Once again, the virtually perpetual Middle East cataclysm escalates.

Hezbollah launches rockets into Israel

Israel pounds Beirut

Lebanon death toll 'reaches 900'

Hezbollah threatens to strike Tel Aviv

Fears grow as Tyre runs short of food, fuel - and hope

Israel readies new push into Lebanon

Israel launches new airstrikes on Beirut

Ahmadinejad: Destroy Israel, end crisis

France circulates a revised resolution

All these headlines, and more, are as disquieting as they sound, and not mere oft-employed journalistic hyperboles.  The blogosphere has also gone agog and is on fire with posts upon posts on the Israel – Lebanon conflict.  However, I just don't feel like blogging much on the Middle East situation, which I don't see a near successful end to until we all tell ourselves the truth.  I see hypocrisy, hidden agenda and ulterior motives staring us in the face, even when we try to shrug these notions off.

Each day, I boot my PC only to be greeted with a dismal grimace of headlines on the deplorable extent of the Middle East crisis, and all I do is pray that real peace reigns someday and the wanton destruction and killings end.

Today, a friend sent me this internet movie called "What Is Peace", and I thought you might enjoy it like I did, the war in the Middle East and beyond despite.