Hey, don't despair! You still have a substantial lead in the score:
wsws.org
Excerpt:
The claims of Sharon and Bush are absurd on their face. In the conflict which has erupted since September 2000, more than 1,100 Palestinians have been killed, compared to about 400 Israelis. Yet the US posture is to present the side which has lost three times as many men, women and children as the aggressor, while the side which has done the bulk of the killing-and possesses a virtual monopoly of weapons such as tanks, jet fighters, missiles, all supplied by America-is portrayed as acting in "self-defense."
US Secretary of State Colin Powell admitted that the Israeli actions would lead to more, not less terrorism. "No matter how many tanks go through how many villages, at the end of this process you will still have suicide bombers," he said. "Ultimately, the Israeli Defense Forces will ... have to leave the occupied territories ... and we'll be right back to the need for a political process."
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