Ariel Sharon at best is a provocation, never a war criminal, Ehud Barak a statesman, never the assassin of Beirut.
Terrorism is always on the Palestinian side of the ledger, defence on the Israeli.
What gets left out is what Israel has no intention of giving back. I have made a survey of the major newspapers. Ever since September 28 there have been anywhere between one and three opinion articles per average day in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times and The Boston Globe. The writers have been former US military as well as civilian officials, Israeli apologists and officials, think tank specialists and experts, officials of pro-Israeli lobbies and organizations. This is simply without precedent in the annals of US journalism, and is a direct reflection of a Zionist mindset that makes Israel the norm in human behaviour, thereby excluding from equal consideration the existence of 300 million Arabs and 1.2 billion Muslims.