The News

Although I'd prefer to keep my head in the sand, war is again breaking out in the Middle East. Israel is launching land, air and sea attacks on both Lebanon and Gaza. As of yesterday, the casualty rates are 6:1 of Arab to Israeli dead, but if you were to peruse the US mainstream media this would not be the impression you received. Israel is shelling *Hizbollah*, according the US press, who happen to include anyone (women and children) in certain suburbs. The ratios of civilian to military dead are also weighted to the Lebanese end.

Meanwhile GWB will not presume to tell Israel how to run its defense, he tells reporters, but the US vetoes a UN Security Council resolution to reprimand Israel for its overkill actions.