I have just been watching BBC Newsnight.  The only person who seemed remotely connected to this planet was Terry Waite.  His argument was similar to my own.  Give the areas surrounding Israel some degree of prosperity, stop persecuting the ordinary populations of Gaza and the West Bank and there might be some hope of isolating the extremists.

For Malcolm Rifkind MP to talk about a stabilisation force in South Lebanon is fantasy island stuff.  Do they fight their way in or are they expecting Hezbollah is throw them a welcome party?

Meanwhile I am appalled at the seeming total indifference to the suffering and destruction.