Olmert: Israeli lives worth more than Palestinian ones

Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister, expressed "deep regret" for army operations that have killed 14 Palestinian civilians in Gaza in just nine days but said the lives of Israeli citizens threatened by Qassam attacks were "even more important".

This coming from a nuclear armed state that is not a signatory to the non-profliferation treaty, who tried to sink a US ship in international waters in 1967, who kill innocents regularly and continue to jeopardize Americans.