AUGUST 2006

BEIRUT (AFP) - Israeli troops still occupy nine positions in southern Lebanon two weeks after a ceasefire between Israel and the Shiite militia Hezbollah ended more than a month of heavy fighting.

Israeli troops also continue carrying out nightly incursions in border villages, "taking advantage of respect for the ceasefire from the Lebanese side," the Lebanese military official, who did not want to be named, told AFP Sunday.

Under a UN-brokered ceasefire that put an end to the fighting August 14, Lebanese troops have continued pushing into the country's south for the first time in decades, but have so far not deployed directly along the border with Israel.

American Radio listeners:From: "Michael Collins" <piperm@lycos.com>
August 23, 2006 7:23:59 AM EDT
Piper Challenges Daryl Bradford Smith & Hufschmid to Debate LIVE on rbnlive.com

Please feel free to spread the word that I have sent an email to both Daryl Bradford Smith and Eric Hufschmid inviting them BOTH to come on air LIVE on my program and explain how I am covering up for Zionism and how I am a part of the criminal Zionist network—that I've "been with them for a longtime" or otherwise recently joined the network! (Seriously, folks!) They are also spreading the Hellish and easily refuted lie that American Free Press has---of all things---been "censoring" and "suppressing" the work of Christopher Bollyn.
They even cite supposedly "suppressed" stories that WERE published in American Free Press!

Amazing!

Hufschmid has even speculated that people on the old Spotlight staff were "paid off" to help bring that newspaper down! Come on, folks! Smith and Hufschmid also say that the entire nationalist movement is "controlled" with the remarkable exception of themselves and a handful of favored others. it's quite easy for these two to feed off one another on a recorded broadcast, but will they stand up to scrutiny and facts live on the air before an international audience (however small it may be)? I've urged them to come on the Wednesday broadcast, but if they can't make that on such early notice, I've given them Friday as an alternative. My program is, of course, broadcast at 6:00 pm central time (7:00 pm Eastern Time---my time) at rbnlive.com and those who can't hear the live broadcast can always check the RBN archives and play it back at their leisure.

Hufschmid and Bradford Smith say they want to "drown the rats"—including me, I guess.
Well, I want to exterminate the hookworms myself.
Cordially, Michael Collins Piper

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19th Aug:Cluster bomb clean-up The unexploded bomblets are the size of a drinks can

Clearing unexploded Israeli cluster bombs from southern Lebanon could take 12 months, the head of the UN weapons clearance team there has told the BBC.

"Bomblets" have been already been found at 30 locations, but Mr Clark said he expected a final total of over 100.

Israel says all munitions it uses in conflict comply with international law.

USACenter for war-related brain injuries faces budget cut

By Gregg Zoroya, USA TODAY Congress appears ready to slash funding for the research and treatment of brain injuries caused by bomb blasts, an injury that military scientists describe as a signature wound of the Iraq war. House and Senate versions of the 2007 Defense appropriation bill contain $7 million for the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center — half of what the center received last fiscal year.

Proponents of increased funding say they are shocked to see cuts in the treatment of bomb blast injuries in the midst of a war.

"I find it basically unpardonable that Congress is not going to provide funds to take care of our soldiers and sailors who put their lives on the line for their country," says Martin Foil, a member of the center's board of directors. "It blows my imagination."The Brain Injury Center, devoted to treating and understanding war-related brain injuries, has received more money each year of the war — from $6.5 million in fiscal 2001 to $14 million last year. Spokespersons for the appropriations committees in both chambers say cuts were due to a tight budget this year. George Zitnay, co-founder of the center, testified before a Senate subcommittee in May that body armor saves troops caught in blasts but leaves many with brain damage. "Traumatic brain injury is the signature injury of the war on terrorism," he testified.

15th Aug:
Turkey:
Concert for Peace Canceled After Support was Withdrawn

By Abdullah Kilic, Istanbul
08.15.2006 Tuesday - ISTANBUL 05:05
Monday, August 14, 2006 zaman.com

The concert to be given by the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra on August 16 in Istanbul was canceled after sponsors withdrew support in response to conductor Daniel Barenboim's anti-Israeli comments.

Jewish businessmen pulled financing for the concert after Barenboim accused Israel of disregarding human rights.

The Jewish community communicated its decision to the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV). Barenbohim responded to the decision saying he would agree to waive his fees and go ahead with the planned concert, if the orchestra's travel and accommodation costs were covered by the IKSV. Concert organizers, IKSV began the search for sponsors to cover the $100,000 needed to cover the orchestra's expenses.

The Istanbul performance by the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra was cancelled just two days before they were due to play after organizers failed to secure the necessary sponsorship.

The West- Eastern Divan Orchestra was founded by Palestinian philosopher Edward Said and Israeli dissident Daniel Barenboim in 1999 with the aim of developing peace and intercultural dialogue in the Middle East. The orchestra, consisting of 110 musicians from 17 countries including Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Tunisia, Spain, the Netherlands, and Israel, was named after the 12 volume book of poems by Goethe titled, "East- West Divan," in which he forms a synthesis of Islamic and Western poetry culture.

The orchestra first performed in 1999 as part of the festivities to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Goethe's birthday in Weimar, Germany.

Another feature of the city in which great artists like Goethe, Shiller, Wagner, Liszt, and Bach lived is that it is situated very close to Buchenwald, one of the Nazi death camps of World War II. Weimar, renowned for being home to great artists and for its strategic importance due to its proximity to Buchenwald, the city of ethnic cleansing, is perceived as a symbol of peace. The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra is embraced by music aficionados for its artistic success as
well as its intercultural efforts of unification.

The orchestra's repertoire ranges from chamber music to symphonic music; they won world acclaim following concerts at Victoria Hall in 2004 and in Palestine at the Ramallah Culture Palace in 2005; they have released three CDs and a DVD.

Famous musicologist Malcolm Miller praises the orchestra for its performance and achievements, and for uniting a wonderful group of musicians despite their
political differences.

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Israeli army chief sold stocks hours before war: report
(AFP)
15 August 2006 JERUSALEM - Israel’s army chief Dan Halutz offloaded his stock portfolio hours before the Jewish state unleashed a massive offensive in Lebanon and the stock market tumbled, the Maariv daily reported Tuesday. Halutz sold the shares at noon on July 12, three hours after two soldiers were seized by Hezbollah in a cross-border raid and as Israeli artillery began to pound the positions of the Shia militia in Lebanon, the paper said.Israel’s main TA-25 index slumped by 8.3 percent over two days from July 12.Halutz confirmed that he sold his shares for 120,000 shekels (26,000 dollars) and said he lost 5,400 dollars in the transaction. “It’s true that I sold these shares at noon on July 12, but you can’t link the transaction to the war. At that moment I did not think that there would be a war,” Maariv quoted Halutz as saying.

A UN-brokered ceasefire went into effect on Monday after one-month of war in Lebanon but Israel’s political and military leaders are facing criticism over the conduct of the offensive and calls for an inquiry.

Gaza:UPDATED:
Gaza hunt for seized journalists :Palestinian security forces are searching the Gaza Strip for two kidnapped foreign journalists working for the US Fox News television channel. The two journalists are correspondent Steve Centanni and freelance cameraman Olaf Wiig. The crew's Palestinian driver told security officials their car was stopped in Gaza City on Monday evening.

The driver for the two journalists said masked gunmen ordered the men into another vehicle and they were driven away. There is no indication yet as to who may be responsible but Interior Ministry spokesman Khaled Abu Hilal told the Associated Press news agency that police across Gaza had set up roadblocks to find the missing men. Fox News said that negotiations were under way to secure the pair's release. Over the past two years, a number of foreigners have been kidnapped in Gaza. All have been freed unharmed.

The kidnappings come one year after Israel abandoned its settlements on the Gaza Strip and withdrew the soldiers guarding them.

Some of the settlers had to be forced to leave their homes, which according to international law had been built illegally. One year on, the bungalows and gardens of the former settlements are now heaps of ruins, says the BBC's Alan Johnston in Gaza. 15TH AUGUST

14TH AUGUST - JOURNALISTS KIDNAPPED

US television network Fox News named two reporters kidnapped in Gaza as one of its staffers and a freelance cameraman.

