I go on holiday, Israel loses a war

I should go on holiday more often. Here's Israel's own take on its heroic efforts against the Lebanese people:

Critics from right and left were fortified by a Globes Smith poll showing, remarkably given the degree to which the army is embedded in Israeli society, that 52 per cent of electors believed the Israel Defence Forces had been unsuccessful in its Lebanon offensive as opposed to 44 per cent who believed it did well.

But then here's a view that says it ain't over.