Pacifists versus peace  —  One of the many failings of our educational system is that it sends out into the world people who cannot tell rhetoric from reality.  They have learned no systematic way to analyze ideas, derive their implications and test those implications against hard facts.

Out of Disproportion  —  So, now I see that some commentators are saying that Israel's bombing of Lebanese Hezbollah strong points and neighborhoods is "disproportionate."  The Israeli campaign, so this story goes, is bullying and terrorizing the Lebanese populace, and this is (so the argument goes) typical Israeli thug behavior.

Israel calls up army reservists  —  Israel has called up thousands of reserve troops and told civilians to quit southern Lebanon immediately, amid threats of a large-scale incursion.  —  Israeli troops are already fighting Hezbollah inside Lebanon and have been heavily shelling the border area.

5,000 called up in latest mobilization  —  The IDF sent out emergency calls for 5,000 reserve soldiers on Friday in addition to the reserves already called up.  —  OC Northern Command Maj.-Gen. Udi Adam stated that the move was done in order to relieve some of the forces currently operating in northern Israel.

BARING FIENDS' BURIED SECRETS  —  July 21, 2006 — INSIDE ISRAEL JERUSALEM - What the Israeli military has learned since the Lebanese border war began nine days ago is that Hezbollah managed to secretly build a network of underground tunnels and bunkers to house a vast artillery arsenal.