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Announcing TBR Ebooks!

Starting with a new publication concerning the background behind the 9/11 attacks, TBR News will be presenting a series of interesting, informative and definitive works for our readers. Future titles will include the complete Voice of the White House with much more added material that was considered too controversial to post, the heavily-censored Armenian Holocaust of 1916, the Bush-Lay private correspondence, the Assassination of JFK,Pearl Harbor intrigues and rare documents, Malaparte’s inside study of the making of revolution, sensational selected articles from the German Rudolf historical revision files, unpublished before Rudolf’s arrest and forced deportation to Germany, World War II studies of holocaust history, taken from secret German files and much more. Please see the title page for more information.

The Editors

Descending Into Darkness: The Harring Report

A well-researched study into the background of the 9/11 attack: Who knew what and when did they know it. Russian and German intelligence material, not published before show that the U.S. had ample warning...and did nothing about it.

THE VOICE OF THE WHITE HOUSE

The full collection of the twice-weekly commentary of what is really going on inside the corrupt Bush White House. The spectrum includes the Gannon scandal, the planned invasion of Iran, many stories of stupidity and corruption coupled with biting sarcasm. Interesting to note that many, if not most, of the predictions have come true.

REGICIDE The Official Assassination of John F. Kennedy

A landmark book that sold very well in hardback, this work contains actual intelligence documents concerning the inside U.S. plans to kill Kennedy; the reasons, the methods and the results.

The Final Reckoning: An Analysis of Demographics in Holocaust Literature

By Harold Kreig, Lt.Col, AUS ret.

This is the first rational, heavily documented work on the subject of the Holocaust. Colonel Krieg has taken thousands of documents, including the official SS concentration camp records from 1935 through 1945 and official U.S. government postwar analysis of the system and the casualties and causes of death and produced a book that is highly informative and readable.  Heavily footnoted and annotated, ‘The Final Reckoning’ is logical and compelling and is an historical work that should be read through by any student of the period and subject.

Coup D’Etat: The Technique Of Revolution

By Curzio Malaparte

First published in Italy by Curzio Malaparte in 1928, this is a seminal work on historical seizures of power from Napoleon through Hitler.

Gestapo-Chief: The CIA & Heinrich Müller by Gregory Douglas

                In 1948, the former head of Hitelr’s Gestapo was interviewed by senior officials of the CIA in Switzerland where Müller had been in hiding since the end of the Second World War. His interview, for Colonel James Critchfield of the CIA’s Gehlen Organization, runs to nearly a thousand pages and for years was hidden in the CIA’s files.

                This is a translation of a part of the interview, which was initially conducted in German and then translated into English for CIA use.

                It is a fascinating series of historical episodes covering both the Axis and Allied sides with comments on Hitler, Stalin, Roosevelt, Henry Wallace, Winston Churchill, the 20^th of July bomb plot against Hitler, Bishop von Galen’s heroic, and successful, attacks on the Nazis and their euthanasia program, the concentration camps, the Duke of Windsor, the Roger Casement diaries and many more fascinating and insightful views of a man who ran the most effective counter-intelligence agency in modern times. 

                There is also extensive information on the attempts on the part of the CIA to silence or discredit the fact that the Gestapo Chief worked for the United States and eventually came to live in Washington, D.C. as part of the notorious “Operation Paperclip.”

                Fascinating inside views of many top Nazis and CIA officials. 

The CIA COvenant: Nazis in Washington

by Gregory Douglas

* From the end of World War II, the American CIA imported thousands of Nazis into the United States to work for them, many on the list of wanted war criminals

*One of the most important of these was Heinrich Mueller, once head of Hitler's Gestapo. Mueller was recruited by Colonel James Critchfield who ran the CIA's "Gehnel Organization' in Munich.

* Mueller kept journals and this book is a translation of three years (1948-1951) of notes and observations made of top CIA officials, President Truman, top U.S. government officials, plans for murder, thefts, kidnappings, wholesale thefts of public money and a terrifying pattern of uncontrolled ambition, unchecked by any person or agency.

* Also included are CIA and other agency's activities that have never been revealed.

*Mueller's deals in stolen Nazi art for the CIA are covered in detail.

*Also to be found are the steps the frightened CIA have taken to prevent the publication, sales or distribution of this work.

An Essay on the Principle of Population

by Thomas Malthus

The 1798 classic study of how supplies of food do not keep up with an expanding population

Malthus' theory is that population growth is geometric while the food supply increase is arithmetic.

A very literate and current study that clearly highlights present and current population problems

With the world's population higher than ever before, this is a work of great and current interest

CONSPIRACIES for Fun and Profit

Contents
The Evil Catholics Murdered Abraham Lincoln
TWA Flight 800: The Gathering of the Nuts
The Real Truth About the Kennedy Assassination!
The Great 9-11 Plot
Who is Sorcha Faal?
The Bush Indictments
Faked Conspiracy photos
The Sinking of the MV Estonia
The German Guy and the Destruction of Houston
The Great Contrail Conspiracy
Planet X
Remote Viewing unveiled

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“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people, On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
- H.L. Mencken

“That we are to stand by the president, right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
-Theodore Roosevelt

“Mass movements do not usually rise until the prevailing order has been discredited. The discrediting is not an automatic result of the blunders and abuses of those in power, but the deliberate work of men of words with a grievance.”
-Eric Hoffer The True Believer

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America’s Enemies!

There are four entities who represent the most dangerous enemies to American liberties since George III.

They are:

1.                    The Neocons or Likudists who owe their personal allegiance to another country and now completely control our foreign policy. They lied and deceived us into the Iraq war and are demanding that more and more American soldiers die to preserve their own country and ideals.

