After the genocide in Gaza:
ISRAEL LAUNCHES MILITARY ASSAULT ON LEBANON
The broader global forces are aligned; local actors are committed. It is a bloody test, a macabre dress rehearsal, for what lies over the horizon.
HR-intro: Lebanon is one of those smaller countries, where one in time of war from the capital Beirut can take a cab to the front. One of my cab drivers in Lebanon formerly had been an ambulance driver. Until an Israeli F-16 with a missile shot at his red crossed and white coloured ambulance which was carrying victims of their bomb attacks, on the seaside road close to the city. He showed me the burnt out wreck, and told me about the horrible death of his patients in the flame engulfed vehicle from which he had been catapulted, burned but surviving. And after spending 10 years in North West Africa and the Middle East, it isn't difficult to connect the dots and understand the perfidy of the picture.
It has to be repeated, that all United Nations resolutions against the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the holocaust by Israel of the Palestinians, have not helped. Israel doesn't care. Nor does the US management, nor that of the European Union: they all are a shame for humanity allowing this to happen to fellow human beings. Israel stoneheartedly refuses to comply, and the world's so called 'moral leaders' show which cowards they are, and just are silent. They stand by, making us all complicit in the war crimes. If we're not already the victims.
The average European is deeply ashamed of those immorally behaving traitors, but is forced to pay too via their own defense forces and all of NATO, which secretly was OK'd by the collaborating 'government' and other rats in the Quisling race for war crimes. Ashamed and angry as Americans should be too, who are paying for most of the genocides by their mad and malignant 'Project for a New American Century' 'managers'. The choice is ours: Poor or Dead? May I strongly suggest immediate resistance? In all and every form as justified by international law and war of agression conventions?
IT IS NOT ONLY THIS USUAL ISRAELI SLAUGHTER, NOW TURNED INTO AN OPEN WAR AGAIN IN LEBANON, IT IS MUCH BIGGER.
To take one example: Yesterday 'The New York Sun' had this headline: ''The war with Iran has begun'' using the following quote to end the article: "Ephraim Sneh, a former general and Labor Party leader who is the Israeli longest drawing attention to the approaching conflict with Iran, is saying that the current moment reminds him of the Spanish Civil War.
The broader global forces are aligned; local actors are committed. It is a bloody test, a macabre dress rehearsal, for what lies over the horizon. The war with Iran has begun.'' - [endquote] - Url.: http://www.nysun.com/article/35990
The inhuman and bloody American/Israeli slaughterhaus grinds on, and the victims are people like you and me. Where are all the international so called 'authorities' trying to halt the massacre? They all - with few exceptions - daily prove to be hypocritical cowards, Pharisees and servile to the managers of the war machine. It will be a pleasure to see all those collaborators and propagandists of the war crimes in court. With in the front row the inhuman group responsible for their permanent string of crimes against humanity.*
Without any form of legal justification for the detention or in compliance with any law for human beings, ''Israel reportedly is holding 9,000 Arab prisoners. The vast majority are Palestinians, but there are also some Lebanese.''
The BBC makes no bones about it; Israelis are held ³hostage² or ³captives², but Palestinians are ³prisoners². The Israeli government kidnaps half the government and a quarter of the Palestinian parliament, an act that the BBC refers to as "arrests". How much longer are we to put up with the blatant propagandising of the BBC on behalf of the Israeli government? - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/mzyc4
Apart from the Beirut airport, and a hundred people killed already, the TV station Al Manar has been bombed too. And Indymedia in Beirut? Well, not exactly knowing who runs the show, we asked:
Wake up! There's a war going on in your country! - Url.: http://beirut.indymedia.org/ar/2006/07/4508.shtml
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ISRAEL LAUNCHES MILITARY ASSAULT ON LEBANON
By Chris Marsden
13 July 2006 - Israel responded to the capture of two of its soldiers by Hezbollah, which carried out a raid across the Israeli-Lebanese border Wednesday morning, by opening up a second front in its military operations, launching missile and bomb attacks from the air and sea and sending troops into southern Lebanon.
The prospect of a full-scale war with Lebanon in the north coincides with escalating Israeli attacks across its southern border in the Gaza Strip. Several hours before the eruption of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, Israel dropped a quarter-ton bomb on a house in Gaza City, killing a Hamas activist, his wife and seven of their nine children. Palestinian sources said a total of 20 Palestinians were killed in Gaza Wednesday as a result of Israeli military actions.
Three Israeli soldiers were killed in the cross-border Hezbollah raid, in addition to the two who were taken prisoner. Another four Israeli soldiers died in the initial incursion by the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) into southern Lebanon when an Israeli tank ran over a land mine. A fifth Israeli soldier was killed while assisting in recovering the tank, according to the IDF.
The death of eight Israeli soldiers is the largest single-day toll in many years, and it heightened the atmosphere of crisis surrounding the regime of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
The response of the Israeli government was to threaten all out war against Lebanon. Olmert said the border raid by Hezbollah was not merely an act of terrorism, but ³an act of war by the state of Lebanon against the state of Israel in its sovereign territory.² He pledged to extract a ³heavy price² through ³very painful and far-reaching² action, and rejected a call by Hezbollah leaders in Beirut for negotiations on the release of Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners held by Israel in exchange for the return of the two captured Israeli soldiers.
Israel reportedly is holding 9,000 Arab prisoners. The vast majority are Palestinians, but there are also some Lebanese.
