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References Related to the Israeli Assault on Lebanon in July 2006

onthewingsofhelios | 13.07.2007 23:20 | Lebanon War 2006 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Terror War | World

What one might see is an analytical, manipulative, and ruthless pre-planned
program of extermination and destruction that was planned for years, even decades, and which, according to at least one Israeli poll, enjoys the support of almost all Israelis.


EVIDENCE OF PRE-PLANNING OF LEBANON ATTACK

Israel set war plan more than a year ago
Strategy was put in motion as Hezbollah began increasing its military strength
July 21, 2006  http://tinyurl.com/euu47
“More than a year ago, a senior Israeli army officer began giving PowerPoint presentations, on an off-the-record basis, to U.S. and other diplomats, journalists and think tanks, setting out the plan for the current operation in revealing detail. Under the ground rules of the briefings, the officer could not be identified.
In his talks, the officer described a three-week campaign: The first week concentrated on destroying Hezbollah's heavier long-range missiles, bombing its command-and-control centers, and disrupting transportation and communication arteries. In the second week, the focus shifted to attacks on individual sites of rocket launchers or weapons stores. In the third week, ground forces in large numbers would be introduced, but only in order to knock out targets discovered during reconnaissance missions as the campaign unfolded. There was no plan, according to this scenario, to reoccupy southern Lebanon on a long-term basis.”

PLAN SOLD TO BUSH AS A PRACTICE DRILL ON IRAN

Bush 'viewed war in Lebanon as a curtain-raiser for attack on Iran'
August 14, 2006  http://tinyurl.com/evmma
The Bush administration was informed in advance and gave the "green light" to Israel's military strikes against Hizbollah with plans drawn up months before two Israeli soldiers were seized it has been claimed.

US PRESS AND OTHER INFLUENTIALS NOTIFIED OF LEBANON WAR LAST YEAR

Subject: Lebanon attack was pre-planned
July 23, 2006  http://tinyurl.com/2vyxvp
"Matthew Kalman reveals that Israel's wide ranging assault on Lebanon
has been planned in a general way for years, and a specific plan has been in the works for over a year. The 'Three Week War' was shown to Washington think tanks and officials last year on powerpoint by a senior Israeli army officer: "'More than a year ago, a senior Israeli army officer began giving PowerPoint presentations, on an off-the-record basis, to U.S. and other diplomats, journalists and think tanks, setting out the plan for the current operation in revealing detail.'
See above link for the entire article.

SHARON WAR PLANS PRE-911

Sharon outlines plan to attack all Israel's neighbors in the spring of 2001.
Sharon War Plan Exposed: Hamas Gang Is His Tool
July 20, 2001  http://tinyurl.com/3cksvc
The report also states that Sharon intends to use a "terrorist attack" as pretext for starting his plan in motion. "An "Islamist" terrorist attack against an American target, Sharon believes, would assure U.S. blessings for whatever "retaliation" Israel might take against Iraq, Iran, or Syria."

WAR WITH ISRAEL'S NEIGHBORS PLANNED FOR DECADES

Jews Against Zionism
July 13, 2004  http://tinyurl.com/9ymol
Excerpt of letter:
“Like most Israelis I participated in the Six Days War (1967), and many of my friends and family died in the defence of Israel. At that time we were told that we took the Arab lands in order to exchange them later for a permanent peace.

Shortly after, General Moshe Dayan changed his mind and said that he envisaged Israel's boundaries to extend beyond Jordan, the Golan Heights, and even to Lebanon and central Syria. At that time, I realised for the first time that the Zionists are using us Israelis as pawns in their quest for world domination. That was enough for me; I left Israel to the USA to work for the UCLA Physics Dept. and the computer industry, and returned my passport to the Israeli Embassy renouncing my Israeli citizenship.”
See above link for the entire letter

INCITING WAR-FINDING AN EXCUSE TO HANG THE PLANS ON

ISRAELI SHELLING OF PICNICKING FAMILY

Death on the beach: seven Palestinians killed as Israeli shells hit family picnic
June 10, 2006  http://tinyurl.com/3a67ze

Death on a Gaza Beach
VIDEO youtube.com  http://tinyurl.com/2w4gzz
Comment:
Some question if this unprovoked attack on a picnicking family was an attempt to enflame Arabs to retaliate as a pretext for the pre-planned attack on Lebanon?

THE ISRAELI SOLDIERS WERE CAPTURED IN LEBANON

The Two Israeli Soldiers were Captured in Lebanon
July 12, 2006 (see article for numerous news sources of this report)
 http://tinyurl.com/pqv3w

MEDIA DISTRACTION/PSY-OP COVERS LEBANON ATTACK

BOMBAY TRAIN BOMBING July 11, 2006:

Bomb attack on Bombay trains kills 190
July 11, 2006  http://tinyurl.com/2b3opp

While the world was distracted with the Bombay Train Attack on July 11 which was blamed on a new Indian "AlQaeda" group, guess what Israel was doing?

Invading Lebanon!

The Neocons must be slapping their heads in disbelief saying, "Thanks 'AlQueda!' You always show up at the most opportune times!"

