What proportionality? What Democracy?

In return for a kidnapped soldier...

Israeli aircraft sent missiles tearing through the office of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on Sunday in an unmistakable message to his ruling Hamas group to free an Israeli soldier.

Defense Minister Amir Peretz told a Cabinet meeting that
Israel would go after "higher-caliber targets" in the future — a reference to senior Hamas officials inside and outside the Palestinian territories, a high-ranking political official said.

We would never excuse this from any sovereign state...or would we?

If the Bush Administration is serious about allowing democracy to florish in this part of the world, you cannot excuse attacking such a government with this much disproportionality. We've had more than a quarter century of disproportionality along the eastern Mediterranean and what and where has it gotten us?

I look forward to the comments and emails accusing me of anti-semitism.