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Palestinians are the Priority: an open statement of commitment to the Palestinian Solidarity Cause
Mary Rizzo
There are individuals within the Palestinian solidarity movement seeking to create divisions by: * deliberately shifting focus away from Israel’s war crimes and its supremacist Zionist ideology; * imposing unilateral agendas by presenting both sides as victims; * sabotaging service to the just cause of the Palestinian people; * ignoring the issue of right of return for the Palestinians; * utilising the platform of the Palestinian discourse to argue about anti-Semitism, which is not a Palestinian problem and not created by Arabs. Our primary and single concern is solidarity with the Palestinian people. As ethical human beings we consider it our obligation to: * do all we can to allow the information to be diffused as widely and as quickly as possible; * ensure the argument of the oppression and disenfranchisement of the Palestinian people stays in the forefront…
PLEASE, sign the petition if you share our concerns.
www.petitiononline.com/grosveno/petition.html
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A REVOLUTIONARY ACT
Malcom Lagauche
The Iraqi resistance is getting a lot of publicity lately in the press. It’s about time. For years, the mainstream press ignored it and had no clue it was even occurring. However, there was one in-depth report of the Iraqi resistance. Although it was written more than a year ago, it hit the nail right on the head. On May 15, 2005, the Boston Globe ran a piece titled “Iraq’s Ba’athists Rebound on 2 Fronts,” that gave a much more accurate look at the resistance from that of other major media. I am puzzled because no other mainstream U.S. media, and much of the progressive media, have failed to address the feature story…
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Iraqi Residents Welcome Resistance ‘With Flowers’
Azzaman
Women ululate. Children clap. Men raise fists in the air and shout ‘Allah Akbar.’ And two young men approach and hand the masked ‘mujahideen’ a bouquet of flowers. The festive mood was supposed to be reserved to the U.S. ‘liberation’ troops whose leaders believed before sending them to Iraqi hell that Iraqis would go out into the streets and welcome them with flowers and ululation. Conditions are totally the opposite of what the current Whitehouse and its leaders had in mind before embarking on their Iraq mission for the sale of which they used every trick and lie in the book. And look at their troops. U.S. occupation forces and their leaders and their lackeys are now the most despised in Iraq. U.S. ‘liberation’ of Iraq is now seen as a deliberate U.S. attempt to destroy Iraq…
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Iraq development: 18 Nov 2006
Roads to Iraq
…- Egyptian lawyer Mohammad Munib member of Saddam’s defense team said in his in his interview with the Egyptian television that President Saddam Hussein assured him that he was not arrested in the hole where he was photographed by American occupation forces, but he was arrested inside a small room with one of the houses in the city of Tikrit, his birthplace, at lunch time. He said that Saddam did not recall what happened to him during this period, and he believed that he was transported outside Iraq for a period for further investigation…
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Education Under Siege
Dahr Jamail and Ali Al-Fadhily, Inter Press Service
…UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) had reported before the 1991 Gulf War that Iraq had one of the best educational performances in the region. Literacy rates were extremely high and primary school enrollment was 100 percent. The number of schools in Iraq under the Saddam Hussein regime (1979-2003) increased due to the compulsory learning law enacted in the 1970s. A huge campaign for the eradication of illiteracy was organised and people had to send their children to school to avoid legal repercussions. The Ba’ath party had influence on the kind of subjects studied concerning religion. In addition, education administrators and teachers preferred to join the ruling party, mostly for job security, but they still had to be scientifically qualified as teachers. Being members of the Ba’ath party when the U.S.-led occupation began, particularly when CPA (Coalition Provisional Authority) Administrator Paul Bremer instituted the “de-Ba’athification” plan, caused most teachers and administrators to be fired, arrested or later to be assassinated by death squads and replaced by others who were selected by new ruling parties, which tended to be Shi’ite religious fundamentalists…
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ISRAEL CONDEMNS RESOLUTION CONDEMNING ISRAEL
Desert Peace
Since it’s inception as a ‘State’, Israel has ignored every resolution passed by the United Nations which in any way criticised them or their actions. Why would anyone think that a condemnation of the Beit Hanoun massacre would be looked at any differently by them? Why would anyone think that Israel is prepared to ‘take its place’ as a civilised entity in the international community?
