| Author | Message | | sharkman | | Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2002 10:17 am Post subject: attacking iraq in the fall according to ucla professor... |
| a professor at ucla announced in his political science course yesterday that many americans didn't know it yet, but that the us (israel-lobbied) government has made a decision to attack iraq in the upcoming fall season.
forwarded:
While an Israeli man is still perishing in jail for telling the world about
Israel's nuclear weapon making facilities, US wants to attack Iraq for
inspecting its alleged nuclear facilities! Israel has never let even one
inspector in! And it has taken 18 years of one man's life to even expose the
existence of Israel's nuclear facility!
Thank God Europeans & rest of the world could see behind US War machine
wanting to inflict further sufferings on Iraqi people, while carrying on to
finance & support & arm to teeth an irresponsible, nuclear powered army.
An army, which seems is trained in torturing young Palestinian men, in
stealing, in using explosive to blow up doors (instead of knocking), in
vandalising kindergartens,in uprooting olive trees, in inflicting daily
sufferings on Palestinian people, in starving people. An army whose soldiers
take delight in making star of David with razors on face of young
Palestinian kids caught walking on the dirt tracks behind their villages,
instead of languishing in Israeli checkpoints. An army, whose speciality
seems to kill innocent people waiting in the checkpoints to get to hospital
or school or visit a family member. An army who takes delight in shooting
innocent civilians at random & watching them bleed to death & shooting on
anyone or ambulances coming to the aid of injured.
But then this army is so drunk with US 5 billion dollar aid & the political
cover it gets for all the war crime it commits (Jenin was only one of many),
that has gone totally wild in committing acts of barbarism & savagery.
While the world media gets flushed with images of suicide bombings (the last
one in a bus full of Israeli soldiers), no camera is allowed inside occupied
territories, to see the cause of these acts of self-sacrifice. To see that
Israeli soldiers & settlers are the true trainers of these suicide bombers.
That by taking their lands, by making their lives unbearable, by inflicting
tortures & daily atrocities, they drive few self-less individuals to
sacrifice their lives in an attempt to free their homeland from a savage
occupying force. May Israeli people wake up & stop the atrocities committed
by their government & the settlers & May US people wake up & stop their tax
dollars to be used for murderous acts of Israel government against much
suffered people of Palestine, whose only crime has been to be born on their
ancestral land.
As they suffer, the whole of humanity suffers. If citizens of Israel want
peace, they won't find it in occupation & torturing of Palestinians & in the
checkpoints. STOP the occupation & STOP the murderous acts of your
government; one more life, whether an Israeli soldier on a bus or a suicide
bomber or a woman in checkpoint is one too many!
Don't expect your government & settlers bring you peace by increasing their
violence & sadistic actions. If it was going to work it would have by now;
there was no cruelty they spared on the innocent civilians.They bulldozed
houses with family inside, they killed children or shot at their eyes, they
tortured young men & old men......
Instead of making US Military industry to thrive by endless suffering of
Palestinians & Israelis, spend a fraction of that on building bridges of
friendship between two people. Spend a fraction of that on building the
hospitals, schools & kindergartens & homes your army destroyed. Send drawing
pens to Palestinian children not bullet. Send flowers to Palestinian women
not tortured bodies of their children. STOP the occupation, Stop the
checkpoints, stop suicide bombing. ONLY YOU have the power to bring Peace &
security to Israel. Brutality & savagery has never worked, never will. You
may take all the land of Palestinians by force & atrocities (as you have so
far), but with every inch of land, you loose a bit of your soul. There won't
be one true Jewish man or woman, brought up with Jewish values who will be
standing next to you in these lands much drenched with Palestinians blood.
Simin Williams,
From New Zealand
Real lives
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Our son, the rebel
As he approaches the end of his 18-year jail sentence for exposing Israel's
nuclear secrets, Mordechai Vanunu is still full of rage and refusing to be
silenced. Suzanne Goldenberg meets the American couple who adopted him so
they could meet him in prison
Wednesday June 5, 2002
The Guardian
He won't sit down to lunch on time. He won't shake the hand of an old legal
acquaintance. And he won't let his dad admonish him for that rudeness. It
is, at times, exasperating to be the adoptive parents of a 47-year-old
rebel, particularly when your son is Mordechai Vanunu, now in his 16th year
of imprisonment for exposing Israel's secret nuclear programme.
