Electronic Intifada: The fear is growing in Beirut
WE'VE GOT TO FIGHT THEM AND STOP THIS. BEFORE THEY KILL US ALL!
FPF: The 'front men', the collaborators and media propagandists in most US/Israeli colonies, and all sick stooges within the 'Coalition of the Killing' - like The Netherlands - support also financially and openly in words and deeds the genocides and its inhumanity.
This way making innocent people, like most of the inhabitants, war criminals. The madness of the war machine and the creatures managing it must by stopped, by any and all means. And everywhere on the globe. They are the worst plague ever to pester mankind. We've got to fight them and stop this! Before they kill us all! - HR
THE FEAR IS GROWING IN BEIRUT
'' OUR KIDS, AS OF SATURDAY, WILL BE THE TARGETS OF ISRAELI FIRE. SO IT'S SAID.''
Hanady Salman writing from Beirut, Live from Lebanon, 20 July 2006
Picture at EI web site: The aftermath of attacks by Israel on Lebanon, 16 July 2006. (Peter Speetjens/IRIN)
DEAR FRIENDS,
The fear is growing in Beirut. Beirut is sad, scared, wounded and ... left alone. By yesterday morning, the UN said 150,000 people (foreigners and Lebanese holders of 2nd nationalities) had already left Lebanon. Evacuations are supposed to be completed by Friday. Today has been an exceptionally calm day: the US marines are evacuating US citizens.
By tomorrow, the country will be left to its own people and Israeli shelling. In Beirut, by Saturday, there will only be those who have nowhere else to go and the very few who deliberately decided to stay. There were also be those who managed to flee the south and the southern suburb of the capital.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO US ON SATURDAY?
A friend called a few minutes ago, scared and begging me to go hide with her in Baabdat in the mountains.
She said her friend who works with the UN and lives in Washington called her to tell her to stay out of Beirut, because she heard that by Saturday, it will be hell, nothing will stop them. The city will be theirs : my city , my dearest city , my only home , is open to their warplanes and shells.
OUR KIDS, AS OF SATURDAY, WILL BE THE TARGETS OF ISRAELI FIRE. SO IT'S SAID.
What I fear the most is that by Saturday, July the 22nd, Beirut will be cut off from the rest of the country, and the world. Every morning, I rush to the office to make sure the internet is still working. Every day I ask myself: why didn't they stop it?
As of Saturday, I fear every city or region will be cut off from the rest of the country. Maybe they won't bomb us. Maybe they will just leave us in our cities and villages to starve and rot to death. Maybe they will do both.
Worse than not knowing what will happen is knowing that whatever the Israelis decide to do, nobody wants or can stop them.
HANADY
ATROCITIES IN THE PROMISED LAND
Kathleen Christison, The Electronic Intifada, 19 July 2006
Picture at site - link below: Palestinians inspect the ruins of their house, attacked by Israeli forces in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, July 18, 2006. (MaanImages/Wesam Saleh)*
Words fail; ordinary terms are inadequate to describe the horrors Israel daily perpetrates, and has perpetrated for years, against the Palestinians. The tragedy of Gaza has been described a hundred times over, as have the tragedies of 1948, of Qibya, of Sabra and Shatila, of Jenin -- 60 years of atrocity perpetrated in the name of Judaism.
But the horror generally falls on deaf ears in most of Israel, in the U.S. political arena, in the mainstream U.S. media. Those who are horrified -- and there are many -- cannot penetrate the shield of impassivity that protects the political and media elite in Israel, even more so in the U.S., and increasingly now in Canada and Europe, from seeing, from caring.
But it needs to be said now, loudly: those who devise and carry out Israeli policies have made Israel into a monster, and it has come time for all of us -- all Israelis, all Jews who allow Israel to speak for them, all Americans who do nothing to end U.S. support for Israel and its murderous policies -- to recognize that we stain ourselves morally by continuing to sit by while Israel carries out its atrocities against the Palestinians.
A nation that mandates the primacy of one ethnicity or religion over all others will eventually become psychologically dysfunctional.
