Archives for July 2006

Dershowitz and Grades of Human Beings Alan “Torture is OK” Dershowitz is annoyed that the Israelis have been accused of killing innocent civilians. He is now arguing that there are degrees of “civilianity.” He wonders how many innocent civilians killed by Israel in Lebanon would still be innocent if we could make finer distinctions. (He […]

AUB Relief Effort Send money It can also be sent via the American University in Beirut’s New York office. AUB is an educational institution incorporated in the US, so there is no question of the donations being anything but above-board. The Lebanese mostly are angry with the US now, and many hate us, for unleashing […]

Sunday Afternoon Reading Kos Diary on Kalman’s piece about the preplanned character of Israel’s war on Lebanon. Candide’s Notebooks – Lebanese-American Blog. Congress and the Lebanon crisis– Steve Zunes. Israeli Peace movement. Jane Hamsher. Billmon. Wayne White at TPM Steve Gilliard on wooing Syria (hat tip to Eschaton) Digby Andrew Sullivan on Losing Faith Tomdispatch.com […]

War on Lebanon Planned for at least a Year The Bush Administration’s Grand Strategy and the Birth Pangs of Terror Israeli war planes hit the cities of Sidon, south Beirut and Baalbak on Saturday and Israeli ground troops fought a hard battle to take over the village of Maroun al-Ras, said to be a Hizbullah […]

Huge Blast in Shiite Sadr City Kills 33 Muqtada Calls on al-Maliki to Boycott Washington over Israeli Assault on Lebanon Guerrillas detonated a massive car bomb Sunday morning in Sadr City, Shiite East Baghdad, illing at least 33 persons and wounding 70. This bombing was an attempt to provoke the Mahdi Army of Muqtada al-Sadr […]

Stem Cell Veto BUSH: “Yes, dear, I understand that stem cell research would let you dance at the masked ball. But the Republican Party needs the fundies to get reelected, so you’re just going to have to sit there the rest of your life.” ======Satire Alert: Doctored PhotoJuan Cole created this photo-cartoon and reliquishescopyright in […]

US Isolated as Rift Grows with UK Even the British Foreign Office has now broken with the Washington consensus on the Israeli assault on Lebanon, which is basically that the Israelis should be able to destroy the whole country if they want to, over their two kidnapped soldiers. AFP reports: ‘ Britain’s junior foreign minister […]

Israel hits Christian Television in Christian North Lebanon, Kills TV Man Hizbullah rocket launchers are in the far south of Lebanon and Hizbullah is a Shiite organization. Note that in a national emergency when 500,000 persons have been rendered homeless and the number is growing, when there are hundreds of dead and thousands of wounded, […]

Lebanon’s Catholic Bishops Call for UN-Backed Ceasefire Demand Steps to Prevent Humanitarian Crisis Lebanon’s Maronite Catholic Bishops called Saturday for an immediate ceasefire in Israel’s attack on Lebanon. (“The Maronite bishops of South Lebanon (Mgr Nabil Hajje of Tyre and Mgr Elias Nassar of Saida) could not take part in the meeting.”) The uniate Maronite […]