Is It Go Time?

Tuning in TV this morning brought the inevitable images of massive civilian casualties that Hezbollah must be hoping for. Despite warnings from the Israeli's for civilians to evacuate from this area that has been used to launch missiles, something like forty children may have been killed.

I believe it was Golda Meir who said, "I can forgive Arabs for killing Israeli children. I cannot forgive Arabs for making Israeli's kill Arab children."

An Israeli official appearing on This Week rightly pointed out that it is a war crime for combatants to hide among civilians, and for civilians to aid combatants, both of which are likely to have happened here.

Naturally, the images of the errant Israeli airstrike are on an endless loop on Al Arabiya, and Al Jazeera, and of course the "Arab Street" is inflamed. Has there ever been a time when the Arab street hasn't been inflamed? Over my entire life, I imagine I have seen more images of enraged Arabs burning American flags that I've seen Seinfeld reruns.

Show me a pro-American demonstration sometime. That'd be news.

The tragic reality is that Israel is going to have to keep right on killing civilians until such time that the civilians and their governments realize that it is folly to keep harboring terrorists. Let's hope they figure it out soon.