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4th Boston Justice for Lebanon Rally |
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by Sofia Jarrin
Email: sofiajt (nospam) yahoo.com (unverified!) |
12 Aug 2006
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Under a thin veil of desperation, about 500 Lebanese, Lebanese-Americans, and supporters from many walks of life assembled for the fourth consecutive week at Copley Square to protest the ongoing indiscriminate attacks of Israel on the Lebanese civilian population and its infrastructure.
Photos by Jonathan McIntosh
http://capedmaskedandarmed.com/photoblog |
 4th Justice for Lebanon Rally - Photo Essay |
“We don’t target civilians,” said Seva Brodsky, 43, at a counter protest of about 10 people who see the attacks as an Israeli defensive sweeping strategy against terrorism. Yet, by Thursday the civilian toll in Lebanon was at least 1,000, 30 per cent of them children under 12, while 3,580 have been wounded. In 30 days, 915,792 people have been displaced, including 220,000 Lebanese who left the country, according to the government’s High Relief Commission. At least 124 Israelis have been killed since the fighting started, including 84 soldiers, and hundreds more wounded.
“How do you define terrorism?” said Tony Lakkis, 43, a Lebanese national and American resident who has lived in the United States for 31 years. “Is terrorism those who go bomb homes killing civilians? Or is it suicide bombers who explode themselves on the streets? I think they both are.” Lakkis’ mother, sister, and sister-in-law are currently living in northern Lebanon.
The Copley protest was organized by a coalition of groups under the name Justice for Lebanon, who were able to raise $40,000 during a benefit concert last weekend and have launched a campaign called Boston to Lebanon, to raise 1 million dollars to help the those in need in Lebanon. “We need to emphasize the humanitarian crisis,” said Loai Naamani, 25, a Ph.D. student at MIT and one of the rally organizers, “and how bringing aid to those in need has been hampered by the Israeli bombing.” Oxfam America, for example, sent an 18-tonne consignment of water distribution, sanitation and hygiene equipment to Lebanon, but is struggling to get aid to those in most need in southern Lebanon while hostilities continue. In Saida alone there are a reported 71 centers where around 100,000 displaced people are sheltering.
Carol Hayek, 33, heavily criticized Israel for destroying the infrastructure in Lebanon, which has taken the country “back to square one” after the 1975-1990 civil war and Israel’s invasion and 18-year occupation of southern Lebanon in 1982. “Every mother in that country will become an extremist when the economy falls,” she said. Lebanon's finance minister Jiad Azour told National Public Radio that the bombing has affected every aspect of the country's economy, and it will take at least $4 billion to rebuild the country's destroyed infrastructure. Lebanon was already struggling to overcome a $40 billion public debt, primarily the result of previous conflicts.
Hayek said she has three sisters, five nieces and nephews — 3 of them American citizens — her grandmother and grandfather all living in rented apartments in northern Lebanon, after they fled the attacks on Beirut. They have food supply for 10 days and are unsure what next steps to take. “They don’t want to leave everything behind. Their entire lives are in Beirut,” she said.
On Friday, the Security Council agreed unanimously on a measure calling for a cessation of hostilities and the deployment of 30,000 Lebanese and United Nations forces in southern Lebanon. Israeli officials have said they would expand the military campaign this weekend until they can “obtain the cabinet’s approval.” The language of the resolution calls for an immediate cessation of “all attacks” by Hizbullah but only of “all offensive military operations” by Israel, with no definition of what Israel might consider "defensive" and therefore acceptable under the terms of the resolution.
At the same time, Israel has asked the Bush administration the speed delivery of short-range antipersonnel rockets armed with cluster munitions, artillery that Human Rights Watch opposes for its deathly toll on civilians. “Because so many of the submunitions initially fail to detonate,” Human Rights Watch said on a press release, “M26 rockets leave behind large numbers of hazardous explosive ‘duds’ that are akin to landmines, injuring and killing civilians long after the attack.”
Israel has already used artillery-fired cluster munitions against populated areas. Human Rights Watch confirmed that on July 19, cluster munitions fell on the village of Blida, wounding 12 people including 7 children when two submunitions entered their basement where they were taking shelter.
“It is in Israel’s interest that Beirut flourishes” and “I wish the Palestinians had their own state by now,” said Seva Brodsky, who seemed ambivalent as he placed an “I love Beirut” sticker on his shirt but saw the Israeli attacks on that country inevitable and justified.
