antisemitism has been around for thousands of years. the jews are and have been the most hated people in earth's history. the only antisemitism is coming from europe and the muslims. you dont seem to realize this simple fact. and im the un-ethical one for not being anti semetic and/or not going with the flow of things and being agaisnt the jews.

 

Always Israel called who told the truth [ Antisemitism ]

 

Did you know something? Shem brother of Ham

 

It's mean the Arabs and Jews are cousin;)

Thats why you dont know much about the world. you dont have the stomach to learn about it.

 

I FUCKING TOLD YOU THE DEEP ROOT OF THE CONFLICT. HATE. the muslim want to kill the jews, the jews are the most hated group of people ever, and always have been.

 

its not about land, its about one side wanting to kill another because of hate.

 

 

It's Hallucination

 

It's about land of curse,just it nothing more

someone needs to help israel out for once. israel and europe have the same enemies.

 

 

In fact Israel the only enemy for the all world

Iran IS the enemy. though' date=' america does not have to force that. Iran is truly a threat to america and europe, and if we let them get nukes, then we are ALL in BIG trouble.[/quote']

 

Why USA the only country [ With Israel of course] afraid from Iran

 

Maybe cause they doing something wrong:sneaky:

again anti semetism. europe would side with any nation, other then a jewish one.

 

they complain more and hate more israel then their enemies....thats racism at its worst.

 

and what is truly sad is you stand up to defend one of the most evil and worst goverments around. the biggest sponser of terrorism. how can you support iran?

 

 

It's enough to saying antisemtism

 

disgusting

Always Israel called who told the truth [ Antisemitism ]

 

Did you know something? Shem brother of Ham

 

It's mean the Arabs and Jews are cousin;)

 

I have been taught that Nora had three sons one called Ham (Black people)

one called Shem (brown People) and one called Jephate (white people)

 

When Nora built the ark he was once Naked and his son Ham laughed at him, in his druken nakedness for this he was cursed... and some people say they people mainly of africa will always be cursed..

 

 

 

This is right if you have read the bible...

This is around Genises Chapter 10 after the flood, going on to when around 49 when Jacob had his 12 sons.

 

Did you know that its written in the Bible... and when Joseph one of Jacobs sons gave the following blessings...

 

Manaseh - You chirldrens children will be the greatest Nation in the world- Which nation is now refferd to as the greatest nation.. ? US.

Emphriam - You childrens tougne will be spoken in Many Nations (which lanauge is spoken in the most coutries around the world) England.. English

 

All of this can be found in the bible... mainly in the 1st Book of Genisis

Sorry about the awful speling by the way !

Nora? or Noah??

Noah

:lol: :P you make me laugh.... but I figured as much... ;)

I have been taught that Nora had three sons one called Ham (Black people)

one called Shem (brown People) and one called Jephate (white people)

 

When Nora built the ark he was once Naked and his son Ham laughed at him, in his druken nakedness for this he was cursed... and some people say they people mainly of africa will always be cursed..

 

 

 

This is right if you have read the bible...

This is around Genises Chapter 10 after the flood, going on to when around 49 when Jacob had his 12 sons.

 

Did you know that its written in the Bible... and when Joseph one of Jacobs sons gave the following blessings...

 

Manaseh - You chirldrens children will be the greatest Nation in the world- Which nation is now refferd to as the greatest nation.. ? US.

Emphriam - You childrens tougne will be spoken in Many Nations (which lanauge is spoken in the most coutries around the world) England.. English

 

All of this can be found in the bible... mainly in the 1st Book of Genisis

Sorry about the awful speling by the way !

 

Yes, but you can't really rely on the bible for sense. There's a talking snake in there ;) :laugh2:

 

Noah and his 'Ark' is a strange story.

CNN prepares Israeli false flag war provocation vs. Americans in Lebanon

 

Webster G. Tarpley | July 18 2006

 

The escalating Israeli assault on Lebanon clearly represents a conscious bid to provoke a general war in the Middle East. The captured Israeli soldiers are only the pretext for the present massive military operations.

 

Israeli spokesmen are making constant allegations that Hezbollah missiles being fired at Israel have been manufactured or delivered by Iran. At the same time, the Israelis accuse Hezbollah of wanting to transfer the two captured Israeli soldiers to Syria or Iran. These statements are an attempt to build a case for an Israeli sneak attack on Syria and/or Iran. US spokesmen, including the Nietzschean fascist John Bolton, constantly repeat the litany that Syria and Iran are the supporters of Hezbollah.

