Clashes erupt for second day in Lebanon »
Posted By JamesMarcus 1 year, 6 months ago in NewsShiite Hezbollah supporters and the Lebanese government's Sunni backers clashed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades Thursday in battles that spread through Beirut's streets soon after Hezbollah's leader vowed to fight any attempt to disarm his men.
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TimALoftis1 year, 6 months ago
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additional reports from CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/08/leban...
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TimALoftis1 year, 6 months ago
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"Just in the past few minutes ... things have gotten a lot worse," CNN's Cal Perry reported from downtown Beirut. The sound of gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades could be heard throughout his live reports.
Perry, who took cover with the Lebanese army, said government forces have not yet reacted to the violence.
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hyperbola1 year, 6 months ago
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How about letting mideastern jews point the finger at the criminals. They are better informed about zionist crimes against humanity than americans.
Indigenous Middle Eastern Jews condemn Israeli aggression
Indigenous Middle Eastern Jewry, from Lebanon, Morocco, and Iran, have issued recent condemnations of the Israeli assaults on Lebanon and Palestine....
http://www.ww4report.com/node/2278
Moroccan Jews ask court to try Amir Peretz for war crimes
Three Jewish Moroccans have submitted Rabat's high court with a petition against Defense Minister Amir Peretz, accusing the Moroccan-born Israeli of war crimes. ...
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/746169.html
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hyperbola1 year, 6 months ago
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Then, one can remember that the US and Israel are "supporting" the minority "christian fascist government" in Lebanon, including terrorists.
Who's Behind the Fighting in North Lebanon?
... Given Bush administration debacles in Iraq and Afghanistan and its encouragement for Israel to continue its destruction of Lebanon this past summer, the situation in Lebanon mirrors, in some respects, the early 1980's when groups sprung up to resist the US green lighted Israeli invasion and occupation. But rather than being Shia and pro-Hezbollah, today's groups are largely Sunni and anti-Hezbollah. Hence they qualify for US aid, funneled by Sunni financial backers in league with the Bush administration which is committed to funding Islamist Sunni groups to weaken Hezbollah.
This project has become the White House obsession following Israel's July 2006 defeat.
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Thinker221 year, 6 months ago
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> I'm sure most Lebanese people just want peace.
Most people everywhere just want peace. Unfortunately, some people want pIece NOT WITH the others but WITHOUT others so these others must be killed first... and then, of course, there will be peace.
This is why Israel and the Jews are to blame for the absence of peace in the Middle East in general and in Lebanon, in particular. If there were no Jews and no Israel then the Palestinian Arabs would not know that they're "Palestinians"; they would not try to overturn Jordanian King Hussein in 1970; Hussein would not throw them out of Jordan; there would be no resulting civil war in Lebanon... and Lebanon would remain the same 'cosmopolitan country' it was back in the 1950s and the 1960s.
It's all the Zionist plots!
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hyperbola1 year, 6 months ago
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Well, well! From the comments up to this point we see a number of zionists who are well aware of israeli crimes against humanity in Labanon and are trying to "play innocent" even before these are remembered! It is, of course, in the historical record that the zionists in Israel wanted southern Lebanon from the beginning and have committed numerous crimes against humanity in Lebanon.
Sharon's war crimes in Lebanon: the record
... The Zionists had long had an interest in Lebanon, one of four small states carved out of the Syrian province of the Ottoman Empire by French imperialism in the aftermath of World War I. In 1938, Ben Gurion, who was to become Israel's first prime minister in 1948, envisaged a state of Israel that would include Southern Lebanon as far as the Litani Riverâ;;an essential water supply.
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hyperbola1 year, 6 months ago
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His perspective included an alliance with Lebanon's Christian Maronites, one of the many sectional groups encouraged by the French colonial regime to keep the region divided as a bulwark against the Muslim Arab masses and Arab nationalism.
In the mid-1950s, the Israeli government considered the break-up of Lebanon, the establishment of a Christian state and the annexation of Southern Lebanon. Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan, foreshadowing what was to happen in the late 1970s, argued that this could be achieved by winning over or bribing a military officer who would put himself at the head of the Maronites and provide the pretext for an Israeli invasion.
... While Israel made much of the terrorist attacks on its own population, there was little reporting of its own scorched earth campaign between 1968 and 1974 against Lebanon...
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walden31 year, 6 months ago
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Edmar141 year, 6 months ago
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No hyperbola, you are seeing people who are literate in historical facts of which you deny. It's not unusual for sick minds to ignore the facts as the rest of the intelligent world knows them. But then again, some people just need Google to foster their stupidity. They can't do it on their own because they don't have the resources or the ability. HOW SAD for Hyperbola. BTW, please show us all CREDIBLE, RECOGNIZED historical evidence that Israel coveted southern Lebanon. You can't because it doesn't exist. No credible historian would ever make that claim and I know that for a fact since I attend most of the international historical conferences.
