Monday, July 31, 2006

Dahr Jamail + Israel breaks cease fire + Chief Rabbi prays for success

WHO CARES ABOUT A CEASE FIRE? THAT'S SOMETHING FOR HUMAN BEINGS!

Monday July 31 - 2006 - ''The Israeli air force carried out strikes - today - Monday in southern Lebanon despite an agreement to halt raids for 48 hours after nearly 60 Lebanese civilians were killed in an Israeli bombing, the army said.'' - HR: A cease fire apparently only is for human beings. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/njyld

While - as described below by Dahr Jamail - the US/Israel war machine with the war criminal support of the 'Coalition of the Killing' keeps destroying Lebanon too, grabbing land and the water of the Litani river, the Chief Rabbi of Israel, Yona Metzger, asks millions of Jews on the same day and hour in the whole jewish world, to pray that the Lord will 'REPEL THOSE WHO TURN UPON US'.

He does not ask the millions to pray for all the innocent victims of the US/Israeli killing machine; No, the rabbi warns for ''murderous times from our enemies and those who are up to destroy us'' and everybody should join in the prayer, so ''God willing, THAT THE LORD WILL SAVE HIS PEOPLE.''

SAVE 'HIS PEOPLE'? GODDAMNIT! WHAT ABOUT US: THE HUMAN BEINGS?

Often - and unasked for - the FPF gets email from Israel via 'Leena Ades' - And among a lot of drivel, this indecent document appeared too. The Chief Rabbi of Israel apparently never has heard about the suffering of others; the human beings. He describes the holocaust by Israel in Lebanon and Palestine as such, a world away from reality:

BEFORE YOU ARE A LETTER, FROM CHIEF RABBI OF ISRAEL

TO OUR BROTHERS SONS OF ISRAEL IN THE DIASPORA!

These days, when we are "between the straits", and in these desperate hours, our brothers Sons of Israel in the State of Israel face hard and murderous times from our enemies and THOSE WHO ARE UP TO DESTROY US.

While in the battle front our brave soldiers in the Israeli Defense Forces risk their lives in the air and sea TO REPEL THOSE WHO TURN UPON US, and defend our people and the cities in Israel.

I call upon our Jewish brothers in the Diaspora, wherever they are, to pray for the well-being of OUR soldiers and their success, for the recovery of the wounded, and the return of the captives to the loving arms of their families all safe and sound.

Before you are two prayers , the first for the well-being of the captives, and the second for the well-being of the SOLDIERS OF THE IDF, I ask you from the bottom of my heart to pray together with millions of Jews on the same day and hour the prayers enclosed herewith.

We plan to perform our common prayer on Tuesday at 19:00 so that millions of Jews who turn to God Almighty, and by the virtue of this special unified multitudinous prayer, we will see, God willing, that THE LORD WILL SAVE HIS PEOPLE and will witness soon peace, quiescence, and calmness in all our cities, Amen.

Expecting redemption and salvation soon,

RABBI YONA METZGER

Chief Rabbi of Israel

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HR: I do not want to be nasty, but knowing German I can't stop myself translating 'Metzger' - which in English is 'butcher'.


"IF YOU HAVEN'T LEFT, YOU'RE HEZBOLLAH"

Inter Press Service - Dahr Jamail

SIDON, Lebanon, July 30 (IPS) - The Israeli attack on Qana has taken the biggest toll of the war, but it is only one of countless lethal attacks on civilians in Lebanon.

Large numbers fled the south after Israelis dropped leaflets warning of attacks. Others have been unable to leave, often because they have not found the means. The Israelis have taken that to mean that they are therefore Hezbollah.

Israeli justice minister Haim Ramon announced on Israeli army radio Thursday that "all those in south Lebanon are terrorists who are related in some way to Hezbollah." Justifying the collective punishment of people in southern Lebanon, Ramon added, "In order to prevent casualties among Israeli soldiers battling Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon, villages should be flattened by the Israeli air force before ground troops move in."

This policy explains the large number of wounded in the hospitals of Sidon in the south.

Wounded people from southern Lebanon narrate countless instances of indiscriminate attacks by the Israeli military.
Thirty-six-year-old Khuder Gazali, an ambulance driver whose arm was blown off by an Israeli rocket, told IPS that his ambulance was hit while trying to rescue civilians whose home had just been bombed.

