There were no mixed messages from Annapolis. There were no ambiguous messages from the Grand Tour of the Middle East. January 31, 2008BBSNews 2008-01-31 -- (PHR) [Physicians for Human Rights] "HCJ's [ High Court of Justice, Israel] rejection yesterday of a petition by ten Israeli and Palestinian human rights organizations against cuts in industrial fuel and electricity to the Gaza Strip is consistent with two other rulings it made this month, on petitions submitted by PHR-Israel on behalf of patients in life-threatening condition, whose request to exit Gaza for medical care was rejected on "security grounds." For the first time, and in direct contradiction of previous rulings, HCJ judges refused to intervene for their access to healthcare. " There is also the situation of increased bombings by the US Air Force. As recently as mid-2007, the AF did not have a clear idea of what its mission was. There was bombing in the beginning of the war and there is bombing now, but in between there was mostly large-scale construction and movement of cargo and equipment. There is a good deal of news on these bombing campaigns anywhere you choose to search the Internet. The drive to present the Ptotemkin ( or illusory) vision of peace and victory is so great in this final year of the Bush presidency that it seems that Iraq and Palestine will be crushed, starved, and beaten into silence.
How's it all going? Just great according to the administration.
However
""If there is no change in three months there will be war again," said Abu Marouf, the commander of 13,000 fighters who formerly fought the Americans. He and his men switched sides last year to battle al-Qa'ida and defeated it in its main stronghold in and around Fallujah. "If the Americans think they can use us to crush al-Qa'ida and then push us to one side, they are mistaken," Abu Marouf told The Independent in an interview in a scantily furnished villa beside an abandoned cemetery near the village of Khandari outside Fallujah. "
and http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/return-to-fallujah-774846.html
Monday, 28 January 2008
"Fallujah is more difficult to enter than any city in the world. On the road from Baghdad I counted 27 checkpoints, all manned by well-armed soldiers and police. "The siege is total," says Dr Kamal in Fallujah Hospital as he grimly lists his needs, which include everything from drugs and oxygen to electricity and clean water. The last time I tried to drive to Fallujah, several years ago, I was caught in the ambush of an American fuel convoy and had to crawl out of the car and lie beside the road with the driver while US soldiers and guerrillas exchanged gunfire. The road is now much safer but nobody is allowed to enter Fallujah who does not come from there and can prove it through elaborate identity documents. The city has been sealed off since November 2004 when United States Marines stormed it in an attack that left much of the city in ruins. "
The "Peace" is just another Illusion for our Obese Appetites.
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