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Israel’s right to exist, the War in Lebanon and the new strategy ‘Peace for Peace‘ instead of the former ‘Land for Peace’.
This relief map shows why the eastern border of the Golan is the natural line of defense for Israel’s north
Similarly, with regard to Judea and Samaria, on the West Bank of the Jordan: these are hilly regions that overlook major Jewish coastal cities on the other side of Israel’s narrow waist. An enemy army perched there could effortlessly cut Israel in half. It is not without cause that even left-leaning Israelis have called the pre-’67 borders, “the borders of Auschwitz.” And even if there were no danger from an enemy army, terrorists firing rockets from those hills could paralyze the reserve call-ups on which the Israeli military depends.
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The Israeli apartheid (security) wall
around Palestinian population
centers in the West Bank.
Olmert and the Kadima party wants primarily to set the border with the Palestinians in the West Bank territories unilaterally. Olmert is following the strategy of Ariel Sharon to destroy all Palestinian infrastructure and any economic assets. It is important for Israel to maintain its presence in the Jordan Valley and create a buffer zone with its neighbor Jordan. The pull-back from Gaza is in name only, as there remains a stranglehold by land, sea and air. The economy has been destroyed and a financial and human disaster is impending.
● Permanent Muslim Hatred Towards the West
A discussion on Qana massacre in some excellent diaries
● Son Enfant Mort ◊ Madman in the Marketplace
● CONDI: Midwife From Hell — A Photo Diary for her Resignation ◊ by STOP George
● How Israel Lied About Qana ◊ by Londonbear
● A New Qana Massacre 60 Killed ¶ US-Israel Game Plan ◊ by Oui
● Deliberate Attack on UNIFIL Has Terrible Precedent ◊ by Sirocco
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TYRE, Lebanon (AFP) Aug. 3 — Hezbolla’s Al-Manar television station offers one picture of the Shiite guerrillas now battling Israel across south Lebanon.
War planes have repeatedly pounded the headquarters of the movement’s television and radio stations, but the station keeps on ticking. Israel did succeed in temporarily replacing an Al-Manar satellite broadcast with pictures of fleeing Hezbollah fighters, but with Al-Manar transmitting on three separate satellites, only a fraction of Al-Manar’s followers noticed the interruption.
Members of Lebanon's Hezbollah Shiite militia guard the entrance of the group's television station, al-Manar. AFP/File/Wael LadkiIsraeli bombs have targeted other jewels of Hezbollah’s information arsenal as well.
On a windswept hilltop in the border village of Khiam, the notorious Israeli prison from its occupation of south Lebanon has been reduced to a sea of concrete debris and twisted rebar.
After the Israeli withdrawal in 2000, the Khiam prison was converted to a museum chronicling Israel’s human rights abuses in south Lebanon and Israel has long been keen to see it wiped out.
“God willing we will restore it,” says a Hezbollah fighter with a purple scar bisecting his face, standing near the prison.
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Israel is out of control.
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≈ Cross-posted from Soj’s diary — My Thoughts on Israel/Lebanon ≈
“I mean ‘lose’ in the sense of a boxer losing a title fight on the points, rather than a more dramatic knockout.”
Could also read: I mean “win” in the sense of a champion boxer not able to knock out his inferior opponent in the first round, but winning a title fight on points, or worse, through interference of the referee because of a bloodied eyebrow.
Have you read about the Iranean Jewish Commanding General (IAF), Major General Dan Halutz, and his call, admitting war crimes against the civilian population of Palestinians, as the record clearly shows since 2001 and the Ariel Sharon – George Bush alliance came into existence. The Jewish lobby claims a moral right to kill civilians, see works of Alan Dershowitz.
Fellow commanding officers experienced the defeat of the Lebanon occupation and Israeli withdrawal at the hands of the Hizbollah as young officers, wanting to set the record straight in the war today under the inexperienced Olmert and Peretz. Similar to Bush II as early as Cheney commanded in his transitional administration, set to oust Saddam Hussein at the first chance or provocation, because of the assassination attempt on daddy in Kuwait and the failure to go into Baghdad in 1991 (Cheney – Rumsfeld – Powell).
Syria sponsors the Hezbollah in a common cause to reach a final agreement with Israel on the Shaba’a Farms and Golan Heights – see my diary The Borders of Auschwitz. This was confirmed yesterday in a radio interview I followed on a Dutch network, Syria would apply political pressure on the Hezbollah in exchange for a final agreement and the return of the occupied Golan Heights, a prisoner swap and the Israeli map with locations of landmines in Lebanon and on the Syrian border.
Israeli Boer War Against Palestinians | Clean-Break Neocon Dream | Kidnapped in Israel or Captured in Lebanon? | ME Report Int’l Crisis Group – Jordan | Etnic Cleansing Denial by IL Leadership | ‘HezbSjitan’ A Blogger from Beirut |
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The Jewish lobby claims a moral right to kill civilians, see works of Alan Dershowitz.
In fact, the difficulty of this discussion arises from the near universal duplicity. The “jewish lobby” (an offensive term) as far as it means the apologists for Israeli aggression is not making a new or startling or unusual argument. As long as we operate within the lie that claims Alan Dershowitz is saying something unusual or beyond the norms of “civilized behavior” we buy into a tribal/national special pleading that disguises the root causes of horror.
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By Danny Rubinstein
KIBBUTZ KFAR GILADI, Israel (Haaretz) Aug. 7 — Hezbollah secretary general Hassan Nasrallah and his followers occasionally mention the fact that in 1948 the “Zionist entity” annexed several Lebanese villages, expelled their residents, stole their property and destroyed their homes. He is referring to seven villages that were part of Mandatory Palestine, and whose inhabitants were Shiite Muslims. At the time they were called Metawalis, a name almost certainly derived from the word wali, which in Arabic means “to be loyal and holy”; the loyalty is to Caliph Ali and his descendants, who are central to Shiite Islam.
Although Nasrallah’s principal demands are Israeli withdrawal from the Shaba’a Farms and the release of Lebanese prisoners, it is clear that when circumstances allow, he will demand the return of these villages to Lebanon and the return of the refugees to their lands.
«« click on image for mapKibbutz Kfar Giladi GalileeBetween 1916 and 1923, struggles, mainly diplomatic, took place over setting the northern border of Mandatory Eretz Israel, which is the present border line. The main players in the dispute were France, which had received the mandate over Syria and Lebanon, and Britain, which had received the mandate over Palestine-Eretz Israel. Other political groups also were involved, such as the Zionist Histadrut and representatives of the Arab National Movement, which was then just starting out …
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