Israel holds over 10,000 Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners, including 400 abducted children and 100 women. Human Rights groups claim they are tortured and starved. Recently, US House-Senate resolutions upheld Israel’s Right to Defend Itself, while condemning the Lebanese and Palestinian resistance.



Israel’s military force is disproportionate. They kill with guided missiles, depleted uranium, cluster bombs and white phosphorous (incinerates people). They have obliterated Palestinian and Lebanese power plants, bridges, roads, water and fuel supplies needed to sustain life. According world press reports, the Israeli soldiers were killed after Israeli troops crossed the border into Lebanon to attack a Hezbollah stronghold. Most of the soldiers died when their jeep overturned.



Hezbollah and Hamas were democratically elected in Lebanon and Palestine. Latest polls from Lebanon show that 87% support Hezbollah. Hamas also enjoys overwhelming support. This is democracy in action – something we pretend to uphold but in fact condemn unless the US controls the outcome.



The US State Department has downgraded Israel to a Tier 2 Watch because of extraordinary human rights violations and narco terrorism inside Israel. According to the BBC, over 10,000 sex slaves are held in approximately 400 brothels and produce a 4 billion dollar profit. Slavery has been legal since 1952. Israel has 300,000 migrant workers that are legally “owned” by the corporations and individuals that sponsored them, over 80% are abused. Israel controls the world’s supply of the drug Ecstasy, according to the Boston Globe, and the list goes on. So, why do we support Israel?



Genevieve Cora Fraser

Orange, MA


gcfraser@peoplepc.com

http://www.zaman.com/?bl=international&alt=&trh=20060729&hn=35205

US Officers Threaten to Kill Anyone who Revealed Iraqi Murders
By Foreign News Desk
Saturday, July 29, 2006
zaman.com

US Army soldiers who confessed they were ordered to kill three handcuffed Iraqi civilians now reveal that their officers threatened to kill anyone who revealed this information.

Sergeant Lemuel Lemus, who will stand trial on Tuesday as the eye-witness of the deaths of three Iraqi detainees in Samarra on May 9, said his officer threatened to kill them if they do not cover up the event.

In his sworn statement obtained by the New York Times, Sgt. Lemus explained how the three Iraqi civilians were killed.

Lemus described his officer’s threat, but one of the soldiers could not help but disclose the massacre because he began to have nightmares.

Lemus confessed failing to stop his comrades from killing the detainees because he feared his fellow soldiers would consider him a coward.

Four soldiers charged with killing the civilians admitted they were ordered to kill all military-age men.

The US administration avoids revealing such killings to the public and prefers to resolve these scandals within the army. However, this time the US administration will possibly be backed into a corner with these statements.

Following the statements, the responsibility of the officers is being questioned more intensively and the doubts over the US operation has increased.

gcfraser@peoplepc.com

Below is an open letter written by a true follower of Christ, Mr Joseph Cortina, to Mr Bob D'Andrea, a rabid Christian Zionist, hater of justice as well as the president of 'CTN'--Christian Television Network. Any comments to Mr Cortina can be sent to me and I will forward them to him. Mark Glenn mrkglenn@yahoo.com

28 July 06

Dear Mr. D’Andrea;

It is with much sadness and a heavy heart that I feel compelled to write you this letter. Allow me to introduce myself. I am a retired 3rd generation businessman from Tampa. - where my parents and grandparents literally pioneered the growth and prosperity of this area. Verification of my claims may be founding the historic register – ‘PIONEER FLORIDA’.

I have been past President of my own corporation – am a father of 2 sons – a former foreign diplomat – a former Green Beret Paratroop commander from the 60s – having risked my life in the uniform of my country to defend those Christian principles and freedoms so eloquently described by the Founding Fathers of this country. I am considered by my peers to be a TRUE patriot and most importantly have been a lifelong Christian. I have a flawless civic and military record - my ‘politics’ are conservative and my personal moral code and values are an attempt to imitate the life and teachings of our Lord.

I have a good formal education - am multi-lingual and have traveled worldwide extensively. I have been personal witness to some of the most sadistic and brutal conduct of man as may be imagined. I was considered by many as an expert in terrorism – especially in Latin America. I was a journalist – writer and geo-political intelligence analyst for many years at MY OWN EXPENSE – and fought evil wherever and whenever I was confronted by it. My motivations were - are - and always will be purely altruistic – and NEVER self- serving.

I am tolerant of the religious beliefs and ethnic and racial profiles of others - and am totally INTOLERANT of lies – liars – hypocrisy – hypocrites – and sadistic cruelty especially to the helpless, the young, and the aged. I have worked with and supported various honest and legitimate Christian values organizations such as American Family Association for more years than I can honestly remember.

I will get to the point. Since the inception of our baseless war mongering in the Mid-East and the heightened barbaric cruelty to the Palestinians – I have been witness to what I can only term as a madness – insanity and inane agenda of imperialism and mass murder that has no unparallel in American history. Your ‘CTN’ is no longer a vehicle for the word of God and the teachings of Christ. It has become a springboard for the most hateful, vindictive, racist diatribes I have witnessed in my 68 years of life. I cannot bring myself to believe that you can HONESTLY tell me that you are not aware of the slanderous lies and vilification of people who have done us no wrong.

You Sir, have a LOT of innocent blood and suffering on your hands. CTN is no longer ANYTHING to do with the teachings of Christ and EVERYTHING To do with hatred, evil and countless deaths of God’s most innocent of creations – children! You have become a tool of Satan – and one of the most hateful Zionist sites I have witnessed on television in my entire life!

