Proportional Response Israel is criticized by some for an un-proportial response to Hezbollah's attacks. I am not sure exactly what the proportial response to missiles raining down on Israeli cities targeting civilians should be. Should Israel answer in kind? Should Israel run one bombing sortie for each rocket fired at Israel? Should Israel take hostages? What is a proportial response to terrorism?

Cease-fire. Bolton, US Ambassador to the UN, has pointed out the difficulty of a possible cease-fire with a terrorist organization. What the critics of Israel is really asking for is not a cease-fire but unilateral stop of military operations by Israel while they're under fire. Yeah, right.  ¶ 4:13 PM