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Common Dreams
by Ramzi Kysia

08/22/06

Last week, I made my first trip to South Lebanon since the war began. Having traveled a fifth of the world, and been present during "wars" in Iraq, Palestine, and New York - I can honestly say that I have never seen such complete devastation in my entire life. The only thing that even comes close are the pictures I've seen from World War II. Much of South Lebanon simply lies in ruin...

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0822-30.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14649.htm

Restarting the 34 Day War
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14652.htm

Israel Must Win
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14656.htm

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The War Was Not Supposed to End This Way

Israel is not better off strategically than it was at the beginning of the war; this in itself is a Hizballah victory. Israel must prepare to win the next round decisively.

http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp546.htm



Gaza swelters through summer without power

Ever since Israel bombed the new power station in the center of the Strip, the heat has become unbearable. The bombing has disrupted the supply of electricity to some 1.5 million residents; food in refrigerators goes bad, the patients in the hospitals groan, industry and work are paralyzed, traffic is gridlocked and there is a severe water shortage.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=753203


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=balance+of+power

By Eric Margolis

Bush, Cheney, Blair - and now Olmert - have demonstrated they have no grasp of military affairs.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14627.htm

Every major political issue - Lebanon, Iraq, radicalism - links back to the festering Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1854581,00.html


From Information Clearing House

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The Hypocrisy of Preaching Nonviolence to Palestinians
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/12-0



http://sharenews.twoday.net/topics/Lebanon+-+Libanon/
http://sharenews.twoday.net/topics/Iraq+-+Irak+/
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=hypocrisy
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Ira+Chernus

The National Council for Scientific Research, said on Sunday that a crater caused by an Israeli munition in Khiam contained "a high degree of unidentified radioactive materials.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14638.htm

A delegation of Canadian opposition parliamentarians toured the devastation of southern Lebanon yesterday and slammed Prime Minister Stephen Harper for supporting what two MPs called "crimes against humanity."

http://tinyurl.com/l6vj6


From Information Clearing House

By Stephen Zunes

There is increasing evidence that Israel instigated a disastrous war on Lebanon largely at the behest of the United States.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14642.htm

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082106I.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ray+McGovern

Israelische Organisationen bitten um Unterstützung inhaftierter Kriegsdienstverweigerer

„Die israelischen Organisationen New Profile und Yesh Gvul berichten, dass sich viele Soldaten und Reservisten der israelischen Armee dem Kriegseinsatz im Libanon entzogen haben und Hunderte ihn verweigerten. Mindestens zehn Verweigerer sind derzeit inhaftiert. Weitere müssen mit Verfahren rechnen. Dies widerlegt die offiziellen Berichten, dass es eine hohe Motivation gegeben habe, sich für den Libanonkrieg zu melden…“ Pressemitteilung von Connection e.V. vom 18. August 2006 mit Adressen für Protestschreiben und Unterstützungsbriefe http://www.connection-ev.de/Presse/pe_18-08-06.html

Siehe dazu auch:

Ausführliche Berichte über einzelne Verweigerer bei Connection e.V. http://www.connection-ev.de/aktion/israel_index.html

Yesh Gvul ("Es gibt eine Grenze!") ist eine israelische Friedensbewegung, welche die Aufgabe übernommen hat, Soldaten zu unterstützen, die Anweisungen repressiver oder aggressiver Natur ablehnen. http://www.yeshgvul.org/index.asp

New Profile - A Movement For The Civil-ization Of Israeli Society http://www.newprofile.org/


Aus: LabourNet, 21. August 2006