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Editor - Jonathan Mark - info@flybynews.com
July 19, 2006
“Israel is in violation of
U.S. arms control laws
for deploying U.S.-made fighter planes, combat helicopters and
missiles to kill civilians and destroy Lebanon's infrastructure
in the ongoing devastation of that militarily-weak country.
The death toll, according to published reports, is over 600 people
-- mostly civilians -- while the economic losses have been
estimated at about 100 million dollars per day.”
Israel
Violates Law on U.S. Weapons in Mid-East
Flyby News Editor's Notes:
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy was a big turning point in the history of US government. It also was a turning point for the escalation of military actions in the undeclared Vietnam War, and while Kennedy refused to allow atomic bomb secrets to go to Israel, after his death, the Israeli nuclear weapon program flourished.
There is an unholy alliance between the shadow governments of Israel and the US. The power of the atomic bomb seemed to have corrupted people's minds, thinking they have the right and might to control, to harm, to make suffer other human beings from their fears and/or greed, and lost sense of humanity. While cycles of violence can be justified, it can not undo the harm, like in the old story, Cain and Abel.
Last night Bouthaina Shaaban, Minister of Expatriates, Syria, was interviewed on PBS TV by Charlie Rose. I am trying to find a copy of the transcript. Her voice of reason could not be any more clear on what is best for the people of Israel and neighboring Arab nations. Syria is challenging the US and Israel to choose a path for peace.
"Operation Northwoods" was a 1962 plan that was only known to the public in November, 1997. Released by the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board, it shows a proposal (likely rejected by President Kennedy) to manipulate the US public to support a military takeover of Cuban. According to Wikepedia, "Operation Northwoods "..called for simulated or real state sponsored terrorism (such as hijacked planes) on U.S. and Cuban soil." It sounds eerily similar and twisted as the events that occurred on September 11, 2001.
<CUT for brevity> Full article(s) at State Terrorism * 9/11 Action * Mexican Vote
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Two articles:
1. Israel Violates Law on U.S. Weapons in Mideast
2. Israeli Onslaught Will Only
Strengthen Hizbullah
1. Israel Violates Law on U.S.
Weapons in Mideast
Published July 18, 2006
by the Inter Press Service
by Thalif Deen
"Israel's prodigious military power -- currently unleashed on a virtually defenseless Lebanon -- is sourced primarily to the United States.
UNITED
NATIONS - Israel is in violation of U.S. arms control laws for deploying
U.S.-made fighter planes, combat helicopters and missiles to kill civilians and
destroy Lebanon's infrastructure in the ongoing six-day devastation of that
militarily-weak country.
The death toll, according to published reports, is over 200 people -- mostly
civilians -- while the economic losses have been estimated at about 100 million
dollars per day.
"Section 4 of the (U.S.) Arms Export Control Act requires that military items
transferred to foreign governments by the United States be used solely for
internal security and legitimate self-defense," says Stephen Zunes, professor of
politics at the University of San Francisco.
"Since Israeli attacks against Lebanon's civilian infrastructure and population
centers clearly go beyond legitimate self-defense, the United States is legally
obliged to suspend arms transfers to Israel," Zunes told IPS.
Frida Berrigan, a senior research associate with the
Arms Trade Resource Center at the World Policy Institute in New York, is
equally outraged at the misuse by Israel of U.S.-supplied weapons.
"As Israel jets bombard locations in Gaza, Haifa and Beirut, killing civilians
(including as many as seven Canadians vacationing in Aitaroun), it is worth
remembering that U.S. law is clear about how U.S.-origin weapons and military
systems ought to be used," Berrigan told IPS.
She pointed out that the U.S. Arms Export Control Act clear states that U.S.
origin weapons should not be used for "non-defensive purposes."
"In light of this clear statement, the United States has an opportunity to stave
off further bloodshed and suffering by demanding that its weaponry and military
aid not be used in attacks against Lebanon and elsewhere, and challenging
Israeli assertions that it is using military force defensively," she added.