I am not vain enough to waste valuable time in satiating the righteousness of my castigation – simply to ‘ let off steam’ or to make me ‘feel better in telling you off’. As a father – as a veteran – and as one Christian to another – I implore – I beg - pray and beseech you to reconsider – and give deep introspect to what your once honorable and well intended creation has become.

I am a REAL person – I have no deep hidden agenda. I wish only JUSTICE AND TRUTH to be performed - as our Lord INTENDED. I can no longer sleep at night thanks to conduct such as you promote. I have witnessed many terrible things in my life – I have miraculously escaped death more than once – but I now awake in pre-light dawn – my heart pounding - gasping at the horrors I just awoke from – all too real – visions of children with heads blown off – or burned beyond recognition – the wailing of bereaved parents – helpless to defend even their own children – and the sardonic laughter of the sadistic IDF – as they murder children like rats – WITH OUR BLESSINGS and OUR TOOLS OF WAR!

The peace of sleep then can come only with drugs or emotional exhaustion - as I realize that these nightmares are NOT the kind we all have had as children – of non-existent ‘bogeymen’. THESE ARE REAL NIGHTMARES! Horrors I had WITNESSED years ago in Gaza – the SAME mocking laughter – the same child murdered in the street just for sport. These murders are NOT Arab propaganda – I swear to you on the lives of my grandchildren. These horrific murders and endless suffering of helpless people MUST stop.

YOU sir have NOT been there and experienced these unspeakable horrors – I HAVE!
BECAUSE – of what I HAVE PERSONALLY WITNESSED on YOUR station – Islamic Arab peoples - LOGICALLY – can ONLY assume that ALL – or at least most American Christians, scream for their blood and that of their CHILDREN – to be systematically ethnically cleansed from the face of the earth. THIS then – IS the aura that YOU have helped to create.

Again – I implore you with all sincerity – PLEASE – PLEASE – consider what you have become party to. I am available at your convenience. You will find that I am credible and well informed. I ask you only to look into a mirror in the privacy of your home – and with all humility – ask Christ – “ do you find pleasure in what I present as ‘Godly’ on my Television network”

If you your conscience is ONE HUNDRED PERCENT CLEAR – please accept my apologies for taking up your time. If there is ANY doubt – remember –the stakes are INNOCENT HUMAN LIVES - THAT YOUR CONDUCT WILL AFFECT

Joe Cortina

Arab American Institute (AAI) www.aaiusa.org
1600 K Street, NW, Suite 601 Washington, DC 20006
phone (202) 429-9210 fax (202) 429-9241
http://www.aaiusa.org | aai@aaiusa.org

Founded in 1985, the Arab American Institute (AAI) is a non-profit organization committed to the civic and political empowerment of Americans of Arab descent. AAI provides policy, research, and public affairs.

Heartbreak
That goes beyond worry
Mindless pains
With out an answer
Petitions denied if even heard
This is justice?
Old men who's eyes border on tears
Look at rubble
Almost incomprehensible
Drivers laugh the laugh of the demon
And no one hears the cries
But only the wind

Soulless laughter
A new tie links families
With a disaster in common
A home is destroyed
In a personal attack on the heart
A wall, illegal, separates
Brothers from brother
Farmers from farm
And a people from their place
nd no one hears the cries
But only the wind

It is as if in destruction
That faceless
Nameless
Monster could
Tear the collective memory
From the heart of Palestine.
But nothing can
This place is burned into the memory
Forged into the soul
By centuries of survival
And no one hears the cries
But only the wind

And laughter
Birth and death
Nothing can erase
That It is a homeland
For a people ancient
Also seed of Abraham
They till the soil of their
Promised land
The land promised to all the seed
Not just one
And no one hears the cries
But only the wind

For a thousand yesterdays
They have been part of this place
A bulldozer tries
But can not erase
Every bit of the memory
And even the hope
This land contains
The blood of the fathers
The umbilicus of tens
Of generations
And no one hears the cries
But only the wind

Where do we go
What do we do now
Screamed into the wind
And the younger brother
Who did this
Turns a deaf ear
To the elder brother he's wronged
Ishmael and Isaac
A drama almost as old as time
Plays out in a place called holy
By the three who worship
The One

Pain cries out into the wind
Pain of the heart
Pain of the mind
Pain of the tortured body
Blood spilled as surly
As a bullet would bring
The heart is wrenched out
Dispair
Fear
Where will we go
And no one hears the cries
But only the wind

What will we do
And none listens
The old and the young all disrespected
In a land that prided itself
On it's warm hospitality
As cold hearts and frozen minds
Turn warm homes
Into oddly twisted rubble
The disposed settler will find
Compensation
And no one hears the cries
But only the wind

The dispossessed Palestinian
Just finds comfort
In the wind
His shelter is but a checker scarf
Sitting on a graying head
Her shelter is anger that will
Carry her for hours
Then nothing will
Comfort the longing for home
Some retain possessions
And no one hears the cries
But only the wind

Some retain nothing but breath
Possessions and places
Will somehow be made
Another family will press a bit closer
And take in the other
Things come again with time
But the heart never forgets
The wrenching of the soul
When home is suddenly gone
When despair replaces joy in life
And fear tries to rule the day
And no one hears the cries
But only the wind