Hezbollah says they will not accept a cease fire until all Israeli troops pull out of Lebanon. Perhaps, if the Israelis follow Ralph Peters' advice to fight harder, eventually Hezbollah will be so bloodied that they will re-think their position. If they do not, expect the war to go on a lot longer than people originally thought it would.

Meanwhile, President Ahmadinejad of Iran has the solution to the problem. He says the way to end all this mess is to put an end to the Zionist regime in Israel. Can we all just agree that we ought to really believe what he says, and structure our policies accordingly?

After firing over 200 rockets yesterday Hezbollah, with a smaller number of rockets, is having more success today in that they are killing more Jews. The continuing rocket attacks is drawing the ire of the editorial board of Ha'aretz, which wonders what their Prime Minister is talking about when he cites goals achieved during the war and yet the rockets still fall.

Meanwhile, Lebanese civilians continue to die. This is part of Hezbollah's plan, of course. Terrorize Israeli civilians with their rockets, so that the Israeli government is undermined and, eventually, the Jews begin to realize that they can never live in peace in the Middle East. Use civilians as human shields in Lebanon, so that world condemnation continues to be directed at Israel finally forcing, they hope, the Israelis to yield to a cease fire that leaves Hezbollah in being, on the field, with weapons in hand.

I am encouraged by the increased ground activity by the IDF, but I still wonder if the Israeli government has the staying power to fight this thing through to a successful conclusion, battling not just Hezbollah militarily, but much of the world politically, and their own home-grown leftists who will soon grow louder in their demands for a halt to the fighting.