2.                    The Christian Evangelical right who is trying to force the United States into becoming a theocracy under their rule. They know in their hearts that they alone can restructure a secular humanist America into their idea of Heaven on Earth.

3.                    An element of American society that call themselves Patriots and are obsessively militaristic and great admirers of the corporate or fascistic state. Many of these have been very minor members of the American military and as a counterbalance to their reserve or rear area tours of duty, are rabidly in favor of draconian military action, the bloodier the better. Usually these drumbeaters are too old, or too fat, to fight and have no sons of draft age.

4.                    George W. Bush, who is the worst president in the history of the United States and directly responsible for the huge death tolls in Iraq, is determined to rule the United States until God puts a stop to him and is even more determined to force the American people into becoming obedient, Christian and self-sacrificing lemmings who worship at his shrine and march in step.

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The Voice of the White House

Washington, D.C. July 29, 2006:” The current bloodshed in poor Lebanon is causing all manner of stress here in the White House. A number of staffers, not the neocons or Israel supporters, demand that Bush allow the IDF to wipe out as many enemies, or perceived enemies (be they five years old children or members of Hezbollah) as they can before they run out of ammunition and Bush-supplied cluster bombs.

Others, less sanguine, opt for diplomacy and a cease fire but Bush and Cheney will have none of this. Poor Rice is stuck in the middle because she has to do what her lords and masters command and the command is to give all support to Israel, regardless of the consequences. Intercepted communications between Tel Aviv and Washington, now circulating, show very clearly that Israel believes it has Bush’s total support and is behaving accordingly.

That Bush has done nothing but have the odious Bolton block any UN cease fire attempts, is very clear here and this is making the less ferocious very queasy. It really does not matter to Bush what his staff thinks because he really doesn’t care. The President behaves like a very spoiled and very stubborn child who is going to do what he wants regardless of any objections from anyone.

If he signs a bill, he announces he will not enforce it and when the Supreme Court handed him a serious defeat in their Gitmo ruling, he simply tried to do an end run around the court.

You can tell Bush nothing and no one in the White House or at top levels in Washington dares to contradict him, no matter how legitimate the contradictions might be. Anyone, from Generals, Attorney Generals, State Department people or CIA analysists who dare to question Bush or, worse, dare to produce information contrary to what he thinks can bend over and kiss their ass goodbye. They will either be sacked, like Ashjcroft, or sent off to South Africa to inspect seal turds on the beach.

All Bush wants to hear, aside from approving laughter at his juvenile fratrat humor is the word ‘yes.’ “

The Root Causes of the Mid-East Conflicts

July 28, 2006
by Brian Harring

Dublin, Eire- With the savage Israeli bombing and artillery attack on an unarmed Lebanese civilian population under the specious excuse of “anti-terrorist” actions, there very few people, outside of Israel, who actually understand the underlying reasons for this decades-long and very bloody struggle between Israel and all of her Arab neighbors. Many historians are, in fact, well aware of the underlying  factors but few, if any, would dare to discuss them in light of the savage retaliation that would immediately be visited upon them by pro-Israeli entities.

Forced out of Roman-controlled Judea by the Romans following a long and bloody series of revolts, internal massacres and destructive activities, the Jews were eventually expelled from Judea and went to reside in various places such as Alexandria, Egypt.

These deportees are today known as Sephardic Jews and are the descendants of the original Semitic inhabitants of Judea.

Another, larger, group of Jews are called Ashkenazi and are the direct descendents of the Khazar tribes of Central Asia. Originally nomadic peoples, the Khazars were located on the west bank of the Caspian Sea, noted for their savage behavior and in about 700 AD, were converted by their king to Judaism.

Defeated by the Russians, the Khazars eventually moved into Russia, what is now Poland and other eastern European areas. They are not Semitic by background and today, 95% of the citizens of Israel are descended from these nomads, which were composed of Mongols, the occasional Swedish rus or Viking and other diverse central Asian nomadic ethnic groups.

The oft-repeated claim by Israelis that they were the original inhabitants of Judea or Palestine is, from a historical point of view, entirely false.

Modern Zionism was the creation of Theodor Herzl (1860-1904) a Hungarian Jewish writer who advocated a Jewish state in Palestine. That the area was occupied, as it had been for thousands of years, by Arabs, themselves of Semitic origins, did not seem to bother the modern Zionists at all.

Following the end of the Second World War when huge masses of Eastern European Jews had been displaced from their countries in Poland, the Baltic states, Hungry, Romania, Greece, Germany, France, Austria and other European countries, and clearly were not wanted there, they decided to move to Palestine and form their own state.

From 1944 through 1948, the entire area was subject to a literal reign of terror as large groups of DPs (Displaced Persons) descended on Palestine, wreaking havoc on the area. Murders, kidnappings, bombings, counterfeiting, bank robberies, blowing up hotels full of people and drive-by shootings were commonplace.

Eventually, the disruptions proved to be too much for the British, who occupied Palestine after the First World War and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire which once controlled it, withdrew and in 1948, the state of Israel was proclaimed.

A complete chronicle of these events was prepared by the United Nations in 1948 and covers the period from November 6, 1944 through September 17, 1948, specifies 259 incidents and is a concise and very detailed coverage of the events in Palestine. It is far too long to post but can be found, in its entirely, at:

http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a1973.htm#002

To anyone not conversant with this detailed background, who wonders why the Palestinians, and later the entire Arab Middle East world hates Israel, a study of the UN report immediately puts the motivating factors behind the long-ongoing bloodshed in accurate perspective.

