The world is burning news. Everyone is watching Israel while Ukraine is getting real...

via ITAR-TASS..

LUGANSK, July 15 /ITAR-TASS/. Militiamen of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) have killed about 100 Ukrainian army personnel, destroyed five tanks, two infantry combat vehicles, two armored personnel carriers and a mortar battery over the past 24 hours during a battle for the Lugansk Airport, the LPR press service reported Monday.
“In this way, the Lugansk residents have managed to keep airport blockade. The enemy retreated to positions occupied a day before. The localities of Rodakovo, Alexandrovka, Yubileyny remain under LPR army control,” the press service said.
Before noon on Monday, Lugansk was shelled by the Ukrainian military presumably from the Tyulpan heavy 240-millimeter mortar. Shells landed in an area of private houses, a house was completely destroyed and one person was wounded.
The LPR said 17 of its fighters are blocked in the area of the radar, the road leading there has been mined. Ukraine’s Air Force delivered an air strike on LPR army units near Lisichansk, no one was injured. Return fire shot down an aircraft, the pilot ejected. A Ukrainian Air Force transport plane was spotted closer to noon above the locality of Izvarino. It was also shot down by LPR army units.
The LPR press service said Ukraine’s armed forces opened fire at Lugansk’s southwestern neighborhood Mirny from Grad multiple launch rocket systems, causing casualties and destructions.

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If you cut the claims by both sides in half...personnel killed, vehicles destroyed and aircraft shot down....

Then one thing is obvious.

This conflict is MUCH bigger than the conflict going on between the Israelis and Palestinians.

Why it has faded from the front page is annoying to me.  Our news media, state dept and leaders are all infatuated with the "new" instead of what is the important.

The Middle East is trashed and while I personally believe that we should support Israel to the Nth degree, I also believe the Israelis can handle it.

The bigger threat to our economy ... by extension of preventing Europe from descending into a serious recession which would have knock on effects for us .. is the issues in the Ukraine.

This is getting ugly and no one is paying attention.