Arhiv julij 2006
Kana - vojni zločin, 3 fotografije
| 30. julij 2006 | Svet | Jure
Fotografije: Reuters
“At least 34 children killed by raid on home where families were sheltering. “
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| 30. julij 2006 | Zanimive povezave | Jure
In dodajmo še ekološko katastrofo v Mediteranu
| 29. julij 2006 | Svet | Jure
The Mediterranean is threatened by its worst ever environmental disaster after Israel’s bombing of a power plant in Lebanon sent thousands of tonnes of fuel gushing into the sea, the environment minister charged on Saturday.
“Up until now 10,000-15,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil have spilled out into the sea,” after Israel’s bombing of the power station in Jiyeh two weeks ago, Lebanese Environment Minister Yacub Sarraf told AFP.
“It’s without doubt the biggest environmental catastrophe that the Mediterranean has known and it risks having terrible consequences not only for our country but for all the countries of the eastern Mediterranean.” Israeli forces bombed the tanks at the power station on July 14 and July 15, just days into their offensive on Lebanon which has seen blistering air strikes across the country and a bloody ground incursion in the south. Vir
Temu pravijo “peace plan”?
| 29. julij 2006 | Svet | Jure
The U.S. peace plan envisions the deployment of a U.N.-mandated multinational force that can provide stability in the region, according to a U.S. official speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the discussions. It also proposes: disarming Hezbollah and integrating the guerrilla force into the Lebanese army; Hezbollah’s return of Israeli prisoners; and a buffer zone in southern Lebanon to put Hezbollah rockets out of range of Israel. And it seeks to address some demands from Lebanon: a commitment to resolve the status of a piece of land held by Israel and claimed by Lebanon; and the creation of an international reconstruction plan for Lebanon. Vir
Ne vem, kaj Condi kadi zadnje čase, ampak mora bit pa dobro.
“U.N.-mandated multinational force” jah, to se je v Libanonu vedno dobro končalo…
“disarming Hezbollah” zdaj? no fucking way
“return of Israeli prisoners” kaj pa palestinskih? in, zakaj bi že Hezbolah to naredil, ko pa očitno zmagujejo?
“a buffer zone in southern Lebanon” hehe… zagotavljale pa ga bodo tiste mednarodne sile? šur
“a commitment to resolve the status of a piece of land held by Israel” aha, commitment, to pa je močno. naj uganem: pogajanja bodo trajala tam nekje do leta 2199?
“creation of an international reconstruction plan” hej, Condi, zakaj pa ne bi kar Izrael plačal vojne škode?
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| 29. julij 2006 | Zanimive povezave | Jure
The Daily Star, Libanon
| 28. julij 2006 | Svet | Jure
Libanonski The Daily Star: “Bush’s drive to “democratize” the Middle East has largely been reduced to obligatory rhetoric, which is a good thing because his linguistic deficiencies are not nearly so deadly as some of his other failings.”
Attempts to impose an international force would risk destroying Lebanon’s government
| 28. julij 2006 | Svet | Jure
Yet what counts most for now is not the popular reaction but what is happening inside the Lebanese government. Condoleezza Rice seems to have little understanding of the country’s political forces. Last year’s so-called cedar revolution, with its simplistic “people power” image and the election victory of anti-Syrian parties, apparently led Washington, and alarmingly Downing Street as well, to believe that Lebanon has a radically new and pro-western government.
In fact, Lebanon has a government of national unity in which Hizbullah has two ministers. Being anti-Syrian is not the same as being anti-Hizbullah, and the election winners from the March 14 movement, which developed after the car-bomb murder of the former prime minister Rafik Hariri, wisely recognised that the party is an authentic part of Lebanese society. It was better to have it in the government rather than outside.
Demonising Hizbullah as terrorists or Iranian and Syrian agents confuses the picture. Moreover, the only party that declined to take part in government, the Maronite Christians led by Michel Aoun, made a tactical alliance with Hizbullah. Since the Israeli attacks Aoun has been one of Hizbullah’s most vocal defenders.
While accepting Hizbullah’s political weight, no Lebanese politician believes that its military wing can be disarmed against its will. Their view has to be the starting point for any discussion of an international force for southern Lebanon, whether it is a beefed-up version of the current UN force, Unifil, or some sort of “coalition of the willing”.
