
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
cluster bombs in lebanon: another israeli crime

What we did was insane and monstrous, we covered entire towns in cluster bombs," the head of an IDF rocket unit in Lebanon said regarding the use of cluster bombs and phosphorous shells during the july war 2006. Quoting his battalion commander, the rocket unit head stated that the IDF fired around 1,800 cluster bombs, containing over 1.2 million cluster bomblets all over villages in south lebanon.In addition, soldiers in IDF artillery units testified that the army used phosphorous shells during the war, widely forbidden by international law. According to their claims, the vast majority of said explosive ordinance was fired in the final 10 days of the war. Because of their high level of failure to detonate, it is believed that there are around 500,000 unexploded munitions on the ground in LebanonIt has come to light that IDF soldiers fired phosphorous rounds in order to cause fires in Lebanon. An artillery commander has admitted to seeing trucks loaded with phosphorous rounds on their way to artillery crews in the north of IsraelA direct hit from a phosphorous shell typically causes severe burns and a slow, painful death. International law forbids the use of weapons that cause "excessive injury and unnecessary suffering", and many experts are of the opinion that phosphorous rounds fall directly in that category. The International Red Cross has determined that international law forbids the use of phosphorous and other types of flammable rounds against personnel, both civilian and military. Ninety-eight percent of registered victims of cluster bombs are civilians, Handicap International, a UK-based NGO said in a report published on november 2006to date we registred hundreds of cluster bombs in lebanon and that's all made in israel
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
الى متى السكوت عن العميل مروان حمادة؟؟؟

الى متى السكوت عن العميل النائب عن الليكود في البرلمان اللبناني مروان حمادة؟؟؟
يا وليد جنبلاط انو هيك هيك عم تصلح اغلاطك ليه ما بتحكي شي كلمة ؟؟؟
واين القضاء اللبناني مما ينشر في فرنسا وفي غيرها عن دور مروان حمادة المستميت ايام حرب تموز لتصفية السيد حسن نصر الله والذي اقنع وليد جنبلاط بالقرارين الشهيرين في 5 ايار المعروفين والذين اديا الى احداث 7 أيار يعني هذا العميل مروان حماده لا تستطيع نسبته الى اي بلد فهو عميل مع الجميع مع الاميركيين والاسرائيليين والسعوديين ويعتبر من اهم عملاء بندر بن سلطان في لبنانالى متى تبقون عليه هذا العميل المسؤول عن استشهاد العشرات ابان تموز يوم قصف مجمع الامام الحسن ع الى متى؟؟
Monday, August 3, 2009
remember ??




Remember the innocent MASSACRED in Qana,
Remember the innocent MASSACRED in Qubya,
Remember the innocent MASSACRED in Qasba,
Remember the innocent MASSACRED in Beit Hanoun,
Remember the innocent MASSACRED in Bint Jbeil,
Remember the innocent MASSACRED in Jabalya,
Remember the innocent MASSACRED in Jenin,
Remember the innocent MASSACRED in Al-Shajalya,
Remember the innocent MASSACRED in Al-Bureij,
Remember the innocent MASSACRED in Nablus,
Remember the innocent MASSACRED in Nahalin,
Remember the innocent MASSACRED in Lebanon,
Remember the innocent MASSACRED all over Palestine,
Remember the innocent MASSACRED in Qubya,
Remember the innocent MASSACRED in Qasba,
Remember the innocent MASSACRED in Beit Hanoun,
Remember the innocent MASSACRED in Bint Jbeil,
Remember the innocent MASSACRED in Jabalya,
Remember the innocent MASSACRED in Jenin,
Remember the innocent MASSACRED in Al-Shajalya,
Remember the innocent MASSACRED in Al-Bureij,
Remember the innocent MASSACRED in Nablus,
Remember the innocent MASSACRED in Nahalin,
Remember the innocent MASSACRED in Lebanon,
Remember the innocent MASSACRED all over Palestine,
this is all made in israel
israeli crimes in lebanon 2006
in this photo israeli children signing on rockets and bombs to lebanese children during july war 2006!!!!!!Since the first hour of the war of July 2006, Israel turned Lebanese civilians into the first targets of its aggression. More than 1,300 Lebanese men, women and children were killed by Israeli bombs and 4,000 were wounded. About 970,000 Lebanese got displaced out of a population of 4 million. Incapable to achieve a victory on the battlefield, Israel tried to bomb Lebanon into surrender and to get the Lebanese people to turn against Hezbollah but it failed in both goals. It is noteworthy to point out that the Bush government was also a direct responsible
for these crimes because of the blank check that he gave Israel “to defend herself.”
