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Israel reportedly helping with U.S. war preparationBy John Diamond, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON ? Israel is secretly playing a key role in U.S. preparations for possible war with Iraq, helping to train soldiers and Marines for urban warfare, conducting clandestine surveillance missions in the western Iraqi desert and allowing the United States to place combat supplies in Israel, according to U.S. Defense and intelligence officials....
Posted: Tue, Feb 25, 2003 6:40pm PST
U.S., Israel Conducting Covert Missions
Israeli commando forces are reportedly operating in western Iraq where their mission could include creating a provocation to kick-start a war....
Posted: Tue, Feb 25, 2003 6:37pm PST
Israel claims to be an independent Jewish state. Measured against that Claim, Israel is a total failure. It has never been independent, never able to stand on its own feet. Every time Israel asks for more money from the US (now totaling four times the entire cost of the Apollo Moon Program) Israel advertises to the world that it is a DEPENDENT state, unable to survive without massive infusions of cash and weapons from the US. And, so long as the US keeps sending such vast amounts of wealth to...
Posted: Tue, Feb 25, 2003 2:31pm PST
The American people are entitled to also know for the sake of our Republic, if Perle, Wolfowitz, Wurmser, Feith and Abrams are Zionists. They all hold sensitive positions in the federal government that require national security clearance. If they are Zionists, then, the next question is: Do they have a conflict of interest or even an appearance of a conflict of interest in carrying out the responsibilities of their office? Answers to these questions are imperative.
Zionism is a political, ...
Posted: Tue, Feb 25, 2003 5:10am PST
This is not to argue that the pro-Israeli lobby is the only reason for the projected US war against Iraq. At present, there are several forces in United States that are pushing for this war. Prominent among these indigenous forces are the oil corporations, the arms manufacturers, the aerospace industry, and the right-wing Christian evangelists. However, it is doubtful if these indigenous groups, on their own, could have pushed United States so decisively towards the present catastrophic confr...
Posted: Tue, Feb 25, 2003 3:54am PST
The radical Palestinian militant group Hamas issued a statement claiming that its fighters had hit the plane with machinegun fire from Jenin, a claim immediately dismissed by the army. In the south of the country near Ashkelon, a military helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing, also owing to a technical hitch, Israeli public radio said....
Posted: Mon, Feb 24, 2003 10:54pm PST
In the upcoming election, one of the key issues, although maybe not directly and publicly addressed, will most definately be: what is the candidate's stand on Israel and Palestine.
Leiberman has already revealed himself to be a right-wing Zionist, and a total hawk for war on Iraq. Kucinish, in comparison, seems like an ideal candidate who will lead the US to facilitate justice and peace in that region....
Posted: Mon, Feb 24, 2003 9:49pm PST
KPFA Flashpoints Radio Feb 24, 2003:
-ISM member Kristen Schurr reports from illegally occupied Gaza
-British filmmaker John Pilger's "Palestine is Still the Issue"...
Posted: Mon, Feb 24, 2003 9:25pm PST
Israel, recipient of $100 billion in U.S. aid, is demanding another $15 billion to hold our coat as we fight her war against Iraq. Yet Sharon dismisses Bush's plea to stop expanding the West Bank settlements that are at the heart of the Palestinian Intifada that so inflames the Arab world against us. And by the way, says Sharon, the United States should disarm Iran, Syria and Libya, after we finish with Iraq....
Posted: Mon, Feb 24, 2003 7:24pm PST
The Israeli army refused to comment on the footage, saying only that “these things happen in war.”...
Posted: Mon, Feb 24, 2003 5:07pm PST
How ironic. With Israelis behaving very similar to the German Nazis, some Israeli has the gall to call Edward Said a neo-nazi....
Posted: Mon, Feb 24, 2003 2:45am PST
Palestinians have already accepted "Israel's right to exist" on 78% of historic Palestine. In return they were offered Bantustans with a "take it or leave it" attitude. In this post, Palestinians tell you in their own words what it is they want: Peace, equality, and justice. This stands in contrast to what Israel's supporters incessantly tell us about what Palestinians want....
Posted: Sun, Feb 23, 2003 11:29pm PST
The Independent seems to be one of the few sources that are willing to print the significance of the accumulation of the details right now, both in Palestine and Iraq. Other sources will cover a shooting here, a bombing there, but never look at the larger picture....
Posted: Sun, Feb 23, 2003 8:14pm PST
Someone I know who is a "right wing conservative hawk" and lives in Jerusalem probably considers me a "leftist commie Jew." OK - So here is MY case against Israel....
Posted: Sun, Feb 23, 2003 5:06pm PST
The Palestinians have the right to resist their occupation. And Israel, as the occupier, can have no right whatsoever to protest the means employed by the Palestinians.
It's preposterous to suggest otherwise. Did the Nazis have the right to condemn the tactics of the French Resistance?
If Kuwait had been able to defend itself against Iraq's attack, would the world have listened to Iraqi denunciations of Kuwaiti "terrorism"?
No, the world simply told both countries to get ou...
Posted: Sun, Feb 23, 2003 1:56pm PST
The Palestinians have the right to resist their occupation. And Israel, as the occupier, can have no right whatsoever to protest the means employed by the Palestinians....
Posted: Sat, Feb 22, 2003 11:36pm PST
The media is getting more insane by the minute about the war abroad and at home - publishing disinformation about the peace marches, not publishing anything about this large number of deaths, war mongering, etc. . . . . imagine if 33 Israelis had died....
Posted: Sat, Feb 22, 2003 6:04pm PST
We are a Marxist organization that strives to protect the proletariat of Palestine. We stand side by side, in solidarity with the workers of Palestine to bring about the revolution, which will destroy the occupation....
Posted: Sat, Feb 22, 2003 3:39pm PST
Has the anti-war/peace movement won?! We are not out of the woods yet, and even if there is now war, we still have to end sanctions on Iraq and join the world consensus regarding Israel....
Posted: Sat, Feb 22, 2003 2:31pm PST
STOP US and ISRAEL'S GENOCIDE AND APARTHEID IN PALESTINE! If victims of the holocaust had had the option, many could had become suicide bombers too!!...
Posted: Sat, Feb 22, 2003 10:32am PST