The network's spokeswoman Irena Briganti identified the two as reporter Steve Centanni from California and Olaf Wiig, whose nationality she did not specify. A website for the cameraman describes him as London-based.

"I can just confirm that the two of them are kidnapped, Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig. Steve Centanni is an on-air reporter and Olaf Wiig, he's a freelance cameraman. Steve is American, Olaf I don't know," Briganti said.

Earlier reports identified Wiig as Irish.

Centanni has been with the network since its inception in 1996, reporting on numerous global news stories and events, including in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to the network's website.

He is currently based in Doha, Qatar, it said.

The two were kidnapped Monday, witnesses said, after gunmen intercepted their car in Gaza City.

The reporters' Palestinian driver and two other journalists were set free. No group has yet claimed responsibility for kidnapping the pair.

14th Aug.: A curious paragraph from the N.Y.Sun:
Only 48 hours before his Cabinet approved the cease-fire, Mr. Olmert approved an airlift to the Litani River of soldiers who began to fight their way back to Lebanon's border with Israel.

German Newspaper 10thAugust::
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert recently described Germany as his country's "best friend" and encouraged it to engage militarily in Lebanon. But when Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier came to explore diplomatic solutions, Olmert kept him waiting while his government decided to greatly expand Israel's offensive in southern Lebanon.

Even the United States -- in all likelihood a much greater "friend" of Israel's -- was apparently surprised by the Israeli cabinet's decision. Internationally, the chances of securing a resolution for southern Lebanon in the near future seemed to disappear, because the Israeli military spoke of a large-scale offensive that could last up to 30 days. Israeli soldiers were meant to comb the area up to the Litani rivier, driving out any Hezbollah guerrillas.

Then, in the early hours of Thursday morning, came the surprising news that the offensive had been suspended in order to give diplomacy a chance.In Beirut, the government offered to deploy Lebanese troops in the south, and in Jerusalem, the plans to expand the Israeli offensive were put on hold. A tiny window of hope has opened, but it could slam shut again at any moment.

Peter Philipp is Deutsche Welle's chief correspondent.

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Russia Seeks More Satisfying UN Resolution for Lebanon

Created: 08.08.2006 12:25 MSK (GMT +3), MosNews

Russia favors a Security Council resolution that would satisfy Lebanon, Russia’s ambassador to the UN has said.

The conflict between Lebanon-based radical Islamic movement Hezbollah and Israel has been continuing for three weeks in southern Lebanon and has claimed almost 1,000 lives.

“It is obvious to us that a draft resolution that fails to satisfy the Lebanese side should not be adopted because it will only further escalate the violence,” Vitaly Churkin was quoted by RIA Novosti as saying after consultations at the UN Security Council on Monday.

The Security Council decided to convene an open session Tuesday to discuss a draft resolution on Lebanon with all interested parties, including a delegation from the Arab League and, in particular, diplomats from Qatar, the only Muslim country on the UN Security Council.

The session will focus on a resolution drafted by the United States and France earlier this week. The document stipulates no immediate ceasefire or Israel’s pullout from Lebanon. Islamic countries, including Lebanon, have slammed the document for what they called legitimizing Israel’s aggression.

“At the moment, intensive efforts, including contacts and consultations, are being made... to try to make the resolution more acceptable for Lebanon,” Churkin said, though he declined to make any forecasts on when this could happen.

He said Israel’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon to beyond the Blue Line, a provisional border between the two countries, remained the stumbling bloc on the way to a resolution.

“The draft resolution envisions a political process that is supposed to lead out Israeli troops but this is something that you can only discover after thorough analysis of the text,” Churkin said, adding that the document stipulated no 100-percent guarantees that this would happen soon.

“The Lebanese government is demanding a clear resolution that Israel will withdraw from southern Lebanon shortly after the hostilities are over,” he said.

Churkin continued that an alternative plan proposed by the Lebanese government to introduce a 15,000-strong Lebanese contingent into the area after Israel’s departure could bring a resolution to the conflict closer.

