The most recent polls show approval ratings for the prime minister and the defense minister somewhere below comparable figures for George Bush or Tony Blair.
The status of the West Bank, the legality of Israeli settlements there, and eventual prospects for a resolution of the Israeli-Arab conflict are tremendously complex issues.
From now on, I'll obey laws when they include stuff that makes me happy, and I'll feel free to disobey them (without penalty, of course) if they lack that certain little something.
I've become enough of a deterrence-skeptic that I'm instantly suspicious of people who use "deterrence" as a rationale for using maximal military force in asymmetric conflicts.
An Iranian President busy blogging would hardly have time or energy to send nuclear-armed missiles our way, rearm Hezbollah, or otherwise destroy the Western world.
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