It is no longer possible to be hopeful about peace between Israel and her enemies. Critics of Israel continue to insist, as they will always do, that if only she conceded something more, her enemies would be satisfied. It is now demonstrable beyond any reasonable doubt that this is not true. Any piece of territory Israel gives up will just be a new place to put a rocket launcher.
There are some who would argue that, in order to make friends among the Muslim nations, we must stop supporting Israel. That way lies damnation. We cannot vanquish monsters by feeding them with the bloody limbs of democracies.
The news from the Levant is grave, indeed. See Yossi Klein Halevi, in the New Republic:
The next Middle East war--Israel against genocidal Islamism--has begun. The first stage of the war started two weeks ago, with the Israeli incursion into Gaza in response to the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier and the ongoing shelling of Israeli towns and kibbutzim; now, with Hezbollah's latest attack, the war has spread to southern Lebanon. Ultimately, though, Israel's antagonists won't be Hamas and Hezbollah but their patrons, Iran and Syria. The war will go on for months, perhaps several years. There may be lulls in the fighting, perhaps even temporary agreements and prisoner exchanges. But those periods of calm will be mere respites.
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