Free Press?

"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it… The business of the Journalist is to destroy truth; To lie outright; To pervert; To vilify; To fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals for rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and or lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
--- John Swinton, former Chief of Staff, The New York Times (1953)

Just to comment, if you look back at any of the earlier newscasts of the Israeli/Lebanon war, whenever Israelis were killed, the U.S. news reported how many PEOPLE were killed. When there were deaths in Lebanon the same press reported on BUILDINGS destroyed and PLACES hit, but never mentioned any dead people, despite HUNDREDS being killed in Lebanon for every Israeli death. Those dying were not Hezbollah, who Israel is supposedly after. They are innocent civilians who were unfortunate enough to live in the path of an Israeli (U.S. made) bomb.

I should also point out that the initial (correct) reports all showed that the 2 Israeli soldiers this whole thing is about were kidnapped while patrolling INSIDE LEBANON. The media quickly turned it around to say they came into Israel to kidnap the soldiers.

Also who knows about Israeli intelligence? Like their mission to arrest Adolf Eichman who was hiding in South America under a different name so that noone could find him...They found him and brought him to Israel for trial. Or how about the aftermath of the Munich bombing... in which Israeli Intelligence hunted down the responsible people and assassinated them THROUGHOUT EUROPE. They killed people in foreign nations, against all existing law, and got away with it. Granted they were criminals...but it is up to the nation in which the criminal is residing to act, not any random country who wants to slip in...
None the less, considering the ability and success of Mossad in the past, does anyone believe they could not have had a successful covert mission to rescue the two soldiers without all this innocent blood shed?

So far I have not heard ONE GOOD REASON why any Labanese or Hezbollah operative would kidnap an Israeli soldier or what they could possibly gain.

Then there's the fact that Israel bombed a UN outpost...FOURTEEN TIMES when all evidence shows they were informed BEFORE THE FIRST ATTACK that the outpost was there, that they were again informed by the U.N. that the outpost was under fire from THEIR FORCES, that the outpost was CLEARLY MARKED with UN colors and symbols and was flying a UN flag.

Then Israel bombs 2 RED CROSS AMBULANCES CLEARLY MARKED WITH BIG RED CROSSES, in which was a Lebanese family, including CHILDREN.

Israel told the Lebanese people to LEAVE and GET OUT OF HARMS WAY.... then proceded to bomb ROADS AND BRIDGES keeping anyone from escaping, then attacked civilians who were TRYING TO FLEE NORTH...30% of which were CHILDREN.

to date about 350 civilians have been killed and 800,000 have been forced from their homes to flee the conflict.

see some pictures at this blog from a Lebanese citizen. (beware, it is graphic)