Narcissistically obsessed with its own image, it must strive to maintain its racial superiority at all costs and will inevitably come to view any resistance to this imagined superiority as an existential threat. Indeed, any other people automatically becomes an existential threat simply by virtue of its own existence. As it seeks to protect itself against phantom threats, the racist state becomes increasingly paranoid, its society closed and insular, intellectually limited. Setbacks enrage it; humiliations madden it. The state lashes out in a crazed effort, lacking any sense of proportion, to reassure itself of its strength.
THE PATTERN PLAYED OUT IN NAZI GERMANY AS IT SOUGHT TO MAINTAIN A MYTHICAL ARYAN SUPERIORITY. IT IS PLAYING OUT NOW IN ISRAEL.
“This society no longer recognizes any boundaries, geographical or moral,” wrote Israeli intellectual and anti-Zionist activist Michel Warschawski in his 2004 book Towards an Open Tomb: The Crisis of Israeli Society. Israel knows no limits and is lashing out as it finds that its attempt to beat the Palestinians into submission and swallow Palestine whole is being thwarted by a resilient, dignified Palestinian people who refuse to submit quietly and give up resisting Israel’s arrogance.
We in the United States have become inured to tragedy inflicted by Israel, and we easily fall for the spin that automatically, by some trick of the imagination, converts Israeli atrocities to examples of how Israel is victimized. But a military establishment that drops a 500-pound bomb on a residential apartment building in the middle of the night and kills 14 sleeping civilians, as happened in Gaza four years ago, is not a military that operates by civilized rules.
A military establishment that drops a 500-pound bomb on a house in the middle of the night and kills a man and his wife and seven of their children, as happened in Gaza four days ago, is not the military of a moral country.
A society that can brush off as unimportant an army officer’s brutal murder of a 13-year-old girl on the claim that she threatened soldiers at a military post -- one of nearly 700 Palestinian children murdered by Israelis since the intifada began -- is not a society with a conscience.
A government that imprisons a 15-year-old girl -- one of several hundred children in Israeli detention -- for the crime of pushing and running away from a male soldier trying to do a body search as she entered a mosque is not a government with any moral bearings.
(This story, not the kind that ever appears in the U.S. media, was reported in the London Sunday Times. The girl was shot three times as she ran away and was convicted to 18 months in prison after she came out of a coma.)
Critics of Israel note increasingly that Israel is self-destructing, nearing a catastrophe of its own making. Israeli journalist Gideon Levy talks of a society in “moral collapse.”
MICHEL WARSCHAWSKI WRITES OF AN “ISRAELI MADNESS” AND “INSANE BRUTALITY,” A “PUTREFACTION” OF CIVILIZED SOCIETY, THAT HAVE SET ISRAEL ON A SUICIDAL COURSE. HE FORESEES THE END OF THE ZIONIST ENTERPRISE; ISRAEL IS A “GANG OF HOODLUMS,” HE SAYS, A STATE “THAT MAKES A MOCKERY OF LEGALITY AND OF CIVIL MORALITY. A STATE RUN IN CONTEMPT OF JUSTICE LOSES THE STRENGTH TO SURVIVE.”
AS WARSCHAWSKI NOTES BITTERLY, ISRAEL NO LONGER KNOWS ANY MORAL BOUNDARIES - IF IT EVER DID.
Those who continue to support Israel, who make excuses for it as it descends into corruption, have lost their moral compass.
[andend] - Ul.: http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article5109.shtml
Kathleen Christison is a former CIA political analyst and has worked on Middle East issues for 30 years. She is the author of Perceptions of Palestine and The Wound of Dispossession. She can be reached at kathy.bill@christison-santafe.com.
