- Are there no longer any Rules of War? What happened to
the Geneva Conventions, what happened to the moral rudder of the world?
Israel and its lackey, the United States of America, are defying all the
rules of civilized behavior; and virtually daring the rest of the world
to: 'Just try and stop us now!'
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- One of the things that this stance has produced was a
coup d'etat in Lebanon yesterday:
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- "Ammar Huri, Ahmad Fatfat, Samir Al-Jisr, among
others). Bahiyya Hariri yesterday criticized the US "green light"
on AlJazeera TV. Many of these politicians called AlJazeera live to express
their condemnation of Israel and US. Many of them sounded as if they were
pleading for their lives. The demonstrators yesterday, who stormed the
UN building in downtown Beirut where my sister works, chanted angry slogans
not only against Arab regimes, Israel, and US, but also against Hariri.
One chant went like this: "Beirut shall always be free, free; Hariri
get the hell out." The demonstrators were planning to head to the
US embassy, but Hizbullah and Amal members of parliament present prevented
them. They clearly were afraid of things getting out of hand." (1)
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- Israel is not a country in the conventional sense of
that term; it is a military enclave that masquerades as a state. It has
no economy to speak of and it could never afford to spend the kind of money
that it takes to own such a criminal arsenal of weapons. From hundreds
of nukes all the way down through the outlawed weapons of phosphorus and
the biological weapons group, along with many of the outlawed gases. It
has one of the most powerful Air Forces in the world, complete with all
the latest American fighters, helicopters and radar. It has gun ships,
and mines for use on both sea and land. It uses cluster bombs on civilians,
its tanks and drones and armored bulldozers alone would break most healthy
economies and yet Israel continues to amass armaments like a kid
snatching candy on Halloween.
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- This was all made possible by secret gifts from the USA's
overburdened taxpayers. Now all of this is being called into play on three
fronts: In Iraq, where 'regime-change' was demanded of the Bush administration;
In Palestine where Arab blood flows like water and now in Lebanon,
where the world is seeing the depth of Israeli contempt for those that
they do not consider to be human.
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- This is not 'a distraction' or 'a spike in violence'
as most of the mainstream press would prefer. This is the beginning of
a real and very deadly War, and that fact ought to be printed in 48 point
type on the front page of every American newspaper in this land. Why is
that not happening? Because US policy is in lockstep on this one: We are
Israel, and they are US. We created the power vacuum that they have now
occupied. Initially we defended their survival and by way of thanks - they
now use us to keep them alive, and to protect their interests in every
conceivable way.
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- What is happening in Iraq, in Palestine and in Lebanon
is all ours, whether Americans like it or not: because the Senate voted
unanimously, and the House vote was 410 to 8 for what is happening in Lebanon!
All the weaponry is ours, the financial support is ours even the strategy
is something that the US government supports, because it is we who are
preventing a unilateral cease-fire. We may be 'over here' while Israeli's
are pulling the triggers and targeting the villages, but these blood stains
are not confined to the battle fields ~ the world has seen this with their
own eyes! Unless the spineless US congress finally hears the global outcry
and reverses itself now: this cozy little partnership just may end in a
major disaster for both Israel and for the already overly-tarnished USA.
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- If this sound extreme, then just look at the behavior:
This is an excerpt from an interview with Robert Fisk that aired today
on Democracy Now:
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- "What's going on in southern Lebanon is an outrage.
It's an atrocity. The idea that more than 600 civilians must die because
three Israeli soldiers were killed and two were captured on the border
by the Hezbollah on July 12, my 60th birthday -- I've spent 30 years of
my life watching this, this filth now, you know it's outrageous.
It's against all morality to suggest that 600 innocent civilians must die
for this. There is no other country in the world that could get away with
this.
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- You know, when -- I wrote in my paper last week, there
were times when the IRA would cross from the Irish Republic into Northern
Ireland to kill British soldiers. And they did murder and kill British
soldiers. But we, the British, didn't hold the Irish government responsible.
We didn't send the Royal Air Force to bomb Dublin power stations and Galway
and Cork. We didn't send our tanks across the border to shell the hill
villages of Cavan or Monaghan or Louth or Donegal. Blair wouldn't dream
of doing that, because he believes he's a moral man, he's a civilized man.
