The Media Spins the Israel-Lebanon Story

I just heard Brian Williams state, quite erroneously, at the opening of the NBC Nightly News that Israel, for the first time in 6 years, crossed the border into Lebanon. Not true!

In the last several years, Israeli forces have been found across the border in Lebanon many times (just read the press outside this country. Israel is not one to respect borders.

Granted, this is supposedly to find two soldiers reported captured by Hezbollah, but one questions whether those soldiers were in Lebanon (in violation) when they were taken.

For all the talk about Israeli soldiers, closing in on 100 Palestinians, mostly civilians and a large number of women and children, have been killed just in the past week or so (the first Israeli soldier was taken about 2.5 weeks ago. Israeli took out Gaza's only power plant more than two weeks ago, making life there far more a struggle to survive. Of the 23 Palestinians killed in the last 24 hours, 7 of them were children.

I respect Israel's right to exist (of course!). It's time the power structure in Israel do what many and probably by far most normal Israelis already do: respect the Palestinians right to exist. For all the talk about the evils of having Hamas be the ruling party in the Palestinian region, I'd say there is equally a terrorist organization in charge of Israel: the legacy of Ariel Sharon and the Likkud Party.