Idan from Haifa, a 30-year-old Israeli who is in Boston for a few weeks, said that U.S. policy in Iraq does not help because it will be more difficult to deal with Iran, which he sees as a real threat to Israel’s existence. “Everything that is done against Muslim countries is being manipulated as a crusade against Islam,” he said.
“We are truly an exit to peace with Israel in the Middle East and could be a model for it,” said Mohamed Elhusseini, another rally organizer who emphasized Lebanon’s pro-Western, pluralistic government, “But if you want a failed state, look at Lebanon right now. With every attack people are being swayed to an extreme.” |
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Stop Cluster Bomb Transfers to Israel |
by yo
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13 Aug 2006
Modified: 06:28:23 PM |
Call your U.S. Senators and urge them to oppose the transfer of cluster bombs to Israel.
According to the New York Times, the United States is considering a rush delivery of cluster bombs to Israel to be used in their ground offensive in Lebanon.
We urge you to call your U.S. Senators (202-224-3121) to oppose the transfer of cluster bombs and to ask him/her to call on President Bush and Secretary Rice to halt the transfer of this indiscriminate weapon to Israel.
Given Israel's past record with cluster munitions, which scatter scores of bomblets over a wide area, Amnesty International is concerned that Israel will use these weapons in civilian populated areas, unnecessarily killing or injuring civilians.
Call your Senator today. »
Sincerely,
Colby Goodman
AIUSA's Control Arms Campaign |
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The Memory Wall (On a day in the future) |
by Jonathan
jonnyrebellious (nospam) gmail.com (verified) |
14 Aug 2006
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The Memory Wall (On a day in the future)
By Justin Podur
N., a young Palestinian/Israeli Jew, was late for her meeting with her friend H., the child of Palestinian Muslim refugees who had returned from Lebanon on a bus a few years before. N. was still preparing her gift for H., a hat to cover his prematurely bald head. She was meeting him at the new Museum of Jaffa, which she called the Museum of Tel Aviv.
That was the binational reality: most cities and town in Israel/Palestine had two names. She'd learned in school that the settlers had in some cases deliberately named towns to taunt the inhabitants they had displaced: Levi, for example, had been Lubia, the sounds chosen to echo a reminder of displacement (1). She had read about the passionate debates and disagreements at the constituent assembly about whether the old place names, including the name "Israel" itself, could remain, or whether they would be a bitter reminder of the past of dispossession. But in the end, when Israel acknowledged the crime of displacing and imprisoning the Palestinians and made its apology, the Palestinians who had remained steadfast in their territories and those who had returned from their harsh exile had decided that recognition was sufficient, that they did not want any more memories to be erased, but wanted instead to build on all the memories, good and bad.
So the refugees had come back, and the Israeli residents had not left, so now it was Levi to its Israeli residents and Lubia to its Palestinian residents. And sometimes it was both, or neither, and much of the time it didn't matter.
A lot of things that seemed to matter a lot to her parents, who had been born here to parents who had come very young from Russia, were hard for her to understand. Sometimes they lapsed into talk about "the Arabs", and she didn't get it. Hebrew was her first language, of course, but she was fluent in Arabic too. Her best friend had Arabic as a first language and spoke Hebrew quite well. Most of the kids she grew up with spoke both languages, switching back and forth with fluidity and ease, as she did. A lot of them learned English as well, and Farsi, and French, and Kurdish.
She packed her gift and got on the bus, enjoying the short ride. H. was already there. It was really nice to see him wearing shoes. She had met him when he'd first arrived and he had always seemed to be in bare feet. Worse, his feet were always swollen, his pant legs and shirt sleeves ragged (2). But not today - today he had a neat set of clothes and shoes, and presented his bald head to her with a smile, his hands clasped behind his back.
She had, of course, visited the Museum many times on school field trips, as had H. But they always enjoyed visiting the Memory Wall together. The Memory Wall was made of pieces of what was once called the "security fence" or the "apartheid wall". Artists from different parts of the country had taken these pieces and painted and sculpted a mural on it, depicting the whole history of the two peoples in the land. H. found some of the medieval history distasteful. With his interest in history, he thought that the Memory Wall's artists overstated the common oppression of Jews and Muslims by Christians. The crusades and inquisition were a historical wrongs, he would say, but many of us are Christians, after all. After everything we've all been through, surely we don't want to make Christians out to be the villains.