"Last Sunday people came to us and asked us to go help some people after their home was bombed by the Israelis," he said from his bed in Hamoudi Hospital in Sidon, the largest in southern Lebanon. "We found one of them, without his legs, lying in a garden, so we tried to take him to the nearest hospital."

ON WAY TO THE HOSPITAL AN ISRAELI APACHE HELICOPTER HIT HIS AMBULANCE WITH A ROCKET, SEVERELY INJURING HIM AND THE FOUR PEOPLE IN THE BACK OF THE VEHICLE, HE SAID. - [HR: http://tinyurl.com/ghdvx]

"So then another ambulance tried to reach us to rescue us, but it too was bombed by an Apache, killing everyone inside it," he said. "Then it was a third ambulance which finally managed to rescue us." Khuder, who had shrapnel wounds all over his body, said "this is a crime, and I want people in the west to know the Israelis do not differentiate between innocent people and fighters. They are committing acts of evil.. They are attacking civilians, and they are criminals."

At Labib Medical Centre in Sidon, countless survivors of Israeli bombardment had similar stories to tell. Sixteen-year-old Ibrahim al-Hama told IPS that he and his friends were hit by an Israeli bomb while they were swimming in a river near a village north of Tyre.

"TWO OF MY FRIENDS WERE KILLED, ALONG WITH A WOMAN," SAID AL-HAMA. "WHY DID THEY BOMB US?"

In an adjacent room, a man whose wife and two small children were recovering from wounds suffered in Israeli bombing told IPS that they had left their village near the border because the bombings had become fierce, and the Israeli military had dropped leaflets ordering them to leave.

"We ran out of food, and the children were hungry, so they left with my wife and her sister in a car which followed a Red Crescent ambulance, while another car took the two other sisters of my wife," he said. "They reached Kafra village, and an F-16 bombed the car with my wife's two sisters. They are dead."

SUCH KILLINGS HAVE BEEN COMMON THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH.

On July 23, a family left their village after Israelis dropped leaflets ordering them out. Their car carried a white flag, but was still bombed by an Israeli plane. Three in the car were killed. The same day, three of 19 passengers in a van heading away from the southern village Tiri were killed when it was bombed by an Israeli plane. A 43-year-old man from Durish Zhair village south of Tyre lay at the Labib Medical Centre with multiple shrapnel wounds and half his body blackened by fire.

"Please tell them to stop using white phosphorous," he said. "The Israelis must stop these attacks. Do not allow the Israelis to continue murdering us." He and his family were bombed in their home. Zhair said his family were scattered in hospitals and refugee centres in Sidon and Beirut. But in the hospital hallway outside his room, head nurse of the hospital Gemma Sayer said "all of his family is dead. We cannot tell him yet because he is so badly injured."

United Nations forces have been targeted again by the Israelis. Two soldiers with the UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon were wounded after their observation post was damaged in an Israeli air strike.

LAST WEEK, AN ISRAELI MISSILE KILLED FOUR UN OBSERVERS; AN ATTACK THAT UN SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN DESCRIBED AS "APPARENTLY DELIBERATE."

Thousands of angry protestors stormed the UN building in Beirut Sunday after at least 34 children and 20 adults were killed inside a shelter targeted by an Israeli air strike in the southern town Qana. As Israeli military drones buzzed over the capital city, smoke was seen rising from the building as UN troops struggled to control the crowds.
Efforts to evacuate the wounded in Qana have been hindered because roads around the town have been destroyed by air strikes.

The Israeli military refused to take responsibility for the Qana deaths, because they said Hezbollah had used the village to launch rockets.

Lebanese President Emile Lahoud told reporters Sunday that the Qana attack was a "disgrace" and that there was no chance for peace talks until an immediate ceasefire was called. "Israel's leaders think of nothing but destruction, they do not think of peace."

PRIME MINISTER FUAD SINIORA DESCRIBED THE BOMBING IN QANA AS A "WAR CRIME." AT LEAST 600 LEBANESE, MOSTLY CIVILIANS, AND 51 ISRAELIS HAVE BEEN KILLED SINCE THE CONFLICT BEGAN.

