Robert Spencer has a theory about the significance of the Iranian self-professed deadline of August 22 for replying to the incentive package regarding their nuclear program. I sure hope he is wrong. Thanks to the reader who alerted me to the article.

Victor Davis Hanson thinks we are living in the 1930s again.

Israeli forces are pounding Hezbollah positions in Lebanon, and they have attacked infrastructure in other parts of Beirut and the rest of the country. Will the expansion of the air attacks to other parts of Beirut elicit the response of a missile fired at Tel Aviv?

Iran is trying to re-supply Hezbollah, which is not a surprise.

Hezbollah has some Sunnis worried, although many are submerging those worries in order to show solidarity in the struggle against the Jews and the Americans.