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Israeli Soldiers shooting at peace rally & "Should Canada declare IDF terrorists
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| Lordpatch User Info... |  See: http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/9793/bilin.wmv see Amnesty report at: http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE020182006 ******************************************************************* Israeli war crimes alleged Amnesty International levels charge Says massive destruction `deliberate' Aug. 25, 2006. 01:00 AM SUE LEEMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1156456211725 LONDON—Amnesty International has accused Israel of war crimes, saying it broke international law by deliberately destroying Lebanon's civilian infrastructure during its recent war with Hezbollah guerrillas. The human rights group said initial evidence, including the pattern and scope of the Israeli attacks, number of civilian casualties, widespread damage and statements by Israeli officials "indicate that such destruction was deliberate and part of a military strategy, rather than `collateral damage.''' The group, whose delegates monitored the fighting in both Israel and Lebanon, said Israel violated international laws banning direct attacks on civilians and barring indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks. "The scale of the destruction was just extraordinary," said Amnesty researcher Donatella Rovera, who co-authored the report. "There is clear evidence of disproportionate and indiscriminate attacks." The group urged the United Nations to look into whether both Israel and Hezbollah — whose attacks on Israel will be addressed separately — broke international law. Mark Regev, a spokesman for Israel's Foreign Ministry, said his country acted legally. "Israel's actions in Lebanon were in accordance with recognized norms of behaviour during conflicts and with relevant international law," he said. "Unlike Hezbollah, we did not deliberately target the Lebanese civilian population. On the contrary, under very difficult circumstances, we tried to be as surgical as is humanly possible in targeting the Hezbollah terrorist organization.'' Regev said that Lebanese infrastructure was "targeted only when that infrastructure was being exploited by the Hezbollah machine, and this is in accordance with the rules of war.'' Israel suffered international condemnation when it attacked targets in southern Lebanon hours after Hezbollah guerrillas operating there killed three Israeli soldiers and captured two in a cross-border raid July 12. The Israel Defence Forces has said that between that raid and the Aug. 14 ceasefire, it launched more than 7,000 air attacks and the navy conducted about 2,500 bombardments. UNICEF estimates 1,183 people died, about a third of them children. Some 970,000 Lebanese were displaced, and 15,000 homes destroyed. Why Harper backs Israel, no matter what World view clear, but politically risky Aug. 26, 2006. THOMAS WALKOM- Toronto Star http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1156542610130&call_pageid=970599119419 Prime Minister Stephen Harper's rock-solid support for Israel's actions in Lebanon should come as no surprise. It results not simply from Harper's desire to score points with Canada's traditionally Liberal Jewish voters (although that's part of it). It stems also from his firm belief, articulated well before his Conservatives won the last election, that Canadian foreign policy must be based on the morality of certitude. Put simply, he believes in choosing sides and staying there. He has no sympathy for those who argue that in places like the Middle East or Afghanistan, competing claims must be understood and dealt with in order to come up with workable solutions. In Harper's moral and political universe, a country makes its alliances with others on the basis of shared core values. And then it supports those countries, no matter what. Hence, his comments early on in the Lebanon war that Israel's actions were a "measured" response to provocations by Hezbollah. To many, including former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour, as well as the leaders of Amnesty International, Israel's massive bombardment was anything but measured. Amnesty has called Israel's actions war crimes. Arbour, a former Canadian Supreme Court justice, has warned that both Hezbollah and Israel may be held culpable for crimes against humanity. But for Harper, all this is carping. In his world view, the morality of means takes second place to the morality of ends. That Israel killed almost 10 times as many civilians as Hezbollah is irrelevant; for Harper, Israel's cause was just and that is all that matters. Harper spelled out his moral vision of foreign affairs three years ago in a publication called Citizen Centre Report. While not referring specifically to either the Middle East or Afghanistan, it is an essay that illuminates his approach to both conflicts. "The emerging debate on foreign affairs should be fought on moral grounds," he wrote then. "Current challenges in dealing with terrorism and its sponsors ... will be well-served by conservative insights on preserving historic values and moral insights on right and wrong ... "These are debates where modern liberals (with the exception of Tony Blair) have no answers; they are trapped in their framework