What it all boils down to is that Jewish groups, mostly displaced Poles, attacked the British and the Arab inhabitants of Palestine, killing and maiming many of them during the 44-48 period. Arabs were forcibly removed  from their ancestral homes or killed, whichever was most convenient, and this holocaust vested upon the Arab Palestinians, infuriated other Arab countries who attacked Israel to get back the stolen property.

Note: The sole reason why Arabs now attack the United States is because of its blind and unconditional support of the Israelis whom they see, with ligitimate reasons, as has having killed their families or driven them from their homes.

This, then, is the root cause of the present savage bloodletting and again, I suggest you read the UN report for an accurate and very informative background. The report is too long to post but too short for a book but reading it, and every passage and incident can easily be verified by checking the files of major American newspapers found on microfilm at most large public libraries. I personally recommend the New York Times and the Week in Review. The UN report is very accurate and an excellent source of background information. And, it’s free!

What is past is certainly prologue.

34 children among 56 dead in Israeli attack

July 30, 2006
by Kathy Gannon
AP

QANA, Lebanon - An Israeli airstrike killed at least 56 people, including at least 34 children, in a southern Lebanese village Sunday, the Lebanese Red Cross said. It was the deadliest attack in 19 days of fighting. Lebanese security officials put the toll at 57 dead. Security officials said the toll rose dramatically after 18 people from two families were found in a single room of the building, where dozens of people had been taking refuge from the fighting.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice postponed a visit to Lebanon in a setback for diplomatic efforts to end hostilities.

Infuriated Lebanese officials said they had asked Rice to postpone the visit after

Israel's missile strike on Qana. But Rice said she called Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora to say she would postpone the trip, and that she had work to do in Jerusalem to end the fighting.

The missiles destroyed several homes in the village of Qana as people were sleeping.

Israeli said it targeted Qana because it was a base for hundreds of rockets launched at Israeli, including 40 that injured five Israelis on Sunday. Israel said it had warned civilians several days before to leave the village.

"One must understand the Hezbollah is using their own civilian population as human shields," said Israeli Foreign Ministry official Gideon Meir. "The Israeli defense forces dropped leaflets and warned the civilian population to leave the place because the Hezbollah turned it into a war zone."

Rescuers aided by villagers dug through the rubble by hand. At least 20 bodies wrapped in white sheets were taken away, including 10 children. A row of houses lay in ruins, and an old woman was carried away on a plastic chair.

Villagers said many of the dead were from four families who had taken refuge in on the ground floor of a three-story building, believing they would be safe from bombings.

"We want this to stop!" shouted Mohammed Ismail, a middle-aged man pulling away at the rubble in search for bodies, his brown pants covered in dust. "May God have mercy on the children. They came here to escape the fighting."

"They are hitting children to bring the fighters to their knees," he said.

Rice said she was "deeply saddened by the terrible loss of innocent life" in Israel's attack. But she did not call for an immediate cease-fire in the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah militias.

"We all recognize this kind of warfare is extremely difficult," Rice said, noting it comes in areas where civilians live. "It unfortunately has awful consequences sometimes."

"We want a cease-fire as soon as possible," she added.

The United States and Israel are pressing for a settlement that addresses enduring issues between Lebanon and Israel and disables Hezbollah — not the quick truce favored by most world leaders.

Saniora said Lebanon would be open only to an immediate cease-fire.

"There is no place at this sad moment for any discussions other than an immediate and unconditional cease-fire as well as international investigation of the Israeli massacres in Lebanon now," he told reporters Sunday.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Israel would not rush into a cease-fire until it achieved its goal of decimating Hezbollah, whose July 12 capture of two Israel soldiers provoked the fighting.

More than 5,000 people protested in central Beirut, denouncing Israel and the United States, some chanting, "Destroy Tel Aviv, destroy Tel Aviv." A few broke car windows and tried briefly to break into the main U.N. building until political leaders called for a halt to damage.

Lebanese Defense Minister Elias Murr questioned Israel's claim that Hezbollah fired rockets from the village. "What do you expect Israel to say? Will it say that it killed 40 children and women?" he told Al-Jazeera television.

Qana, in the hills east of the southern port city of Tyre, has a bloody history. In 1996, Israeli artillery killed more than 100 civilians who had taken refuge at a U.N. base in the village. That attack sparked an international outcry that helped end an Israeli offensive.

The attack drew swift condemnation from several world leaders.

French President Jacques Chirac's office said "France condemns this unjustifiable action, which shows more than ever the need to move toward an immediate cease-fire, without which other such dramas can only be repeated."

Jordan's King Abdullah II condemned "the ugly crime perpetrated by Israeli forces in Qana," calling it "a blatant violation of the law and all international conventions."

Lebanese civilians have suffered the most from the fighting. Before Sunday's attack, Lebanese officials said 458 Lebanese had been killed, most of them civilians. Thirty-three Israeli soldiers have died, and Hezbollah rocket attacks on northern Israel have killed 19 civilians.

Fighting also broke out between guerrillas and Israeli soldiers in a zone called the Taibeh Project area, about 2 miles inside Lebanon. The Israeli army said one soldier was moderately wounded. Hezbollah's al-Manar TV claimed two Israeli soldiers were killed.

Heavy artillery rained down on the villages of Yuhmor and Arnoun, close to Taibeh. In northern Israel, rockets fell on Nahariya, Kiryat Shemona and an area close to Maalot, the army said.

Israel has said it would launch a series of limited ground incursions into Lebanon to push back guerrillas, rather than carry out a full-fledged invasion. Israeli troops pulled back Saturday from the town of Bint Jbail, suggesting the thrust, launched a week ago, had halted.

