{"article":{"id":173714,"heading":"Israel Begs US for Terrorist Cluster Bombs","author":"Antiracist","created":"2006-08-12 21:15:26","modified":"2006-08-13 05:44:59","last_modified":"Sun, 13 Aug 2006 12:44:59","article":"

Israel has asked the Bush administration to speed delivery of short-range antipersonnel rockets armed with cluster munitions, which it could use to strike Hezbollah missile sites in Lebanon, according to two American officials.

The request for M-26 artillery rockets, which are fired in barrages and carry hundreds of grenade-like bomblets that scatter and explode over a broad area, is likely to be approved shortly, along with other arms, a senior official said Thursday.

But some State Department officials have sought to delay the approval because of concerns over the likelihood of civilian casualties, and the diplomatic repercussions.

The rockets, while they would be very effective against hidden missile launchers, officials say, are fired by the dozen and could be expected to cause civilian casualties if used against targets in populated areas.

Israel is asking for the rockets now because it has been unable to suppress Hezbollah's Katyusha rocket attacks in the month-old conflict by using other types of artillery and bombs dropped from aircraft, the officials said.

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","numcomment":9,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2006\/08\/173714.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":173715,"heading":"MOre on Israeli Terror","article":"Washington (ANTARA News) - The US government is considering an Israeli request for M-26 artillery rockets with cluster munitions it wants to use against Hezbollah missile sites in Lebanon, The New York Times said Friday. \r\n\r\nThe request was likely to be approved shortly, but other officials said the State Department is delaying approval amid concerns the munitions might cause civilian casualties and complicate diplomatic efforts to end the war, a senior US official said as reported by AFP. \r\n\r\nThe senior official said there was discussion to block the sale because \r\nduring Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon civilians were killed with the weapon, but added that the rockets would likely be delivered and that Israel would be told to "be careful." \r\n\r\nMonth-long battles between Israel and Hezbolla militias have left more than 1,000 civilians dead in Lebanon and 38 in Israel, while diplomats at the United Nations have been wrangling over the wording of a proposed resolution urging an end to hostilities. \r\n\r\nDescribed as short-range antipersonnel rockets, the M-26 are fired in \r\nbarrages and carry hundreds of grenade-like bomblets that scatter and explode over a broad area. \r\n\r\nMore \r\nhttp:\/\/www.antara.co.id\/en\/seenws\/?id=18131\r\n","author":"Researcher","parent_id":173714,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-08-12 21:16:14","modified":"2006-08-12 21:16:14","fileurl":""},{"id":173716,"heading":"MOre on Zionist terror and human rights","article":"Tel Aviv, 11 August - Unable to crush Hezbollah's military capacity despite its month-long bombing and shelling of Lebanon from aircraft and warships, the Israeli government has asked the US administration to speed up delivery of short-range antipersonnel rockets armed with cluster bombs, the so-called M-26 artillery rockets. These rockets, which are fired by the dozens, carry over 600 hundred small bombs that explode like a hail of grenades over a broad area and therefore were ordered by Israel from the USA to thwart off an eventual invasion by conventionally armed foreign ground forces. \r\n\r\nAs of today, US State Department officials are said to be concerned about the possible diplomatic repercussions, as these cluster-bomb carrying rockets, if fired into densely populated Lebanese areas, will wage havoc on the Lebanese population on a still much broader scale, as the month-long bombing has already achieved. The delivery of the M-26 bombs would amount to a green light by the US administration to openly extend Israeli warfare on the civilian population in Lebanon and possibly in the Occupied Territories. According to leading US news outlets, State Department officials admitted it was likely that Israel will get the rockets, but will be told to be \u201ccareful.\u201d \r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.arabmonitor.info\/news\/dettaglio.php?idnews=15327&lang=en\r\n","author":"Hershel","parent_id":173714,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-08-12 21:17:02","modified":"2013-11-11 00:43:33","fileurl":""},{"id":173733,"heading":"Not with out a fight","article":"Israel will feel the wrath.","author":"Kikeninia","parent_id":173714,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-08-12 21:36:41","modified":"2006-08-12 21:36:41","fileurl":""},{"id":173761,"heading":"666 UNCLE SATAN (GEORGE WARMONGER BUSH) on Arming IDF IAF SS Nazis \/ Likud Fascist","article":"666 UNCLE SATAN (GEROGE WARMONGER BUSH) : "Sorry to Oil the Next Shipment of WMD's to IDF IAF SS Nazis \/ Likud Brownshirts \/ Irgun Zvai Leumi Judeonazis and the Annexation of Lebanon to IsraOil but Oil comes First. FILL HER UP ????????"","author":"666 UNCLE SATAN (GEORGE WARMONGER BUSH)","parent_id":173714,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-08-12 23:47:17","modified":"2006-08-12 23:47:17","fileurl":""},{"id":173773,"heading":""Likud Brownshirts \/ Irgun Zvai Leumi Judeonazis"","article":"Speaking of zionists, Nazis, and shirts, I spotted something truly eye-popping the last time I read some Leni Brenner (this chapter: http:\/\/www.marxists.de\/middleast\/ironwall\/08-fascter.htm ): \r\n\r\n"In November 1934, Mussolini set up a Betar* squadron at his scuola marittima at Civitavecchia [*Betar was\/is the zio-fascist youth organization founded by Jabotinsky in 1923, the same year Hitler started the 'Hitler Youth']. There, 134 cadets were trained by the notorious Black-shirts and, in 1936, Il Duce himself reviewed his Zionist wards. [32] Setting up the school in Italy could only confirm the world\u2019s image of Revisionism as Fascist but the imperious Jabotinsky scarcely cared. He wrote to one of his Italian followers, who was handling the negotiations with the regime, that they could have set up the school elsewhere but \u201cwe ... prefer to have it established in Italy\u201d. [33] By April 1935, Jabotinsky had become little more than a defence attorney for Mussolini and, while in America on tour, he wrote an article, \u201cJews and Fascism \u2013 some Remarks \u2013 and a Warning\u201d for an English-language Zionist paper, the Jewish Daily Bulletin:\r\n\r\n"Whatever any few think of Fascism\u2019s other points, \r\nthere is no doubt that the Italian brand of Fascist \r\nideology is, at least an ideology of racial equality. Let \r\nus not be so humble as to pretend that this does not \r\nmatter \u2013 that racial equality is too insignificant an idea \r\nto out-balance the absence of civic freedom. For it is \r\nnot true. I am a journalist who would choke without \r\nfreedom of the press, but I affirm it is simply \r\nblasphemous to say that in the scale of civic rights, \r\neven the freedom of the press comes before the \r\nequality of all men. Equality comes first, always first, \r\nsuper first; and Jews should remember it, and to hold \r\nthat a regime maintaining that principle in a world \r\nturned cannibal does, partly, but considerably atone \r\nfor its other shortcomings; it may be criticized, it \r\nshould not be kicked at. There are enough other terms\r\n for cussing use \u2013 Nazism, Hitlerism, Polizeistaat, \r\netc. \u2013 but the word \u201cfascismo\u201d is Italy\u2019s copyright and \r\nshould therefore be reserved only for the correct kind \r\nof discussion, not for exercises in Billingsgate. \r\nEspecially as it may yet prove very harmful. That \r\ngovernment of the copyright is a very powerful factor, \r\nwhose sympathy may yet ward off many a blow, for \r\ninstance in the League of Nations councils. \r\nIncidentally, the Permanent Mandate Commission \r\nwhich supervises Palestinian affairs has an Italian \r\nchairman. In short \u2013 thought I don\u2019t expect street-\r\nurchins (irrespective of age) to follow advice of \r\ncaution \u2013 responsible leaders ought to take note. [34]\r\n\r\nPertinent notes:\r\n\r\n32. Mussolini, My Husband (Italian film documentary).\r\n\r\n33. Jabotinsky, letter to Leone Carpi, 7 October 1931, Scritti in Memoria di Leone Carpi, (D. Carpi, A. Milano, A. Rofe, eds), p.42.\r\n\r\n34. Jabotinsky, Jews and Fascism \u2013 some remarks \u2013 and a Warning, Jewish Daily Bulletin, 11 April 1935, p.3.","author":"TW","parent_id":173714,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-08-13 05:44:59","modified":"2013-11-11 00:43:33","fileurl":""}]}