On July 13, Israeli warplanes killed at least 47 Lebanese civilians, mostly children, in 50 airstrikes across Lebanon. A Muslim imam, his wife and 10 children were killed when an Israeli missile struck their home in the village of Dweir, near the town of Nabatiyeh, reported Agence France-Presse. Another family of seven, including a 10-month-old baby, was killed in a pre-dawn air raid in which four missiles struck their home in the village of Baflay, near the coastal city of Tyre, police said. “The first one they brought in was just three years old. They brought her in pieces. First her head and then her arms,” said a spokesman for the Sheikh Ragheb Harb Hospital, in the nearby village of Toul, to the British newpaper The Times.
On July 15, another awful massacre took place. Twenty seven people were burnt alive when an Israeli helicopter gunship launched some missiles on a convoy of families who were fleeing Israel´s attacks in the South to seek refuge in Beirut and the mountains. An Israeli missile hit a van that was carrying families having left the village of Marwaheen, killing 15 people and wounding 6. The Lebanese authorities had asked the UN to help evacuate about 160 people when they were in Marwaheen, but the UN peacekeepers refused to do so. Relatives then blamed the UN for these deaths and threw stones at UN peacekeepers when these arrived there with the dead bodies after the attack, agencies reported.
On July 16, in another attack on a house in Aitarun, an Israeli warplane killed 11 members of the al-Akhrass family, including seven Canadian-Lebanese dual nationals who were vacationing in the village. Among the victims were four children under the age of eight.
The most horrendous massacre took place on July 30 in Qana, where at least 28 people, including 16 children –some of them disabled- and 9 women died in an Israeli airstrike against a building where some dozens of refugees were sleeping. On 18 August, the funeral took place. The bodies were transported to Qana in refrigerated trucks from the southern port city of Tyre, where the dead had been kept since the July bombing attack. The coffins with the bodies of the victims were draped with Hezbollah´s yellow flags or Lebanese national flags. The bodies were then laid in individual graves, which had been dug in an open field, AFP pointed out.
“The Israelis are savages, they are heartless. They should fight against our combatants and not our children and our disabled people,” said Fatmeh Farhat, who lost several of her cousins. “I want to see them. I want to hold them,” a tearful, devastated Hala Shalhoub, whose two daughters, ages 1 and 5, were killed in the Israeli attack, told The New York Times.
Qana had been the scene of another Israeli massacre in 1996, when an Israeli artillery battery killed 106 civilians who had sought shelter in a UN base. More than half of those 106 were children. Shimon Peres, a Peace Nobel-Prize winner, was then Israel´s Prime Minister. Fatima Balhas then lost five children and her husband in 1996. “I am today witnessing another Qana massacre,” Balhas said shortly after the new Israeli massacre in July 2006. “This enemy does not know either mercy or human rights,” she told Reuters.
Naim Raga, the head of a civil defense team, told the British paper The Guardian that when the rescuers found the children´s bodies, “they were all huddled together at the back of the room… Poor things, they thought the walls would protect them.”
Muhammad Qassim Shalhoub, who lost his five children, wife as well as 45 members of his extended family, recalled the haunting nightmare. “Around one o´clock we heard a big explosion,” he told The Guardian. “I do not remember anything after that, but when I opened my eyes I was lying on the floor and my head had hit the wall. There was silence. I did not hear anything for a while, but then heard screams.” Shalhoub tried to help his terrified children but could not due to the non-stop Israeli strikes. “I took three children out – my four-year-old nephew, a girl and her sister. I went outside and screamed for help and three men came and went inside. There was shelling everywhere. We heard the planes… It was dark and there was so much smoke. Nobody could do anything till dawn,” he said.