But Lebanese officials reported a massing of troops and 12 tanks near the Israeli town of Metulla further to the northeast, on the tip of the Galilee Panhandle near the Golan Heights, suggesting another incursion could begin soon.

"I think it needs to be clear that Israel is not in a hurry to have a cease-fire before we reach a situation in which we can say that we achieved the central goals that we set down for ourselves," Olmert said Sunday before his weekly Cabinet meeting.

France circulated a draft Security Council resolution on Saturday among the other 14 council members. It would call for an immediate halt to fighting between Israel and Hezbollah and seek a wide new buffer zone in south Lebanon monitored by international forces and the Lebanese army.

British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said strike on Qana was a "tragedy for the people affected," especially so since negotiators had been close to reaching "the basis for a cease-fire."

She said the U.N. resolution was no longer on track to being reached by Monday or Tuesday. "We need to go back and pick up the pieces," Beckett told Sky News.

But she stopped short of calling for a cease-fire. "We have repeatedly called on the Israelis to act proportionately," Beckett said.

A peace package Rice brought to the region called for a U.N.-mandated multinational force that can help stabilize in the region, according to a U.S. official speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the discussions.

It also proposes: disarming Hezbollah and integrating the guerrilla force into the Lebanese army; Hezbollah's return of Israeli prisoners; a buffer zone in southern Lebanon to put Hezbollah rockets out of range of Israel; a commitment to resolve the status of a piece of land held by Israel and claimed by Lebanon; and the creation of an international reconstruction plan for Lebanon.

The latter two provisions resembled parts of a proposal by Lebanon's government. But they fell short of Hezbollah's demands, including a prisoner swap to free Lebanese held for years in Israeli prisons and the disputed land, known as Chebaa farms, put under U.N. supervision until its status can be resolved.

Comment: Israel has never cared what the rest of the world thinks of their vicious behavior because they know they have the American government well and firmly in their pocket. BH

Massacres at Qana: When “Never Again” Needn’t Apply to Lebanon

The Massacre of the Innocents, Part 82

July 31, 2006
by Pierre TristamCandide's Notebooks

It was April 18, 1996, the fifth day of what Israel dubbed “Operation Grapes of Wrath”—one of its episodic ways of responding to ant bites from south Lebanon’s parasites with Dresden-inspired bombing tonnage on the civilian population of Lebanon. At the time Israel occupied what it disingenuously called a “security zone” in south Lebanon. It was an occupation zone about twelve miles deep. But the international press for the most part bought the Israeli euphemism. Southern Lebanese didn’t, especially Hezbollah. The occupation zone was frequently attacked, just as Israel frequently attacked Lebanese villages and kidnapped Lebanese citizens as bargaining chips, when it wasn’t assassinating them outright—something it has always allowed itself, but not others. In April 1996, Israel launched “Operations Grapes of Wrath” in response to a few Hezbollah rockets that had targeted northern Israel, but, as always, with mostly ineffective results except to give Israel the excuse to unleash one of its regular assaults, one of its killer training runs at Lebanon’s expense, one of its “lessons” that never teach anybody anything but do wonders to beef up the near-fanatical hatred of Israel in the region—a considerable accomplishment, given the competing factions deserving hate and resentment there.

Civilians who could not make their way north made their way to United Nations encampments, thinking the Blue Helmets would protect them, thinking Israel would not be so murderous as to target UN camps. How wrong those civilians were. On April 18, 1996, Israel unleashed an artillery barrage on the UN encampment at Qana, a village five miles east of Tyre. Hezbollah rockets had been fired at Israel from near there. The rockets had done little more than psychological damage. But they’d been fired. It was enough. Pride is sicker than blood. The UN encampment was clearly marked. And when the shelling began, UN personnel immediately set off flares and contacted Israeli authorities to let them know their mistakes. It didn’t matter. The barrage lasted 90 minutes. When it was over, more than 75 civilians, more than half of them children, had been killed, and 400 injured. Israel then called the shelling a grave mistake. But only then.

The world was outraged. What good is outrage when the deed is done, when it serves as nothing to prevent another identical outrage? Israel knew what it was doing. This wasn’t one stray missile, one misguided air strike, a fifteen-minute artillery barrage that got its coordinates wrong. This was a targeted assault on a UN encampment that went on for 90 minutes, calculated and barbaric, the way the August 12, 1982 blind bombing of Beirut had been (when Ronald Reagan tried for three hours to reach Menachem Begin to tell him of his “outrage” and demand a halt to the bombing), the way, indeed, so many of the last two and a half weeks’ bombings have been.

And today in Qana, it happened again: “In an attack that the Israeli military said was aimed at destroying Hezbollah rocket launchers,” The Washington Post reports, as if cribbing words from 1996, “Israeli warplanes blasted a group of buildings in a southern Lebanese village Sunday, killing more than 50 people, most of them women and children, according to Lebanese officials and on-scene interviews by Lebanese television reporters.” The Israelis accomplished their missile sermon “in their shining US-made, US-equipped, and US-paid fighter jets,” as Victor de la Vega put it, on a Sunday, “the day of worship in gentile Christian culture.” So much for Condoleezza Rice’s show-shopping in the Middle East at this very moment. So much for the latest Bush-Blair sniffing of each other’s rear-ended peace plans. So much for claims of self-defense, just war, “surgical” precision, of claims that Israel is unlike Hezbollah (it is, in fact, far worse in the ongoing campaign). So much for Israel's apoligies, which followed on cue today.

