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US Israel Murder

"To destroy
one life, it is as if you have
destroyed an entire world".

The Talmud
I was just reading an account of the Jewish armed uprising in defense of the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943, an astounding story of heroism in the face of almost certain death, as people armed with little more than pistols and home-made bombs held out for a month against the most powerful army on earth.
It is also a tale full of horrifying acts of a kind of ruthlessness and coldness that are hard to understand outside of the context of the fighting of that time:
A 12-year-old boy who had ratted to his Nazi captors.
Who was summarily pushed out of a top floor building window by a Jewish fighter so he can't do it again.
Nazi captives who were simply executed.
Wounded comrades who were left behind to burn to death because rescuing them was too dangerous.
Fighters who hid themselves in crowds of civilians and then begin firing at Nazi troops.
Inevitably leading to the deaths of civilians in the resulting crossfire.
      Dave Lindorff     11 August 2006      www.counterpunch.org      
Israel — from the Warsaw Ghetto to Lebanon
...when I left Britain, I moved to Nazareth in Israel, an Arab — Muslim and Christian — community on the very margins of the self-declared Jewish state.
In the ghetto of Nazareth, I rarely meet Israeli Jews unless I venture out for work or I find myself sitting next to them in a local restaurant as they order hummus from an Arab waiter, just as I once asked for a madras curry in High Wycombe.
When Israeli Jews briefly visit the ghetto, I suddenly realise how much, by living here, I have become an Arab by default.
Living on the margins of any society is an alienating experience that few who are rooted in the heartland of the consensus can ever hope to understand.
Such alienation can easily deepen into something less passive, far more destructive, when you find yourself not only marginalised but your loyalty, rationality, even your sanity, called into question.
As we approach the fifth official anniversary of the "war on terror", the foiled UK "terror plot" has neatly provided George W Bush, the "leader of the free world", with a chance to remind us of our fight against the "Islamic fascists".
But what if the war on terror is not really about separating the good guys from the bad guys, but about deciding what a good guy can be allowed to say and think?
What if the "Islamic fascism" President Bush warns us of is not just the terrorism associated with Osama bin Laden and his elusive al-Qaeda network but a set of views that many Arabs, Muslims and Pakistanis — even the odd humanist — consider normal, even enlightened?
What if the war on "Islamic fascism" is less about fighting terrorism and more about silencing those who dissent from the West's endless wars against the Middle East?
At some point, I suspect, I joined the Islamic fascists without my even noticing.
Were my name different, my skin colour different, my religion different, I might feel a lot more threatened by that realisation.
      Jonathan Cook     11 August 2006      www.counterpunch.org      
   Hizbollah volunteers fill food trays.   
Hezbollah volunteers fill food trays with rice before delivering them to some of the hundreds of thousands of refugees now living in schools across the capital, at a makeshift Hezbollah-run kitchen in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday Aug. 10, 2006.

Even now, despite crippling Israeli airstrikes that have destroyed most of Hezbollah offices across the country, the guerrilla resistance group is actively assisting in relief efforts.

Hizbollah runs a sophisticated network of schools, clinics and social services deeply rooted in the Shia Muslim community. 

US supplied and paid Israel bombing across Lebanon expanded Monday with missiles targeting all areas.

The Israel military, including weapons: tanks, missiles, warplanes, artillery, shells, are all funded by the US taxpayer.

More than Fifteen million US dollars is given by US taxpayers to Israel each day for their military use.

Funding by the US Taxpayer for the enslavement of the Palestinian people continues to increase, estimated now considerably more than the previous 4 billion US dollars per year.

Picture: AP/Hussein Malla
   Hizbollah volunteer helping feed thousands of refugees stranded in schools in Beirut  
A Hezbollah volunteer carries pots and pans, as he passes next to bags full of food trays with rice before delivering them to some of the hundreds of thousands of refugees now living in schools across the capital at a makeshift Hezbollah-run kitchen in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday Aug. 10, 2006.

Even now, despite crippling Israeli airstrikes that have destroyed most of Hizbollah offices across the country, the guerrilla resistance group is actively assisting in relief efforts. 

The Israel military, including weapons: tanks, missiles, warplanes, artillery, shells, are all funded by the US taxpayer.

More than Fifteen million US dollars is given by US taxpayers to Israel each day for their military use.

Funding by the US Taxpayer for the enslavement of the Palestinian people continues to increase, estimated now considerably more than the previous 4 billion US dollars per year.