 

How might the Israelis and their Bush-Cheney allies escalate to a Middle East regional war? A linear scenario is that, after further bombardment of Israel by rockets allegedly made in Iran and allegedly delivered with the connivance of Syria, the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) lashes out at Damascus and Teheran. Syrian and Iranian retaliatory measures would then be seized upon by the Bush-Cheney regime as a pretext for US entry into the war. Here the US would be openly dragged into war as the tail of the Israeli dog. But this is a deeply flawed scenario, sure to generate huge waves of resentment against the Israelis and their US partners as the body bags begin to come home.

 

False flag scenarios would be entirely more effective from the point of view of the war planners. CNN and MSNBC coverage this Saturday morning has been stressing the situation of the 25,000 Americans now stuck in Lebanon. These Americans are being invited to register with the US consulates for possible evacuation. The State Department and the US military have been remarkably slow to begin such an evacuation.

 

One possible provocation scenario to bring the US into the war is that a helicopter carrying US citizens being evacuated out of Lebanon is hit by a missile and destroyed, killing all on board. The missile might be fired by the Israelis or by their allies among the fascist Lebanese Phalangists. The Israelis would announce that the helicopter had been destroyed by Hezbollah, opening the way for a hysterical campaign by Fox News and the rest of the neocon mass brainwashing apparatus to secure an early US attack on Syria and Iran.

 

An alternative: a group of Arabic-speaking Israeli Mossad or Shin Beth special forces, or a group of Phalangist militia round up a few dozen Americans and machine-gun them to death. The controlled media then blame the massacre on Hezbolllah, thus stampeding the US population into war.

 

The "Christian" Phalangist (or "Kataeb Party") have long been a willing cat's paw for the US and Israelis in Lebanon. It was the Phalangists, controlled by the Gemayel family, who did most of the actual killing at the infamous Tel-al-Zaatar massacre in August 1976, in the midst of the Kissinger-provoked Lebanese civil war. The Phalangists in that case did the dirty work under the supervision of the Israelis. Although the controlled media have been silent about the Phalange, it is clear that they are still available for dirty operations.

 

In an ominous sign, CNN broadcasts have featured first-person interviews with Caroline Shamoun, supposedly an American stuck in Lebanon. This reference recalls Camille Chamoun, the CIA puppet president of Lebanon who called in US forces in 1958. The goal of the current campaign is manifestly to call US forces to intervene into a Lebanon-centered crisis once again.

 

All peace-loving governments and all Americans of good will should make it clear that they hold the Israeli Mossad, Shin Beth, and Israeli Defense Forces directly responsible for the safety and welfare of the Americans trapped in Lebanon by the present aggression. Any atrocities against these Americans cannot be attributed to Hezbollah, Syria, or Iran, none of whom has any conceivable interest in provoking the US into an attack. It is Israel and Cheney who have such an interest, as is likely to have been discussed during Olmert's visit to the US in May and Netanyahu's visit here in June.

 

It is imperative that the US and world populations be inoculated against the provocation scenarios now being propagandized by CNN, MSNBC, and the rest of the controlled media.

True, however something wirtten thousands years ago... in places has such a canny occurance in the present day...

James Woolsey calls for an attack on Syria

 

Crooks and Liars | July 18 2006

 

VIDEO HERE

 

Former CIA man James Woolsey, appeared with John Gibson today and joined in with the neocon chorus and wants the US to attack Syria.

 

Woolsey says it’s really about Iran vs the US. No ceasefires or arrests. He wants air strikes on Syria immediately. Gibson asked him why the US shouldn’t just hit Iran.

 

Woolsey: Well, ahh, one has to take things to some degree by steps.

 

He’s said that we are in World War IV since ‘03 as part of a group calling itself "Americans for Victory Over Terrorism": The group was founded by former Education Secretary William Bennett, who took part in Wednesday’s event along with Paul Bremer, a U.S. ambassador during the Reagan administration and the former chairman of the National Commission on Terrorism.

 

 

 

What a war happy, propagandist idiot.

True' date=' however something wirtten thousands years ago... in places has such a canny occurance in the present day...[/quote']

 

I would take the bible so literal.. its all based on interpretation.

