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Why Hillary Clinton Has Always Been a Republican In the first of a series of profiles, Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair chart the formative years of Hillary Clinton. Watch her as she zigzags from Nixon campaigner and vote-fraud investigator in 1960 to Goldwater Girl and President of Young Republicans at Wellesley to her internship for Gerald Ford and campaigner for Nelson Rockefeller. Witness her reaction to the student protests at Yale and the demonstrations at Grant Park during the Democratic Convention in 1968. Learn how she and Bill vowed to "remake" the Democratic Party--using the Nixon model HRC learned about as a member of the House impeachment staff. And much more! Plus: David Price on anthropologist Andre Gunder Frank, the FBI and the Bureaucratic Exile of a Critical Mind.
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July 17, 2007 Did the UN Cave to Israel?Lebanon's Shebaa FarmsBy FRANKLIN LAMB Across the Blue Line from Shebaa Farms, Lebanon. On July 18, 2001, nearly six years ago to the day, and under intense US pressure, the UN Security Council affixed its imprimatur to the proposition that Israel, after refusing for more than 22 years, finally complied with the provisions of UNSCR 425, and ended its illegal and brutal occupation of Lebanon. Of course the 'complete
Israeli withdrawal' language was a fiction, crafted
by the new Bush administration to burnish Israel's image as a
reformed international outlaw. In point of fact, Israel to this
date has not complied with SCR 425, 1701 or more than 30 other
UN Resolutions. In addition, Israel conducts
nearly daily over flights with aircraft and drones; cross border
incursions such as on May 24, 2007, as well as violations of
Lebanon's territorial waters and its continuing occupation of
the Lebanese village of Ghajar. This has led several political
parties in Lebanon, and NGO's such as Americans Concerned for
Middle East Peace, to urge the decertification of Israel's
compliance with UNSCR 425. It should be borne in mind that Israel's
continuing UN SCR 425 Lebanese sovereignty violations also constitute
noncompliance with UNSCR 170l, which ushered in the current cessation
of hostilities on August 14, 2006 The House Human Rights Caucus, active for more than 27 years as a tool of the Israeli lobby has actively sought out and found hundreds of human rights violations around the World but so far they have not found one suspected human rights violation with respect to Israel or any of its occupations and aggressions. The HHRC did manage a declaration that the Shebaa Farms belonged to Syria and that Israel had every right to occupy it until there was a Syria-Israel peace treaty. (Dear reader, if you would like to fact check this statement please call the House Human Rights Caucus at 202-225-3121 and ask for the Staff Director. Perhaps he will supply you with their remarkable list of Human Rights violations. That the Shebba Farms belonged to Syria was astounding news to the Syrians as well as the more than 100 Lebanese farmers who daily worked the land and whose families had owned the area for generations going back deep into the Ottoman period. They flooded the UN with their land deeds in protest. The Lebanese View During the 1967 War Israeli forces seized the Shebaa Farms, area consisting of 14 farms located south of Shebaa, a Lebanese village. Since Lebanon was not a participant in the 1967 War, they had no voice and UN representatives were pressured by Israel, who falsely claimed that the 1923 Anglo-French demarcation and the 1949 Armistice line designated the area as Syrian territory. Charges of threats and bribes of UN Staff have still not yet been investigated according to UN sources based in Beirut. Lebanese army maps published in 1961 and 1966 specifically pinpoint several of the Shebaa Farms, including Zebdine, Fashkoul, Mougr Shebaa and Ramta, all of which are designated as being Lebanese. Lebanese Ministry of Tourism maps also show the Lebanese-Syrian border running west of the Shebaa Farms. Lebanese and Syrian officials insist that Syria had officially given the territory to Lebanon in 1951. Syria has repeatedly officially acknowledged the Farms are Lebanese with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad recently telling a Paris new conference during a State visit that Shebaa Farms belong to Lebanon. Lebanese and Syrian officials also point to the fact that many residents in the area have land deeds stamped by the Lebanese government. The UN was largely moot on
Shebaa Farms as Israel withdrew on May 24, 2000, and under
pressure from the While House, which was under pressure from
the Congress, which was under control by Israel lobby, finally
declared that the Shabba farms was in fact Syrian. This meant
Hezbollah could not liberate it and impliedly should disarm. This week Bibi Netanyahu wasted no time attacking his once, and likely future, opponent, Ehud Barak, "for cutting and running" in 2,000 and in Bibi's view causing the 2006 July war and Israel's current humiliation. The truth, of little concern to Bibi, but which might be recalled by Israeli voters, is that in 2000 the Israeli public was no longer willing to accept the average of 25 Israel soldiers killed every year of its nearly quarter century ( 1978-2000) of occupation of Lebanon. Once Israel was forced out on May 24, 2000, according to statistics supplied by Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon, the Israeli military suffered only 17 dead soldiers, and 25 wounded between the 2000 withdrawal and the July 2006 War. Nine of the killed were in the Shebaa Farms area and the eight others were killed when they violated the Blue Line or in retaliation for Israeli caused deaths in Lebanon. To help put Israel's military position as of May 24, 2000 into perspective, it should be noted that Israel sustained 6,145 militant operations by the Islamic Resistance during it occupation of Lebanon. Between early January 1999 and its withdrawal 16 months later, no fewer than 2,441 operations by Hezbollah and five other resistant groups targeted Israeli forces. The Lebanese Resistance Brigades, set up by Hezbollah, accounted for 167 of these operations or 7%. Congressional kudos to Israel, notwithstanding, the Lebanese Resistance is the only reason Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 2,000.
Against this backdrop and rising
tension over Israel's garrison at Shebaa, Farms, there was some
welcomed, if short lived news the other day. UN Sec-Gen
Ki-Moon's 'clarification' Following White House intervention, the UN acted with unusual alacrity and clarified (read: gutted) its announcement. United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, following a meeting with the UK's new Prime Minister Gordon Brown, told a news conference that in point of fact the discussion of ownership of the disputed Farms was, well, ah. er..premature. "I have submitted my Report on this issue. My senior cartographer has made some good progress but this report is not mentioning anything about ownership or sovereignty yetThe UN's cartographer continues his work and will be visiting the area shortly." Minutes later a UN official explained from New York: "The secretary-general remains engaged on the issue". According to the Country Chief of a UN recognized NGO which is very familiar with this issue and works in the UN's Beirut Headquarters (ESCWA): "That's total bullshit! This was the final Report not an interim progress Report. Somebody got to Ban Ki-Moon! The map work on Sheeba has been completed for weeks. Any second year Cartography student could have done that job is less than a month. It's not complicated". In the words of perhaps America's preeminent student of the workings of the Israel lobby, San Francisco's Jeffrey Blankfort, when he heard about the switch: "Is this a surprise to anyone? Israel and its international lobby control the UN as much as they do Washington and the US. When there will be an international movement that will have the guts to stand up to Israel and its supporters and tell them their days of running the show are over?" The apparent UN throwing in the town, hopefully will be reversed, but its puts pressure on Hezbollah because as Lebanon's only deterrence to Israeli aggression and the Lebanese resistance's pledge to liberate Lebanon from Israeli occupation, critics are using Shebaa as evidence that Hezbollah has not completed the job the Lebanese people has entrusted to it. What particularly alarms Israel is the fact that if the UN decides that the Shebaa Farms belong to Lebanon, this clearly implies that the UN cartographer's findings bestowed international legitimacy on Hezbollah's continued resistance to Israel's occupation Sheba Farms. This would also give the Lebanese resistance led by Hezbollah and supported by a clear majority of Lebanese Sunni and Christians, the moral, political, legal, and if Hezbollah chooses to exercise it, the military resistance high ground. While the Congressional Israel
lobby feels it 'won' against the UN on this issue the
White House is decidedly conflicted. The reason is that if Israel
withdraws from Shebaa Farms the Bush Administration believes
the withdrawal will strengthen the government of Lebanese Prime
Minister Fuad Siniora which it needs to keep its regional policies
at least on life support. Livni thinks if Israel does
withdraw it gives Hezbollah yet another victory and even more
credibility and legitimacy. Franklin Lamb's just released book, The Price We
Pay: A Quarter Century of Israel's Use of American Weapons
in Lebanon is available at Amazon.com.uk. His volume, Hezbollah:
a Brief Guide for Beginners is due out in early summer, 2007.
He can be reached at fplamb@gmail.com
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