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[Update] Title has been given more content – Oui
Just checking if the arms and bombs arrived on time?
A senior IAF officer revealed to the Jerusalem Post that the IDF was using bunker-buster bombs to strike at senior Hizbullah officials in hiding throughout Beirut and Lebanon.
A Lebanese boy stands outside a damaged
building in southern Beirut, a Hizbollah
stronghold. Shannon Stapleton/Reuters
U.S. Speeds Up Bomb Delivery for the Israelis
WASHINGTON D.C. (NYT) July 21 — 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.
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.
[The New York Times writes “the appearance of actively aiding the Israeli bombing campaign” where hard facts proof U.S. active support in Israel’s war effort in Lebanon. – Oui]
Blowback in Iraq – Press Conference in London
Iraq may sink deeper into chaos and instability if the conflict between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah is not halted immediately, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki warned Monday.
The Israeli offensive in southern Lebanon was a “war crime” that was escalating tensions in the region and furthering the cause of extremists, he cautioned at a London press conference with British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki
- meanwhile in Iraq ... (AFP)
Calling for an immediate cease-fire by both sides, Maliki said the killing of Lebanese civilians and the destruction of infrastructure was “a violation of all the laws of war” which must not be accepted by the international community.
But Blair once again resisted such entreaties, insisting that while “anyone with any sense of humanity wants what is happening to stop,” a cease-fire would not be successful unless the conditions were right.
Don’t forget Israeli armed forces in Gaza ::
● Palestinians Urge Rice to Stop Israel
Indonesian Muslim protesters burn Israeli and U.S. flags during a protest against recent Israeli attacks on Lebanon in Makassar, South Sulawesi. REUTERS/Ahmed Tawil
RECENT DIARIES ON ISRAEL and WAR IN LEBANON
● Diplomacy Gaining Support in ME
● Two Israeli Soldiers Were Captured INSIDE Lebanon!
● Israelis Celebrating on Graves of 92 Victims of Terror
● ‘HezbSjitan’ ¶ A Blogger from Beirut
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War in Lebanon brings down hardship on many, life is destroyed, lives are lost and families are split up. Yesterday I viewed the last German evacuees out of Beirut. It was heartwrenching to see partners, children left behind because of lack of papers or passports lost in a bombed home. A dual-citizen Lebanese mother taken as last person in the German vessel, at the last minute handing back a tiny baby to be kept in Lebanon by relatives because husband and other children did not have a British passport.
War is HELL and BUSH/RICE bear a lot of responsibility for spreading war and death instead of a resolving conflicts by peaceful settlement and to stay focused on fighting the true terrorists of Al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
U.S. distracted from Congo – Darfur – Somalia – Zimbabwe on the African continent that can breed a new generation of Islamic terror.
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oui, I still have not found the words in my language to say how I feel about all of this. All I can come up with is double shit. I for all my life have not hated anyone…but that is a changing rapidly with bush and his cohorts.
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Just a brief overview of the internal politics of Israeli democracy, where a peace settlement is the joker in a stacked deck of cards, the right-wing extremists holding all aces.
(Al Ahram) Nov. 2002 — Sharon offered his rival the Foreign Ministry, while offering the position of minister of defence to former army chief-of-staff Shaul Mofaz, who retired last July and has now completed the three-month interim required by law before a retired official can be readmitted into political life.
Mofaz immediately accepted the offer, while Netanyahu asked for an opportunity to think it over. Netanyahu accepted the post, but only on condition that Sharon agree to early elections, force President Arafat out of Palestinian land and reject the American roadmap.
Lieberman is unlikely to have entered Sharon’s coalition without first sounding out the advice of Netanyahu. It was, after all, the former prime minister who first suggested to Lieberman that he leave Israel B’Aliya to form his own, Yisrael Beitenu Party. Which suggests that Netanyahu’s plan is to contribute to the failure of Sharon’s policy from within and springboard to the leadership of Likud.
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The Labour Party, meanwhile, is in the middle of its own crisis, a result of the on- going erosion of its earlier mid-left orientation. The crisis first came to a head following the assassination of Rabin by a Jewish extremist on 5 November 1995. Since then the Labour Party has lacked any genuine political leadership, operating without any clear vision as to how to secure peace.
Following Rabin’s assassination Shimon Peres temporarily assumed leadership of the party, making a series of disastrous mistakes, including the Qana massacre. These resulted in the loss of Israeli Arab support and in the May 1996 elections he lost to Netanyahu.
