Just Another Day In The New Middle East

the following sentences are all taken from the news today ...

More than 50 Palestinians were killed in factional clashes during the past week .. Israel's air force fired a missile at a house in Gaza City late Sunday, killing at least eight people .. Israeli air attacks on militant targets earlier in the day killed another three Palestinians .. at least 55 people were killed or found dead Sunday, including 24 people found slain execution-style in Baghdad .. A bomb planted under a parked car exploded near a Shiite mosque in the central Baghdad neighborhood of Bab al-Sharji, police said -- the blast killed two civilians, wounded 10 and damaged nearby houses and the mosque .. A suicide bomber exploded a tanker truck near an Iraqi police checkpoint outside a market west of Baghdad, killing at least two officers and injuring nine people .. Lebanese army tanks pounded a shadowy group suspected of ties to al-Qaida on Sunday, targeting its hideouts inside a Palestinian refugee camp after hours of clashes killed at least 22 soldiers and 17 militants .. Black smoke has been seen billowing over the Lebanese capital after a large explosion was heard in the east of the city -- Reuters reported security sources as saying that one woman died after a device went off under a car.