That would demonstrate the kind of "utmost restraint" that world leaders called
for at the G8 Summit of the world's most industrialized nations, which just
ended in St. Petersburg, Russia.
The 25-member European Union has said that Israel's military retaliation against
Lebanon is "grossly disproportionate" to the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers
last week by the Islamic militant group Hezbollah, which is a coalition partner
of the U.S.-supported government in Beirut.
Israel has accused both Syria and Iran of providing rockets and missiles to
Hezbollah, which has used these weapons to hit mostly civilian targets inside
Israel.
Israel's prodigious military power -- currently unleashed on a virtually
defenseless Lebanon -- is sourced primarily to the United States.
Armed mostly with state-of-the-art U.S.-supplied fighter planes and combat
helicopters, the Israeli military is capable of matching a combination of all or
most of the armies in most Middle Eastern countries, including Iran, Syria,
Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
The air force has continued to devastate Beirut and its suburbs with no
resistance in the skies during six days of incessant bombings, causing civilian
deaths and infrastructure destruction.
"The Israeli Air Force now flies only U.S.-origin fighters, a mix of F-15s and
F-16s, and the rest of the service's fleet is almost completely of U.S. origin,"
says Tom Baranauskas, a senior Middle East analyst at Forecast International, a
leading provider of defense market intelligence services in the United States.
While in earlier years Israel bought from a variety of arms suppliers, with the
French in particular being strong sellers to Israel of such items as Mirage
fighters, over the past couple of decades the United States has developed into
Israel's preponderant arms supplier, he added.
"The U.S. domination as Israel's arms supplier can be seen in the Congressional
Research Service's (CRS) annual study of arms sales," Baranauskas told IPS.
He said the latest CRS survey shows a total of 8.4 billion dollars of arms
deliveries to Israel in the 1997-2004 period, with fully 7.1 billion dollars or
84.5 percent coming from a single source: the United States.
A major factor in this trend was the rise in U.S. Foreign Military Financing
(FMF) -- outright U.S. grants to Israel -- which now totals about
2.3 billion dollars a year paid
for by U.S. taxpayers.
By U.S. law,
Baranauskas said, 74 percent of FMF assistance to Israel must be spent on U.S.
military products. This U.S. assistance has now become the main source of
financing for Israel's major arms procurements, especially its fighter planes.
From a historical perspective, he said, U.S. assistance to Israel during
1950-2005 has been staggeringly high: Foreign Military Financing (FMF) amounting
to 59.5 billion dollars; 27 billion dollars in Foreign Military Sales (FMS)
mostly government-to-government arms transactions; and eight billion dollars in
commercial arms sales by the private sector.
Berrigan of the Arms Trade Resource Center said the United States is undoubtedly
the primary supplier of Israeli firepower.
In the interest of strengthening Israel's security and maintaining the country's
"qualitative military edge" over neighboring militaries, the U.S. Congress
provides Israel with annual FMF grants that represent about 23 percent of its
overall defense budget. Israel's 2006 military budget is estimated at 7.4
billion dollars.
According to the Congressional Research Service, FMF levels are expected to
increase incrementally by 60 million dollars a year to a level of 2.4 billion
dollars by 2008 compared with 2.2 billion dollars in 2005.
"Israel has been the largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid every year
since 1976," Berrigan said.
Additionally, the United States provides Israel with billions of dollars worth
of weaponry.
She pointed out that recent military sales to Israel include propulsion systems
for fast patrol boats worth more than 15 million dollars from MTU Detroit
Diesel; an eight-million-dollar contract to Lockheed Martin for high-tech
infrared "navigation and targeting" capabilities for Israeli jets; and a
145-million-dollar deal with Oshkosh Truck Corp to build more than 900 armour
kits for Israeli Medium Tactical Vehicles.
In December of last year, Lockheed Martin was awarded a 29.8-million-dollar
contract to provide spares part for Israel's F-16 fighter planes.
Berrigan also said that Israel has one of the world's largest fleets of F-16
fighter planes, made in Fort Worth, Texas and also in Israel by Lockheed Martin
Corporation.
