THE UNITED STATES IS ACTIVELY AIDING THE ISRAELI GENOCIDAL BOMBING CAMPAIGN

GENOCIDE: THE TAIL WAGGING THE DOG OF WAR

THE PROPAGANDA SEWER the NEW YORK TIMES: THE UNITED STATES IS ACTIVELY AIDING THE ISRAELI GENOCIDAL BOMBING CAMPAIGN

WEAPONS - U.S. SPEEDS UP BOMB DELIVERY FOR THE ISRAELIS

''THE NEW AMERICAN ARMS SHIPMENT TO ISRAEL HAS NOT BEEN ANNOUNCED PUBLICLY''

By DAVID S. CLOUD and HELENE COOPER - July 22, 2006

WASHINGTON, July 21 — The Bush administration is rushing a delivery of precision-guided bombs to Israel, which requested the expedited shipment last week after beginning its air campaign against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, American officials said Friday.

THE DECISION TO QUICKLY SHIP THE WEAPONS TO ISRAEL WAS MADE WITH RELATIVELY LITTLE DEBATE WITHIN THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION, THE OFFICIALS SAID.

ITS DISCLOSURE THREATENS TO ANGER ARAB GOVERNMENTS AND OTHERS BECAUSE OF THE APPEARANCE THAT THE UNITED STATES IS ACTIVELY AIDING THE ISRAELI BOMBING CAMPAIGN IN A WAY THAT COULD BE COMPARED TO IRAN’S EFFORTS TO ARM AND RESUPPLY HEZBOLLAH.

The munitions that the United States is sending to Israel are part of a multimillion-dollar arms sale package approved last year that Israel is able to draw on as needed, the officials said. But Israel’s request for expedited delivery of the satellite and laser-guided bombs was described as unusual by some military officers, and as an indication that Israel still had a long list of targets in Lebanon to strike.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that she would head to Israel on Sunday at the beginning of a round of Middle Eastern diplomacy. The original plan was to include a stop to Cairo in her travels, but she did not announce any stops in Arab capitals.

Instead, the meeting of Arab and European envoys planned for Cairo will take place in Italy, Western diplomats said. While Arab governments initially criticized Hezbollah for starting the fight with Israel in Lebanon, discontent is rising in Arab countries over the number of civilian casualties in Lebanon, and the governments have become wary of playing host to Ms. Rice until a cease-fire package is put together.

To hold the meetings in an Arab capital before a diplomatic solution is reached, said Martin S. Indyk, a former American ambassador to Israel, “would have identified the Arabs as the primary partner of the United States in this project at a time where Hezbollah is accusing the Arab leaders of providing cover for the continuation of Israel’s military operation.”

The decision to stay away from Arab countries for now is a markedly different strategy from the shuttle diplomacy that previous administrations used to mediate in the Middle East. “I have no interest in diplomacy for the sake of returning Lebanon and Israel to the status quo ante,” Ms. Rice said Friday. “I could have gotten on a plane and rushed over and started shuttling around, and it wouldn’t have been clear what I was shuttling to do.”

Before Ms. Rice heads to Israel on Sunday, she will join President Bush at the White House for discussions on the Middle East crisis with two Saudi envoys, Saud al-Faisal, the foreign minister, and Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the secretary general of the National Security Council.

The new American arms shipment to Israel has not been announced publicly, and the officials who described the administration’s decision to rush the munitions to Israel would discuss it only after being promised anonymity. The officials included employees of two government agencies, and one described the shipment as just one example of a broad array of armaments that the United States has long provided Israel.

One American official said the shipment should not be compared to the kind of an “emergency resupply” of dwindling Israeli stockpiles that was provided during the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, when an American military airlift helped Israel recover from early Arab victories.

David Siegel, a spokesman for the Israeli Embassy in Washington, said: “We have been using precision-guided munitions in order to neutralize the military capabilities of Hezbollah and to minimize harm to civilians. As a rule, however, we do not comment on Israel’s defense acquisitions.”