But we’ve said all this before. We’ve been saying it for almost three weeks, or ten years if it’s the survivors of the first Qana massacre who are speaking, or twenty-four if it’s the survivors of “Operation Peace in Galilee” in 1982, which took out 18,000 civilians in three months and rendered half a million homeless, or twenty-eight years of we go back to the 1978 invasion, or… And still they claim it’s Israel that’s the one being threatened with annihilation. And still they claim that it is Israel’s enemies who don’t want peace.

Lebanon’s prime minister responded to the latest Qana massacre as he should: No talks with Rice until a call for a cease-fire is made (the British-American kennel show proving incapable to do even that much on Friday). The Israelis will simply respond with craven “we-told-you-so’s,” and the American press will, in the main, follow suit. And tomorrow or the day after we’ll wake up to another day of “worst-day-so-far” tallies of a carnage neither Israel nor Bush seem to get enough of. In 1982, remember, Ronald Reagan intervened himself that massacre-ridden August to threaten Israel with an end to the negotiations. Once that was done Israel quickly bowed its head and talked. What we have now is failure of communication, planned and willed between Washington and Jerusalem, while arms shipments from a few quite American factories rush their way to their promised shred of the Holy Land, Qana-style.

It was bread and wine that miraculously multiplied then. It’s blood and guts that so generously flow, with thanks be to the Bush-Blair twins, the Olmert-Nasrallah twins, and, of course, that fifth wheel careening hither and yon like a dervish without voice, Condi Rice.

Pierre Tristam is an editorial writer for the Daytona Beach News-Journal.

The Other Side of the Fence: Anti-Israel is Anti-Semitic!

Israel Attempting to Rid the World of Anti-Semitism

Harper’s Magazine

Bush at the Wailing Wall, the Promise Keeper

(In truth, the Wailing Wall is not the foundation of Solomon’s Temple but an Arab retaining wall built in 600 AD! )

Yahoo! News

The following are excerpts from a speech that was given by Abraham Foxman before the Anti-Defamation League's National Executive Committee in Palm Beach, Florida, February 8, 2002.

The Old/New Anti-Semitism

I have said that my greatest nightmare is that one day I would wake up and something terrible would happen in America and we, the Jewish people, Jews and Israel, will be blamed. It happened. Times are different we are told. The world is a different world. We communicate globally. We know each other better. Maybe. But history has taught us that in times of great stress, of great instability, and of anxiety and unpredictability, there is one thing that is predictable - anti-Semitism. When Europe was being decimated by the Plague, Jews were blamed and Jews were killed.

Also, not too long ago there was an earthquake in Mexico, and buildings crumbled. Guess who was held responsible for the hundreds of deaths; the Jews. Because, they said, Jews controlled the building trade and were more interested in money than lives of the poor Mexicans that died.

Anti-Zionism: Code Word for Anti-Semitism

There is another element that we have been very careful about and have dealt with somewhat gingerly. And that is walking the delicate line between anti-Israel and anti-Zionism, and anti-Semitism…

The Arab-Israel conflict, Palestinian-Israeli conflict, has been highjacked into this global network of anti-Semitism. It has provided a camouflage of semi-respectability. The attacks are not about a nation state, they are about Jews. A hideous and grotesque double standard exists.

We have had to define for ourselves when anti-Israel and anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism. First, let me say anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism, period. There is no debate about that. Remember what anti-Zionism is. Remember when it came out in the UN's Zionism is racism resolution. It is pure, simple, unadulterated anti-Semitism. What it says is what is okay, what is permissible, what is laudatory, what is universally accepted for all peoples in the world -- self-expression, self- determination, independence, sovereignty -- is not permitted to Jews. That is what it says. It doesn't say Irish nationalism is racist, or Rwandan nationalism or French or Palestinian nationalism. It says Jewish nationalism is racist. That is pure and simple anti-Semitism.

Belgium today is trying to indict the Prime Minister of the State of Israel for crimes against humanity. That is anti-Semitism. It would not be if Belgium, the great cradle of international justice, set out to indict other leaders of the world; if it set a standard of justice for the rest of the world, but it is not. No one else is being charged, only the Prime Minister of the State of Israel. Denmark challenges the credentials of a new Israeli Ambassador because he once served in Israel's security. That is anti-Semitism.

We also have the instance of the French ambassador to Great Britain who talks about "this shitty little country, Israel." He is basically saying if only this "shitty little country" didn't exist how wonderful it would be. In his view it is the occupation by the Jews of Palestinians that make "this shitty little country" such a problem for world peace and stability. You know what? If that ambassador would say that "shitty big country" China and its occupation of Tibet for fifty years is screwing up the world, or the Indian Hindus and their occupation of Muslim Kashmir are endangering world peace, I'd say okay. But no, It is only "that shitty little Israel." It is only the Jewish people.

And if you ever had a doubt, listen to Osama bin Laden, who said it is the Jews, it is Israel. Just in case you missed it, it was on tape one, it was on tape four -- the Jews and Israel and the Americans who are controlled by the Jews.

A Test For Israel's Critics

There is always the question: is the newspaper anti-Semitic or anti- Israel; is the columnist anti-Semitic or anti-Israel, so I have developed a guideline to apply. For example, does a Pat Buchanan raise questions of moral behavior, of standards of decorum of nations? Does he raise those issues across the board? If he does, then it is OK to question Israel. Then you ask; in all of Pat Buchanan's writings has he found anything about the Jewish State that was worthy of praise? Those who only find fault with the Jewish people, the Jewish State and the actions of the Jewish sovereignty and never find anything that is positive are anti-Semites under the guise of anti-Zionism and anti-Israel.

