Yoni the Blogger thinks a new one is needed.
"We have gone from highs to lows over the last month as together we have watched Israel suffer.
"The people in the north of Israel have suffered deaths and injuries as well as losses of income and production in the billions of dollars, due to the rain of thousands of rockets that have fallen on their homes.
"All of Israel and those that love Israel around the world, have suffered through a month of the worse leadership in Israel’s history…The government’s on again and off again fighting of this war, has caused wide spread suffering in Israel and Lebanon without the destruction of Hizballah."
Others speak of Israel’s broken heart. (Requires free registration.)
"This is a nation whose heart has been broken: by our failure to uproot the jihadist threat, which will return for another and far more deadly round; by the economic devastation of the Galilee and of a neighboring land we didn’t want to attack; by the heroism of our soldiers and the hesitations of our politicians; by the young men buried and crippled in a war we prevented ourselves from winning; by foreign journalists who can’t tell the difference between good and evil; by European leaders who equate an army that tries to avoid civilian causalities with a terrorist group that revels in them; by a United Nations that questions Israel’s right to defend itself; and by growing voices on the left who question Israel’s right to exist at all."
Via An Unsealed Room
















That’s a bit over the top. Disheartened, true, but let’s not start tearing the hair out, please (esp. in my case it could be terminal). Some balancing act is in order. For example:
http://simplyjews.blogspot.com/2006/08/good-news-bad-news.html
Cheers.
Yes, and I certainly can’t afford any more hair loss myself. Your balancing comments well taken. I have noticed some commentators making the assertion that now, at least, the IDF knows the lay of the land (bunkers, tunnels, etc.) of Southern Lebanon, and won’t be likely to lose so many ground pounders in attacking them the second time around. Unless, as the semi-official sources you cite, aren’t just talking trash and most of that infrastructure is already seriously degraded.