A rocket strike on a kibbutz where Israeli soldiers are staying was the deadliest attack by Hezbollah since the war with Israel began almost a month ago.
The American public understands what the war between Israel and Hezbollah is about and what it is not about. It is not about territories; it is not about occupation; it is not about an effort by poor, oppressed Palestinians to get Israel out of their land; it is not about a two-state solution. What it is about is the fate of the democratic State of Israel, which was attacked, once again, by enemies dedicated to its destruction. That Americans see the reality clearly is manifest in a pair of polls: No fewer than 83 percent say Israel is justified in its military action, while fully 76 percent disapprove of Hezbollah's attacks on Israel, according to Gallup. A CNN poll found some 57 percent are sympathetic to Israel, while only 4 percent are sympathetic to Hezbollah.
As Andrew von Eschenbach settled into a chair in a U.S. Senate hearing room in Washington, D.C., last week, Kevin Stormans sat down in his office in the other Washington, the Evergreen State. Both men prepared for the same thing: tough questions about their refusal to allow the sale of Plan B, the emergency contraceptive pill for women.
A teenager with Hodgkin's lymphoma blasts away at cancer cells in a computer game, all the while learning to do a better job of conquering her own cancer. A traumatized soldier returns to the cybergenerated streets of Iraq, in the hopes that he may be able to one day cope with the horrors of war. A young boy with severe burns delves into a virtual wonderland of snowmen, penguins, and snowballs, escaping, if only for a little while, the unbearable pain of having his wounds cleaned and dressed twice a day.
AP - Hezbollah guerrillas unleashed their deadliest barrage of rockets yet into northern Israel, killing at least 12 people, while Israeli bombardment killed at least 14 people in southern Lebanon as fighting only intensified despite a draft U.N. cease-fire resolution.
AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice described a draft U.N. cease-fire resolution as a first step to stop violence in the Middle East, but said it cannot solve the problems in Lebanon.
AP - A suicide bomber detonated an explosive belt Sunday night among mourners at a funeral in Tikrit, killing at least 10 people and wounding 18, police said.
1 killed, 30 wounded in Israel's 3rd-largest city12 killed in northern Israeli kibbutzIsraeli airstrikes in Lebanon kill 8 civiliansIDF: Captive admits role in soldiers' kidnappings
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