ISRAELI METHODICAL, EXTENSIVE, AND BRUTAL ATTACK OF LEBANON

Here is a picture of one civilian neighborhood they flattened.
Satellite Image Before and After: Beirut Looks Like a Tsunami Victim
August 4, 2006
PICTURE  http://tinyurl.com/2efo9q

Message Received
PICTURES  http://tinyurl.com/2r2dzs

Map of Israel’s “Self-Defense” strikes ??!!!!!!!!
MAP
 http://www.rense.com/1.imagesH/lebmap.jpg

These Babies Aren’t Sleeping  http://tinyurl.com/zdbpa

“Lebanon’s 911” Picture Album  http://tinyurl.com/e8oh6

Gas Dropped By Israelis In So. Lebanon Sickens Civilians
July 22/23 2006
See link for picture
 http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
back up link:  http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=4877
WMR reported that the Israeli military was using poison gas on villages in south Lebanon. According to a former U.S. weapons expert who served in Iraq, the artillery shell in a photo taken in Lebanon (below) is a chemical weapon delivery device. It is being handled by an Israeli Defense Force soldier and Hebrew lettering can be clearly seen on the armored vehicle.
Another chemical weapons shell of the same type can be seen lying on the ground to the right. It is not known what type of chemical is in the chemical canister, however, gas dropped by the Israelis in villages in southern Lebanon has resulted in severe vomiting among the civilian population.

Media commentators have scoffed that Israel, with its relatively unique history, would ever use chemical weapons or poison gas in any war. It is precisely because of that perception that they are using such weapons. The deniability factor prevents the media from taking seriously the credible reports of banned weapons being used by the Israelis.

Burning Babies Are Child's Play To Israel's Ethnic Cleansers
Racial purists don't accept civilian slaughter as a necessity of war, they fiendishly embrace it as they pursue an "ethno-bomb"
July 25, 2006
 http://tinyurl.com/yudzvt

Eyewitness Describes
Israeli DU Bombs
In Lebanon
Every time I think that things can't get worse, they do.
By Zena el-Khalil in Beirut
August 3, 2006
There is a black dust that is filling the air. We are breathing it in ... constantly. It has settled on my clothes, in my kitchen -- it is everywhere. We are guessing it is from the Jiye power station that was bombed. It is still on fire. It is the power station from which the oil spill originated from.

Interview with Dr. Doug Rokke re Depleted Uranium Used in Lebanon Attack
AUDIO  http://tinyurl.com/32vxly
This is also archived at prisonplanet.tv for members  http://tinyurl.com/3yrnme

Lebanon's Children and Israeli Phosphorous Bombs
July 27, 2006  http://tinyurl.com/zfv6f
07/27/06 "Al-Hayat" -- -- Did the American people see on CNN the child whose face was burnt by Israeli phosphorous bombs in Lebanon? Did they hear him screaming in pain at Sidon Hospital, with his mother falling to pieces in agony beside him because of the injury he sustained from the terrible bombs? How can the American people accept their elected President George W. Bush's rejection of a ceasefire?

Routes out of Beirut destroyed
August 4, 2006 (Newsclip no longer available on youtube.com-Why?)
VIDEO  http://tinyurl.com/ynsfl2
Overnight air strikes in Beirut destroyed 4 bridges on the coastal highway linking Lebanon to Syria, blocking the final major route out.
The major roads in the north of Beirut were used by aid workers to bring humanitarian relief to the city. Those aid workers will now face additional difficulties delivering relief.

ZERO MERCY-GET OUT, OR DIE!

"If You Haven't Left, You're Hezbollah"
July 30, 2006  http://tinyurl.com/nu8oo
Inter Press Service
Dahr Jamail
SIDON, Lebanon, Jul 30 (IPS) - The Israeli attack on Qana has taken the biggest toll of the war, but it is only one of countless lethal attacks on civilians in Lebanon.
Large numbers fled the south after Israelis dropped leaflets warning of attacks. Others have been unable to leave, often because they have not found the means. The Israelis have taken that to mean that they are therefore Hezbollah.

Lebanon loses link to aid; food getting low
August 5, 2006  http://tinyurl.com/2vuecy
"This is Lebanon's umbilical cord," Christiane Berthiaume of the World Food Program said of the four key bridges destroyed along Beirut's main road to the north — the last major resupply link to Syria. "This [road] has been the only way for us to bring in aid. We really need to find other ways to bring relief in."

ISRAELI POLL ILLUSTRATES ISRAELI MINDSET

Poll: Nearly 90 Percent of Israelis Back Bombings
July 18, 2006 Associated Press  http://tinyurl.com/3cvnto
Nearly nine out of 10 Israelis say the country's aerial campaign in Lebanon is justified and almost 60 percent say Israel should fight until Hezbollah is destroyed, according to a poll published Tuesday.

MINORITY OF ISRAELIS RESIST

Israeli pilots 'deliberately miss' targets
Fliers admit aborting raids on civilian targets as concern grows over the reliability of intelligence
August 6, 2006  http://tinyurl.com/lx9jc
At least two Israeli fighter pilots have deliberately missed civilian targets in Lebanon as disquiet grows in the military about flawed intelligence, The Observer has learnt. Sources say the pilots were worried that targets had been wrongly identified as Hizbollah facilities

MISUSE OF RELIGION

Judaism Used As Excuse for War Crimes

A country that is the world-wide center of Communism and is basically non-religious drags out Judaism to justify killing all men, women and children in their "war" (massacre)?

onthewingsofhelios

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