An Eye for an Eye

Like most observers of the disaster that is the relationship of Israel and Gaza, Helen Cobban is worried where the current confrontation will wind up. She does not believe that Israel's retaliation for the rocket attacks by Hamas makes sense if the goal of the Israeli attacks is to get Hamas to surrender.

Cobban also points out that since September 2005 9 Israeli civilians have been killed by the rockets. In that same period, 1,400 Palestinian civilians in Gaza have been killed by Israeli attacks.

Of course, Bush blames only Hamas.

Update: If Obama approves of the "special relationship" with Israel of which Axelrod spoke yesterday on Face the Nation, one has to wonder just how much our MidEast policies will change.