Below The Beltway

ABC News is reporting that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has announced that he will recommend acceptance of the cease fire deal working its way through the United Nations Security Council:
JERUSALEM Aug 11, 2006 (AP)? Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has accepted an emerging Mideast cease-fire deal and informed the United States of his decision, […]

Victor Davis Hanson has another great essay up on the War on Terror, this time joining ranks with those who see parallels between today and the years leading up to the Second World War.
These past few days the inability of millions of Westerners, both here and in Europe, to condemn fascist terrorists who start […]

In what would clearly constitute one of the great ironies of history if it happened, the Jerusalem Post is reporting that Israeli Prime Minister Olmert is in favor of German troops serving in any international force that would end up occupying southern Lebanon:
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he would welcome German troops participating in an […]

I really have to wonder, when I read something like this:
In Washington, a prominent Republican senator, Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, urged President Bush to call for an immediate cease-fire and work to restore an image of U.S. fairness in its approach to the Middle East. He also recommended the appointment of an experienced statesman to […]

The Israeli Security Cabinet today approved an expansion of the ground war in Lebanon and resumption of air strikes after tomorrow’s expiration of the 48 hour moratorium:
JERUSALEM, July 31 — Israel rejected the prospect of a cease-fire in the coming days in its war with Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia, launching new ground and air operations against […]

Condi Rice has a headache, and this is the reason why:
ROME, July 26 — As the fighting and bombing intensified in Lebanon and Israel, an urgently convened, high-level international conference in Rome concluded in open disagreement, failing to reach accord on a plan to bring a halt to the strife.
A formal statement from the 18 […]

Israel has announced its short-term objective in the war against Hezbollah, to occupy a portion of Lebanon on the northern border large enough to guarantee security for its northern cities:
JERUSALEM, July 25 ? Almost two weeks into its military assault on Hezbollah, Israel said Tuesday that it would occupy a strip inside southern Lebanon with […]

The United Nations has spent the last 20-odd years “monitoring” the border between Israel and Lebanon. This mission has done nothing to stop Iran and Syria from building and arming a terrorist army that, during that time period, has killed innocent Lebanese, Israelis, and Americans. Clearly, the U.N. mission in Lebanon, to the extent it […]

Judging from the reports on the 24 hour news channels and on the Internet, Israel is having a dominating impact on Hezbollah in the nearly two week long war in southern Lebanon. What we hear and what’s actually happening, though, may be two different things:
Israel is overstating the damage its air war has inflicted on […]

The days of American foreign policy in the Middle East being based on the absurd idea that we should be a “honest broker” between the Israelis and Arab terrorists intent on destroying them are over, the Bush Administration is clearly taking sides in the Israeli-Hezbollah War:
WASHINGTON, July 21 ? The Bush administration is rushing a […]