 

;) ooops!

correct your spelling ^ ;)

Well if Israely wouldn't confiscate and take away their land which was by no rights Israely' date=' there wouldn't be any of the problems going on...[/quote']

 

WELL I"M SO SICK AND TIRED OF HEARING COMMENTS LIKE THESE!!

 

every single country in the world has gotten it's land after they were conquered, usually during a war, and then there are agreement that are made that decide what belongs to who.

After the second world war Poland, for example, got land from Germany (this was pf cpurse decided in a conferense and agreements- just like the UN had decided about Israel and the UK released the balfour decleration). Now u dont see the germans going on busses in poland and blowing themselves up killing along with them little children, and parents that leave their childrens orphans or any other civilian!! Or kidnap a 19 year old soldier who's just doing his civil duty!!!!

May I remind u that when the jews didnt have a country they were murdered in masses, 6,000,000 million by the natzis! Dont u think that they deserve a land they could call their own- a land where they dont have to be persecuted by everyone, where they could live and know that this is where they belong!

Of course ppl like u will never understand because you have that.

So dont ever ever ever ever ever ever tell me that i dont belong here because this is MY HOME. Like your country is yours. And this is the ONLY PLACE WE HAVE. The arabs have tons of other countries. This is all we have.

 

and i'd like to see u when u know that every single boy that went to your grade is now being recruited to the north to fight them. And when your family members come live with u because they escape from the rockets that are shot at them endlessly. Or when you're afraid to go to school because u know u have to take the bus and u suspect every single person that enters it, and HAVE, in quite some many times got off the bus because u were scared.

 

dont say things when u dont understand them. Until u come live here, u will never know what we're really going through.

dont ever say we need to get out of here when we give them land back and they still attack. Do u think that living us country-less will make the wars end? It'll just make things worse, cause we'll be back in europe like before WW2- do u want history to repeat itself??

Fox News analyst compares Israelis to Nazis

Bevelacqua tells O'Reilly Jewish state ruthless in Lebanon

 

WorldNetDaily | July 18, 2006

 

Fox News military analyst Maj. Bob Bevelacqua, a former Green Beret, appearing tonight on "The O'Reilly Factor," compared Israeli actions in Lebanon and Gaza with Nazi actions in Russia during World War II.

 

Bevelacqua, a long-time Fox News contributor, said the Israelis were unwilling to compromise in their conflict with Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. He denied that the Israelis willingly evacuated from Gaza and Lebanon.

 

"Saying the Israelis pulled out of Lebanon is like saying the Nazis pulled out of Moscow," he said. "They invaded Lebanon. They invaded Gaza. They take homes and then they give them back. And they expect some type of great recognition."

 

Bevelacqua acknowledged he had business interests in Lebanon – a company that employed 30 people. His Fox News biography says he works with the WVC3 Group in Reston, Va., an elite security group that provides homeland security services, support and technologies to government and commercial clients.

 

"They (the Israelis) lack the word compromise," Bevelacqua said. "They refuse to sit down and negotiate."

 

His resume also says he has a 17-year history of worldwide military experience, including combat in the Gulf War, riot control in Los Angeles, a peacekeeping mission in Haiti, security assistance missions in West African countries and numerous anti-drug missions on the U.S. border with Mexico.

 

 

This is nuts.

Making evacuees pay sparks political fight

 

WASHINGTON - As U.S. citizens scrambled to escape the fighting in Lebanon and the Pentagon announced a massive evacuation effort, another kind of war - this one bitterly political - broke out in Washington over whether the evacuees should be billed for the costs of their own rescue.

 

They were being asked to sign a promissory note, pledging to repay the U.S. government within 90 days for the costs of their evacuation. The paperwork in Beirut sent tempers through the roof in Washington, not to mention among some under fire in Lebanon who have been asked to sign the notes.

 

"We've spent hundreds of billions of dollars in Iraq, we've paid Halliburton money that they haven't even earned, and yet we charge individual Americans who are caught in the crossfire in Lebanon for their transportation costs to get out," said an outraged House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

 

Calling on President Bush to reassure the public that "this is not just another manifestation of the Katrina mentality," Pelosi added: "A nation that can provide $300 billion for a war in Iraq can provide the money to get its people out of Lebanon."

 

...