Israel’s need for precision munitions is driven in part by its strategy in Lebanon, which includes destroying hardened underground bunkers where Hezbollah leaders are said to have taken refuge, as well as missile sites and other targets that would be hard to hit without laser and satellite-guided bombs.

Pentagon and military officials declined to describe in detail the size and contents of the shipment to Israel, and they would not say whether the munitions were being shipped by cargo aircraft or some other means. But an arms-sale package approved last year provides authority for Israel to purchase from the United States as many as 100 GBU-28’s, which are 5,000-pound laser-guided bombs intended to destroy concrete bunkers. The package also provides for selling satellite-guided munitions.

An announcement in 2005 that Israel was eligible to buy the “bunker buster” weapons described the GBU-28 as “a special weapon that was developed for penetrating hardened command centers located deep underground.”

THE DOCUMENT ADDED, “THE ISRAELI AIR FORCE WILL USE THESE GBU-28’S ON THEIR F-15 AIRCRAFT.”

American officials said that once a weapons purchase is approved, it is up to the buyer nation to set up a timetable. But one American official said normal procedures usually do not include rushing deliveries within days of a request. That was done because Israel is a close ally in the midst of hostilities, the official said.

Although Israel had some precision guided bombs in its stockpile when the campaign in Lebanon began, the Israelis may not have taken delivery of all the weapons they were entitled to under the 2005 sale.

Israel said its air force had dropped 23 tons of explosives Wednesday night alone in Beirut, in an effort to penetrate what was believed to be a bunker used by senior Hezbollah officials.

A senior Israeli official said Friday that the attacks to date had degraded Hezbollah’s military strength by roughly half, but that the campaign could go on for two more weeks or longer. “We will stay heavily with the air campaign,” he said. “There’s no time limit. We will end when we achieve our goals.”

The Bush administration announced Thursday a military equipment sale to Saudi Arabia, worth more than $6 billion, a move that may in part have been aimed at deflecting inevitable Arab government anger at the decision to supply Israel with munitions in the event that effort became public.

On Friday, Bush administration officials laid out their plans for the diplomatic strategy that Ms. Rice will pursue. In Rome, the United States will try to hammer out a diplomatic package that will offer Lebanon incentives under the condition that a United Nations resolution, which calls for the disarming of Hezbollah, is implemented.

Diplomats will also try to figure out the details around an eventual international peacekeeping force, and which countries will contribute to it. Germany and Russia have both indicated that they would be willing to contribute forces; Ms. Rice said the United States was unlikely to.



Implicit in the eventual diplomatic package is a cease-fire. But a senior American official said it remained unclear whether, under such a plan, Hezbollah would be asked to retreat from southern Lebanon and commit to a cease-fire, or whether American diplomats might depend on Israel’s continued bombardment to make Hezbollah’s acquiescence irrelevant.

Daniel Ayalon, Israel’s ambassador to Washington, said that Israel would not rule out an international force to police the borders of Lebanon and Syria and to patrol southern Lebanon, where Hezbollah has had a stronghold.

But he said that Israel was first determined to take out Hezbollah’s command and control centers and weapons stockpiles.

Thom Shanker contributed reporting for this article.

WHICH THEY ALL SHOULD BE ETERNALLY ASHAMED OF - HR

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WAR SAVAGES EVERYTHING - by Dahr Jamail

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WAR SAVAGES EVERYTHING

As Lebanon bleeds and the humanitarian crisis there deepens among the craters left by Israeli bombs, those who can have fled - mostly
to Syria.

Not long ago at the northern border of Lebanon, streams of people, wary with the aimless stare generated by living in terror for days on end, shuffled across into Syria.

Pushing wheelbarrows full of what belongings they managed to get out, they had come from all parts of Lebanon; from the northern coastal city of Tripoli, down the coast a short ways to Batroun and the once beautiful city of Byblos where I once shared tea with my cousins in Lebanon-who we have yet to hear a word from since Israel's war of aggression against the Lebanese began.

