Comments on The Liberator Magazine :: Art. Culture. Education. Politics. Truth...: Whose battle is this?

i just read today about how Israel had been occupy...

2006-08-05T20:50:00.000-04:00

i just read today about how Israel had been occupying Lebanon for 18 years! Trying to defeat Hizbollah from 1982 until 2000!!! I aint heard nothin about that on the TV news...

And they didnt get the job done then... and they had mad intelligence networks built up and everything, then they pulled out and all that advatage they had was dismantled.

Then it was saying how since 2000, Hizbollah has built back up their reinforcements and outposts and trenches... basically their Guerilla advantage... and now Israel doesnt know about them cause they dont have those intelligence networks like they did before... to tell them where Hizbollah might be staked out or trying to suprise attack them... and now that Israel is trying to advance into Lebanon by foot and tank, Hizbollah might be whoopin butt real soon... I think like 8 Israeli soldiers have died since Israel crossed the border by ground the other day...

Target: Multilateralismhttp://www.fpif.org/fpifzin...

2006-07-31T18:17:00.000-04:00

Target: Multilateralism
http://www.fpif.org/fpifzines/pr/3398
Editor: John Feffer, IRC

Multilateralism took several hits this past week.

The most graphic was Israel's rocket attack on a UN monitoring post in Lebanon on July 25. The UN had complained to Hezbollah that guerrillas were launching missile attacks from positions close to the observation posts. But nothing could justify what happened next.

According to a preliminary UN report on the incident, the Israeli military ignored ten phone calls from the UN peacekeepers as they endured twenty Israeli artillery air strikes. “UN sources alleged yesterday that the Israeli military ignored the plea after it was passed up through the chain of command,” according to a report in the British Telegraph. “A laser-guided munition is believed to have then dropped on the UN position, which is painted white and clearly illuminated. The four monitors inside—from Canada, Austria, Finland, and China—were killed.”

After the attack, the United States blocked the UN Security Council from issuing a statement condemning Israel. But that didn't stop UN Secretary General Kofi Annan from being uncharacteristically blunt in his condemnation of Israel's attack. He issued another rebuke on July 30, after an Israeli attack on the Lebanese town of Qana killed 37 children among the 57 victims. After the bombing, the UN sustained another attack, when a group of outraged Lebanese ransacked the UN headquarters in Beirut. There were no injuries.

Prodded by the United States, Israel has declared a two-day pause in aerial bombardment of southern Lebanon, which falls substantially short of the immediate ceasefire that the world community has called for (and which only the United States, Israel, and Great Britain have opposed).

FPIF's Stephen Zunes, in an op-ed published in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel on July 22, points out that Israel's attempt to wipe out Hezbollah is not only quixotic but counter-productive, for it will, like the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, “create far more terrorists than it destroys.” FPIF contributors Frida Berrigan and William Hartung provide some background on where Israel has been getting its arms—$17 billion in U.S. military aid over the last decade, which works out to $2,000 in weaponry for every Israeli.

For perspectives on peace from the Jewish community, visit Brit Tzedek v'Shalom. To read the call for a ceasefire from prominent Arab-Americans, visit the Arab American Institute. For up-to-date information on the humanitarian crisis in Lebanon, visit this new service from the Oakland Institute, which collates information from the UN, international media, and humanitarian organizations.

I read a while back that a hundreds of years ago, ...

2006-07-25T15:23:00.000-04:00

I read a while back that a hundreds of years ago, Iraelis occupied the land in question and Arabs invaded but that may have atrocity and injustice we see today.

Jon, that's the question of the day... Lebanon is ...

2006-07-25T13:35:00.000-04:00

Jon, that's the question of the day... Lebanon is saying they'll fight along side Hizbollah against Israel if they invade, regardless of if they think Hizbollah is right or wrong.

I really don't get it. Isn't it pretty clear that Israel took the land in the first place? Until that fundamental point of origin of this conflict is takin into consideration the fighting seems endless... unless one side is exterminated or so oppressed that they can no longer fight back.

Black Commentator wrote an interesting piece last week calling the situation, "Aparheid" (link to article)

then I saw this picture today, that I'll prob post later... of this sign that said "the torrah forbids a jewish state"

i don't know my torrah, but I'ma need to find that out for myself cause that right there would take the justification right out the rug... almost a "David Walker's Appeal" type move... using the very tool of justification (the bible, etc..) against the justifiers (slave owners, etc..)