 

Throughout the day, congressional leaders and the administration traded accusations over who was to blame, and each urged the other to rush through a waiver to the law requiring repayment. By Tuesday evening, according to congressional aides, the State Department indicated that evacuees would not be charged.

 

Can't believe this was even a debate

Damn right they shouldn't pay!

 

It's disgusting when you think about all the wasted money.

Money blown on strategic globalist wars which were sold to the public on documented lies!

 

Everything little thing they do is criminal.

Lebanon 'has been torn to shreds'

 

 

The Lebanese prime minister has called for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah militants, saying his country "has been torn to shreds".

Fouad Siniora said more than 300 people had been killed and 500,000 others displaced in a week of Israeli attacks.

 

More than 60 civilians died in fresh air strikes as two Israeli soldiers and a Hezbollah militant died in clashes.

 

FOREIGNERS IN LEBANON

* Canada: 40,000

* Philippines: 30,000

* Australia: 25,000

* US: 25,000

* UK: 22,000 (inc. 10,000 with dual nationality)

* France: 20,000

Figures correct at start of conflict

 

Barrages of Hezbollah rockets have been fired into northern Israel, where two children were killed in Nazareth.

 

Twenty-nine Israelis have died - including 15 civilians killed by rocket attacks - since the Israeli offensive against Hezbollah militants began eight days ago.

 

In further action on Wednesday night, Israel said a wave of planes had bombed a bunker in the south of the capital, Beirut, where it believed Hezbollah leaders had taken refuge.

 

Israel launched attacks on Lebanon after Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid.

 

Many thousands continue to flee Lebanon, and several countries have sent ships and helicopters to move their nationals.

 

But thousands of others remain trapped, with major roads cut by Israeli bombing, and no supplies reaching many areas.

 

 

In other developments:

 

* Relief agencies say there is a growing need for water, sanitation and medical facilities for those displaced within Lebanon

 

* French President Jacques Chirac called for humanitarian corridors in Lebanon to protect civilians from Israeli air raids as they flee the fighting

 

* UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice are to discuss the crisis on Thursday.

 

 

'Callous retribution'

 

In an emotional televised appeal, the Lebanese prime minister urged the international community to intervene.

 

"I call upon you all to respond immediately... and provide urgent international humanitarian assistance to our war-stricken country," Mr Siniora said.

 

"Can the international community stand by while such callous retribution by the state of Israel is inflicted on us?"

 

He vowed to make Israel pay compensation to Lebanon for the "barbaric destruction".

 

 

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the campaign against the militants would continue "as long as necessary" to free its captured soldiers and ensure Hezbollah is not a threat.

 

Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres told the BBC that Israel wanted peace, but could not sit back while Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel.

 

Wednesday saw further Israeli strikes in the east, south and Beirut, where a Christian district came under fire for the first time.

 

At least 12 people were killed in a southern village near the city of Tyre and civilian deaths were also reported in other parts of the south and near Baalbek in the east.

 

The strikes came as Israeli ground troops continued what they call "restricted pinpoint attacks" into southern Lebanon.

 

Heavy exchanges of fire erupted after Israeli tanks and infantry crossed the border in search of Hezbollah weapons and facilities.

 

For their part, Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets at Israeli cities including Haifa and Tiberias

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5196800.stm

 

 

This is all going up another level, it's a very grave situation.

WELL I"M SO SICK AND TIRED OF HEARING COMMENTS LIKE THESE!!

 

every single country in the world has gotten it's land after they were conquered, usually during a war, and then there are agreement that are made that decide what belongs to who.

After the second world war Poland, for example, got land from Germany (this was pf cpurse decided in a conferense and agreements- just like the UN had decided about Israel and the UK released the balfour decleration). Now u dont see the germans going on busses in poland and blowing themselves up killing along with them little children, and parents that leave their childrens orphans or any other civilian!! Or kidnap a 19 year old soldier who's just doing his civil duty!!!!

May I remind u that when the jews didnt have a country they were murdered in masses, 6,000,000 million by the natzis! Dont u think that they deserve a land they could call their own- a land where they dont have to be persecuted by everyone, where they could live and know that this is where they belong!

Of course ppl like u will never understand because you have that.

So dont ever ever ever ever ever ever tell me that i dont belong here because this is MY HOME. Like your country is yours. And this is the ONLY PLACE WE HAVE. The arabs have tons of other countries. This is all we have.

