[Torie]

Good piece by and large, but the "crime" of destroying structures is quite bizarre in my opinion. If that is the worst the IDF did, then I salute them totally. They are a well disciplined, effective, and ETHICAL force. I salute those that have trained them, and their own ethics. I salute them as a man.

[rmvh]

Re your # 5.... (The Jews) are a well disciplined, effective, and ETHICAL force.

In a British Commons debate Gerald Kaufman, a veteran Labour MP who is Britain's most prominent Jewish parliamentarian, launched a ferocious attack on Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, denouncing him as a "war criminal". Kaufman said Sharon had "ordered his troops to use methods of barbarism against the Palestinians". Expressing fear that something dreadful had happened in Jenin, he said: "It is time to remind Sharon that the Star of David belongs to all Jews and not to his repulsive government. His actions are staining the Star of David with blood." With the Israeli army still blocking full access to Jenin it is impossible to establish even a rough body count.

[B4Ranch]

Others had been collected from their temporary mass grave made by the doctors in a yard outside the hospital.

They were all waiting for reburial in a common grave. By their very weight of numbers laid out on the ground - almost 30 on this afternoon - they suggested themselves as victims of a massacre.

Any idea what the difference is between the ugly words of 'mass grave' and the relaxing words 'common grave' is?