The Hezb'allah attack on northern Israel had, among many other serious consequences, the effect of postponing, and possibly ruining, the harvest of Israel's wine grapes, most of which are grown in the north. The American Thinker has published Sidney Retsky's coverage of Israel's growing and highly promising wine industry, so our readers may be somewhat more familiar than most Americans with the threat's magnitude. The San Francisco Chronicle, which has the best wine industry coverage of any American newspaper, today highlights the situation: Winemaker Lewis Pasco of Israel's Recanati Winery says that if the cease—fire holds, picking will commence next week at Kibbutz Manara, one of his best and largest suppliers. But the damage there is substantial. Located just south of the Lebanese border, the kibbutz was showered by Hezbollah's Katyusha rockets. The vineyard manager was unable to work in the vineyard once the war started in mid—July, so the vines could not be...(Read Full Post)