as if ...

as if I didn't have a strong enough aversion to this film already...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5277238.stm

Israel has been busy...

Amnesty International has accused Israel of committing war crimes by deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure in Lebanon.( Read more... )

Environmental pressure group Greenpeace has discovered large amounts of oil on the seabed off the Lebanese coast.( Read more... )

An Israeli court has charged the speaker of the Palestinian parliament, Abdel Aziz Dweik, with being a member of the militant group Hamas.( Read more... )

and, shifting slightly east, a new report concludes that the US is mostly responsible for Iran's growing strength in the Middle East.( Read more... )

"Y'all come on over!"

( snark warning )

good lord...

'dangerous' book banned on London to Berlin flight