It is stupid and wrong--and anti-Semitic-- to say "Israel is a terrorist state".   It is also ridiculously naive to allege that Israel can ever "destroy" Hezbollah. All they can ever hope to do is--hold it at bay--probably by a low-level war --continuing, it looks now, forever.

And, as I said earlier, in large part they have Mr. Bush to thank for the strength and prestige Hezbollah now enjoys throughout the Arab world. (As well as, of course, their own recent spectacular miscalculation of how easy it would be to "take out" Hezbollah.)

By far the most important thing now is to keep nuclear weapons of any kind out of the hands of Hezbollah--probably by strengthening the anti-Hezbollah portions of the Lebanese government which have to monitor any progress Hezbollah might be making towards this. In other words, exactly the opposite of what the Israelis accomplished by the recent devastation of Lebanon--which in turn weakened the Lebanese government--and bolstered pro-Hezbollah sentiment all over Lebanon--and the Arab world.