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To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (75084)	8/2/2006 3:20:05 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 362297

I know. you should read some of the Jewish American press. People get hot. But this, "If Gibson had told the cops that Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle were behind all the world's wars, he would have walked away from the incident in Malibu unscathed.'" uh, uh. If he could have walked unscathed with a BA of 0.12 (out of staters; limit is 0.04), he would have walked unscathed. Even if he did comment on the lady cop's nice lungs. Several times. Even if he didn't really own Malibu. His tongue just compounded the damage. Unlike Patrick Kennedy in DC, who softly said "How did I get here?"

To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (75084)	8/2/2006 3:40:45 PM
From: Suma	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 362297

Criticism of Israel..more of less directed to Wharf Rat.. my buddy.. I have always been for Israel. I have students living there. As an agnostic I have no particular religion to which I subscribe but having worked in a predominately Jewish school for 21 years I have experienced more than warm feelings toward the tragedies of the Jews. I read Jewish history, visited the Dachau in 1960 shortly after the war was over. Also other concentration camps. I have defended Israel's position over and over... and had at one time considered becoming Jewish.. I know some Yiddish and often more people tell me that I am Jewish than anyone they know.... SO when I disagree with the Israel policy right now it is not anti Semitic anymore than disagreeing with the war in Iraq makes me UnAmerican. It's what I believe to be true or think. This war has made me very ambiguous and equivocal.. What is the truth.. AGAIN and what is not. Today's headlines read this could be World War III....I hate to think this but it's possible... Conclusion. The whole thing is an ugly mess....

To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (75084)	8/3/2006 12:15:13 PM
From: Wyätt Gwyön	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362297

War crimes and Lebanon Thursday August 3, 2006 The Guardian The US-backed Israeli assault on Lebanon has left the country numb, smouldering and angry. The massacre in Qana and the loss of life is not simply "disproportionate". It is, according to existing international laws, a war crime. The deliberate and systematic destruction of Lebanon's social infrastructure by the Israeli air force was also a war crime, designed to reduce that country to the status of an Israeli-US protectorate. The attempt has backfired. In Lebanon itself, 87% of the population now support Hizbullah's resistance, including 80% of Christian and Druze and 89% of Sunni Muslims, while 8% believe the US supports Lebanon. But these actions will not be tried by any court set up by the "international community" since the US and its allies that commit or are complicit in these appalling crimes will not permit it. It has now become clear that the assault on Lebanon to wipe out Hizbullah had been prepared long before. Israel's crimes had been given a green light by the US and its loyal British ally, despite the opposition to Blair in his own country. In short, the peace that Lebanon enjoyed has come to an end, and a paralysed country is forced to remember a past it had hoped to forget. The state terror inflicted on Lebanon is being repeated in the Gaza ghetto, while the "international community" stands by and watches in silence. Meanwhile, the rest of Palestine is annexed and dismantled with the direct participation of the US and the tacit approval of its allies. We offer our solidarity and support to the victims of this brutality and to those who mount a resistance against it. For our part, we will use all the means at our disposal to expose the complicity of our governments in these crimes. There will be no peace in the Middle East while the occupations of Palestine and Iraq and the temporarily "paused" bombings of Lebanon continue. Tariq Ali Noam Chomsky Eduardo Galeano Howard Zinn Ken Loach John Berger Arundhati Roy London As our political leaders argue over the difference between a "cessation of hostilities" and a "ceasefire", more and more children die. The British government (unlike the US) has agreed to be bound by the UN convention on the rights of the child. This is a legally enforceable international treaty which enshrines the "right to life" as one of its four core principles. I would be very interested to know how the government justifies its actions in relation to its responsibilities under the convention and why our new children's commissioners have remained silent on what appears to be a flagrant disregard of children's rights, as well as a breach of our international obligations. Professor Steve Trevillion University of Leicester