DAHR JAMIL

[andend] - Posted by Dahr_Jamail at July 30, 2006 - You can find the original story at his web site - Url.: http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/hard_news/archives/lebanon/000442.php#more

FPF - WHO CARES ABOUT A CEASE FIRE? THAT'S SOMETHING FOR HUMAN BEINGS! - The Israeli air force carried out strikes Monday in southern Lebanon despite an agreement to halt raids for 48 hours after nearly 60 Lebanese civilians were killed in an Israeli bombing, the army said. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/njyld

THE US/ISRAELI COLLABORATORS IN 'THE NETHERLANDS' - AS ALL OTHER MEMBERS OF THE 'COALITION OF THE KILLING' - SUPPORT THE US/ISRAELI GENOCIDES AND INHUMANITIES. THEY KEEP SILENT, EVEN WHEN THEY ARE GUILTY OF WAR CRIMES. THEY SILENCE EVERYBODY, DOING NOTHING TO STOP THE SLAUGHTER AND HAVE BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS. AFTER THE NUREMBERG WAR CRIME TRIBUNALS CRIMINALS LIKE THESE WERE HANGED BY THE AMERICANS.

* US/ISRAELI GENOCIDE NEWS: ''MORE TIME TO BOMB'' - ESSENTIAL 6 MINUTE VIDEO - We defy anyone to watch this 6 minute video, entitled MORE TIME TO BOMB, and not be so enraged at the scale of Israel's atrocities in Lebanon and Gaza, that they commit themselves to persuade everyone they know to join the Emergency National Demonstration on Saturday 5 August. - 6 minute video - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/k8mm5

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Lebanon: "We have lost faith in the international community"

FPF - To better understand what is written about below: ''What happens if you see? You will cry a bit, like me, and maybe go about your day as planned. What happens if you see? Will the US public opinion change?'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/obnsn


LEBANON: "WE HAVE LOST FAITH IN THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY"

"WE HAVE LOST FAITH IN YOU BECAUSE YOUR DEMOCRACY GOT EXPORTED TO US WITH YOUR MISSILES, AND WE ARE CONSUMING THEM WHILE YOU ARE CONSUMING OUR NEWS."

by Mayssoun Sukarieh

Beirut - 30 July 2006 - I have been feeling numb for a while, the overwhelming news in the past few days has focused on the displaced, the searing stories of people who fled in fear and left all their possessions behind. Pleas on the TV stations and on the radio of people who lost their loved ones...Stories of their anxiety about homes they left behind...Scenes of people murdered on the roads as they fled...And stories of the destruction they witnessed on those roads.

I get confused: Am I seeing and hearing the stories of Palestinians who fled their homes in fear in 1948?

No: I am in Beirut, it is 2006, and these are the stories of the Lebanese who have been rendered refugees, but by the same perpetrators of the 1948 displacement: the State of Israel.

I have been collapsing. I cannot even write, or talk...I'm sad for my niece and nephew who were dreaming of a summer in Lebanon, where they hoped to attend a performance of the legendary Fairuz in Baalbeck, of seeing the ancient ruins they'd read about in their school in France. My niece was anxiously waiting to visit.

I have been feeling imprisoned, in a jail cell that is getting smaller and smaller by the day. I miss strolling by the sea. I miss reading some news...I miss receiving good news...

Good news: Analysts are saying Israel lost the war! Israelis themselves are now claiming this. I never imagined in my life that I would hear of a defeat of the state of Israel without feeling victorious and elated.

INSTEAD, I AM SCARED TO FEEL HAPPY. ISRAEL WILL NEVER ACCEPT THEIR LOSS...GOD SAVE US FROM WHAT THEY WILL DO NEXT.

We woke up this morning to the news of another massacre in Qana, the town that suffered so much in April 1996. Reporters are choking on dust while reporting on air from the scene of the crime. The bodies of children and women start to come out.

Ten bodies were removed. Twenty bodies were removed. Forty bodies were removed.

More than 50 bodies have now been removed.

Twenty-one children under ten women, and under them, more women and children.

The rescuers are people from the village, and the story as told by one of the lucky who survived to the Lebanese reporters is as follows:

"We were 63 people from two families in that shelter, we came to this house because it is in the middle of Qana; our houses are mostly on the outskirts of the village and whenever Israeli shells we get hit with shrapnel. We decided we needed to move to this house since it is in the middle and we will be safer. We have been staying here for more than fifteen days, we do not leave the house, and the Red Cross brings water and food for us. At 1:00 AM, after everyone was asleep, my cousin called me to have a cup of tea. I went to his room, and as we were just about to sip our tea, we heard a loud explosion and, yaa Muhammad!, dust filled the air. My cousin started to cry, 'My family, my children...they are gone!' I started to comfort him.