At the beginning, Israel cynically claimed that missiles had been fired by Hezbollah fighters from Qana as if it could have justified the massacre. Actually, the Israeli government was angry at its armed forces´s failure to achieve any military gains after three weeks of its bombing campaign across Lebanon. Israeli minister of justice, Haim Ramon, issued a warning that a large area in south Lebanon would be regarded by Israel as a war zone, and he advocated for bombing villages to facilitate the unsuccessful advance of the Israeli army. “These places are not actually villages. They are military bases in which Hezbollah fighters are hiding and from which they are operating,” he said.
These lies were, however, dismissed by local residents and international aid organizations. “There were no Hezbollah rockets fired from here,” 32-year-old Ali Abdel told IPS. “Anyone in this village will tell you this, because it is the truth.” Lebanese Red Cross workers in the nearby coastal city of Tyre told IPS that there was no basis for Israeli claims that Hezbollah had launched rockets from Qana. “We found no evidence of Hezbollah fighters in Qana,” Kassem Shaulan, a 28-year-old medic and training manager for the Red Cross in Tyre, told IPS at their headquarters. “When we rescue people or recover bodies from villages, we usually see rocket launchers or Hezbollah fighters if they are there, but in Qana I can say that the village was 100 percent clear of either of those.”
The massacre of Qana triggered a global wave of condemnations against Israel. The Guardian recalled the Qana massacre of 1996 stressing that Israel´s policies had not changed although they had never yielded concrete results. In an article titled, “How can we stand by and allow this to go on?” Robert Fisk, a popular journalist for Independent, said: “You must have a heart of stone not to feel the outrage.” Also in the United Kingdom, David Clark, adviser for the Workers´ Party government, wrote that Israel had openly committed war crimes and that Blair and Bush were being hypocritical by not condemning all forms of terrorism, including Israeli state terrorism.
Some days after the massacre, some international newspapers revealed that the bombs used in the attack had been produced by the United States. The Guardian reported that the bombs were laser-controlled BSU 37/B bunker busters manufactured in the US. Another British paper, The Independent, also claimed that inscriptions on shrapnel found at the site of the attack indicated that the bombs were American. It is noteworthy to point out that the same type of bomb had been used in another attack the previous week that killed four disarmed UN observers. According to some sources, the Bush administration sent other 100 GBU-28 “bunker busters” to Israel after the Israeli aggression against Lebanon started on July 12.
In the 34 days of the war, Israeli attacks devastated Lebanese infrastructure, destroying many roads and most of bridges – including bridges in the South of the country connecting villages to their main roads. The entrances and exits of many towns and villages in the South were totally destroyed by the Israeli air force, leaving local residents as prisoners in them. The Al-Hilwah Palestinian refugee camp at Sidon, an orphanage and funeral became also “military targets” of Israel.
The southern suburb of Beirut, considered as a Hezbollah stronghold, was terribly bombed by Israeli warplanes. Israeli warplanes bombed Al Manar television station there wounding six people. Lebanese television stations also showed flames rising from a section of the Beirut airport, the country´s only international airport. The port of Beirut came under attack too.
Israel also launched air strikes against the north of Lebanon, including Tripoli, Lebanon´s second-largest city. Israeli aircraft destroyed radar installations in the ports of this city and also in Jounieh. In the town port of Abdeh, situated near Tripoli, 14 people were killed, including 9 soldiers. This showed that the claim that the goal of the Israeli offensive was only to destroy or weaken Hezbollah, but not the Lebanese state or army, was a blatant lie. Actually, Israel wanted to destroy Lebanon, a prosperous state in the region whose tourism industry is a direct competitor of Israel´s.
The bombing of petrol deposits and stations and electric lines were part of the Israeli plans for an exhaustive and systematic destruction. Blackouts became a common fact, especially in Beirut. Israel also attacked grain silos and food factories, including a dairy factory. The aerial and naval blockage prevented Lebanon from importing food and medicine, although some supplies could enter Lebanon from Syria. However, Israeli warplanes also bombed the main Beirut-Damascus road to disrupt this traffic.
