The difference betwen editorial shifts is obvious. Check out these passages in an AP story written by Amy Teibel, and edited by God knows who—they’re actually telling the truth about terrorists for a change.

Deposed Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas, speaking in Gaza, called hopes for the summit “illusions” and a “mirage.” He said, “the Americans won’t give anything. Israel won’t give us anything. Our land, our nation will not come back to us except with steadfastness and resistance,” a code word for attacks against Israel.

The Israeli military, meanwhile, said that one of its aircraft had targeted a car carrying an Islamic Jihad rocket squad on its way to an attack in Gaza City in the first such attack since Hamas overran the Gaza Strip this month.

One person was killed and two wounded, hospital officials said.

Islamic Jihad said the vehicle was carrying its members on a “holy mission,” code for an attack on Israel. Hamas TV footage showed the burned car, which contained at least one rocket.

Watch this story as it gets updated, and see if the above passages get edited out.

A new B5 story. Did you know this? I did not know this.

I am so out of the loop.

Times change. Dangers remain. 10 years after he became President of the Interstellar Alliance, Sheridan prepares for a fateful Babylon 5 reunion that could prevent Earth’s impending doom…if he will also compromise his core principles. Meanwhile, commander Lochley confronts an unexpected interloper on the way station - a being whose presence makes the B5 freeport the crossroads between heaven and hell. In Voices in the Dark, Series creator J. Michael Straczynski reunites with stars Bruce Boxleitner and Tracy Scoggins in two richly imagined stories set after the events of the original series. Richly imagined, too, is Straczynski’s vision of the 23rd century (including a dazzling New York City) - a vision made more spectacular via filmmaking technology unavailable during the original series.

Okay. This, Heroes, and maybe I’ll be getting Battlestar Galactica as well. My SF itch has been well-scratched this year.

Three crude, homemade kassam rockets landed in the backyard of a Sderot home, spreading metal shards and shrapnel all around, and injuring three of the residents of that home.

But Israel should not launch “retaliatory” attacks because they would be “disproportionate.”

Three people were lightly injured when a Qassam rocket launched from the northern Gaza Strip landed in the backyard of a Sderot home Sunday morning.

The “Color Red” alert system was activated in the southern town, and several residents suffered from shock.

The al-Quds Brigades, the Islamic Jihad’s military wing, claimed responsibility.

The rocket caused damage to the home, which was also hit by a Qassam in May. The three residents who were injured in Sunday morning’s attack were taken to the Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon.

Another rocket landed just outside the town earlier in the day. No injuries or damages were reported.

This is on top of the five rockets that landed on Wednesday, injuring three other civilians.

And on top of the mortar attack on the Karni crossing.

Palestinian terrorists fired 11 mortars towards Israel Sunday afternoon, hitting an area near the Karni crossing.

That is the same crossing that various groups are demanding Israel reopen.

Adala, the legal center for Arab minority rights in Israel petitioned the High Court of Justice Sunday demanding that the Karni crossing between Israel and Gaza be opened immediately.

The petition, filed by Adala’s attorney Fatima al-Aju, said the closed crossing is a “vital route which can allow hundreds of tons of supplies through a day.”

It is absolutely obvious that Hamas has no intention whatsoever of stopping these attacks on Israel. So the question remains, why open the crossings?

Oh, right. The traditional, “The Palestinians are going to starve to death!” cries have begun.

“The situation in Gaza is worsening by the minute. Humanitarian disaster has been imminent for years but something has to be done now and very quickly,” Eyad Nasser, spokesman for the Red Cross in Gaza, told Ynet Saturday.

The Red Cross had sent several teams into the Strip over the last few days, becoming the dominant relief organization in the area.

“This is a medical emergency and we are doing everything in our power to see that the hospitals’ needs are met,” said Nasser.

Funny how the UN, the EU, and various NGOs are always saying how the Gazans are going to starve to death, run out of medicine, wither in the heat, or whatever, and yet—this never happens. I’m at a loss to understand this.

One thing that’s new: People are now openly calling for Israel to completely “disengage” from Gaza: Stop supplying them with anything at all. Let them figure things out on their own, or get them from Egypt.

The idea is based on an article by Dr. Robert Satloff, the executive director for the Washington Institute for Near East policy, who wrote that Israel failed to follow through on all political, economic, and security aspects of the 2005 disengagement, thus “denying itself the consequent diplomatic benefits” of the withdrawal.

“The United States should urge Israel to complete the process of disengagement that it began in 2005… which would include the following: severing the custom’s union; announcing that Israel will, after a certain defined period, cease to serve as the entry point for all goods, people, and services into Gaza; and terminating the “Philadelphia Road” security agreement which has only become a trap for Israeli security,” Satloff wrote.

“Effectively, this would leave Egypt as Gaza’s outlet to the world, with food, water, electricity, and other humanitarian goods flowing over the Gaza-Egypt border.

According to Satloff, “Israel paid the cost of disengagement but never received the benefits. In the eyes of the world, only Israel remained an occupying power after it ended its occupation.

“Israel is alone in the world as being the only country responsible for providing food, water, and electricity to a political entity that daily lobs missiles against its citizens. This is madness,” he added.

I’m with Satloff. Give the Pals a deadline for full Israeli withdrawal of all services, then let them sit in the dark and whine about how much better things were when Israel was running them.

Take a look at this YouTube video, which Omri was kind enough to post for me.

I haven’t quite figured out what I think about the Maxim Israeli Soldier Swimsuit Issue. On the one hand, good publicity for Israel is good publicity. On the other hand, y’know, using half-naked women to get attention for Israel is just not cool to a feminist. But I have to say, does anyone else see the utter hypocrisy in this CNN clip, where Wolf Blitzer goes to a drop-dead gorgeous female reporter, who then says in her opening line of the report: “They’re drop-dead gorgeous, and military trained!”

Um. CNN is using sex to sell the news. And this is a report on Israel using sex to sell Israeli tourism.

Is there a single woman on CNN who is only plain? Average? I’m thinking not. I mean, really. Do they not see the hypocrisy in this report in the least?

A lot of religious Israelis are pretty upset with the Maxim article. I’m on the fence.