N. thought he had a point. But the art work in the section that chronicled the history of Arab-Jewish civilization was spectacular, as the joint achievements had been. With her Jewish background, she spent a lot of time at the section commemorating the Nakba, the displacement of Palestinians and the creation of the State of Israel in 1948. H., for his part, spent a lot of time studying the large section depicting the horrors of the Holocaust. These were always powerfully moving moments for both of them. They were silent for some time as they followed the exhibit along.
They followed along through the 1956 and 1967 and 1973 wars, the occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, the Golan Heights. They followed the 1982 war in Lebanon depicted, the war some of H.'s grandparents had survived. The Palestinian Intifada of the 1980s was celebrated on the wall, and the strange false start of Oslo. Why had her ancestors not negotiated in good faith, she wondered? And why did Israel's allies, instead of helping, pour fuel on the flames and provide weapons so that our parents could kill one another? Why were they so foolish as to believe that weapons and killing could solve such important problems? Why did they think building walls and fencing people in and trying to starve them would protect us, their children and their future?
The Second Intifada was also commemorated here, with its thousands of victims. The findings of the Truth Commission of the war crimes committed during Israel's operations in that era, 2000-2006 were not rendered artistically, but provided in blocks of text. In the end, the punishments had been relatively light, N. thought, compared to the crimes committed. She'd had an uncle who spent some time in jail. She'd refused her parents' pleas to visit him, until H. and other friends of hers suggested that she do so. One of H.'s uncles had had trouble leaving resistance behind, had trouble accommodating to secularism, he told her. H. would sit with him, talk to him, calm him down, listen to his stories, listen to his lectures about religion. But that was different, N. had argued. Yes, H. had said, but we all have our duty.
This time, N. and H. lingered a long while at the section on the 'Summer Rains' operation in Gaza and the Lebanon war of 2006. Such terrible, murderous folly. Killing thousands of people, displacing much of the population. So many children. And in the end, disgrace. How close it had all come to the unthinkable, with nuclear weapons and inflamed hatreds and America pushing for more destruction.
How fortunate, N. and H. thought, that Palestinians had been able to hold on, and that the true friends of the peoples of the region were able to show the way. It was slow, and barely perceptible during that 2006 war, that the process had already begun. There had already been conferences - small, poorly attended - in Israel and elsewhere on the right of return. Many Israelis had already spoken out against what was happening and stated their belief that the future was for Israelis and Palestinians, sharing the land, together.
Warmongers in America and Israel who thought they enjoyed total support and impunity were pressured by a growing campaign of popular boycotts, divestment, and sanctions. Eventually they could no longer present Israel's wars as "self-defense" or dehumanize Palestinians, Lebanese, and other victims. People in those countries gained a new political maturity, so that even several attacks by militants on Israeli and American civilians that happened in the years that followed could not be used to derail the process, especially since the legitimate resistance groups began to adhere strictly to the laws of war, even though America and Israel did not. Within a few years, just as politicians in both countries had to worry about losing voters if they supported apartheid in Israel, generals in both countries had to worry about their soldiers refusing orders to fight. When that started to happen, apartheid started to unravel quickly.
How strange, that even her parents - who later had been so caught up that they participated in tearing down a section of the apartheid wall the day it came down - had worried so much about demographics, that if they couldn't be a "majority", even at the cost of imprisoning and starving and bombing all of their neighbours, Jewish life wouldn't be safe. How wrong they were: Jews were safer now, here, than they had ever been, and Jewish cultural life an established reality, a part of the Middle East. She'd visited her Jewish family in Iran, Iraq, in Syria and Lebanon, all of whom were living freely, openly, as part of the wider community of Jews in the Middle East, as part of their own countries, and as cosmopolitan citizens of the world.
N. gave H. his hat, and they went to class - water management - before they had the chance to look at the years after 2006, the years when the tide turned in the world and everything was pulled back from the brink, when the electric fences and apartheid walls were torn down, when the refugee camps emptied and when no one, not one person, was thrown into the sea.
