Israel in Two Front War While Rumsfeld Tries to Calm Baghdad Violence

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=188797108&p=y887978y4

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/12/news/web.0712gaza.php

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/737324.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/12/world/middleeast/12iraq.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

The BBC news round up this morning is deeply disturbing. The situation in Israel is escalating with two Israeli soldiers having been taken hostage by Hezbollah in Lebanon, Israel bombing both there and in Gaza, and Rumsfeld off again to Baghdad to implore Shia and Sunnis to stop killing each other -- while denying Iraqi pols their request for authority to try American soldiers who have raped/murdered Iraqis.

Needless to say the Bush administration is distracted by the chaos breaking out in both Iraq and Afghanistan from being any assistance to Israel/Palestine which desperately needs the only external peace maker available -- the U.S. What a mess!
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