“I think that this new element must be seriously studied by the UN Security Council,” he said.

Churkin’s French counterpart in the UN, Jean-Marc de la Sabliere, said the Security Council would try to improve the text of the resolution Tuesday but added that the Franco-American draft was a good piece of work.

A War Crimes Tribunal May be the Only Deterrent to a Global War

Prosecuting Israel

By FRANCIS A. BOYLE
Information Clearing House
08/02/06

The United Nations General Assembly must immediately establish an
International Criminal Tribunal for Israel (ICTI) as a "subsidiary organ" under U.N.
Charter Article 22. The ICTI would be organized along the lines of the
International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY), which was established by the
Security Council.

The purpose of the ICTI would be to investigate and prosecute Israeli war
crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide against the Peoples of Lebanon and
Palestine - just as the ICTY did for the victims of international crimes
committed by Serbia and the Milosevic Regime throughout the Balkans.

The establishment of ICTI would provide some small degree of justice to the
victims of Israeli war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide against the
Peoples of Lebanon and Palestine - just as the ICTY has done in the Balkans.
Furthermore, the establishment of ICTI by the U.N. General Assembly would
serve as a deterrent effect upon Israeli leaders such as Prime Minister Olmert,
Defense Minister Peretz, Chief of Staff Halutz and Israel's other top generals
that they will be prosecuted for their further infliction of international
crimes upon the Lebanese and the Palestinians.

Without such a deterrent, Israel might be emboldened to attack Syria with the
full support of the Likhudnik Bush Jr. Neoconservatives, who have always
viewed Syria as "low-hanging fruit" ready to be taken out by means of their joint
aggression.

The Israeli press has just reported that the Bush Jr administration is
encouraging Israel to attack Syria. If Israel attacks Syria as it did when it
invaded Lebanon in 1982, Iran has vowed to come to Syria's defense.

And of course Israel and the Bush Jr administration very much want a pretext
to attack Iran. This scenario could readily degenerate into World War III.

For the U.N. General Assembly to establish ICTI could stop the further
development of this momentum towards a regional if not global catastrophe.

Francis A. Boyle, Professor of Law, University of Illinois, is author of
Foundations of World Order, Duke University Press, The Criminality of Nuclear
Deterrence, and Palestine, Palestinians and International Law, by Clarity Press.
He can be reached at: FBOYLE@LAW.UIUC.EDU


england:

More than 100 MPs sign petition attacking PM

Colin Brown / London Independent | August 5 2006

The extent of the Labour backbench unrest over Tony Blair's handling of the Middle East crisis is laid bare for the first time today in a petition calling for an immediate ceasefire.

More than 110 Labour MPs, including Paul Clark, the parliamentary private secretary to John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister, have signed the petition. That would be enough to wipe out Mr Blair's Commons majority. Mr Blair will not face the immediate threat of a vote because the Commons has risen for the summer recess, but it shows that he has lost the support of almost a third of the Parliamentary Labour Party on the issue.

The petition has been organised by Crisis Action, a campaign organisation.

The signatories included Martin Salter, the MP for Reading West, a member of the Parliamentary committee, a group of senior MPs who meet the Prime Minister every week. Most Liberal Democrat MPs, including Sir Menzies Campbell, said they would sign the petition, along with 10 Tory MPs.

Cabinet ministers are ordered not to sign petitions to avoid splits in the Government. "We contacted every cabinet minister and none of them said they supported Mr Blair's position, which is pretty surprising," said Brendan Cox, director of Crisis Action. He said the petition, available at www.ceasefiretoday.org, had been signed by more than 35,000.

Attack on Rafah:

The war is still going on. Large numbers of people and casualties are being hospitalized as a result of the daily attacks on Gaza Strip by the Israeli Occupation Troops!

Right now in Rafah, I have seen people and children who had been bleeding for 12 hours, laying on the ground, while ambulances are no longer able to evacuate their bodies. The attack is still ongoing in the last 15 hours and so far more than 12 people were killed and over 40 were injured. the attack is still going on up till now, and the numbers of victims is increasing minute by minute. People in Rafah are appealing to the world and all humans who have hearts and mind to stop Israeli from killing and targeting people inside their houses.