of moral neutrality, moral relativism and moral equivalence. But conservatives should have answers. We understand, however imperfectly ... that politics is a moral affair ... "Conservatives must take the moral stand, with our allies, in favour of the fundamental values of our society including democracy, free enterprise and individual freedom. This moral stand should not just give us the right to stand with our allies but the duty to do so and the responsibility to put `hard power' behind our international commitments." As an intellectual theory of foreign affairs, Harper's vision is not new. It echoes that of U.S. neo-conservatives, particularly their disdain for what they call moral equivalence, or what used to be called fair-mindedness. Fair-mindedness is based on the notion that in any dispute, both sides may have legitimate complaints. If polls are right, it is also viewed by most Canadians as one of the country's fundamental values. But to neo-cons, fairness is a value too often abused. It allows those whom neo-cons view as demonstrably evil to be treated with the same respect as the patently good. In the neo-con view, Hezbollah rocket attacks against civilians are crimes, but Israeli missile attacks against civilians are not — even if the latter are far more destructive. Actions matter less than the motives behind them. Perhaps the most striking element of Harper's approach is his sense of absolute certainty. They are no shades of grey. Any Afghan fighting Canadian troops is an enemy of freedom. Any Lebanese civilian fighting Israeli invaders is a terrorist. For that reason, every struggle everywhere takes on existential dimensions. If the war in Afghanistan is a battle between good and evil, we have no choice but to fight there — even if, as my shrewd colleague Jim Travers has argued, our military efforts there are pointless. So far, Harper's Manichean stance has discomfited the Liberals (not a difficult task these days). But polls indicate it has cost him support among the public. This too should not be surprising. A great many Canadians are uncomfortable with black and white views of the world. Harper may dismiss their reluctance as moral relativism. But for a lot of people in this country, considering both sides of the argument is still considered a virtue. - Sun, 27 Aug 2006 10:40am Edited: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 10:51am | ||
| Lordpatch User Info... | New Items For 25 August 2006 - Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon By nour12 Created Aug 27 2006 - 2:04pm New Items For 25 August 2006 - Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon FULL TEXT AT: http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net/aug25.htm New Items For 25 August 2006 - Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon [1] NEWS: 1) Jewish state executes Palestinian, bombs his house, kidnaps brother (PCHR) 2) Occupier bombs Gaza homes injuring 10 civilians (DPA) 3) Occupier bombs apartment building in Jabalya refugee camp (AFP) 4) Toll from invader's cluster bombs mounts in Lebanon (AFP) 5) Life beyond bearable in occupied Gaza (Silverman/Al-Ahram) 6) Israel air force appoints "Iran commander" to prepare for war (Ha) 7) US State Dept opens inquiry into Israel use of cluster bombs (NYT) 8) Italy FM: We send troops to Lebanon "out of love for Israel" (Ha) 9) Belgium: UN forces must defend Israel and disarm its victims (DS) 10) Filmmaker Ken Loach Joins the Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) 11) Apartheid advances: 62% of Israeli Jews would not rent to an Arab (Ha) 12) Jews-only government loses all support over scandals, war loss (AFP) 13) Ever-more-fascist parties gain in Israel polls 14) Canada MP forced to resign for uttering Hizbullah heresy ANALYSIS & VIEWS: 15) 7 Facts You Might Not Know about the Iraq War (Schwartz/eIraq) 16) Blair foreign policy now a threat to national security (Clark/Guardian) 17) Palestinian "unity govt" will not solve crisis (Amayreh/Al-Ahram) 18) Psychological warfare (Serene Assir/Al-Ahram) FULL TEXT AT: http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net/aug25.htm Source URL: http://vancouver.indymedia.org/?q=node/2278 Links: [1] http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net/aug25.htm - Sun, 27 Aug 2006 2:10pm | ||
| Lordpatch User Info... | August Sunday 20th 2006: Israeli Mossad Implicated In Attempt To Bomb German Trains By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Russian Subscribers http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=13143 August 20, 2006 FSB sources are reporting today that an attempt to bomb German trains had as its most likely source Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, and who has used such terrorist actions successfully in the past to gain much needed Western support for their attempts to ignite a greater Middle Eastern war against Syria and Iran. These types of terrorist attacks upon Western Nations, by Israel, have also been to support those Leaders of Nations whose peoples have expressed strong opposition to both United States and Israeli actions in their combined crusade against the Muslim Nations of the World, and which in this particular case was seen as an attempt to bolster support for Germany’s pro-Western Chancellor Merkel, and whose popularity has dramatically plummeted since the outbreak of war. The success Israel has had with these