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Eine Ruhrgebietsbürgerin in Haifa äußert sich gegen den Krieg in Nahost. Artikel von Marie Badarne vom 1.8.2006. Marie Badarne (geb. Höhn) ist in Recklinghausen im Ruhrgebiet geboren und aufgewachsen und lebt seit drei Jahren in Israel. Sie arbeitet bei der arabischen Menschenrechtsorganisation Sawt el-Amel (die Stimme des Arbeiters) in Nazareth und wohnt mit ihrem Mann Muhammad in Haifa. http://www.labournet.de/krieg/nahost/badarne.html


Von der Moral im Krieg. Menschenrechtsorganisationen kritisieren im Krieg zwischen Israel und Hisbollah beide Seiten, haben damit aber offenbar keinen Einfluss

„Der Krieg zwischen Israel und der Hisbollah ist ein moderner Krieg. Gleich ob Armeen gegeneinander kämpfen oder es sich um einen "asymmetrischen Konflikt" handelt, so sind Zivilisten seit dem 20. Jahrhundert in wachsendem und jetzt im weit überwiegendem Maße die Leidtragenden. Nicht Soldaten oder Kämpfer, sondern vor allem Zivilisten sterben oder werden in militärischen Konflikten verwundet. Daran konnten auch "Präzisionswaffen" nichts ändern, die allerdings erheblich zu der gerne auch von Militärs geschürten Vorstellung beigetragen haben, als könne es "saubere" Kriege geben, in denen nur gezielt und ohne "Kollateralschaden" der bewaffnete Gegner eliminiert wird. Dass sich Krieg und Terror kaum unterscheiden, wurde im Irak-Krieg wieder einmal deutlich und zeigt sich auch im Krieg zwischen der Hisbollah und Israel…“ Artikel von Florian Rötzer in telepolis vom 07.08.2006 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23278/1.html


Aus: LabourNet, 7. August 2006

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=9416


From Information Clearing House

The extent of the Labour backbench unrest over Tony Blair's handling of the Middle East crisis is laid bare for the first time today in a petition calling for an immediate ceasefire.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1214560.ece


From Information Clearing House

The type of missiles being fired by Hizbullah at Israeli cities cannot be fired from within houses, mosques, hospitals or even UN facilities as has been suggested by the IDF.

http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=345


From Information Clearing House

Israeli Bombs Cut Aid Lifeline

UN aid officials said the bombing of the main coastal highway north from Beirut to the Syrian border earlier in the day had cut an "umbilical cord" of aid supplies. The bombing halted a convoy of eight lorries carrying 150 tonnes of relief shipments, though aid was arriving by air and by sea.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1837846,00.html


From Information Cearing House

The US occupation forces attempted to prevent Iraqi demonstrators from reaching Baghdad for participation in public protests on Lebanon, scheduled for tomorrow, by opening fire on the bus that was taking them from Najaf to the capital. One demonstrator was killed and 16 injured.

http://www.arabmonitor.info/news/dettaglio.php?idnews=15210&lang=en


From Information Clearing House

We are concerned that with international attention focusing on Lebanon, the tragedy in Gaza is being forgotten. We estimate that since 28 June, 175 Palestinians have been killed, including approximately 40 children and eight women, and over 620 injured in the Gaza Strip.

http://www.unicef.org/media/media_35226.html



'Outrage' at 'morally unconscionable position'

by The Jewish Women's Committee to End the Occupation

http://www.rabble.ca/press_release.shtml?x=51607


From Information Clearing House

How convenient it would be for Mr Blair if we all acquiesced in this theory of a global, unified terrorist conspiracy. It would mean that no foreign policy adventure, however extreme, could be criticised; no attack on British troops abroad, no botched intervention, could be blamed on the Prime Minister's judgement.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14366.htm

I still feel a shudder of deja-vu at the irony with which I wrote last week about the ‘generosity’ of the US government’s gift of 2,000 rolls of plastic sheeting to the Lebanese.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14377.htm

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14372.htm

More Time To Bomb
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14258.htm

Blood on his hands
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14367.htm

Civilian deaths 'should be seen as war crime'
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14368.htm

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Israel wages war of starvation
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/world/15198153.htm


Reporter sees no choice but to help in Lebanon

Minutes after our convoy of five press cars rolled into town, women, children, elderly men and disabled people began emerging from the ruins, pleading for escape from the bombing.

