Mideast crisis

Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, has told European leaders to stop preaching to him about civilian war casualties.

He added, "If Hezbollah knew what the consequences of their attack would be, would they nevertheless have done it? I don't think so."

Meanwhile Lebanon rejects a draft U.N. Security Council resolution to end 26 days of fighting because it would allow Israeli forces to remain on Lebanese soil, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said on Sunday.

And in the US, respondents to a CNN poll released Friday were nearly evenly split on President Bush's handling of the current conflict in the Middle East.

Forty-six percent of 1,047 Americans participating in the telephone poll, conducted by Opinion Research Corporation for CNN, said they disapproved of Bush's handling of the crisis, while 43 percent said they approved. Ten percent had no opinion.

Nearly. Evenly. Split.

It's a no-brainer. What have they got to be split about? Why would anyone support this or have no opinion about it even?