Check out Pajamas Media for a link-filled roundup of news about the new war going on in the Middle East.

The Boston Globe thinks the actions of Hezbollah and Hamas in kidnapping the Israeli soldiers is really a trap set by Iran. I certainly agree that these incidents could not have happened without approval, tacit or otherwise, from the rulers in Teheran and Damascus. Whether they want the Israelis to react as they have, as the Globe seems to think, or they simply wish to continue to weaken the Israeli people by keeping up an undeclared war through non-state proxies, the end result is the same. The war goes on. Can the Israelis find the political will to do what has to be done to win the war? If they can, do they even have the means?

World leaders are urging restraint. Would they be so restrained if their national existence was threatened? I doubt it.

Speaking of Iran, which I believe is the real puppet master behind all of this, Robert Kagan proposes a theory about why President Bush seems to be giving diplomacy so much of a chance.