel Aviv, in which we are all dressed in black as a sign of mourning for both sides, calling for an end to the war.

Starts at 18.30 from Rabin Square.

Bus from Liberty Bell Park in Jerusalem at 17.00. Other buses to be announced.

Details will follow: Visit SITE page.

To The POINT

Bat Shalom

: women with a vision for a just peace
Bat Shalom Statement

The current crisis in Israel, Lebanon and the Occupied Palestinian Territories- Bat Shalom Statement

We, members of Bat Shalom, an Israeli women’s peace organization, dedicated to ending the occupation and achieving a just, sustainable peace based on a two-state solution, regard the continuously escalating use of violence and force in our region as a direct threat rather than a potential solution.

It is our belief that the current escalation is a direct result of lack of political process to end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian Territories, including Gaza. Furthermore, the Israeli policy to de-legitimize a democratically elected Palestinian government, and thus unilaterally managing the conflict, led to the siege of Gaza and the violation of the basic human rights of an entire civilian population.

This political vacuum was misused both by Hammas and Hezbollah for their own political aims and the counter attacks on Israeli innocent civilians.

Therefore, as Israeli citizens, we call upon our government to enter into negotiations with the elected Palestinian government. An immediate step should be stopping the further destruction of Lebanon, a total cease-fire, and negotiations to bring about a prisoners exchange.

We call upon the international community, both individual states and through collective bodies, to bring the parties to the political track and to address the need for ending the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories, which will lead to the two states solution.

Only political negotiations and a just and sustainable peace will guarantee security for all the civilians in the region.


E-mail: info@batshalom.org

July 20th, 2006

Participating:
Bat Shalom

Helplessly Hoping

Day 21

Troops Home Fast

by Cindy Sheehan

Gold Star Families For Peace

I have been in such a blue funk of depression and worry since Israel's over-reaction---or "over action" in Lebanon in what seems to be insanity escalating out of control. What our media and some world leaders seem to expediently forget is that Israel massacred an entire family on a beach in Lebanon with a rocket and kidnapped two Palestinian citizens before Hezbollah and Hamas kidnapped some Israeli soldiers. Who started the cycle of violence in those countries? Who knows? Who cares! The important question is: who is going to be the courageous one(s) with integrity, wisdom and compassion that is going to at long last stop the absurdity?

As hard as I may try, I cannot wrap my mind around the fanatical rhetoric coming out of DC and from all over the world and the mindless and seemingly overwhelming support of Israel's right to "defend itself." What Israel is doing in Lebanon by killing hundreds of innocent civilians in a relatively short period of time is like the US defending itself from the tens of thousands of innocent babies, women and children in Iraq. It is morally reprehensible and just an extension of BushCo's campaign to enrich the voracious war profiteers.

I read yesterday that our State Department approved a new shipment of bombs and rockets to Israel. With the thousands upon thousands of US made bombs and rockets being dropped on Lebanon by the IDF it makes one wonder if the expiration dates on the bombs were nearing and the war machine needed to sell and ship more bombs so that the CEO's could fill their Hummers, limos, and jets with gas. Naively, I always presumed that the State Department was there to prevent the use of military force not support it by authorizing more weapons for more efficient killing! Don't we have a War Department for more killing? I feel like I am living in Bizarro World.

I have been watching a lot of cable news networks and have heard such one-sided phrases as: "Over 50 civilians killed in Lebanon today, but the real story is in the Israeli city of Nazareth, where two Hezbollah rockets landed." Why is that the real story Tucker Carlson? It is an immensely tragic story because two harmless children were killed in Nazareth, but how does it trump over 50 civilians being killed in Lebanon? Oh yeah, I forgot! John Bolton said that there is no " moral equivalency" between innocent Arabs being killed and innocent Israelis being killed. It's not immoral for Israel to kill innocent civilians because they are fighting terror with more terror: it's the American Way!

One day I heard another perfectly coiffed and composed talking head say while the fancy war graphics rolled across the TV screen in my hotel room: "This is day 12 of fighting in the Middle East." Day 12! Try selling that idiotic sound bite to the people of Iraq and who are dying by the dozens still everyday in increasing violence. Try telling our soldiers who keep on dying over there that this is "Day 12"…It is more like 2567 on day 1200 plus of fighting in Iraq. The war crimes in Israel and Lebanon have so conveniently knocked Iraq completely off the radar screen which is probably a thing of beauty and a welcome development to the White House and Pentagon.

We are being told that a few hundred people have been killed in Lebanon when we were shown a mass grave on CNN in the ancient city of Tyre that had almost 90 coffins in it being presided over by a distraught mayor telling us that at least two or three hundred more of his city's residents were buried in the rubble of the barbaric Israeli attacks. Tyre is one city and we viewed the mass grave days ago. Tyre and the rest of the country are being relentlessly bombed for the sins of a few which is a crime against humanity.

