I just want to recommend a few things here.
1. Bloodthirstyliberal is a great source for all things Israel. Today Aunt Aggie notes that the Czech Republic (soon to be taking over the presidency of the EU) is backing Israel. Their President is also a global warming skeptic. This is a year of hope and change!
2. Instapundit links to a moral discussion on this war.
3. Darleen at Protein Wisdom notes that Israel is already seeing results.
BEIRUT, Lebanon – Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah guerrilla — widely seen as the Arab world’s most effective force against Israel — has vowed to support Palestinian ally Hamas under the barrage of Israeli warplanes but has for now held its fire, constrained by its own political goals and fears of mass retaliation.
4. ArabNews excerpts from the Independent a piece that appears to blame both sides. Hmmm.
5. A piece in the Jordan Times blaming the US nevertheless starts out this way:
Israel will never heed the international calls to end its onslaught on Gaza Strip as long as the US maintains that the Jewish state is right in defending itself.
?? Who would say that any state doesn’t have a right to defend itself??
6. Other news stories of the day headline that ISRAEL REFUSES A TEMPORARY CEASEFIRE!! before noting that the ceasefire suggested is completed one sided, while Hamas bombs a kindergarten!
Yea between the Wash Post headline on the cease fire and the idiotic NPR story on it this a.m., I thought I had awoken in some alternative universe.