While I sympathise with the Palestinians and Lebanese in this latest conflict I'd say that the whole thing saddens me incredibly. Seeing Israel make such agressive strikes is just disenheartening. Yes, the holocoust card gets played for all the wrong reasons in the middle-east debate, and might not be relevant anymore - I don't know. But to think about it, and then to see Beruit airport in flames from an Israeli jet strike, to see pictures of Israeli tanks firing with whole crates of tank shells on the ground next to them... I don't know it just seems so saddening.

It will be interesting to see how far America will support Israel on this because even Bush has to see that continued support for Israel does not do the US any favours at all in the eyes of Islamic countries, for good or bad.