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Indian parliament slams Israel
By Iftikhar Gilani
NEW DELHI: Tuesday, August 01, 2006: The Indian parliament is working on a ââ¬Åunanimous resolutionââ¬Â to condemn the killing of innocent women and children in Lebanon in Israeli airstrikes.
After the members of parliament demanded a strong-worded resolution condemning the attacks, Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee directed the government to draft a resolution after consulting with leaders. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesman Vikay Kumar Malhotra told reporters that his party would not be involved in any resolution that does not condemn the acts of Hezbollah equally.
In the meeting of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) a few days ago, Opposition Leader LK Advani had vetoed a resolution condemning the acts of Israel. Former defence minister George Fernandes, alongwith some other colleagues, had piloted the resolution, sources said. Advani has also been the president of the Indo-Israeli Friendship Forum for over two decades.
Leader of the House and Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee said he would convey the strong sentiments of the members to the prime minister and take ââ¬Åappropriate stepsââ¬Â.
The left parties asked the government to suspend purchases of weapons from Israel. They also targeted the US for being behind the ââ¬Ågenocide by Israelââ¬Â.
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Indian parliament slams Israel
By Iftikhar Gilani
NEW DELHI: Tuesday, August 01, 2006: The Indian parliament is working on a ââ¬Åunanimous resolutionââ¬Â to condemn the killing of innocent women and children in Lebanon in Israeli airstrikes.
After the members of parliament demanded a strong-worded resolution condemning the attacks, Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee directed the government to draft a resolution after consulting with leaders. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesman Vikay Kumar Malhotra told reporters that his party would not be involved in any resolution that does not condemn the acts of Hezbollah equally.
In the meeting of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) a few days ago, Opposition Leader LK Advani had vetoed a resolution condemning the acts of Israel. Former defence minister George Fernandes, alongwith some other colleagues, had piloted the resolution, sources said. Advani has also been the president of the Indo-Israeli Friendship Forum for over two decades.
Leader of the House and Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee said he would convey the strong sentiments of the members to the prime minister and take ââ¬Åappropriate stepsââ¬Â.
The left parties asked the government to suspend purchases of weapons from Israel. They also targeted the US for being behind the ââ¬Ågenocide by Israelââ¬Â.
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NO.
Its all show and no go.
The politicians are all congenital crooks.
What is "appropriate steps"?
Its all show and no go.
The politicians are all congenital crooks.
What is "appropriate steps"?
But in the meantime...
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It is all gas and no go.
No one will ever know what it means.
Actually, it means nothing.
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It will go on.
It is hardly any project.
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Its Daily Times.
I find it a bit racy, but nevertheless has news (and its agenda as all papers have).
I find it a bit racy, but nevertheless has news (and its agenda as all papers have).
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Neo,
The computer has gone berserk again.
Please delete the extraneous ones.
My apologies again.
The computer has gone berserk again.
Please delete the extraneous ones.
My apologies again.
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Israel carried out fresh military operations in Lebanon on Monday as diplomats and politicians continued to struggle to find a workable ceasefire.
Loud explosions were heard in southern Beirut and other strikes hit the eastern Bekaa valley. Ground fighting was reported around Houla in the south.
UN diplomats meet again in New York on Monday to try to overcome Lebanese opposition to the text of a ceasefire.
Arab ministers also meet in Beirut to discuss a strategy on the truce.
Village deaths
Several explosions were heard early on Monday in Beirut's southern suburbs - a Hezbollah stronghold that Israel has regularly targeted.
Witnesses also reported air strikes in and around Baalbek in the Bekaa valley.
There have also been more clashes on the ground, with Israeli troops battling Hezbollah fighters in the southern Lebanese village of Houla, Lebanese sources said.
Hezbollah said it inflicted Israeli casualties but Israel has not yet commented on the fighting.
Lebanese officials say 11 civilians have been killed in the latest attacks, at least six in a strike on a house in the village of Ghazzaniyeh, south of Sidon.
The Israeli operations come a day after at least 15 people were killed in a barrage of Hezbollah rocket strikes on northern Israel.
Twelve reservist soldiers died in an attack on the town of Kfar Giladi and three people were killed in the port of Haifa.
Israel said it had destroyed Hezbollah rocket launchers around Qana and Tyre that were used to attack Haifa.
The BBC's John Simpson in Tyre says the city, which now only has around 3,000 people left, many of them poor and elderly, has been cut off by Israeli bombing.
More than 900 Lebanese and more than 80 Israelis have died in the conflict, sparked by the capture of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah on 12 July.