It has become obvious over the past 60 years that an integral part of zionism is the systematic elimination of the Palestinian people. This is what Israel has been doing…
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Report: Olmert orders killing of Hamas politicians
JERUSALEM POST STAFF
In order to stop Kassam rocket attacks, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has ordered his security chiefs to target the Hamas political leadership, the British Sunday Times newspaper reported on Sunday. The Times said that according to Israeli security sources, a decision to assassinate leading Hamas politicians was made by Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz…
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Israeli official: Kill Hamas leaders
Associated Press
Israel’s deputy prime minister on Saturday said Israel should assassinate Hamas’ leadership, ignore the moderate Palestinian president and walk away from international peace efforts, the latest in a string of hard-line positions voiced by the newest member of the Cabinet. The comments by Avigdor Lieberman came as the rival Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, continued talks on forming a unity government…
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DAILY WAR NEWS FOR SATURDAY, November 18, 2006
Today in Iraq
Fierce street fighting between insurgents and U.S. and Iraqi forces was taking place in Baqouba, an increasingly violent, mostly Sunni city about 60 kilometres northeast of Baghdad, police said. Many residents fled to their homes as the sound of machine gun fire and rocket-propelled grenades rocked the city, police said. No casualty figures were available, and the U.S. command said it had no immediate information about the situation there. U.S. and Iraqi forces raided a stronghold of a Shiite militia in Baghdad on Saturday, searching for victims of a mass kidnapping from a government ministry, the U.S. military said. Iraqi soldiers backed up U.S. helicopters swept through the Sadr City section of the capital. “No individuals were killed, injured or detained,” the military told The Associated Press. Police 1st Lt. Ziyad Tariq said the raid on two sections of Sadr City began at 2:30 a.m. and that three Iraqi civilians were wounded. Police found 20 bodies in different areas of western Baghdad…
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 18 November 2006
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice
…In a dispatch posted at 8:16pm Makkah time Saturday night, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance fighters had shot and killed the No. 3 commander in the hierarchy of the pro-American so-called “Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq” (SCIRI). The Baghdad correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported a puppet security source as saying that Resistance fighters – whom he called “terrorists” – had shot and killed ‘Ali al-’Addad and his wife in the al-Ma’mun district of occupied Baghdad. Mafkarat al-Islam reported that al-’Addadi was the No. 3 man in the command of SCIRI and a commander in SCIRI’s armed organization the Badr Brigades, the 20,000-man armed militia that invaded Iraqi together with the US military in spring 2003 and since then have formed the backbone of the American-run security forces…
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Plans for Redrawing the Middle East: The Project for a “New Middle East”
MAHDI DARIUS NAZEMROAYA, Global Research
The term “New Middle East” was introduced to the world in June 2006 in Tel Aviv by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (who was credited by the Western media for coining the term) in replacement of the older and more imposing term, the “Greater Middle East.” This shift in foreign policy phraseology coincided with the inauguration of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) Oil Terminal in the Eastern Mediterranean. The term and conceptualization of the “New Middle East,” was subsequently heralded by the U.S. Secretary of State and the Israeli Prime Minister at the height of the Anglo-American sponsored Israeli siege of Lebanon. Prime Minister Olmert and Secretary Rice had informed the international media that a project for a “New Middle East” was being launched from Lebanon…
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Our Ali
Saadallah Al Fathi, via Free Iraq
Yesterday, I received an Email from a friend citing a very touching obituary for a young Iraqi boy by the name of Ali who died of leukemia in his family’s self imposed exile in Jordan. It was written by one of his teachers and published in Al Rai newspaper. I wrote back to my friend to express my sympathy and told him that I wonder how many Iraqi Alis are dying without a word said about them. I did not know then that only few hours later I would have my Ali to mourn. Ali is the nephew of my wife, the son of her sister, the son of her cousin and my friend Dhia and the brother of my son in law Mohammad. But he was much more than that to me. He was like my own son who kept my company for eight years in Baghdad when my own sons were away. He was indeed a son, a friend, assistant and a delight to be with (…) Ali was killed in Baghdad on Thursday, November 7 by the Americans or their protégés, the national guards who were manning a close check point. He was returning home on his bicycle from my house which he often did due to the proximity of both locations. No one will ever determine why he was shot because there was no apparent reason except that those who shot him were always seen as trigger happy…
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GI Special 4K17: We Will Have Our Vengeance – November 17, 2006
Thomas F. Barton
Film Review by Spencer Batchelder, The Life & Times of Spencer Batchelder
“Probably the best piece of political propaganda ever” was the first words to come after completing this wonderful propaganda piece disguised as a horror flick.
What amazed me the most was the fact that this movie was sold at AAFES (Army & Air Force Exchange) of all places.
But the best part was the finishing line when the zombies march with fireworks and flags waving in the background saying, “If you ever send us to fight in such a pointless lie again we will have our vengeance.”
