Note should be made, as I'm sure it has been elsewhere, that Israel is now under dire physical attack on two fronts -- in both instances launched from territories from which Israel voluntarily and unilaterally withdrew its forces in recent years.
Let me put the finest possible point on it.
Israel no longer occupied one inch of Gaza when it was attacked with missiles and its soldiers were killed and kidnapped -- from Gaza.
Israel no longer occupied one inch of Lebanon when it was attacked with missiles and its soldiers were killed and kidnapped -- from Lebanon.
In neither case is most of world the least bit interested in either the withdrawal or the provocation. They're only interested, as always, in preventing Israel from taking any meaningful action in its own defense.
There is a lesson here.
Meanwhile,
Israel says Hezbollah trying to transfer two Israeli soldiers to Iran
But of course they are.
Update: Soccer Dad quotes from an article by Yossi Klein Halevi that tries to deny the lesson. Soccer Dad responds. And I refer you again to Treppenwitz for an excellent general discussion of this denial phenomenon, both here and here.
