Rich, those are interesting comments from that Israeli official, but can he really believe that if Hezbollah rejects the UN resolution that Hezbollah “will take the blame for causing the continued fighting”? If there’s one thing that we can be sure of, it’s that, however unfairly, Israel is going to get the blame almost whatever happens in this conflict, something that may not particularly concern the Israelis (understandably enough: they have the far more horrific threat of rocket attacks to worry about), but ought to alarm the US. Because if Israel is blamed, the US is blamed, and the longer this goes on, the more the US will be blamed, and the more the US is blamed, the more difficult dealing with the wider threat from Islamic extremism elsewhere is going to become, not least in an Iraq now on the edge of civil war.