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Thu Jul 20 2006 (Updated 07/21/06)
US And World Community Give Israel Free Reign To Kill Lebanese Civilians
World Places Little Value On Arab Lives
The US is giving Israel a window of a week to inflict maximum damage on Hizbullah before weighing in behind international calls for a ceasefire in Lebanon, according to British, European and Israeli sources. British Prime Minister Tony Blair has also rejected calls for Israel to declare a cease-fire. Canada’s Conservative government has responded to the murder of eight Canadian citizens in an Israeli air strike with a shrug of its shoulders. The Canadians, four adults and four children aged from 1 to 7, were among eleven members of the Al-Akhrass family who were killed as the result of Israeli strafing of the south Lebanese village of Aitaroun. Of the three hundred people killed in the past eight days of fighting, the overwhelming majority have been, like Montreal pharmacist Ali Al-Akhrass and his family, innocent civilians.

While the US media seeks to present the current crisis in terms of equal suffering—Israeli civilians hit by Hezbollah rockets, Lebanese civilians hit by Israeli bombs—the reality is far different. More than 200 Lebanese have been killed and a billion dollars worth of damage inflicted on their country, compared to 24 Israelis killed, nearly half of them soldiers killed in combat against Hezbollah fighters.

Many Lebanese say the failure of the international community to resolve the crisis in their country is worsening the situation.

Arab countries are no longer interested in issuing a strong condemnation of Israel | A Letter to Canadian PM Stephen Harper | Resist at your peril | Security Council delays, awaits high-level UN team | Lebanese question world's silence | As Lebanese civilians killed en masse, US Senate expresses unanimous support for Israel | Blair rejects MPs' call for unilateral Israeli cease-fire | Ralph Nader: US Has "Inescapable Responsibility" for "Israeli Government's Escalating War Crimes" | Over 100 Palestinians Killed in Three Week Israeli Offensive | Peaceful Rally Calling for an Immediate Ceasefire Draws Large Crowd in Front of White House | US Buys Israel Time in Lebanon | Europe’s inability to counter US-Israeli war policy | Aid Trundles but Short of Aiding Lebanon | Protests denounce Arab leaders’ complicity in Israeli assault | The fear is growing in Beirut | U.S. Arming of Israel: How U.S. Weapons Manufacturers Profit From Middle East Conflict | American media unquestioningly defends Israeli violence
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