The Call to Jihad

Finally, one last important point. I agree with President Bush in almost everything he has said and done regarding the war on global terrorism, fighting for democracy and mobilizing our nation and the world, except for one thing that makes the current anti-Semitism much more powerful, virulent and threatening. And that is the question of religion. I know why the President says this is not a religious war .I know why it is important for him to say it. But the fact is Osama bin Laden and his ilk say this is a religious war, a war against the infidels, the unbelievers, and they are the Jews and the Christians, the Christians and the Jews.

What emanates from Radio Islam, Radio Cairo and Radio PA is in a religious context. It is a call for Jihad, and Jihad is a religious precept. It is a call of hate, an incitement to kill, urging suicide bombers to act in the name of God, and that adds a dimension of this anti-Semitism threat that did not exist before.

We saw the rise of anti-Semitism in an anti-religious, anti- Christian, paganism. Now we have the religion element, and that is a dangerous element. My father used to say one should always be careful of God's Cossacks. Those who act in the name of God and believe they have the truth, the only truth. That is very dangerous. It makes this virulent epidemic of anti-Semitism that much more dangerous, that much more virulent and that much more threatening.

We do not have the luxury to err on the side of caution because the signs are there to be read. What we do have is the will not permit history to repeat itself.

Thank you!

Abraham H. Foxman

National Director of the Anti-Defamation League

Israel says it has 'green light' for war on Hezbollah

July 28, 2006
AFP

Israel insisted it had been given the green light from the world to press on with its deadly assault on Lebanon and called up more troops, after suffering its biggest single-day military loss in the conflict.

But as its warplanes went into action again across Lebanon and fighting continued around a key border town, Israel said it would limit its ground offensives after the killing of nine troops in pitched battles with Hezbollah guerrillas on Wednesday.

At least 10 people were killed as combat jets bombarded Hezbollah strongholds in south Lebanon and the eastern Bekaa Valley, bringing the death toll to 417 people in Lebanon alone as the conflict entered its 16th day.

"Yesterday in Rome we in effect obtained the authorization to continue our operations until Hezbollah is no longer present in southern Lebanon," Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon told army radio, referring to a 15-nation conference in the Italian capital on Wednesday.

World powers remain at odds over how to end the conflict, despite the mounting death toll and warnings that Lebanon was facing a humanitarian catastrophe, with much of its infrastructure in ruins, hundreds of thousands of thousands fleeing their homes and increasing shortages of food and medicines.

Washington, Israel's closest ally, infuriated Arab opinion by blocking calls at the Rome meeting for an immediate ceasefire and instead calling for efforts to reach a "sustainable" truce.

US President George W. Bush said he was "troubled" by the destruction Israeli strikes have left in Lebanon but rejected any "fake peace" that does not tackle the conflict's root causes.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said Arab countries were disappointed that the Rome conference had "failed to meet Arab demands" for an immediate truce.

Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora despaired for his war-ravaged people, telling diplomats in Rome that his country was being "cut to pieces".

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice meanwhile insisted there had been agreement in Rome on the need for a multinational UN-mandated force for Lebanon and said the world body planned to hold a meeting this week or next.

European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said Thursday the bloc would be willing to contribute peacekeeping forces to Lebanon if a UN resolution allowed it.

A diplomatic source in Paris said France was to propose to its UN Security Council partners a resolution that would see the creation of a buffer zone on both sides of the border as part of a strategy to end the conflict.

Israel is already planning a buffer zone in Lebanon to protect its border, while insisting there was no question of another occupation, with memories still raw of the quagmire that resulted from its 1982 invasion.

Washington also prevented adoption of a UN Security Council draft resolution critical of Israel after its warplanes killed four UN observers in a raid in a south Lebanon town that UN chief Kofi Annan said was "apparently deliberate."

Ramon said Israel no longer regarded the border town of Bint Jbeil, a Hezbollah military stronghold where the nine soldiers were killed, as a civilian area after ordering people to leave.

"Everyone who is still in south Lebanon is linked to Hezbollah, we have called on all who are there to leave," he said.

At an emergency meeting Thursday, the security cabinet decided to intensify air strikes on Lebanon and restrict its more risky ground operations to setting up a border buffer zone of a few kilometres, army radio reported.

It also decided to call more reservists, with the Israeli media reporting that several tens of thousands of troops could be involved.

In its first reaction to Israel's dual assaults on Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, Al-Qaeda's number two Ayman al-Zawahiri warned the network would carry out attacks against Israel and its US backers in revenge.

"We cannot watch these rockets raining down their fire on our brothers in Gaza and Lebanon and remain inactive and submissive," Zawahiri said in a videotape aired by Arabic television channel Al-Jazeera.

Israel insists it will not halt its assault until two soldiers captured by Hezbollah on July 12 are freed and the militia is disarmed, but it has met unexpected resistance from the Shiite fundamentalist group.

Hezbollah launched another 40 rockets into northern Israel on Thursday, damaging buildings but causing no casualties, the army said. Fifty-one Israelis have been killed, the majority of them soldiers.

At least 10 people, including a Nigerian domestic worker and a gendarme, were killed in Lebanon in a new wave of Israeli attacks, police said.

A rift also opened with Britain, hitherto the United States' most steadfast ally, after it emerged that Washington had used a Scottish airport as a staging post for new arms deliveries to Israel to sustain its bombing campaign.

"I am not happy about it," Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said of the stopover by US aircraft delivering GBU28 laser-guided bombs to Israel.

