Lies And Propaganda

Reading through an article in today's SignOnSanDiego reads like pure Bushist propaganda. the article deals with Robert Sceer's reporting for the BBC. What he has done that is so offensive, is deviate from the corporate media's script in the Middle East.
Take for instance, this first paragraph:
Robert Scheer is seen as a reliably far-left pundit who thinks Israel is responsible for the Middle East's problems and is unconcerned by matters such as the fact that the leader of Iran, which is eagerly developing nuclear weapons technology, has vowed to annihilate Israel from the face of the Earth. So when Scheer writes a column excoriating Israel, it is no surprise that not once does he mention that Lebanese civilian deaths are almost entirely because Hezbollah bases its missiles and soldiers in civilian areas.
I'm not going to go all Mel Gibson and blame all the problems in the Mid East on Israel. Religion is the main problem, since all parties involved think their religion is the one true religion and God is in their side as they senselesly slaughter other human beings in His name. But the lie comes in the first sentence. The president of Iran, who is not developing nuclear weapons, has never "vowed to annihilate Israel from the face of the Earth". I have read two different interpretations of Ahmednejad's statement, and never once did he say "I" or "annihilate". What he did say was either "Israel should be wiped off the map", which is what MEMRI's pro-Israel perpetually victimized interpretation of the statement is, or "Israel should be erased from the pages of history". Neither statement concludes that Ahmednejad making it his personal responsibility.
Then comes the whole "Hezbollah bases it's missiles and soldiers in civilian areas". Don't blame Israel for these deaths, even though there were no missiles in Qa'na. There also were no missiles in the ambulances Israel intentionally bombed,

or in the relief trucks, or the power plants or under the bridges either. But the truth is Hezbollah avoids civilians because they don't trust them. And of course, to the IDF, all sites are legitimate as long as they're in Lebanon. The article also fails to mention how Israel uses Palestinians as human shields.
The article continues:
It is not just that the supposed crimes of Israel are completely overplayed, but the fact that this is a two-sided war (started, of course, by Hizbullah) is all but obscured, Even Israeli Prime Minister Olmert admits the two soldiers were captured in Lebanon, which means Israel violated the sovereignity of Lebanon, which is how this whole mess started. But that's beside the point I guess.
in spite of hundreds of hours of broadcast by dozens of BBC reporters and studio anchors, you wouldn't really know that hundreds of thousands of Israelis have been living in bomb shelters for weeks now, tired, afraid, but resilient; that a grandmother and her seven-year old grandson were killed by a Katyusha during a Sabbath dinner; that several other Israeli children have died.
Yes, it's a shame that these Israelis have died. There is no excuse for it, but none of it would have happened if Israel would have stayed within it's borders. Fifty-four Israelis have died from the Hezbollah rocket attacks, eighteen of them civilians. Everyone of them from the grandmother and grandson killed during a Sabbath dinner, to the rest of them have been needless murders.
But 900 Lebanese have died, over one third of them under 12 years old. Over six times more children have been killed by Israel than Israelis that have been killed by Hezbollah. What needs to be done is for both sides to stop the killing now. However, with Bush and the neocons slavvering over the opportunity to start a proxy war with Syria, don't count on the US stepping in anytime soon.