 

and i'd like to see u when u know that every single boy that went to your grade is now being recruited to the north to fight them. And when your family members come live with u because they escape from the rockets that are shot at them endlessly. Or when you're afraid to go to school because u know u have to take the bus and u suspect every single person that enters it, and HAVE, in quite some many times got off the bus because u were scared.

 

dont say things when u dont understand them. Until u come live here, u will never know what we're really going through.

dont ever say we need to get out of here when we give them land back and they still attack. Do u think that living us country-less will make the wars end? It'll just make things worse, cause we'll be back in europe like before WW2- do u want history to repeat itself??

 

It's just a lies

WELL I"M SO SICK AND TIRED OF HEARING COMMENTS LIKE THESE!!

 

every single country in the world has gotten it's land after they were conquered, usually during a war, and then there are agreement that are made that decide what belongs to who.

After the second world war Poland, for example, got land from Germany (this was pf cpurse decided in a conferense and agreements- just like the UN had decided about Israel and the UK released the balfour decleration). Now u dont see the germans going on busses in poland and blowing themselves up killing along with them little children, and parents that leave their childrens orphans or any other civilian!! Or kidnap a 19 year old soldier who's just doing his civil duty!!!!

May I remind u that when the jews didnt have a country they were murdered in masses, 6,000,000 million by the natzis! Dont u think that they deserve a land they could call their own- a land where they dont have to be persecuted by everyone, where they could live and know that this is where they belong!

Of course ppl like u will never understand because you have that.

So dont ever ever ever ever ever ever tell me that i dont belong here because this is MY HOME. Like your country is yours. And this is the ONLY PLACE WE HAVE. The arabs have tons of other countries. This is all we have.

 

and i'd like to see u when u know that every single boy that went to your grade is now being recruited to the north to fight them. And when your family members come live with u because they escape from the rockets that are shot at them endlessly. Or when you're afraid to go to school because u know u have to take the bus and u suspect every single person that enters it, and HAVE, in quite some many times got off the bus because u were scared.

 

dont say things when u dont understand them. Until u come live here, u will never know what we're really going through.

dont ever say we need to get out of here when we give them land back and they still attack. Do u think that living us country-less will make the wars end? It'll just make things worse, cause we'll be back in europe like before WW2- do u want history to repeat itself??

 

 

If you feel sick when you hearing comments like this,so what can I feel when I read yout comment

 

I think when a country conquered other land in war I think [ im my opinion] they must give it back to them

 

But what you say about people didn't even have a land and conquered the others land

 

You said this 19 years old soldier doing his civil duty

I don't understand how you say SOLDIRE and CIVIL DUTY together

I think he was doing his Military Duty

 

 

When I ask you to a drink,I ask you to drink in my home no in another on home,so Britain haven't any right to announce a decleration about Palestine

 

If jews murdered in masses it's not our fault and there is no reason to invasion our land

It's just a lies

 

LIES??? YOU THINK THAT I WOULD LIE ABOUT A BUS EXPOLIDING ONE KILOMETER FROM MY HOUSE AND KILLING 14 YEAR OLD KIDS ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL!!!

DON'T YOU EVEN DARE GO THERE BECAUSE IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT MAKES ME HEAT UP IS WHEN PEOPLE LIKE U, WHO DON'T LIVE HERE AND DONT KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE START JUSTIFING WHAT THE PALESTINIANS DO BECAUSE THEY CLAIM THE "DESERVE" THIS LAND, OR NOT ONLY JUSTIFY WHAT'S GOING ON HERE BUT DENY IT!!! I REALLY HAVE NOTHING LEFT TO SAY TO YOU, OR PPL LIKE YOU. YOU'RE SO SMALL TO ME, NOT EVEN WORTH MY NERVES OR MY TIME. SERIOUSLY, YOU CAN JUST GO FUCK YOURSELF OR SOMETHING, DONT INVOLVE YOURSELF IN THINGS THAT DONT CONCERN U

 

OH, AND YES!! IT IS A CIVIL DUTY, SINCE WE'RE BEING FUCKING ATTACKED ALL THE TIME, AND YEAH, IF I WANNA STAY ALIVE WE NEED TO GO TO THE ARMY AND FIGHT FOR OUR POSSTION. IM SORRY U FEEL SAFE WHERE U ARE AND U DONT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THINGS LIKE THAT

!!!!!!