In a flickering sign of some relief for Lebanese trapped by the air and sea blockade Israel imposed at the start of the conflict, a Jordanian plane carrying UN humanitarian aid landed at Beirut airport.

And the UN Children's Fund UNICEF announced that a first convoy of humanitarian aid for children had arrived in Tyre, the scene of heavy Israeli bombardment.

Much of southern Lebanon's infrastructure lies in ruins from Israeli bombing and food, fuel and medical supplies have been disrupted with some 800,000 Lebanese displaced. The UN food body has warned of a "major food crisis."

EU denies giving Israel green light

July 28, 2006
Guardian Unlimited

The European Union rebuked the Israeli government today after its justice minister claimed "permission from the world" to press on with its Lebanon campaign.

Haim Ramon, who is a close ally of the prime minister, Ehud Olmert, said failure at yesterday's Rome conference to agree on an immediate ceasefire in the 16-day-old crisis amounted to a green light for Israel to continue its offensive.

As both sides stepped up their rocket and missile attacks and Israel called up more reserves, the Finnish foreign minister, Erkki Tuomioja, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, called the interpretation "totally wrong" and said the fighting should stop immediately. "Most of the countries, including the European Union, [...] specifically want an immediate halt to the hostilities," he said.

The German foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, called Mr Ramon's words "a gross misinterpretation".

Lebanese officials have put the civilian death toll at up to 600 in the two weeks of Israeli strikes. As the diplomatic row unfurled, Hizbullah guerrillas fired at least 150 rockets at Israeli border towns - the highest daily total since the start of fighting - and Israeli jets continued bombing raids across Lebanon.

Israel is to call up three reserve divisions to boost troops in Lebanon, but a meeting of senior Israeli cabinet ministers decided against expanding the ground offensive. According to people who attended the meeting, Mr Olmert said the goals of Israel's 17-day offensive were being met.

Ayman al-Zawahiri today made the first statement on fighting from a senior al-Qaida leader. Osama bin Laden's second-in-command warned in a tape broadcast by al-Jazeera that his group would respond to the violence in Lebanon.

Meanwhile Tony Blair will fly to Washington tomorrow for talks with President Bush about the deteriorating situation in Israel and Lebanon and increasing sectarian violence in Iraq.

Israeli air strikes today hit close to the southern Lebanese market town of Nabatiyeh at a road a few miles from the Lebanese-Syrian border. Israel also carried out more than 30 bombing runs in Iqlim al-Tuffah, a highland region where Hizbullah is believed to have offices and bases.

The air strikes, which targeted mostly deserted houses allegedly belonging to Hizbullah activists, and roads linking villages in the region, caused a number of casualties. Ambulances and civil defence crews were unable to reach the area because of intense bombardment, witnesses said.

A Lebanese policeman was killed when an Israeli missile struck his car as he drove in the eastern city of Zahle, security officials said. Israeli attacks killed four Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, including a 75-year-old woman, emergency services said.

Thousands of civilians are trapped in villages across the border region in southern Lebanon, according to humanitarian officials who have toured the region. Americans who escaped a village near the focus of the ground fighting said many US citizens were still there.

The Israeli military's radio station in south Lebanon today warned that the army "will totally destroy any village from which missiles are fired toward Israel". The statement, aired on al-Mashriq radio, also told Lebanese not to use the road from Qleileh - which is near the Mediterranean coast - to Houlah in eastern Lebanon, across the border from Kiryat Shmona in Israel.

A senior UN official today said he feared an escalation in the fighting and warned there was a high risk the conflict might broaden.

"I do not feel confident that this war between Hizbullah and Israel has peaked yet," Terje Roed-Larsen, Kofi Annan's envoy on Syria-Lebanon issues, said. "There are apparently plans and threats to hit deeper into Israel and that will for sure lead to an escalation of the conflict."

Israel yesterday suffered its heaviest casualty toll in a single battle in the 16-day campaign, with at least nine soldiers killed and 25 wounded in house-to-house fighting in Hizbullah strongholds in Lebanon. An Israeli military source said "several dozen" Hizbullah fighters had been killed in the fighting.

The deaths of the soldiers yesterday brought to 51 the number of Israelis killed in the campaign, according to the military.

The crisis began on July 12 after Hizbullah fighters staged a raid on the Lebanese-Israeli border, capturing two Israeli soldiers and killing eight. Israeli army commanders have said troops will seize towns and villages in south Lebanon to force out Hizbullah gunmen.

Earlier today, the Australian government said it was withdrawing 12 unarmed logistics specialists in southern Lebanon, who were helping with evacuation efforts, following the Israeli bombing of a United Nations compound on Tuesday and killing of four monitors.

The Australian prime minister, John Howard, added that his country would not support a new international force in southern Lebanon unless it had the strength and will to disarm Hizbullah.

UN deaths 'threaten peacekeeping'

July 29, 2006
BBC News

The UN has warned the deaths of four of its personnel in southern Lebanon may deter countries from contributing to a future peacekeeping force in the area.

UN deputy chief Mark Malloch-Brown said they accepted Israel's apology for the losses to Israeli fire, but still had "serious concerns" about what happened.

The UN has called for a three-day truce to let aid enter Lebanon, but Israel has rejected the request.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice returns to the region on Saturday.

She is expected to lobby for a UN Security Council resolution that would lead to an international force being deployed in southern Lebanon.

The UN says children, elderly and disabled have been left stranded and supplies are "running out very, very fast" in southern Lebanon after two weeks of fighting.

But an Israeli government spokesman said there was no need for a temporary ceasefire because Israel had opened a humanitarian corridor to and from Lebanon.

Avi Pazner accused Hezbollah of deliberately preventing aid from reaching the area.

