The L.A. Simon Wiesenthal Center held a pro-Israel rally on Thursday, July 13th, ( http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=fwLYKnN8LzH&b=242023 ) to show solidarity with Israeli military attacks against the Palestinian people and the nation of Lebanon. At the 5 p.m. rally attended by around 1,200 supporters of Israel, Wiesenthal Center officials welcomed none other than Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who made it perfectly clear that he SUPPORTS the military actions now being carried out by the right-wing government of Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert. Speaking of the Lebanese Hezbollah guerillas who've fired missiles at Israel, Villaraigosa said, "What can you say about those who fire missiles at innocent civilians... at children." Yes, what words can possibly be used to strongly condemn the targeting and slaughter of innocent civilians! But perhaps Mayor Villaraigosa should look closely at the pictures on this page, it might then occur to him that Arab civilians, women and children, are also bleeding and dying - and their lives are just as precious.

Medics help a woman who was injured in an Israeli aircraft attack that destroyed a house in Tyre, Lebanon, July 16, 2006. Israeli aircraft destroyed a house in a south Lebanon village on Sunday, killing eight civilians, including five with dual Canadian and Lebanese citizenship, a health ministry official said. REUTERS/Elie Abou Faysal (LEBANON)

Medics help an old woman who was injured in an Israeli aircraft attack that destroyed her house in Tyre, Lebanon, July 16, 2006. REUTERS/Haidar Hawila (LEBANON)

Lebanese men carry an injured boy out of a building in Tyre, after it was attacked by an Israeli warplane on Sunday, July 16, 2006. Israeli airstrikes reduced entire apartment buildings to rubble and knocked out electricity in swaths of the Lebanese capital Sunday. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Two-year-old Karim Qobeisi is treated in hospital in the southern market town of Nabatiyeh in Lebanon Sunday, July 16, 2006 after he was injured during an Israeli airstrike whilst in his house, according to his father who was also injured. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)