Tuesday, August 22, 2006

The so-called protectors of the right

It's not I who's speaking as for now, they themselves are loud enough to be heard! but as It says that they hear it but they don't choose to listen, they watch it but they refuse to see...and they definitely refuse to understand... their minds are stamped!


http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/749566.html


U.S. assures Israel it will not be forced to withdraw from Shaba
By
Aluf Benn, Amos Harel, Yoav Stern and Eli Ashkenazi, and Agencies

An agreement reached between Israel and the United States on the disputed Shaba Farms area, located on Israel's border with Lebanon, enabled a breakthrough in reaching a cease-fire resolution at the United Nations on Friday.In letters exchanged between U.S. and Israeli leaders, U.S. officials assured Israel that UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan would be authorized to determine whether the area belongs to Lebanon or Syria, but that the future status of the territory would only be determined in negotiations between Israel and Farms' rightful owners.A senior government source said that Israel would not be obligated to withdraw from Shaba Farms, even if Annan's investigation determines that they belong to Lebanon.

In the negotiations that preceded the cease-fire deal, Lebanon demanded that Israel hand over Shaba Farms as a "deposit" to the UN, with the small strip of territory later to be given to either Lebanon or Syria, according to the results of Annan's investigation.But Olmert strongly opposed the Lebanese demand, telling U.S. officials that Israel viewed the Shaba Farms as part of the Golan Heights, which was captured by Israel from Syria in 1967. He said that a withdrawal from part of the Golan would require a majority of 61 members of Knesset - a majority he does not have - or a national referendum. In 1981, the Knesset voted to extend Israeli law to the Golan.With Olmert refusing to budge on the Shaba issue, the UN Security Council announced that Annan would determine the exact delineation of area of the Farms and present his findings to the Security Council within 30 days.When Israel withdrew from south Lebanon in May 2000, the UN determined that the Farms were Syrian territory and that their future therefore had to be determined in negotiations between Jerusalem and Damascus.A government source said Friday that Olmert, Defense Minister Amir Peretz and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni had agreed to the UN cease-fire resolution following last-minute changes to the text. "The various key ministers have voiced satisfaction at the amendments made over the last few hours," the source said. "For implementation by Israel, this now requires a cabinet vote. The idea is that the military offensive will continue until then."Earlier Friday, Olmert issued the order for an expanded ground operation after diplomatic efforts at the UN appeared to be faltering. Another stumbling block was Lebanon's opposition to a more robust contingent of UNIFIL troops and to granting UNIFIL the authority to enforce the cease-fire.Olmert thanks BushOlmert thanked U.S. President George W. Bush Friday for his work on the UN Security Council resolution to stop violence between Israel and Hezbollah, the White House said in recounting the first direct talks between the two leaders since the fighting began.The eight-minute phone call with Bush at his ranch in Texas was initiated by Olmert, said Frederick Jones, spokesman for the National Security Council at the White House."The president expressed his view that the crisis was provoked by Hezbollah with the support of Iran and Syria and that we need to ensure that the reach of the Lebanese government extends throughout the country," Jones said.

Monday, August 21, 2006

The sound of the cries reaches your ears and the pictures of the dead and wounded dances in front of your eyes on your television screens. Children being killed and their bodies being scattered around trigger in your mind the very thought that what if they were yours?

Civillian buildings reduced to rubble, children's voices died beneath that debris and the remaining mourn the death of their loved ones, the cruelty that was sent to them from the sky by the Israeli airforce. Israel, defending it's right to exist?! on what grounds?!

The satellite positioning missles why only attacked a civilian residency in Qana? Why attacked the buses and cars of innocent civillians who were going for safer places? The Israeli genecide against the lebanese people just because their democracy is not in favour of Israel's interests?( Hezbullah being part of their parliament!) Same is the case with Palestinians... They are being punished for practising democracy and choosing Hamas (the freedom of expression I would say)... just because they can't make the Palestinians take back all the votes, they nab the memebers of parliament and send them off to their jails to rott... more than 9,000 innocent civillians are rotting in the jails of Israel but when you nick one or two of their soldiers, they destroy your right to breathe in a uranium free air!!!