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/world/15178152.htm


Help save Lebanon's children

The Independent and Save the Children are launching an appeal for the children of Lebanon, for urgent food, medicine and clothing desperately needed as the violence continues to escalate.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1211692.ece


From Information Clearing House

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Ground to a Halt
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14370.htm

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0804-27.htm

Amnesty International to Hold Worldwide Vigils Calling for Immediate Ceasefire in Lebanon/Israel Conflict
http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0804-02.htm

Lebanon/Israel - ICRC Bulletin 09/2006; Latest report on ICRC activities in the field
http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0804-09.htm

Israeli Soldier Incarcerated for Refusing to Fight
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0804-03.htm

AP | August 4 2006

These two satellite images provided by GeoEye show the same area of Beirut, Lebanon before and after Israeli bombardment. The image on the left was taken Wednesday July 12, 2006, and the image on the right was taken Monday July 31, 2006. (AP Photo/GeoEye)

image here: http://www.infowars.com/articles/ww3/satellite_image_before_after_beirut.htm


Informant: shane_digital

"I don't want to die. I want to go to school," says Jamal, a four-year-old Lebanese boy scarred by the Israeli bombing of his country. Home for Jamal is now a "displacement center" in the southern town of Jezzine, where his family fled in fear for their lives.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080406C.shtml

Down And Out In DC And Tel Aviv
http://www.tompaine.com/uncommonsense/

Since the war started, there has been much discussion concerning the use of (US) cluster bombs, bunker-busting bombs and chemical weapons – all illegal - presently being used in Lebanon. Some have also said illegal bombs are also being used in Palestine.

http://indexresearch.blogspot.com/2006/07/index-on-illegal-us-weapons-in-lebanon.html


From Information Clearing House

An extended family came under Israeli fire as they were fleeing Marwahin in south Lebanon on 15 July. Of the 27 people in the truck, 23 died. Maya Abdallah, 18, lost many family members in the attack.

http://tinyurl.com/gqaqv



Little respite in Lebanon even for the dead

From a refrigerator truck, soldiers and civil defence workers removed the bodies of 80 civilians and laid them out in the car park.

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/08/03/1154198268168.html



US will not stop operation in Lebanon

Israeli ambassador to US says that American government not intending to pressure Israel to stop military operation. US secretary of state declares in interview with Fox News that Hizbullah will surrender.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3285123,00.html



Blair signals no objection to arms flights

Prime Minister Tony Blair signalled on Thursday that he did not object to the United States using British airports to depatch weapons to Israel, provided procedures were obeyed.

http://tinyurl.com/rnyag


From Information Clearing House

By Thalif Deen

The United States says it stands ready to provide food, medicine and humanitarian assistance to the thousands of internally displaced Lebanese caught in the crossfire. But Washington has also decided to accelerate the supply of lethal weapons to Israel -- "perhaps intended to kill the very Lebanese the United States is planning to feed and shelter," says one Arab diplomat at the United Nations.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14348.htm

By Professor Steve Trevillion

The deliberate and systematic destruction of Lebanon's social infrastructure by the Israeli air force was also a war crime, designed to reduce that country to the status of an Israeli-US protectorate. The attempt has backfired.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14355.htm



Human Rights Watch Accuses Israel of War Crimes

By Jim Lobe

The 50-page report, "Fatal Strikes: Israel's Indiscriminate Attacks Against Civilians in Lebanon," detailed nearly two dozen cases of IDF attacks in which a total of 153 civilians, including 63 children, were killed in homes or motor vehicles.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14343.htm

Some Israeli Attacks Amount to War Crimes: Full report.

The pattern of attacks in more than 20 cases investigated by Human Rights Watch researchers in Lebanon indicates that the failures cannot be dismissed as mere accidents and cannot be blamed on wrongful Hezbollah practices. In some cases, these attacks constitute war crimes.

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/08/02/lebano13902.htm


From Information Clearing House



No Peace Without Justice, No Justice Without Truth
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14354.htm

Ambulances hit by Israeli forces

Another challenging report from ITN, this time on ITV. This one on the Israeli attack on ambulances in Tyre Lebanon.

Click here to view
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14352.htm

http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0802-09.htm



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Qana

http://peacepalestine.blogspot.com/2006/08/israeli-refusnik-interview-our.html


From Information Clearing House

The Government refused last night to give details of the flights entering Britain containing American arms destined for Israel.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/08/02/nbombs02.xml


From Information Clearing House

A senior official at the United Nations joined Labour backbenchers in expressing dismay that Mr Blair had refused to back international calls for an immediate ceasefire.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/syria/story/0,,1835542,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Walid Jumblatt, leader of the most powerful clan in Lebanon’s Druze community, said on Tuesday the conflict between Israel and Hizbollah guerrillas had dealt a fatal blow to Lebanese hopes of a strong independent state, free of Iranian and Syrian influence.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14325.htm

The overwhelming emphasis of television and press coverage in the UK was the civilian casualties in Lebanon. Day after day, those were the "splash" stories. The smaller number of civilian casualties from Hizbullah rockets in northern Israel was also covered but rarely made the top headlines or front pages.

