Thursday, September 14, 2006

Blair hit by Lebanon backlash as minister admits ceasefire 'mistake'

JUST FOR OUR INFORMATION AND AS A REMINDER:

HR comment: It is not a matter of this war criminal Blair "standing down within 12 months" - but the majority of people wants him at last sentenced to life in jail with hard labor within 12 months! One can only imagine what would happen to Blair and his ilk if they fall into the hands of their angry victims...

* TUESDAY, AUGUST 01, 2006: ''England, Germany and Holland STOP cease fire resolution Lebanon'' - FPF-Url.: http://tinyurl.com/fwu3n

* DUTCH AIRPORT ILLEGAL WEAPONS TRANSPORT CENTER FOR ISRAEL - The war criminals posing as some kind of 'government' for the US/Israeli managers and warmongers in The Netherlands, were forced by a member of parliament to officially confirm ''23 uncontrolled flights with military cargos of great quantities of weapons and ammunition from the United States via Holland to Israel during the last two months.'' - (DURING THE WAR!). - The Dutch 'government' also confirmed that during 2005 there have been 'around' 75 military uncontrolled cargos to Israel. - HR: The 'official' figures are of course - and as usual - lies, in reality maybe a hundred times more was illegally transferred. Those creatures have no decency. - August 09 - 2006 - FPF-Url.: http://tinyurl.com/fq2ee

BLAIR HIT BY LEBANON BACKLASH AS MINISTER ADMITS CEASEFIRE 'MISTAKE'

THE WAR LASTED 34 DAYS. IT LEFT 1,393 PEOPLE DEAD. ANOTHER 5,350 INJURED. AND MORE THAN 1,150,000 DISPLACED, OF WHOM 215,413 ARE STILL HOMELESS. THE DAMAGE AMOUNTS TO MORE THAN £2.6BN. EXACTLY ONE MONTH AFTER IT ENDED, A FOREIGN OFFICE MINISTER ADMITS THAT TONY BLAIR SHOULD HAVE CALLED FOR A CEASEFIRE.

By Andy McSmith

The Independent - 14 September 2006 - A Foreign Office minister has conceded that Tony Blair's refusal to call for a ceasefire during 34 days of slaughter in Lebanon may have been a mistake. The admission by Kim Howells, minister for the Middle East, reflects the growing worries of senior figures in government that Mr Blair's defence of US foreign policy at every turn is damaging his administration at home and abroad. Mr Howells also conceded that the decision to oppose - with the US - the international demand for an immediate ceasefire was not properly explained to the British public.

Mr Blair's isolated stance is seen as a major reason for the revolt that forced him to announce last week that he would be standing down within 12 months.

BLAIR CRITICISED AS PRESIDENT BUSH'S POODLE

The Prime Minister's controversial approach to foreign policy - he has been criticised as President Bush's poodle - has begun to unravel of late. Yesterday, he was pleading in vain with Nato members to pledge 2,000 more troops to the troubled mission in Afghanistan, where 40 British servicemen have been killed in recent weeks.

US PRISON CAMP GUANTANAMO SHOCKING AFFRONT TO PRINCIPLES OF DEMOCRACY

In a further setback yesterday for the Prime Minister, Lord Falconer of Thoroton, the Lord Chancellor, denounced the US prison camp at Guantanamo as "a shocking affront to the principles of democracy". He had previously called it "intolerable and wrong". Mr Blair, though, refused to be drawn on those remarks. He has gone no further than to call the camp an "anomaly", and has steadfastly refused demands to intervene with Mr Bush.

Iraq, where Mr Blair has stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Mr Bush, remains a quagmire, and there are growing doubts among the British military about its ability to fight on two fronts in the "war on terror". Mr Howells' remarks will fuel the growing exasperation inside and outside Parliament with the Government's foreign policy.

During a two-hour grilling by MPs on the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, he admitted that it might have been more effective if the UK had pursued a "dual" policy of simultaneously calling for a ceasefire in Lebanon and trying to find a solution to the crisis.

HE ALSO IMPLIED THAT THE ISRAELI BOMBING OF LEBANON HAD BEEN A MILITARY BLUNDER THAT LEFT HIZBOLLAH STRONGER.

[HR: WHAT POLITICAL PARTY HEZBOLLAH AND OTHER BRAVE LEBANESE DID, WAS RESISTANCE AGAINST WAR CRIMINALS.]

He told MPs: "I'm not saying that a dual approach might not have worked. I'm not saying that, I'm not dismissing that at all. Maybe it would have worked. What I am saying is we had to take decisions at the time based on what we knew and what intelligence we had. That's why we took those decisions. They were taken in absolute good faith - not in complicity with the Americans or anyone else." Mr Howells, who has a reputation for blunt speaking, went on to admit that it was "a difficult position to defend" and added: "We didn't try to explain it very well."

During the conflict, which left up to 1,400 Lebanese dead and inflicted an estimated £3bn damage on the country, Mr Blair refused every challenge to join calls for a ceasefire.

It was this defiance that fuelled the crisis that overtook Mr Blair's premiership, when 17 Labour MPs, including a defence minister, signed a letter calling on him to resign.

Mr Blair's visit to Beirut this week provoked a demonstration by hundreds of students who accused him of being pro-Israeli. In public, the Prime Minister has defended his position, saying his effectiveness as a mediator in the Middle East depended on good relations with the US and Israeli governments. But privately one of his senior advisers admitted this week:

"We got it wrong. We didn't get the balance right. We gave the impression we were against the ceasefire."

Mr Howells' remarks were applauded by both defenders and critics of government policy. Andrew Mackinlay, a member of the committee, said: "It was refreshingly candid. What we got from it was some recognition that if they had their time over again, they would do things differently. "It gave me the impression that he's of the view that a twin approach could and should have been applied. We're now paying a heavy price for not having done that."

The Liverpool MP Peter Kilfoyle, a former defence minister, said: "There's no doubt that a dual approach would have been the right thing to do both morally and in terms of what is in the country's interest. It's clear to see, if only because of what has been shown during the Blair visit to the Lebanon, that our approach has devalued our standing in the region."

TIMES WHEN GOVERNMENT MUST CONSIDER PUBLIC OPINION

The former foreign office minister Denis MacShane, a Blair supporter, said: "In geopolitical terms, calling for a ceasefire would not have stopped a single bomb from being dropped or a single rocket from being fired, but the whole of Britain was outraged by what they saw on television and there are times when government must consider public opinion."

The former foreign office minister Denis MacShane, a Blair supporter, said: "In geopolitical terms, calling for a ceasefire would not have stopped a single bomb from being dropped or a single rocket from being fired, but the whole of Britain was outraged by what they saw on television and there are times when government must consider public opinion."

[andend] - The Independent story at Url.: http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1578727.ece

BANNED & INHUMAN WEAPONS USED: Israeli Commander: We Fired More Than a Million Cluster Bombs in Lebanon - Meron Rappaport: "What we did was insane and monstrous, we covered entire towns in cluster bombs," the head of an Israeli Defense Force (IDF) rocket unit in Lebanon said regarding the use of cluster bombs and phosphorous shells during the war. - Url.: http://yalibnan.com/site/archives/2006/09/israeli_command.php

* BRITISH AMBASSADOR: BLAIR IS 'A ZOMBIE TAUGHT BY THE CIA'. - Url.: http://forpressfound.blogspot.com/2006/08/british-ambassador-blair-is-zombie.html

* GEORGE GALLOWAY UK MP: BLAIR, OLMERT AND BUSH ARE MURDERERS! - Url.: http://beirut.indymedia.org/en/2006/08/5072.shtml

* LEBANON: WORLDWIDE DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST US/ISRAELI WAR CRIMES - Url.: http://beirut.indymedia.org/en/

* ENGLISH INFORMATION ABOUT BOARDING THE US WEAPONS TRANSIT PLANES AT PRESTWICK - Url.: http://scotland.indymedia.org/newswire/display/3127/index.php

* CHANGE THE US REGIME? - "Brothers and sisters, if you and I would just realize, that once we learn to talk the language that they understand, they will then get the point. You can't ever reach a man if you don't speak his language. If a man speaks the language of brute force, you can't come to him with peace. Why goodnight! He'll break you in two, as he has been doing all along. If a man speaks French, you can't speak to him in German. If he speaks Swahili, you can't communicate with him in Chinese. You have to find out, what does this man speak? Once you know his language, learn how to speak his language. He'll get the point." - Malcom X - on defending human rights. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/zoora

* GEORGE BUSH II CONFIRMED WHY WE ALL MUST BE AFRAID OF THE US/ISRAELI WAR MACHINE: "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, AND NEITHER DO WE." - August 5, 2004 - At the signing of the defense act for the fiscal year 2005 (H.R. 4613) - Url.: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/08/20040805-4.html

