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UNITED NATIONS - / www.MaximsNews.com UN/ - 16 August 2006 - With a shaky ceasefire now in place, what hope is there for a lasting peace and justice for the people of Lebanon, Israel and the wider region? 

I must admit I am not very optimistic.

More than a month of carnage was allowed to unfold while the [...]

CounterCurrents.org, India By Robert Fisk 17 August 2006

They are digging them up by the hour, the swelling death toll of the Lebanon conflict. The American poet Carl Sandburg spoke of the dead in other wars and imagined that he was the grass under which they would be buried. “Shovel them under and let me work,” he said [...]

Guardian Unlimited, UK Israel’s long-term future lies in connecting with its Arab neighbours, not a western superpower thousands of miles away

Martin Jacques Monday August 14, 2006

The Guardian

This has been a war that did not happen by accident. The kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers by Hizbullah was merely the pretext, long since forgotten in the absurdly disproportionate response [...]

USE of NAPALM, DEPLETED URANIUM & WHITE PHOSPHORUS needs a closer look by experts for all kinds of reasons…

White Phosphorus in Lebanon: www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/0/0ECB74B32C97055CC22571AD00526087?OpenDocument

In Iraq & Lebanon: www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/25/1442242&mode=thread&tid=25

in Iraq: www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/11/09/us_fired_phosphorus_in_iraq_tv_reports/

Depleted Uranium Updated to August 13 2006 schema-root.org/military/weapons/depleted_uranium/

www.apfn.org/apfn/du.htm Helpful Audio-Video online

Napalm FROM: www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/napalm.htm

“There was a report on Al-Jazeera on December, 14, 2001 that the US was using napalm at Tora Bora in Afghanistan. In response, General Tommy Franks [...]

Ha’aretz, Israel By Gideon Levy

The bad (and predictable) news: Israel is going to come out of this war with the lower hand. The good (and surprising) news: This ringing failure could spell good tidings. If Israel had won the battles in an easy, sweeping victory of the kind Israelis prayed so much for, it would have [...]

The Washington Post ‘There Was Destruction All Around Us’

By Nora Boustany Washington Post Foreign Service Saturday, August 12, 2006; Page A17

JAZZIN, Lebanon, Aug. 11 — Mustafa Bitar had a dangerous job, sweeping the terraced orchards and rolling hills of southern Lebanon for land mines left behind during previous wars. His mission was to save lives.

But four weeks ago, [...]

Axis of Logic, MA By Susan Carroll & Dennis Wagner Aug 12, 2006, 00:28

TUCSON - The honeymoon is over for the Minutemen. More than 16 months after the civilian border patrol movement took root in Arizona, the co-founders of the original Minuteman Project are feuding publicly, and some former loyalists are calling for detailed accounting of the estimated [...]