A Sad Commentary

This morning I began reading the New York Times online and saw there that Israel continues bombing Gaza for the fourth day. Gaza is presently without power and Israel has expanded its bombing to include Gaza's civic institutions. Israel's latest targets included the Islamic University, the Interior Ministry, and the Presidential guesthouse.

Israel states that its goal is to "break the will of the Palestinians" and it further states that the bombing is just "the first stage of its all out war with the Palestinians" and that "there is no room for a cease fire". To date the Palestinians have killed 4 Israelis with their rockets. The Israelis have killed over 300 Palestinians and created untold suffering. Who are the real Terrorists?

All this would be bad enough but the real tragedy is that in an effort to gain some understanding of the roots and history of this present tragedy I went to search the NYT for other articles. I thought a good place to start might be the "Most Searched" feature of the NYT to see what other readers had been searching about this conflict.

When I looked at the Tag Cloud for the last 7 days Israel, Gaza, and Olmert weren't even on the list. Madoff was No.1. I think that's the real tragedy... either that or I'm just an oddball who has his priorities all screwed up. What do you think?