The conventional wisdom, especially in the US military, is that the IDF erred in several key areas during the Second Lebanon War. The wisdom that has coalesced in America around IDF operations comes from a superficial understanding of the IDF and of its performance in the two conflicts.

It is no accident that arrest warrants never seem to be issued for the likes of Kim Jong Il or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, since the real targets of universal jurisdiction these days are Western nations.

Contrary to conventional wisdom in Washington, Turkey's prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is not interested in preserving his country's relationship with Israel, but is determined to bolster Turkey's standing in the Arab and Muslim world's at Israel's expense.

At last, Cairo seems to understand how countering the Hamas smuggling operations is in its own national security interests.

By not moving decisively to quash U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's call for an "international" inquiry into the Gaza flotilla fiasco, Obama's inaction is understood as implicitly consenting to this flagrant abuse of the U.N. Charter.

Though critics continue to unfairly condemn Israel for the Gaza blockade, which forms a necessary barrier between Israel’s enemies and those who would help arm them, now is a terrible time to consider abandoning the blockade.

The Obama administration's treatment of the Gaza blockade issue has reflected an unwillingness to defend hard-pressed U.S. interests around the world and the harm caused by this weakness will reach far beyond the Middle East.

While it is indisputable that the "flotilla fiasco" was a public-relations disaster for Israel, the presumption in the global media has always been that Israel is the villain regardless of the facts.