It seems like we are arm chair witnesses to Armageddon and ashamed witnesses to our fool of a President at the G-8: groping women; talking, eating, and swearing with his mouth full; drooling over slicing a pig and generally acting like a drunken and amorous frat boy at a toga party. I would like to ask George Bush a few more questions besides, "What noble cause?" Like: "What the hell is so humorous you jester in a tailored suit? You told us that you were making the world a safer place because of your War of Terror, and you are decidedly not!" I would also like to ask him if he is proud of himself for the way things are going on the 1200 th plus day of fighting in the Middle East. Of course it is not about pride---it is about profit and the Project for a New American Century.

I mourn for the murders of the Israeli people, which are just as tragic (but not more tragic) and done just as barbarically (but not more barbarically) as the murders that Israel is commiting in this needless violence, as much as I mourn the deaths of our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and the innocents in all Arab countries who are trapped in this insane spiral of bedlam. When is the world going to realize that bloodshed cannot be stopped, cured or even alleviated by shedding more blood? Killing is a cancer that spreads the more it is fed. This disease is spreading around the world and instead of passing resolutions to condone the punishment of an innocent civilian population; Congress should be passing resolutions condemning ALL types of violence and should be supporting Rep. Dennis Kucinich's (D-Oh) ( H.Con.Res 450) call for a truce so a diplomatic solution can be sought---one that brings ALL sides to the table and one that ALL sides can feel comfortable and safer with. The only way to a "lasting cease fire" that the weapons broker, Condi, keeps talking about is a negotiated settlement that includes and insists on peaceful co-existence in the region.

Martin Luther King, Jr said it is either; "Peaceful co-existence or mutual co-annihilation." Our planet is headed on a path of annihilation if we don't all stop and take a deep breath, relax and realize that our brothers and sisters are being killed in the Middle East so that more bombs and rockets can be rushed there (on all sides) and so that our oil companies can have total control of the world's oil resources.

I have felt so helpless in the face of such unwarranted carnage, calamity, and sorrow. I have felt hopeless that anything I do can even alleviate the suffering of one person. I am helplessly hoping that the people of the world will join me and rise up to say a collective: "In God's (Allah's---whatever's) name: enough is more than enough, already!"

One last quote: Dwight David Eisenhower said that: "I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it." I believe that we the people of Earth should demand that our governments get out of our way and stop be beholden to the war machine and allow us to have peace. Selfishly, I would love to have a world that my surviving children and their children can peacefully co-exist with peoples of other nations in.

I recognize Israel's right to defend itself as I recognize the US's right to defend ourselves as I recognize Lebanon's and Iraq's right to defend themselves---but I do not, cannot, and will not recognize anyone's right to commit wholesale slaughter on babies and children. I refuse to recognize that right no matter who does it---terrorists or state-sanctioned wars of terror---I refuse to recognize the right to slaughter and, whether it makes a difference, or not, I refuse to be silent about it.

It must stop: For my children, your children and their children.

They are all our children.

Cindy Sheehan is the mother of Spc Casey Austin Sheehan who was KIA in Iraq on 04/04/04. She and thousands of others from around the world are getting ready for another summer of holding BushCo accountable in Crawford, TX, at Camp Casey

Is Beirut Burning?

Uri Avnery

Is Beirut Burning?
22-7-06

"IT SEEMS that Nasrallah survived," Israeli newspapers announced, after 23 tons of bombs were dropped on a site in Beirut, where the Hizbullah leader was supposedly hiding in a bunker.

An interesting formulation. A few hours after the bombing, Nazrallah had given an interview to Aljazeera television. Not only did he look alive, but even composed and confident. He spoke about the bombardment - proof that the interview was recorded on the same day.

So what does "it seems that" mean? Very simple: Nasrallah pretends to be alive, but you can't believe an Arab. Everyone knows that Arabs always lie. That's in their very nature, as Ehud Barak once pronounced.

True, we are a democracy. The army is completely subject to the civilian establishment. According to the law, the cabinet is the "supreme commander" of the army (which in Israel includes the navy and air force). But in practice, today it is the top brass who decide all political and military matters. When Dan Halutz tells the ministers that the military command has decided on this or that operation, no minister dares to express opposition. Certainly not the hapless Labor Party ministers.

NOW IT is not a secret anymore: this war has been planned for a long time. The military correspondents proudly reported this week that the army has been exercising for this war in all its details for several years. Only a month ago, there was a large war game to rehearse the entrance of land forces into South Lebanon - at a time when both the politicians and the generals were declaring that "we shall never again get into the Lebanon quagmire. We shall never again introduce land forces there." Now we are in the quagmire, and large land forces are operating in the area.