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walden31 year, 6 months ago
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20 March: Seven people killed in a suicide bomb attack on a bus carrying mainly Arab labourers near the northern town of Umm el-Fahem.
9 March: At least 11 people killed and 50 injured in suicide bomb attack on a crowded cafe in west Jerusalem, near the official residence of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
2 March: Nine people killed including two babies, and 57 injured after suicide bomb attack in an ultra-Orthodox area of Jerusalem.
27 January: Two people - one a female suicide bomber - die in an attack in a busy shopping area of central Jerusalem.
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walden31 year, 6 months ago
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October 7, 1985, Between Alexandria, Egypt and Haifa, Israel. A four-member Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine squad took over the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro, as it was sailing from Alexandria, Egypt, to Israel. The squad murdered a disabled U.S. citizen, Leon Klinghoffer, by throwing him in the ocean. The rest of the passengers were held hostage for two days and later released after the terrorists turned themselves in to Egyptian authorities in return for safe passage. But U.S. Navy fighters intercepted the Egyptian aircraft flying the terrorists to Tunis and forced it to land at the NATO airbase in Italy, where the terrorists were arrested. Two of the terrorists were tried in Italy and sentenced to prison. The Italian authorities however let the two others escape on diplomatic passports. Abu Abbas, who masterminded the hijacking, was later convicted to life imprisonment in absentia.
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Endoscopy1 year, 6 months ago
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The Shiites and Sunnis have been going at if since the fourth Caliph. The Shiite leader at that time waited to be killed along with his whole family. He did this knowing that it would mean war for a long time. They still fight over it like today.
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hyperbola1 year, 6 months ago
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Jimmy Carter is now playing the same role in America as those who resisted nazism in Germany - resistance to crimes against humanity fostered by corrupt governments.
Iran's Jews won't mark Israeli independence day
Do No Evil â;; The Iranian Jewish community will not mark Israel's 60th Independence Day, incoming Iranian Jewish parliamentarian Siamak Morsadegh said Wednesday. The Iranian Jewish leader told Reuters that Israel's policies toward Palestinians, particularly Gazans, demonstrated "anti-human behavior ... they kill innocent people."
http://donoevil.propeller.com/story/2008/05/08/...
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hyperbola1 year, 6 months ago
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Poor Ace, stuck trying to slur jewish messengers who condemn the crimes against humanity that he supports. The good new is that jews worldwide condemn your racism and more and more american and israeli jews are joining them.
Toasting God's Terrorism and Other Passover Themes
Religion â;; Passover is About Liberation; Not Simply About Jews. Jews Aren't in Bondage, Today. But the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza Are. Five Questions for the Seder.
http://religion.propeller.com/story/2008/04/20/...
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walden31 year, 6 months ago
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Feb 25, 2002 - Police officer 1st Sgt. Galit Arbiv, 21, of Nesher, died after being fatally shot, when a terrorist opened fire at a bus stop in the Neve Ya'akov residential neighbhorhood in northern Jerusalem. Eight others were injured, two seriously. The Fatah al-Aksa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Feb 27, 2002 - Gad Rejwan, 34, of Jerusalem, was shot and killed early Wednesday morning by one of his Palestinian employees in a factory in the Atarot industrial area, north of Jerusalem. Two Fatah groups issued a joint statement taking responsibility for the murder.
Feb 28, 2002 - IDF soldier St.-Sgt. Haim Bachar, 20, of Tel Aviv was killed during clashes with Palestinians in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus. IDF forces entered the camp to search for wanted terrorists.
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walden31 year, 6 months ago
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Mar 1, 2002 - IDF soldier Sgt. Ya'acov Avni, 20, of Kiryat Ata was killed by Palestinian sniper fire in the Jenin refugee camp.