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/julian_borger/2006/08/post_279.html



News on a Platter

Propaganda is part of every war, just like bombs and soldiers. Still, it's remarkable how professionally Israel deals with foreign journalists, catering conscientiously to all their needs. Lunch included.

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,429105,00.html


From Information Clearing House



End game between Israel and Hezbollah

The real trick, in terms of keeping American and British public opinion on side, is to blur the sequence of events that led to the war and present it as a desperate Israeli struggle against an unprovoked onslaught by thousands of terrorist rockets.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14326.htm

'You go a bit crazy when you see little body after little body coming up out of the ground'

Huge numbers of children are being killed, injured or displaced in south Lebanon. Why are so many suffering in this conflict?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1835152,00.html


From Information Clearing House



Cease Fire Now!

This video is dedicated to the children who have lost their lives because the US, UK and Israel have willingly stopped a ceasefire resulting in the deaths of many civilians in Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank.

- Warning -

This video contains images depicting the reality and horror of war and should only be viewed by a mature audience.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14337.htm

In Aynata, a youth showed journalists to places where bodies remained buried beneath the rubble, with no one able to remove them under fire. Locals left signs to mark where they lay.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14324.htm


From Information Clearing House

The village's dead were shrouded in white cloth and carried to the cemetery in the bucket of a backhoe. The mayor, Hussein Jamaleddin, lost his son, brother and five other relatives. He broke down crying and pulled at the limbs of the dead hanging out of the scoop.

http://tinyurl.com/kd6mg


From Information Clearing House

By JIM RUTENBERG and THOM SHANKER

The United States firmly reiterated its position on Tuesday that there can be no cease-fire in the Middle East until there is a solid plan in place to disarm Hezbollah.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14330.htm

Today is the official date for the handover of responsibilities from the US coalition to NATO forces in southern Afghanistan, where Taliban incursion and coalition failure to keep aid promises complicate NATO's task.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080206H.shtml

What is obvious to everyone covering this conflict is that children are bearing the brunt of it. The few official figures collated so far seem to support this. UNICEF says that 37 of the 60 dead in Qana on Sunday were children, and everywhere you go, it seems that it is the children who are being killed, injured and displaced.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080206C.shtml

Tote, Verletzte & Vertriebene: Viele Kinder und Jugendliche unter den Opfern im Nahost-Krieg (02.08.06)

Nach Angaben des UN-Kinderhilfswerks Unicef sind bei der israelischen Militäroffensive im Libanon bislang mehr Kinder als Soldaten gestorben. Schätzungsweise ein Drittel der insgesamt 620 Toten und 3200 Verletzten im Libanon seien Kinder und Jugendliche, sagte der Unicef-Geschäftsführer für Deutschland, Dietrich Garlichs, am Dienstag in Berlin. Die Zahl der Vertriebenen bezifferte er auf rund 800.000 Menschen.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=14144

Independent [UK]

08/02/06

The Government has been rebuffed for the second time in the courts over its use of control orders, amounting to virtual house arrest, for terrorist suspects. The ruling by the Court of Appeal plunges the control order regime, the centrepiece of recent anti-terror legislation, deeper into crisis. Five weeks ago, the High Court denounced the controversial restrictions on six terror suspects as a breach of their human rights as they amounted to a deprivation of liberty. John Reid, the Home Secretary, challenged the ruling, but the appeal judges inflicted a second defeat on the Government...

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article1209753.ece


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The United Nations Environment Programme has expressed its "grave concern" about oil pollution in Lebanese coastal waters. An oil slick caused by Israeli bombing of the Jiyyeh power station now covers 50 miles of coast.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/080106EA.shtml

City marshals blocked a radio personality from feeding homeless people at a City Hall park Monday, and issued summonses to a television news crew covering a publicity protest against a ban on "mobile soup kitchens."

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2006/jul/31/073110578.html


From Information Clearing House

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/story/439685p-370408c.html


From Information Clearing House

US weapons flights through Prestwick will continue: US FLIGHTS carrying weapons to Israel will continue to call at British airports, including Prestwick, a minister said yesterday.

http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=1112012006


From Information Clearing House

Volunteers and staff from a Christian Aid-supported organisation working to help those displaced by the conflict in Lebanon say the world needs to understand the depths of the humanitarian crisis unfolding there.

http://www.christianaid.org.uk/news/stories/060728s2.htm



Lebanese Red Cross Repeatedly Targeted

"The night of July 23 we were called to rescue a family whose home was bombed," Kassem Shaulan, a 28-year-old medic with the Lebanese Red Cross in Tyre told IPS. "Just as I finished loading the three injured people in my ambulance, it was struck by a rocket and all of us were injured."

http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/hard_news/archives/lebanon/000446.php


From Information Clearing House

Britain has blocked moves by the European Union to call for an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14322.htm

