"Neither Israel nor the West at large can long resist radical Islam without some sustaining faith of its own, a faith it will not find unless it makes up its mind to look for it." -- Essayist Richard Fernandez of The Belmont Club looks at the religious aspect of the Terrorist War and finds a critical difference in the nature and intensity of the faiths now in conflict around the world.
The battles in Lebanon against the Hezbollah have been described as Israel's first non-Arab war. Andrew Sullivan calls it a religious war, driven by " the divine mandate that the Islamists believe they are following ... where the Jews must be destroyed as a people and as