Some observations on the Situation

I felt compelled to say something.

Obviously this situation sucks, and for the last four days I've been living off the news feeds on TV and the Internet.
I thought I was the least-politically minded person in this country of politically-obsessed... persons...

Anyway, I found I have an odd fetish for Lebanese blogs, which I've been following.
They started out alright, with mostly cries of anguish and furstration, sense of helplessness and much the same as us.

But recently I've found that they've adopted a strange tone... the anti-Israeli, pro-Hizballah attitude has taken over even the liberal writers, and they now tend to go off on wild rants accusing us of some pretty insane bull-hockey.
(lebop.blogspot.com/2006/07/school-bombed-in-tyre-nasrallah-i... )

So I've become a conspiracy theorist -- they're Hizballah shills... Maybe.

The truth might be very different:
Has it ever occured to anyone... just as an idea... that maybe WE are the ones surrounded by misinformation?
lebanonheartblogs.blogspot.com/2006/07/listen.html
Just a wacky thought.

Somewhere, this girl shows up, ontheface.blogware.com/
She's giving us the Israeli point of view, and she's linked from Perpetual Refugee's blog perpetualrefugee.blogspot.com/

I just can't make heads or tails of the war on the popular front. Then again, I always sucked at this "blogging" thing, what the hell is that all about, anyway?

So if any of you out there have any commentary, maybe you know someone on the other side, or maybe you're just *way* to close to everything going on in our country... Any ideas? I'm bloody lost.

One thing, though...

Using words like "genocide" and "holocaust" to describe our actions?

"Terrorism"?

Bloody uncool. To say the least.

But, and here's the thing, I got to these blgos through www.slate.com, that awesomest-of-awesome online magazines. so obviously this is how the worldwide media is perceiving us. Are we f**king up on that front, again? Or is that one really a battle we've lost even before we've begun?

And to think I'd been so hopeful a few days ago. At least th EU has finally condemned the Hizballah's actions. Thank god for itsy bitsy tiny favours.