From CBS Detroit: The Middle East is thousands of miles away but issues simmering there are resonating all the way to the Motor City. This week on Michigan Matters, host Carol Cain talks with Roey Gilad, Consul General of Israel to the Midwest, and Osama Siblani, publisher of the Arab American News, about what's ahead in the Middle East and what it means for those of us in Michigan.

After resigning from a 24-year government career, U.S. diplomatist Peter Galbraith worked as a contract-based adviser to leaders in Iraq's Kurdish community, while arguing passionately in public media that Iraq's Kurds should be given maximum independence from Baghdad, including full control over any new sources of oil.

If the wholesale mutilation and degradation of the Gaza Strip is going to continue, then let us at least tell the truth why this hell on earth is taking place.