Webloggin » Places To Go For Analysis About Israel’s Situation

I’ve decided to keep this post at the top as a good way to keep links to articles I find interesting in analyzing the situation in the Middle East. Scroll down for any new posts I may have put up.

Here are two good places to go for information about what’s going on in and around Israel: Counterterrorism Blog and DEBKAfile.

Charles Krauthammer has a lucid analysis focusing on the who hit whom first aspect of the current fighting. While Kofi Annan may be all over Israel (isn’t he charming?), Krauthammer actually looks to the facts and knows where to point the finger.

Mona Charen also does a great job at analyzing both the hypocrisy of the world’s response to Israel’s actions (the bit about Amnesty International is really disgusting), and in pointing to the Palestinians’ conduct since the Gaza withdrawal — conduct that Israel had, until this week, borne with remarkable forbearance.

And kudos to the Wall Street Journal for its whole-hearted attack on those governments, NGOs, UN apparatchiks and, yes, Condi Rice, who condemn Israel for acting disproportionately:

Israel’s military invasion and naval blockade of Lebanon is being denounced in European capitals and at the United Nations as a “disproportionate” response to the kidnapping this week of two of its soldiers by Hezbollah. Israel’s decision late last month to invade Gaza in retaliation for the kidnapping of another soldier by Hamas was also condemned as lacking in proportion. So here’s a question for our global solons: Since hostage-taking is universally regarded as an act of war, what “proportionate” action do they propose for Israel?

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