Picture: AP/Hussein Malla

(left)
Hezbollah volunteers fill food trays with rice before delivering them to some of the hundreds of thousands of refugees now living in schools across the capital, at a makeshift Hezbollah-run kitchen in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday Aug. 10, 2006.
Even now, despite crippling Israeli airstrikes that have destroyed most of Hezbollah offices across the country, the guerrilla resistance group is actively assisting in relief efforts.
US supplied and paid Israel bombing across Lebanon expanded Monday with missiles targeting all areas.
The Israel military, including weapons: tanks, missiles, warplanes, artillery, shells, are all funded by the US taxpayer.
(right)
A Hezbollah volunteer carries pots and pans, as he passes next to bags full of food trays with rice before delivering them to some of the hundreds of thousands of refugees now living in schools across the capital at a makeshift Hezbollah-run kitchen in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday Aug. 10, 2006.
Hizbollah runs a sophisticated network of schools, clinics and social services deeply rooted in the Shia Muslim community.
More than Fifteen million US dollars is given by US taxpayers to Israel each day for their military use.
Funding by the US Taxpayer for the enslavement of the Palestinian people continues to increase, estimated now considerably more than the previous 4 billion US dollars per year.
Photos: AP/Hussein Malla
One of the more unsettling aspects of the broad support in Washington for the use of Israel as U.S. proxy in the Middle East is how closely it corresponds to historic anti-Semitism.
In past centuries, the ruling elite of European countries would, in return for granting limited religious and cultural autonomy, established certain individuals in the Jewish community as the visible agents of the oppressive social order, such as tax collectors and moneylenders.
When the population threatened to rise up against the ruling elite, the rulers could then blame the Jews, channeling the wrath of an exploited people against convenient scapegoats.
The resulting pogroms and waves of repression took place throughout the Jewish Diaspora.
How Washington Goaded Israel to Invade Lebanon
Stephen Zunes   www.commondreams.org   August 19, 2006
How would Homeland Security judge me if I stepped off a plane in the US tomorrow and told officials not only that I am appalled by the humanitarian crises in Lebanon and Gaza but also that I do not believe the war on terror should be directed against either the Lebanese or the Palestinians?
How would they respond if, further, I described as nonsense the idea that Hizbullah or the political leaders of Hamas are "terrorists"?
I have my reasons, good ones I think, but would anyone take them seriously?
What would the officials make of my argument that, before Israel's war on Lebanon, no one could point to a single terrorist incident Hizbullah had been responsible for in at least a decade?
Would the authorities appreciate my comment that a terrorist organisation that doesn't do terrorism is a chimera, a figment of the President's imagination?
Equally, what would they make of my belief that Hizbullah does not want to wipe Israel off the map?
Would they find me convincing if I told them that Israel, not Hizbulalh, is the aggressor in the conflict:
That following Israel's supposed withdrawal from south Lebanon in 2000, Lebanon experienced barely a day of peace from the terrifying sonic booms of Israeli war planes violating the country's airspace?
O'Reilly got a little more than he bargained for when he invited Noura Erekat, legal advocate for the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, to discuss Israel's incursion into Lebanon, its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, and America's role in the conflict.
“I don’t think that our viewers know that Israel actually occupied Lebanon for 18 years and that in the past 6 years alone it’s launched 11,782 missiles over the Lebanese border. In comparison, Hizbullah had launched 100 missiles over the border.”
Do Americans know that?
Do you now know???
In the past 6 years years Israel 11,782 missiles over the Lebanese border.
Hizbullah had launched 100 missiles over the border.
US Pays Blackwater $320 Million in Secretive Global 'Security' Program
While the Bush Administration calls for the immediate disbanding of what it has labeled "private" and "illegal" militias in Lebanon and Iraq, it is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into its own global private mercenary army tasked with protecting US officials and institutions overseas.
The secretive program, which spans at least twenty-seven countries, has been an incredible jackpot for one heavily Republican-connected firm in particular: Blackwater USA.
Government records recently obtained by The Nation reveal that the Bush Administration has paid Blackwater more than $320 million since June 2004 to provide "diplomatic security" services globally.
The massive contract is the largest known to have been awarded to Blackwater to date and reveals how the Administration has elevated a once-fledgling security firm into a major profiteer in the "war on terror."
      Jeremy Scahill      August 11, 2006      The Nation     
Would they understand as I explained that Hizbullah had acted with restraint for those six years, stockpiling its weapons for the day it knew was coming.
When Israel would no longer be satisfied with overflights and its appetite for conquest and subjugation would return?
Would the officials doubt their own assumptions as I told them that during this war Hizbullah's rockets have been a response to Israeli provocations.
That they are fired in return for Israel's devastating and indiscriminate bombardment of Lebanon?
...Sitting in London or New York, the news that Gaza lost 151 souls, most of them civilians, last month to Israeli bombs and bullets passes us by.
It is after all just a number, even if a high one.
At best, a number like that from a place we don't know.
Suffered by a people whose names we can't pronounce.
It makes us pause.
Even sigh with regret.
How I Found Myself with the Islamic Fascists
President Bush and his obedient serf in Britain, Tony Blair...do not want to understand because they, and their predecessors, are responsible for creating these patterns and for writing this epic tale in blood.
Bush and Blair and their advisers know that the plan is far more important than the rage.
The "red" alert levels at airports.
Or even planes crashing into buildings, plunging out of the sky.
To protect the plan — to preserve the Middle East as a giant oil pump, cheaply feeding our industries and our privileged lifestyles — those who care about the suffering, the deaths and the wars must be silenced.
Their voices must not be heard.
Their loyalty must be questioned.
Their reason must be put in doubt.
They must be dismissed as "Islamic fascists".
      Jonathan Cook      From High Wycombe to Nazareth      
      11 August 2006      www.counterpunch.org/      
 

