This posting includes material of significance (both factual and analytic), so that I urge you to share it broadly. I begin with a technical correction

The situation with regard to Lebanon has been shifting in our favor. When I wrote, just days ago, about the intention of the U.S. to

Briefly this evening as electrical shortages here in Israel are playing havoc with Internet connections… There is still a sense of "wait and see" but

The war in Lebanon is generating a great many confused and mixed messages — with conflicting predictions following. This is an extraordinarily complex situation fraught

The war moves on, not just in the north, but on all fronts. There was considerable action today in Gaza. And on Yaffo Street right

I have just acquired information of a most alarming nature from the Middle East News Line, the most reliable of sources, regarding the situation of

After Shabbat. The war intensifies. We are hitting Hezbollah installations in south Beirut and have taken out radar installations. In the north of our country,

I’m not going to give a blow-by-blow of what has occurred today. Multiple news sources are available for this. Israel has laid siege to Lebanon,

Israel is at war on two fronts. This is the simple reality. Two fronts, but one war. It is doubtful that many reading this are

Let me here recommend a particularly insightful piece by Barry Rubin, with more to follow shortly Rubin, in his piece, "Defining Palestinian Strategy," writes about