During Operation Cast Lead, Israeli forces killed Palestinian civilians under permissive rules of engagement and intentionally destroyed their property, say soldiers who fought in the offensive. The soldiers are graduates of the Yitzhak Rabin pre-military preparatory course at Oranim Academic College in Tivon. Some of their statements made on Feb. 13 will appear Thursday and Friday in Ha’aretz. Dozens of graduates of the course who took part in the discussion fought in the Gaza operation. The speakers included combat pilots and infantry soldiers. Their testimony runs counter to the Israel Defense Forces’ claims that Israeli troops observed a high level of moral behavior during the operation. The session's transcript was published this week in the newsletter for the course’s graduates. Yet the next... 9/11 brought the U.S. to Afghanistan. Its initial objective of defeating the Taliban and eliminating the Al-Qaeda leadership was compromised by its underestimation of the importance of the foreign [Arab] support to the Taliban and overestimation of Pakistan’s military cooperation in the war on terror. The Taliban, after being defeated by the American forces, escaped to Pakistan, where it found a safe haven. Additionally, it received financial assistance from a complex network of charities in the wealthy Gulf countries. President Bush, being busy with the war in Iraq, turned a blind eye to Pakistan's collaboration with the Taliban.’ Recently, the U.S. military and Unwittingly, our president is taking a hugely unwarranted risk by offering to negotiate with the Iranians while having publicly proclaimed that we cannot allow them to have nuclear weapons. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will necessarily have to assume that once it becomes fully apparent Iran won't voluntarily abandon its nuclear quest, the United States will launch a pre-emptive strike. And if not, Israel certainly will. So consider this: Just as the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor while negotiating with the United States, the Iranians Peppers and tomatoes today – people tomorrow.
Thursday, 19th March 2009
The truth caught out in stockinged feet once again?
11:42pm
Well waddya know – Ha’aretz is running IDF Gaza atrocity claims. Its story today begins:A fateful calculation?
8:28pm
From Afghanistan comes a sharp and disturbingassessment by an Afghan intellectual of a fundamental divergence between American and British approaches to the situation in his country – and Britain does not emerge well at all:
...The iron logic of our current nightmare
7:16pm
In the Washington Times, Roger Chapin is one of the few who is thinking logically and rationally about Iran. And that leads him to conclude that Iran, which thinks logically and rationally about its wholly irrational aims and interests, will most likely carry out a pre-emptive strike against the US – unless it is stopped:
...Peppers today, people tomorrow
6:51pm
As Kafka-esque Zionophobia continues to foment hysteria and bigotry across Europe, the Israel Matzav blog features highly disturbing video footage from France of what can surely only be described as ‘Greenshirts’ – pro-boycott activists working towards Israel’s destruction who are shown systematically looting a Carrefour supermarket of all Israeli produce in order to trash it, and with not a police officer in sight.
Friday, 20 March 2009
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