The response to the rocket firing needs to be fundamentally different: diplomatic efforts to restore the cease-fire and then, if those efforts fail, a measured, gradual military response.
The list Likud members have put together is tainted. Those who belittle its makeup belittle Israeli democracy. And those who delude themselves into thinking that Netanyahu is a moderate cannot ignore the ironclad constraints he will be subject to.
Israel Harel complains that Israeli society is angry at the settlers as a collective. Unfortunately, he does not get out enough, for their enterprise is flourishing.
The situation in the southern Hebron Hills, for example, which for a while now has become abandoned territory, endangers the rule of law far more than all of Olmert's investigations.
A great disaster has suddenly come upon Israel: The cease-fire has gone into effect. Cease-fire, cease-Qassams, cease-assassiations, at least for now. This good, hopeful news was received in Israel dourly, gloomily, even with hostility.
Europe's blind obedience to the United States, which led it into Afghanistan and Iraq, combined with guilt over the Holocaust, is manifest in its relationship toward us.
Gideon Levy is angry that the audience has sobered up, become choosey and begun to ask tough questions. Strange, I could not have thought of a journalist more blessed with all these characteristics than Levy.