Israel Is as Hezbollah Does

Good morning. Three new items at the Notebooks today.

• Pierre's Tuesday Column for the Daytona Beach News-Journal: "Israel Is as Hezbollah Does," or how Israel and Hezbollah are mutually assuring Lebanon's destruction while sparing each other the brunt of the barbarism they're inflicting.
  

• Candide's Notebooks contributor Ohdave could not resist giving Bush's expletive-buttered pre-lunch chat with Tony Blair his own just dessert: "An American president without an idea, and a British PM afraid to assert his."
  

• Candide's recommendations today include James Wolcott refusing to join "the Israeli division of the 101st Fighting Wankers," Michael Kinsley's last words before brain surgery, and The New Yorker's Adam Gopnick going Camus on Zidane's head-butt. All here. The recommendations are updated throughout the day.