The intentional and brutal calculated Israeli policy of targeting innocent civilians and civilian infrastructure in order to force the peoples of the region into submitting to Israeli dictates has been constantly used against the Palestinians ever since the Nakba of 1948, and was also put into practice in the July war and, more recently, in the Israeli offensive against Gaza. Israel has copied this doctrine from the Nazis, who used it in the territories that they occupied to crash the resistance. This brutal doctrine is now widely supported by most Israelis.
Amnesty International, the London-based human rights group, denounced the Israeli attacks on Lebanon´s civilian infrastructure and population. AI said in a report on the Israeli campaign: “It included directly attacking civilian objects and carrying out indiscriminate or disproportionate attacks. During more than four weeks of ground and aerial bombardment by the Israeli armed forces, the country´s infrastructure suffered destruction on a catastrophic scale,” the report said. “Statements from the Israeli military officials seem to confirm that the destruction of the infrastructure was indeed a goal of the military campaign. In village after village the pattern was similar: the streets, especially main streets, were scarred with artillery craters along their length. In some cases, cluster bomb impacts were identified.”
“Israeli forces pounded buildings into the ground,” the report went on, “reducing entire neighborhoods to rubble and turning villages and towns into ghost towns as their inhabitants fled the bombardments. Main roads, bridges and petrol stations were blown to bits. Entire families were killed in airstrikes on their homes or in their vehicles while fleeing the aerial assaults on their villages. Scores lay buried beneath the rubble of their houses for weeks, as the Red Cross and other rescue workers were prevented from accessing the areas by continuing Israeli strikes… Houses were singled out for precision-guided missile attacks and were destroyed, totally or partially, as a result. Business premises such as supermarkets or food stores and auto service stations and petrol stations were targeted.”
Nevertheless, the horrendous destruction did not ruin Lebanon´s spirit. The presence of this spirit could be seen in each and every act of solidarity that Lebanese citizens showed towards their compatriots who became homeless. These gestures also proved that the will of the Lebanese people to survive and rebuild their nation was far stronger than the will of the Israelis to kill and destroy. The Lebanese knew that Israel has launched its aggression in order to set their country “back 20 years”. But despite this fact, there is no doubt that they firmly believed that no matter how hard their nation was hit, it would be able to once again rise up from the ashes.
With its attacks Israel also sought to punish civilian population and the Lebanese government in an effort to get them to turn against Hezbollah. However, the Israeli assault had completely the opposite effect to the one that they intended: Hezbollah became even more popular than before because the Lebanese realized that it was the main force standing up to the Israeli attackers. This popular support for Hezbollah was seen in the recent parliamentary election in which more than 92% of the Shiite community -which mainly lives in the South of Lebanon and the southern suburb of Lebanon, that is, the most devastated regions in the July war- voted for Hezbollah and its allies of the National Opposition.
Israel´s daily bombardment of civilian areas in Lebanon and the murder of many innocent people, including old men, women and children were war crimes and crimes against the humanity. The UN Human Rights Commission found that Israel has violated nearly all 149 articles of the Fourth Geneva Convention that governs the treatment of civilians in war and under occupation and in so doing is guilty of war crimes according to international law.
Therefore, Israeli military and political leaders should be prosecuted for them. “Many of the violations examined in this report are war crimes that give rise to individual criminal responsibility,” the Amnesty report said. After the Israeli war crimes in Lebanon and Gaza, many people in the world is now demanding the UN General Assembly act to establish a special International Tribunal for Israel that would use its authority to prosecute Israeli officials and military officers in the Hague if they can be brought there or in absentia if they cannot. The task of the international community must be now ensure that all those who are involved in brutal crimes and massacres are brought to justice.
On July 13, Israeli warplanes killed at least 47 Lebanese civilians, mostly children, in 50 airstrikes across Lebanon. A Muslim imam, his wife and 10 children were killed when an Israeli missile struck their home in the village of Dweir, near the town of Nabatiyeh, reported Agence France-Presse. Another family of seven, including a 10-month-old baby, was killed in a pre-dawn air raid in which four missiles struck their home in the village of Baflay, near the coastal city of Tyre, police said. “The first one they brought in was just three years old. They brought her in pieces. First her head and then her arms,” said a spokesman for the Sheikh Ragheb Harb Hospital, in the nearby village of Toul, to the British newpaper The Times.
