Palestine Theater
Lebanon: death toll mounts
Its hard to imagine where this will end... From the Reuters, July 15:
BEIRUT - Israel killed 35 civilians on Saturday, including 15 children, in air strikes meant to punish Lebanon for letting Hizbollah guerillas menace the Jewish state's northern border.
Lebanon carnage escalates; media silence on Israeli protests
Tom Regan of the Christian Science Monitor provides this July 14 round-up of the fast-escalating Israel-Lebanon crisis and international reactions. We especially love Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon's invocation (yet again) of US atrocities in Afghanistan, and Russia's in Chechnya—as if one atrocity justifies another. It does point up, however, that Washington's criticisms of Israel (lukewarm as they are—in fact, Condoleezza Rice's "sharp" words are an implicit endorsement of Israeli aggression) are thoroughly hypocritical.
Jews in Britain protest Israel's Gaza aggression
The following paid advertisement was signed by 300 Jews in Britain and placed in The London Times on July 7:
WHAT IS ISRAEL DOING? A CALL BY JEWS IN BRITAIN
WE WATCH WITH HORROR the collective punishment of the people of Gaza. Everything reasonable must be done to secure Corporal Gilad Shalit's safe release but nothing Israel is doing contributes to that aim. Instead, it is using its enormously superior military might to terrorise an entire people.
Gush Shalom protests Gaza aggression
The Israeli peace group Gush Shalom placed the following paid statement in Haaretz and the International Herald Tribune on July 7:
The march of folly
The offensive on land, from the sea and from the air does not put an end to the launching of Qassam rockets. It is leading to their increase.
Israeli refusenik on "kidnapping"
From Israel's largest daily, Yediot Aharanot, July 5:
Look who's been kidnapped!
Hundreds of Palestinian 'suspects' have been kidnapped from their homes and will never stand trial
by Arik Diamant
Israeli army veteran protests media bias in Gaza coverage
Israeli tanks and troops have entered southern Gaza after warplanes attacked three bridges and knocked out electricity to the coastal strip—in response to the capture of a young Israeli soldier by Palestinian militants. (AP, June 28) But mainstream reports are missing some vital context. A letter printed in the Toronto Globe and Mail, June 27:
Israeli Refuseniks: quit firing at Gaza
From Israel's largest newspaper, Yediot Aharanot:
Refuseniks call on soldiers to refuse striking Gaza
June 23
by Yossi Yehoshua
Israeli artilleryman predicted Gaza beach carnage
While Human Rights Watch has revealed yet more evidence showing the Israeli army's culpability in shelling an innocent family of Palestinian bathers in Gaza, Israel still officially denies its responsibility. An Israeli parliamentarian is calling for an outside investigation.
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