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U.S. state terrorism in action: Lebanon massacre Genocide in the name of self-defense. The U.S. imperialist policy to "reshape" the Middle East utilizing the army of the neo-nazi state of Israel. From countercurrents.org - 24 july 2006 Israel Prepares To Launch Ground War In Lebanon By Mike Head http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-head240706.htm With Washington's backing, Israel is preparing to launch a ground invasion of Lebanon, having called up thousands of army reservists and massed tanks and armoured personnel carriers on the border ------------------------ The Crime Of Lebanon And Palestine: Are Iran And Syria Next? By Stephen Lendman http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-lendman240706.htm It's clear at this time of great potential danger, a lot more than that is needed. The Arab street in the region and Muslim one around the world may be ready to explode if two more of its states are attacked by the US and/or Israel with support or compliance of the West and its own leaders ------------------------ More To Lebanon War Than Meets The Eye By Ramzy Baroud http://www.countercurrents.org/pa-baroud240706.htm Hizbollah cannot lose if it wishes to survive as a formidable political force in Lebanon. If Hizbollah is disarmed, it is feared that Israel will go back to its full scale meddling in Lebanese affairs, isolating Syria even further, and gaining a strategic battle in its looming showdown with Tehran ------------------------ Lebanon Massacre Will Live In Infamy By Ghali Hassan http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-hassan240706.htm Like major historical war crimes against innocent civilians, the complicity of major Western powers, particularly the U.S., in Israel's war crimes against Lebanon and the Lebanese civilian population will live in infamy. Israel's terror will fail to achieve its intended goal ------------------------ A Gripping Diary Of One Week In The Life And Death Of Beirut By Robert Fisk http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-fisk240706.htm We watch the warships sliding into Beirut port. "What will happen when all the foreigners have gone?" he asks. That's what we are all asking. We shall find out this week ------------------------ Lebanese Devastated In All Sorts Of Ways By Dahr Jamail http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-jamail240706.htm "How many Hezbollah have they killed," Mothman said. "Maybe just a few, while they've killed over 350 Lebanese civilians. What kind of war are they waging against my country?" ------------------------ The Road To Destruction: Israel Confronts The Middle East By Dan Lieberman http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-lieberman240706.htm Israel's similar actions in Gaza and Lebanon, in reaction to the seizure of its border guards, demonstrate that Israel is on a well-calculated strategy; control nations without occupying them - simply destroy them - which is a sinister forecast to the future of the Middle East ------------------------ All Are Equal, Middle East Included By Sonia Nettnin http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-nettnin240706.htm The fundamental problem behind the crises in the Middle East is that not all the people who live there are viewed as equal. The US-Israel political, military and financial alliance protects the human rights and dignity of Israeli-Jews, but qualifies and selects the human rights and dignity of the Middle East's indigenous and multifarious ethnic, religious and sectarian peoples ------------------------ Another 9/11 Anniversary Is Just Around The Corner By Vincent L. Guarisco http://www.countercurrents.org/us-gaurisco240706.htm For me, the 5th anniversary of 9/11 is just like the four previous ones -- a shrill, never-ending scream of what should never have been allowed to happen. The horror of 9/11 will forever remain embedded in all of us as an evil lesson of what can happen -- what will surely happen -- to a nation's people when they lose control of their leaders' actions ------------------------ Ghost In The Machine By John Mackenzie http://www.countercurrents.org/us-mckenzie240706.htm Hegemonic dominance cannot be sustained, empires rise and fall. Ours may end up the quickest round trip in history ------------------------ Quit India: Hindutva Goons By Subhash Gatade http://www.countercurrents.org/ind-gatade240706.htm And now when life is becoming normal and people want to move ahead has come the news that Hindutva people won't let the people do so. Under a 'public awareness campaign: Chhodo Hindustan', a series of banners urging Muslims who are "supporters of terrorism" to leave the country. The Vishwa Hindu Parishad which has put these banners all over the city has also decided to 'urge our people to stop buying anything from Muslims.' |
'How Can We Stand By And Allow This
