KILLED ANYONE NICE TODAY?

The fighting in the Palestinian camps in Lebanon is ominous. With tens of thousands of stateless refugees imprisoned in squalor and poverty for fifty years, it is no surprise. The civil war of the 1980s had a similar genesis. The hysterical US has sent in extra firepower to their surrogate Lebanese army to put down the internecine fighting.

Why? An anonymous tip said Al-Qaeda was behind the uprising. To the Americans, the fragmented guerrilla group is behind every killing, every mugging, every bag-snatching in the entire universe, except in places that don't matter like southern Africa.Meanwhile, Israel has continued its "targeted assassinations," or murder, of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders in Gaza. Ironically, it is the Palestinians who are labelled terrorists, not the Israelis.

So why worry about the fighting in the refugee camps, which has now spread south? Because it is designed by Syria, the US and Israel to keep the Palestinians from settling down and running efficient civil and military authorities just as Hamas and Hezbollah did before the latest farcical Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the continued pounding of Gaza by Israeli tanks and helicopter gunships.

The Israeli onslaughts evoke not a whisper of protest from our very own heroes, Georgie the bush and Steve harp seal. They have been too busy saving the planet by running from the G8 conference as fast as their fat little feet could carry them. With Geldoff and Bono yapping at their heels, you can't really blame them.But someone's got to yap. At least the pop stars have guts to yap, yap, yap. Steve was so outraged that anyone dare question his ability to make a decent, moral decision he refused to meet Bono but had a really nice chat with the lovely, journalist-butchering "Vlady, baby" Putin.

So I am not dead yet. Those few outburst should shorten the odds. Naa. Who cares about an aging blogger with a new book about to hit the streets. The book is called "AM I DEAD YET? A JOURNALIST'S PERSPECTIVE ON TERRORISM." It will be available on Amazon.com and Chapters/Indigo next month.It is blunt, controversial, harrowing, downright scary, cheeky and often very silly. C'mon. Would I lie to you?