On July 15, another awful massacre took place. Twenty seven people were burnt alive when an Israeli helicopter gunship launched some missiles on a convoy of families who were fleeing Israel´s attacks in the South to seek refuge in Beirut and the mountains. An Israeli missile hit a van that was carrying families having left the village of Marwaheen, killing 15 people and wounding 6. The Lebanese authorities had asked the UN to help evacuate about 160 people when they were in Marwaheen, but the UN peacekeepers refused to do so. Relatives then blamed the UN for these deaths and threw stones at UN peacekeepers when these arrived there with the dead bodies after the attack, agencies reported.
On July 16, in another attack on a house in Aitarun, an Israeli warplane killed 11 members of the al-Akhrass family, including seven Canadian-Lebanese dual nationals who were vacationing in the village. Among the victims were four children under the age of eight.
The most horrendous massacre took place on July 30 in Qana, where at least 28 people, including 16 children –some of them disabled- and 9 women died in an Israeli airstrike against a building where some dozens of refugees were sleeping. On 18 August, the funeral took place. The bodies were transported to Qana in refrigerated trucks from the southern port city of Tyre, where the dead had been kept since the July bombing attack. The coffins with the bodies of the victims were draped with Hezbollah´s yellow flags or Lebanese national flags. The bodies were then laid in individual graves, which had been dug in an open field, AFP pointed out.
“The Israelis are savages, they are heartless. They should fight against our combatants and not our children and our disabled people,” said Fatmeh Farhat, who lost several of her cousins. “I want to see them. I want to hold them,” a tearful, devastated Hala Shalhoub, whose two daughters, ages 1 and 5, were killed in the Israeli attack, told The New York Times.
Qana had been the scene of another Israeli massacre in 1996, when an Israeli artillery battery killed 106 civilians who had sought shelter in a UN base. More than half of those 106 were children. Shimon Peres, a Peace Nobel-Prize winner, was then Israel´s Prime Minister. Fatima Balhas then lost five children and her husband in 1996. “I am today witnessing another Qana massacre,” Balhas said shortly after the new Israeli massacre in July 2006. “This enemy does not know either mercy or human rights,” she told Reuters.
Naim Raga, the head of a civil defense team, told the British paper The Guardian that when the rescuers found the children´s bodies, “they were all huddled together at the back of the room… Poor things, they thought the walls would protect them.”
Muhammad Qassim Shalhoub, who lost his five children, wife as well as 45 members of his extended family, recalled the haunting nightmare. “Around one o´clock we heard a big explosion,” he told The Guardian. “I do not remember anything after that, but when I opened my eyes I was lying on the floor and my head had hit the wall. There was silence. I did not hear anything for a while, but then heard screams.” Shalhoub tried to help his terrified children but could not due to the non-stop Israeli strikes. “I took three children out – my four-year-old nephew, a girl and her sister. I went outside and screamed for help and three men came and went inside. There was shelling everywhere. We heard the planes… It was dark and there was so much smoke. Nobody could do anything till dawn,” he said.
At the beginning, Israel cynically claimed that missiles had been fired by Hezbollah fighters from Qana as if it could have justified the massacre. Actually, the Israeli government was angry at its armed forces´s failure to achieve any military gains after three weeks of its bombing campaign across Lebanon. Israeli minister of justice, Haim Ramon, issued a warning that a large area in south Lebanon would be regarded by Israel as a war zone, and he advocated for bombing villages to facilitate the unsuccessful advance of the Israeli army. “These places are not actually villages. They are military bases in which Hezbollah fighters are hiding and from which they are operating,” he said.
These lies were, however, dismissed by local residents and international aid organizations. “There were no Hezbollah rockets fired from here,” 32-year-old Ali Abdel told IPS. “Anyone in this village will tell you this, because it is the truth.” Lebanese Red Cross workers in the nearby coastal city of Tyre told IPS that there was no basis for Israeli claims that Hezbollah had launched rockets from Qana. “We found no evidence of Hezbollah fighters in Qana,” Kassem Shaulan, a 28-year-old medic and training manager for the Red Cross in Tyre, told IPS at their headquarters. “When we rescue people or recover bodies from villages, we usually see rocket launchers or Hezbollah fighters if they are there, but in Qana I can say that the village was 100 percent clear of either of those.”