LATEST ARTICLES ON ELECTRONIC LEBANON:
WITH ALL WORKING LINKS ON THE EI SITE ! - Url.: http://electronicIntifada.net/new.shtml
Diaries: The fear is growing in Beirut (20 July 2006)
Opinion/Editorial: The Politics of Proportionality (20 July 2006)
Human Rights/Development: The Sanayeh Park: The Lawn are Mattresses and the Trees Ceiling (20 July 2006)
Diaries: Reconnecting the Displaced: An Update from Lebanon (20 July 2006)
Human Rights/Development: Israel Must Provide Safe Passage to Relief Convoys (20 July 2006)
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* JOURNALISTS ARE KILLERS TOO! - Url.: http://www.countercurrents.org/henk040803.htm
* ROME TRIBUNAL ON WAR CRIMES AND MEDIA: Held Guilty of Deception - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/68jws
* ANTI-SEMITISM IS WRONG: It is not a matter of race, color, religion or nationality. It's finding out - and presenting facts - about who did what, where, when and why? - ''Semites are peoples who speak Semitic languages; the group includes Arabs, Aramaeans, Jews, and many Ethiopians.'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/mbej3
* THE EVIL EMPIRE keeps devastating hundreds of millions of lives, and we are all complicit because of our collaborating puppet governments, in the ruination of lives and exploitation of human energies. So, what is the origin? Who are the real criminals and profiteers, this murderous mafia for centuries already living in their own VATICAN OF THE COMMERCIAL WORLD - THEIR OWN 'STATE WITHIN A STATE'? - WHO HOLDS THE GOLD, AND THUS THE POWER? - WHO ARE THE CULPRITS HOLOCAUSTING MANKIND? - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/hvtxo
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* WARS, HOLOCAUSTS etc. - STRONGLY RELATED LINKS - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/gkgrb
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FPF: The 'front men', the collaborators and media propagandists in most US/Israeli colonies, and all sick stooges within the 'Coalition of the Killing' - like The Netherlands - support also financially and openly in words and deeds the genocides and its inhumanity.
This way making innocent people, like most of the inhabitants, war criminals. The madness of the war machine and the creatures managing it must by stopped, by any and all means. And everywhere on the globe. They are the worst plague ever to pester mankind. We've got to fight them and stop this! Before they kill us all! - HR
THE FEAR IS GROWING IN BEIRUT
'' OUR KIDS, AS OF SATURDAY, WILL BE THE TARGETS OF ISRAELI FIRE. SO IT'S SAID.''
Hanady Salman writing from Beirut, Live from Lebanon, 20 July 2006
Picture at EI web site: The aftermath of attacks by Israel on Lebanon, 16 July 2006. (Peter Speetjens/IRIN)
DEAR FRIENDS,
The fear is growing in Beirut. Beirut is sad, scared, wounded and ... left alone. By yesterday morning, the UN said 150,000 people (foreigners and Lebanese holders of 2nd nationalities) had already left Lebanon. Evacuations are supposed to be completed by Friday. Today has been an exceptionally calm day: the US marines are evacuating US citizens.
By tomorrow, the country will be left to its own people and Israeli shelling. In Beirut, by Saturday, there will only be those who have nowhere else to go and the very few who deliberately decided to stay. There were also be those who managed to flee the south and the southern suburb of the capital.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO US ON SATURDAY?
A friend called a few minutes ago, scared and begging me to go hide with her in Baabdat in the mountains.
She said her friend who works with the UN and lives in Washington called her to tell her to stay out of Beirut, because she heard that by Saturday, it will be hell, nothing will stop them. The city will be theirs : my city , my dearest city , my only home , is open to their warplanes and shells.
OUR KIDS, AS OF SATURDAY, WILL BE THE TARGETS OF ISRAELI FIRE. SO IT'S SAID.
What I fear the most is that by Saturday, July the 22nd, Beirut will be cut off from the rest of the country, and the world. Every morning, I rush to the office to make sure the internet is still working. Every day I ask myself: why didn't they stop it?
As of Saturday, I fear every city or region will be cut off from the rest of the country. Maybe they won't bomb us. Maybe they will just leave us in our cities and villages to starve and rot to death. Maybe they will do both.
Worse than not knowing what will happen is knowing that whatever the Israelis decide to do, nobody wants or can stop them.
