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Aljazeera
The Israeli army has launched a further two missile strikes on targets in the Gaza Strip, killing at least eight Palestinians and wounding scores more. The latest attack, the day’s fifth, was aimed at an unknown target. The fourth - minutes earlier - struck a car in Nusayrat refugee camp, killing three. The vehicle took a direct hit from what witnesses said was a missile fired by an Apache helicopter, killing its two occupants.
Zuheir Kseibati
When Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon threatens Syria and warns it against opening its harbours and airports to Iran, which it claims could wage an attack against Israel, he is really saying that there are high chances he will repeat the attack he had made against the Iraqi nuclear reactor, this time against Iran, hence leading Tehran to retaliate. When U.S. President George Bush repeats his criticism of the UN, and hints at its impotence, as he did on the eve of the war against Iraq, this suggests that another war is on the way.
Medhat El-Zahed
In attempting to turn an elected president into a figurehead, then a refugee, Israel is sending a clear message to all Palestinians and Arabs. Its decision to expel Yasser Arafat, or worse, is part of a consistent policy. Since the signing of the 1993 Oslo Accords, Israel has been determined to turn the interim self-rule agreement into a final one. Israel has never accepted the historic compromise that Arafat hoped would come out of Oslo: a Palestinian state within the pre- 1967 lines.
al-Jazeerah
Lyndon LaRouche, one of only two Democratic Party Presidential candidates certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) as qualified for federal matching funds, issued a strong warning today that the world is facing a major eruption of war in the Near East in the immediate weeks ahead, unless President Bush can be forced to intervene forcefully and publicly, to curb Israel’s breakaway ally regime under Ariel Sharon.
Mark Carnegie
USA ambassador to the United Nations, John Negroponte, vetoes a resolution condemning Israel’s internationally illegal practices for the second time in two months.
IAP News
Encouraged by the absence of international reactions to its rampageous onslaught against the Palestinians, the Israeli occupation Forces on Tuesday decided to deport a number of Palestinian citizens from their hometowns in the West Bank to the Gaza Strip, hundreds of kilometers away.
World Crisis Web
This weekend, in scenes reminiscent of the Jenin massacre last year, Israeli occupation forces waged total war on a refugee camp, using tanks, helicopter gunships, and armoured bulldozers against innocent civilians and lightly armoured Palestinian defence forces.
Jim Lobe
The neo-conservatives in and around the administration of US President George W Bush may be on the defensive, but Washington’s reaction to the Israeli attack on Syria on Sunday shows that they remain in the driver’s seat at the White House. Bush’s explicit embrace of Israel’s attack on an alleged Palestinian training camp in Syria is a striking departure from decades of US Middle Eastern diplomacy.
Ramzy Baroud
Israel?s refusal to approve the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, in addition to strong speculations that Israel owns up to 300 nuclear warheads and the Arab League?s most recent assertion to the IAEA that Israel now has the capability of producing a hydrogen bomb, are all not enough to convince the US that Iran and Iraq aren’t the real ‘imminent’ danger.
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