Hubris in Retreat?

Good Morning. Some of you may not be getting these emails in as timely a way as Feedburner promises us (they're scheduled to ship out to your mailbox around 5:30 a.m. Eastern time). It's a problem with the so-called "Atom" feed. I have no idea what the technicalities mean, but we're working on it and hope to have it resolved soon. Meanwhile, a couple of new items:

• Morality Is Not On Israel's Side: Leave it to the Israeli press to have the more honest dialogue on the Lebanon war: This piece, almost unthinkable on the Op-Ed pages of the New York Times or the Washington Post, and a likely invitation to asinine boycots and accusations of anti-Semitism were it to be written by an Arab and run in any one of a thousand dailies across the United States, appeared on July 25 in Haaretz, one of Israel's two principal dailies. See the full column by Ze'ev Maoz.
  

• Candide's Recommendations today are long-winded but varied: While Israel is deciding against a "wider offensive," Arab opinion is slouching toward Hezbollah. Alabama police wants to learn SWAT techniques from Israel. Several links about the Lebanon war in photographs. And a blog round-up. All here...

Check in with the Notebooks for roving updates. Have a good weekend.pt