Can't always get what you want

[cyrano]

Allow me to clarify. When I said, last night, that it'd be nice when the garbage got picked up outside my house because the post-apocalyptic implications were beginning to disturb me, that doesn't mean 'bring your huge diesel-engined trucks that make that shrieking 'I am backing up now' noise and drive them around in front of my house at six-thirty in the morning'.
Just in case there was some confusion.

And to add to my cranky mood, CNN reports that 'as many as thirteen Israeli soldiers' were killed today when a building used as a bomb lab by Palestinians blew up. As an aside, it was noted that by the way 150 Palestinians have been killed as well in the past twelve days.

Comments

[wildpaletz.livejournal.com]

...and they don't even know if that's how many. Ambulences are evidently not being allowed in to places, and NPR was reporting that they have no idea how the Israeli government was coming up with its number as to how many Palestinians had died.

[mallen.livejournal.com]

Interesting, isn't it, how the U.S. media always mentions how many Israelis are killed, and maybe as an afterthought how many "dirty" Arabs died.

Did you catch Frontline last night?

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I suck. I didn't even know it was on. But it sounds interesting.

the Middle East

[miss-friday.livejournal.com]

Certainly Frontline: Battle for the Holy Land was illuminating. Notice how it was actually a BBC documentary. But if you haven't already, if you are interested in a balanced, and disturbing, though rational, view of the situation, check out Thomas Friedman's New York Times columns. He doesn't pull his punches about the brutality or stupidity of either side.