The massacre of Qana triggered a global wave of condemnations against Israel. The Guardian recalled the Qana massacre of 1996 stressing that Israel´s policies had not changed although they had never yielded concrete results. In an article titled, “How can we stand by and allow this to go on?” Robert Fisk, a popular journalist for Independent, said: “You must have a heart of stone not to feel the outrage.” Also in the United Kingdom, David Clark, adviser for the Workers´ Party government, wrote that Israel had openly committed war crimes and that Blair and Bush were being hypocritical by not condemning all forms of terrorism, including Israeli state terrorism.
Some days after the massacre, some international newspapers revealed that the bombs used in the attack had been produced by the United States. The Guardian reported that the bombs were laser-controlled BSU 37/B bunker busters manufactured in the US. Another British paper, The Independent, also claimed that inscriptions on shrapnel found at the site of the attack indicated that the bombs were American. It is noteworthy to point out that the same type of bomb had been used in another attack the previous week that killed four disarmed UN observers. According to some sources, the Bush administration sent other 100 GBU-28 “bunker busters” to Israel after the Israeli aggression against Lebanon started on July 12.
In the 34 days of the war, Israeli attacks devastated Lebanese infrastructure, destroying many roads and most of bridges – including bridges in the South of the country connecting villages to their main roads. The entrances and exits of many towns and villages in the South were totally destroyed by the Israeli air force, leaving local residents as prisoners in them. The Al-Hilwah Palestinian refugee camp at Sidon, an orphanage and funeral became also “military targets” of Israel.
The southern suburb of Beirut, considered as a Hezbollah stronghold, was terribly bombed by Israeli warplanes. Israeli warplanes bombed Al Manar television station there wounding six people. Lebanese television stations also showed flames rising from a section of the Beirut airport, the country´s only international airport. The port of Beirut came under attack too.
Israel also launched air strikes against the north of Lebanon, including Tripoli, Lebanon´s second-largest city. Israeli aircraft destroyed radar installations in the ports of this city and also in Jounieh. In the town port of Abdeh, situated near Tripoli, 14 people were killed, including 9 soldiers. This showed that the claim that the goal of the Israeli offensive was only to destroy or weaken Hezbollah, but not the Lebanese state or army, was a blatant lie. Actually, Israel wanted to destroy Lebanon, a prosperous state in the region whose tourism industry is a direct competitor of Israel´s.
The bombing of petrol deposits and stations and electric lines were part of the Israeli plans for an exhaustive and systematic destruction. Blackouts became a common fact, especially in Beirut. Israel also attacked grain silos and food factories, including a dairy factory. The aerial and naval blockage prevented Lebanon from importing food and medicine, although some supplies could enter Lebanon from Syria. However, Israeli warplanes also bombed the main Beirut-Damascus road to disrupt this traffic.
The intentional and brutal calculated Israeli policy of targeting innocent civilians and civilian infrastructure in order to force the peoples of the region into submitting to Israeli dictates has been constantly used against the Palestinians ever since the Nakba of 1948, and was also put into practice in the July war and, more recently, in the Israeli offensive against Gaza. Israel has copied this doctrine from the Nazis, who used it in the territories that they occupied to crash the resistance. This brutal doctrine is now widely supported by most Israelis.
Amnesty International, the London-based human rights group, denounced the Israeli attacks on Lebanon´s civilian infrastructure and population. AI said in a report on the Israeli campaign: “It included directly attacking civilian objects and carrying out indiscriminate or disproportionate attacks. During more than four weeks of ground and aerial bombardment by the Israeli armed forces, the country´s infrastructure suffered destruction on a catastrophic scale,” the report said. “Statements from the Israeli military officials seem to confirm that the destruction of the infrastructure was indeed a goal of the military campaign. In village after village the pattern was similar: the streets, especially main streets, were scarred with artillery craters along their length. In some cases, cluster bomb impacts were identified.”
