Fighting our fight

Israel's battle - on the field and at the negotiating table - is ours

EOPLE AROUND THE WORLD - AND particularly Americans - recognize that Israel's war against the Lebanese-influenced Hezbollah, and against Iran and Syria, Hezbollah's funders and supporters, is also the war of all those who are life-loving and democracy-embracing.

That is why so many stand with the Jewish communities worldwide in their appreciation for Israel's bravery and suffering in fighting our fight.

Waging war against a nihilistic, millennialist enemy which, as Bernard Lewis has chillingly noted in the August 8 Wall Street Journal, does not fear a nuclear conflagration but embraces it, is filled with difficulties, crises, and tragedies which only those involved can fully appreciate.

But a world now awakening to the true significance of the war Israel is fighting for us means that extra diligence must be taken to ensure that this time victories on the battlefield are not given away, but are followed by a meaningful resolution at war's end.