'Obstructing'
As the military operations continued, Arab foreign ministers and the head of the 22-nation Arab League, Amr Moussa, were preparing to meet in Beirut to discuss a ceasefire.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem condemned the wording of the planned UN ceasefire resolution as a "recipe for the continuation of the war". He also warned that Damascus was ready for a regional conflict.
The UN draft does not call for the immediate pullout of Israeli forces from Lebanon.
Lebanon has submitted an amendment demanding this be included.
Mr Moussa said the "great powers were obstructing the ceasefire".
Mr Moussa was also quoted in Lebanon's As-Safir newspaper as saying there was agreement in principle among Arab countries for an emergency summit on Lebanon in Saudi Arabia this week.
In New York, Security Council members are expected to renew talks on the resolution on Monday.
A 90-minute meeting of the five permanent council members on Sunday failed to reach agreement on Lebanon's amendment, diplomats said.
"I think that means a vote on Tuesday is the more likely scenario," one diplomat from a permanent member country told Reuters.
The text calls for an immediate cessation of hostilities and lays the groundwork for a second that would install an international peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon.
Senior Israeli officials have said they are broadly happy with the text of the resolution.
An Israeli spokesman told the BBC his government could be prepared to pull all its forces out of Lebanon once the resolution was passed and when Israel had cleared what he called "the last remaining Hezbollah strongholds".
He said Israel would then monitor the south of Lebanon from behind its own border and reserve the right to use air strikes and occasional ground incursions.
The spokesman said that once a UN force had arrived Israel would in effect hand over the policing of southern Lebanon to the UN and Lebanese government.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5251370.stm
Loud explosions were heard in southern Beirut and other strikes hit the eastern Bekaa valley. Ground fighting was reported around Houla in the south.
UN diplomats meet again in New York on Monday to try to overcome Lebanese opposition to the text of a ceasefire.
Arab ministers also meet in Beirut to discuss a strategy on the truce.
Village deaths
Several explosions were heard early on Monday in Beirut's southern suburbs - a Hezbollah stronghold that Israel has regularly targeted.
Witnesses also reported air strikes in and around Baalbek in the Bekaa valley.
There have also been more clashes on the ground, with Israeli troops battling Hezbollah fighters in the southern Lebanese village of Houla, Lebanese sources said.
Hezbollah said it inflicted Israeli casualties but Israel has not yet commented on the fighting.
Lebanese officials say 11 civilians have been killed in the latest attacks, at least six in a strike on a house in the village of Ghazzaniyeh, south of Sidon.
The Israeli operations come a day after at least 15 people were killed in a barrage of Hezbollah rocket strikes on northern Israel.
Twelve reservist soldiers died in an attack on the town of Kfar Giladi and three people were killed in the port of Haifa.
Israel said it had destroyed Hezbollah rocket launchers around Qana and Tyre that were used to attack Haifa.
The BBC's John Simpson in Tyre says the city, which now only has around 3,000 people left, many of them poor and elderly, has been cut off by Israeli bombing.
More than 900 Lebanese and more than 80 Israelis have died in the conflict, sparked by the capture of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah on 12 July.
'Obstructing'
As the military operations continued, Arab foreign ministers and the head of the 22-nation Arab League, Amr Moussa, were preparing to meet in Beirut to discuss a ceasefire.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem condemned the wording of the planned UN ceasefire resolution as a "recipe for the continuation of the war". He also warned that Damascus was ready for a regional conflict.
The UN draft does not call for the immediate pullout of Israeli forces from Lebanon.
Lebanon has submitted an amendment demanding this be included.
Mr Moussa said the "great powers were obstructing the ceasefire".
Mr Moussa was also quoted in Lebanon's As-Safir newspaper as saying there was agreement in principle among Arab countries for an emergency summit on Lebanon in Saudi Arabia this week.
In New York, Security Council members are expected to renew talks on the resolution on Monday.
A 90-minute meeting of the five permanent council members on Sunday failed to reach agreement on Lebanon's amendment, diplomats said.
"I think that means a vote on Tuesday is the more likely scenario," one diplomat from a permanent member country told Reuters.
The text calls for an immediate cessation of hostilities and lays the groundwork for a second that would install an international peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon.
Senior Israeli officials have said they are broadly happy with the text of the resolution.
An Israeli spokesman told the BBC his government could be prepared to pull all its forces out of Lebanon once the resolution was passed and when Israel had cleared what he called "the last remaining Hezbollah strongholds".
He said Israel would then monitor the south of Lebanon from behind its own border and reserve the right to use air strikes and occasional ground incursions.
The spokesman said that once a UN force had arrived Israel would in effect hand over the policing of southern Lebanon to the UN and Lebanese government.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5251370.stm
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