On Hamas & Hezbollah

Noam Chomsky provides a nice, succinct review of what's transpired on Israel's borders since the beginning of the year. Injustice, hypocrisy, cruelty...you know the deal.

Old Noam no doubt will note this development, too. From Ha'aretz:

The Israel Defense Forces has killed 97 people in the Gaza Strip since the fighting began in Lebanon. Most of them were armed, and the rest were civilians - children, women, men, the elderly. The large number of fatalities suggests the IDF is engaged in indiscriminate killing under the cover of the war in the north.

Some Gaza Strip residents say, however, that the military pressure is not as bad as it was before the fighting in Lebanon began on July 12.

One wonders what it would take for Palestinians to get the appropriate amount of attention their plight deserves. A decree from God, perhaps.