Good Morning Democrats:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061108/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_gaza

Little Terrorists Killed While Sleeping

BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip - Israeli tank shells crashed into a residential neighborhood, killing at least 18 people including eight children in their sleep early Wednesday, Palestinian witnesses and officials said.

According to witnesses, all those killed in the neighborhood north of the town of Beit Hanoun were women and children. Khaled Radi, a health ministry official, said 13 of the dead were from the same family. He said at least 40 more people were wounded, all civilians.

In the popular Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz, a Hamas member was quoted:

"The reaction is coming. [Israel] prepare the coffins and black body bags," Nizar Rayan, a hardline Hamas leader shouted to an agitated crowd outside a morgue in Beit Hanun.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/785407.html

The Whimpers

"The advantage poets have over other mortals is not their ability to "show us the way," but their gift of finding the right words to address reality; words that were once sent into the ether will keep resonating in the sound boxes of human minds. "

Eliot wrote his poem in 1925, and, according to the accepted view, it reflects upon Eliot's skepticism about the men of his time - Europe after World War One -, the posterity, and society as a whole. The epigrams preceding the poem point the reader to Joseph Conrads' "Heart of Darkness" and to Guy Fawkes (whose day is November 5th, a strange coincidence), and Eliot readers will easily identify the allusions to Dante and Christian symbolism.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/784587.html


"This mosque is more than 800 years old. It is part of our heritage and thousands of people visited it every year," lamented Akram Abdel-Jawd Qassam, whose family have been caretakers of the holy site for half a century.http://www.dailystar.com.lb

"The Jews want to destroy everything. Even our heritage and our history. It's a tragedy," the elderly man said.

"They are crazy. They fired on everyone. Children, women, the elderly. Afterward they say the Palestinians are terrorists but it's not these people who are the real terrorists," he said.

Palestinians said they were stripped down to their underwear upon arrival, fed only bread and tomatoes during a three-day detention in the field while they were brought one-by-one for questioning at the college.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=76731