Thursday, August 03, 2006

For the last few days, there is always a picture of Israeli soldiers in the New York Times, and they are always in non-combatant roles. I mean, there are plenty of pictures of Israeli soldiers bombing the hell out of Lebanon. But the New York Times selects those pictures: one where the soldiers are singing, yesterday they were looking at maps, today, they were hugging and embracing. How nice. You would not even know that they have been committing "war crimes"--at least according to Human Rights Watch, and you know how timid that origination is.