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*** Al Jazeera has a feature story on the illegal Turkish invasion of Cyprus and the ghost town of Varosha. Click here to read the article. ***
Athens daily newspapers display headlines about the Israeli bombing of Qana. Lebanon, Monday, July 31, 2006. Headlines clockwise from the top, left: The daily Ethnos, 'Slaughter of infants,' Eleftherotypia 'Beastly act.' (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)A C-130 military plane flew from Elefsina, west of Athens, to Larnaca, Cyprus, yesterday transporting humanitarian aid for Lebanon as part of a European Union relief effort. The food, blankets, anti-biotics and tents were expected to be dropped off in the Cypriot city where they would then be transported by military ship to Beirut. It is the fifth shipment of humanitarian aid that Greece is sending to Lebanon since the conflict with Israel began.
Greece
+ Greek subway dig excites archaeologists
+ Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 06-07-31
+ Athens News Agency: News in English, 06-07-31
+ The ghost city of Cyprus (and the illegal Turkish invasion of Cyprus)
Oh I see...Syria is flexing it's muscles NOW. The Syrians have been sitting safe and comfy on their asses all this time, while Lebanese and Israelis were getting killed or injured. Now Syria is flapping their gums...just in case someone would DARE exclude them from the peace talks. "Show us Syrians some respect!"
Greece
+ Greek subway dig excites archaeologists
+ Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 06-07-31
+ Athens News Agency: News in English, 06-07-31
+ The ghost city of Cyprus (and the illegal Turkish invasion of Cyprus)
Oh I see...Syria is flexing it's muscles NOW. The Syrians have been sitting safe and comfy on their asses all this time, while Lebanese and Israelis were getting killed or injured. Now Syria is flapping their gums...just in case someone would DARE exclude them from the peace talks. "Show us Syrians some respect!"
"The operation has not yet been completed. Many days of fighting still await us. Missiles and rockets will still fall. Hours of fear and uncertainty and, yes, also pain, tears and blood await us." -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
World
+ Israel's Olmert: No cease-fire in Lebanon, air strikes resume and Israel votes to expand ground attack World
+ Hezbollah uses UN posts as shields
+ Israeli shelling kills Gaza boy
+ IDF: "Hezbollah has only few launchers left"
+ Iran's clout rises
+ Trapped Lebanese flee city of Bint Jbail
+ USMC sniper metes out swift death in Iraq
+ Islamic Jihad leader killed
+ U.N. issues nuke deadline for Iran
+ Fighting breaks out in Sri Lanka
+ Congo holds first multiparty election in four decades
+ Russia warns of environmental damage after oil spill from pipeline
+ Ethiopian Jews face more conflict in Israel
+ When Egypt took over the Suez
+ The ghost city of Cyprus (and the illegal Turkish invasion of Cyprus)
posted by FreeCyprus at 1:25 PM
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It is America and Isreal destroying the world!
we need to stop supporting them and DEMAND the ceasefire
Matthew 7:2
For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
فَإِنَّكُمْ بِالدَّيْنُونَةِ الَّتِي بِهَا تَدِينُونَ تُدَانُونَ؛ وَبِالْكَيْلِ الَّذِي بِهِ تَكِيلُونَ يُكَالُ لَكُمْ.
Hezbollah Uses U.N. Post As Shield:
Global War On Terror: An e-mail from a United Nations observer killed in Lebanon shows how the U.N. apparently and deliberately allowed its observers to be used by Hezbollah as shields.
On the evening of July 25 an Israeli strike hit a U.N. observation post in the southern Lebanese village of El Khiam, killing Canadian Maj. Paeta Hess-von Kruedener and three others serving as U.N. observers in the area.
This strike was what U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan was referring to when he initially accused Israel of "apparently deliberate targeting" of U.N. peacekeepers. But an e-mail Hess-von Kruedener sent shortly before his death paints quite a different picture, one of U.N. perfidy and complicity in Hezbollah's war against Israel.
In an e-mail to CTV on July 18, he noted that Israeli artillery and missile fire had been landing close to his observation post, but said:
"This has not been due to deliberate targeting, but rather due to tactical necessity."
They were aimed at Hezbollah targets near his position.
"What this means, in plain English," the major continued, "we've got Hezbollah fighters running around our positions here and then using us for shields and then engaging the Israeli Defense Forces."
Hezbollah has been using Lebanese civilians in their homes and villages as human shields, so why not U.N. observers? And what were they observing anyway?
It's hard to miss a terrorist group spending six years digging tunnels and building hardened bunkers while they import 13,000 rockets and missiles from Iran and Syria.
Canadian Maj.-Gen. Lewis MacKenzie, the first U.N. commander in Sarajevo during the civil war in Bosnia, said he has seen the tactic in previous U.N. missions. Aside from U.N. posts, fighters would set up near hospitals, mosques and orphanages. The U.N. observers would, well, just observe.
The same day the Canadian major was killed, according to a U.N. news release, Hezbollah opened fire on a U.N. convoy on the road between Kunin and Bint Jbayl.
The day before, a U.N. observer was hit by Hezbollah fire near Marun al Ras. He was airlifted by Israel Defense Forces ambulance helicopter to Haifa, where Israeli doctors saved his life. Yet there are no condemnations of Hezbollah or thank-you notes sent to Israel.
UNIFIL, the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon, has observed much but done little, except to interfere in Israel's ability to defend itself. As Dore Gold, former Israeli ambassador to the U.N., has noted:
"Hezbollah would launch military attacks 50 meters from a UNIFIL outpost, Israel would shoot back and UNIFIL would protest against the Israeli response."
UNIFIL not only observed but also videotaped an incident on Oct. 7, 2000, in which Hezbollah operatives used cars disguised as U.N. vehicles to kidnap and kill three Israeli soldiers. When Israel asked for a copy of the tape, it was first told that no such tape existed, then that handing it over would violate the U.N.'s "neutrality."
In another incident in January 2005, Hezbollah had planted five improvised explosive devices less than a foot from the Israeli border near Zarit, on the Mediterranean coast. The IDF detected the IEDs and, following procedure, notified UNIFIL. A French UNIFIL engineer verified the IEDs were there and asked that Hezbollah remove them.
Hezbollah, of course, refused and UNIFIL, of course, took no further action. When the IDF sent in a large armored bulldozer to do the job, it had to cross briefly a few inches into Lebanese territory. Hezbollah opened fire, killing the bulldozer's driver.
Such incidents speak volumes not only about Hezbollah but also about the U.N. Its observers are like the New Yorkers who in 1964 decided not to get involved when Kitty Genovese was murdered just outside their windows.
How many people have died and will die in Israel and Lebanon and perhaps in a wider war because the U.N. and its observers watched Hezbollah's provocations and buildup and decided not to get involved?
I think the point is that Christianity recognizes (and often recognized, starting with Christ) the separation between Church and state. The original Christians didn't push their religion on anyone, and they didn't behead heretics.
Contrast this to the modern Islamists.
There is also the charge to do unto others as you would have them do unto you and love thy neighbor. I can think of some folks in the Middle East that could take a lesson from that as well.
Listen here! As long as there is one muslim in the ME that doesn't believe in Israel's right to exist, we will continue to have war. That's the reality! It IS that simple!
http://politicscentral.com/2006/07/31/the_plight_of_the_christian_le.php
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3283816,00.html
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