Tuesday, November 12, 2002

Israeli pre-school kids slaughtered in their beds. The world couldn’t care less.
Israel TV is talking about 45 specific (as opposed to general) warnings of planned terrorist attacks. Commentators are talking about the proverbial blanket being too short to cover all the terror planning centers, without calling up reserve soldiers. TV is showing a video of little Matan and Noam, taken by their dad just last week, swinging on swings while wishing their grandparents a happy anniversary. Everyone else, all the foreign channels, have forgotten, already. Moved on. More important news takes precedence. Those poor kids didn’t even make the evening news. Now they’re saying Israel has killed a Palestinian two-year-old in Rafiah. Shot by soldiers. Maybe he was throwing the mortar that fell on Netsarim. The world is watching Blair speak live.

I’m getting crazy. Time for bed.