Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Heating Up

We're fine but things are heating up. IDF forces just entered Lebanon on the ground, to take out command bunkers. There will surely be casualties but maybe we can succeed in stopping this mess.
I'll give a more personal and detailed update later. Meanwhile, another thing you can do is vote in these online polls:

CNN is having a poll: Is Israel justifed in its use of force. Presently 52% think that Israels response is NOT justified.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/14/mideast/index.html

Sky News is having a poll: Middle East Crisis---Who's to Blame? Currently the vote is 82.31% blaming Hizbollah. It's important to keep checking for new polls and voting!
http://www.sky.com/skynews/home

Thanks.

1 comment:

Zehava said...

I basically agree with Katus on this. But psychologically, it's oddly helpful to feel that we have supporters in this conflict. Too often watching international coverage of the events makes us feel profoundly isolated and misunderstood.
Israeli media does not tell the full story either. We see lots of pictures of flattened bridges and buildings, but they spare us the bloody baby pics from Lebanon. Not good for morale I guess. But nor do they fuel our hatred by showing gory pics of Israeli dead.

As for having a plan, who knows? I hope so, and I hope it involves a quick end. A fellow tech writer on a listserv wrote "sooner or later they'll run out of weapons or we'll run out of targets".