In one sense Israel created Hizbullah. Its occupation of Lebanon after 1982 turned a group of suicide bombers into a resistance movement like Europe’s second world war partisans. Expecting foreigners to remove Hizbullah’s weapons is a non-starter. Israel is taking heavy casualties in attempting it. How would other foreign occupiers have more success?
Earlier this year Lebanese parties were holding a “national dialogue” to work out, among other issues, how to strengthen the Lebanese army and find a different role for Hizbullah’s guerrilla forces. “One option would be to absorb the militia into the Lebanese army and another would be to turn it into a national guard under government control,” Michel Faroun, an MP from the March 14 movement, said last week.
The dialogue on Lebanon’s defence strategy was only exploratory, since the government agreed that no decisions could be taken until Israel withdrew from the land known as Shebaa farms, occupied since 1967. The latest two weeks of Israeli attacks have reinforced Hizbullah’s argument that it cannot disarm until the Lebanese army is stronger.
The “hiding among civilians” myth
| 28. julij 2006 | Svet | Jure
Še ena laž izraelske propagande je šla rakom žvižgat.
Throughout this now 16-day-old war, Israeli planes high above civilian areas make decisions on what to bomb. They send huge bombs capable of killing things for hundreds of meters around those targets to destroy them, and then blame the inevitable civilian deaths — the Lebanese government says 600 civilians have been killed so far — on “terrorists” who callously use the civilian infrastructure for protection.
But this claim is almost always false. My own reporting and that of other journalists reveals that in fact Hezbollah fighters — as opposed to the much more numerous Hezbollah political members, and the vastly more numerous Hezbollah sympathizers — avoid civilians like the plague. Much smarter and better trained than the PLO and Hamas fighters, they know that if they mingle with civilians, they will sooner or later be betrayed by collaborators — as so many Palestinian militants have been.
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“You can be a member of Hezbollah your entire life and never see a military wing fighter with a weapon,” a Lebanese military intelligence official, now retired, once told me. “They do not come out with their masks off and never operate around people if they can avoid it. They’re completely afraid of collaborators. They know this is what breaks the Palestinians — no discipline and too much showing off.”
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Israel, however, has chosen to treat the political members of Hezbollah as if they were fighters. And by targeting the civilian wing of the group, which supplies much of the humanitarian aid and social protection for the poorest people in the south, they are targeting civilians.
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So the analysts talking on cable news about Hezbollah “hiding within the civilian population” clearly have spent little time if any in the south Lebanon war zone and don’t know what they’re talking about. Hezbollah doesn’t trust the civilian population and has worked very hard to evacuate as much of it as possible from the battlefield. And this is why they fight so well — with no one to spy on them, they have lots of chances to take the Israel Defense Forces by surprise, as they have by continuing to fire rockets and punish every Israeli ground incursion.
And the civilians? They see themselves as targeted regardless of their affiliation. They are enraged at Israel and at the United States, the only two countries on earth not calling for an immediate cease-fire. Lebanese of all persuasions think the United States and Israel believe that Lebanese lives are cheaper than Israeli ones. And many are now saying that they want to fight.
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| 28. julij 2006 | Zanimive povezave | Jure
Sožalje ministra dr. Rupla
| 28. julij 2006 | Slovenija | Jure
V napadu izraelske vojske na jugu Libanona je bila nedavno zadeta tudi postojanka opazovalcev Združenih narodov v regiji, pri tem pa so bili ubiti štirje člani misije ZN (UNIFIL). Minister za zunanje zadeve dr. Dimitrij Rupel je v pismu Generalnemu sekretarju Kofiju Annanu izrazil obžalovanje nad tragičnim dogodkom v Libanonu in izrazil podporo delovanju pripadnikov mirovnih operacij pod okriljem ZN. Več
V Libanonu je bilo v vojni ubitih že 600 ljudi. Naš minister reagira, ko jo skupijo štirje opazovalci ZN. Pri tem ga očitno druge žrtve ne zanimajo.
Ministrstvo za zunanje zadeve izraža upanje, da žrtve iz vrst mednarodnih mirovnih sil niso bile zaman in da bo na Bližnjem vzhodu nemudoma obnovljeno diplomatsko in ne vojaško iskanje rešitev.
Kako spretno napisano, ni kaj. Torej, gospod minister, a Slovenija podpira takojšnje premirje ali ne? Preprosto vprašanje, ki zahteva preprosti odgovor. Da/ne?
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