Barak, the next Labour prime minister, was elected on a Rabinist platform. Yet he moved the party ever closer to Likud and the Zionist right, a tendency embodied in the Camp David II negotiations, which amounted, according to some American participants, to “a trap set up for Arafat”. It was only logical that Barak should then lose the elections to General Sharon: when candidates try to outdo one another in the extremism of their views the most extreme will win.
● Lebanese images of Qana massacre – 18 April 1996
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Israelis Kill 7 Civilians Monday in 40 Bombing Raids
Rice’s visit showed how low American stock has fallen in the Middle East, since she came virtually empty-handed, merely as a go-fer on behalf of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, with little positive to offer. Nabih Berri, speaker of the Lebanese parliament, thunderously rejected her ultimatums, or rather those of her political bosses. She came with nice words but Israeli bombs hit Beirut before and after her visit.
Haaretz — Now is the time to investigate ◊ by Reuven Pedatzur
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Condoleezza Pregnant: Giving Birth to Monster
Laura Knight-Jadczyk , Signs of the Times
July 24, 2006
Rice sees bombs as “birth pangs”
Die with Love, version 2.0!
Sabbah’s blog
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
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As to condi, I’m getting the Impression she’s Really Enjoying being the ‘Bride Of The War pResident’!!!
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Stupefied by photo’s of orthodox Jews or religious fanatics. As I mentioned in a recent comment, political deals in coalition government of Israel in the last decade has sacrificed peace for individual political gain.
Excellent link to historical context of Palestinian refugees and etnic cleansing of the territories. Strategy has been the destruction of the Palestinian communities.
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I…just have no words.
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Recent history should serve as a guide. The international community has identified important goals but gone about achieving them in all the wrong ways: UN Security Council Resolution 1559‘s fundamental flaw was that it aimed at internationalising the Hizbollah question without regionalising the quest for a solution. It is not possible to remove Hizbollah’s arms without dealing with the justifications it invokes for maintaining them; to remake Lebanon by focusing on Hizbollah at the expense of broader questions related to the confessional distribution of power; and to do all this by isolating and targeting Syria, not involving it. Instead, continuous, robust and comprehensive diplomatic effort is required on several levels simultaneously:
resumption of an urgent internal Lebanese dialogue on full implementation of the 1989 Taif Accords and Resolution 1559 items;
swift return of displaced persons to the South as prolongation of the current untenable situation risks producing an internal explosion;
urgent donor and especially Arab commitments to help with Lebanon’s reconstruction;
resolution of pending Israeli-Lebanese issues so as to dry up the complaints that feed Hizbollah’s militancy;
engaging Syria and Iran as a means of inducing Hizbollah cooperation; and
reinvigorating the whole Israeli-Arab peace process.
This last point is key. The accelerated plunge into the abyss is the price paid for six years of diplomatic neglect; without a negotiating process, regional actors have been left without rules of the game, reference points or arbiters. In this respect, although their dynamics are different and they need separate solutions, the Palestinian and Lebanese crises clearly intersect. Only through a serious and credible rekindling of the long dormant peace process can there be any hope whatsoever of addressing, and eliminating, root causes.
[Bold face and links are mine – Oui]
● World powers converge on Rome for Middle East crisis talks
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Wwll lets say they were held up in Scotland and the Scots are bloody well pissed.
July 29/30, 2006 — First, it was a series of CIA prisoner rendition flights that used Glasgow, Scotland’s Prestwick Airport as a stopover point. Now, the United States has been caught using Prestwick to ship GBU28 “bunker buster” bombs, laser-guided bombs, and other weapons to Israel for its military attacks on Lebanon and Gaza. The arms have been transported by two chartered A310 cargo planes from the United States via Prestwick to Tel Aviv. Bush “apologized” to his boy friend Tony Blair for not having the right “paperwork” prepared in advance for the hazardous arms flights through Scotland. Blair’s spokesman in Washington told reporters, “President Bush did apologize for the fact that proper procedures were not followed . . . It was a gracious thing to do.”
Blair overruled his own Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett by saying the arms flights would continue. Beckett had earlier condemned the flights and voice her opposition to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Blair’s continuing support for Bush has earned him a severe backlash from members of his own Labor Party who had been vocal Blair supporters.
Members of the Scottish Parliament, particularly Scottish National Party members, are calling on the Scottish government to ban the U.S. flights from Scotland, a move that could result in a constitutional crisis between London and Edinburgh. Alex Salmond, the leader of the Scottish Nationalists, said, “called on the Labour-LibDem [Liberal Democratic] Scottish Executive to step back from its role as an accessory to the escalation of violence in the Middle East by using its own transport powers to prevent such flights and get behind the overwhelming calls from the rest of the world for an immediate ceasefire to the conflict.”
reported by Wayne Madsen