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April
21, 2003
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Wallace
Gagne
End of History; More in a Moment
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Perry
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14, 2003
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Uri Avnery
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Wayne
Madsen
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Alam
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Shukrallah
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Jones
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The Iraq War's Trashiest Piece of Propaganda
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Cockburn
US has a Lot to Answer For: Violence,
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Steve
Perry
War Web Log 4/14
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12 / 13, 2003
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Lipton
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Wayne
Madsen
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John
Brown
"They Got It Down": the Toppling
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Kathy and
Bill Christison
Final Thoughts from Palestine
William
Blum
Our Vulnerable Warmongers' Rush to Justify Devastation
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Gagne
Let the Stealing Begin
Ann
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Henry Miller
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Cipris
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Jun
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Perry
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April
11, 2003
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Barghouti
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Jacobs
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Vest
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de Rooij
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Berry
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Oh Freedom
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Perry
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David Krieger
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Jensen
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Geoffrey
Neale
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St. Clair
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Guthrie
Rumors of War
Joseph
Heller
Nately's Old Man
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Perry
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Third Page
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9, 2003
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Lindorff
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Lummis
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War
Susan
Davis
The New York Times and the Peace Movement
David Vest
Smoking Gun? You're Watching It
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America's Sovereign Right to Do
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Eldar
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Wallace
Gagne
Baghdad Babble
Harry
Browne
Report from the Protests at the Bush/Blair
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Larry Kearney
I Understand There's a Boy in
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Perry
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M. Shahid
Alam
The Israelization of America
April
7, 2003
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Chretien
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N. Gibbs
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Levy
America is Not a Role Model
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Christian
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Rabin
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James Davis
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Fisk
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Mackay
War and Art
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Wars and the Color Line
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Perry
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April
5, 2003
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The Iraqi Humanitarian Relief is
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Gwynne
A Drowning in Salem
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Avnery
Roadmap to Nowhere
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Floyd
Hell for Leather: Bombs, Bullets, Bibles and Bush
William
Cook
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Gila
Svirsky
A Busy Day for Bulldozers
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Mahajan
Learning to Count the Dead
Aluf Benn
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Ellen Peterson
Gay Marine Refuses to Fight
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April 22,
2003
Down a Dangerous Path
What
Else Hasn't Israel Told America?
By
RAMZY BAROUD
I was still a teenager, but I still vividly remember
Israeli television, Channel I, showing some Lebanese women throwing
flowers at advancing Israeli tanks that thrust themselves into
the heart of Beirut in 1982. Israel invaded Lebanon with a long
list of pretexts; one was to liberate the Lebanese people from
Syria and "terrorist Palestinian groups". Following
the "liberation", Israel staged an election that was
'won' by its main Christian Philangists ally, Bashir Gemayel.
We have already learned of the Israeli
role in the war on Iraq. But aside from policymaking, American
and Israeli media have informed us, on several occasions, that
Marines Corps were dispatched to Israel to learn of the 'successful'
Israel army tactics used to 'quell the Palestinian uprising in
the Jenin refugee camp. (US News & World Report--Feb, 17,
2003)
But if America, the brave, humbled itself
to the point that it accepted to draw its lessons from the tiny
nation of Israel, then maybe its time to learn the Lebanon lesson
from start to finish.
When millions of people around the world
set to avoid the unjustifiable American army invasion of Iraq,
they were moved by a straightforward point of reason: one, you
don't impose democracy, and two, you don't free a nation with
cluster bombs, let alone the lack of legitimacy and the unmistakable
business interests tainting the Iraq "war adventure"
from day one.
Others wished to see their resentment
regarding the war as part of a greater, and more complex picture.