Olmert again took the opportunity to threaten hostilities against Syria, describing it as ³a state which supports terror... This will, of course, require an appropriate response to deal with Syria¹s actions.²
Defence Minister Amir Peretz declared, ³The Lebanese government, which allows Hezbollah to operate freely against Israel from its sovereign territory, will bear responsibility for the consequences and ramifications (of the cross-border attack). Israel sees itself as being free to employ any means it deems fit, and the army has been instructed accordingly.²
A high-ranking military officer said that if the soldiers were not returned in good condition, Israel would turn Lebanon back 20 years by striking its vital infrastructure.
Israel¹s ground, sea and air assault on Lebanon has already been substantial and is likely to escalate in the coming days. Troops have crossed the border for the first time since Israel quit southern Lebanon six years ago. Israeli Air Force jets and helicopters have flown over the capital Beirut and navy gunboats and artillery along the border have shelled targets in Lebanon. Reports are that 27 civilians, including 10 children, were killed in overnight raids on southern Lebanon.
In the most damaging move, aircraft fired rockets at the runways of Beirut's international airport, forcing it to be closed down.
Planes have struck over 40 targets, purported to be Hezbollah outposts. At least two civilians were killed when Israel bombed a road bridge on a major route though southern Lebanon. Four other bridges in the south were hit and five Lebanese were wounded, security sources said.
Israel has called up reserve troops, signalling the beginning of a major campaign that will now be waged on two fronts. Several thousand reservists will be deployed along the Lebanon border, according to officials. The government also advised Israelis living along the northern border with Lebanon to seek protection in bomb shelters from rockets fired by Hezbollah forces.
Hezbollah, declared a terrorist organisation by both Israel and the US, is a major political force in Lebanon, having the support of most of the poor Shiite population and occupying posts in the current pro-Western government. The government in Beirut disassociated itself from the Hezbollah border raid.
The Bush administration immediately backed Israel¹s aggression in Lebanon. In its response, Washington implicitly exonerated the pro-US regime in Beirut, instead placing the onus on Syria and Iran.
A statement issued by White House press secretary Tony Snow declared: ³Today Hezbollah terrorists operating from Lebanon kidnapped two Israeli soldiers and launched rocket attacks against civilian targets in Israel. The United States condemns in the strongest terms this unprovoked act of terrorism... We also hold Syria and Iran, which have provided long-standing support for Hezbollah, responsible for today¹s violence. We call for the immediate and unconditional release of the Israeli soldiers.²
In Rome, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan echoed Washington¹s line, condemning the Hezbollah attack ³without reservation² and demanding that the captured Israeli soldiers be released.
[WHAT NORMAL HUMAN BEINGS THINK ABOUT KOFI ANNAN IS NOT FIR FOR PRINT - HR]
The characterisation of the Hezbollah action as ³unprovoked² is both grotesque and absurd. The cross-border raid by the Lebanese Shiite group comes after two weeks of escalating Israeli aggression in Gaza that has left more than 60 Palestinians dead.
Moreover, Israel has never abandoned its territorial ambitions in Lebanon and Syria. To this day it has retained the Shebaa Farms, a 25 square-kilometre area of Lebanese agricultural land. It was captured by Israel in the 1967 war and again in 1973 and has been occupied ever since. The fate of Shebaa Farms is bound up with that of the much larger Golan Heights, which it is adjacent to. Formerly known as the Syrian Heights, the Golan Heights is a strategic plateau on the border of Israel, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria. It was captured by Israel in the 1967 war and again in 1973 and has been occupied ever since.
In June 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon and laid siege to Beirut, killing an estimated 18,000 people and forcing the evacuation of the Palestine Liberation Organisation leadership. Israel collaborated with the fascist Phalange in the massacre of 1,200 Palestinians at the Sabra and Shatilla camps.
It withdrew from Beirut in 1983, but continued to occupy southern Lebanon. Numerous Israeli air raids were mounted throughout the 1990s in an ongoing conflict with Hezbollah that left hundreds dead, before Israel was forced to make its partial withdrawal from southern Lebanon under Prime Minister Ehud Barak in May 2000, after an 18-year war of attrition.
Israel¹s offensive in Gaza continues to escalate. In addition to the bombing in Gaza City, dozens of Israeli tanks, armoured personnel carriers and armoured bulldozers, covered by Apache attack helicopters and armed drones, crossed into central Gaza and advanced to the southeastern town of Deir al Balah. Air strikes continue against Beit Hanoun and other northern towns.
Arrests continue in military operations on the West Bank. The IDF said that 18 alleged Palestinian militants were detained Tuesday night, bringing the total number of arrests to nearly 100.
[andend] - World Socialist Web Site - Url.: www.wsws.org
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* This collection of resolutions criticizing Israel is unmatched by the record of any other nation, as Israel stands in violation of more UN resolutions than ANY OTHER NATION ON EARTH. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/nbxup
* You can find the biased Google selection here, about the illegal Israeli war of agression raging in Lebanon - Google - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/h5qkl
* Israel Britain¹s Imperialist Rottweiler + BBC disappeared? - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/mzyc4
* WHO IS RUNNING AMERICA? - Url.: http://www.barefootsworld.net/usfraud.html
* WHO OWNS YOU? - OUR ENEMY, THE STATE - by Albert J. Nock - His Classic Critique Distinguishing 'Government' from the 'STATE' - Url.: http://www.barefootsworld.net/nockoets0.html
* THE US PNAC WARS & NATO¹S SECRET ARMIES LINKED TO TERRORISM? - (NATO, the Pentagon, NSA, MI6, the CIA, Mossad, BND, and all other European and global 'intelligence services' are linked to inhuman terror, coups d¹état, 'rendition', the PNAC Gulags and torture - HR) - by Daniele Ganser - Url.: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/GAN412A.html
* FALSE FLAG 9/11 - NO LEGAL BASE FOR NATO FIGHTING US WARS - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/zqzkc
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