First, my rabbi sent me this slideshow of Israeli soldiers during the recent conflict. The song is beautiful and though I'm not yet fluent in Hebrew, I picked up a few words like "tefillah hatikvah" which means "prayer of hope."
My friend Andy and I have been conversing (both in livejournal and through email) about the causes of Israel-hatred,
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The following are all Mideast war related articles:
1) Should we be using the term "Islamic fascists" to describe our enemy? NRO has a symposium to discuss this question. (You can probably guess where they come down, but you might be surprised what else they have to say and who's saying it...)
The AP writes: "Rockets hit Lebanon despite cease-fire"
Sounds like Israel violated the ceasefire, right? Wrong. Hezbollah violated the ceasefire, but the AP apparently feels it has a duty to help them out any and every way possible...
I suggest watching Michelle Malkin's entire podcast as it's full of useful information, but at least watch the end where we see children chanting about their support for terrorist groups. (Hot Air also has more details on the recent terrorist bombing plot.)
My favorite is the "Passion of the Toys" collection at Slublog. Notice how each of the toys seems perfectly placed and unaffected by the surrounding damage. Just one example of many:
This one probably isn't doctored but it appears to be staged. Either that, or the photographer caught a miracle in action -- look at the last body coming back from the dead: