So many people are asking "When will it all end?" But the answer is so simple. It will not end until Ramat Aviv is attacked massively by rockets and missiles.
How do we know Ehud Olmert and Amir Peretz are still playing games? When the newspaper headlines read: "In heavy fighting today 6 terrorists were killed." When it says, "In heavy fighting today, 10,000 of the enemy were killed," then we will know that Israel has stopped playing.
In the meantime, however, even the Israel of today is not the same country as the Israel of a month ago. The metamorphosis in the media illustrates it better than anything else. Sure, Gideon Levy and Amira Hass are still cheering for a Hizbullah victory, but suddenly, they are almost alone. The bulk of the Israeli media writers are suddenly militant and patriotic. Yesterday's leftist lemmings are suddenly demanding a more serious ground invasion of Lebanon, and urging that Israel resist calls for a ceasefire. Ultra-leftists like Yaron London are suddenly warmongers.
Perhaps one of the best illustrations of all this is the change in the "ultras" of Israel's literary Left. Far-leftist writers like Amos Oz, A. B. Yehoshua, and even David Grossman, are suddenly patriots. Sure they whine about civilian collateral damage in Lebanon and urge an immediate ceasefire that would leave the Hizbullah rockets on the borders, but in a large ad in the Hebrew press, they also declare that broad Israeli military attacks on Lebanon are fully justified. What next - Michael Lerner urging people to beware of the dangers of LSD?
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