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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Political Dimension of Religion in Shiism The Holders of Authority and Legitimacy in Mahdism Doctrine the Detroit News Coverage Many in the business and political community view support of Israel as important. But what happens when news editors get in on the act? You end up with people like editorial page editor for the Detroit News Nolan Finley, who made many an incendiary comment against those who protested Israel\'s actions.

The Detroit News\' coverage of the Israeli-Hizbullah conflict was similar to that of the Detroit Free Press although it seemed that the Detroit News was more sensitive to the feelings of the Lebanese early in the conflict.

One July 13 Detroit News article was titled, "Local families fear for loved ones\' safety - Metro Detroit Jews say Israel is doing what it has to do; Lebanese-Americans call actions aggressive." The major difference in the coverage between the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News was how Finley showed his colors in several editorials.

Rather than seeing the conflict for what it was, a highly controversial event affecting many locals, Finley used his pen to make a series of highly alarmist and extreme articles in support of Israel. Editors in most American newspapers do not generally sign their names to such articles out of fear of losing credibility-but not Finley. He was single-handedly responsible for virulently pro-Israel material while also presenting stereotypical views of Arabs and Muslims.

Finley didn\'t develop his aggressiveness as a result of the Israel-Hizbullah conflict-he was already far to the right even before the conflict began. In a June 25 Detroit News editorial, titled, "Use nukes to keep the bad boys in line," Finley grossly simplified America\'s relations with "rogue states." He did not give any room for those states to note their grievances with the U.S. and reduced nations of millions to a few bogeymen that needed to be wiped out.

Finley did not mention what the fallout from the use of such nuclear weapons could do to civilian populations and seemed to think that such ideas are a sign of weakness. He wrote: Witness the fact that we\'re wringing our hands while Iran\'s insane mullah posse, all hopped up on jihad, push defiantly ahead with a nuclear program they boast will \'wipe Israel off the map\'.