The years have seen a world of changes since Vanunu was convicted of treason
and sentenced to 18 years in Israel's highest-security prison. In 1986, the
former technician at the desert plant near the town of Dimona leaked
photographs of and information about Israel's nuclear facilities to the
Sunday Times, destroying Israel's policy of "nuclear ambiguity". Using his
pictures and testimony, nuclear experts estimated that Israel had the
world's sixth-largest stockpile of nuclear weapons - about 200 warheads.
Israel's revenge was swift. Vanunu was lured from Britain to Italy by a
female Mossad agent, kidnapped, drugged, put on a ship to Israel, and tried
in a secret court. His first 11 years were spent in solitary confinement in
a tiny cell, with a canvas cover over the window to shut out the tiniest
glimpse of grass or trees.
Since then, the Soviet empire has withered and died. The cold war has ended,
and America and Russia agreed this month to scrap thousands of nuclear
warheads. Israel has seen one Palestinian uprising and seven years of peace,
and is now in the midst of a second intifada. The Dimona nuclear plant is
still not open to international inspection.
Vanunu remains locked inside the squat, dull yellow blocks of the Shikma
prison at Ashkelon, with two more years to go until his release in April
2004. Most Israelis had probably forgotten his existence until a photograph,
the first newly recorded image of Vanunu in three years, appeared in
newspapers last month. But while public anger towards Vanunu has been lost
in the passions of the intifada, his blood relatives cannot forgive him.
Vanunu's parents, who brought their family to Israel from Marrakech in 1961,
are orthodox Jews, as are most of his seven brothers and sisters, and the
family disowned him for converting to Christianity. He became an Anglican in
Australia in 1985. That is where Nick and Mary Eoloff stepped in.
At 12.30pm on a hot summer day, the couple appear at the entrance of Shikma,
peering through the bars of the electronic gate before a guard arrives with
the key to set them free. The Eoloffs, a tall, angular couple in their 70s
from the American midwest, are on a small list of people who are allowed to
visit Vanunu, which consists of his lawyer and members of his immediate
family. Improbable as it may seem, the Eoloffs count as family members as
they legally adopted Vanunu in 1997. Radical Catholics from St Paul,
Minnesota, they had read about Vanunu and joined the international campaign
to win his release, writing to their congressmen and senators. When that did
not work, the Eoloffs - who already had six grown-up children - seized on
the idea of adoption, imagining that it would allow Vanunu to be transferred
to a prison in the US. It did not, and so, twice a year, the elderly couple
make the long journey to Israel for their prison visits.
On their May 14 visit, they found Vanunu in good form. He was tanned, had
put some weight on his rangy form, and had shed his usual guardedness,
producing two bags of candy for the Eoloffs' grandchildren.
The couple were warned that the visit would be cancelled if they raised any
taboo topics: the kidnapping, nuclear weapons, the Dimona plant. A prison
social worker took notes of the entire conversation, but Vanunu remained
calm. Two hours later, he walked the Eoloffs down the corridor, stopping at
the red line on the floor that prisoners are not allowed to cross. "He was
very upbeat," says Mary. "He felt very positive." For the first time in
their four years of acquaintance, he made a point of thanking the Eoloffs
for visiting, and asked about the rest of the family.
Otherwise, Vanunu's whole being as he enters the home stretch of his
confinement is devoted to small acts of defiance, fuelled by a powerful
rage. I put some questions to the Eoloffs for Vanunu, and the answers come
back, full of conviction and anger. He tells them that he still believes it
was worth 18 years of his life to expose Israel's nuclear secrets, and that
he will resist Israel's efforts to muzzle him.
That bitterness informs even the smallest of decisions inside Shikma,
confining Vanunu in another prison of his own making. He refuses to initiate
conversations with guards, insists on reading newspapers in English - not
Hebrew - and will only listen to the BBC. He refuses to work or have a
social worker, and won't eat lunch when it is served, the Eoloffs say,
because he wants to maintain at least a tiny portion of his life that is not
under Israeli control.