Most were, of course, from Beirut. The rest, including cars with luggage strapped atop them
, came from the ravaged lands of southern Lebanon-the cities of Sidon, Tyre, Marjeyun and so many villages closer to the southern border.

Over 140,000 refugees from Lebanon have now crossed through border posts
into Syria. As the UN impotently urges a cease fire from war-mongering Israel, backed by their greatest enabling ally, the veto-wielding US,
two of their personnel in Tyre were killed by an Israeli air strike.

"They [Israelis] are taking it out on the people who are not Hezbollah," an American man told me while fleeing with his mother. They had been vacationing in Beirut with family members there. "This is a catastrophe, their bombs are falling everywhere," the 25 year-old social studies teacher added while wiping sweat from his forehead inside the sweltering
border crossing, "They are destroying all of Lebanon!"

WITH THE DEATH TOLL IN LEBANON NOW WELL OVER 350, OVER ONE THIRD OF THEM ARE CHILDREN, WHO WOULD HAVE TAKEN PART IN CREATING THE FUTURE OF LEBANON.

After interviewing several refugees
, my interpreter Abu Talat and I made our way to a taxi to head further north up the coast of Syria. Our taxi driver, Abdo al-Hamre, a 32 year-old farmer told us he'd been driving refugees from the border for days.

"I'm crying every day now for the Lebanese," he said strongly, "All of them are crying in my car as I drive. This is really too much to bear."

War stops everything. War kills a country-whether it be those dropping the bombs, or those being shredded by them. Countries who wage war, like Israel now in Lebanon, or the US in Iraq and Afghanistan, make the choice to sell their soul…perhaps a payment nearly as great as those whose lives are extinguished by the aggression waged against them.

WAR STOPS EVERYTHING. SCHOOL, FOOD DELIVERIES, PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, PICNICS, DANCING, KITE FLYING, LAUGHING WITH LOVED ONES, EVERYTHING IS STOPPED AS THE STRUGGLE TO REMAIN ALIVE BECOMES PARAMOUNT.

At that point, nothing else matters. Only to remain alive. Humans are reduced to the level of basic survival, for there is no room for anything else.

Earlier today we were at the Red Crescent headquarters in Damascas interviewing refugees. An old man, holding his head in his hands, had just arrived after fleeing his village in southern Lebanon.

We began to talk and I asked him if the Israeli plan of bombing the Lebanese in order to force them to pressure Hezbollah out of the south of their country was working. Was it turning the Lebanese against Hezbollah?

He promptly stood up, forcing me to step back.

THE RESISTANCE IS AN IDEA, AND YOU CAN NEVER KILL OFF AN IDEA!

"More Lebanese are now with Hezbollah than ever before," he yelled while pointing to the sky as his eyes widened in fury, "God damned the Israelis for destroying Lebanon! They will never destroy our spirit! The resistance is an idea, and you can never kill off an idea!"

He was mad with rage. And why shouldn't he have been?

But this man, who should be perhaps tending a field, playing with his grandchildren, sharing meals with his wife as the sun set, was raging at a journalist in Damascas because everything he knew is now smoldering rubble.

WAR STOPS LIFE. WAR STOPS EVERYTHING.

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“The dead are rotting in the rubble of smashed homes” - by Mike Whitney

WHAT ALTERNATIVE IS THERE BUT RESISTANCE?

NEWS YOU WON'T FIND ON CNN, NOR IN MOST GLOBAL PROPAGANDA SEWERS, WITHOUT WHOM MANY GENOCIDES NEVER COULD HAVE TAKEN PLACE. THE WAR PROPAGANDISTS ARE TRYING TO DROWN LOGICAL THINKING IN A TSUNAMI OF PROPAGANDA AND LIES.

AFTER THE WAR CRIMES TRIBUNALS IN NUREMBERG THE AMERICANS HANGED THEM FOR THAT:

HOW THE HELL DO THEY THINK THEY CAN SURVIVE NOW?