To Go On?' By Robert Fisk http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-fisk310706.htm In all, there were 56 corpses brought to the Tyre government hospital and other surgeries, and 34 of them were children. When they ran out of plastic bags, they wrapped the small corpses in carpets. Their hair was matted with dust, most had blood running from their noses ----------------- Mobilize To Avenge The Blood Of Qana By Uri Avnery http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-avnery310706.htm We urge our Arab and Muslim brothers and sisters not to let murder inspire you to commit murder in revenge, from which only Israel and its allies will gain. Instead, think strategically. Let the blood of the innocents in Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq inspire you to mobilize to isolate Israel and its patrons ----------------- Qana Massacre... By Baghdad Burning http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-burning310706.htm The UN is beyond useless. They've gone from a union of nations working for the good of the world (if they ever were even that), to a bunch of gravediggers. They're only good for digging mangled bodies out of the ruins of buildings and helping to identify and put them into mass graves ----------------- US Media Alibis For Qana Massacre By David Walsh http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-walsh310706.htm As the news broke Sunday morning of the Israeli massacre in the southern Lebanese village of Qana, the American media swung into action to provide alibis and excuses for the horrific war crime ----------------- Arab States Must Repudiate Ties With Israel Now By Ali Abunimah http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-abunimah310706.htm After Qana, Jordan's foreign minister Abul-Ilah al-Khatib urged the international community "take a firm stand against the aggression." Amman and Cairo should lead the way with more than words ----------------- Israel's Latest Massacre In Qana: Racist Jewish Fundamentalism A Factor By Omar Barghouti http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-barghouti310706.htm Israel's latest bloodbath, which claimed the lives of dozens of children and women hiding from the relentless bombing in what they hoped was a secure basement in Qana, betrays not only Israel's criminal disregard for the value of Arab human life, a typical colonial attitude towards natives, but also its increasingly fundamentalist perception of Gentiles in general as lesser humans ----------------- Why Do They Hate Us? Listen To Qana (again) By Jonathan Cook http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-cook310706.htm If Israel wanted to widen its war, it could not have chosen a better way to achieve it than by sending its war planes back to the mixed Muslim and Christian village of Qana in south Lebanon to massacre civilians there, as if marking a morbid anniversary ----------------- Why Must The Right Wing Sound So Brutally Stupid? By John Chuckman http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-chuckman310706.htm Just when I thought he had shown a glimmer of statesmanship, Stephen Harper, Canada's prime minister courtesy of just over one-third of the vote, reverted to character. Following Israel's apparently-deliberate targeting of four UN observers in Lebanon, including one Canadian, Harper thought it appropriate to ask, not why Israel killed them, but why the observers were there? ----------------- "If You Haven't Left, You're Hezbollah" By Dahr Jamail http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-jamail310706A.htm Large numbers fled the south after Israelis dropped leaflets warning of attacks. Others have been unable to leave, often because they have not found the means. The Israelis have taken that to mean that they are therefore Hezbollah ----------------- Oil Spill Hits Lebanon By Dahr Jamail http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-jamail310706.htm More than 15,000 tons of oil have hit the coast after the bombing of five of six storage tanks at the plant in the coastal village El-Jiye, 30km south of Beirut. The northern winds have taken the massive oil slick to beaches and ports a long way up the coast ----------------- The New Middle East By Ali Quli Qarai http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-qrai310706.htm When the dusts of the war have settled, the world will see a Hezbollah and Hamas that have not been weakened but grown in strength and stature several times. The new Middle East was born in 1982 when Israel invaded Lebanon. Now it is coming of age ----------------- What Exactly Is An "Existential" Threat, Mr. Olmert? By Am Johal http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-johal310706.htm The past few weeks have seen dozens of non-violent protestors arrested, aggressively pushed and detained for simply questioning Israeli policy in Lebanon. Security officials have attacked protestors without provocation. Israel is the clearest example of a state where security matters precede the importance of human rights ----------------- Imperial Rulers And The Deadly Games They Play By Jason Miller http://www.countercurrents.org/us-miller310706.htm The militant Neocon and Zionist leaders in the United States and Israel are deaf to lamentations and blind to scenes of carnage. As long as they remain in power and have pawns to sacrifice, the "War on Terror" will continue to escalate ----------------- Islam, Madrasas And Cultural 'Arabisation': Insights From India By Yoginder Sikand http://www.countercurrents.org/comm-sikand310706.htm Mindless berating of the madrasas for allegedly being actively engaged in promoting 'Arabisation', without looking at the phenomenon as, at least in part, a reaction to Hindutva and to the homogenising agenda of the Indian state that defines itself in Brahminical Hindu terms, is hardly fair and can only further reinforce the insular, exclusivist character that most madrasas are today identified with |