[concerned about politics]

"It's what we want and what Tom would have wanted, he wrote in his diary that he wouldn't want to remain in a comatose state."

At least he put it in writing. In America , we try to kill them just for getting in the way.

The photo-journalism student was shot in the head while trying to protect Palestinian children on the Gaza Strip in April and has never regained consciousness.

Uh....this article says he never had any to begin with. D'OH!
I heard a conflicting report about this. I remember reading there were no children near him.

[rusty millet]

I hadn't heard that. I suspect that video will increasingly be used as a means of countering allegations of brutality, much as it has become common on police cruisers.

The recent video of the missle response on a carload of Hamas effectively shut up Palestinian claims of murdered innocent bystanders.