Injecting a Bit of Reality into the Middle East Warring

One thing you are not apt to get out of the U.S. media - the mainstream media, that is - is some reality checks about Israel and Lebanon.

While we've heard non-stop about how Hezbollah would frequently violate the U.N. resolution-certified requirements not to cross the border, U.N. records show that for every time Hezbollah violated Israel's border, Israeli troops had violated Lebanon's border between 10 and 20 times.

Also, while we keep hearing about either a) the massive damage to Israel or b) the massive damage and death to both Israel and Lebanon, understand that the most conservative death toll estimates show that 20 Lebanese civilians died for every one Israeli civilian. And in terms of infrastructure destruction, the two can't be compared at all.

Facts courtesy of Counterspin, the radio news program produced by FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting).