This YouTube video is a brutally graphic look at how much of the world will look this Christmas. Honest and not for the faint of heart
A video discussing the history of assassination in Lebanon during the last 55 years as it has been seen on New TV
Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora
Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora talks about the situation in Lebanon.
8/23/2006: WASHINGTON, DC: 25 min.
Watch Video: http://www.c-span.org/VideoArchives.asp?z1=&PopupMenu_Name=International&CatCodePairs=Issue,I;
CNN & New Yorker - Bush Planned Lebanon War Months Before
Seymour Hersh of the New Yorker, the one who mainstreamed the Abu Gahrib story, has confirmed with insiders that Bush and the Israeli Government planned months in advance that any incident, no matter how small, would ignite a broad and punishing response by Israel in a preemptive move to start a war with Iran. Bush's advanced plan actually included Israel destroying Hezbollah's missles as pre-cursor to an attack on Iran.
Watch video: http://world.commongate.com/post/CNN_New_Yorker_-_Bush_Planned_Lebanon_War_Months_Before
VIDEO: Israeli Soldiers "Shoot to Kill" at Israeli Anti-war Demonstrators
Border Police unit firing on demonstrators from close range. The video clearly shows the commander of the unit saying, “This is Lebanon!” as he orders his force to fire on retreating demonstrators, and “I will not allow a demonstration during wartime!”
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7972265312224141763
YOU MAY HAVE SEEN THIS ALREADY IF NOT, I SUGGEST YOU SEE THIS BEFORE YOU EAT.
July 25 , 2006 - Dahr Jamail speaks with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now!
In this five minute clip, Dahr Jamail reports from the Hospitals in Beruit. He describes evidence of the use of white phosphorus and cluster bombs by the Israelis against the Lebanese. Dahr Jamail has spoken to some of the doctors that are working in Beruit. One doctor said that 55% of all of the casualties in Beruit were 15 years or younger and that 30% of all of the casualties from the Israeli attacks are dying. The doctor explained the high percentage of deaths being due to new weapons being used by Israel.
Dahr Jamail on Democracy Now July 24, 2006 from Beruit, Lebanon
See the interview - Streaming Flash Video
This video shows the awful misery of those who are left with nothing. The Israelis drop Leaflets Over Areas.. The Leaflets tell the people to leave South Lebanon, that they will be bombed. The Lebanese Civillians try to leave and THEN the Israelis bomb the cars that are trying to escape. They have also bombed all the roads, bridges and fuel stations. Attacks against infrastructure are War Crimes. The people are often to frightened to leave now. What can they do?
In Qana it was the children who were targetted and who died. In Bint Jbeil it was the unfortunate elderly and frail who face an agonising time whilst Israel bombs and flattens their towns. These crimes against our Brothers and sisters in Lebanon must stop! Its awful how both Blair and Bush can let this continue, and not listen to the whole world.
Watch video: http://www.turntoislam.com/forum/showthread.php?t=715
S. Abdallah Schleifer, Distinguished Lecturer in Mass Communication and Director of the Adham Center for Television Journalism at AUC, is a veteran journalist who has covered the Middle East for American and Arab media for more than 20 years
I am just waiting to see if the airports open so I can go back. Thanks Dave.
Off the Battlefield, Hezbollah Provides Aid....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2006/08/04/VI2006080401132.html
Lebanese Head Home In Ceasefire - Mon Aug 14
Thousands of Lebanese from the south are using the ceasefire to head home, despite a warning from Israel not to do so. Sky's Alex Rossi travelled to the border and discovered support for Hizbollah undiminished.
Watch Video: http://news.sky.com/skynews/video/videoplayer/0,,31200-rossi_p19047,00.html
Israeli army embarrassed by video broadcast (Mar 2002)
The Israeli army has expressed a note of contrition after a television station aired a videotape showing an army assault on a Palestinian home in which a mother of five children died.
When CBC News spoke with Ismail Hawarjeh at Bethlehem’s hospital earlier this month, there was no way to verify the story he told about how his wife had died, until Israel’s Channel 2 broacast the tape last weekend.
The Palestinian school administrator said his wife Huda had been killed in their home by an Israeli tank shell during the army’s March 8 assault on the Aida refugee camp. The army wouldn’t comment and foreign journalists weren’t allowed inside the camp.
But Israeli media were allowed to ride along with the soldiers, and they went right into the Hawarjeh home. An Israeli camera recorded the army blowing off the door, and found Huda Hawarjeh bleeding on the floor.
The pictures conformed to Ismail Hawarjeh’s story about his wife being hit by shrapnel in the front hallway of the house, and about the Israeli soldiers doing little to help her for an hour while she bled to death in front of her five children.
Finally, the soldiers allowed an ambulance to come to a nearby street, and soldiers helped Hawarjeh carry his wife to it. Doctors tried to revive her at the hospital but couldn’t.
Huda Hawarjeh was one of seven people to die in the Bethlehem area that day.
The Israeli army allows the media such close access on the understanding it can embargo anything it doesn’t want broadcast.
The tapes of the assault on the Hawarjeh home fell into that category. But Channel 2 broke the embargo anyway.
The army, government and many Israeli citizens didn’t like what they saw.
Channel 2 showed Hawarjeh begging soldiers to allow an ambulance through. The camera captured the terror of the woman’s daughter, and her brother’s attempt to stop her from showing the soldiers her fear.
After the woman was finally taken out, one of the soldiers looked into the camera and said: “I don’t know what we’re doing here. Purification, maybe. It’s dirty here. I don’t know why a good Hebrew boy should be here, so far from his home.”
The soldiers tore the home apart, evidently looking for weapons.
Another daughter begged them not to demolish the home’s wall. Soldiers commonly smash walls to move into adjacent houses.
Israeli spokesman Ranaan Gissin said the government was disappointed by the decision to air the tapes. “I would have expected a little bit more self-censorship on the part of the Israeli media,” he said.
Ma’ariv, Israel’s second-biggest newspaper, ran the story on its front page on Monday, under a banner headline that read “Gaffe!”
The army, after trying to suppress distribution of the pictures, admitted the soldiers’ actions pushed the boundaries of public acceptance.
“Our action is so difficult to be done that it is to the extremities of acceptance,” said Olivier Rafowicz, an Israeli Defence Force spokesman.
He called what happened in the Hawarjeh home “a mistake.”
Watch: http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2006/08/13/video-israel-doesnt-want-you-to-see/
Isreali ambassador caught lying through his teeth
Watch Isreali Ambassador to the US, Daniel Ayalon, dodge the truth and squirm his way through this interview with Sam Husseini, from the Institute of Public Accuracy. Ayalon buries himself with his brazen arrogance and intransigence.
Towards the end of the clip Husseini talks with Amy Goodman from Democracy Now about how Ayalon lied through his teeth the whole time.
Watch: http://wakeupfromyourslumber.blogspot.com/2006/08/isreali-ambassador-caught-lying.html
Cutting through Israel's
propaganda war in the US
Four short clips of things
Americans never see on TV
Exhibit #1 - Journalists who ask questions - I
Calling it what it is - terrorism against a civilian population
UK correspondant John Snow interviews Israeli ambassador about Israel's attacks against Palestinians.
Notice that in the UK, television journalists don't automatically defer to Israeli government represenatives the way US news people do. Why is that?
Exhibit #2 - Journalists who ask questions - II
For European eyes only
CNN broadcasts different news in Europe than it does in the US.
Why can't we get reporters like this on CNN-US? Instead we get Wolf Blitzer, a former employee of AIPAC, the Israeli War Party's lobby in the US.
Exhibit #3 - US citizens who say "NO!"
The US is mortgaging its future to support
the criminal activities of a foreign power - why?
Do you think all Americans are uninformed and/or unconcerned about America's relationship with Israel?
You would if you watch US TV.
The reality: Millions of Americans are aware that US foreign policy has been hijacked by the Israeli War Party - and they cannot get their voices heard because of US media news censorship.
Exhibit #4 - Daily brutality
What goes on in the refugee camps
The Israeli military thought this footage of a routine operation in the Occupied Territories had been destroyed.
It wasn't and someone with courage ran it on TV - in Israel. Then, thanks to Canada, it was aired in North America. You will never see it on a US network.
Being on the receiving end of this kind of brutality is the norm for Palestinians living in the Occupied Territories.
Yvonne
http://brasscheck.com/videos/middleeast/me5.html
Cutting through Israel's
propaganda war in the US
Four short clips of things
Americans never see on TV
Israeli Reporting Of The Conflict Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle … all » East, zeroing in on how structural distortions in U.S. coverage have reinforced false perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This pivotal documentary exposes how the foreign policy interests of American political elites–oil, and a need to have a secure military base in the region, among others–work in combination with Israeli public relations strategies to exercise a powerful influence over how news from the region is reported. Through the voices of scholars, media critics, peace activists, religious figures, and Middle East experts, Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land carefully analyzes and explains how–through the use of language, framing and context–the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza remains hidden in the news media, and Israeli colonization of the occupied terrorities appears to be a defensive move rather than an offensive one. The documentary also explores the ways that U.S. journalists, for reasons ranging from intimidation to a lack of thorough investigation, have become complicit in carrying out Israel’s PR campaign. At its core, the documentary raises questions about the ethics and role of journalism, and the relationship between media and politics.
Please watch this very important documentary video:
http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2006/08/02/peace-propaganda-the-promised-land/
Diaries: Live from Lebanon
"Video", Electronic Lebanon, 4 August 2006
Watch: 
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article5407.shtml
This video letter was made on July 21, 2006 at the studios of Beirut DC, a film and cinema collective which runs the yearly Ayam Beirut Al Cinema'iya Film Festival. This video letter was produced in collaboration with Samidoun, a grassroots gathering of various organizations and individuals who were involved in relief and media efforts from the first day of the Israeli attack on Lebanon. It was also broadcast at the Biennial of Arab Cinema, organized by the Arab World Institute in Paris.
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George Galloway on Who the Terrorist Really is - (Video)
George Galloway has spoken out in support of Lebanon, saying he believes Hizbollah is justified in attacking Israel. The Respect MP also lambasted media coverage of the war and said the UN resolution means nothing.
Watch:
http://news.sky.com/skynews/video/videoplayer/0,,31200-galloway_060806,00.html