Vanunu was denied parole because he refused to promise that he would never
speak about his kidnapping and jail ordeal, or the desert reactor. "He is
the most stubborn, principled and tough person I have ever met," says his
lawyer, Avigdor Feldman.
Vanunu watches his diet carefully, refusing eggs because he is worried about
cholesterol. He walks the corridors of the jail for up to four hours a day,
retiring to his cell in the afternoon to write letters, listen to opera, or
watch movies on video, most recently the film Entrapment. He does not have a
computer because he refused to agree to turn over the hard drive to the
authorities on his release.
"He is bored out of his tree," says Mary. He used to read and read and read,
and that was how he maintained his sanity. Now he just walks and walks and
listens to the radio. The days are very long. He is very very angry with the
Israeli government and says he is not going to be a part of this system in
any way."
Then there are the running legal battles, and Vanunu's plans for the future.
Last month he attended a closed hearing at the supreme court in Jerusalem to
stop two Israeli journalists including him in their book about Israeli
espionage. He has been denied permission to view the entire transcript of
his trial on security grounds, although sections have been published in the
Israeli press. And he has been denied permission to meet two British lawyers
who have been trying for five years to visit him - to pursue a case against
the British government for its failure to protect him from the Mossad agent
who lured him to Italy.
But most pressing of all, as far as Vanunu is concerned, are the
preparations for his release. He is finally due to walk out of Shikma in
April 2004, and Feldman has started applying for a passport so that he can
travel, perhaps to settle in the US or to begin a new life lecturing on the
dangers of nuclear weapons.
Although his release cannot be legally prevented, there are fears that he
will never be permitted to leave Israel, a country he now despises. "When I
asked him what he thought he had accomplished," says Mary, "he said the
major thing was the need for freedom of speech, and he insisted he would not
promise not to speak about anything once he got out." | |  | | Saint | | | | sharkman | | Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2002 7:11 am Post subject: send rumsfeld home |
| Monday, June 10, 2002
_________________________________________________________________
Woodrow W. Bush
_________________________________________________________________
Posted: June 10, 2002
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Patrick J. Buchanan
_________________________________________________________________
President Bush is engaged in feverish diplomacy to stop an
India-Pakistan war. He is mulling over an "American Plan" to end the
Israeli-Palestinian war. And he has just sent his secretary of defense
to NATO to line up allies to launch an American-Iraqi war.
Am I the only one that sees a small contradiction here?
The president's men say only a war on Iraq and Saddam's end can remove
the threat of terror against us. Sharon says only the destruction of
Arafat can end the threat of terror against Israel. Vajpayee says only
the destruction of terrorist camps on Pakistan's side of the Line of
Control can end the threat of terror against India.
Yet as we implore Sharon and Vajpayee not to let slip the dogs of war,
the president wants to unleash the dogs of war.
If our allies seem reluctant to follow us, who can blame them? Our
foreign policy seems increasingly erratic, and the president is
beginning to sound like that bellicose virago, Madeleine Albright.
Candidate Bush disparaged the "indispensable nation" braggadocio of
Albright. In 1999, he said in Simi Valley, Calif.: "Let us not
dominate others with our power. ... Let us have an American foreign
policy that reflects American character. The modesty of true strength.
The humility of real greatness. This is the strong heart of America.
And this will be the spirit of my administration."
Here was Candidate Bush at his best, and in the debates, he expanded
on the theme: "[T]he United States must be humble. ... We must be
proud and confident of our values, but humble in how we treat nations
that are figuring out how to chart their own course." But where was
that humility, that statesmanlike reserve, in the president's address
at West Point?
Cold War doctrines of deterrence and containment are no longer
adequate, the president said. "[N]ew threats ... require new thinking.
... If we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited
too long."
Is this the new Bush Doctrine: America asserting a right to launch
preventive wars on any "rogue nations" that we catch building the kind
of weapons we have had in our own arsenal for half a century?
This is a formula for endless wars, almost certain to produce the very
horror the president seeks to avert the detonation of an atomic or
biological weapon on American soil.
Where is Bush getting these ideas? Is deterrence really passe? What
else but U.S. deterrence keeps China off Taiwan or North Korea out of
the South? What other than America's deterrent power keeps Saddam out
of Kuwait or prevents his using on us or Israel the poison gas weapons
the War Party says he used on the Kurds?
"Containment is not possible when unbalanced dictators with weapons of
mass destruction can deliver those weapons on missiles or secretly
provide them to terrorist allies," said the president.
But is Saddam or Kim Jong-Il or the latest Ayatollah more "unbalanced"
than the mass murderers Stalin, Mao and the megalomaniacal Kim
Il-Sung? If containment and deterrence worked with these monsters, why
will they not work with the smaller fry of today?
"All nations that decide for aggression and terror will pay a price,"
the president declared. "We will not leave the ... peace of the planet
at the mercy of a few terrorists and tyrants. We will lift this dark
threat from our country and from the world."
The peace of the planet? Where does the president get the right to
identify and punish every aggressor on earth? Can anyone other than a
wild Wilsonian Utopian think that any U.S. president can lift the
"dark threat" of aggression and terror from mankind? Israel cannot
even do it in its own cities.
"The 20th century ended with a single surviving model of human
progress," the president told the cadets. How humble is that?
"The requirements of freedom apply fully ... to the entire Islamic
world," he added. But does not Islam mean "submission" to Allah? And
if 1 billion Muslims and their rulers reject feminism and refuse to
emulate President Bush by dialoguing with their local Log Cabin Club,
who is to say they are wrong and we are right?
"We are in a conflict between good and evil, and America will call
evil by its name," thundered the president. But which is the evil side
in Chechnya, Sri Lanka and Kashmir? In the Afghan war, we were aided
by Iran, Libya, Sudan, Pakistan and Northern Alliance generals accused
of massacres. In Desert Storm, we were assisted by Assad, in World War
II by Stalin, in the Cold War by the Shah, Pinochet, Marcos and the
South Africa of the Botha boys.
"Moral truth is the same in every culture, in every time and in every
place," said the president. As a Christian, he rightly believes it.
But, Mr. President, ask the Germans if what we did to Dresden was
moral. Ask the Japanese if what we did to Nagasaki was moral. Ask your
own family if abortion is moral. By dividing the world into good and
evil, and threatening pre-emptive wars on all "evil ones," we may
persuade the targets of our pre-emption to acquire the only kind of
weapons able to deter a crusading U.S. president.
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Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ | | | | msteffan1 | | Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2002 7:31 pm Post subject: |
| Things happen...Not x files things but things..Things that the trained eye sees but others may not..Is my eye trained? My right one is a bit weak these days..but I use my left eye for most things..
Iraq ...The name of the game...
British forces are being brought home from Afghanistan..Not just the Marines...all 1700 of em...The Royal Anglians from Kabul too...Turkey finally playing the part that was allocated to em...Seems they got their needs seen to first though...
Ifor, Kfor, whatsitfor...being brought home soon if we listen to Hooney baby..our defence minister...Weve done our bit he says...
Sierra Leone..now totally UN controlled again....Down to 300 training team from Brit forces..soon to be brought home too..Good thing too in my view...
The standing force in Germany..The old Baor..much reduced of late..good too...threat not there anymore...But whats left of em..divisional battle group.....major part of it on its way home..
But hey...were leaving the small hq forces with their supplies for battle groups in Saudi, Oman, Kuwait AND even Turkey..Now that last one surprised me...didnt know we had slipped a HQ group in there.
Going to be a lot of Royal navy deployments soon to Persian Gulf/Suez Indian ocean areas... Watch this space.
Now this could be Old Hooney trying to get ready for any impending cuts from chancellor over here...
We are whats the word....Stetched after all...After this lot..we wont be stretched..more like...Concentrated....
x Files..no I DONT think so...Watch this space...Tony is getting ready to meet USA Chiefs of staff demand that we support with appropriate numbers...The job in hand...Which is??? | | | | | ©2002-2009 WarWithoutEnd.co.uk |