1) See this interview with Israeli historian Ilan Pappe: http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=7281 2) H. has actually been around for some time: http://www.palestineaidsociety.org/www/najiali.htm
ARTICLE LINK:
http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2006-08/12podur.cfm |
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My response to the report by Sofia Jarrin and Jonathan McIntosh |
by Seva Brodsky
Seva(dot)Brodsky(at)gmail(dot)com (unverified) |
19 Aug 2006
Modified: 08:48:04 AM |
Below is my response, paragraph by paragraph -- in re "4th Boston Justice for Lebanon Rally", http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/186905/index.php and http://capedmaskedandarmed.com/photoblog/?m=200608 -- see below for many links with accounts, descriptions, comments, photos and videos:
"Under a thin veil of desperation, about 500 Lebanese, Lebanese-Americans, and supporters from many walks of life assembled for the fourth consecutive week at Copley Square to protest the ongoing indiscriminate attacks of Israel on the Lebanese civilian population and its infrastructure."
Well, as per other "independent" reports, there were not "about 500", but about 200 demonstrators there. Further, the ongoing attacks by Israel were aimed exclusively and purposefully at Hezbollah targets, NOT "the Lebanese civilian population and its infrastructure" -- had Israel wished to destroy Lebanon, it would have done so in one day, back on the 10th of July, 2006. However, Israel has been going EXCLUSIVELY after targets of military significance. Have mistakes been made by Israel? No doubt -- war is a bloody business, and mistakes are occasionally made, and even when there are no mistakes, civilians die in the war, however unintentionally.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has already issued an apology to the Lebanese people on account of civilian deaths. Israel issues warnings before attacks, thereby eliminating the element of surprise, in order to enable the civilians to flee, as Israel bends over backwards in order to save enemy's civilian lives, thereby fighting with one hand behind its back. And we all now know about Hezbollah tactics, which are the same as those of other Arab "brave resistance" and "freedom fighters" -- using their own civilian population as human shields.
“We don’t target civilians,” said Seva Brodsky, 43, at a counter protest of about 10 people who see the attacks as an Israeli defensive sweeping strategy against terrorism. Yet, by Thursday the civilian toll in Lebanon was at least 1,000 civilians, 30 per cent of them children under 12, while 3,580 have been wounded. In 30 days, 915,792 people have been displaced, including 220,000 Lebanese who left the country, according to the government’s High Relief Commission. At least 124 Israelis have been killed since the fighting started, including 84 soldiers, and hundreds more wounded."
See above. Please also note that there were up to 20 people on our side, as opposed to "about 10" as per your report. Facts ARE important, statistics do matter, information is crucial, knowledge is power.
“How do you define terrorism?” said Tony Lakkis, 43, a Lebanese national and American resident who has lived in the United States for 31 years. “Is terrorism those who go bomb homes killing civilians? Or is it suicide bombers who explode themselves on the streets? I think they both are.” Lakkis’ mother, sister, and sister-in-law are currently living in northern Lebanon.
This is how I define terrorism: indiscriminate, purposeful and deliberate killing of innocent civilians. This is the whole purpose of Hezbollah rockets, which are stuffed with ball bearings, designed to inflict maximum casualties among Israeli civilian population. What Israel does, on the other hand (see above) is to go after targets of military significance, while trying hard to avoid enemy civilian casualties. Can you tell the difference? I sure hope so.
"The Copley protest was organized by a coalition of groups under the name Justice for Lebanon, who were able to raise $40,000 during a benefit concert last weekend and have launched a campaign called Boston to Lebanon, to raise 1 million dollars to help the those in need in Lebanon. “We need to emphasize the humanitarian crisis,” said Loai Naomani, 25, a Ph.D. student at MIT and one of the rally organizers, “and how bringing aid to those in need has been hampered by the Israeli bombing.” Oxfam America, for example, sent an 18-tonne consignment of water distribution, sanitation and hygiene equipment to Lebanon, but is struggling to get aid to those in most need in southern Lebanon while hostilities continue. In Saida alone there are a reported 71 centers where around 100,000 displaced people are sheltering."
