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For its publication of the true story the two soldiers were on an IDF mission and captured inside Lebanon near the town of Aitaa al-Chaab. The IDF (Tsahal) instructed the press to use the term “abducted” instead of “captured”. Our refusal to do so, has led to revocation of the accreditation of our journalist Silvia Cattori in Israel.
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IDF soldiers were on a mission inside Lebanon.
- “La plupart des journalistes emploient le terme « enlèvement » pour désigner la capture des soldats israéliens. Ils assurent vouloir ainsi souligner que le Hezbollah n’est pas une armée régulière. Cependant les officiels israéliens emploient aussi le mot « enlèvement », mais pour signifier le droit qu’ils s’arrogent de pénétrer sur le territoire libanais. En évitant soigneusement la clarification, les médias occidentaux valident un discours de propagande.
Nous refusons pour notre part de nous aligner sur les porte-parole de Tsahal. En conséquence, la censure militaire israélienne a rejetté l’accréditation de notre envoyée spéciale au Proche-Orient, Silvia Cattori, et lui a interdit de se déplacer dans le pays et de rencontrer divers témoins des événements. Le Réseau Voltaire continuera cependant son travail grâce aux nombreux contacts dont il dispose sur place.”
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Am I reading this right? The ___(fill in the verb) of the two soldiers took place inside Lebanon?
I don’t know anything about the news source you linked, and my French is tres awful. Is this a reliable source?
I’ve had a gut feeling all along that there was more to this than met the eye.
Thank you, Oui. Isn’t it amazing how changing just one word reverses all perception. ‘War’ instead of occupation – ‘insurgency’ instead of rebellion.
Sometimes you just gotta call a fool a fool. It’s such a pleasure to see it in actual (or virtual) print.
Will we ever dare to call a spade a spade?
What’s the official story again on how the other soldier was captured by Hamas? I wonder if this is a twofer.
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KIBBUTZ KEREM SHALOM – Israel (CBS/AP) June 25 — The brazen pre-dawn attack was the first ground assault by Palestinian militants since Israel pulled out of Gaza last summer, and the first abduction of an Israeli soldier by Palestinians since 1994, when militants captured American-born Nachshon Waxman, who was killed in a botched raid when Israeli commandos tried to free him from a West Bank hideout, reports Berger.
Palestinians spent months digging an 800-yard tunnel starting in Gaza and burrowing 300 yards into Israel. Bursting through before dawn, seven or eight militants attacked the Israeli guard post at the Kerem Shalom crossing point from the rear, “one of the reasons the troops were surprised,” said military spokesman Capt. Jacob Dallal.
The attackers hurled grenades into a tank, killing two soldiers, badly wounding another and capturing the fourth.
TEL AVIV (Haaretz – in cache only!) June 27 — The IDF and Shin Bet are in disagreement over the nature of the warning the army received: The Shin Bet said it was a focused and precise warning, while the IDF is trying to play down its significance.
But IDF soldier Ro’i Amitai, a member of the tank crew hit in the attack, enforced the probe findings when he said his unit had received an intelligence warning just a day earlier, indicating Palestinians were digging a tunnel in order to carry out an attack.
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Oui, for me this is the beginning of this whole mess. What do you say? anything interesting here in this article for you?
what do you think
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Although digging the tunnel of 800 yards must have taken months, it won’t be the first and won’t be the last. The tunnel attack into Israel was planned months ago. The deadly targeted killings of Palestinian leaders by Israeli Apache helicopters and F-16 fighter jets, and the ‘collateral damage’ of dozens of innocent civilian bystanders, has caused the Hamas to tear up its suspension of hostilities. Especially the Israeli shelling of civilians on the beach of Gaza was a immense provocation.
Israel has managed to provoke the Palestinians throughout emperor George’s six year reign in the White House, thereby blocking any peace effort. Thanks for the link to the Israeli abduction, this was just a day before the revenge of Palestinian militants on the Israeli military outpost.
(((hugs))) Brenda for your support!
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It would not suprise me in the least if they may have been in the Mossad. Why else would Israel invade another country to get them back?