It's just a lies

 

 

yeah .. i agree with Greeneyes88 here ... you should folow the news a bit more Maldini. There is almost no day passing whitout a palestine attack on Israel and vice versa. It most surely are not lies what you've read here. I don't know who's side to be one because i don't know enough about the situation but saying that Greeneyes88 just told lied is kinda stupid. Read the papers, watch the news .. do something to get to know anything about this.

 

And what's wrong with doing military duty ? If you have to go into the army because your government tells you to, are you going to refuse ? i don't think you can refuse man! and even if you don't have to go i'd got to defend the country where i live in since the day i was born ... to defend what you've got ...

 

About the declaration of Israel and palestina ... there's no way you can go back in time and make that undone ... quit living in the past, this is the situation now and people are trying to make the best out of it. It would be insane to get all the israeli back out of israel and move them back to their previous countries.

Do you think Egypt didn't take land from other countries ? you think Egypt has always been between the same borders ? Hell no! Israel is just the most recent piece of land took to live in by other people than the native people.

Hezbollah, Hamas and Israel: Everything You Need To Know

 

ALEXANDER COCKBURN | July 21 2006

 

As the tv networks give unlimited airtime to Israel’s apologists, the message rolls out that no nation, least of all Israel, can permit bombardment or armed incursion across its borders without retaliation.

 

The guiding rule in this tsunami of drivel is that the viewers should be denied the slightest access to any historical context, or indeed to anything that happened prior to June 28, which was when the capture of an Israeli soldier and the killing of two others by Hamas hit the headlines, followed soon thereafter by an attack by a unit of Hezbollah’s fighters.

 

Memory is supposed to stop in its tracks at June 28, 2006.

 

Let’s go on a brief excursion into pre-history. I’m talking about June 20, 2006, when Israeli aircraft fired at least one missile at a car in an attempted extrajudicial assassination attempt on a road between Jabalya and Gaza City. The missile missed the car. Instead it killed three Palestinian children and wounded 15.

 

Back we go again to June 13, 2006. Israeli aircraft fired missiles at a van in another attempted extrajudicial assassination. The successive barrages killed nine innocent Palestinians.

 

Now we’re really in the dark ages, reaching far, far back to June 9, 2006, when Israel shelled a beach in Beit Lahiya killing 8 civilians and injuring 32.

 

That’s just a brief trip down Memory Lane, and we trip over the bodies of twenty dead and forty-seven wounded, all of them Palestinians, most of them women and children.

 

Israel regrets… But no! Israel doesn’t regret in the least. Most of the time it doesn’t even bother to pretend to regret. It says, “We reserve the right to slaughter Palestinians whenever we want. We reserve the right to assassinate their leaders, crush their homes, steal their water, tear out their olive groves, and when they try to resist we call them terrorists intent on wrecking the ‘peace process’”.

 

Now Israel says it wants to wipe out Hezbollah. It wishes no harm to the people of Lebanon, just so long as they’re not supporters of Hezbollah, or standing anywhere in the neighborhood of a person or a house or a car or a truck or a road or a bus or a field, or a power station or a port that might, in the mind of an Israeli commander or pilot, have something to do with Hezbollah. In any of those eventualities all bets are off. You or your wife or your mother or your baby get fried.

 

Israel regrets… But no! As noted above, it doesn’t regret in the least. Neither does George Bush, nor Condoleezza Rice nor John Bolton who is the moral savage who brings shame on his country each day that he sits as America’s ambassador (unconfirmed) at the UN and who has just told the world that a dead Israel civilian is worth a whole more in terms of moral outrage than a Lebanese one.

 

None of them regrets. They say Hezbollah is a cancer in the body of Lebanon. Sometimes, to kill the cancer, you end up killing the body. Or bodies. Bodies of babies. Lots of them. Go to the website fromisraeltolebanon.info and take a look. Then sign the petition on the site calling on the governments of the world to stop this barbarity.

 

You can say that Israel brought Hezbollah into the world. You can prove it too, though this too involves another frightening excursion into history.

