'Black dog!' said the Grand Master,'I touch not misbelievers,save with the sword. Comrade take thou the letter from the Jew and give it to me.' : Ivanhoe; Sir Walter Scott.
Antonio: You may as well do anything most hard, As to seek to soften that - than which what's harder? His Jewish heart?' Merchant of Venice; William Shakespeare.
BBC's coverage of the recent Lebanon war was as one sided as it gets. Terms such as 'war crimes' and 'carnage' were used freely esp. after Qana when 20 people died. How many were Hizbollah and how many were civilians we will never know but interesttingly such terms were never used for Iraq even after the massacre in Faluja when white phosphorus was used. I remember the shameful anti Putin propaganda even while innocent children were being slaughtered by Chechen butchers in Beslan. As for the UN, Kofi Anan's term is coming to an end. He has been savaged by Bolton and the Volcker report put his son in more than a spot of bother. How better to get back at the US support of Israel than by accusing them of war crimes. One bearded fellow was so angry that most of the cluster bombs were used in the last 72 hours. Is'nt it better to use these bombs when most of the civilian population had left the area and all who remained were likely to be Hezbollah. Never saw such righteous indignation when the US and UK were liberally using them in Iraq. As for French who were rushing around like headless chicken to save the poor Lebanese but cannot find soldiers to maintain peace. There were some questions of Mitterand and the Vichy govt. What hope for Israel with so many enemies?