“Israeli forces pounded buildings into the ground,” the report went on, “reducing entire neighborhoods to rubble and turning villages and towns into ghost towns as their inhabitants fled the bombardments. Main roads, bridges and petrol stations were blown to bits. Entire families were killed in airstrikes on their homes or in their vehicles while fleeing the aerial assaults on their villages. Scores lay buried beneath the rubble of their houses for weeks, as the Red Cross and other rescue workers were prevented from accessing the areas by continuing Israeli strikes… Houses were singled out for precision-guided missile attacks and were destroyed, totally or partially, as a result. Business premises such as supermarkets or food stores and auto service stations and petrol stations were targeted.”
Nevertheless, the horrendous destruction did not ruin Lebanon´s spirit. The presence of this spirit could be seen in each and every act of solidarity that Lebanese citizens showed towards their compatriots who became homeless. These gestures also proved that the will of the Lebanese people to survive and rebuild their nation was far stronger than the will of the Israelis to kill and destroy. The Lebanese knew that Israel has launched its aggression in order to set their country “back 20 years”. But despite this fact, there is no doubt that they firmly believed that no matter how hard their nation was hit, it would be able to once again rise up from the ashes.
With its attacks Israel also sought to punish civilian population and the Lebanese government in an effort to get them to turn against Hezbollah. However, the Israeli assault had completely the opposite effect to the one that they intended: Hezbollah became even more popular than before because the Lebanese realized that it was the main force standing up to the Israeli attackers. This popular support for Hezbollah was seen in the recent parliamentary election in which more than 92% of the Shiite community -which mainly lives in the South of Lebanon and the southern suburb of Lebanon, that is, the most devastated regions in the July war- voted for Hezbollah and its allies of the National Opposition.
Israel´s daily bombardment of civilian areas in Lebanon and the murder of many innocent people, including old men, women and children were war crimes and crimes against the humanity. The UN Human Rights Commission found that Israel has violated nearly all 149 articles of the Fourth Geneva Convention that governs the treatment of civilians in war and under occupation and in so doing is guilty of war crimes according to international law.
Therefore, Israeli military and political leaders should be prosecuted for them. “Many of the violations examined in this report are war crimes that give rise to individual criminal responsibility,” the Amnesty report said. After the Israeli war crimes in Lebanon and Gaza, many people in the world is now demanding the UN General Assembly act to establish a special International Tribunal for Israel that would use its authority to prosecute Israeli officials and military officers in the Hague if they can be brought there or in absentia if they cannot. The task of the international community must be now ensure that all those who are involved in brutal crimes and massacres are brought to justice.
what if albania was the zionists home?( by haaretz)

In 1935, British Zionist journalist Leo Elton traveled to Albania, apparently at his own initiative, to see if it would be possible to establish a Jewish national entity there. It seems the only surviving trace of his voyage is his report 10 years later to Hebrew University's first president, Judah Leib Magnes. The document rests in the Central Archive for the History of the Jewish People at the university's Givat Ram campus in Jerusalem. Elton's journey was spurred on by the increasing persecution of German Jews two years into the Nazi regime and Britain's refusal to increase the quotas on Jewish immigration to Mandatory Palestine. Elton writes that he first read of the idea in British newspapers reporting that the Albanian government welcomed Jewish immigration. So he traveled to the tiny country of a million inhabitants, which was completely cut off from industrialized Europe. A government minister told him that "in Albania religious intolerance is quite unknown .... The Albanian Muslims of today are no fanatics."
The minister also emphasized that, in contrast to the rest of Europe, Albania had no history of anti-Semitism. "There is no reason whatsoever to expect that Jewish settlers would not live in complete harmony with the population's diverse elements," Elton wrote. The Albanian option also had economic advantages. The land was extremely fertile, and if modern agricultural methods were used, it could easily supply the needs of five million people. The oranges and lemons, Elton enthused, were the best in the world, and Jews' success in raising oranges in pre-state Israel could be replicated in Albania. Other suggestions included growing tobacco and raising silkworms, and building up the textile and olive-oil industries. The less positive side, according to Elton, was that the capital Tirana had no theaters or concert halls. "I believe that if such men and women were pioneers of the right type, they would achieve not only material prosperity quickly, but also the respect and goodwill of the Albanians," Elton wrote to Magnes. He said that "in the course of a very few years, not hundreds but thousands of Jews in all walks of life might follow." As a first stage Elton recommended establishing a Jewish national entity in Albania like the one in Mandatory Palestine, with the cooperation of two Zionist movements. Later Albania might even be turned into a Jewish national home. It is not known what became of the idea, whether any official body discussed it, and whether Magnes even bothered to answer Elton. The Jews, in any case, did not immigrate in large numbers to Albania. Hadassah Assouline, director of the archive, says the report was probably submitted to the university in 1945 amid the refugee problem at the end of World War II. Interestingly enough, Elton's high estimation of the Albanians was borne out during the Holocaust: They saved the country's small Jewish community, down to its very last members
The minister also emphasized that, in contrast to the rest of Europe, Albania had no history of anti-Semitism. "There is no reason whatsoever to expect that Jewish settlers would not live in complete harmony with the population's diverse elements," Elton wrote. The Albanian option also had economic advantages. The land was extremely fertile, and if modern agricultural methods were used, it could easily supply the needs of five million people. The oranges and lemons, Elton enthused, were the best in the world, and Jews' success in raising oranges in pre-state Israel could be replicated in Albania. Other suggestions included growing tobacco and raising silkworms, and building up the textile and olive-oil industries. The less positive side, according to Elton, was that the capital Tirana had no theaters or concert halls. "I believe that if such men and women were pioneers of the right type, they would achieve not only material prosperity quickly, but also the respect and goodwill of the Albanians," Elton wrote to Magnes. He said that "in the course of a very few years, not hundreds but thousands of Jews in all walks of life might follow." As a first stage Elton recommended establishing a Jewish national entity in Albania like the one in Mandatory Palestine, with the cooperation of two Zionist movements. Later Albania might even be turned into a Jewish national home. It is not known what became of the idea, whether any official body discussed it, and whether Magnes even bothered to answer Elton. The Jews, in any case, did not immigrate in large numbers to Albania. Hadassah Assouline, director of the archive, says the report was probably submitted to the university in 1945 amid the refugee problem at the end of World War II. Interestingly enough, Elton's high estimation of the Albanians was borne out during the Holocaust: They saved the country's small Jewish community, down to its very last members
Saturday, August 1, 2009
ما الذي يجمع بين مبارك عنخ أمون والياميش؟؟؟؟

مصر التي تستعد لمحاكمة البطل سامي شهاب في محاكم الطاغية الفرعون مبارك عنخ امون حفاظا على امنها القومي هي مصر نفسها التي تصدر الغاز الى الكيان الاسرائيلي بسعر منخفض جدا للجارة اسرائيلومصر التي تحاكم سامي شهاب حفاظا على ما يسمى امنها القومي تسمح للسفن والغواصات الاسرائيلية بعبور قناة السويس لتهديد ايران عدوة مصر بالمفهوم الفرعونيمصر نفسها هذه تستعد لاستقبال رمضان كما كل عام ولكن مع تشديد وتضييق على الحريات الدينية وتتجه أحيانا الى الوهابية في تكفيرها المذهب الشيعيوما حال مليون شيعي في مصر اليوم اذ يعذبون في سجون الطاغية مبارك؟؟؟ هو نفس حال الشيعة في المملكة البدوية السعودية والمغرب اضطهاد واضطهاد واضطهادمصر نفسها التي تحاكم سامي شهاب في شعبان وتستعد لاصدار حكم بعشرين سنة أشغال شاقة عليه في احسن الاحوال او قد يطمح حسني مبارك الى عقوبة الاعدام ولكنه يدرس بتمعن تداعيات هكذا امر اذا ما تم على المنطقة بأسرها وليس فقط على لبنان ومصرمصر هذه تستعد لاستقبال رمضان وافطاره بالياميش الذي اصبح معروفا جدا في احياء القاهرة ويستلذ به المصريون عند وقت الافطار او يقدمونه الى زوارهم مع الشيشة والبانغووالياميش هذا من التمور والمجففات الاسرائيلية المنتشرة كثيرا في مصر والاردن والمغرب وفرنسا وتباع أحيانا تحت مسميات عربية كتمر شامي وما الى ذلك ما اجمل صيامك يا حسني مبارك وافطارك على الياميش، يعني ناقص الجنسية الاسرائيلية بس
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