terrorist attacks have had mixed results, however, with the supportive right-winged government of Spain falling after the Madrid Train Bombings of 11/3/2004, and the Blair government in Britain surviving the London Train Bombings of 7/7/2005. In this latest attempt, according to these FSB reports, German Intelligence operatives, and operations, where able to both thwart the detonation of these bombs and identify two suspects, one of whom, a Lebanese Christian from Israel attending the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany, has been arrested during his attempt to flee the country yesterday. These reports further state that American Intelligence Organizations were also instrumental in both capturing the suspect and preventing these train bombings after their smashing of the vast Israeli spying operation operated by the Israeli’s through their government owned corporation Comverse, and which every American telephone call has been routed through. The Israeli/American leader of Comverse, Kobi Alexander, currently being sought by the American FBI in a world-wide manhunt, has not only eluded capture but has also been charged by the Americans with transferring nearly $60 million to Israel prior to his escape. FSB reports further add that Mr. Alexander is currently in Israel, and whose government does not allow any of its fugitives to be extradited to any other nation. The American Military Leaders attempts to suppress their ongoing, since the Israeli backed terrorist attacks on the US on 9/11/2001, ‘Secret War’ against the Zionist Factions of Israel’s government also appears to failing, and as we can read as reported by one dissident American News Site, InformationLiberation.Com, and which says in their report titled "Another Spy Story Suppressed to Save Israel": "Well guess what reader, the United States government has done it again, they’ve hidden another Jewish spy from the American public, but this time the cats out of the bag, someone leaked the details and now we find that another Jewish American, this time a Navy Petty Officer by the name of Ariel J. Weinmann has been arrested for passing along Top Secret information related to National Security to the Israeli government. http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=13143 Zionist Racism Exposed Again "...They're Not Human Beings, They are Not People, They are Arabs!" Punyapriya Dasgupta- August 24, 2006 NEW DELHI -- Israel's ambassador in New Delhi, David Danieli, sees Hezbollah as something akin to a scorpion (Times of India, 28 July). His is not much of a new invention. Other Israelis in responsible positions have made similar statements before. A few days earlier, Dan Gillerman, Israeli representative at UN, regretted Kofi Annan's failure to mention that the Hezbollah was a bunch of "ruthless, indiscriminate animals". FULL ARTICLE AT: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m26071&l=i&size=1&hd=0 http://almashriq.hiof.no/lebanon/300/350/355/april-war/qana/ Images from the shelling of the UNIFIL FIJI BATT compound at Qana, South Lebanon Thursday, April 18, 1996 On Tuesday April 18, 1996 Israeli 155mm howitzers shelled UIFIL's Fiji BATT compound in the village of Qana a few kilometers south east of Tyre. Around 800 civilians had taken refuge at the base. Israelis targeted the base in retaliation for the Hizballah attack on one of their special forces groups who were in action north and outside of the Iraeli occupied "security zone" laying landmines. Over 100 civilians were killed. The shelling is documented in a UN report discussed in Time Magazine's article Qana: Anatomy of a Tragedy by James Walsh. These images are from raw and edited video supplied by Al Manar TV in Beirut, April, 1996. http://almashriq.hiof.no/lebanon/300/350/355/april-war/qana/ - Sun, 27 Aug 2006 2:29pm Edited: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 2:34pm | ||
| Lordpatch User Info... | "you want peace? destroy israel" -- samia halaby http://www.workersdaily.org/podcast/audio/shalaby_072806.mp3 - Sun, 27 Aug 2006 5:35pm | ||
| KnifeGhost User Info... | Look, dude, I've been possibly the loudest voice on here saying you make more sense than people give you credit for. But I'm starting to change my mind. You're just embarassing yourself now. - Mon, 28 Aug 2006 1:49am | ||
| Suffuckation User Info... | For some one who comes off as pro-communism he sure knows how to take up way more than his fair share. - Mon, 28 Aug 2006 2:20pm | ||
| reap what you sow User Info... | the guy's an idiot..... - Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:36pm | ||
| KnifeGhost User Info... | His posting here doesn't prevent you from posting. He's a loudmouth, not a hypocrite. - Tue, 29 Aug 2006 2:35am | ||
| trevor corey User Info... | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdNbFJzQ0uA&search=stupid%20people - Wed, 30 Aug 2006 1:46am | ||
| Mace User Info... | Dude, teh Jews were the ones who re-invented Communism during the 'Fifties,' then the Leboneases, re-invented the Pizza, in the 'Ninties.' Neither are original, masters of discovery. I don't know why either ©brand name™ of persons, get all the recognition or favortism that the U.N. does? (or LORDSTARCH ftm.. Meanwhile, Canada, the U.S. and other various Countries are busting their asses, in Afghanistan and Iraq. - Wed, 30 Aug 2006 4:52pm | ||
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