He wouldn't treat another nation like that.
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- But when the Israelis treat Lebanon like that, it's okay,
and Blair doesn't want a ceasefire. You can't have a real ceasefire. In
other words, we've got to have the Lebanese on their knees to sign the
dotted line, before we give them a ceasefire. And that dotted line means
the disarmament of Hezbollah, which will be impossible for the Lebanese
to do without restarting the civil war, because to disarm Hezbollah, you
must use the army, and most of the Hezbollah are, of course, Shiite Muslims,
and most of the army are Shiite Muslims. So you're going to have brothers
assaulting brothers to take their weapons away. It will not happen. However
much you may wish it and however much I may wish it, it won't happen. And,
again, this double morality: Blair wouldn't dream of attacking the Irish
Republic because the IRA crossed the border from Ireland, but it's quite
in order for Israel to attack the Lebanese Republic because the Hezbollah
crossed the border from Lebanon." (2)
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- I think Mr. Fisk is right there is no morality
in the leadership of either the USA or Israel not at this time and
certainly not in this war! What kind of nation drops leaflets on a population
telling them that they must get out or they'll be killed, and then destroys
all exits before they can leave? Their villages are then bombed the ambulances
are targeted, the aid workers and the UN monitors are targeted and many
are wounded or killed. But the attacks do not stop until their homes
and villages are leveled and their lives are reduced to rubble while
the bodies of the dead are left inside the wreckage for the dogs to devour.
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- Does that sound like a nation with a moral compass? When
the world demanded an immediate Cease-Fire the US blocked it because
Israel claimed to need 'two more weeks' to murder more people, so that
they can claim that they have been victorious over the women and children
of Lebanon. Hezbollah their target will only become stronger
as this onslaught against civilians continues. Today the Israeli Cabinet
voted to unanimously denounce any Cease-Fire and announced that they
will be widening the ground invasion, beginning immediately. This is something
that the Nazi's would have tried in WWII, it is not something that those
who supposedly were victims of those Nazi's should be doing now to the
Lebanese people, who they say are their friends. If this is how Israel
treats her friends, imagine what she'd like to do to her enemies! And of
course that's the point to create pure terror among those who are
powerless to stop what is happening to them.
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- This is a perfect situation for diplomatic intervention
but our Department of State has only Bushmen, the YES-people of the
twenty-first century. We never talk to those we are about to attack because
the USA now only uses weapons to achieve what we cannot begin to negotiate
for. To the rest of the world we are deranged and drunk with a false sense
of our own power. At the same time we are too soft, too wrapped up in our
silly toys, too stupid to listen to reason, or to even see that we are
entering a cul-de-sac of our own making. We have supported, protected and
defended this most-rabid of pit-bulls, among nations, and when the neighborhood
and the wider world begins to understand what's happening they will
insure that neither the US nor Israel will ever have the chance to do this
again!
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- What we're planning to do instead of even trying to reign
in our outlaw-savage protégé is to once again try and change
the subject. Watch very closely, because the Neo-Conn's have already cast
their webs of spin and now we want Israel to attack Syria, to eventually
trigger another war with Iran as well.
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- We can't afford the war in Iraq, the one we've been at
for three years now that openly US war that we are continuing to
lose. In addition to Iraq, we're also paying for the latest invasions in
Palestine and now Lebanon: Bush's solution 'Let's add two more wars to
the three we've already got!' How could congress ever justify the expense
of a military that could even contemplate five wars at the same time? Congress
is critical because they are the ones that will be using our money to finance
all this death and destruction not-to-mention the deaths of all those
innocent lives that will continue to go up in flames, along with all that
money that Bush wants to throw into this insanity just to give Israel
its "New Middle East"!(3)
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- There are rumors on the wind, and whispers in the halls
of power and woe to those who fail to pay attention!
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- kirwanstudios@sbcglobal.net
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- 1) There was a coup d'etat in Lebanon yesterday http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&
Board=news_news&Number=294824085#Post294824085
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- 2) Robert Fisk on Democracy Now, July 31, part one
- http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/31/1435219
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- 3) The Power of Arrogance
- http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-rama180706.htm
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