Talking Points

Ralph Peters in the NY Post makes some valid points:

Another iron rule that applies to this and every Israeli attempt to strike back at Islamist terrorists is that, just when the Israeli Defense Forces really start to hurt the enemy, the world community - including the United States - intervenes to save the terrorists from destruction.

Europeans have more sympathy with Iran's nuclear program than they do with Israel's attempts at self-defense. But, then, the only thing continental Europeans regret about the Holocaust is that they didn't get to finish the job.

Peters also agrees that Syria should be Israel's primary target; read the whole thing for some of the better Middle East analysis you'll see today...

And of course the terrorist-lovin' editorial columnists in the Washington Post clearly illustrate why any moves Israel makes for peace are wasted:

With a force of between 600 and 1,000 full-time fighters, along with thousands of backups pulled from the streets willing to become human bombs, Nasrallah managed what the tens of thousands in the armies of Egypt, Syria and Jordan were unable to do for a half-century -- force Israel to retreat. Today, his is the last private army left in Lebanon.

By using the phrase "forced retreat" in this admiring biography of Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah, author Robin Wright uses the propoganda of the terrorists, instead of pointing out that it was Israel's withdrawal from this territory (on the promise of the Lebanese erediction of Hezbollah, and the hope of peace) that allowed Nasrallah to start what is undoubtly a new Middle Eastern war.

But that is the way the Washington Post likes it....