* DEFINITION OF SEMITES from the Collins English Dictionary - [http://tinyurl.com/zj9y4] - "Semitic: a member of the group of Caucasoid people who speak a Semitic language, including the Jews and Arabs as well as the Ancient Babylonians (Iraqis), the Assyrians (Syria), and the Phoenicians (the Lebanese of today). Semitic: a branch or sub-family of languages that includes Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew.” - Palestinians and Lebanese for instance are semites. The JDL cliché: "anti semitism' has always been a fake accusation, abused to kill debates too in the past. Not anymore. What the US/Israeli war machine is doing is anti semitism on a global scale.

* RACE HOLOCAUST? - THIS IS A STATEMENT OVERTLY SUPPORTING GENOCIDE - Who said this? Hitler? Goebbels? Attila The Hun? Mussolini? Ivan The Terrible? - "...advanced forms of biological warfare that can target specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool." - This is not politics as usual. - Url.: http://www.freedomisforeverybody.org/PNAC.php

* DEFENDING ISRAELI GENOCIDES: ''During time of war, enemy has no innocents'' - the Israeli 'Yesha Rabbinical Council' announced in response to an IDF war crime in Kfar Qanna that killed 54 Lebanese civilians, including 37 children. - [http://tinyurl.com/rsw33] - "According to Jewish law, during a time of battle and war, there is no such term as 'innocents' of the enemy. - All of the discussions on Christian morality are weakening the spirit of the army and the nation and are costing us in the blood of our soldiers and civilians." the statement said. (Efrat Weiss) - Url.: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3283720,00.html

* ISRAELI WRITER URI AVNERY - JUNKIES OF WAR - Israel is conquering South Lebanon as flies conquer fly-paper - Indymedia Beirut/Lebanon - Url.: http://www.avnery-news.co.il/english/index.html

* NEWS FROM INDYMEDIA in LEBANON - BEIRUT - Url.: http://beirut.indymedia.org/en/

* PREPARING THE GENOCIDE FOR 'ERETZ ISRAEL' - 'A Clean Break: Strategy for Securing the Realm' - The new Israeli ''Pentagon Papers'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/zksqh

* US/ISRAELI GENOCIDE NEWS: ''MORE TIME TO BOMB'' - ESSENTIAL 6 MINUTE VIDEO - We defy anyone to watch this 6 minute video, entitled MORE TIME TO BOMB, and not be enraged at the scale of Israel's atrocities in Lebanon and Gaza which 'they' are holocausting. - 6 minute video - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/k8mm5

* "THE ISRAELITE PEOPLE OF THE ENTIRE WORLD DECLARE ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL WAR ON GERMANY" - 24 MARCH 1933 - On the front page of the London Daily Express appeared the main headline: "JUDAEA DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY: JEWS OF ALL THE WORLD UNITE" - Url.: http://www.heretical.com/mkilliam/wwii.html

* MARCH 1933 - by the way - also was the month this same group in London knew about their 'Brethren in the jewish Faith' which were holocausting up to ten million people in Ukraine. Via the Sovjet Union, where they were in power too. In their Sovjet 'Gulag system' around 40 million human beings were killed. The New York Times Moscow 'correspondent' Walter Duranty even got a Pulitzer prize - dispensed by the same people - for his slander and inhuman silence, denying this holocaust. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/eqkgq

* REVENGE: THE MORGENTHAU HOLOCAUST PLAN - After the second WW Germany was holocausted by the 'Allies'. One of the 'London War Lords' - Morgenthau - presented his 'plan' together with US Gen. Eisenhower (Eisenhauer) and prescribed a dismantling and starvation treatment for Germany ''that would be good and hard." - There were protests against "this addlepated (stupid and confused) ... brutal and vicious Morgenthau Plan." which killed millions. Children, women and men again. - Url.: http://dc.indymedia.org/mod/comments/display/90027/index.php

* RELATED: BACKGROUND LINKS TO THOSE RESPONSIBLE - If after checking a factual error is found, pls. send an email so it can be corrected. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/fhln9

* The Dutch author this far has worked abroad for more than 4 decades for international media as an independent foreign correspondent, of which 10 years - also during Gulf War I - in the Arab World and the Middle East. Having practical experience of coups and the obscenity of war: seeing worldwide that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism!

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