Then, a few minutes later, another Israeli missile hit the same building, and there was so much dust that we could not see....We went to the center of the village and we started to yell for anyone who was still there and had refused to move to Beirut. We told them there is a massacre and we need help! They started to call for the Red Cross, for other rescue organizations, for the Lebanese Army. We kept crying for help. From 1 AM until 8 AM, the rescue team that you see, the very meager Red Cross, and a few Lebanese army soldiers, mostly people from the village, arrived to help us. - [end quote].

An Al-Manar reporter, barely able to control himself, says "God is Great!" after each sentence. Scenes of horror: corpses of babies, one child, two children, three children. Fifty-seven murdered -- half of them are children under 13.

With each body removed from under the rubble, journalists run to take photos.

CLICK! FLASH! CLICK! FLASH!

How can they do it? I am outraged on behalf of the dead, who are turned into objects for the camera to catch...objects for some photographers hoping for a "killer" shot to advance his or her career.

I am now at my computer, trying to tell my friends what I am watching on the screen; in other words, I am doing a body count.

I write to a friend, and get an email back from her: "I wish you could send me footage for people here to see in the US!"

I am not sure how much you need to see in order to feel outrage, in order to refuse wars, in order to denounce this murder and destruction.

Why should I send footage for you to see? If the eye sees while the brain is dead -- dead from the bloody images you see so frequently that they get normalized -- what then happens if you see? Maybe you'll send me an apology? Write creatively about it? Try to aestheticize this? Call for a theater performance with eloquently spoken words in order to give people an incentive to come here, or to act? But they won't come.

WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU SEE? YOU WILL CRY A BIT, LIKE ME, AND MAYBE GO ABOUT YOUR DAY AS PLANNED. WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU SEE? WILL THE US PUBLIC OPINION CHANGE?

But can there be people who do not yet know what is happening here? Do they need to see the dead in order to know who to vote for the next time, in a country where there is next to no difference between Republicans and Democrats?

Does it require much more knowledge for you to know that wars that kill innocents are unjustifiable? Do we need to see the dismembered bodies, the demolished houses, and the shattered dreams? Do we need to see "women and children weeping" in order to humanize those who are dying?

Is there not a danger that the result of repetitive viewing of these crimes and atrocities might only result in amnesia and numbness? Is it simply knowledge that you lack? Or is it the courage to understand what we know. Is it the courage to draw conclusions that you lack?

Put our knowledge into your practice. Integrate our minds into your emotions. Be passionate about what we know.

THAT WILL GIVE US, AND YOU, THE COURAGE TO ACT.

How many more massacres do you have to see to know that the state of Israel is brutal? Aren't Deir Yassin, Kafar Qasem, Safsaf, Tantoura, Sabra and Shatila, Qana I, Marwaheen, Sour/Tyre, and now Qana II information enough for you to know the meaning of terrorism?

Just how many outcries do you need to hear before you act out of a commitment to humanity, a humanity that links you and me and so many beyond this sick consumerism of images?

To tell you the truth, my friend, we have lost faith in the idea that "public opinion" is capable of changing anything. We have lost faith in an international community that can back us and stop these massacres. The UN is now just another cold and unfeeling face of the United States.

Or it is simply an organization as helpless and powerless as we are here. Its representatives die under the bombs alongside us, and no one is allowed to condemn Israel. We have lost faith in you because we do not think you can act on your knowledge, or that your knowledge even matters anymore.

We have lost faith in you because we think your governments do not give a damn about how you think or what you think. We have lost faith in you because you do not live in democracies, and hence your opinion does not matter anyway!

WE HAVE LOST FAITH IN YOU BECAUSE YOUR DEMOCRACY GOT EXPORTED TO US WITH YOUR MISSILES, AND WE ARE CONSUMING THEM WHILE YOU ARE CONSUMING OUR NEWS.

Mayssoun Sukarieh is a native of Beirut.

Story at Url.: http://indictsharon.net

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THE US/ISRAELI COLLABORATORS IN 'THE NETHERLANDS' - AS ALL OTHER MEMBERS OF THE 'COALITION OF THE KILLING' - SUPPORT THE US/ISRAELI GENOCIDES AND INHUMANITIES. THEY KEEP SILENT, EVEN WHEN THEY ARE GUILTY OF WAR CRIMES. THEY SILENCE EVERYBODY, DOING NOTHING TO STOP THE SLAUGHTER AND HAVE BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS. AFTER THE NUREMBERG WAR CRIME TRIBUNALS CRIMINALS LIKE THESE WERE HANGED BY THE AMERICANS.

