Why is this news wire seemingly obsessed with the happenings in Israel? What about Burma, Tibet, the Congo, Sierra Leone, East Timor, to name but a few? I don't see activists here quite so distressed about the behaviour of the Burmese dictatorship (forced labour, torture, mass killings) or the Sierra Leone revolutionaries (torture, murder, rape, mass amputations?) or the Chinese government (ditto) Seriously, I know we can't care about everything (or can we?) but this constant isolation of the Israeli government's behaviour (not the Israeli people) is getting extremely embarassing. It feels, not quite like anti-semitism, but like jumping on an easy, dumbed down bandwagon. Hate America? Duh, let's hate Israel too. You have a choice to boycott/protest but hate is not an option, it's a self-destructive cycle. Americans are not evil. The US government and corporations may be, but then again "evil" is an odd word to apply to an inanimate institution. We, all the people, need to work together to combat greed, hatred and intolerance, and we don't do that by being greedily, hatefully intolerant.