CNN continues to update the situation in the Middle East here. Reuters offers its own take on the situation here.
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Charles Krauthammer tackles the question "Why They Fight" in today's Washington Post:
In 1948 Israel acquired life. The fighting raging now in 2006 -- between Israel and the "genocidal Islamism" (to quote the writer Yossi Klein Halevi) of Hamas and Hezbollah and Iran behind them -- is about whether that life should and will continue to exist.
Also in the Post, Michael Oren explains why Israel's only option in the current crisis is to confront state sponsors of terror:
By eliminating the terrorist leaderships in Gaza and southern Lebanon and deterring Syria and Iran from prodding their proxies to war, Israel can restore a reasonable level of security to its citizens.
The Bull Moose comments on the crisis here.
Littlegreenfootballs comments on the Vatican's condemnation of Israel here.
Michael Rubin argues that the U.S.' fight for spread of democracy is the Mideast is faltering in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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