Mar 2, 2002 - The bullet-ridden body of Jerusalem police detective Chief-Supt. Moshe Dayan, 46, of Ma'aleh Adumim, was discovered next to his trail motorcycle, near the Mar Saba Monastery in the Judean Desert. Tanzim claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 2, 2002 - Eleven people were killed and over 50 were injured, 4 critically, in a suicide bombing at 19:15 on Saturday evening near a yeshiva in the ultra-Orthodox Beit Yisrael neighborhood in the center of Jerusalem where people had gathered for a bar-mitzva celebration. The terrorist detonated the bomb next to a group of women waiting with their baby carriages for their husbands to leave the nearby synagogue. The victims: Shlomo Nehmad (40), his wife Gafnit (32), and their daughters Shiraz (7) and Liran (3), of Rishon Lezion; Shaul Nehmad (15), of Rishon Lezion; Lidor
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walden31 year, 6 months ago
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Mar 3, 2002 - Sgt. Steven Kenigsberg, 19, of Hod Hasharon was killed and 4 soldiers injured when a Palestinian gunman opened fire near the Kissufim crossing in the Gaza Strip. The Islamic Jihad and Tanzim claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 5, 2002 - Police officer FSM Salim Barakat, 33, of Yarka; Yosef Habi, 52, of Herzliya; and Eli Dahan, 53, of Lod were killed and over 30 people were wounded in Tel-Aviv when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire on two adjacent restaurants shortly after 2:00 AM. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 5, 2002 - Devorah Friedman, 45, of Efrat, was killed and her husband injured in shooting attack on the Bethlehem bypass "tunnel road", south of Jerusalem. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 5, 2002 - Maharatu Tagana, 85, of Upper Nazareth was killed and a large number of people injured, most lightly, when a suicide bomber exploded in an Egg
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walden31 year, 6 months ago
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Mar 10, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Kobi Eichelboim, 21, of Givatayim died Sunday afternoon from wounds suffered in the morning when a Palestinian gunman disguised as a worker opened fire at the entrance to Netzarim in the Gaza Strip.
Mar 12, 2002 - Eyal Lieberman, 42, of Tzoran was killed and another person was wounded in a shooting attack at the Kiryat Sefer checkpoint, east of Modi'in.
Mar 12, 2002 - Yehudit Cohen, 33, of Shlomi; Ofer Kanarick, 44, of Moshav Betzet; Alexei Kotman, 29, of Kibbutz Beit Hashita; Lynne Livne, 49, and her daughter Atara, 15, of Kibbutz Hanita; and Lt. German Rozhkov, 25, of Kiryat Shmona were killed when two terrorists opened fire from an ambush on Israeli vehicles traveling between Shlomi and Kibbutz Metzuba near the northern border with Lebanon. Seven others were injured. Israeli forces killed the two gunmen, who were dressed in IDF uniforms, and carried out wide-scale searches for additional terrorists.
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walden31 year, 6 months ago
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Oh when you start digging into it it's endless.
March 16, 1984, Beirut, Lebanon. Hizballah kidnapped William Buckley, a political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut. Buckley was supposed to be exchanged for prisoners. However when the transaction failed to take place, he was reportedly transported to Iran. Although his body was never found, the U.S. administration declared the American diplomat dead.
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walden31 year, 6 months ago
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April 12, 1984, Torrejon, Spain. Hizballah bombed a restaurant near an U.S. Air Force base in Torrejon, Spain, killing 18 servicemen and wounding 83 people.
September 20, 1984, Beirut, Lebanon. A suicide bomb attack on the U.S. Embassy in East Beirut killed 23 people and injured 21. The American and British ambassadors were slightly injured in the attack, attributed to the Iranian backed Hizballah group.
September 20, 1984, Aukar, Lebanon. Islamic Jihad detonate a van full of explosives 30 feet in front of the U.S. Embassy annex severely damaging the building, killing two U.S. servicemen and seven Lebanese employees, as well as 5 to 15 non-employees. Twenty Americans were injured, including U.S. Ambassador Reginald Bartholomew and visiting British Ambassador David Miers. An estimated 40 to 50 Lebanese were hurt. The attack came in response to the U.S. veto September 6 of a U.N. Security Council resolution.
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walden31 year, 6 months ago
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December 4, 1984, Tehran, Iran. Hizballah terrorists hijacked a Kuwait Airlines plane en route from Dubai, United Emirates, to Karachi, Pakistan. They demanded the release from Kuwaiti jails of members of Da'Wa, a group of Shiite extremists serving sentences for attacks on French and American targets on Kuwaiti territory. The terrorists forced the pilot to fly to Tehran where the terrorists murdered two passengers--American Agency for International Development employees, Charles Hegna and William Stanford. Although an Iranian special unit ended the incident by storming the plane and arresting the terrorists, the Iranian government might also have been involved in the hijacking.Robert Stethem
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walden31 year, 6 months ago
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Shi'ite HijackersJune 14, 1985, Between Athens and Rome. Two Hizballah members hijacked a TWA Flight 847 en route to Rome from Athens and forced the pilot to fly to Beirut. The terrorists, believed to belong to Hizballah, asked for the release of members of the group Kuwait 17 and 700 Shi'ite prisoners held in Israeli and South Lebanese prisons. The eight crewmembers and 145 passengers were held for 17 days during which one of the hostages,Robert Stethem Robert Stethem (Right Photos), a U.S. Navy diver, was murdered. After being flown twice to Algiers, the aircraft returned to Beirut and the hostages were released. Later on, four Hizballah members were secretly indicted. One of them, the Hizballah senior officer Imad Mughniyah, was indicted in absentia.
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