Over the last week or so I’ve written a few times about the situation with Iraq with regards to whether or not a civil war is going on there (I’ve argued yes). Ned Lamont, who recently won an extremely tough Democratic primary (as we all know), consistently referred to the situation in Iraq as “a […]
I just got back from a small local peace vigil regarding the war in the Middle East in the center of town. It was sponsored by Amnesty International, and apparently there are other such vigils going on today as well.
There weren’t that many people there and they were all students, because the email announcing […]
THE MIDDLE EAST
Yesterday I wrote that the UN resolution, which was at that time widely expected to pass after Amb Bolton publicly said that it would, was a sham of an agreement. The draft of the resolution (which even Secretary Rice admits won’t bring peace) was not supported, I noted, by either Israel or Lebanon, […]
THE MIDDLE EAST
Yesterday, the big news was that the United States and France had miraculously worked out a draft of a UN resolution agreeing on the Israeli-Hezbollah war in the middle east. The resolution calls for and end to fighting.
What you’re not hearing is that the “big breakthrough” storyline is complete bullshit. France essentially caved […]
Have you been watching the coverage of the middle east crisis on television? It’s ridiculous, as Jon Stewart of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show demonstrates. Is it alarmist or merely absurd? Decide for yourself.
Video also includes a humorous “Slow News Day” segment immediately following Stewart’s bit on television news.
In a little-noticed moment, President Bush yesterday said one of the most immoral, vile, un-Christian things I’ve ever heard come out of his mouth. The Associated Press noted in an article late yesterday:
President Bush acknowledged growing international pressure for an immediate Middle East cease-fire Monday but dismissed any idea of simply “stopping for the sake […]
Editor’s Note: We’re gonna try something a little bit different today and try to construct a time line of events of what has occurred over the last couple of days in order to try and make it make some sense, although it is the firm opinion of The Daily Background that war never makes sense.
After […]
ISRAELI AIRSTRIKES RESUME EARLY
Israel has resumed airstrikes only a day after it announced that it would suspend them for 48 hours after the international community reacted with shock at Israel’s illegal but “mistaken” bombing of 60 civillian refugees, the majority of whom were children. There is also talk of Israel widening the ground war in […]
CBS host Bob Scheiffer wonders why the hell we aren’t using old fashioned diplomacy to talk to Syria to work to solve the middle east crisis. He notes that the U.S. maintained diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union for the entire Cold War– so why can’t the current White House Administration manage to talk with […]
48-HOUR STAY ON BOMBING
After international outcry against the Israeli bombing of a small town in southern Lebanon, killing upwards of 50 civilians, the majority of them child refugees, Israel has decided to allow the UN to provide humanitarian aid to southern Lebanon and says it will not bomb the area for 48 hours. This is […]
NYT: “Dozens” killed by Israeli airstrikes today… attacked small, remote town, individual houses bombed, “deadliest single attack in the war”… Rice cancels her trip to Lebanon… Hezbollah says it will retaliate…
At least 28 civilians killed, 20 of them children… Some reports say as high as 50-57 killed… 60 people unaccounted for and believed dead… Half […]
Hezbollah leaders have announced that they will agree to an immediate ceasefire if the Israeli military will. Meanwhile Israel (with the backing of the White House) has flatly rejected the immediate ceasefire plan proposed by the United Nations, which is suggested to last 72 hours in order for civillians to escape the violence.
Editor and Publisher has an article about the Israeli-girls-signing-bombs-to-be-dropped-on-Lebanon story, and quotes Tribune Media Services editor Roberty Koehler as writing in a column this week:
“Maybe the bombs that destroyed the home of the 8-year-old girl in the southern Lebanon village of Ayta Chaeb, quoted by an AP reporter from her hospital bed in Tyre, were […]
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Recently the Israeli military bombed a United Nations outpost, killing 4 unarmed UN observers. Do you think that the Israeli military simply made a mistake, considering the following known facts:
1. The Israeli military had been warned a dozen times about the location of the outpost
2. The Israeli military has bombed the UN […]
Disclaimer
Before I start today, I want to make it very clear what my stance on the current violence in Lebanon and Israel is. Both sides (Hezbollah and the Israeli military) have committed war crimes and have violated international law in attacking civilians a great deal over the last two weeks that violence has been ongoing.
I […]
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