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AMERICA'S ILLEGAL PROXY WAR WITH LEBANON
Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought! Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder! Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings! Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction! : Helen Keller
In some ways the final consummation ( see Rev 19 ) has already commenced ~ for the United States is now engaged in a proxy war with Lebanon. We have provided 85% of Israels 8.4 billion in arms deliveries from 1997 to 2004. The Israeli Air Force now flies only U.S.-origin fighters and the use of these weapons for anything except internal security and legitimate self-defense is strictly forbidden.
The Cheney/Bush chickenhawks are now using Israel, through our weapon systems, to obliterate Lebanon, as they have Iraq, before taking on Syria and eventually Iran ~ all in the name of the War on terror.
As such, the war on terror has become the war of terror.
For you disbelievers ~ here is Former Director of the CIA, Jim Woolsey on video tape, calling for a U.S. attack on Syria ~ "I think the last thing we want to do now is to start talking about ceasefires"
The doomsday clock is ticking and we are pushing it closer to midnight.
Thalif Deen, Inter Press Service, explains the clear violation of the Arms Export Control Act and the extent of our military assistance to Israel.
Only an outraged electorate and concerned Congress can enforce this act before it's too late.
Allen L Roland
ISRAEL USING AMERICAN WEAPONS TO CARRY OUT ITS WAR
http://www.antiwar.com/ips/deen.php?articleid=9325
THALIF DEEN, INTER PRESS SERVICE - Israel is in violation of U.S. arms-control laws for deploying U.S.-made fighter planes, combat helicopters, and missiles to kill civilians and destroy Lebanon's infrastructure in the ongoing six-day devastation of that militarily weak country. . . "Section 4 of the [U.S.] Arms Export Control Act requires that military items transferred to foreign governments by the United States be used solely for internal security and legitimate self-defense," says Stephen Zunes, professor of politics at the University of San Francisco. "Since Israeli attacks against Lebanon's civilian infrastructure and population centers clearly go beyond legitimate self-defense, the United States is legally obliged to suspend arms transfers to Israel," Zunes told IPS. . .
Frida Berrigan, a senior research associate with the Arms Trade Resource Center at the World Policy Institute in New York, is equally outraged at the misuse by Israel of U.S.-supplied weapons. . . She pointed out that the U.S. Arms Export Control Act clear states that U.S. origin weapons should not be used for "non-defensive purposes.". . .
"The Israeli Air Force now flies only U.S.-origin fighters, a mix of F-15s and F-16s, and the rest of the service's fleet is almost completely of U.S. origin," says Tom Baranauskas, a senior Middle East analyst at Forecast International, a leading provider of defense market intelligence services in the United States.
From a historical perspective, he said, U.S. assistance to Israel during 1950-2005 has been staggeringly high: amounting to $59.5 billion.
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