In an e-mail from my brother today:

Everything they do is under the guise of “self defense” incluidng blowing up civilian bridges, killing whole families that their elite Shin Bet intelligence agency seems to not know are in houses and blowing up the runway of a new 500 million dollar airport that was the crown jewel in Lebanon’s recovery from the previoulsy insitgated civil war. I would love nothing more than to see Israel just crushed by their neighbors and you know if they weren’t spoon-fed nuclear arms by the US and supported by our military it would happen, they have become more of a burden then they ever will be of a help…

And for those of you who might take exception to his point of view; bear in mind he was a history major in college and focused pretty much exclusively on middle-east history of the 20th century.

We would both suggest: