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Nasrallah May Have Addressed Allies as `Yo, Ayatollah` During July War

Excerpts from a BBC interview between Bush and Blair.

(LONDON) - One week from today—July 12—will mark the fourth anniversary of the start of the July War in Lebanon, which lasted 34 days and resulted in the deaths of approximately 1200 Lebanese civilians and 43 Israeli civilians.

None of the latter nationality were liquidated by Apache helicopter after being ordered by Hezbollah to abandon their villages.

June is Adopt a Cat Month

It can be a matter of life and death.

(SALEM, Ore.) - I am sitting on my couch watching a bounding nine-week old kitten race around my living room. Bouncing on things and attacking everything in sight. He is an orange tabby with blue eyes and long fuzzy kitten hair.

He is absolutely, irresistibly adorable. And he will probably be euthanized within two weeks.

Oil and the Falklands

In the long run, I would seriously doubt BP would do a risky deep sea drilling after the recent disaster that has been swarming all over news.

(SALEM, Ore.) - BP plc is a British-based global energy company which is the third largest energy company and the fourth largest company in the world. As a multinational oil company, BP is Great Britain’s largest corporation.

Massive Protests Planned Over Israel`s Pirate Massacre in International Waters

Israeli criminal navy attacks humanitarian ships after saying they would not.

(JERUSALEM) - Reports are circulating of 10-16 humanitarian activists killed and 50-60 injured.

The Israeli army had tried to make the media maneuver of saying they would arrest and take the boats when they enter Gaza coastal waters and tow the boats to port in Asdod (renamed Ashdod after the occupation of 1948) and had prepared tens to house the arrestees at that southern port.

Update on West Bank Violence

Former Duke and Yale Professor's observations from Palestine.

(JERUSALEM) - In this digest: Resumption of indirect negotiations a waste of time, video of protest in Nabi Saleh, John Greyson calls on Elton John to cancel appearance in Tel Aviv.

Also, Obama’s wrong appointment to the Supreme Court, proposal for an commemoration of Iraq Genocide, how an Israeli general tried to cover-up the murder of Rachel Corrie, and two Nakba articles.

The Grand Illusion of Irvine`s Great Park

The gondola on the bright orange balloon is as empty as dreams that the Great Park offers.

(IRVINE, Calif.) - It was a moderately dreary Sunday at the old El Toro Marine Corps Air Station in Irvine. We've written about the place many times. I was stationed there as a Marine in the 1980's and I've always remained fairly nostalgic about this piece of Marine Corps history that closed in 1999.

There was a slight chill in the air on this day, and a big obnoxious orange bag of hot air floating over El Toro, which means "The Bull" in Spanish.

Israel`s Declining Sperm Quality Tied to Depleted Uranium Exposure

With the latest news, Israel may soon lose the need to create and seek out enemies; with a little help from the U.S. they did this to themselves.

(TEL AVIV / SALEM) - Israel's population is facing a dire threat, a drastic depopulation, from the use of weapons that leave behind Depleted Uranium (DU).

Research by an Israeli doctor shows a significant drop in sperm count level and sperm motility among young Israeli soldiers in recent years.

A Devastating War Between Israel & Hezbollah is on the Horizon

A report said that 60% of the Israeli air force has already been put on full alert.

(JERUSALEM) - While the war of words is escalating around the clock between Israel on the one side and Hezbollah and Syria on the other, analysts in the Middle East and Europe strongly believe that war is inevitable and will break out within a few months.

In this scary context, senior Lebanese sources told the Saudi daily Al-Okaz that Hezbollah has announced emergency readiness in all areas of the country where it operates.

The Merchants of Fear: Israel`s Profiting from Homeland Insecurity

The day after 9/11, Benjamin Netanyahu let slip that the deaths of almost 3,000 Americans was “very good” for Israel.

(TOKYO) - In the wake of the weird Christmas Day “underwear bomber” incident on Northwest Flight 253, former Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff, as if on cue, was all over the mainstream media touting whole-body scanners as the answer to America’s airline security problems.

Since leaving public office in 2009, Chertoff had co-founded the Chertoff Group, a security and risk-management firm whose clients include a manufacturer of body-imaging screening machines.

Adalah Launches New Internet-Based Interactive Map and Database on Land Expropriations by Israel

"Selling these properties constitutes the final expropriation of the right to property of Palestinian refugees, despite the special legal, historical and political status of these properties" -Adalah

(HAIFA, Israel) - Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, sent a letter to the Attorney General and Custodian of Absentee Property, stating that Israel's sale of Palestinian refugee property violates Israeli and international law.

The Absentees' Property Law was the main legal instrument used by Israel to take possession of the land belonging to the internal and external Palestinian refugees.