 

This time we have to go far, almost unimaginably far, back into history. Back to 1982, before the dinosaurs, before CNN, before Fox TV, before O’Reilly and Limbaugh. But not before the neo-cons who at that time had already crawled from the primal slime and were doing exactly what they are doing now: advising an American president to give Israel the green light to “solve its security problems” by destroying Lebanon.

 

In 1982 Israel had a problem. Yasir Arafat, headquartered in Beirut, was making ready to announce that the PLO was prepared to sit down with Israel and embark on peaceful, good faith negotiations towards a two-state solution.

 

Israel didn’t want a two-state solution, which meant -- if UN resolutions were to be taken seriously -- a Palestinian state right next door, with water, and contiguous territory. So Israel decided chase the PLO right out of Lebanon. It announced that the Palestinian fighters had broken the year-long cease-fire by lobbing some shells into northern Israel.

 

Palestinians had done nothing of the sort. I remember this very well, because Brian Urquhart, at that time assistant secretary general of the United Nations, in charge of UN observers on Israel’s northern border, invited me to his office on the 38th floor of the UN hq in mid-Manhattan and showed me all the current reports from the zone. For over a year there’d been no shelling from north of the border. Israel was lying.

 

With or without a pretext Israel wanted to invade Lebanon. So it did, and rolled up to Beirut. It shelled Lebanese towns and villages and bombed them from the air. Sharon’s forces killed maybe 20,000 people, and let Lebanese Christians slaughter hundreds of Palestinian refugees in the camps of Sabra and Chatilla.

 

The killing got so bad that even Ronald Reagan awoke from his slumbers and called Tel Aviv to tell Israel to stop. Sharon gave the White House the finger by bombing Beirut at the precise times -- 2.42 and 3.38 -- of two UN resolutions calling for a peaceful settlement on the matter of Palestine.

 

When the dust settled over the rubble, Israel bunkered down several miles inside Lebanese sovereign territory, which it illegally occupied, in defiance of all UN resolutions, for years, supervising a brutal local militia and running its own version of Abu Graibh, the torture center at the prison of Al-Khiam.

 

Occupy a country, torture its citizens and in the end you face resistance. In Israel’s case it was Hezbollah, and in the end Hezbollah ran Israel out of Lebanon, which is why a lot of Lebanese regard Hezbollah not as terrorists but as courageous liberators.

 

The years roll by and Israel does its successful best to destroy all possibility of a viable two-state solution. It builds illegal settlements. It chops up Palestine with Jews-only roads. It collars all the water. It cordons off Jerusalem. It steals even more land by bisecting Palestinian territory with its “fence”. Anyone trying to organize resistance gets jailed, tortured, or blown up.

 

Sick of their terrible trials, Palestinians elect Hamas, whose leaders make it perfectly clear that they are ready to deal on the basis of the old two-state solution, which of course is the one thing Israel cannot endure. Israel doesn’t want any “peaceful solution” that gives the Palestinians anything more than a few trashed out acres surrounded with barbed wire and tanks, between the Israeli settlements whose goons can murder them pretty much at will.

 

So here we are, 24 years after Sharon did his best to destroy Lebanon in 1982, and his heirs are doing it all over again. Since they can’t endure the idea of any just settlement for Palestinians, it’s the only thing they know how to do. Call Lebanon a terror-haven and bomb it back to the stone age. Call Gaza a terror-haven and bomb its power plant, first stop on the journey back to the stone age. Bomb Damascus. Bomb Teheran.

 

Of course they won’t destroy Hezbollah. Every time they kill another Lebanese family, they multiply hatred of Israel and support for Hezbollah. They’ve even unified the parliament in Baghdad, which just voted unanimously -- Sunnis and Shi’ites and Kurds alike -- to deplore Israel’s conduct and to call for a ceasefire.

 

I hope you’ve enjoyed these little excursions into history, even though history is dangerous, which is why the US press gives it a wide birth. But even without the benefit of historical instruction, a majority of Americans in CNN’s instant poll –- about 55 per cent out of 800,000 as of midday, July 19 -- don’t like what Israel is up to.

 

Dislike is one thing, but at least in the short term it doesn’t help much. Israel’s 1982 attack on Lebanon grew unpopular in the US, after the first few days. But forcing the US to pressure Israel to settle the basic problem takes political courage, and virtually no US politician is prepared to buck the Israel lobby, however many families in Lebanon and Gaza may be sacrificed on the altar of such cowardice.