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Israel has been bombarded alternately with thousands of rockets and with hundreds of articles decrying its "disproportionate" and "immoral" response. Israel's sovereignty is abused and its citizens are attacked, kidnapped and terrorized, and the world clamors to condemn Israel's response. On the one hand, you have a soldier pushing a child behind him so that he can protect the child. On the other, you have a Hizbullah fighter pushing a child in front of him so that he can be protected by the child. In the ensuing gun battle, the latter child gets hurt and the Hizbullah terrorist is seen...

Five Iranian bassijis and three Iraqis were killed when foreign troops fired on their vehicle near a checkpoint near the Shi'ite town of Kerbala, police and hospital officials said on Wednesday. Police said the incident happened late on Tuesday when the vehicle in which the victims were travelling ran a checkpoint in Kerbala, 110 km (68 miles) south of Baghdad. Fighting has raged since Sunday in Shi'ite areas of Iraq between foreign troops and militiamen loyal to radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. Thousands of Iranians are in Iraq ahead of the Shi'ite Muslim holy day of Arbain this month when...