It is very difficult as well as dangerous to deliver aid to the population in an area of armed conflict. Arab militants (resistance and freedom fighters, terrorists, etc.) repeatedly used humanitarian efforts (such as ambulances, etc.) to transport themselves, weapons, explosives and ammunition, with and without the knowledge of humanitarian agencies. I am sure you have seen by now the infamous picture of the Hezbullah flag hoisted next to the U.N. one on the U.N. observer post in Lebanon. Pictures speak volumes. I am sure you have heard by now of how news is fabricated -- the recent Reuters, AP, et al. scandals speak for themselves -- just go to http://www.seconddraft.org and http://theaugeanstables.com to see for yourself how Pallywood "manufactures" news. And pay attention to the ubiquitous man in the green helmet, who is so fond of being in the picture, holding the dead and the wounded, children and civilians.
"Carol Hayek, 33, heavily criticized Israel for destroying the infrastructure in Lebanon, which has taken the country “back to square one” after the 1975-1990 civil war and Israel’s invasion of southern Lebanon in 1982. “Every mother in that country will become an extremist when the economy falls,” she said. Lebanon's finance minister Jiad Azour told National Public Radio that the bombing has affected every aspect of the country's economy, and it will take at least $4 billion to rebuild the country's destroyed infrastructure. Lebanon was already struggling to overcome a $40 billion public debt, primarily the result of its long internal struggle."
Fouad Siniora, the PM of Lebanon, who a couple days ago promised to bring 15,000 armed Lebanese troops into Southern Lebanon so as to impose peace, was conspicuously absent with a similar offer BEFORE the war. Well, maybe the war, as unfortunate as it is (the cease fire has been announced for tomorrow, Monday, 14 August 2006), has brought something good -- the Lebanese government is now willing to impose its power upon the militants (terrorists, freedom and resistance fighters, etc.). As well it should, since the government of any sovereign country MUST exercise exclusive control of the military. Allow me to remind you that when the war started, that very same Foud Siniora said that he was not going to exercise his military dominion (as requested by the Israeli government) because ... dig this ... Hezbollah was a legitimate resistance group. Do you see something strange with this picture? I sure do.
As for the devastation of Lebanon -- let the U.N. and E.U. pick up the tab -- after all, they are just about as guilty of the war as is Lebanon itself. I am sure you are informed and intelligent enough to figure out the reasons why they are responsible. Just one hint, though -- "it's all Israel's fault".
"Hayek said she has three sisters, five nieces and nephews — 3 of them American citizens — her grandmother and grandfather all living in rented apartments in northern Lebanon, after they fled the attacks on Beirut. They have food supply for 10 days and are unsure what next steps to take. “They don’t want to leave everything behind. Their entire lives are in Beirut,” she said."
My fiancee and her entire family, my own brother, cousins, aunts and uncles, as well as many other relatives and friends are in Israel, many of them in the North. They don't want to leave everything behind. Their entire lives are in Israel, which is getting bombed by Hezbollah missiles as I write this.
"On Friday, the Security Council agreed unanimously on a measure calling for a cessation of hostilities and the deployment of 30,000 Lebanese and United Nations forces in southern Lebanon. Israeli officials have said they would expand the military campaign this weekend until they can “obtain the cabinet’s approval.” The language of the resolution calls for an immediate cessation of “all attacks” by Hizbullah but only of “all offensive military operations” by Israel, with no definition of what Israel might consider "defensive" and therefore acceptable under the terms of the resolution."
Which part of "offensive" or "defensive" don't you understand. Google is your friend, as is Merriam Webster. Mind you, those 30,000 Lebanese and U.N. troops contain the very same 15,000 troops I referred to above -- the ones Foud Siniora did not want to commit to reign in Hezbollah. The world can only hope that there was a lesson here, learned the hard way.
"At the same time, Israel has asked the Bush administration the speed delivery of short-range antipersonnel rockets armed with cluster munitions, artillery that Human Rights Watch opposes for its deathly toll on civilians. “Because so many of the submunitions initially fail to detonate,” Human Rights Watch said on a press release, “M26 rockets leave behind large numbers of hazardous explosive ‘duds’ that are akin to landmines, injuring and killing civilians long after the attack.” "
This is most unfortunate, and maybe the world leaders should convene and discuss which weapons are to be allowed, and which banned. This would go both ways, by the way -- I am referring to the anti-civilian weapons (purposeful and deliberate) that Hezbollah and other Arab "freedom fighters" (resistance guerillas, terrorists, militants, etc.) use.