* US/ISRAELI GENOCIDE NEWS: ''MORE TIME TO BOMB'' - ESSENTIAL 6 MINUTE VIDEO - We defy anyone to watch this 6 minute video, entitled MORE TIME TO BOMB, and not be so enraged at the scale of Israel's atrocities in Lebanon and Gaza, that they commit themselves to persuade everyone they know to join the Emergency National Demonstration on Saturday 5 August. - 6 minute video - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/k8mm5

* RELATED: BACKGROUND LINKS TO THOSE RESPONSIBLE - If after checking a factual error is found, pls. send an email. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/fhln9

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President Chavez calls on all countries to stop Israel’s “fascist crimes” in Lebanon

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez: ''What Israel is doing is fascism and terrorism. We call on the world to stop Israel's insanity,'' he said during a ceremony at the University of Tehran in which he was awarded the Order of the Islamic Republic of Iran, First Grade.

Sunday, July 30, 2006 - Tehran Times Political Desk: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called on all countries to stop Israel’s “fascist crimes” in Lebanon here on Sunday. 

“What Israel is doing is fascism and terrorism. We call on the world to stop Israel’s insanity,” he said during a ceremony at the University of Tehran in which he was awarded the Order of the Islamic Republic of Iran, First Grade. The world must have the ability to stop Israel’s madness, he added.

HE EMPHASIZED THAT IRAN AND VENEZUELA HAVE ADOPTED A COMMON STANCE CONDEMNING THE ISRAELI CRIMES.

“(US president George W.) Bush claims that he has a connection with God every day, but, in fact, he has a connection with the devil because no other country has put humanity in danger like the United States,” he said.

[FPF - Bush & God - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/9up95]

"If the US empire maintains its domination, there will be no future for humanity, he asserted.  “The onus is on us to rescue humanity by maintaining unity.”

Imperialism has gained dominance due to our lack of knowledge not because of its power, he stated. He praised Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad as a brave person, adding “the US has been trapped in the quagmire of Afghanistan and Iraq, and we will defeat it once again.”

In addition, Chavez called the honorary medal Iran bestowed upon him a symbol of friendship and solidarity between Iran and Venezuela.

HE STRESSED THAT HIS COUNTRY WOULD STAND BESIDE IRAN UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES AND DESCRIBED IRAN AS THE LAND OF DIVINE PROPHETS AND FIGHTERS.

Chavez and a high-ranking Venezuelan delegation arrived in Tehran on Saturday afternoon for a two-day visit.

Chavez calls on world to stop Israel’s “fascism”.


[andend] - Story Url.: http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=64708

The latest reliable world news from VHeadline.com - Url.: http://www.vheadline.com/main.asp


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FPF: THE US/ISRAELI COLLABORATORS IN 'THE NETHERLANDS' - AS ALL OTHER MEMBERS OF THE 'COALITION OF THE KILLING' - SUPPORT THE US/ISRAELI GENOCIDES AND INHUMANITIES. - THEY KEEP SILENT, EVEN WHEN THEY ARE GUILTY OF WAR CRIMES. - THEY SILENCE EVERYBODY, AND DO NOTHING TO STOP THE SLAUGHTER, HAVING A STREAM OF BLOOD OF THEIR INNOCENT VICTIMS ON THEIR HANDS. - AFTER THE NUREMBERG WAR CRIME TRIBUNALS, CRIMINALS LIKE THESE WERE HANGED BY THE AMERICANS FOR THEIR CRIMES AGAINST US, HUMANITY..

* US/ISRAELI GENOCIDE NEWS: ''MORE TIME TO BOMB'' - ESSENTIAL 6 MINUTE VIDEO - We defy anyone to watch this 6 minute video, entitled MORE TIME TO BOMB, and not be so enraged at the scale of Israel's atrocities in Lebanon and Gaza, that they commit themselves to persuade everyone they know to join the Emergency National Demonstration on Saturday 5 August. - 6 minute video - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/k8mm5

* RELATED: BACKGROUND LINKS TO THOSE RESPONSIBLE - If after checking a factual error is found, pls. send an email. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/fhln9

* 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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