Compliments of Shobak:

Israel bombs Beirut Airport, Lebannon under siege.

Wait is it 1982 again? Time for another time-warp.

Meanwhile Israel's bombing of Palestine continues. "Asymmetrical"
warfare? Everyone knows crazy Arabs are always the ones who "start
it" and "can't be trusted". Any retaliation is fair game.

Bombing for Peace

Virginia Tilley writes:
"On the excuse of rescuing one kidnapped soldier, Israeli is now
bombing the Gaza Strip and is poised to re-invade. It has also
arrested a third of the Palestinian parliament, wrecking even its
fragile illusion of capacity and reducing the already-empty vessel of
the Palestinian Authority into broken shards. In the shambles,
Palestinians may be observing one bitter pill of compensation: vicious
angling by Fatah to reclaim control of Palestinian national politics
and its rivalry with Hamas are now rendered obsolete. Even the dogged
international community cannot maintain its dogged pretense that the
PA is actually capable of any governance at all. The demise of the
disastrous Oslo model, Israel's device to ensure its final
dismemberment of Palestinian land and its fatal cooptation of the
Palestinian national movement, may finally be at hand."

Adem Carroll talks about that sweet sound in the air:
"Zananah zananah zananah in the sky; the residents know it is the
Israeli Drone. It is not televising barefoot soccer matches in the
Palestinian dust. This entity, called Zananah because of the sound it
makes, has escaped from its Israeli bottle unlike the hundreds of
detainees held in Israeli jails. It is a tool of invasion, occupation
and control. The Zananah buzzes around the edges of life; and then,
finally, comes the missile strike, and death."

And James Zogby evokes the 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese:
"What shocked the nation was the fact that 37 witnesses heard Kitty's
cries but did nothing to help. Years later, social scientists,
studying this disturbing passivity, termed it the "Genovese Syndrome".
That's how I feel about what is happening in Gaza today. Israel is
getting away with murder and the world is letting it happen."

Read on. And take a moment to think of ways to speak out and break
the blue wall of silence.

Naeem Mohaiemen/Visible Collective
http://www.disappearedinamerica.org

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LEBANNON
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Israel Bombs Beirut Airport, Lebannon Under Siege Again
http://deepquote.net/b1r6r6j4ajgo

Israel's 30 Year War With Lebannon
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,19784064-2,00.html

HAARETZ says "No To Lebannon War II"
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/737837.html

Pity The Nation: The Abduction of Lebannon
http://deepquote.net/r1d6o7a2jbds

Israel Tries To Restore Deterrence
http://deepquote.net/a1j6d7g7jxrq

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PALESTINE
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Israel's Apalling Bombing of Gaza
http://deepquote.net/m1q6x6k5ubcg

"They Are Killing Us Inside Our Homes"
http://rafah.virtualactivism.net/news/todaymain.htm

Watching Gaza: The Kitty Genovese Syndrome
http://deepquote.net/d1b6s7s3wbeb

Look Who's Been Kidnapped
http://deepquote.net/m1t6c7d1fliv

Israel Bars Palestinian-Americans for 1st Time Since 1967
http://deepquote.net/x1v6v6y8pfgf

Foreign Nationals Barred Entry
http://deepquote.net/s1y6d6r9bsvs

Bethlethem Under Bulldozer Attack
http://www.openbethlehem.org/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=62

Palestinians Die While Waiting At Border
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/736802.html

Palestinians Call For Non-Violent Resistance
http://deepquote.net/c1h6i7y0dmtv

A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4968.shtml

If Americans Knew
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/

An Apartheid State Worse Than South Africa?
http://deepquote.net/x1b