ISRAEL believes it will be entitled to use force to prevent Hezbollah from rearming & to clear guerrilla positions out of S Lebanon after UN truce takes effect. Israeli officials say such operations are “defensive” in nature & therefore permissible under UN Security Council resolution that calls for Israel to halt “all offensive military operations”. Western diplomats & UN officials fear Israel's broad definition of “defensive” actions could lead to a resurgence in large-scale fighting, preventing swift deployment of international troops meant to monitor a ceasefire. The Israeli operations could include air strikes against arms convoys travelling anywhere in Lebanese territory. Like Israel, Hezbollah has said it will abide by the UN resolution. But the guerrilla group said it would carry on confronting any Israeli soldiers on Lebanese soil. So Israel thinks it has the right to keep attacking and occupying Lebanon and the Lebanese have no right and should do nothing about it? ...
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Editor - 10:57:00 08-14-06
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 Walesa attacks Grass for SS role |
Former Polish President Lech Walesa has said German writer Guenter Grass should give up his honorary citizenship of Gdansk, having served in the Waffen SS. The Nobel Prize-winning author shocked Germany on Saturday by admitting he had been in the notorious Nazi elite force. Grass was born in 1927 in Gdansk, then known as Danzig. The city was also the birthplace of Mr Walesa's Solidarity movement, which undermined communism. "The best thing would be for him to give up" the honour, Mr Walesa said. "An uncomfortable situation has developed," he told the German newspaper Bild. "I do not feel comfortable in that company. I do not know whether one should consider revoking the title. If it had been known he was in the SS, he would never have received the honour." Mr Walesa is himself a Nobel peace laureate and honorary citizen of Gdansk. Grass, a seasoned left-wing campaigner and pacifist, wrote the acclaimed anti-Nazi novel The Tin Drum. ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4790369.stm
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Editor - 10:33:00 08-14-06
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| IDF general: Troops lacking food can steal from Lebanese stores |
"If our fighters deep in Lebanese territory are left without food our water, I believe they can break into local Lebanese stores to solve that problem," Brigadier General Avi Mizrahi, the head of the Israel Defense Forces logistics branch, said Monday. Mizrahi's comments followed complaints by IDF soldiers regarding the lack of food on the front lines."If what they need to do is take water from the stores, they can take," Mizrahi told Army Radio. Most would call that Looting, But then this is just a minor crime compared to the bigger crimes., but whose going to prosecute this, or any of the other war crimes? Monkey sees no evil, monkey hears no evil, monkey prosecutes no evil, unless of course they are weak or defeated monkeys, then they get the book tossed at them...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/750384.html
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Editor - 10:28:00 08-14-06
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| Senior cabinet minister Ramon: Hezbollah is now a beaten force |
Senior cabinet minister Haim Ramon said Monday that as a result of the war in the north, Hezbollah is a "beaten" force that is entirely changed. The justice minister also said that the terms of the UN cease-fire could spur a fundamental change in Lebanon, and that that was the objective of the war as pursued by Israel. "Despite whatever claims Nasrallah may make in victory speeches, Hezbollah today is an entirely different Hezbollah, he told Army radio, referring to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. "This is a beaten Hezbollah, entirely different in real terms, both on the ground and also from the international standpoint," he told Army Radio. According to Ramon, in the UN truce terms, "We have a internationally recognized document which bears great potential to entirely change [the state of affairs that existed] prior to July 12 ? and that was the objective of the war." I wonder what he has been smoking...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/750338.html
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Editor - 10:13:00 08-14-06
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| WATCHING LEBANON Washington’s interests in Israel’s war |
In the days after Hezbollah crossed from Lebanon into Israel, on July 12th, to kidnap two soldiers, triggering an Israeli air attack on Lebanon and a full-scale war, the Bush Administration seemed strangely passive. “It’s a moment of clarification,” President George W. Bush said at the G-8 summit, in St. Petersburg, on July 16th. “It’s now become clear why we don’t have peace in the Middle East.” He described the relationship between Hezbollah and its supporters in Iran and Syria as one of the “root causes of instability,” and subsequently said that it was up to those countries to end the crisis. Two days later, despite calls from several governments for the United States to take the lead in negotiations to end the fighting, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that a ceasefire should be put off until “the conditions are conducive.”The Bush Administration, however, was closely involved in the planning of Israel’s retaliatory attacks. ...
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060821fa_fact
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Editor - 10:01:00 08-14-06
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| England: Schools 'letting down UK science'. Very similar to what’s happening in the USA |
UK schools are letting down business by producing too few scientists, the Confederation of British Industry says. Director-general Richard Lambert said bosses had "serious anxieties" and that more children needed to be allowed to study three science subjects at GCSE. Alan Wood, UK chief executive of technology firm Siemens, said most 16-year-olds' knowledge was "dire". The government said it was working to improve science teaching to make it "a more attractive option" for pupils. The CBI said the current system, under which most pupils study for a "combined science" double GCSE - rather than chemistry, physics and biology separately - meant the curriculum had been "stripped down". Even universities had to offer remedial classes to science students to help fill gaps in their knowledge, it added. ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/4780017.stm
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