Thanks for the article. I live in Israel and was completely horrified but not surprised by the picture. I consider myself fairly media savvy, but the tastelessness of that juxtaposition was appalling. Unfortunately, I more or less assumed much what you described, but that doesn't make it that much less disturbing for me: children treating missiles as saviours is a worry to me. Writing messages indicates that they see them as being targeted at PEOPLE (albeit Hezbollah) rather than installations (such as Katyusha launchers). On the other hand, Jews write messages and stick them in the Western Wall, so maybe it was more like: May the force be with this missile and help it hit its target. (I still find it distasteful). I can actually understand Lebanese who are being hit by those missiles misinterpreting the picture and I appreciate your efforts to somewhat straighten the record. The MOST disturbing aspect of this whole thing is the Israeli media's efforts to underplay or ignore the Lebanese fatalities. It's not just a matter of not showing the bodies. The Yediot and Maariv dailies had NO mention today of the Lebanese killed yesterday. Channel One news opened by listing the figures of the dead on both sides, but then made no further mention of the Lebanese casualties (and referred to the refugees only from an Israeli strategic perspective). Haaretz newspaper has been much more responsible and evenhanded (in fact far more so than most foreign press is vis a vis Israel, I think) and Channel 10's coverage is a little better than the others. I'm not sure Israeli media is any different to, say, the US during the Iraqi campaigns. But is that a model we want to follow? Bottom line: even if the pic was misinterpreted by the Lebanese viewers, based on a dehumanization of the Israeli victims, it still represents a general dehumanization of the Lebanese victims through the total silence about their plight.