"If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel."

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Power Line on reaction to the Israeli takeout of Hamas' spiritual leader:

Despite the tenor of newspaper reports to the contrary, it's difficult to discern how the operation has spawned any change in the goals of Hamas and its followers. As a result of the operation Hamas now vows "to wage war, war, war on the sons of Zion." Before the attack did they only vow to wage "war, war" on the sons of Zion?

LGF won't be sending flowers. Neither will Cox & Forkum.

When the name "Hamas" is mentioned, this is the group in question. Think deranged Klansmen with suicide belts – and wonder what has become of Progressive opinion that hooded death-cultists should be its cause du jour.

Jonah Goldberg puts the Yassin hit in perspective:

[L]et's stipulate that he was a frail old man in a wheelchair. The issue is that he was behind the organized murder of hundreds of old men, old women, little kids, fathers, mothers et al. I have no doubt that we'll be hearing a lot of moral equivalence about this. But let's not confuse arsonists with fire fighters. An old woman on a bus is not the same thing as a hateful carbunkle of a human who plans, advocates and celebrates the murder of innocents.

LOTR devotees will find a certain resemblance remarkable.

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A piece from two years ago by Detroit columnist Mitch Albom resonates today:

For radical groups such as Hamas and Hizballah, statehood is not a stop sign anyhow. They want Israel obliterated, state or no state, the same way bin Laden wants Westerners obliterated. Bin Laden had his own country. He had billions. Did land and money keep him from murder?

Desperate people want to make their lives better. Brainwashed people think "kaboom" sends you to heaven. Innocents are being killed on both sides. The difference is, for Palestinian terrorists, those are the targets.

We can tell the Israelis to stop, but we wouldn't stop. We can tell them to negotiate, but we wouldn't negotiate. We can see their dead and say it hurts as much as ours, but we don't mean it. Because if it were ours, we'd be doing what they're doing. And we'd damn anyone who spoke against us.

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A computer guy at Cornell has set up an index of pro-Israel resources on the Web.

And a group established to counter Palestinian proselytizing on campus offers a selection of fliers for posting.