coverage of these events as they are deemed unimportant (by whom I often wonder). With regards to the instantaneous coverage the Israeli/Palestinian conflict receives in the U.S., I wanted to take a look around the media world to look at what was being said elsewhere. According to Reuters online "Israeli troops shot and killed two Palestinians . . . pressure to clear the way for a U.S. led probe into nine weeks of unrest" (Reuters). While the London times had nothing pertaining to Israel on this day, an article dated November 24 entitled "The end game" goes through an Armageddon scenario in detail; the article further cites that "Israeli analysts predict that the Middle East is one third of the way towards Armageddon" (London Times). A Polish daily the Warsaw Voice had nothing of Israel or the troubles there but while browsing the archives I discovered that the Israelis have a soft spot for Polish literature, especially poetry. I also looked into a Spanish publication (weekly) called Costa Blanca News and again found nothing of the current conflict, present or past, it seems the Spanish have a bit of a mad cow scare at the moment.While the U.S. is not the exclusive in its preferential coverage of the Middle East crisis, the world is not exactly enthralled with the situation or its implications. As I suspected, the media coverage is related to interest in the form of the amount of money invested or borrowed from the parties in question. Poland while it does import some oil from Israel is not dependent on it by any stretch of the imagination; in fact there are articles in the archives that discuss reducing the imported oil to 0%. The U.K. press is the only place I could find any Armageddon references and those predictions came from the Israelis themselves. In any event, I did not find any respected news sources talking about Biblical Prophesy, the predictions of Nostradomus, or judgment day. I do however, feel that more people than would...
