WHY NOT ???

By Gabriele Zamparini
Jul 25, 2006, 05:27

By Gabriele Zamparini

"I, Tsilli Goldenberg, Israeli citizen

'Accuse you - Ehud Olmert, Prime Minister of
Israel, Amir Peretz, Minister of Defense, Dan Halutz Head of Staff
Chief Commander of the Israeli Army, of committing this bestial
barbaric slaughter in Lebanon.

I accuse you of committing Crimes against
Humanity towards the Palestinian People. I accuse you of deserting
our soldiers, when their lives could be saved by negotiations, and
I accuse you of starting an unjustified war in my name." - Tsilli
Goldenberg, Masarik 11, Jerusalem 93106 Israel


Did you know that "the daughter of Israel's
newly elected prime minister added her voice to those of the
anti-Israel [sic] forces around the world when she actively
participated in a demonstration outside the home of IDF Chief of
Staff Dan Halutz, calling him a 'murderer'"?

Why not?

Did you know that "45% of those killed in
Lebanon are children and of the 500,000 people who have fled to
safety, some 200,000 are children"?

Why not?

Did you know that Israel bombed "the nation's
biggest private network, the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation"?

Why not?

Did you know that a "big milk factory in the
Bekaa region called 'Liban Lait' was completely burned and
destroyed by direct attacks from the Israeli Air Force."? And that
a "food storehouse called 'TransMed' in Choueifate, in Beirut's
southern suburbs, was totally destroyed"?

Why not?

Did you know that "Lebanon's president accused
Israel on Monday of using phosphorous bombs in its 13-day offensive
and urged the United Nations to demand an immediate ceasefire"?

Why not?

Did you know that "the bodies of 13 Lebanese
fighters were taken from Maroun al-Ras and buried in Israel to use
in future negotiations over the release of Israeli prisoners"?

Why not?

Did you know that "Israeli military has said it
will destroy 10 buildings in predominantly Shia south Beirut for
every rocket fired at the Israeli port of Haifa, army radio said
Monday"?

Why not?

Did you know that "The delivery of at least 100
GBU 28 bunker busters bombs containing depleted uranium warheads by
the United States to Israel for use against targets in Lebanon will
result in additional radioactive and chemical toxic contamination
with consequent adverse health and environmental effects throughout
the middle east."?

Why not?

Did you know that what's going on is "subject to
review by Israel's chief military censor, who has - in her own
words - 'extraordinary power'. She can silence a broadcaster, block
information and put journalists in jail"?

Why not?

Did you know that "[a]ccording to the Lebanese
police force, the two [Israeli] soldiers were captured in Lebanese
territory"?

Why not?

Did you know how the "cross-border" myth
originated?

Why not?

From the beginning of this new chapter of the
old madness, many people have been following on the internet this
shame. We are a peaceful army of world citizens, working for free
and moved by solidarity, compassion and an inner drive for justice.
Not anger!
But even among the elites of the anti-war
movement and the so-called "left", too many have never been
listening to us. Let alone important journalists working for the
"pro-Israeli" mainstream media who still believe that the "internet
is a new thing, and it's also unreliable."

More than sixty years ago George Orwell wrote in
The Freedom of the Press, a Preface to his
political novel, Animal Farm:

"But at least let us have no more nonsense about
defending liberty against Fascism. If liberty means anything at all
it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
The common people still vaguely subscribe to that doctrine and act
on it. it is the liberals who fear liberty and the intellectuals
who want to do dirt on the intellect."

This Preface was censored when the book came out
in 1945 and it was only published in The Times Literary Supplement
on 15 September 1972. Twenty seven years after Animal Farm was
first published.

http://www.thecatsdream.com/blog/2006/07/did-you-know.htm