Another day, another slaughter. That's the latest news from the Middle East in a nutshell.

Over the weekend, Israel stepped up its attacks on Lebanon, killing who knows how many innocent people. Of course, the Zionists running Israel claim that they're battling terrorists and after George W. Bush popularized the infamous "pre-emptive strike", no one in the international community has the cajones to stand up tell Israel point-blank to back down. Besides, everyone knows that the US arrives loaded for bear at any and all UN gatherings and shoots down any ideas that Israel doesn't like; it's already happened over, and over, and over again.

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"When Israel's interests are being considered, members of Congress act like trained poodles. They jump dutifully through hoops held by Israel's lobby."

George W. Ball (1909-1994), former U.S. Undersecretary of State

"The [Pro-Israel] Lobby has succeeded in redefining anti-Semitism to include any criticism of Israeli behavior, an inferred threat that prompts all major media to ignore or sanitize reports of Israeli violations."

Paul Findley, U.S. Republican Congressman, (1961-83)

"I've never seen a president-I don't care who he is-stand up to them [the Israelis]. It just boggles your mind. -They always get what they want. The Israelis know what's going on all the time. ... If the American people understood what grip those people have on our government, they would rise up in arms. Our citizens don't have any idea what goes on."

Admiral Thomas Moorer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, July 1970-June 1974

Dead children lying on the ground-that's the barbarous legacy left by the Israeli bombings of Lebanon, in early July 2006. In less than one month, the Israeli government willfully delivered two collective punishments against civilians, in direct violation of international law according to the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War; first, it was against Gaza's civilian Palestinian population; then, they extended this unquestionable policy to the civilian population of Beirut and other regions of Lebanon.

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Put this video slideshow together today. Please link widely. Note: there are disturbing images of war and dead civilians in the video.

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George Galloway MP is the controversial British politician who has proved a thorn in the side of advocates of the Iraq war.  He is a fierce advocate of the Palestinian state, and a redoubtable campaigner against oppression and injustice throughout the world.  In 2005 he made a memorable appearance before the US Senate, successfully defending himself against claims that he benefited from the Iraqi oil-for-food program.  I'm Not the Only One is his critically acclaimed book on the Middle East, and the US and British administrations approach to this troubled region.

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Fears that Israel may have started World War III in the Middle East last week led to rises in gold, oil and a drop in U.S. stocks. The magnitude of the crimes being committed by Israel right now makes it hard to focus on the economy, but, since the economy is one front in this war of one human race (the psychopaths - those without a conscience) on the other human race (those with conscience), it may be worthwhile to pay some attention to it. The reality of this war can be seen in the year-later aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

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