Thank you so much for helping to make the picture more complete. You are amazing with the real facts you always seem able to find and share here.
Juan Cole an American with credible expertise on the Middle East, posted an article today stating Israel had planed the attacks on Lebanon over a year ago.
What do you think?
Also, I have tried and cannot find a contact e-mail for you. I would like your opinion and advice on what you know about the Sale of VNU to the Bush run Carlyle Group. Would you please send me a way to get in touch with you at Maureen8 AT netscape DOT com?
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Sat Feb 4th, 2006 at 02:32:45 PM PST
Someone pinch me, tell me it’s not true ::
VNU will become a private owned company like SAIC
Carlyle Group in bid for VNU Publication Group
with ownership of DataMining companies
LexisNexis – Seisint – ChoicePoint – DBT Online –
Track record with the Voter Purge Florida Elections 2000-04
Oui @BooMan and previously @dKos as [new] creve coeur
● Pearlstine to Leave Time for Carlyle
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Meant to tell you Brenda, thanks for that link, did follow it and read the article-very good, more helpful insight into all of this.
Hi Brenda,
This absolutely seems like the final straw that precipated this latest round of violence. Nice Catch – I did not see this before. It certainly makes sense, especially after the killing of the family on the Gaza beach.
Well done girl!
Thanks. I have been running around with my hair on fire trying to get ppl to listen to me on this one thing. Yes this is the precipitating factor that lead to the entire conflict. What is wrong with ppl!!?? Can they not understand this was a deliberate action to stir the ppl into reaction on such a thing. Yet we do know that Israel hold more Palestinian ppl in their jails, even children and women, as opposed to he other way around..yet Israel moans and groans about one soldier being captured. that does not make sense to me..no one, I repeat, no one should be doing any of this on either side. It seems to me like the news ppl are pushing this one article aside for the fact of pushing war. Period! Just plain and simple dumb and stupid.
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Updated: 17:55, Saturday July 22, 2006
The British minister overseeing the evacuation of Britons from Beirut has criticised Israel over its bombardment of Lebanon.
Kim Howells said it was “difficult to understand” the tactics being used by Israel against Hizbollah targets. About 360 Lebanese civilians – many of them children – have been killed in 10 days of shelling and bombing while much of the country’s infrastructure has been destroyed.
Some 34 Israelis have been killed in cross-border rocket attacks by Hizbollah.
UK FM Howell: "These have not been surgical strikes. You don't go for the entire Lebanese nation."Foreign Office minister Mr Howells brushed off calls from former Cabinet minister Clare Short for Britain to demand a ceasefire, saying it would not resolve the problem.
However, he did hit out at Israel’s shelling campaign. Mr. Howell told Sky News: “These have not been surgical strikes and it’s very, very difficult, I think, to understand the kind of military tactics that have been used. If they are chasing Hizbollah, then go for Hizbollah. You don’t go for the entire Lebanese nation.”
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also the lady narrating the news said that Britain was not happy with the fact that condi was coming to do here thing–non-credible-visit—annd yet sending the bombs to Israel to use in its indiscriminate mannerism against Lebanon. that just about says it all, not doesn’t it??!!
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From the NY Times article — Ms. Condoleezza Rice
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Just once I’d like to read a coherent thought from someone in bush’s whole lousy cabinet..is that too much to ask for in 6 years-that someone somewhere said anything that made any gdamn sense.
I mentioned this over at Eurotrib in a diary about Condi’s statements that how can you even counteract or answer blithering idiocy?(warmongering blithering idiocy)
Could I wave a magic wand and shuttle the whole bushco administration off to some war crimes tribunal…shuttling, shuttling..shuttling-of course she wouldn’t know what she was shuttling for because she has no fucken clue..well time for me to shuttle around my apt…for no apparent reason just because shuttle is my word for the day..and I’ll shuttle on back here in a few..ok end of mini rant.