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GI Special 4K16: Resistance Where It Counts – November 16, 2006
Thomas F. Barton
Here it is again. Same old story. Used up, thrown away, and the politicians couldn’t care less. To repeat for the 3,484th time, there is no enemy in Iraq. Iraqis and U.S. troops have a common enemy. That common enemy owns and operates the Imperial government in Washington DC for their own profit. That common enemy started this war of conquest on a platform of lies, because they couldn’t tell the truth: this war was about making money for them, and nothing else. Payback is overdue. (…)
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The Zarqawi affair, part 14 of 23
B. J. Sabri, Online Journal Contributing Writer
As I discussed previously, Beeman defined his idea of social engineering in terms of Iraqi factions warring for decades. The obvious outcome that Beeman and other imperialist thinkers expect from such a war is demographic, confessional, and social structure changes of the Iraqi society. Beeman, however, omitted important facts about pre-invaded Iraq. First: excluding the Kurdish struggle for secession from Iraq, there were no Arab “factions” warring among themselves before the invasion. In addition, the name faction is a misnomer and does not apply to millions of people with identical religion but two different schools of thought. This means that U.S. Zionism was determined to invent two notions: 1) factions, and 2) war among them. It is necessary to repeat that such a war could not begin without two consequential catalysts: 1) a macro event such as the assassination of Hakim, and 2) terrorists acts against the Shiite that the U.S. regularly attributes to Sunnis. Zarqawi’s invention, therefore, was that indispensable element toward the project of “social engineering” of Iraq. Second, based on what epistemological parameter did Beeman envision that these factions would fight each other for decades, how did he predict that unless he was privy to information on a protracted American occupation, the Somolia-ization of Iraq, and continuous instigation for war?…
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Major Battle in Iraq’s Baqouba Kills 18
THOMAS WAGNER, AP
Iraqi and American forces fought Sunni insurgents in an hours-long street battle Saturday in the increasingly violent city of Baqouba, as residents fled indoors under the rattle of automatic weapons fire and the blasts of rocket-propelled grenades. City police said at least 18 people were killed and 19 wounded. Nationwide, police and morgue officials said the death toll was 53, including those killed in Baqouba…
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Imperial history of the Middle East
Xymphora
Take a look at this map of the imperial history of the Middle East and tell me who, based on history, has the best current claim to Palestine. Whoever it is, it isn’t the group which currently makes all the noise about its historic claims to the area. The fact that people who might have been your ancestors, or the ancestors of a minority of you, held land for a relatively short period of time, and weren’t even the first empire or the longest lasting, gives you no special claim today…
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Israel developing anti-militant “bionic hornet”
The News – International, Pakistan
Israel is using nano technology to try to create a robot no bigger than a hornet that would be able to chase, photograph and kill its targets, an Israeli newspaper reported on Friday. The flying robot, nicknamed the ‘bionic hornet’, would be able to navigate its way down narrow alleyways to target otherwise unreachable enemies such as rocket launchers, the daily Yedioth Ahronoth said. It is one of several weapons being developed by scientists to combat militants, it said. Others include super gloves that would give the user the strength of a ‘bionic man’ and miniature sensors to detect suicide bombers. The research integrates nanotechnology into Israel’s security department and will find creative solutions to problems the army has been unable to address, Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres told Yedioth Ahronoth…
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Blair admits Iraq ‘a disaster’
Aljazeera.net
Tony Blair, the British prime minister, has admitted in an interview with Al Jazeera English that events in Iraq since the US-led invasion have been a “disaster”. But he insisted it was right to remove Saddam Hussein, the country’s former leader, from power and he blamed al-Qaeda, Sunni fighters and Iran-backed forces for the ongoing violence. Responding to a suggestion from Sir David Frost that the conflict had been a disaster from the start, Blair replied “it has”, before blaming a combination of factors for the crisis. In a wide-ranging interview, he also said Iran and Syria could play a constructive role in the Middle East…
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday, 17 November 2006-
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice
…In a dispatch posted at 11:37am Makkah time Friday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US occupation forces had imposed a curfew on the whole of Diyala Province, east of Baghdad. The Ba’qubah correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US troops imposed the curfew and closed a number of mosques in the city, threatening to kill anyone violating the curfew they had imposed. The correspondent reported that the reason for the curfew in the city was the critical “security situation” there after 25 Jaysh al-Mahdi Shi’i sectarian militiamen were killed and 35 more of them captured. The bodies of the 35 were discovered on Friday morning in a square in the al-Katun area, some 30km north of Ba’qubah, following a Jaysh al-Mahdi assault on the area Thursday evening. The killings of the sectarian militiamen took place as Iraqi Resistance fighters and local residents were battling pro-Iranian Jaysh al-Mahdi Shi’i sectarian militia who attacked the city on Thursday…
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GI resistance grows, active & AWOL
John Catalinotto
If the reaction of some active-duty and veteran GIs is any indication, the movement inside the U.S. military of resistance to the occupation of Iraq is not sitting back and waiting for Congress to stop the war. They are continuing to organize and struggle. Workers World spoke with Navy Seaman Jonathan Hutto, based in Norfolk, Va., who is a key organizer of the “Appeal for Redress.” This is a petition meant for active-duty GIs that expresses their dissent over the continued occupation of Iraq. For Hutto, born and raised in Atlanta and reared on stories of the civil rights movement, Nov. 13 was a big day. “They began work today on the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial,” he said. “I am moved by this, by King taking a place where there are memorials to Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson. Theirs were dedicated to presidents. King’s is dedicated to justice and peace…
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