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Who Are Terrorist?

ter·ror·ist [ térr?rist ] (plural ter·ror·ists)
noun
Definition:
somebody using violence for political purposes: somebody who uses violence, especially bombing, kidnapping, and assassination, to intimidate others, often for political purposes
ter·ror·is·tic [ tèrr? rístik ]adj


terrorist (n)
Synonyms: guerrilla, radical, extremist, fanatic, bomber, kidnapper, assassin, saboteur


ter·ror·ism [ térr? rìzz?m ]
noun
Definition:
political violence: violence or the threat of violence, especially bombing, kidnapping, and assassination, carried out for political purposes


terrorism (n)
Synonyms: violence, intimidation, radicalism, extremism, bombing, kidnapping, assassination, sabotage


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This first one comes from last night. It took some searching as None of the MainStream Newswires had Any Information on yesterdays rally in Tel-Aviv. These same wire services will bring up new news within minutes for other topics.

And the MSM, while frothing at the mouth over the bombing and Killings 'Carried Nill' about this, with Way Too Many 'Talking Heads' in that region, "How Did They Miss This?"!!!

In Tel Aviv; 5000 Arab and Jewish peace activists protest Against the War
Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies - Sunday, 23 July 2006, 01:28

Saturday evening, at least 5000 Israeli and Arab residents of Israel marched from the Rabin Square to the Cinematheque plaza Tel Aviv against the war on Lebanon and Palestine and the Israeli “war crimes” in the two areas.

The protesters carried posters against the war and the Israeli illegal attacks against the Palestinian and Lebanese people.

The protesters were attacked by dozens of fundamental Jews who hurled stones and various objects at them in addition to fist fighting with the protesters in several cases.

Several extremist Jews chanted racist slogans against the Arabs and Palestinians calling for the death of Arabs and Palestinians, “a good Arab is a dead Arab”, the extremists chanted.

Meanwhile, the protesters chanted slogans against the Israeli defense minister, Amir Peretz, and held him responsible for the death of children and civilians in Palestine and Lebanon, and demanded the Israeli government to resign.

They also waved Palestinian, Israeli and red flags and pictures of children killed in Israeli attacks in Lebanon and Palestine.

The protest was organized by the Coalition Against War, the National Democratic Assembly, the Democratic Front, the Communist Party, the Israeli peace Bloc (Gush Shalom), the Refusenik movement, the Alternative Information Center and several other organizations.

Secretaries and spokespersons of several organizations and parties called for joint actions against the Israeli aggression and continuous military attacks against the Lebanese and Palestinian residents.

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They came from all over the country, Jews and Arabs, from the air-raid shelters of Haifa and Nazareth and the still safe neighborhoods of metropolitan Tel-Aviv.

The third demonstration against the war in Lebanon attracted much greater numbers than the first ones. While the first had 100 participants and the second reached already about 1000, this time (July 22) some 5000 took part.

"Olmert get out of Lebanon -- the war is a disaster!" the protesters shouted. "We shall neither die nor kill - in the service of the USA" "Peretz, Peretz beware - in The Hague they are waiting for you! "Olmert, Olmert resign - you are not wanted anymore" "All the cabinet ministers are war criminals" and more.

After marching from Rabin Square to Cinemateque Square, the protesters held a rally that filled the square and flowed over into the neighboring streets.

The first speaker was former minister and Israel-Prize laureate Shulamit Aloni, who condemned the war in the harshest terms. She was followed by former MK Issam Makhoul for Hadash, former MK Uri Avnery for Gush Shalom, Youth movements' representative Yael Leirer, Yishai Menuhin for "Yesh Gvul", Awad Abd-al-Fatah for Balad, and Abeer Kopti for the Haifa group "Women Against War". The rally was conducted by Huloud Badawi of Ta'ayush and Jana Knofowa of the "Women's Coalition for Peace".

All speakers demanded an immediate end to the war and the start of negotiations, before we get sucked into the Lebanese quagmire the same way as in last war.

Gush Shalom activists among the marchers. Arabic poster: "The Olmert-Peretz Government is Committing War Crimes!"

Some of the 5000 protesters at Cinemateque Square

Marching through the streets of central Tel-Aviv. "Stop Killing Civilians", "Exhanging Prisoners is Better than Digging Graves"

Veteran marchers

Leading the march, behind protective line

Uri Avnery addressing the thousands

Communist leader Issam Makhoul speeking

Abeer Kopti, from Haifa sectiob of "Women Against War"
Photo: Rachel Avnery

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Tel Aviv, July 22, 2006: More than 5000 march against the second Lebanon war.