Bint Jbeil And Tyre Targets of Israeli Terror Campaign

This video shows the awful misery of those who are left with nothing.
In Bint Jbeil the unfortunate elderly and frail faced an agonising time as Israel bombs and flattened their town.
As www.turntoislam.com states: "Its awful how both Blair and Bush can let this continue....
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Blair and Bush not only let this continue, the US taxpayer is paying for the Israel military and supplying the bombs.
Blair and the Labour UK government has allowed passage of these bombs through the UK airfields.
It is not clear if they are still doing so."
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Lebanon "Fog of War"

Lebanese Doctors and Civillians Speak Out against the Terrorism they are facing from Israel.
Chemical Weapons, Cluster Bombs, Massacres Shocking Documentary About the War in Lebanon and the tradgedy in Qana.
Lebanese testimonials to the war.
Doctors Speak Out Against War Crimes.
Video taken from Sky News, placed on YouTube:

Galloway wipes the floor with Sky News anchor

Sky News anchor: Joining me now is a man who’s not known for sitting on the fence.   He passionately opposed the invasion of Iraq and now he feels that Hizbullah is justified in attacking Israel.   The Respect MP for Bethnel Green is in our London studio.   A very good evening, uh good morning to you Mr. Galloway.   How do you JUSTIFY your support for Hizbullah and its leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah?
She might as well have punched him in the face and handed him a gun.
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He was just shooting at children to amuse himself.
The celebration of Jerusalem day, the US missiles that rained onto children in Gaza,
and, a gathering of top articles over the past nine months
April 2004
US missiles — US money — and Palestine
March 2004
A young Palestinian man hitting an Israeli teargas bomb with his shoes away from demonstrators.
Israeli occupation soldiers killed two demonstrators and injured more than a hundred of them during anti-Wall demonstrations in the West Bank.
February 2004
A Palestinian elderly woman screaming in despair, complaining to God, as an Israeli occupation army bulldozer started to prepare her land for the construction of the separation wall in the village of Dair Qidees, near the West Bank city of Ramallah.
January 2004
Israeli occupation soldiers guarding bulldozers demolishing Palestinian homes.
A Palestinian man, perhaps who has lived in one of the homes, sits on the ground watching, his small daughters around him.
December 2003
Palestinian boys cry over the body of their father.
8 Palestinians were killed and 40 were injured,in the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip.
Many homes were destroyed during a savage Israeli occupation raid on the refugee camp on Tuesday.
November 2003
A Palestinian family in Jenin, moments before the Israeli occupation forces blew up their home.
October 2003
Tom Hurndall, the peace activist who was shot by Israeli occupation forces while helping to shield some Palestinian children, is declared to be brain dead.
Two Palestinian children were among about 100 Palestinian civilians injured in the Israeli air raids on Gaza Strip, which also resulted in killing 10 civilians.
September 2003
See the home blow up.
Blowing up more Palestinian homes as a collective punishment is a daily Israeli practice (paid for by US money) to control Palestinians under occupation.
The life and death of Kamala Sawalha
A student leaves her house every night, leaving her two young children at home, spends the next several hours traveling by taxi and on foot to get to the university in the neighboring town — just 15 minutes away.
Kamala wanted very badly to study — otherwise, it would be hard to understand the sacrifice she made for it.
To get up before dawn every morning, to leave the babies with their grandmother, to spend hours on the road in the heat and cold, even when pregnant, in order to get to the campus on time; to risk being shot or subjected to endless humiliations around every turn, and then to travel the whole way back — in a taxi where possible and on foot where necessary....
“Suddenly we were facing the soldiers,” he recounts. The jeep was parked on the left side of the road and its right door was open. Kamala let out a long scream. It was the last sound she would ever make.
At 11:30 A.M., they buried Kamala Sawalha in the town cemetery.
Children trying to commit suicide
Now the landscape itself has changed
More Palestinian mothers are giving birth at home because they dare not risk ride to hospital.
Punching an arab in the face.
The father went through it and now the son is going through it and no one talks about it around the dinner table.
Furer is certain that what happened to him is not at all unique.
Here he was — a creative, sensitive graduate of the Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts, who became an animal at the checkpoint, a violent sadist who beat up Palestinians because they didn’t show him the proper courtesy, who shot out tires of cars because their owners were playing the radio too loud, who abused a retarded teenage boy lying handcuffed on the floor of the Jeep, just because he had to take his anger out somehow.
 
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