Correspondents say there is concern in Israel that Hezbollah might use such a truce to replenish its stock of weapons.

In other developments:

·                    Lebanon has said an Israeli attack on fuel tanks at a power plant has created the biggest environmental disaster the Mediterranean region has known

·                    A bridge has been destroyed in the eastern Bekaa valley as the Israeli air force continues its bombardment of Lebanon

·                    Several rockets have been launched at the northern Israel town of Safid amid further fire by Hezbollah.

The UN says some 600 people have been killed by Israeli action in Lebanon, of which about a third were children.

Fifty-one Israelis, including at least 18 civilians, have been killed, mostly by Hezbollah rockets.

The Israeli assault began after Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers and killed eight in a cross-border raid on 12 July.

'Serious threat'

Israel said Tuesday's deaths in a strike on a UN base were an accident - but UN officials said they had contacted Israel a dozen times before the bombing and asked them to stop firing, which Israel did not.

Mr Malloch-Brown told the BBC the UN "continued to harbour serious concerns about what went on in the Israeli military forces that day".

He said the losses posed a "very serious threat to the whole concept of neutral peacekeeping.

"Peacekeeping is a dangerous business and we depend on the support of the international community," he said.

"When people die it is not a simple accident to be brushed away."

The UN Security Council issued a statement voicing "shock and distress" at the deaths, after the US blocked calls for harsher criticism of Israel.

Mr Malloch-Brown said Washington would have to "think hard" about the consequences of its move for the recruitment of an international force.

UK Prime Minister Tony Blair said world leaders would discuss the deployment of a "stabilisation force" at a meeting at the UN headquarters in New York on Monday.

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said countries who may be in a position to contribute troops would attend the meeting on the proposal, which is due for discussion by the Security Council later next week.

Comment: Neither Israe,l who hates the UN for interfering in its genocidal policy towards Palestinians, nor Bush who hates the UN because he was once subject to a major walkout (not reported in the media) when he tried to give an incoherent and rambling speech there once, want any interference in Israel’s savage attacks on unarmed civilians in Lebanon and if Bush, as President, does not want the UN to get involved, it can’t. BH

West fears Hezbollah's organized fighting style

July 27, 2006
by Rowan Scarborough
Washington Times

Hezbollah's display of coordinated attacks and small-unit action is surprising the world community and making Western nations think twice about agreeing to put peacekeeping troops between the militant Lebanese Shi'ite group and aggressive Israeli forces, military analysts say.

"It's not that they are fanatical," said retired Army Maj. Gen. Robert H. Scales Jr., a decorated Vietnam combat veteran. "But in many ways, they are quite deliberate. It shows reasonable command and control and training in small-unit action. ... In terms of enemy combatants, the most military competent enemy combatant is Hezbollah."

He said that persuading Western nations to send troops to southern Lebanon would be a "hard sell."

"Few nations want to confront Hezbollah because the terrorist group has an unquenchable lust for martyrdom fueled by a radical Islamic ideology," said retired Army Lt. Col. Robert Maginnis, a military analyst. "I'm not optimistic about the so-called peacekeeping effort. NATO could do the mission, but the French will veto, and besides they already have their hands full in Afghanistan and the Balkans. The European Union is a good candidate, but because members have cut rather than increased their military budgets for more than a decade, they are unlikely to jump on the alternative."

A defense source said yesterday that the Israeli army is somewhat surprised by Hezbollah's fighting tactics and ability to keep launching scores of rockets into Israeli cities despite relentless aerial bombing.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said at a crisis conference in Rome yesterday that European nations agreed on the need for a United Nations-backed peace force for Lebanon. But volunteer nations have been slow to raise their hands.

Israel started waves of air strikes July 12 against hundreds of Hezbollah targets throughout Lebanon. It claimed last week that the air war had destroyed half of Hezbollah's arsenal. But in the war's third week, U.S. intelligence sources told The Washington Times that the damage is less than a third.

Hezbollah has been modernizing its militia of about 1,000 combatants since it was formed in 1982 and has accelerated its expansion since Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000. Iran and Syria stepped up shipments of arms, particularly rockets, while Hezbollah dug in, creating bunkers and underground tunnels within Lebanon's tiny villages.

"Villages have become natural fortifications, and all roads go through these villages," said Gen. Scales.

Hezbollah has accumulated more than 13,000 rockets, some capable of reaching 200 miles inside Israel, according to reported estimates.

Couple Hezbollah's willingness to attack at any time with Israel's aggressive drive to destroy the terror group and it becomes an uninviting scenario for any country contributing peacekeeping troops. There is still the memory of Hezbollah suicide bombers blowing up a Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983, killing 241 American service members.

For any force to enter the 45-mile-by-15-mile hilly, forested area, there must be a cease-fire. That too is proving allusive. Some in the Pentagon doubt Hezbollah would ever cede its territory to foreigners or live by any agreement that prevented it from attacking Israel. The White House has downplayed the chance that any U.S. troops would return to Lebanon as peacekeepers.

Any force likely would have to number in the thousands to successfully discourage more fighting. The Times reported in 2002 on a confidential study at the Army's School of Advanced Military Studies. It said 20,000 troops would be needed to enforce a Israeli-Palestinian peace accord.

Gen. Scales said other militant Arab nations or groups may be looking at the Hezbollah model as a way to fight Israel: not with large armies and tanks, but with small, well-trained guerrilla groups.

Still, Israel owns superior firepower and intelligence, and in the end can defeat Hezbollah if given enough time.

"At the end of the day, they are still a guerrilla force and relatively small," Gen. Scales said.

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