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This editorial describes Israel's situation pretty well, I'm afraid. (But the Palestinian situation with less empathy: harm to civilians may literally have been "minimal", but that's a sizeable minimum.)

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Both NPR and the NY Times are giving pretty good coverage of the Middle East Situation. One thing I appreciate is that they seem to be trying very hard to view the problem from both sides.
I have not personally been reading the Washington Post in the past week or so, but they usually do a good job with this type of coverage.

There are a lot of news stories out there, and most of them will be depressing. But, for example, here is something that has a more Palestinian slant.
http://www.latimes.com/la-000026946apr15.story

There are very few people in the world right now who would agree that Israel is in the right. Their demands for peace negotiations without Arafat seem ridiculous to me. More importantly, their current military actions smack of genocide. Their actions are being compared to those of Hitler more frequently.

Yesterday I took a break from the Middle East, which I find profoundly depressing:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/healthscience/134436644_arctic15.html