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under international law, the Lebanese may pump 35 million cubic meters of water a year, and that they intend to pump only 12 million. Other statistics suggest that the Lebanese already pump 7 million cubic meters further north and intend only to raise this figure to 9 million. But now Ariel Sharon, the Israeli Prime Minister, has become involved in the whole affair, discussing with army officers the fate of the water project. One Israeli minister scoffed at the use of the army. "Are we g...

There is one flaw in this strategy, which most Americans have swallowed whole. The country that is the all-time world-class champion at failing to obey and at defying U.N. resolutions is Mr. Bush's favorite country, Israel. There is no way you can logically argue that failure to enforce about 70 resolutions against Israel does not jeopardize the United Nations, but failure to enforce 16 resolutions directed at Iraq would and is a just cause for war. The reason the United Nations has n...

I've been too busy fretting about "why they hate us" to follow the Democrats' latest objections to the war on terrorism. So it was nice to have Al Gore lay out their full traitorous case this week. To show we really mean business, Gore said we should not get sidetracked by a madman developing weapons of mass destruction who longs for our annihilation....

"Now is not the time to promulgate propaganda intended to divide our people..." Gathered from Web pages, e-mail groups and other sources, are remarks from an array of right-wing groups and individuals from 2001. This second look highlights the tainted wellsprings of posionous rhetoric that continue to muddy the turbulent waters of today....

A group of 'internationally renowned scholars' probes 9/11 and, to the surprise of no one, identifies a familiar enemy...

Okay, let's see if I get this straight: the U.S. is preparing to go to war with Iraq because Saddam might, in the future, develop "weapons of mass destruction" and therefore threaten the peace of the Middle East. But the U.S. is itself prepared to use weapons of mass destruction if the Arabs and Israelis should come to blows – no matter who starts it – or if nuclear-armed Israel is attacked. Perhaps those UN arms inspectors, instead of picking over the ruins of Iraqi mil...

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I actually heard the gunfire, saw the unhesitant fingers of Israeli soldiers continuously pressing the triggers of their M16 rifles aimed at Palestinian women, men and children running for their lives. I saw bodies covered with blood rushed out of the area--each body held by several young men because the Israeli's prevented ambulances from reaching the injured, many of whom died of their wounds because of the inability to access medical assistance. Some bodies laid in public for sometime beca...

"A well-documented study that contains much information that is important and generally unknown in the United States. Particularly valuable is his discussion of the distorting filter through which the Israeli-Arab conflict passes and the policy consequences of these very serious misrepresentations."-- Noam Chomsky...