Not proud, but honest

In a post on ludicrous American lies about Israeli genocide, Craig Murray is remarkably honest about the fleeting feeling which I suspect many of us feel from time to time when hearing the news from West Asia, and which most of us (I hope) feel instantly ashamed of. But I do know exactly where he's coming from.

Meanwhile, let us pray for all the dead from more than 40 years of illegal military occupation, whether Palestinian or Israeli civilians, IDF soldiers, Palestinian terrorists, Israeli settlers, Olympic athletes - all of the above. Good or bad, guilty or innocent - may death bring them some kind of peace.

And let us also pray - to any god or none - that 2009 brings peace, or at least less killing, to Israel and all its neighbours.