Israel has a total of over 378 F-16s, considered one of the world's most
advanced fighter planes -- besides 117 F-15s, 94 Skyhawks, 110 Phantoms -- all
supplied by the United States.
Copyright © 2006
IPS-Inter Press Service
The article is also posted:
www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0718-07.htm
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2. Israeli Onslaught Will Only Strengthen Hizbullah
Power Politics via Crisis Management on War Steroids;
Radicalizing the Middle East as Pretext for Iran Attack.
Preface Note:
There are sinister forces behind the over-kill insanity in Gaza and Lebanon that are an extension of the Big Lie of 9-11, the lies that led to Iraq and the lies being pounded into the American psyche about Iran.
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The global Internet has awakened much of the world to 9-11 truth with conclusions too horrible for many U.S. citizens to believe. Did you know that Morgan Reynolds, former Chief Economist in the Department of Labor, under George Bush, has come out and said he thinks 9/11 was an inside job? So has Ray McGovern, CIA analyst who briefed both Bush and Reagan; Paul Craig Roberts the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury [and] father of Reaganomics; and among others Lieutenant Colonel, Bob Bowman, who was the former director of advanced space programs development under Ford and Carter. These people all coming out now in this thing they call the 9/11 truth movement and saying that they believe that not only did our government allow this to happen and cover it up, but also [members of the US govt.] had something to do with the attacks. Polls, Zogby polls are even reflecting that a lot of Americans are believing this as well.
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From the beginning, we've been lied to about 9-ll. Six of the Arabs – who we were immediately told hijacked the planes -- turned up alive in the Mid-East, complaining of identity theft. Did you know that Osama Bin Laden, in one of his first videos after 9/11/2001, actually denied in a video that we don't get to see here in the United States, that he had anything to do with the 9/11 attacks? And then the media showed the "fat Bin Laden" video, where he's a good 40 pounds heavier and has a different kind of a nose, saying that he did participate in 9/11. And that's really the best proof we have from Osama Bin Laden that he did 9/11.
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But the Zionist-dominated corporate media never reports this, nor all the other blaring facts like the owner of the World Trade Center admitting that the 3rd building collapsing that day was demolished by explosives, as firefighters claim the first two buildings were. So what’s going on here?
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It is democracy that has been hijacked with shock and awe, intrigue and treachery, and incessant media propaganda that creates an enemy to rally the public for the Zionist's "Greater Israel agenda. The same plutocrat families and bankster buddies that orchestrated World Wars I and II have an agenda for WWIII that they intend to orchestrate to consolidate their power for enforcing their corporate monopolies on energy, drugs, media and the "remnant" after their long-planned reduction in population.
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This plot out of hell has now forced the removal of a half million Lebanese while setting up Iran for expansion of the Zionist's plans.
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To deny the face of fascism is to be party to it - the war party. To deny a conscience of greater LOVE is the cause of all suffering.
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The global Net reality of our connection -- the Family of Man -- is the judgment on the antichrist forces subverting all that honorable people hold sacred.
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By the grace of LOVE in the heart of mankind, enough good people will challenge the war-crazed insanity of leaders and hasten their judgment to save our own souls.
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- Christopher
Via NY Transfer News Collective *
All the News that Doesn't Fit
The Daily Star (Lebanon) - 18 July 2006
Israeli onslaught will strengthen, not weaken, Hizbullah's popular appeal
Despite the mounting civilian death toll in Lebanon, and despite
increasing evidence of Israeli violations of international law, the
heavyweights in the international community are once again following
the lead of US President George W. Bush, who has effectively given a
green light to Israel's destruction of Lebanon.
Truncated, for the complete article, see:
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.activism.progressive/browse_thread/thread/42d8d10daf60ee86
For more on this issue, visit FN’s
resource page on
Mid East Peace
- initiatives and information
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"The war in Iraq was conceived by 25 neoconservatives, most of them
Jewish,
who are pushing President Bush to change the course of history."
-Ari Shavit Ha'aretz News Service (Israel) April 5, 2003
- article at
www.heartcom.org/9-11Zionists.htm