Rafah has turned into a hell as a result of the incursion which seems to be a very heavy with a number of 70 tanks and bulldozers as well as the Israeli helicopters and F16s hovering allover the night and bombing all related to humans.

No water, no electricity in most of the areas in Rafah, as most of the families have evacuated to the schools runs by UNRWA in Rafah refugee camp, but so far and the number of the victims is increasing and many of the people whom injured and killed where very close to Abu Yousef Al Najjar hospital, which is the only hospital and when it comes not to be safe for a medical worker to get into the area or a journalist to get into the spot, then here we can say that this is the end of the most democratic country in the world!
www.rafah.virtualactivism.net

news from Israel:

Zionist Extremism Elevated to a New Level: Israeli Occupation Supreme Court decides to allow Jewish extremist groups into Al-Aqsa Mosque

Israeli Supreme Court decides to allow Jewish extremist groups into Al-Aqsa Mosque

PNN, (Jerusalem) Palestine News Network Wednesday, 02 August 2006

Top Islamic leaders, including Chief Islamic Justice Shaikh Taysir Al Tamimi, are meeting in Jerusalem today to discuss yesterday’s decision by the Israeli occupation government Supreme Court to allow members of Jewish extremist groups to enter the Al Aqsa Mosque (the third holiest Islamic shrine, after those of Makkah and Medina). Members of the extremist groups have planned to enter the Mosque this Thursday morning.

Chief Justice Al Tamimi refused to attend the announcement of the Court’s decision, which was unanimous, citing that it violates international law preventing Israeli authorities from intervening in the affairs of the Al Aqsa Mosque.

The Islamic leaders emphasized that the Mosque has great religious significance to Muslims all over the world, and that the entry of members from fundamentalist Jewish organizations was sure to incite violence and riots. They stressed that the Israeli government will be held fully responsible for the outcome of such an event.

Sources told PNN that the safety and security of Al-Aqsa Mosque will be one of the prominent issues discussed at the upcoming Islamic Summit in Malaysia. There, Muslim leaders will discuss the ability of Muslims, particularly Muslim Palestinians, to access the Mosque and the continued Israeli attempts to Judaize the city of Jerusalem. Aljazeera

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Jordan protester gets a heart punch:"A Jordanian protester is held by security men during a rally at the Jordan University, Monday, July 31, 2006."
Lebanon Sept1st

After nearly three weeks of fighting, about 750 people - mainly civilians - have been killed by Israeli action, according to Lebanon's health minister.

A total of 51 Israelis, including at least 18 civilians, have also been killed in attacks by Hezbollah.
human rights watch:

July30th 2006 - The New York-based Human Rights Watch said Sunday that responsibility for the Qana massacre rests squarely with the Israeli military.

"Today's strike on Qana, killing at least 54 civilians, more than half of them children, suggests that the Israeli military is treating southern Lebanon as a free-fire zone," HRW Executive Director Kenneth Roth said in a statement. "The Israeli military seems to consider anyone left in the area a combatant who is fair game for attack." He said Israel has no excuse whatsoever to target innocent civilians. "Just because the Israeli military warned the civilians of Qana to leave does not give it carte blanche to blindly attack," Roth said in a press release. It still must make every possible effort to target only genuine combatants."

Qana residents refuted the Israeli allegation that the village was used as a launch pad for Hizbullah's rockets, saying that no body has ever seen a Hizbullah launch pad or fighter in the area.

Hizbullah, which has inflicted heavy losses on the invading Israeli troops, repeatedly gainsaid similar Israeli claims, insisting its fighters operate only from remote non-residential areas.

Roth said such consistent failure to distinguish combatants and civilians is a "war crime." He further said the "appalling loss" of civilian life in Qana underscores the need for Annan to establish an international commission of inquiry to investigate serious violations of international humanitarian law. The international watchdog said its researchers have been in Lebanon since the onset of the current hostilities on July 12 and have documented dozens of cases in which Israeli forces have carried out indiscriminate attacks against civilians.