HANADY
ATROCITIES IN THE PROMISED LAND
Kathleen Christison, The Electronic Intifada, 19 July 2006
Picture at site - link below: Palestinians inspect the ruins of their house, attacked by Israeli forces in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, July 18, 2006. (MaanImages/Wesam Saleh)*
Words fail; ordinary terms are inadequate to describe the horrors Israel daily perpetrates, and has perpetrated for years, against the Palestinians. The tragedy of Gaza has been described a hundred times over, as have the tragedies of 1948, of Qibya, of Sabra and Shatila, of Jenin -- 60 years of atrocity perpetrated in the name of Judaism.
But the horror generally falls on deaf ears in most of Israel, in the U.S. political arena, in the mainstream U.S. media. Those who are horrified -- and there are many -- cannot penetrate the shield of impassivity that protects the political and media elite in Israel, even more so in the U.S., and increasingly now in Canada and Europe, from seeing, from caring.
But it needs to be said now, loudly: those who devise and carry out Israeli policies have made Israel into a monster, and it has come time for all of us -- all Israelis, all Jews who allow Israel to speak for them, all Americans who do nothing to end U.S. support for Israel and its murderous policies -- to recognize that we stain ourselves morally by continuing to sit by while Israel carries out its atrocities against the Palestinians.
A nation that mandates the primacy of one ethnicity or religion over all others will eventually become psychologically dysfunctional.
Narcissistically obsessed with its own image, it must strive to maintain its racial superiority at all costs and will inevitably come to view any resistance to this imagined superiority as an existential threat. Indeed, any other people automatically becomes an existential threat simply by virtue of its own existence. As it seeks to protect itself against phantom threats, the racist state becomes increasingly paranoid, its society closed and insular, intellectually limited. Setbacks enrage it; humiliations madden it. The state lashes out in a crazed effort, lacking any sense of proportion, to reassure itself of its strength.
THE PATTERN PLAYED OUT IN NAZI GERMANY AS IT SOUGHT TO MAINTAIN A MYTHICAL ARYAN SUPERIORITY. IT IS PLAYING OUT NOW IN ISRAEL.
“This society no longer recognizes any boundaries, geographical or moral,” wrote Israeli intellectual and anti-Zionist activist Michel Warschawski in his 2004 book Towards an Open Tomb: The Crisis of Israeli Society. Israel knows no limits and is lashing out as it finds that its attempt to beat the Palestinians into submission and swallow Palestine whole is being thwarted by a resilient, dignified Palestinian people who refuse to submit quietly and give up resisting Israel’s arrogance.
We in the United States have become inured to tragedy inflicted by Israel, and we easily fall for the spin that automatically, by some trick of the imagination, converts Israeli atrocities to examples of how Israel is victimized. But a military establishment that drops a 500-pound bomb on a residential apartment building in the middle of the night and kills 14 sleeping civilians, as happened in Gaza four years ago, is not a military that operates by civilized rules.
A military establishment that drops a 500-pound bomb on a house in the middle of the night and kills a man and his wife and seven of their children, as happened in Gaza four days ago, is not the military of a moral country.
A society that can brush off as unimportant an army officer’s brutal murder of a 13-year-old girl on the claim that she threatened soldiers at a military post -- one of nearly 700 Palestinian children murdered by Israelis since the intifada began -- is not a society with a conscience.
A government that imprisons a 15-year-old girl -- one of several hundred children in Israeli detention -- for the crime of pushing and running away from a male soldier trying to do a body search as she entered a mosque is not a government with any moral bearings.
(This story, not the kind that ever appears in the U.S. media, was reported in the London Sunday Times. The girl was shot three times as she ran away and was convicted to 18 months in prison after she came out of a coma.)
Critics of Israel note increasingly that Israel is self-destructing, nearing a catastrophe of its own making. Israeli journalist Gideon Levy talks of a society in “moral collapse.”
MICHEL WARSCHAWSKI WRITES OF AN “ISRAELI MADNESS” AND “INSANE BRUTALITY,” A “PUTREFACTION” OF CIVILIZED SOCIETY, THAT HAVE SET ISRAEL ON A SUICIDAL COURSE. HE FORESEES THE END OF THE ZIONIST ENTERPRISE; ISRAEL IS A “GANG OF HOODLUMS,” HE SAYS, A STATE “THAT MAKES A MOCKERY OF LEGALITY AND OF CIVIL MORALITY. A STATE RUN IN CONTEMPT OF JUSTICE LOSES THE STRENGTH TO SURVIVE.”
