Israel amd Hezbollah

Found this article from Charles Krauthammer to be quite illuminating. The recent provocations by Hezbollah are unacceptable and Israel has every right to retaliate, as Joe Biden put it on MEET THE PRESS: "And the last point I’ll make, Tim, is I find it fascinating people talk about has Israel gone too far. No one talks about whether Israel’s justified in the first place. Let’s assume Israel’s overreacting. I want to see the world stand up and say, “By the way, this in fact, is an unprovoked effort on the part of a terrorist organization supported by two countries to undermine the democratic state.” Until they say that, I think it’s awful—I think it’s a secondary question whether Israel’s gone too far." The focus on an Israeli "propotional response" misses the fact that Hezbollah attacked first.

As Fareed Zakaria - on This Week with George Stephanopoulos- raised a very interesting question in my mind, when America was attacked she reponded with a "propotional response" like no other: she took out two governments. Israel has the right - indeed obligation - to remove the threat on her Northen border, if that means destroying Hezbollah, good for her.