"“It is in Israel’s interest that Beirut flourishes” and “I wish the Palestinians had their own state by now,” said Seva Brodsky, who seemed ambivalent as he placed an “I love Beirut” sticker on his shirt but saw the Israeli attacks on that country inevitable and justified. Idan from Haifa, a 30-year-old Israeli who is in Boston for a few weeks for medical testing, said that U.S. policy in Iraq does not help because it will be more difficult to deal with Iran, which he sees as a real threat to Israel’s existence. “Everything that is done against Muslim countries is being manipulated as a crusade against Islam,” he said."
As I remember and as my digital audio recording indicates, the interview that Sofia Jarrin conducted with me and Idan from Haifa (he is in the Bcc list of this e-mail), there was a whole lot more factual information that was given by us to you. You chose to redact it for your own purposes. Well, we shall include some of those facts in our own posting on Solomonia.com -- facts are important and accurate information makes all the difference, as it prevents further bloodshed, which is a direct result of wrong assumptions and intentional distortions, misrepresentations, and lies. You connect the dots.
“We are truly an exit to peace with Israel in the Middle East and could be a model for it,” said Mohamed Elhusseini, another rally organizer who emphasized Lebanon’s pro-Western, pluralistic government, “But if you want a failed state, look at Lebanon right now. With every attack people are being swayed to an extreme.”
I totally agree with Mohammed Elhusseini, with his every word. So what the Lebanese people must do to achieve the peace and prosperity they so desire, is to reign in Hezbollah and other militant groups, or just kick them off Lebanese soil, like they did with Syria in the wake of Rafik Hariri's assassination. Anything short of that is not going to bring either Lebanon or Israel closer to peace and mutually beneficial coexistence.
Nota Bene:
For the purposes of disclosure, fairness, and balance, I had to notify you that I have included all the people whose e-mail addresses I had that attended that very same demonstration (but were on the other side of the street from it, holding pro-Israel signs) in my original mailing, so that they could see for themselves just how independent, "fair and balanced" your media outlet is. But then again, according to Jonathan's own admission, IndyMedia.org is a leftist organization, so there should be surprises here.
Also, as I have told Sofia Jarrin (when she was interviewing me on the 11th of August), she was on record, as my digital recorder, with its microphone out in full view, was running all along. You have been duly notified, so I suggest you start phasing out your spin, lest I and my friends and associates expose you for your underhanded tactics, dishonesty, and blatant violations of journalistic integrity.
Conspicuously absent from Jonathan's photo reportage were the pictures of our side, the counter-demonstrators. Was our presence there a mere figment of our collectively inflamed imagination?
One can read our side's report of the same event here: www.solomonia.com/blog/archives/009000.shtml, which just came out -- photos and videos do not lie -- unless, of course, they are taken out of context, or worse yet, fabricated, as we have seen with the Arab media for quite some time -- see the above-referenced http://www.seconddraft.org and http://theaugeanstables.com for ample examples of that.
For more background on the described events, see these:
www.jrtelegraph.com/2006/07/seva_brodsky_on.html -- Seva Brodsky on Fox News -- link to my Hannity and Colmes FOX TV interview (w/feedback below)
www.solomonia.com/blog/archives/008799.shtml -- Mayhem at the Defend Hizballah Rally! -- the first Boston incident (w/tons of interesting and revealing feedback)
A copycat? OK, cool! Sunday, July 30, 2006: http://hourglass1941.blogspot.com/2006/07/cair-council-on-american-islam -- CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) Rally Against Israeli War on Lebanon and Palestine -- a report by ciaospirit from COLUMBUS, OHIO -- the movement spreads ... Read the comments -- a brave woman indeed!
www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51375 -- the Muslim American Society held a rally last month during which a Jewish activist was physically assaulted and threatened.