AS WARSCHAWSKI NOTES BITTERLY, ISRAEL NO LONGER KNOWS ANY MORAL BOUNDARIES - IF IT EVER DID.
Those who continue to support Israel, who make excuses for it as it descends into corruption, have lost their moral compass.
[andend] - Ul.: http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article5109.shtml
Kathleen Christison is a former CIA political analyst and has worked on Middle East issues for 30 years. She is the author of Perceptions of Palestine and The Wound of Dispossession. She can be reached at kathy.bill@christison-santafe.com.
LATEST ARTICLES ON ELECTRONIC LEBANON:
WITH ALL WORKING LINKS ON THE EI SITE ! - Url.: http://electronicIntifada.net/new.shtml
Diaries: The fear is growing in Beirut (20 July 2006)
Opinion/Editorial: The Politics of Proportionality (20 July 2006)
Human Rights/Development: The Sanayeh Park: The Lawn are Mattresses and the Trees Ceiling (20 July 2006)
Diaries: Reconnecting the Displaced: An Update from Lebanon (20 July 2006)
Human Rights/Development: Israel Must Provide Safe Passage to Relief Convoys (20 July 2006)
[andend - more at the EI site]
* MSNBC - LIVE VOTE: DO YOU BELIEVE PRESIDENT BUSH'S ACTIONS JUSTIFY IMPEACHMENT? - Yes, between the secret spying, the deceptions leading to war and more, there is plenty to justify putting him on trial: 86% - Url.: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10562904/
* JOURNALISTS ARE KILLERS TOO! - Url.: http://www.countercurrents.org/henk040803.htm
* ROME TRIBUNAL ON WAR CRIMES AND MEDIA: Held Guilty of Deception - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/68jws
* ANTI-SEMITISM IS WRONG: It is not a matter of race, color, religion or nationality. It's finding out - and presenting facts - about who did what, where, when and why? - ''Semites are peoples who speak Semitic languages; the group includes Arabs, Aramaeans, Jews, and many Ethiopians.'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/mbej3
* THE EVIL EMPIRE keeps devastating hundreds of millions of lives, and we are all complicit because of our collaborating puppet governments, in the ruination of lives and exploitation of human energies. So, what is the origin? Who are the real criminals and profiteers, this murderous mafia for centuries already living in their own VATICAN OF THE COMMERCIAL WORLD - THEIR OWN 'STATE WITHIN A STATE'? - WHO HOLDS THE GOLD, AND THUS THE POWER? - WHO ARE THE CULPRITS HOLOCAUSTING MANKIND? - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/hvtxo
* WHO IS FINANCING? - THE US PRIVATELY OWNED 'FEDERAL RESERVE' IS THE ABSOLUTE BIGGEST CRIME AGAINST ALL HUMANITY EVER. - URL.: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm
* THE US PNAC WARS & NATO’S SECRET ARMIES LINKED TO TERRORISM? - (NATO, the Pentagon, NSA, MI6, the CIA, Mossad, BND, and all other European and global 'intelligence services' are negatively linked to inhuman terror, coups d’état, 'rendition', the PNAC Gulags and torture - HR) - by Daniele Ganser - Url.: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/GAN412A.html
* FALSE FLAG 9/11 - NO LEGAL BASE FOR NATO FIGHTING US WARS - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/zqzkc
* WARS, HOLOCAUSTS etc. - STRONGLY RELATED LINKS - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/gkgrb
* FPF-COPYRIGHT NOTICE - In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107 - any copyrighted work in this message is distributed by the Foreign Press Foundation under fair use, without profit or payment, to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the information. Url.: http://liimirror.warwick.ac.uk/uscode/17/107.html
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http://forpressfound.blogspot.com/
Editor: Henk Ruyssenaars
http://tinyurl.com/amn3q
The Netherlands
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