Oh yeah sorry for anyone actually trying to picture Condi doing any kind of dance..although Hustle is akin to Hustler isn’t it and this administration is all about Hustling for their own good not the American people..ok now I really am going off to shuffle around for a bit, I’ll shuffle on back here in a few.
frankly CI, condi is nothing but a hustler of all fashions….;o) She is like the rest of them in this administration, IMPOTENT!!!! she flim-flams and shams and all the “ams” around. She is no use to anyone, except dubya. she too is a figurehead and that is all she is good for. she has lost any respect that she ever had years ago in the lead up to the war in Iraq. as far as I am concerned, I can see the evil in her eyes and facial grimacing all the time. hugs
Is the status-quo that she doesn’t want the 6 years of relative peace between a stable Lebanon and Israel? Surely that is a better option than what we have now
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Is the status-quo that she doesn’t want the 6 years of relative peace between a stable Lebanon and Israel? Surely that is a better option than what we have now.
After Israel’s previous destruction of Lebanon during 1982 invasion, Syria helped stabilize the nation. The Rafik Hariri killing was blamed on Syria without proof – the bombing site was cleansed by Lebanese authorities before forensic evidence could be gathered. The U.S. and France took the initiative to use the U.N. in order to make Lebanon a Christian enclave. The funding of the ‘Cedar Revolution’ by the West and the elections brought the political arm of Hezbollah into a coalition government and the legislature.
The ‘only democracy’ Israel and U.S. ally in the ME decided to change the rules of Lebanese sovereignty by the present bombing campaign. To get rid of Hezbollah is like saying the IRA Catholics of Northern Ireland should be eliminated before a status quo and peace can be attained.
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Hmmm …
Lebanon: Throw out war propagandists like the BBC, FOX, CNN etc!
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From the school of Daniel Pipes, see my diary
David Horowitz: Israel ‘the canary in the mine’
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SYDNEY (The Sydney Morning Herald) July 22 — About 15,000 people turned Sydney’s George Street into a human highway as they protested at Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Palestine. Waving placards with messages to the Australian government and the world that read, “We are not terrorists, we are being terrorised” and “John – save our country”, the protesters carried coffins and chanted “no war” as they marched down George Street to Martin Place.
Members of Sydney's Lebanese community chant as they march through Sydney's central business district. More than 10,000 people, carrying coffins and chanting 'No war,' rallied to protest against Israel's attacks on Lebanon. AP Photo/Mark BakerThe protest was by far the largest of three across the country, with much smaller crowds rallying in Melbourne and Adelaide against the Middle East conflict. Several thousand demonstrators began gathering at Town Hall in central Sydney about noon (AEST) Saturday.
Joined by former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib and the spiritual leader of Australia’s Muslim community, Sheik Taj Aldin Alhilali, the crowd quickly swelled.
Addressing the huge gathering, organiser Ibrahim Constantine said peace was the only way forward for the embattled region. “We are marching today, Christian and Muslims united as one, marching to give peace a chance. This is a war that Israel will not win. This is a war that no one will win. We ask the international community to give peace a chance.”
≈ Cross-posted from Jim Staro’s diary —
Seeking ‘PEACE’ In The Middle East and Elsewhere ≈
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It’s very hard to believe that Hezbollah, not to mention the Lebanese Government, would not have talked about this if it were true.
Since they haven’t, I have to conclude that the report is not credible.
have you considered that they have and no one listened to them. have you considered that our news and those of others in this world do not want that out to be noticed. just cause others haven’t talked about it does not make it a non issue
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BEIRUT (ABC/AP) July 26 — Hezbollah had expected “the usual, limited response” from Israel after the two soldiers were seized by guerrillas … In the past, Israeli responses to Hezbollah actions included sending commandos into Lebanon, seizing Hezbollah officials and briefly targeting specific strongholds in southern Lebanon.
Komati said his group had anticipated negotiations to swap the Israeli soldiers for three Lebanese held in Israeli jails, with Germany acting as a mediator as it has in past prisoner exchanges.
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July 25, 2006
Official Justification for Israel’s Invasion on Thin Ice
As Lebanon continues to be pounded by Israeli bombs and munitions, the justification for Israel’s invasion is treading on very thin ice. It has become general knowledge that it was Hezbollah guerillas that first kidnapped two IDF soldiers inside Israel on July 12, prompting an immediate and violent response from the Israeli government, which insists it is acting in the interest of national defense.
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