Future Martyr?

I failed to mention how I think this display of power by Israel, meant to teach Hezbollah and the rest of the Arab world that they are really 'serious' and that they 'mean business', is going to blow up in their faces. I don't understand their logic, and I am desperately trying to. It's almost like they don't think the Middle East hates them enough, so they want to try to push them over the edge. Regardless of their reasoning, everyday their aggression is converting thousands of former fence-riders into supporters of Hezbollah and Islamic extremists.

-----Right after I posted this, I ran across this article in the NYT. It backs up my case (although it focuses on American foreign policy, aren't Israel and the US tied so closely at this point that there isn't much difference between the two, at least in the eyes of the rest of the world?)

“What is creating radicalism in the region is not authoritarian regimes,” said Mustafa Hamarneh, director of the Center for Strategic Studies at the University of Jordan. “Mainly it is American policy in the region — survey after survey shows that.”