Has the IDF, the vaunted Israeli army that captured the Sinai Peninsula in 72 hours in 1956, and captured it again - along with the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, and the Gaza Strip - in the 1967 Six Day War, lost its grip and its nerve when fighting terrorists?  When fighting Hamas and Hezbollah, is the Jewish state still paralyzed by its fear of negative world opinion? And is it still afraid of causing and taking casualties?  Prof. Fouad Ajami of the Johns Hopkins University has noted that the Islamic "extremist is never alone; the terrorist on the fringe of political life always works with the winks and nods of the society that gives him cover." So Hamas terrorists must be killed in their very beds. And if those beds happen to be next to the beds of Gaza civilians, that is the price the civilians must pay for aiding the terrorists within their midst.  There used to be a time when Arab terror was met with immediate and...(Read Full Post)