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By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth

The measure of a human rights organisation is to be found not just in the strides it takes to seek justice for the oppressed and victimised but also in the compromises it makes to keep itself out of trouble. Because of the business that human rights defenders are in, they must be held to a standard higher than we demand of others.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14882.htm

Knesset members suggested using some of the $1.75 billion that Israel receives annually from the United States. But defense officials said that for the next few years, most of this aid is already committed to buying Apache helicopters, F-16 planes, air force ammunition and fuel.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/759710.html


From Information Clearing House

Israel destroyed or damaged in south Lebanon 1489 buildings, 21 of 29 bridges over the Litani river, 535 sections of road and 545 cultivated fields during its 34-day military offensive, according to an EU assessment released today.

http://tinyurl.com/zvbwv


From Information Clearing House

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0609a.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

By Daniel Sturm

When I was in the Occupied Territories, you could have said that I was an American soldier. After all, I owned an M-16 that wasn't produced in Israel. I shot grenades that weren't produced with Israeli money, but by American money. Everyone, and especially Americans, have a responsibility to know what's going on in the world. And since I am from here, I am talking about here.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14826.htm

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5070/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

"The failure of Israel to subdue Hezbollah demonstrates the many weaknesses of the war-on-terror concept. One of those weaknesses is that even if the targets are terrorists," writes George Soros, "the victims are often innocent civilians, and their suffering reinforces the terrorist cause."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083106M.shtml

Clean up of the fuel oil spilled by an Israeli air strike has barely begun. Experts are calling it the worst environmental disaster ever in the eastern Mediterranean. Health effects of the spill could be dire. Thousands of families on the Lebanese coast depend on fishing for their primary food supply, but surviving fish may contain hydrocarbons and other carcinogens.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/083006EB.shtml