www.solomonia.com/blog/archives/008897.shtml -- Gobbed by the Peaceniks -- Report from the "Support Lebanon" Rally -- the second installment (w/tons of interesting and revealing feedback)
I missed one Friday demonstration, on 4 August 2006, as I went to see my friends in NYC that week -- this is why the numbering system is different in our accounts vs. "theirs"
http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/186905/index.php -- 4th Boston Justice for Lebanon Rally -- this is how the leftist media describes the same events
http://capedmaskedandarmed.com/photoblog/?m=200608 -- 4TH BOSTON JUSTICE FOR LEBANON RALLY -- this is how the leftist photographer sees it -- notice the selective vision, not a trace of counter-protesters there
http://rule19.org/resources/z-spies.htm -- Zionist lies, spies, and provocateurs - Boston area -- the enemy is getting restless
http://bridgenews.org/news/082006/thugmedia -- Thug media claim “frenzy of violence” at peaceful Hub rally -- the enemy's account of events (parallel virtual reality)
www.solomonia.com/blog/archives/009000.shtml -- Old Enemies, New Friends -- Another 'Justice' for Lebanon Counter-Protest -- the third installment, low key
http://www.thejewishadvocate.com/this_weeks_issue/news/?content_id=1689 -- Russian Jews do battle with Israel foes at Boston rallies -- The Jewish press begins to take notice
http://www.townonline.com/somerville/opinion/view.bg?articleid=548654 -- Kolb: Propaganda vs. belief and both sides of the issue -- using my ordeal to attack Chomsky
http://www.townonline.com/somerville/opinion/view.bg?articleid=557373 -- Letter: Stop the madness -- I chime in on Chomsky
http://www.zombietime.com -- Photographs taken by zombie at events in the San Francisco Bay Area; The zombie Hall of Shame -- a compilation of the most shocking photos and sought-after images from the zombie collection; Major Demonstrations; Lectures and Other Events; Small Rallies; Investigative Reports; Leftovers
Sincerely,
Seva Brodsky
The Pest of Zion
P.S. A bonus -- received via e-mail, see www.seraphicpress.com/archives/2006/08/bibi_bests_the.php, et al. -- posted all over the i-net by now:
Even those who aren't particularly sympathetic to Bibi Netanyahu could get a good measure of satisfaction from his interview with the British Television [several days ago]. I guess it can be attributed to his days studying history at Harvard.
The interviewer asked him: "How come so many more Lebanese have been killed in this conflict than Israelis?" (A nasty question if there ever was one!)
Netanyahu: "Are you sure that you want to start asking in that direction?"
Interviewer: (Falling into the trap) Why not?
Netanyahu: "Because in World War II more Germans were killed than British and Americans combined, but there is no doubt in anyone's mind that the war was caused by Germany's aggression. And in response to the German blitz on London, the British wiped out the entire city of Dresden, burning to death more German civilians than the number of people killed in Hiroshima.
Moreover, I could remind you that in 1944, when the R.A.F. tried to bomb the Gestapo Headquarters in Copenhagen, some of the bombs missed their target and fell on a Danish children's hospital, killing 83 little children ... Perhaps you have another question?" |
See also:
http://www.solomonia.com/blog/archives/009000.shtml
http://www.jrtelegraph.com/2006/07/seva_brodsky_on.html
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Cluster Bombs Continue to Claim Lives in Lebanon |
by yo
(No verified email address) |
23 Aug 2006
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Israel dropped thousands of cluster bombs on at least 170 villages in southern Lebanon during its month-long war against Hezbollah. The bomblets that failed to explode are now a deadly trap for civilians. At least eight people have been killed and 25 wounded from the unexploded ordinances. Democracy Now!'s Ana Nogueira files a report from southern Lebanon. Since a UN-brokered ceasefire came into effect nine days ago, tens of thousands of displaced Lebanese civilians have returned to their homes in southern Lebanon. While Israel's bombing of the south may have ended, it left a deadly legacy in its wake: unexploded cluster bombs. Israel dropped thousands of cluster bombs on at least one hundred and seventy villages in south Lebanon during its month-long war against Hezbollah. The bomblets that failed to explode are now a deadly trap for civilians.
Democracy Now's Ana Noguiera is in southern Lebanon. She filed this report:
* Ana Nogueira reports from southern Lebanon
Ana reported after she filed this story that the number of casualties from unexploded ordinances has risen to eight people killed and at least 25 wounded.
For more on this story we speak with longtime peace activist Caoimhe Butterly. She is in southern Lebanon where she is helping with rebuilding efforts and working to raise awareness about leftover cluster bombs.
* Caoimhe Butterly, longtime Irish peace activist. In the past two years she has spent time in Iraq, as well as in Southern Lebanon, much of that time with Palestinians displaced to Lebanon. She is currently working with a group of more than 400 activists and aid workers in Beirut to empower uprooted Lebanese citizens to rebuild the south of the country and parts of Beirut following the month-long Israeli assault. |
See also:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/23/1413209
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