HUMOR BLOGGING THE WAR IN ISRAEL, Tuesday August 1st

Israeli troops have stormed a hospital in the Eastern Lebanese town of Baalbek, where Hezbollah operatives are convalescing after a long hard weekend filled with scripted wailing on TV.

Hezbollah says reports that Israeli commandos managed to snatch some patients from the Baalbeck hospital and spirit them away in helicopters are untrue. Nobody gets out of a hospital without paying their bill.

AND IN OTHER NEWS...

Castro Condition
Cuba says Fidel Castro has survived intestinal surgery, but it gave few details about his condition. Of course in Cuba, the only thing more closely guarded than information about Castro's health is the secret hiding place where they keep the nation's three rolls of soft toilet paper.