I'm very much with the "blogger garbage" (as someone phrased it) on this one. I'm on the side of Israel. All others are with the terrorists.
blog n. Web log. Web discussion board hosting personal thoughts and opinions of others. Personal diary of the web log owner or tenant.
news n. Called "hard news" by journalists, objective statements of facts on current events
opinion n. In journalism, informal essay with thesis containing writer's opinion. At best, with argument points logically substantiated after introduction containing thesis. Written with proper English.
And From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Hysteria \Hys*te"ri*a\, n. [NL.: cf. F. hyst['e]rie. See Hysteric.] (Med.)
A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women, in which the emotional and reflex excitability is exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished, so that the patient loses control over the emotions, becomes the victim of imaginary sensations, and often falls into paroxism or fits. [1913 Webster]
Note: The chief symptoms are convulsive, tossing movements of the limbs and head, uncontrollable crying and laughing, and a choking sensation as if a ball were lodged in the throat. The affection presents the most varied symptoms, often simulating those of the gravest diseases, but generally curable by mental treatment alone. Hysteric
[Manifests itself most densely in both women and men in humid, northern coastal, once Loyalist (to Britain, see American Revolution) areas--now Democrat states--where the affected live like rats (see Frank Sinatra) in and around large, dark cities (see _The Bostonians_, by Henry James. --Ed.]
I'd let it go in one ear and out the other, the State Dept not Feder. Hopefully their anti-Israel posturing is irrelevant, and if it's not the blame is GWB's, not Condi's.