"The dead are rotting in the rubble of smashed homes"

HOW MANY TIMES MUST LEBANON BE BOMBED INTO OBLIVION BEFORE THEIR LEADERS SECURE THE MEANS TO ENSURE THEIR SAFETY?

By Mike Whitney

07/21/06 "Information Clearing House" -- -- Purity of Arms: “The IDF (Israeli Defense Force) serviceman and woman will use their weapons and force only for the purpose of their mission, only to the necessary extent and will maintain their humanity even during combat. IDF soldiers will not use their weapons and force to harm human beings who are not combatants or prisoners of war, and will do all in their power to avoid causing harm to their lives, bodies, dignity and property.”

Lebanon 7-20-06: 300 dead, 20,000 wounded, 500,000 displaced by Israeli aggression; vast swathes of the infrastructure in complete ruins; including airports, the highway grid, electrical power stations, sea-ports, factories, housing units and apartments, and all major bridges and highways. The Los Angeles Times reports, “Civil structure appears to have broken down almost completely. Ambulances have not been able to operate. The dead are rotting in the rubble of smashed homes. Food and clean drinking water are running out.”

The destruction of Lebanon is a completely man-made catastrophe orchestrated in Tel Aviv and rubber-stamped in Washington. The death and suffering are now on a scale that rivals the Asian tsunami.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED?

Why would Israel bomb Lebanon’s pharmaceutical factories, grain silos and water processing plants?

Why would they attack the mosques, hospitals and a Greek Orthodox Church?

Why would they flatten Lebanon’s largest milk factory?

Is Hezbollah in the dairy business?

There is no pattern or logic to the Israeli assault on Lebanon. It is simply a vicious attempt to destroy the working parts of Lebanon’s prosperity and bury the entire society under a pile of rubble. It’s a tragic example of pure, unalloyed revenge; another “black flag” operation successfully executed by the IOF. (Israeli Occupation Forces)

LEBANON POSED NO THREAT TO ISRAEL’S SECURITY.

The comical Katyusha rockets may have killed a handful of Israelis (which is regrettable) but their military value is nil. Once they are fired, no one knows where they will land. Yesterday an errant Katyusha killed 2 Palestinians in Nazareth. Was that part of Nasrallah’s plan?

There’s no comparison between Hezbollah’s glorified fireworks and the high-tech, laser-guided, state-of-the-art weaponry wielded by the Israeli war machine. Lebanon is a case-study of the lethal efficiency of modern WMD and their astonishing ability to reduce a bustling metropolis into Dresden-like wreckage in a matter of days. It is truly an incalculable disaster.

Israel has succeeded in quashing an emergent, moderate nation with strong western leanings. The Lebanese are secular, urbane and educated. Israel’s rampage will only strengthen the fanatics and create a Petri-dish for extremism and retribution.

After 6 years, Lebanon had finally dug-out from Israel’s 18 year occupation which left the country in tatters and killed an estimated 30,000 civilians. Israel never contributed a dime to the reconstruction although its culpability has never been in dispute.

NOW THAT WASHINGTON HAS GIVEN OLMERT THE “GREEN LIGHT” TO FINISH HIS ONSLAUGHT, WE CAN EXPECT THAT THE LAST FEW REMNANTS OF MODERNITY WILL BE SMASHED INTO PULP LEAVING BEHIND THE FAMILIAR MOONSCAPE OF ISRAELI INTERVENTION.

No one should harbor any illusions of what it means to be Israel’s neighbor and the obvious risks it involves. That said, it would be foolhardy for Lebanese people to simply “start over” once Israel leaves. (If they do leave) What guarantees do the Lebanese people have that, 6 years from now, Israel won’t decide that its time for another tear through the Lebanese countryside; demolishing their towns and cities and leaving them to deal with another humanitarian crisis?

Lebanon should forestall any reconstruction until its leaders provide a coherent plan for national security. Not one brick should be set atop another, not one pane of glass should be replaced, until the Lebanese people can be certain that their government has acquired the “deterrents” necessary to fend off future Israeli aggression.

