Well, that's true, Art. Like I said, in war atrocities happen, and are usually (if not always) committed by both sides...and accidents happen too (like the death of 4 Canadians to an American bomb in Afghanistan...a minor affair in my opinion, but you should see the fuss up here about it!) It is when the mainstream media outlets tend to regularly sanitize the actions of one side and regularly demonize the actions of the other, regardless of the available facts, that we have a serious problem.

Israel has gotten a largely free ride on the back of the North American media for at least 5 decades now. The Muslims have never been in that fortunate position, in fact they are almost everyone's favorite whipping boy and boogy monster most of the time. Now that there is a bit of a shift in the tone of news coverage occuring, it's making Israel's traditional supporters very nervous, and they are crying "anti-semitism"...just as O.J.'s lawyers once cried "racism".

It is classic obfuscation of the real issue at hand...which in this case is aggression and terrorism, well-organized, well-planned, ruthlessly carried out...by both sides in the Middle East...not just by one of them.

I hate to see people get away with murder, specially when they play the "victim" all the while, on the basis of someone else's past grievances.

- LH