Various Syrian foreign ministers, speaking on behalf of a recognized terrorist state, recently warned Israel for fostering "instability" throughout the region by taking out the supposedly empty infrastructure of a killers' training base on Syrian soil. Eliminating such a haven is now deemed inflammatory; habitually blowing up innocent children in Haifa is accepted as pretty much normal business in the Middle East.

Occupy an entire country like Lebanon and the world snores, but bomb a terrorist camp and it snarls. Still, for all the bluster on spec, the "Arab world" is not sure it wishes to send its jets to sure paradise merely to avenge the honor of Bashar al Assad, who can't even provide air cover for the murderers' base that he subsidizes and whose ruins are off-limits to reporters. Disgusted with all this, most Americans flip the channel when any spokesman from the "Arab League" appears on screen to warn about "repercussions" to come.

The "world community" wishes that the dispute would simply go away — so messy, so disturbing are these televised images of body parts, charred gristle, and human hair that blow out from the flaming cafes of Tel Aviv or Jerusalem, followed by macabre pronouncements and atrocious home videos from an array of primordial terrorist groups on the West Bank. Americans seek to interview Palestinians to offer them subsidized travel and study; as thanks they are blown up, and their rescuers stoned as they reach the murder scene — this from our "friends" to whom we give millions of dollars in aid and who cheered the news of 9/11...