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Znet Article Emersberger: Unions and Israel

Znet Article, July, 23 2006 Joe Emersberger
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To Buzz Hargrove (President of Canadian Auto Workers) July 19, 2006 Buzz, Israel has killed nearly 300 Lebanese civilians and displaced half a million. It has been given cart blanche by the international community - including Harper's governmen...

Znet Article Douek: Israel's Air and Artillery War Against Hezbollah

Znet Article, July, 23 2006 Daniel Douek
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The current mini-war between Israel and Hezbollah inspires a serious case of deja vu. It bears striking similarities to the Israel Defense Forces' spring 1996 "Operation Grapes of Wrath," and carrying important lessons for today. The 1996 operatio...

Znet Article Mosaddeq ahmed: Armageddon on the Horizon?

Znet Article, July, 23 2006 Nafeez Mosaddeq ahmed
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Over 300 people killed, most of them civilians. 1,000 wounded. Half a million and rising displaced from their homes. A third of these Lebanese casualties, according to the UN, have been children. These estimated figures dwarf in scale the terror a...

Znet Article Khaled: Conversations with refugees in Baysour, Mount Lebanon

Znet Article, July, 23 2006 Malak Khaled
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Baysour is a small village in Mount Lebanon.  Its area is around 6 square-km, just 20 km away from Beirut. The village is not considered to be touristic, but this July, unusually, it is over loaded with 2000 visitors. Yet, this number is not of to...

Znet Article Freeman-maloy: Israel, Racism, and the Canadian Media

Znet Article, July, 21 2006 Dan Freeman-maloy
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In the Canadian media, Israel is provoked, and then responds. For the military attacks on the Gaza Strip in late June and early July, we are told that the provocation was the June 25 operation by Palestinian resistance fighters against a military ...

Znet Article Frank: President Bush Uncut

Znet Article, July, 20 2006 Joshua Frank
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It was a candid moment. President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair were chatting over lunch at the Group of Eight summit in St. Petersburg on Monday when a Russian microphone sitting in front of Bush was unknowingly live. After almost ...

Znet Article Levy: Operation Peace for the IDF

Znet Article, July, 20 2006 Gideon Levy
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Every neighborhood has one, a loudmouth bully who shouldn't be provoked into anger. He's insulted? He'll pull out a knife. Spat in the face? He'll draw a gun. Hit? He'll pull out a machine gun. Not that the bully's not right - someone did harm him...

Znet Article Masri: Who is really waging this war?

Znet Article, July, 20 2006 Rania Masri
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Here is the story, as it is told: Hezbollah kidnapped 2 Israeli soldiers. Israel responded with a military assault on Lebanon’s infrastructure, cities, villages, including homes, hospitals, and schools all before Hezbollah began to launch ...

Znet Article Barghouti: A New Middle East is Born

Znet Article, July, 19 2006 Omar Barghouti
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Six long, bloodstained days have passed since Israel launched its barbaric attack on Lebanon without succeeding in exacting a significant military toll on the resistance itself. Six days are exactly what it took Israel to deal a crushing and humil...

Znet Article Cook: Notes from northern Israel

Znet Article, July, 19 2006 Jonathan Cook
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Nazareth hit the international headlines for the first time in this vicious war being waged by Israel mostly on Lebanese civilians. Reporter Matthew Price, corsetted in a blue flak jacket in Haifa, told BBC viewers that for the first time Hizbulla...

Znet Article Baroud: Why is Israel Back in Gaza?

Znet Article, July, 19 2006 Ramzy Baroud
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The disparity between Israel's public narrative and its actual intents cannot possibly be any more palpable than in the current Gaza onslaught following the capture by Palestinians of an Israeli solider near Gaza in a daring June 25 raid on a mili...

Znet Article Masri: Note from Lebanon

Znet Article, July, 17 2006 Rania Masri
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 Dear friends, Thank you all for your letters of concern. Yes, I am in Lebanon, and, yes, I am safe, as safe as one can be when one's country is under attack. I appeal to you all: we need your voices of outrage to be heard. Since Wednesday, ...

Znet Article Pappe: What Does Israel Want?

Znet Article, July, 17 2006 Ilan Pappe
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Imagine a group of high ranking generals who simulated for years Third World War scenarios in which they can move huge armies around, employ the most sophisticated weapons in their disposal and enjoy the immunity of a computerized headquarters fro...

Znet Article Cook: Israelis are dying

Znet Article, July, 17 2006 Jonathan Cook
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Here we go again -- another “serious escalation” has begun in the Middle East, or so BBC World was telling audiences throughout Sunday. So what prompted the BBC’s judgment that the crisis was escalating once more? You can b...

Znet Article Hallinan: Israel/Palestine

Znet Article, July, 15 2006 Conn Hallinan
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AMY GOODMAN: We're joined on the phone right now by Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics and philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, author of dozens of books. His latest is Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on D...

Znet Article Mandic: Why Didn't You Bring Pinochet?

Znet Article, July, 15 2006 Danilo Mandic
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Princeton University has become, in mainstream discourse, virtually synonymous with American liberalism, antiwar sentimentalism, or worse. To honor the second anniversary of the occupation of Iraq, the Daily Princetonian ran a David Horowitz colum...

Znet Article Hirst: Israel's monstrous legacy brings tumult a step closer

Znet Article, July, 14 2006 David Hirst
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The Lebanese people, habitues as few people are of the lethal, violent and unexpected, yesterday awoke to the kind of news they thought they had put behind them. Their brand-new airport, the pride of their postwar reconstruction, had been bombarde...

Znet Article Baroud: Racism Plagues Western Media Coverage

Znet Article, July, 13 2006 Ramzy Baroud
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Racism is "the belief that one 'racial group' is inferior to another and the practices of the dominant group to maintain the inferior position of the dominated group. Often defined as a combination of power, prejudice and discrimination." This is...

Znet Article Haniyeh: Aggression Under False Pretenses

Znet Article, July, 11 2006 Ismail Haniyeh
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  GAZA, Palestine -- As Americans commemorated their annual celebration of independence from colonial occupation, rejoicing in their democratic institutions, we Palestinians were yet again besieged by our occupiers, who destroy our roads and buil...

Znet Article Sagar: Review of Amartya Sen's "Identity and Violence"

Znet Article, July, 11 2006 Satya Sagar
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‘Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny’Amartya Sen, Allen Lane, 2006, 215 pg. ‘Arab-looking Sri Lankan journalist’ said the caption of the photo in the Sunday edition of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. That...

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