Pre-Shabbat Roundup
Before I dive in, a reminder to each of you to take a few moments this evening to send a prayer to Israel. The IDF, the refugees, the stalwarts in their basements, the livebloggers - whomever. Then take a moment and pray for the Lebanese, who need all the help they can get to make it out of this.
Dave at IsraellyCool has done the most amazing job of liveblogging. Really; if you're going to read only one website, this is it. (Well, except for Cozy Corner; don't abandon me!) In today's roundup: New missiles in use by Hizb'allah, Anderson Cooper outs the Hizb'allah press machine, Ha'aretz succumbs to a moment of moral obfuscation, Charles Krauthammer's piece on Israel's restraint and Hizb'allah's lack thereof, Dan Gillerman makes fun of the UN, Walid Jumblatt thinks this is all an Iranian military intelligence gathering operation, Palestinians are murdering solitary Jews, and some Australian editorials. All this, and he points us to the Hizb'allah Dating Service.
Meryl offers us Ha'aretz's laziness (or bias), reporters trying to kill off sympathy for Israel, the divine irony of a Nasrallah hiding in an Iranian embassy, and a brief summary of actions, including a Palestinian attack on a kindergarten. She also points out that the UN has moved their unarmed observers in Hizb'allah-land to locations with lightly armed observers, and suggests that maybe the UN should just evacuate. She also highlights that Bint Jbeil wasn't an ambush. For some reason, though, she isn't taking it easy! Meryl, Shabbat approaches! Go curl up with Tig and Gracie for a few hours!
SoccerDad post the daily Haveil havalim, which includes notes about Hizb'allah using a mosque as a firing position (I thought they didn't do that?), Hizb'allah's training as a regular army (by...?), a discussion of morale with IDF soldiers, and a new assignment. I'll need to look into that one.
After her husband Craig takes over her blog to rip apart David Broder, Betsy Newmark antes up the $10.95 for Internet access and opines on the worst foreign policy blunders of the US. (Elder of Ziyon answers, "Oslo").
Elder of Ziyon follows up with a 2004 video of Palestinians gunmen using a UN ambulance as a transport vehicle. Hmmm, doesn't the ICRC care about that? Or the UN? Apparently not.
AbbaGav posits that just maybe, Nasrallah's refrain is, "Would I say something that wasn't true?"
Despite a DoS attack and a makeover, Solomonia is back it, making fun of the perverse logic of Al-Hayat's columnist. And apparently FNC liked the same Seva quote I did.
Honest Reporting UK heads into Northern Israel.
Elder makes his tzedakah matching challenge, and is looking for the next mensch to do it. Anyone? Even if you're not matching, check out one of the sources on this post, and give!
