While the rockets keep falling

The IDF sits, waiting for orders to advance that may never come, and, meanwhile, is a sitting target.

"Over the past 30 days of fighting Hizbullah, the army has lost 83 soldiers, 35 of them this week. ‘That is what happens when you sit still and don’t move,’ the officer said. ‘The enemy fortifies its positions and gains the upper hand.’"

Israeli blogger Shiloh Musings says the troops’ loved ones are bitter: "Terrible stories are coming off the front-lines from wounded soldiers. This isn’t the legendary IDF, which once could do no wrong."

And the N man and the hez see their victory. "In the latest video aired on Al-Manar TV the terror group says it ‘defeated the invincible army’ and ‘July-August 2006: Legend shattered.’"

UPDATE Then PM Olmert ordered his sitting army to move north to the Litani River. "Orders to widen the ground offensive doesn’t mean it is impossible to stop if there is a decisive diplomatic move, which is accepted by Israel," an Israeli source said.