PROVIDING SECURITY IS THE BASIC FUNCTION OF GOVERNMENT.

By now, the Lebanese people should recognize that they must do whatever is required to secure the weaponry they need to defend themselves from (inevitable) Israeli invasions. That is simply the price of occupying the land-mass adjacent to the world’s second biggest pariah-state.

This won’t be a popular idea. The United States and Israel are now spearheading a campaign to strip countries of WMD and leave them defenseless. The 2 blood-brothers are like the mugger in the park who forces his victim to “Drop your weapons” before he steals his money and beats him senseless.

Lebanon needs a credible deterrent to Israeli aggression. It cannot simply reemerge Phoenix-like every decade or so following another rampage by the Mongol hordes from the south.

No one can live like that. Nations need security just like individuals. Lebanon needs to find the means to arm itself by “fair means or foul”.

Besides, the obsession with WMD has been a sham from the very onset. Of course the US and Israel would like to remove the threat of retaliation; that way they can continue their forays throughout the developing world without fear of resistance. What Bush wants is a monopoly on violence so that he can keep his marauding armies working overtime on behalf of the global-corporate cabal. That is the real function of the military; to pave the way for debilitating loans and reconstruction by the multinational carpetbaggers.

But what about the Lebanese people; are they so intoxicated with their own prosperity that they don’t grasp Israel’s clearly stated regional aspirations; don’t they see that the Israeli leadership is chock-full of militarists and zealots; don’t they notice how Israel has been armed-to-the-teeth with every homicidal device know to man by its war-mongering U.S. patron; don’t they know that Lebanon is expected to be a powerless, vassal-statlet in the broader “Israeli Realm”?

HOW MANY TIMES MUST LEBANON BE BOMBED INTO OBLIVION BEFORE THEIR LEADERS SECURE THE MEANS TO ENSURE THEIR SAFETY?

The fanatics and militarists in Tel Aviv will not be deterred by fine words and lofty sentiments; they need to see a credible deterrent.

Perhaps, Lebanon should duplicate Israel’s apartheid wall and build a 32 ft high looming monolith along its southern border. Then they could establish a 5 mile-wide “demilitarized zone” along the Litani River followed by watch-towers and heavy-artillery. 10% of GDP could be allocated for military spending and R&D.

Or they can wait for Kofi Annan and the post-colonial Euro-morons in the so-called “international community” to pull their heads out of the sand and take positive action to isolate the US and Israel.

What a foolish waste of time that would be.

There are no good options, but one thing is certain. The invasion of Lebanon proves that the crackpot strategy to Balkenize the Arab world and redraw the map of the Middle East is moving forward according to plan. All eyes should be focused on Damascus and the growing likelihood of a regional war. Israeli Prime Minister Olmert has taken a chapter from Rumsfeld’s book and decided to “expand the conflict”, which means, there’s no telling where it will end. The entire area from the Red Sea to the Caspian Basin has been doused in gasoline and is ready to go up in flames.

Lebanon has become a lab-experiment to prove that Israel can extend its model of occupation from Gaza to Beirut. Hezbollah’s defensive maneuvers will only incite greater violence and devastation. Israel is now prepared to reduce the entire country into finely-ground sand to assert its dominance and quash the resistance.

When they finish their work, they’ll deliver Lebanon on a silver platter to the loan-sharks at the IMF and Wolfowitz’s World Bank. The global banking cartel can then apply the shackle of indentured servitude to the once-bustling nation; ensuring that their future remains in the vice-like grip of the American-Israeli banking establishment.

The sacking of Lebanon should rouse the world from its terminal state of apathy. The nut-jobs are on the loose and they don’t care who gets killed in the process. The United Nations, the U.S. Congress, and the Arab League have proved utterly worthless in slowing the prospect of an all-out, regional conflagration. The Bush-Olmert juggernaut will continue to lurch uncontrollably through the Middle East until it is stopped in its tracks.

WHAT ALTERNATIVE IS THERE BUT RESISTANCE?


MIKE WHITNEY


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