'These are identified bodies, and the toll does not count the people still believed to be under the rubble,' he said.

http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/afx/2006/08/01/afx2918966.html


From Information Clearing House

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14318.htm

Exclusive International Reports on Qana Massacre
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14315.htm

Our moral culpability for Qana
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14311.htm



Israel admits: There were no rocket launches from Qana on the day of the strike

It now appears that the military had no information on rockets launched from the site of the building, or the presence of Hezbollah men at the time.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/745185.html



Qana bombs an Israeli 'war crime'

A human rights group says the Israeli air strike on Qana that killed 54 civilians is a "war crime". It said the failure to distinguish between civilians and combatants could be judged as a war crime, and called for an UN probe into the conflict.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5232434.stm



Amnesty: 48 Hours Not Enough As War Crimes Continue

"It is utterly shameful that governments who have influence over Israel and Hizbollah and who could help end this crisis, continue to prioritize political and military interests over innocent lives of civilians."

http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0731-03.htm



Qana Massacre...

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.

http://tinyurl.com/f8zjh


From Information Clearing House



Israel and "moral equivalence"

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

08/02/06

The Qana massacre was the occasion for a full-court propaganda campaign by Israel's amen corner, and one has to say they rose to the occasion like real pros. First, of course, they expressed remorse -- then, naturally enough, they blamed it all on ... Hezbollah. How so? Well, you see, the Israelis bombed a building filled with children and old people because rockets fired at Israel 'originated immediately next to it.' Yet the Red Cross denied there were any Hezbollah in Qana. The Israelis keep up a constant refrain claiming Lebanon uses its own civilian population as 'human shields,' but the reality is quite different: Lebanese civilians flee when Hezbollah fires a fusillade, because they know the Israelis will soon be bombing the place to perdition...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9459



Bomb them to gain their support?

Cato Institute
by Ted Galen Carpenter
08/01/06

An Israeli air strike killed almost 60 civilians in the Lebanese village of Qana on Sunday. Israeli leaders stress that their primary objective is to degrade Hezbollah's ability to launch rocket attacks against northern Israel, but they also mention another motive: forcing the Lebanese people to understand that supporting Hezbollah will bring them nothing but grief. With that realization, so the reasoning goes, most Lebanese will turn against the terrorist organization. Logic suggests that the more likely reaction will be greater Lebanese hatred of Israel and, hence, more support for Hezbollah. It is bizarre to assume that displacing a population and destroying a country's infrastructure will somehow lead the people being targeted to turn against the adversaries of the attacking power rather than the attacking power itself. Nevertheless, American hawks are urging the Bush administration to emulate Israel's dubious strategy and launch air strikes against Iran ...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6558


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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How Can We Stand By And Allow This To Go On?
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=107&ItemID=10689


Informant: Ashley Smith

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The second Kana massacre and the New Middle East
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article14384.htm

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Cease Fire Now!

This video is dedicated to the children who have lost their lives because the US, UK and Israel have willingly stopped a ceasefire resulting in the deaths of many civilians in Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank.

7 Minute Video

- Warning -

This video contains images depicting the reality and horror of war and should only be viewed by a mature audience.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14337.htm

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Shocking Documentary About the War in Lebanon and the tragedy in Qana.

Warning

This video contains images depicting the reality and horror of war and should only be viewed by a mature audience.

Click here to view
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14502.htm

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The massacre at Qana

Common Dreams
by Kathy Kelly

08/19/06

Looking at the burnt and blackened hillsides throughout southern Lebanon, you can only imagine the cedar trees that only one month ago made these hills as green as the hills in Israel. ... Qana. Who will listen to bereaved mothers entreating the heavens for an end to the hellish, fiery explosions that slaughter their children. The facts tell of a massacre, the astonishing technological capacity to identify and then to exclude the children from life itself. A banner hangs in Qana, addressed to Condoleeza Rice. 'Rice, they will not see 'our new Middle East'...

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0819-26.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Grieving Relatives of Qana Massacre Emerge From the Rubble to Bury Their Dead

We speak with longtime peace activist Kathy Kelly who attended the Qana funeral as well as a Michigan man who lost over 20 members of his family in the Israeli attack on the town.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/22/1421207


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kathy+Kelly

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/glass1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=/glass

http://tinyurl.com/eh4hp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

By Uri Avnery

They have mounted a tiger, and can't be sure of getting off without being torn to pieces. War has its own rules. Unexpected things happen and dictate the next moves. And the next moves tend to be in one direction: escalation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14275.htm



Under fire in Beirut

By Robert Fisk

In his second weekly dispatch from the front line, veteran war reporter confesses he was so scared after one attack that he could not put pen to paper.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14271.htm



An Unfair War

Video

Escape to where?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14279.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lebanon