Guest penned:

"One thing I am fascinated by, is the American media's disbelief that the Catholics inside the Church of the Nativity have given sanctuary to all those Palestinians and internationals who entered the building to get away from the Israeli shelling and machine gun fire"

And later: "Not very balanced or objective reporting, now is it?"

Ironic indeed...

Speaking of unbalanced and subjective reporting, Guest... According to the Washington Post (which *has* been giving both sides a fair chance in their reporting), those people didn't just happen to run in their to get away from the shelling. They were fighters. The kinds of people who are all fired up by Arafats messages of martyrdom. The kinds of people who are willing to blow themselves up to take out an Israeli cafe.

It was not as if they were all Grandmothers on their way to Mosque.