Haaretz Correspondent Bradley Burston asserts in “Wartime in Gaza: The worst anti-Israel charges you'll hear,” a December 28, 2008, commentary in response to Israel’s current attacks on Hamas in Gaza:
It is, abruptly and again, wartime. Across the globe, the selective pacifists of the left and the recliner Rambos of the right are spoiling for their next battle, the war in Gaza. They will fight one another in letters to Congress, in cable news sound bites, in raucous talk-radio phone-ins, in the virtual mega-heroics of the online battlefield of the talkback.
They will fight one another in the United Nations as well, unashamedly one-sided in their concern for human life.
Haaretz.com’s Aluf Benn reported December 29, 2008, that,
The current "Gaza War" is being waged in the shadow of the tense relations between Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Ehud Barak.” See “The First Gaza War / Olmert and Barak go head to head.
Meanwhile, Haaretz’s Gideon Levy writes in a December 29, 2008, post headlined : “The neighborhood bully strikes again.”
Israel embarked yesterday on yet another unnecessary, ill-fated war. On July 16, 2006, four days after the start of the Second Lebanon War, I wrote: "Every neighborhood has one, a loud-mouthed bully who shouldn't be provoked into anger... Not that the bully's not right - someone did harm him. But the reaction, what a reaction!" Two and a half years later, these words repeat themselves, to our horror, with chilling precision. Within the span of a few hours on a Saturday afternoon, the IDF sowed death and destruction on a scale that the Qassam rockets never approached in all their years, and Operation "Cast Lead" is only in its infancy.
Haarez’s Amira Hess also has a December 29, 2008, post worth reading. See “Amira Hass / 'Gaza strike is not against Hamas, it's against all Palestinians'”
By the way, Haaretz and other Israeli publications are providing diverse and interesting commentary on Israel’s effort to destroy Hamas.