In the last few years, there was more
than one self-indicting doctrine, composed by the George Bush
administration's top players that sought world dominance, even
before the tragic attacks of September 11, 2001. A quick flip
through the 90-page document: "Rebuilding America's Defenses:
Strategies, Forces And Resources For A New Century", a blue
print for future American foreign policy drawn by the same famous
characters that have orchestrated and implemented the invasion
of Iraq, would highlight the American quest for world dominance,
for the sake of cheap energy and strategic control.
Marginalizing the United Nations, forging
a British war alliance and invading Iraq was outlined in the
document, and has been implemented, word for word. But "even
should Saddam pass from the scene, bases in Saudi Arabia and
Kuwait will remain permanently--despite domestic opposition in
the Gulf regimes to the stationing of US troops--as Iran may
well prove as large a threat to US interests as Iraq has".
It's the above scenario that many of
us fear, as we witness American government's eagerness in re-shaping
the future of our world and the future of coming generations.
For those thoughtful individuals who
refused to buy into the frenzy of the media and government war
hawks' claims of an immanent Iraqi threat, the war is technically
over.
But those who are bold enough to admit
that the end of the Iraq war is just the beginning of an illegal
occupation that has already drawn lessons from the illegal and
brutal Israeli occupation of Palestine and Lebanon, must realize
that their responsibility in standing for peace and justice,
has just grown tremendously.
Certain segments in the US government
(which have 'coincidently' allied themselves with the ideologically
misguided, and morally bankrupt Israeli right wing Likud party),
have committed themselves to what neo-conservatives (aka neo-imperialists)
term "total war".
While such wars might in fact divert
the attention away from the economic downfalls already sweeping
this country, and prove rewarding to Armageddon prophecies campaigners
and modern-world gold-hunters, it reaps disasters for most of
us: people who are genuinely concerned about raising our children
in a more peaceful world.
I know victory is sweet, but what is
so sweet about declaring a fraudulent victory, if all we have
done is set the stage for more uncertainties? Cluster bombing
our way out of every hurdle, or every time 'our leadership' is
challenged is unlikely to gain America the status or the respect
its people desire.
CNN showed jubilant Iraqis whose hate
for Saddam Hussein blinded them from seeing the fact that they
had just fallen into the net of another head-hunter, who cared
little while dropping bombs on civilians areas so that it might
confidently declare: "we have liberated 600 oil fields".
I was still a teenager, but still vividly
remember Israeli television, Channel I showing some Lebanese
women throwing flowers at advancing Israeli tanks that thrust
themselves into the heart of Beirut in 1982.
Two decades after the Israeli "liberation"
of Lebanon, and the "restoration" of democracy, the
collective struggle by the Lebanese people has prevailed, driving
Israeli soldiers back to the Israeli border in one of the most
remarkable victories ever achieved by an Arab nation.
Aside from the fraudulent propaganda,
Israel invaded Lebanon seeking dominance, expansion, strategic
control and natural resources (water). Interestingly, its defeat
came at the hands of a generation that was born after Israel
invaded Lebanon in 1978.
It's humbling to see a 'great democracy'
like America drawing lessons from a 'tiny democracy' like Israel.
But the tiny democracy should have been truly honest in teaching
the United States the other half of lesson. Sure, Israeli bulldozers
destroyed most of Jenin, but the camp is still fighting. True,
Israel occupied Lebanon to advance its strategic interests, but
it experienced a bitter defeat twenty years later.
'Total war' is an electrifying concept
that might raise the adrenaline of the flag-waving, "nuke
the Arabs" segment of the American population. But "total
war", while it can never achieve 'total victory', can still
generate 'total defeat', a lesson that took Israel twenty years
to learn in Lebanon, and is destined to learn in Palestine.
Will America wait that long before realizing
the disastrous path on which it is embarking?
Ramzy Baroud
is the editor-in-chief of PalestineChronicle.com and the editor
of the anthology "Searching
Jenin: Eyewitness Accounts of the Israeli Invasion 2002."
50 percent of the editor's royalties will go directly to assist
in the relief efforts in Jenin. He can be reached at:
ramzy5@aol.com
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